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Dark in the Pocket of Truth by NyxEtoile, OlivesAwl
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Aug 2025
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The Doctor sauntered past her to the bar. "Dissension in the ranks, Valentina. You're losing your touch. I don't suppose six of you would be interested in a counter offer?”
“What kind of offer?” Bucky asked.
"I would argue you all work better as independent contractors rather than OXE employees. I would serve as a… manager. We negotiate contracts directly with the CIA and US government." She poured herself a drink, capping the decanter with a clink. "No taking orders from Valentina. No threats. And a doctor who knows how to treat your… unique physiologies.”
“I didn’t realize The Doctor was an actual doctor,” Yelena said.
Bucky turned and looked at her. “You know who this is?”
Her brows lifted. "People have been whispering about her in the underworld for years. You need to get something done—something big—you find The Doctor and she gets it done. Stock markets, companies, whole governments have fallen at her order. Half the stories about her sound fake and most people think she's a myth."
"I like the one about my knitting needles being poisoned," The Doctor commented, sipping her drink.
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- Part 1 of All Along the Watchtower
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29 Jun 2025
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alicent hightower grew up watching princess rhaenyra targaryen of valyria from a distance; through headlines, scandals, and her head-of-the-global-council father's word-of-mouth. years later, she's assigned to oversee the peaceful transition of power in valyria to find that rhaenyra targaryen is precisely as intractable as the media and her father promised—
and far, far more dangerous to the order alicent has built her entire life around.
(or; a modern royalty au with political optics, assassinations, absolutely no geographical accuracy, and a doomed sense of professionalism)
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24 Jun 2025
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alicent returns to her hometown to care for her dying father. rhaenyra still lives there with her husband, running a bookstore across the old theatre in town. they haven't seen each other in years.
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(the past never stayed buried. it woke up. it waited.)
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- Part 3 of careless, like a comet
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16 Jun 2025
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“What’s she like?”
Alicent sighs. “I do not know. We were friends many years ago.”
At least, Alicent likes to think they were friends. But the princess was always sporadic with her attentions— quick to grow bored of things, discarding the old in favor of the new. Alicent supposes that’s what happened to her, as well. She had written letters, those first few moons after she returned to Oldtown.
The princess never responded.
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The king is seeking a husband for his omega daughter, so countless lords send their sons to vie for the hand of the future queen.
Alicent is not a son. She is not a knight. Her presentation was surely a mistake, one that’s cost her everything. Now she is her brother’s squire, accompanying him to King’s Landing as he competes for the princess's hand.
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14 May 2025
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The flesh is split in two and patched with fire by koyuki_kazahana
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
26 Jul 2025
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She can’t escape the throne. Or the girl it was meant to devour. Alicent Hightower wears the regency like a crown of thorns. Confined by duty, something’s going to cleave. Maybe the realm. Maybe her heart. Maybe the line between them.
"One year,” Rhaenyra spits the words, “and if you linger a day beyond, Alicent, I will take the throne with fire.”
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Viserys died earlier within the six-year time skip. Alicent successfully becomes queen regent. Rhaenyra arrives in King’s Landing. It changes everything.
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13 May 2025