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    It doesn’t take long for the rumors to start.

    The Fire Nation prides itself on its civilization. It isn’t like the other, lesser, nations who throw their children away by sending them into war. Those uncultured and unfeeling savages who are destroying their own future faster than the Fire Nation can save them from themselves.

    Every Fire Nation child goes to school. They learn reading and writing, the illustrious history of their country, and what will be expected of them as proper, upstanding Fire Nation citizens. They are to be protected, because children are the future glory of the nation.

    The crown prince is thirteen when his father burns his face in front of an audience of hundreds.

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    12 Jan 2024

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    Been meaning to bookmark this for literal years, truly one of THE BEST outsider POV things I have ever read for anything. It weaves such a rich tapestry of the world we didn't see, as if the camera shifted just a little bit to the left and showed us exactly what was happening out of the frame of the main show during and after Zuko's banishment. (It's also very cool to see the development of the OCs through all these shifting lenses! Extremely well written and skillfully executed)

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    Kim Dokja, Han Sooyoung, and Yoo Joonghyuk investigate hauntings across Seoul and confront the monsters that lie in their own history.

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    06 May 2023

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    Caught up to chapter [redacted] at the time of writing this and I'm just. Head in hands. It was so well-crafted that I knew what was coming and it still hit like a train to the face. Truly the ORV AU of all ORV AUs...

    Anyway if you have ever wanted to re-read ORV without actually re-reading ORV, if you have ever been caught in the agony of needing to experience a story like the one you just read but not ACTUALLY rereading that same one because you've already read it...please. Please join me here. It's got all the heart-gripping agonies and thrills of ORV on the backdrop of a really fun, rich, plot-driven original world with truly INCREDIBLE technical writing and character insight to boot. The story is so immersive I can almost feel paper between my fingers as I read it.

    I don't know what else to say. But if there's any part of you that enjoyed the source material, you should definitely give this one a chance.

  3. Rec 27

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    Heewon, the sword, has only ever known one king. Even as that king has abandoned her, again and again and again. 

    "Hey," she chokes out, nails scraping against the wall, and every part of her being burns, "Is it fun for you to keep throwing us away like this? Is it fun for you?!

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    20 Nov 2022

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    Apparently I never bookmarked this?? BIG MISTAKE PAST ME

    Anyways went back to reread it and yes it IS that painfully, heartbreakingly good no matter how many times I read it. Would absolutely bulldoze through 300+ chapters of an insanely massive webnovel in approximately a week for the sole purpose of reading this fic again.

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    Living in a big house with everyone was convenient, most of the time. But there were other things that couldn’t be avoided.

    Or: The end.

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    06 Nov 2022

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    [Phoenix_Wright_head_in_hands.jpeg] This fic man...this fic.....

    I've lost count of how many times I've read this, both start to finish and in pieces. Every single time I read it there are new lines I swear I've never read before that utterly gut me, or old lines I thought would be fine to read that STILL gut me. Absolutely not and will never be okay about this fic, and I mean that in the absolute best way. This is the most fun reading experience I've had in a long time, 10/10 would stay up until 2:00 A.M. on a work night to completely disintegrate in the comments again. But slower next time, gotta savor it like fresh bread

    Also, an utter MASTERCLASS in atmosphere, mood, pacing, and how to withhold information from your reader while also leaving enough breadcrumbs to come to the inevitable conclusion. On a re-read, everything single sentence is a total gut punch. Excellent fic for Halloween season. Highly recommend to anyone who has finished ORV, but from the comments it looks like even people who haven't read a single word of ORV have been able to appreciate the intense mood setting and potent emotions without context (but WITH CONTEXT, GOOD LORD. WITH CONTEXT IT'S AHHHHHHHHHHHHH anyway do yourself a favor and read ORV and then immediately read this okay. Trust me on this)

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    So this is the end, Yoo Sangah thinks to herself on the mornings she drives to work.

    Or: Snapshots of longing.

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    25 Sep 2022

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    something something the endless march of grief and longing and acceptance and the inevitability of survival in the absence of anything else

    also a masterclass in imagery and atmosphere and sentence pacing

    ANYWAYS IF THE EPILOGUES FUCKED YOU UP COME HERE AND CONTINUE TO BE FUCKED UP BUT FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT