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carry the bones of your home by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
29 Jul 2018
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She was angry. She was furious, with herself, with her father, with everyone - they all insisted there was nothing to be done, accepted Adaia’s loss, told one another to move on. Mihra knew her mother’s fate was becoming the next warning tale for Alienage children.
'Don’t fight back, don’t go looking for trouble, or you’ll end up like Adaia Tabris.'
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[A prologue origin story for my city elf, placed pre-canon events.]
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- Part 1 of like dust, i'll rise
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what's a home (the first place you learn to run from) by Vail
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
18 Aug 2017
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“Two dragons!” the elders whisper among themselves in delight. It’s not unheard of, but it hasn’t been seen in generations.
“Surely,” one of them murmurs to another, “the dragons are recognizing the sole, true heir. They have offered their combined protection to Hanzo.”
Genji, who has spent all this time making himself small, trying to fit, feels cold in the deepest hollows of his bones, like a flood of ice down his back. When it comes down to it, his brother is his brother in name only. Genji is not a Shimada by blood, and blood, it seems, is all that will ever matter.
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Or, an Adopted!Genji AU. It changes less than you might think.
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let the stars guide you home by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
15 Jun 2017
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Cullen has ‘I'm glad it was you’ on his forearm. It shows up a few months after his third birthday, in neat cursive, and it keeps him hopeful and strong through years of hard training.
Amell's words are ‘Hey mage, curfew is in five minutes, you better head back to the dorms.’ She knows she’s the younger of the pair since she was born with the words emblazoned on her back. The Chantry sister who helped her mother give birth read them and handed her over to the templars as an infant.
(AU where your soulmate's first words to you are written on your skin.)
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When she visits Diagon Alley, Hermione hates that the first thing the shop clerk in the apothecary tries to sell her is a potion to “tame her hair.” She likes her hair the way it is, curls and frizz, heavy around her shoulders. She thought the wizarding world would be different. (Black Hermione character study.)
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chaos is an infinite by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
06 Oct 2015
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The problem - the only problem - is that Majalis Lavellan is not a mage.
It doesn't matter that she was born to lead - without magic, she cannot become Keeper.
(She doesn't let this stop her.)
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like dust, i'll rise by Vail
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
29 Jul 2018
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in the unsalvageable dregs, we agreed on one thing
at least: i was something
made of glass (you meaning
fragile and smudged with fingerprints
and i meaning shattered
and sharp and dangerous)
you’re a mess, honey -
you never know
you’ve broken something
until you’re
dripping red and lonely.
- elisabeth hewerThis is my self-indulgent series featuring Mihra Tabris, an elven rogue with a vengeful streak as long as the Imperial Highway and explicitly half-elven Alistair who has spent his life chasing the ghost of his Warden mother. Expect late-game asexual Tabris/Alistair as the main ship.
Series title from Maya Angelou's Still I Rise.
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my voice will fade someday, but your wonder will forever stay by pyresque
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Sep 2025
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The climb is steeper than Sciel remembers, and the metal groans softly beneath her as she ascends the final ladder. Her hand ghosts along rusted beams warped by time and ink, passing the old scratched initials—lovers used to come up here, the letterings long since faded with the oxidation.
She almost laughs at herself. What was she hoping for? That the room might still feel the same? That she might feel the same?
Then she steps inside, and the moment her eyes adjust—
“Sciel,” Lune says in a breath caught somewhere in between. Her guitar disappears in a flurry of chroma particles. “Of course you’d run into me up here.”
or, Maelle stays in the canvas and life goes on, just not as Sciel once imagined.
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16 Feb 2026
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Time travelers who plan to kill Superman never account for Martha Kent in their plans. She may not be the World's Finest, but she's a mother with a shotgun, and all told that might be scarier.
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- Part 4 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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31 Aug 2025
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09 Aug 2025
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Thomas Riley has a good life, thanks to the efforts of his older brother Simon. Simon is closed off, cold, quiet. Tom wishes desperately he could make his brother happy, help him like his brother had done for him. But Simon is cold. That is, until Beth agrees to help a new coworker move. A Scottish coworker, with a twin brother that's in the military.
AU where Ghost's family is alive and Tommy just wants to see his big brother happy.
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- Part 2 of Fics That Were Supposed to Be One-shots
- Part 1 of The Oh, Brother -Verse
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22 Jul 2025
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I'm a Good Pretender by orphan_account
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)
21 Sep 2023
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All I'm saying is being raised by a coach dad and a stage mom, watching them die, and then being taken in by a Very British butler and an autistic billionaire who dresses up like a bat to terrorize criminals would Do Things to a child's brain. Psychiatrists would pay to study Dick Grayson's psyche under a microscope.
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07 Jun 2025