travelingsymphony
Fandoms
- ATEEZ (Band) (8)
- The Last of Us (TV) (3)
- NCT (Band) (3)
- The Last of Us (Video Games) (2)
- SEVENTEEN (Band) (1)
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“I mean, I can take you to your physical therapy appointments? If you want?” Seonghwa asks before gulping down the rest of his beer.
Hongjoong squints at him, calculating to see if there was even an inkling of pity attached to his words. Because if there is, he will take the bottle from the older’s hand and smash it over his head without a second thought.
But there isn’t so after a few moments pass he tentatively says, “Okay.”
Odds are Seonghwa will just forget offering anyway.
(Or, Hongjoong is a cellist whose life is So Totally Not falling apart) (Just ask him).
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“Goodbye, Hongjoong.” Seonghwa says with a hint of mirth in his voice as he sits gracefully on his ass.
Pristine shoes are pressed square against Hongjoong’s chest before he can say something as stupid as: watch who you are talking to. Or something explicitly worse like: you remember my name. Before he knows it, Hongjoong is kicked out of the van head first with Seonghwa’s face being the last thing he sees.
The beginning of the end.
(Or, Hongjoong was warned of mutiny at a young age, and yet he still believes in Seonghwa).
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beacons & other bright things by travelingsymphony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 May 2023
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“Kid looked like a riot, who was she?” Is the first thing Tess asks when Joel slides back into her truck.
Which, of course she does, because why ask about the fucking journal in his hand and a post-it note stating the date and time of his next appointment? At least she doesn’t point out how he is out almost 30 minutes later than scheduled.
“No one.” Joel says as he puts on his seatbelt, clipping himself in like a chain to a lead ball.
And he means it.
(Or, Joel and Ellie find each other in every universe) (It’s just that they meet in court-sanctioned therapy in this one).
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- Part 1 of two tales
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There is this specific feeling of realization Ellie has gotten used to over the past couple of months.
She felt it when Sam first sprung onto her that morning. She felt it immediately after Henry’s body hit the floor with a dull thud. She felt it when Joel tried to pawn her off to Tommy. And she really felt it when Joel was—fuck, is still bleeding out in a moldy basement.
It’s a calm, little tick in the back of her head that goes:
This is gonna haunt you for the rest of your life.
(Or, just another post-episode 8 fic).
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girlhood adjacent by travelingsymphony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Apr 2023
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Ellie’s seen this before. Seen it a billion times actually when Joel played Mr. Macho Man in front of everyone they crossed paths with. Everyone, but her until—
Swear to me that everything you said about the Fireflies is true.
Sarah was lucky to have Joel Before. He probably sang her to sleep every night when the goodness of his heart was easier to grasp. Joel wouldn’t have lied to her. His actual Brown-Eyed Girl.
And all it took was two words to leave Ellie painfully aware of everything she wasn’t and everything she would never truly be.
I swear.
(Or, Ellie and Joel’s first year in Jackson goes as well as you can expect it to).
Series
- Part 1 of a haunted house with a picket fence
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two tales by travelingsymphony
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 May 2023
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just another modern tlou au featuring a therapist's lobby, hockey and lack thereof, melted chocolate bars, and ellie being the light the world (read: joel) needs.
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a haunted house with a picket fence by travelingsymphony
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Apr 2023
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Follow Ellie as she struggles through her teenage years exactly like a teenager should, and in every way a teenager shouldn't.
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werewolf hongjoong and vampire seonghwa take on the world one mental crisis at a time.
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