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   Keys Are People, Too by incomple

   Fandoms: Cinderella Boy - Punko (Webcomic)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   24 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Buddy/Chase Hollow (Cinderella Boy)
   • Chase Hollow & Deacon Hollow
   • Chase Hollow (Cinderella Boy)
   • Buddy (Cinderella Boy)
   • Deacon Hollow
   • Silver (Cinderella Boy)
   • Bronze (Cinderella Boy)
   • Violet (Cinderella Boy)
   • Peris Ravenell
   • Idonea Kaningrav
   • Acantha Spicula
   • Major Character Injury
   • Original Character Loss
   • Loss of Parent(s)
   • Additional Warnings In Author's Note
   • Additional Warnings Apply
   • Nearly Entirely Canon Compliant
   • Written During Season One
   • Updates Daily (I have no life)
   • Historical Fantasy
   • Mysteries
   • Full/Serious Plot
   • Slow Burn
   • Fluff and Humor
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • ~55:45 Sad:Happy Ratio
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Chase and Deacon commit a felony
   • I put blood sweat and tears into this plot guys
   • Afternote
   • Verified Accurate Character :D
   • Original Character(s)
   • Song: Harpy Hare (Yaelokre)
   • I Wrote This While Listening to Lord of the Rings
   • Costume Parties & Masquerades
   • Vaguely Romantic Etiquette Lessons
   • Tomb Raiding Kind Of
   • Slow Dancing
   • some sexual humor
   • Banter
   • Making Out
   • Idiots in Love
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Tending to Wounds
   • Favors
   • Eavesdropping
   • Snuggling
   • Shouting Match
   • Kissing
   • Gentle Kissing
   • Flirting
   • Guilt
   • Fights
   • Assassination Attempt(s)
   • Flashbacks
   • Chase sucks at card games
   • Deacon in a Maid Dress
   • Family Dynamics
   • Spells & Enchantments
   • Stabbing
   • Soggy pathetic wannabe love interests
   • There is not a love triangle
   • Even though a certain character wishes there were
   • Everyone Needs A Hug
   • Jealous Buddy
   • Animal Sidekick
   • parental figures
   • Pushing characters to their limits and then some
   • And then rewarding them with a nice nap and some cuddles
   • Punko Can Read This
   • Stargoth is Endgame

   Summary

   When Chase and Deacon find a mysterious book at the museum library, they assume it has something to do with Ex Libris. What they are not prepared for, however, are more mysteries than they can count—the circumstances surrounding the death of a kidnapped princess, Buddy’s adamant refusal to tell them anything about the story, and, strangest of all, some familiar faces… inside the pages of the book.

   NOTES:
   ⚘ This fanfiction was written between Episode 41 and the Season 1/2 hiatus. Lore was incorporated as it was revealed in canon, however I also ensured the story stayed consistent.
   ⚘ KAPT revolves around the assumption that Buddy has been working for Ex Libris and going into books for the majority of his life. The plot was not created when there was anything in canon to prove differently.
   ⚘ The first chapter is somewhat disjointed from the remainder of the fic in terms of genre. The genre is Historical Fantasy.
   ⚘ All twelve keys are included in this fic with what we know of them from Season One.
   ⚘ The keys are people, too.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Keys Are People Too (& Bonus Features)

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