12 Works by junknet
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He watches you at all hours, even in your most private and shameful of moments. Especially then. Your traitorous body and its whoreful vigour, devoid of its usual outlets for release, roars to life. It is an untamed animal that defies your will and runs wild in pursuit of fleeting pleasures. It violates you, drags its claws across your chest and wraps its claws around your flesh.
You can bind it and berate yourself over it all you like. But a beaten dog will bite back.
You do not wish for this.
But you don't know how to numb the pain otherwise, do you? It's this, or our blade, is it?
You wish your body would simply align with your pure heart once and for all.
The vengeful beast entwined with Lucient's soul watches him from dawn 'til dusk. And he knows what Lucient wants, even if the man denies himself every step of the way.
or: you can't force self-love by shadow-fucking your host and making him look at it, but god damn it fray will try and lucient's inner self will watch with increasing concern and dismay
Something of a sister piece to A Vice You Dare Not Name, but can be read standalone if you want.
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- Part 3 of The Light Of Another
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- English
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- 5,973
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- 1/1
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- 2
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“It’s a wonder how much cake the public can wolf down in a single hour.”
“I would not be so arrogant, Fray. Did you not have a slice from each cake?”
“For your benefit as much as mine, mind you, little bird.”
A love-loving knight and his shade powered by love take a break from cake-decorating pandemonium and spend some time together. Tasting the fruits of their labour and pondering what to gift to their loved ones.
❤️🔥 XIV Hearts Ablaze - Day 7 🍰 - "gifts / heart / FREE SPACE"
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- Part 5 of You, Me, Or We (FFXIV Hearts Ablaze 2026)
- Part 7 of The Light Of Another
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You may take these words to heart, come visit me in the Brume your husband pulled you from, or you may burn them as you have burned the love of me from your mind, allow me to fade back into the mist of your memories. They are, after all, the words of a dead man walking.
The Onyx Shade writes a letter to a client who once called herself his mother.
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“You’re losing sight of yourself
But I never do
You can’t see it now
But you have always been you
The inside of your mind is my favorite view"— Together, Ellie Minibot
Fray is many, and he is one.
And Lucient is here for all the ways he's changed, and everyone he's ever been.❤️🔥 XIV Hearts Ablaze - Day 6: "kiss / affection / "come with me"" 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣
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- Part 4 of You, Me, Or We (FFXIV Hearts Ablaze 2026)
- Part 5 of The Light Of Another
- Language:
- English
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- 6,592
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 22
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Fray imagines Lucient watching his clay likeness being blasted in the manor's kilns. There must be something cathartic about watching a miniature version of yourself be put through the most hostile of environments and situations, only for them to come out of it still in one piece. Or perhaps that's merely Fray's own outlook on the matter. But it would be heartening if Lucient felt the same, wouldn't it?
Lucient brings some clay and sculpting tools to the gate in the Brume.
❤️🔥 XIV Hearts Ablaze 2026 - Day 5 🎎 - hands / warmth / "having fun"
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- Part 3 of You, Me, Or We (FFXIV Hearts Ablaze 2026)
- Part 2 of The Light Of Another
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,425
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
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Once one falls to despair so deep, their soul becomes naught, null, nothing. Not even the shell remains. Yet we still hesitate to set them free, for they still bear the traces of those we loved...
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...for a moment, it’s as if they were back in the Odeon, bickering idly over what lines to give the actors in the troupe’s latest performance. Those days when the skies were so blue and it seemed the star’s stories would spiral on forevermore.
A nightmare. Or a vision of lives forgotten?
❤️🔥 XIV Hearts Ablaze 2026 - Day 2 🌠 "stars / nightmare / "stay here""
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- Part 2 of You, Me, Or We (FFXIV Hearts Ablaze 2026)
- Part 6 of The Light Of Another
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,070
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- 2/2
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Oh, how many nights he had spent toiling until his fingers and soul bled, trying to pour life from his tears into the wilted bloom that would never sprout again. But that did not mean he couldn’t plant something new in its place. Watering it with everything that he could provide. Tears, seed, affection, memories, blood. Little by little, feeding the soil with pieces of himself until he could no longer tell where he ended and he began.
A death in House Dzemael snatches Lucient from the life of an unwanted bastard and a servant in his own house to an heir waiting to be molded like stone. Fray is going to follow him, protect him, take him back, no matter what it takes.
And of course, it's the right thing to do. He loves him after all. He's the only one who truly does.
❤️🔥 XIV Hearts Ablaze 2026 - Day 1 🥀 "flowers / dance / "you look beautiful""
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- Part 1 of You, Me, Or We (FFXIV Hearts Ablaze 2026)
- Part 8 of The Light Of Another
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The winds blowing through Ishgard nip at the servantboy's cloak, as he descends the stairs from Foundation down into the fetid air of the lower city. He trips down the cobbles, smiles at the urchins bristling at his intrusion, and sits himself at the worn wooden gate.
There, he removes his mask, and the servantboy returns to being a noble bastard. He presses his face against the crack in the wood, listening. Ice blue eyes stare out into the shadow, and peering back, are eyes of piercing gold.
"Are you there, Fray?"
"Where else, pretty boy?"───⋆⋅☆⋅⋆───
A headcanon-heavy set of backstory vignettes for both Fray Myste (the man) and Lucient Daureville (OC, not the Warrior of Light, though their paths will cross and entwine), centred around their meetings at a gate in the Brume.
Set about 15 years before ARR-HW, give or take.
Check each chapter beginning notes for specific content warnings or tags.
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- Part 1 of The Light Of Another
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I wish that I, that we, could make you see that it does not have to come to this. [...] The fragments of his very soul thrash against the darkness turning him towards this facet of his self, against your urge for self-destruction.
Lucient has sins aplenty, and regrets overflowing. His flavour of escapism comes from the very malleable and very vengeful soul that's bound himself to his own, and if left unchecked, it will lead them both back to the point of no return. His shadow, entwined as it is with the foreign soul, watches on.
or: you're in a toxic codependent relationship with the dead man haunting your soul and your repressed inner self is desperately trying to keep you both from destroying each other.
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- Part 4 of The Light Of Another
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In Search of Lost Time by junknet
Fandoms: Caduceus | Trauma Center Series, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry
10 Feb 2024
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The entirety of Portland will be engulfed in the Rosalia virus' hold. That is the fate Gabriel resigned himself to, until he wakes up in May of 2020 again, and again, and again.
The city can't fall to the epidemic. The people around him must live past June of 2020. This is the puzzle Gabriel has been assigned to. But with the deck stacked against him, can anything short of a miracle save him?
(WTC-like time loop AU, going from one of the worst possible endings all the way to canon Trauma Team ending. Connected to Prelude to Trauma.)
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- Part 1 of When The Butterflies Fly
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Requiem Aeternam by junknet
Fandoms: Caduceus | Trauma Center Series, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry
17 Apr 2022
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The girl in white feels like she's floating.
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A "prologue" to the main "Prelude to Trauma" series. Rosalia finds herself stuck between this world and the next without most of her memories and a sense of foreboding. All she has are visions of what's to come, the sea of fragments, and a box. Maybe through searching other people's lives, she'll be able to figure out what happened to her and what is "beginning".
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- Part 1 of Prelude to Trauma
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The Healing Touch is a lot of responsibility. So why did someone like him get it? Isn't it just another burden added to his already heavy shackles, or perhaps a blessing?