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    A husband robbed from his family as a prize of conquest; a vagabond searching for his home throughout the stars. Ships are born and weapons are grown. The scars of the past have opened up, and the horrors within them come crawling out; the world has changed a lot in a hundred thousand years, and yet our struggles have not.

    Love, though, love conquers all...

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    21/?
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    "You're so worked up about winning in life and being on top, number 1, that you skip over defining what that even means. Is an academic genius the winner in a room of world-class athletes? When you think about it, are you truly winning against me if you're the only one invested in the competition?

    I mean, sure! In a room of 100 people, get 51 on board and you decide what's black and white. But give me a call when you finish probing half of 8 billion people about their life philosophy.

    And between you and me, Kiyotaka. If you set your finish line according to other people's wishes, you've already thrown in the towel. You see, unlike the rest of our peers here, I'm not looking to peak in this Highschool. What about you?"

    [A crossover between Classroom of the Elite and Assassination Classroom post-Koro-sensei death, featuring an original character and returning ones. All in hopes of a slightly different approach and feel to a COTE Story compared to most Kiyotaka 2.0 ones. ]

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    40/?
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    141
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    31
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    Gale orients himself in a quiet moment of repose after the crash.

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    1/1
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    A man loses everything dear to him in the matter of seconds, and is left to survive in the wasteland left in the wake of the event. He endures, not knowing whether his true survival lies on the horizon. Unbeknownst to him, he is being stalked by one of those he believes is the very perpetrator of the event that ruined his life. Forced into a situation with only one real way out, he will struggle with his own anxiety, trauma, fascination, and eventual affection towards the Republic, its technology, it's strange people, and even stranger culture.

    (Inspired by the work Paenitentia by shashkased.)

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    10/?
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    207
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    48
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    12,445
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    By some miracle, Rouge survives the longest single pregnancy a human has ever held, but not without a cost. With her recovery so slow as to be nonexistent, she's sent to a world renowned doctor practicing in a North Blue backwater. Doctor Trafalgar does a lot to treat Rouge, but it might just be his young daughter that truly helps her along the road to recovery.

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    4/4
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    8
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    A follow-up to Of Boys and Men that can be understood without reading it. This is a pre-canon exploration of Velma’s relationships with Tony, Graziella, Baby John, Riff, her mom, and Ice in several separate scenes within the same (canon compliant) timeline.

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    What is faith?

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    Something is bothering Fulgrim as he prepares for negotiations with a Chemosian executive clan.

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    Joyce calls Bob by another name as she's falling asleep

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    A follow-up to Boats Against The Current that can be understood without reading it. Pre-canon, Velma unwittingly meets the Jets for the first time because Graziella didn’t mention that she didn’t intend for this particular hang-out at Doc’s shop to be just the two of them and forms a connection with Tony.

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    ביום האחרון לפני שמשפחתו עתידה להמריא אל המושבה הראשונה במאדים, הגיבור יוצא לחפש את בנו

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    Harry Kim, evaluating his professional future aboard a Voyager still facing decades of travel ahead, has decided it’s time to pivot away from the command track toward something new. His friends’ lives are changing, so why shouldn’t his?

    Meanwhile, change is something the Doctor hasn’t been able to come by lately. If he’s not just a machine executing a program, why does he feel like he’s stuck making the same mistakes over and over?

    Maybe getting Harry’s new counseling career off the ground is exactly what they both need to move forward. Except nothing on Voyager is ever that simple. Long-distance bureaucracy, competing ethical considerations, the crew’s complicated feelings about Harry’s decision, and Voyager’s newest baby all collude to make this “simple” career decision into something more complex than anyone bargained for.

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    11/?
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    Gen chooses to be optimistic for the future.

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    When Vlad and Luke stumble upon a talking flaming phoenix named Egnats at a hangar sale, they think they’ve scored a quirky pet. But Ignatz is no ordinary phoenix, he holds the key to a long-lost pirate treasure. As clues unfold and the map reveals itself, the Twilight crew finds themselves in a race against Don Karnage and his air pirates, who are also after the loot.

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    After an unfortunate encounter with a Milotic, Kairi has her entire life upended as her memories are stripped away from her. Forced to be a servant to the Graceful One, Kairi now has to find herself while balancing the delicate acts proposed to her.

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    60,411
    Chapters:
    10/?
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    13
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    3
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    Shujinkou is your average high schooler. When he isn't indulging in manga or video games, he's usually loses himself to scenarios in his head. That's how he figured he spend the rest of his high-school life until a request from childhood friend, Sayori, changes his life forever. Can Shujinkou cope with being pushed out of his comfort zone and adjust to life in the Literature Club?

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    568,475
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    207/?
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    337
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    21
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    Due to a time travel mishap, Silver the Hedgehog has missed an extremely important event that could have ripple effects forever: Amy's birthday party. Okay, maybe it's not that serious. However, disappointed by this, it takes a newly jobless Barry the Quokka to show Silver that there's more to life than just saving the world and missing birthday parties.

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    Chapters:
    5/5
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    19
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    1
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    If a bruise can bloom, isn't it just a flower of flesh?

    Yoshiki likes bruises. He’s grown to like them a little too much, all over the past months—coincidentally, the months since ‘Hikaru’ appeared.

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    1,233
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    1/1
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    8
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    60
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    5
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    595
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    [Newest updated chapter: #7 AND new chapter up!]
    [I'm slowly fixing early chapters while I try to finish the story. Sorry about the wait, this story isn't on hiatus, I just have a lot going on right now!]

    [This is a rollercoaster of emotions with break-ups, misunderstandings, and reconnections. The romance tags are all active at the end. No matter how surprising some developments were, it is still a happy ending for everyone!]

    Anne was in the middle of a trip when she was thrown through a portal leading to Faerûn.
    With no powers, barely any skills, and only her mind and faint knowledge of the world to help her navigate the perils of the Forgotten Realms, she will have quite the challenge in her hands.

    [This starts way before the events of Baldur's Gate 3, but we'll get there.]
    ---
    Larian, I'll never tire of thanking you for this game 💜

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    361,645
    Chapters:
    123/?
    Comments:
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    389
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    99
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    25,028
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    Sophie is everything a princess of Good should be—golden-haired, charming, and raised on dreams of fairy-tale endings. Agatha, sharp as a knife and cloaked in shadows, is the kind of girl villains are made of.

    But the School for Good and Evil has never made a mistake. It doesn’t care what the villagers whisper. It doesn’t care what the girls believe. It sees past masks, beyond appearances, and straight to the heart's hidden truth.

    That's why Sophie belongs in Evil. That's why Agatha belongs in Good.

    But what if their story was never that simple?

    What if Sophie’s kindness wasn’t just for show? What if Agatha’s anger wasn’t a shield, but a weapon? The rules have always been absolute—one for Good, one for Evil. The mirrors don’t lie. The towers don’t falter.

    Yet as their destinies unfold behind the towering doors, an impossible possibility takes shape:

    What if the School was wrong all along?

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    English
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    14,038
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    7
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    4
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    78

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