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summer in the meadow (a valley hushed with snow) by jello12451
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game)
05 Mar 2024
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“I think,” Welt says out loud, “it’s okay to be a little selfish sometimes.”
“Really?”
Dan Heng sounds like he doesn’t believe him. Welt can’t blame him.
Nonetheless, he continues. “I’ve mentored a group of kids much like you all. Young, energetic, and hearts too big for their own good.” Welt sighs. “They didn’t have the time to be selfish, too busy being heroes. So if there is room for you to be selfish, then at least the burdens of the world are not placed on your shoulders.”
“Someone has to be a hero eventually.”
“‘The tragedy does not lie in the sacrifices we’ve made for our victory - it is that we’ve accustomed ourselves to the fact that we must sacrifice someone for our victory,’” Welt recites, an age-old lesson that took him far too long to understand. “If you have something to call your own, that you can be selfish for, then the world has not failed you yet, Dan Heng.”
Dan Heng has nothing to say to that, but Welt thinks that he might get it.
Or, not yet. Just like how Welt didn’t get it, once.
But he will, with time.
OR: Welt, The Astral Express, Anti-Entropy, and then some - on the topics of moving on from the past, healing, and a long journey home.
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26 Jul 2026
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Vi's chest constricts. She can't be back here. She can't be back here again, not after Stillwater, not after that version of Caitlyn. The wound aches, like an old scar in the middle of a winter's day, and the memory of Caitlyn's hands is tender violence, but the phantom of her weapon striking her in such familiar brutality is just violence, plain and simple. Her hands — free from her wraps, calloused but softened by the months living under the Kiramman's roof; has she made a mistake in letting herself live easy after everything that has happened? — grasp at that old wound, scar, bruise (it hits the same spot every time; why does it hit the same spot every time?).
(Or, Vi discovers trauma is not so easily forgotten, and Caitlyn tries to nurse an old wound that has been re-opened too many times.)
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20 Jun 2026
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where you go, I'm going (so jump and I'm jumping) by camwolfe
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Jul 2025
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After ten years in Stillwater for a crime she didn't commit, Vi breaks herself out and goes home. Her homecoming doesn't go like she thought it would.
Two years later, she's out of control and out on the streets. She's now a champion pitfighter, a raging alcoholic, and completely on her own. Despite her family's best (and desperate) efforts to help, Vi's on a one-way track to ending up either dead or back in prison.
At the same time, Caitlyn arrives in the undercity to collect data and information for her thesis. She starts her research from a local bar called The Last Drop, which puts her right into Vi's path. Vi might have been out of her family's home for years, but she's still not going to let a topsider put them in danger.
Canon divergence (everyone lives!), enemies to lovers (barely, the lovers aspect happens fast), angst, trauma, addiction, and also fluff and humour (because these things can co-exist!)
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- Part 1 of the only way out is through
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14 Jun 2026
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It was quiet as Caitlyn and Vi both processed the information, and then very slowly Vi pointed her finger to Caitlyn, and then to herself, one eyebrow raised up to the buzzed half of her hairline. “Us. Get married.”
A new law in Piltover prevents Zaun convicts from working topside without citizenship. Luckily for Vi, all she and Caitlyn have to do is take the next step of their relationship and get married, securing Vi a place in Piltover.
Only problem is, they aren’t in a relationship.
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08 Jun 2026
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stars of all shapes and sizes by milanles
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
06 Feb 2025
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Kim Dokja doesn’t know how his life had reached a point of pseudo-adopting a random ten-year-old girl, except that she just spawned into his life one evening and never left him alone since.
It isn’t too bad though.
Until her older brother shows up at his doorstep. And he doesn’t look too happy.
(Or, Yoo Mia tries to run away, meets a pathetic ahjussi, decides that he desperately needs her in his life and won’t take no for an answer.)
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07 May 2026