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Works which have used it as a tag:

• Faulty Reconstruct by nayfortoday, Project Sundown (sleepytrickster)

  Fandoms: Rain World (Video Game)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  23 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Original Characters
  • Flocks to the South (FttS)
  • Mirage (Named Overseer)
  • Flocks' Overseer Ensemble
  • Thirteen Nests Atop Countless Stones (OC)
  • Iterator Characters (Rain World)
  • Overseer Characters (Rain World)
  • Ancient Characters (Rain World)
  • Original Slugcat Characters (Rain World)
  • Warm Burrows Beneath Frozen Soil (OC)
  • Four Converging Creeks Flashing Teeth (OC)
  • Shattered Reflections Ceaseless Raindrops (OC)
  • The Witness (Slugcat)
  • Drifting Blossom on Spring's Breeze (OC)
  • A Quiet Hymn at Dusk's Last Light (OC)
  • The Birdwatcher (Slugcat)
  • interior iterator city
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • but I promise it gets better
  • Abuse
  • Child Abuse
  • Disability
  • Isolation
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • mostly downpour canon compliant but with some creative liberties
  • yes Flocks can modify herself no that's not normal
  • the rest of the tags are content warnings and may contain spoilers
  • Blood and Injury
  • Temporary Character Death
  • Self-Harm
  • not in a deliberate self-loathing way but it happens a few times
  • Manipulation
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Fear of Death
  • Abandonment
  • Unethical Experimentation
  • previous tag applies to both Flocks and various creatures
  • Depersonalization
  • Derealization
  • Dehumanization
  • am I missing any -tions
  • don't think so
  • Thirteen Nests is their own content warning
  • Sleep Deprivation
  • just a terrible work life balance really
  • as the name implies. there are birds
  • Angst
  • Worms On The String | Iterators Cannot Leave Their Cans (Rain World)
  • but like. the string gets extended a little
  • steampunk iterator who cheered
  • oh yeah also
  • Non-Linear Narrative
  • I love my importantly placed flashbacks

  Summary

  Presumed dead, half-finished, and abandoned, Flocks to the South awoke only to find her superstructure in critical condition. She was left to puzzle together her purpose without guidance or direction. Her journey of survival would take her through a complete reconstruction of herself, in more ways than one. Through modification, pain, trial and error, she must find a way to hang onto what little she had left. She wanted it so badly. Flocks wanted to live. But a fire cannot rage without kindling, and she was the only one left to burn.

  (FAULTY RECONSTRUCT - A journey of desperation, anger, recovery, and change. Maybe one day it will all mean so much more, but for now: Endure.)

  Series

  • Part 1 of Path of Totality

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,325

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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  Bookmarks:

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