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For his entire life Tyler had had this sneaking suspicion that he’d missed something somewhere along the line – a day at kindergarten or a book that children were supposed to read in their early years – and that he had as a result not learned how exactly how he was supposed to be a human being.
He had felt all of these feelings for so long that they had become a cosmic background drone in his life, a fact as undeniable as gravity – he was an apple that had fallen out of the only tree in the world that produced floating apples. Tyler Joseph was an anomaly, and everybody knew it, and everybody pretended that they didn’t but they all secretly hoped that he’d figure it out one day and do something sudden and drastic to fix it and become a working member of a society they all secretly despised.
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It’s 1967, and from a listening post atop a man-made hill in West Berlin, conscripted signal analyst Tyler Joseph spends his days buried in dots and dashes. He’s so alone, bored, and alienated that when a jazz song with a very peculiar drumbeat creeps into his airwaves, transmitted from beyond the wall, Tyler wonders if he’s found someone else out there who understands him.
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Inside the Glass by Anonymous
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
02 Jul 2025
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He passes by the window, as he does every night, but a flash of colour makes him stop dead in his tracks. He whips his head to the side, looking out the glass.
A man, dressed in dark olive greens and yellow stripes, a yellow bandana pulled up over the lower half of his face, is standing on the ground outside and holding a flaming torch, looking directly up at him.-----------
Tyler is just trying to live his life as an exceptional citizen of Dema, but the Torchbearer won't leave him alone.
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“Although… He could be right this time, who knows?” Tyler made Josh meet his eyes and grinned while leaning forward. “Maybe you are capable, Joshua. Maybe that pretty face will turn me good.”
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- Part 1 of sudden moves
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10 years ago, the CER, or the Coalition of Emotion Removal had advocated for a new medical drug, Zanvaryx. A drug to solve what they called the “issue of emotions” all together. They got rid of them. Just one pill a day for the rest of your life. No more needing to take medicine for depression, anxiety, or anything else because if you couldn’t feel anything then you didn’t need to manage your emotions. Josh decides he wants to remember what emotions are like and illegally stops taking the medicine without anyone in his life knowing. Tyler was glad Zanvaryx was invented, it saved his life. He was fine without feeling anything. That is until he meets Josh, who seems to be causing his meds to malfunction and stop working.
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tyler's vessel breaks down on itself on a cold winter night, on the side of the highway in the middle of ohio. he begs god to take him somewhere warm and safe.
josh is pulled from the edge of his own mind by the sight of an angel buried under the snow. maybe this was always how it was going to happen. -
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Au where josh is spider-man, and hasn't quite found the right time to tell Tyler yet. but he will!
Eventually.
Right?
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(2ND PART) Tyler is slowly becoming more comfortable with life at camp, bonding with friends- especially Josh. But a looming threat keeps him on his toes: the Bishops want him back in Dema for the Live Show. Will he make the choice to go willingly and rebel against his captors by adding his own songs into the performance?
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- Part 2 of I Feel My Way Back Home
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In the neøn gløw øf the exit sign by emo_mi
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
20 May 2025
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They stood in silence for a beat. Just two tired hearts in hoodies under a blinking exit sign meant to mark the way out – when really, what they both needed was a way back in. Back to themselves. “I gotta take another shower. Like right now”, Tyler finally croaked, voice hoarse from another evening of singing his heart out. Josh smiled gently. “Don’t drown.” Tyler offered a tiny, crooked smile as well before disappearing towards the elevators. Josh watched him go, the slump in his shoulders giving everything away.
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A short story about Tyler and Josh caring for each other during the Clancy tour! They’re platonic soulmates, ur honour <3 -
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Josh had never been so relieved to see Tyler, his best friend, the one who promised he would take Clancy's name and urge the rebellion forward nearly four months ago.
But finding Tyler in Dema after this long has brought its own challenges: he doesn't even recognize Josh, forced to write and perform songs by the Bishops.
The Banditos rescue Tyler and take him back to their camp in Trench, but it will surely take a village to catch him up to speed. And the Bishops will be looking for him, if their big Livestream plans are anything to go by.Series
- Part 1 of I Feel My Way Back Home
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It all started on May 29th, 2014. The day that ruined Josh Dun’s life. There’s a virus outbreak, one that turns humans into man-eating monsters; The Gone.
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Happy-Go-Lucky Josh gets assigned to a collaborative project at work, he is quick to find out that his partner is not the easiest to work with. Can he crack the intern’s tough exterior or were they destined to be enemies?
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Baby, you are a painful reminder and a terrible dream, but you are so beautiful by Amrais
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots
08 May 2025
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Being with Josh is wonderful, so why is it even harder to cope and keep his head above water than doing it on his own? Tyler is exhausted and Josh is getting worried.
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Tyler’s life has never been easy– scraping by as a prostitute, doing whatever it takes to survive. When Josh, a wealthy businessman who owns a high-end bondage company, makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Tyler steps into a world of power, control, and luxury beyond his imagination. But as lines blur and emotions tangle, what starts as a transaction turns into something neither of them expected.
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"tyler’s eyes refocused to the room around him as he visually put his thoughts back inside of his head. his line of view led straight to his best friend, who looked over softly in the midst of writing something down and stuck out his tongue. a warm smile grew across tyler’s lips before he returned the gesture.
god, ‘love’ wasn’t a big enough word for the way he felt about joshua william dun. to live in a world with so many other people and have the one person that he never had to explain himself to. he couldn’t grasp why no one else around them understood it. he didn’t care what they thought, but part of him would always wonder why people never saw tyler and josh’s bond the same way they did."
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Josh should have looked up what he was getting into. What The Ivory was.
Because standing outside the unmarked building, taking in its barely flickering neon sign and the blacked-out windows, he was getting a feeling. The kind of feeling that made the hairs on his arms prickle. It didn’t look shady, exactly—no busted-out lights, no sketchy figures lurking in the alley—but it was definitely something. Something his gut was already warning him about.
"Uh—hi. Hello," he started, his voice catching awkwardly in his throat. "I’m Josh Dun. I—uh, I have an interview? With, uh… Tyler Joseph?"
Or : Josh didn't read the job's ad and now he's working in a brothel as security.
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this is the lore storyline, all of it, written in a fanfiction format. this is my interpretation of the entire thing and how it plays out in my brain. i understand that everyone has their own interpretations, this is mine.
i will upload a chapter every 3 days, there are only 6 chapters.
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Josh in his 3rd year of graduate school is a teaching assistant at the university, working under one of his previous professors he got along with closely, he teaches the Abnormal Psychology classes for him.
Tyler is a junior in undergrad, and coming into this class he didn't expect to have... well an attractive ass TA.
especially an attractive ass TA that seems to have interest in him
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“Why are you helping me?” Tyler asked weakly, his voice barely above a whisper. He felt pathetic even asking.
“Because I know what it feels like,” Josh responds gently.
Tyler’s eyes welled up with fresh tears. “But you don’t even know me,” he murmured, the words trembling on his lips.
Josh shifted slightly, the sound of his sneakers scraping the floor echoing in the stall. “Maybe not,” he admitted, “but I’ve seen you. On the court, in class. You always seem so strong. But everyone has cracks, Tyler. Even the ones who look like they have it all together.”-
Everyone has cracks, Tyler Josephs are starting to show through when he meets Josh. Tyler starts to question everything he knows because of the mysterious photographer with ever changing hair. Maybe Josh looks like he has it all together as well, or maybe he's more like Tyler than he realizes.
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Tyler experiences a personal loss, and Josh tries to help him cope by taking him on a roadtrip to go hiking! However, the unresolved feelings between them have other plans…
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- Part 1 of Emotional Roadshow
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“Josh, seriously!” Tyler’s voice cracked as he reached out to grab his friend’s arm. “Please, just stay with me.”
Stay with me.
Josh shook him off with a sharp tug. “What? You think this is okay? That I should just brush it off? When those pricks are out there laughing about us? About you?" He jabbed a finger toward the door. "No. No way. I’m not gonna let them think they’ve won."