HylianEngineer
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- Batman - All Media Types (17)
- Torchwood (10)
- Original Work (2)
- The Martian (2015) (1)
- The Martian - Andy Weir (1)
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Torchwood raids a private lab that’s been using alien technology to experiment on animals. Amongst the rats and cats and dogs, they find a mountain lion – and Jack takes one look at it and realizes there’s something off about it.
For one thing, there aren’t any mountain lions in the UK, so where the hell did this one come from?
For another thing, the intelligence in its eyes seems distinctly sentient.Series
- Part 5 of Torchwood Supernatural AUs
- Part 17 of Owen & Cate
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Cate’s been part of Torchwood 3 for almost a year now, and is still successfully hiding the fact that she’s a werewolf. She's running out of excuses to avoid everyone during full moons.
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- Part 4 of Torchwood Supernatural AUs
- Part 16 of Owen & Cate
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Owen finds the wolf in an alley. Fur matted, ribs showing, and a limp. He knows immediately this is a Rift thing – there should not be wolves in Cardiff, of all places. He can see an intelligence in her eyes – although it’s clouded by terror.
Why are these things always his responsibility?Series
- Part 3 of Torchwood Supernatural AUs
- Part 12 of Owen & Cate
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Two years ago, my grandfather died of lung cancer. This is the vent fic I wrote during and after that, giving my trauma to fictional people for processing reasons.
Liz doesn’t even realize she’s frozen in the hallway until Dick comes up to her and asks if she wants a hug. She nods, tears prickling at the edges of her vision, and Dick obliges. He gives the best hugs, warm and solid and soft. She intends to let go whenever he does, to make this last as long as possible. But Dick doesn’t let go. She starts to feel a bit awkward but the comfort still outweighs that for a while longer. When she finally pulls away, she’s expecting the dreaded question: are you okay?
But Dick doesn’t ask it. All he says is, “Alfred says dinner will be ready in half an hour."
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- Part 13 of Ardor et Spiritus
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Owen and Cate have a system. It’s weird and intimate and vulnerable and absolutely not anything they’d ever admit to doing. Owen likes taking care of people. Being useful, being needed. Cate likes being taken care of. They both suck at admitting it.
They have, ridiculous as it sounds, something of a secret code.
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- Part 11 of Owen & Cate
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A collection of loosely-connected Torchwood fics in which I give Owen an OC best friend. Major themes include medical trauma, anxiety, vulnerability, and trust.
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CEC Shorts by bowditch, DawnsEternalLight, HylianEngineer, Imbecamiel, lurkinglurkerwholurks, motleyfam, pinstripedJackalope, rockygetsrolling, takingoffmyshoes
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Gotham Central
11 Jan 2026
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Collected CEC shorts loosely or directly connected to each other.
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A late night, a badly placed ladder, and a building that finally gives up pretending to be safe. Sometimes it isn't artefacts that hurt you. Sometimes it's infrastructure. One shot.
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Jack is stuck in prison and deathly ill. Someone comes to see him.
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18 Feb 2026
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The hospital starts a new initiative to encourage interns from various disciplines to talk to one another. Unfortunately John's pod leader has some kind of bone to pick with him. If only someone would listen when he asks for help.
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06 Feb 2026
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A fuck-up at work triggers bad memories and bad habits for John Carter. In the midst of a record heat wave, Carter goes for a punishing run on his family's property, with terrible consequences. Peter Benton to the rescue.
He puts his fingers to Carter’s neck, and is horribly unsurprised at the weak, thready, and extremely rapid pulse he feels beneath the skin. Tachycardic. Very tachycardic.
A hand on John’s forehead is all but confirmation of Peter’s fears. His face is blazing hot, more like touching a furnace than human skin.
Heat stroke.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Ambulance Ride
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- Part 11 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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06 Feb 2026
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“Sometimes in war, it's hard to be the one that survives.”
Gotham isn’t a war. Jason isn’t a soldier. But the streets are still a battlefield, and a return doesn’t feel like much of a return at all.
(or, Jason experiences a traumatic event, cries in his shitty shower, finds his way to Wayne Manor, and finds Bruce. maybe, if he's lucky, in that order)
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05 Feb 2026