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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    “O mighty Nemesis, amid the ruins of what she reaps,” a voice drawls from behind her - and the sound of it is like ice water down Niki's back, a harsh tug on the fragile threads barely holding her together, but she can’t still bring herself to turn. Can’t bring herself to see the look on his face - betrayal, fury, hatred. She lets her eyes sink onto the wreckage instead, every bitter angle of it.

    “I never really asked why that was your little codename, you know,” Wilbur continues. “Seems a bit on the nose, don’t you think?”

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    In which Niki has a terrible secret, Puffy just wants to move on, Tommy sneaks into casino parties and Wilbur learns to deal with anger being justified. Or - the one thing they don’t warn you of, when dropping nuclear warheads on old friends, is fallout.

    Sequel to 'cause most of us are bitter over someone', written as a fic scrapbook - including fully written out scenes, outlining, scene notes, and chapter art.

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    09 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    It's like missing a step as she walks out of their old van, watching the sun set after a day of stringing together speeches and songs. She stumbles, falls from the edge, and from here Wilbur looks split in two - one, in bold L'Manberg navy with boxes of playing cards hidden in his coat, laying them out on sunny rocks, and the other with gunpowder ground into his callouses, the one Tommy calls the villain. The longer she stares, the longer the two slip into one another - this Wilbur, his shoulders shine with golden epaulettes, and the sunset her old Wilbur stands in the face of is blurred by smoke. That can’t be possible, because Wilbur wouldn’t destroy their home, wouldn’t leave her behind, wouldn’t leave her to die -

    “I feel like we haven’t spoken in so long,” Wilbur says, pressing the damp cloth against a particularly raw scrape across her wrist. “How are you doing?”

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    Niki and Wilbur talk after the festival, and Niki tries to piece together what has happened to her friend.

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    18 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 46

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    Her arms are still shaking around his shoulders, hands clenched into fists at his back. It’s hard. It’s hard, like they can’t decide whether to hug him back or to grab him by the lapels and start yelling at him despite how sternly she tells herself to play it cool and collected. She holds her tongue, like always. It tastes like bitter ash.

    “I missed you,” he murmurs, chin jutting against her temple, quiet enough that she can barely hear it over the whistling of the arctic wind. But oh, she hears it.

    I missed you too, she doesn’t say. I wanted to see you again, she doesn’t say. Why didn’t you tell me you were leaving, she doesn’t ask.

    "You came back," she manages.

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    Wilbur is alive. Fine. Niki can deal with that. Wilbur wanting to make amends? That is substantially more difficult.

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    28 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 70

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    It is dissonance. He is not whole, and he is too much. He is wrong, in a way that he cannot conceive - he was maybe always wrong, or he wasn’t, and there’s no way for him to tell. Wilbur Soot, former president, former terrorist, former person, is acting on impulse and assumptions and is convinced that he knows nothing, now, of who or what he is supposed to be.

    He has taken to haunting the peripheries.

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    28 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 1

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    A typical day in the lovely life of Wilbur Soot, self exiled man in denial.

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    31 Oct 2025