Character foils
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Miles musing about how alike Bass and Charlie can be. Basically a bunch of drabbles.
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Imposters. Borderline inhuman. It’s easy to wonder if they had morality, had sentience at all beyond mechanical killing.
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“Do you trust them, though?” This is where Diluc can see the spikes in the distance, the propped-up box with a stick and a string and an enticing shiny little object. “Even though they are an outlander?”
He laughs at him. “You ask me this, but then revel in the fact that everyone loves you despite not knowing anything about you. They’ve accepted you as one of your own because you’ve never allowed them to think otherwise.” He never thought Kaeya could be so funny. “Not even my father knew anything about where you’re from, and the entirety of Mondstadt is, arguably, infatuated with you. Is that not the same with Lumine and the Knights of Favonius?”
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there is really no point in trying to uncover the hidden treasure that is kaeya ragnvindr. diluc would argue there's no treasure underneath at all.
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a celestial shattering by FrostyJuniper for aloera
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
29 Mar 2021
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Bakugou Katsuki, infallible pillar of strength, the strongest person anyone knew, was crying.
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- Part 1 of the stars bow to us
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Edgar looks to Aesop for inspiration.
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Unspent Potentials by 0bsidianFire
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
02 Dec 2021
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Vi would never have guessed she would find Jinx's tech in Jayce and Viktor's lab. But it takes an engineer to know another engineer's work and to know what another engineer could have been capable of.
And sometimes it takes two engineers to remind Vi of what she did have (and could have again) instead of what she could have been...
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A Worthless Pride - the Downfall of Ushijima Wakatoshi and Oikawa Tooru by peachcandykiddo
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
22 Mar 2022
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Oikawa Tooru and Ushijima Wakatoshi could have worked together. They could have been great. But they weren't. Kageyama Tobio and Hinata Shoyo were great. They might not have been, but they could have. Setter and spiker, prodigy and neverending effort. This essay explores the character foils between Ushijima Wakatoshi and Oikawa Tooru & Hinata Shoyo and Kageyama Tobio.
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but i say it is by gensjunia (un_familiar)
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
09 Jun 2022
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You don’t need me to tell you what he chooses. Of course he wants to be remembered. That’s what heroes are, what they do. That’s the path Fate set for them.
Diomedes will not be a Greek tragedy.
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everything i said was lies (everything i did was kind) by mafalda_157 for ink_kettle
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition
05 Sep 2022
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"Leliana," Solas greeted her politely, his voice as mild as ever. As if they weren't currently conversing in the dead of the night. "Is my light bothering you?"
"No," Leliana said, then took some steps forward, possessed by a recklessness she couldn't quite deny. "It's you that's bothering me, Solas."
That clearly caught him by surprise. Solas exhaled a soft laugh, his mouth curling upwards as his brow lifted with amused disbelief. Leliana knew exactly what he was going to say next—May I ask why?—but as the seconds ran by and he remained silent, she wondered if he was going to break the pattern just as she had.
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A late night conversation between two sharp, dangerous people.
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two roads diverged in yellow wood by yuzuspace
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 Dec 2022
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"Kazuha shook his head, his eyes fixed on the cup of tea in his hands. One bare, one bandaged. The Wanderer wished he could tell his companion he knew exactly what it was like, to feel betrayed by your god. His mother had betrayed her entire nation; he wasn’t alone in being her casualty."
The Wanderer chases a ghost of his past, the likeness of one of the first humans to have shown him kindness.
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Spun like Garden-Gloss by GrimalkinsQuill
Fandoms: Na Daoine Maithe | The Good People (Visual Novel)
12 Jan 2023
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In Which Aífe Has Too Much Fun and Tríona Gets Played
Set in the middle of The Five Times He Had to Engage in Purely Tactical Revision, While She Turned From a Fairy Tale
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- Part 4 of Laindéar Draíochta - Demo Age
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Killing is for Grown Ups by cthulhu_is_chaotic_good
Fandoms: Alex Rider - Anthony Horowitz
20 Feb 2023
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“I think you should consider very carefully. Killing a man is not like you see on the television. If you pull that trigger, you will fire a real bullet into real flesh and blood. I will feel nothing; I will be dead instantly. But you will live with what you have done for the rest of your life. You will never forget it.” Eagle Strike
Alex wishes that were true.
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Asleep or Dead by Sh00kspeared
Fandoms: My Chemical Romance, Black Parade - My Chemical Romance (Album), Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance (Song)
09 Jun 2023
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As Vincent, a young man afflicted with cancer, comes to terms with his own mortality, he finds himself being haunted and taunted by the ghost of a soldier from a war long passed. Although both men have similar pasts riddled with mistakes and heartbreak, they find themselves at odds, trapped together on a thin tightrope between life and death. Will either of them find redemption before Vincent's time runs out, or will they become trapped in the perdition that they both well deserve?
In other words: this is a prosaic adaption of the entire Welcome to the Black Parade album! I've tried to be as faithful to the album as possible and have even hidden a quote from each song within the story. I could not have done this without Wendigoon, who created the video essay proposing the alternative tracklist and comprehensive plot that this story was heavily inspired by. Please go watch his video if you have not yet!
(Also, P.S.-- if any of my friends from the Cyberpunk fandom happen to be reading this... just know that the Patient Vincent has nothing to do with my character Vincent. I just like the name a lot ;)
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Set during “Preemptive Strike.” Will Riker and Ro Laren don't get along. They have the wrong things in common for that.
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- Part 18 of Above Board
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A Summary of Overarching Themes at the Core of a Character's Presence in the Story by Eekhoorntjes for lulu42
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Jan 2024
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As a big fan of the fanfic Now Accepting Members by Lulu42, it's only right to jump out of the comments with an attempt at an essay or an analysis. Each character in the fic has a role to play and ways they reflect on other characters, be it in a way of "they are so similar!" or "they could not be more different if they tried!"
Obviously, there's no guarantee that the clues I think I picked up on are actually there, but join me down the rabbit hole and be the judge of it yourself. If you're not into analyses, you can just read the fantastic story instead! :D It's absolutely worth it simply for the Paimon&Lumine friendship and how it reflects on the people who don't value friendship (the greedy Pantalone, the main antagonist in the story).
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Angel and Alastor Lose Focus And Have A Consensual Workplace Relationship by GayLord3000
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Web Series)
21 Feb 2024
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Circumstances lead to Angel Dust and Alastor becoming friends to their mutual shock. At the first the friendship is a nice change of pace for both of them but will it cause things to spiral out of control?
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Life's Marinade by hazbeing (writtenwordsaloud) for Melime
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
25 Jul 2024
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Vicious rather enjoyed having an Overlord. He had not known what to expect of these strange creatures. Most of them were filling. He could devour their bones and smell their blood and while he could hunt if he wanted, meals were simply given to him. It was as if his survival within the oceans of Envy had gifted him with retirement. Which was not a concept most marine life comprehended, but one he had learnt.
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- Part 26 of The Vee Family Album
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Two lost souls slowly learn to gently hold.
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When Do We Let Dreams Stay Dreams? by lettertoelxse
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Jan 2025
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“I wish I had,” he continued, “because I’ve wondered and wondered for so long. I wish I was brave enough to say how I felt like you are, because then maybe I wouldn’t have waited all these years to tell you my dream too.”
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Katsuki goes home with a twist in his chest after Izuku rejects him, his heart littered with dreams that hang like wishing stars in the sky. Contrary to his peers' nagging and what the ranking charts say, he never stopped chasing after what he wanted. So tonight too, he'll gather the remnants in the wreckage of his heart, sleep the shitty day off, and be grateful for what everyone else doesn't see. Unless the universe has other plans for him after all.
Or or... MHA ch. 431 epilogue's epilogue. We're gonna pick up right where we left off. Katsuki and Izuku gotta talk it out.
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the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all by aletterinthenameofsanity for bitterdesert
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
09 Jul 2025
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"So," the Cat King says, leaning back against the railing of the lighthouse. Crystal has no idea where he came from; there was a flash of purple light and voila, bob's your uncle. He doth appear. "You too?"
It doesn’t exactly take a saint to answer this sinner’s prayer, does it?
If anything, it makes sense that the Cat King is the one that arrived as Crystal was looking over the edge. Not seriously contemplating jumping, of course- she’s not being yanked over the edge by a magical whale’s siren song- but still. Contemplating in general. Thinking.
(Wallowing, Edwin might call it with a curl of the lip. He would know, she thinks. They have more in common than either of them would have initially liked.)
Crystal understands the Cat King, she thinks. She understands having all of the power in the world, being able to have everything you want, and yet not being able to reach for the thing you need. She understands the way that desire clashes with want clashes with ache clashes with life, the way that the things you want have minds of your own, the way that your hollow might never be filled by the person you think it will.
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