fics that made Nico Robin wanna live
I've moved across a lot of fandoms. These are my best of the best.
My goddamn treasure trove is what this is.
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There’s more to peace than the absence of war. The work is as hard and uncertain as any Shinobi mission.
AKA: A highly self-indulgent fic in which a civilian woman helps an orphaned Sasuke and winds up saving the world. -
The Oracular Refrain by notfreyja
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
04 May 2020
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It is an unspoken rule: The Continuum does not interfere in that timeline. You know, THAT one. But hey, rules are made to be broken. Which is how after the destruction of Vulcan and the battle of the Narada, Jim gets to wake up in the morning... and try again. And again. And again. Honestly, he's starting to lose count.
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In one world, Kakashi awoke, felt grieved at being assigned a team he sees his own in, and he let that grief make him a lazy teacher. He saw himself in Sasuke, Obito in Naruto, and Rin in Sakura. He woke, saw himself in them, and took a large step back, regretting accepting them as his new team. In another world he was quite hands off, merely a watcher because it was so very painful to watch. He saw himself and all his mistakes in this new team of his.
In this world, Kakashi awoke, saw the similarities, and instantly panicked. He suddenly realized what he had done, passing a team. Kakashi was left scrambling not to repeat old mistakes and regrets. This team would not suffer the fate of his team.
In this world, simply put, Kakashi became a teacher. This is the starting of a new Team seven.
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- Part 1 of How to Make a Team
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Taken for Granite by Oceanbreeze7
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Jun 2020
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“This is the crux,” he said, “it’s the hardest part of a climb.”
Hawks watched Bakugou Katsuki ascend, the way his body prevailed against gravity and hung suspended by fingertips on the smallest fracture of rock. The blonde grunted once, then upheaved himself into a crevice no wider than a cherry tree.
“You force yourself up,” Bakugou rasped, wiping away the sweat that dared run towards his eyes. He looked like a baker, his hands coated in a small clumping mixture of chalk and explosive sweat that flaked away like pie-dough. “If you give up at the crux, you’ll never get to the top.”
Hawks said, “then why did you give up being a hero?”Series
- Part 2 of Divebomb
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When Azula is nine, she becomes an only child. She hears the Fire Lord call for Zuko's life, and in the morning, her mother and brother are gone. Azula may be young, but she isn't naive. She knows what happened to them.
Which makes it all the more surprising when Azula tracks the Avatar down and fights his group of peasant friends, only to find herself staring into an eerily familiar face.
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Billy Batson and the Troubles of Work-Life Balance by RockerRema13
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Shazam! (Comics), DC Extended Universe
02 Nov 2020
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No one in the League could rightly say they knew exactly who, or what, Captain Marvel was.
Billy Batson did not have any plans on changing that status.
Maybe he should stop feeding into the rumor mill, then.
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- Part 1 of The Troubles of Work Life Balance
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the journey & the destination (are the same) by britishparty
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batgirl (Comics), Batman and the Outsiders (Comics)
18 May 2022
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The first time Cassandra speaks to Batman, it's in the language David Cain taught her. The way bodies speak is simple. Cassandra watches Bruce Wayne go, and thinks that people are not.
She goes back to Barbara. "I want," she says, and stops. She doesn't know the words for what she wants.
There's a story Cassandra heard once, about a boy made out of wood. He wanted something like this, too.
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there are a lot of steps in between being a weapon and being a person.
Cassandra Cain becomes Batgirl. Batgirl becomes Cass Wayne. Cass isn't sure what it means, to be a person, and Batman isn't very good at teaching that. luckily Bruce has a protege or five to help her figure it out. -
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Touya had left a colorful, half-drunk voicemail for him to wake up to. It was seven minutes and forty-six seconds in length, and loud, which wasn’t so much of a shock as it’s contents.
“—I swear to God, if I catch hair or hide of you within the next ten to twelve business days, it is on sight, Todoroki Natsuo! Do you hear me? I know you’re hiding out at mom’s, you son of a bitch!”
He was fucked.
Or, Natsuo's disasters were manageable. Usually manageable. Making out with his brother's best friend was new.
[NatShig Week 2020: First/Past Meetings] [Complete]
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our coming of age has come and gone by objectlesson for mollyknox
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Oct 2020
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Always, Sam is worrying that he cares too much. Always, Sam knows that he cares too much. But he doesn’t know how to treat Mister Frodo how he would treat any other master he wasn’t in love with because he has no other master and he simply is in love with Frodo. So, he is stuck forever-wondering if his seams show. If there is straw poking out. If the crows fear him, or are only pretending. “My dear Sam,” Frodo sighs, thumbing back and forth over the hewn pattern in his mug. It is a large earthenware alehorn Thorin made, and there are dwarfish runes carved into the sides. Sam has loved this mug since he was a child, and would trace the shapes with the tip of his fingers, wondering what mysterious things the runes held inside, what they meant. If they were love poems to Bilbo, which he chose to believe, at first because it felt scandalous, and later, because it gave him hope. If he has the option to choose the mug he brews tea for Frodo in, he still chooses this one. “You take such very good care of me,” Frodo murmurs.
“Well, yes, sir,” Sam says, blushing. It is my job.”
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"It was a good distinction to make. I wasn't Bella, but for the time being, I could be Isabella." Because time marches on and waking up as Bella Swan is unfortunate, but it's not the end of the world. Only the end of her's.
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- Part 1 of Come Hell or High Water