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    A series of Clone Wars centered around my favorite copy and paste boy, Echo.

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  1. Public Bookmark 65

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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.

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    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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    18 Nov 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    This is the World, and he is its faithful Citizen. He knows the Layout as it unwinds in his mind, an endless procession of hallways and loosely fitted-together rooms, the many statues and niches, the courtyards open to the gray sky, and the grim dark depths that plunge like a dagger into the heart of the earth below. And this Knowledge transforms him.

    Structure is beauty. Structure is perfection. Structure is salvation. And the Structure of this place is Clancy’s guiding purpose. Because many have tried before, to know the Tower in its entirety, and now Clancy alone counts their bones. In all the World, there have been twenty-five before him. But none of them were able to complete the task given to them before they perished.

    Clancy is exceptional.

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    16 Mar 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Let’s have Dema but make it Annihilation meets House of Leaves.

  3. Public Bookmark 25

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    “I’ve heard your kind were hardly better than feral dogs,” the cultist seethes with something like a wry smile on his cracked and swollen lips, “but I have to admit, you’ve managed to surprise me.”

    His eyes wander over the Torchbearer’s piecemeal armor, his tattered green tunic caked in mud so that the embroidered symbology is barely visible, his bloodied hands that never seem to wash clean these days. But the prisoner’s gaze seems to linger longest on the handle of the battleaxe that the Torchbearer carries on his back.

    Still faintly smiling, he asks, “Have you also come to offer me absolution, or are you my vengeful executioner here to relieve me of my head?”

    “You’re still breathing, aren’t you?”

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    29 Jan 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    DnDema :)

  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    Escape is a black car left idling in a gas station parking lot just off the highway. It shines, dark as sin, and Clancy waits until he is sure no one is watching him before he breaks into a run so bold, so daring that he’s almost certain someone will catch his arm before he’s even made it out of their reach. But he’s been slipping towards the edge of the awning’s safety ever since he got here. Waiting for just the right moment to flee.

    And they aren’t expecting this, not today of all days. When the sun is bright and dangerous. And the summer’s heat is bearing down like God’s wrathful right hand.

     

    Especially not when they’re preparing to feed.

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    17 Mar 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I don’t even like urban fantasy. That tells you how good this one is.

  5. Public Bookmark 15

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    At the Citadel Station on Lola Sayu, Echo fails to prevent the team’s escape shuttle from being blown to bits, and he alongside it. Months later, Anakin, Rex, and the Bad Batch rescue a compromised Echo from the evil Techno Union. What happens in between?

    “You’ve got suckers’ luck / Have you given up? / Does it feel like a trial? / Does it trouble your mind, the way you trouble mine?”
    (Fic and chapter titles from Exile Vilify by The National.)

    — This backstory is written out of my love for (and projection onto) our underrated boy Echo. Mostly because I couldn’t resist the potential for untapped angst. —

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    30 May 2024