JadedJoshua
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“And I thought I heard you out there crying”
Noelle found herself ignoring things alarmingly often. Why dwell on the past, on the things she can’t change, when she can look ahead at the happier times that are surely ahead? She doesn’t let her mind wander to the crippling emptiness Dess left behind, or the desire to scream at the heavens of how unfair it is that her poor father is stuck in the hospital, suffering and alone.
One day, Kris starts acting strange. But, surely they’re just having an off day, or maybe they’re sick. So Noelleis very concernedisn’t concerned.
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occupational hazards, and other half-truths by placesinfive
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Aug 2023
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The story begins like this:
There is a legend in Fontaine,
That every time the sky does rain,
It comes, not from wind, or cloud, or sky,
But from the great Hydro Dragon, feeling sad enough to cry.
Or,
In which Freminet, somehow, keeps running into none other than the Chief Justice himself.
Things all sort of begin to unravel from there.
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- Part 1 of occupational hazards
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18 Jul 2025
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"I won’t make a deal,” Pure Vanilla says, plain and simple. “Not unless I understand every word of it. Not unless I believe it fair. And not if the price is someone else’s pain.”
“You dare to set your terms,” The fae murmurs, his voice no longer playful. No longer velvet. It is frost now, delicate and sharp enough to flay skin. “You sit in my ring, in my garden, and you deny me?”
Pure Vanilla meets his gaze, calm and clear. “Yes.”
The fae snarls.
“I could kill you,” the fae whispers. “Slit you open like a fruit. Spill your mortal heat onto my garden and let the flowers drink your heart."
“You could,” Vanilla agrees mildly. “But I’m told human meat is stringy, and frankly, I’m not sure I’d make a good stew.” He takes another small bite of rice, chews serenely. “Besides, isn’t that just a myth? You lot eating people.”
“You’re testing me,” The fae snaps. “I should curse your tongue to rot in your mouth. I should blight your precious village until even the stones forget your names.”
“Can’t,” Vanilla says lightly, tapping the side of his riceball with one finger. “You’d need my true name. And I’m fairly certain you don’t have it.”
The fae curses.
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- Part 2 of My Cookie Works
- Part 1 of Pureshadow fae au
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18 Jul 2025
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Shadow Milk Cookie lunges, fury incarnate, but Pure Vanilla is ready. He doesn’t raise his staff. Doesn’t cast. Doesn’t defend.
He simply steps forward. And wraps his arms around him. Not in battle.
In embrace.
Shadow Milk freezes. His forehead presses to Pure Vanilla’s collarbone. Not gently. Not willingly. But needfully.
“Don’t say you forgive me,” he says, voice ruined. “Don’t you dare.”
“I’m not,” Pure Vanilla replies. “Not until you're ready to hear it.”
The candles crackle. The walls hum. But in the center of the room, something quiet unfolds.
Not peace. Not yet.
But the possibility of it.
And Shadow Milk Cookie—terrible and lonely and terribly alive—lets himself be held. Just for a moment. Just until the trembling stops.
How cruel, then, how unthinkably cruel, that this moment must end.
Because in three months’ time, he will be nothing.
In three months’ time, his name will be only used in past tense.
And Pure Vanilla Cookie will stand alone beneath the candied stars, cradling a broken body.
Just to do it all over again.
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- Part 1 of My Cookie Works
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17 Jul 2025
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There's no sweeter lie than a dream. Your brain takes in memories and snippets of wants and fears and turns into a big ol' mush of nonsensical information you're free to interpret as you wish. Logically, it follows a liar would take interest in making use of this.
Or, Shadow Milk Cookie decides weakening Pure Vanilla Cookie before their next encounter would be an excellent strategic maneuver. What better way than by turning all of his dreams to nightmares by his own hand?
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Title Changed, Originally "Lying In Your Sleep"Series
- Part 1 of Planting Hearts
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10 Jul 2025
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Wind and Legend wake up in the middle of a storm, stranded on an island.
It takes Legend some time to realize that their situation has also brought some bad memories back for Wind.
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30 Jun 2025