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we said our dreams will carry us by hollow_dweller
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies)
21 Jan 2024
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“You saw for yourself what Spider-Man did for New York,” Gwen says, impatient now. “Earth 42 was a fucking mess without you.”
Later, Miles might register this as a good thing, a sign that she’s finally done treating him like he’s made of glass. Right now, however, it just pisses him off.
“Earth 42 was a mess because of me,” he retorts. “That Miles murdered his own fucking father, and I-“ He breaks off, turning away abruptly. He doesn’t want to see the expression on her face.
“That isn’t what happened, Miles,” she says eventually, voice quiet. “You know that.”
“Yeah, well, he should have stopped it,” Miles replies, the words bitter on his tongue. “If he’d been better, he could have.”
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In which Miles learns how to grow around his grief.
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- Part 5 of Author's Favourites
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Small World by MeanScarletDeceiver for FutureRust
Fandoms: Thomas the Tank Engine - All Media Types, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, The Railway Series - W. Awdry
25 Jul 2025
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In the wake of the Red Engine and his scruffy brakevan, the North Westerners have choices to make — which battles are lost, and which are still worth fighting.
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Interlude, restrospective: Five times Kotallo was distracted and confused, and one time he figured it out. by 5ellaal5
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
03 May 2024
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What’s that strange and alluring scent? Oh. Figured it out. Awkward.
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- Part 2 of Trust, and the Release Will Come
- Part 1 of Alts and Scenes and Prompt Responses
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A respite, with surprises.
Post H:FW game ending (e.g. Post "Singularity"), pre-Burning Shores DLC expansionSeries
- Part 4 of Trust, and the Release Will Come
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Aloy and Kotallo take risks that deepen their trust and comfort, firming their resolve to make it through the next hard thing.
A.k.a. Aloy experiments with harm reduction and harm mitigation instead of harm avoidance.Post-GEMINI, Post-Regalla's Final Assault "Wings of the Ten", at the start of "Singularity"
Rated Mature because it mentioned the existence of sex and people thinking about it.
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- Part 3 of Trust, and the Release Will Come
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After eliminating the Zenith threat from the Southern Coast of the Tenakth, Aloy is looking for things to do to prepare for Nemesis while Marshal Kotallo gets used to being at his Chief's side again. Chief Hekarro invites Aloy to be an honored guest at the competition to elevate the next High Marshal, and she gets the orders to "have fun," which is easier with Diviner Alva there with a Quen delegation.
What could go wrong? Or, deliciously right?This relies on reading the first parts of the Trust, and the Release Will Come series (except for the Optional one) and makes frequent allusion to the events in those parts.
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- Part 7 of Trust, and the Release Will Come
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Kotallo learns it’s more fun to use toys than to be one.
Aloy makes a friend.
Beta finds she is less defective.
Sylens studies how to be friends.Timing: Around the period Aloy is finalizing her training for the Proving, just before H:ZD starts,
and then... after And She’ll Have Fun, Fun, Fun (which is after H:FW ends but before Burning Shores)
A bit of non-diegetic time travel happening, here.Reminder that every part of this series assumes you've read the previous parts of the series.
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- Part 8 of Trust, and the Release Will Come
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One thousand years ago, the Break changed everything. Gaping holes tore open in the earth, allowing the demons dwelling in the depths to roam the surface, and wreak havoc on its inhabitants.
Witches and humans decided on a truce to defeat the invading forces, and eventually pushed them back underground - but the threat still lingered underneath their feet.
For a thousand years, they helped each other rebuild, though they still did not quite trust each other. The humans decided to allow the witches to erect academies, enormous fortresses in which young witches would be taught magic to use in their everlasting battle against the demons.
At Nightingale Peak, one such academy, our story begins with four young witches who swiftly become very dear to one another. But their perfect little world might not remain so magical for long.. -
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Kivva's friend Kotallo returns to the Sky Clan for a brief period, and she has an important request for him.
Kotallo returns to his work as a Marshal, faces his childhood home again, and realizes how much he has changed.Originally inspired by Vigil by littleboxofwonders (see link elsewhere in notes) and that Headcanon is fully accepted in this piece. I imagine it taking place between Chapters 1 and 2.
I don't know if that author expected my work, though!Series
- Part 5 of Trust, and the Release Will Come
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Beta: Aloy, are you awake?
Aloy: Yep.Series
- Part 9 of Trust, and the Release Will Come
- Part 4 of Alts and Scenes and Prompt Responses
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Aloy's mysterious premonitions guide her to make strange choices on a chaotic, unpredictable day.
(An exploration of what Save Points and being the product of game development might feel like from the inside.)
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- Part 1 of A Spectrum of Fractal Premonitions
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Part 2 - Most Frustrating Least Desperate Way by 5ellaal5
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
10 Jun 2024
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Aloy and the Tenakth scatter to find safety and answers after the attack at the Embassy.
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- Part 2 of A Spectrum of Fractal Premonitions
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Kotallo guides Aloy to the Bulwark to bring Tekotteh into compliance with Chief Hekarro's call for a Kulrut and then Aloy protects the Kulrut from Regalla
(Game Progression: A Broken Sky and The Kulrut, after The Dying Lands and as part of The Eye of the Earth)
A Sons of Prometheus Operative considers his quest for vengeance, finishes an assignment, and accepts an unexpected new one.
Aloy's premonitory Moments as well as her continued exploration of building friendships continue to guide her towards doing the least harm, even as she still struggles to understand who she is after the Embassy... and after meeting Marshal Kotallo again… Marshal Kotallo who will never heal.
Kotallo struggles to understand who he is in his new life, and who he wants to be around Aloy.
Hekarro tries to understand who Aloy is to him, to Kotallo, to the Tenakth, and to the world.Series
- Part 5 of A Spectrum of Fractal Premonitions
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Part 5 - In the Cradle, We Begin (Form Norm Storm Perform Book 1) by 5ellaal5
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
09 Aug 2024
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Part 5 Book 1: Aloy's team begins to assemble and gets to know each other as Aloy gets closer to getting what's necessary for GAIA to capture HEPHAESTUS... and does many errands along the way.
Kotallo joins Aloy's team and has fun adventures on the way to her Base. And then wonders what it means for him to be in her Base. There may have been a few cultural misunderstandings he is starting to clear up....
Zo settles in, and has some good conversations and good connection with Varl, GAIA, Kotallo, and Aloy although she and Erend are clashing over meals.
Erend finds ways to stay active and useful —and to have some fun!— while struggling with using the Focus and the paperwork involved in both his roles.
And, Beta figures out her place on her genetic sister's team, even though it's like nothing she hoped for.
Game Progression: The Eye of the Earth, and Cradle of Echoes
Mentioned Side Quests: Thirst for the Hunt, The Wound in the Sand, The Deluge
Pre-GEMINI, The Second Verse
Expect confusing spoilers since this is a canon divergent AU that loosely follows the original.2024.08 restructuring to make this easier to read (shorter chapters)
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- Part 7 of A Spectrum of Fractal Premonitions
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This Fragile Space Between Us by ChelseaDear
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
04 Aug 2025
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Yoda, the enigmatic and often mercurial head of the board, wants Plo to visit the rest of the board members to help figure out how they can become "more involved in the mission," as well as visit as many of their local offices as possible to see how the board can help.
Kit volunteers to keep Plo company. It’s going to be months on the road, after all, and being alone for it sounds terrible.
Small problem: Plo has had a quiet crush on Kit for years.
He can be a professional about this, right?
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Beta meets Aloy and a version of GAIA and begins to make a plan to escape.
If you are a Betaphile and not a Kotaloy fan, after finishing this, you can skip to the next part of Beta's adventure:
Interlude during Part 4 - End Love, The Sky Is Falling (6120 words, Chapters: 3/3) by 5ellaal5Series
- Part 4 of A Spectrum of Fractal Premonitions
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Interlude during Part 4 - End Love, The Sky Is Falling by 5ellaal5
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
15 Jul 2024
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Beta escapes the Zeniths and is found.
But who found her?!Follow up to Interlude after Part 3 - ElisaBeta Is Ready (3819 words)
Note the content warnings in the previous one.Series
- Part 6 of A Spectrum of Fractal Premonitions
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Part 5 - From the Water We Grow (Form Norm Storm Perform Book 2) by 5ellaal5
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
04 Sep 2024
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Part 5 Book 2: Aloy's team continues to assemble and get to know each other as Aloy gets closer to getting what's necessary for GAIA to capture HEPHAESTUS... and does many errands along the way.
(Expect confusing spoilers because it is a canon-divergent AU that loosely follows the original.)
Aloy helps Talanah, Dekka, Kavvoh, and Amadis in the Lowlands, and then Talanah and Kavvoh meet her and Ivvira back in the Desert. After her friends, old and new, help her avert some conflict, Aloy runs off to the Isle of Spires.
Alva and Beta become friends and get help from Kotallo and Varl to make the Base more comfortable, while Zo continues her project to heal the Land-Gods, and Erend is back in the Daunt on Vanguard business and Sons of Prometheus detective work.
Varl and Kotallo talk about children but are interrupted when Kotallo gets a chance to ask Aloy to take him to a dangerous area to help him heal. Still at the Base, Varl talks to Zo, and she learns more about what makes Kotallo fight so hard.
And then Varl gets some ideas of how to bring the joy he's been feeling to the rest of the team.
(Varl's chapters are inspired by works by littleboxofwonders. You'll see when you get there.)Series
- Part 8 of A Spectrum of Fractal Premonitions
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It's been a year since the moral dilemma of Showfall. Weeks and months of court cases, interviews, trying to avoid the media, going through the trauma of needing an entire new identity. Now 20, Ranboo finds their life uprooted and burned down in the year they were supposed to be getting used to this whole "adult" thing.
He thinks he's starting to get the hang of it, up until new evidence blows the Showfall case wide open. The police are banging down their door again, detectives are trying to get under their skin, news medias are trying to get their story. It seems no matter where they go, Showfall Media will be on his tail for the rest of his life.
At least he has Charlie, Sneeg and Aimsey caught up with them. The more the merrier, right?Series
- Part 2 of Sleepless In the City
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Here is a poem about autumn, which I am putting on this fanfiction site because I don’t know where else it could go
- Language:
- English
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- 250
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 13