7 Bookmarks by paused_waterfall
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a duty to others, a duty to you, a duty to the dead by audioEidolon
Fandoms: Vampires SMP
18 Oct 2025
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"Tell me, do your friends know where you are?”
Legundo didn’t answer. He simply swallowed, conscious of the fact that Scott could hear every mechanism and sound of his body, from the thud of his heart to the damp rasp of his palms as he clenched his fingers. He wondered if he could hear the creak of his joints, as Legundo shifted backwards away from that cold hand. If he did, he paid it no mind, the fingers on his chin instead sliding down to Legundo’s collar, where his starched coat hung open, showing the lacings of his shirt underneath.
There was skin there, between the cloth, and Legundo felt the tickling sharpness of claws against him as the fingers paused their journey. It was like being brushed with the tip of an icicle— cold, pointed. Legundo shivered, and flushed in embarrassment at the chuckle it brought from Scott, who stepped closer. He could hear air move now, and for a moment he was at a loss as what Scott could be doing since vampires didn’t need to breathe—
Until he realized Scott was smelling him.
(Or; Legundo gets bit by EVERY Vampire at some point or another, for varying reasons.)
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22 Oct 2025
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SPOILERS FOR THE GAME, LIKE SERIOUSLY
Verso let Gustave die on those cliffs, but he couldn't bring himself leave him there.
He should know that despite good intenteions, his sentimentality has never ended well for him.
This becomes even more evident to him as he watches the picto he contained Gustaves chroma in, dissolve into his skin.
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When you Paint, there are rules. In her grief, Aline broke them all.
The crack in the stability of the Canvas was all it took for the Writers to thread their own craft through it, letting them pull out a handful of inhabitants as their tethers to their world snapped. They explain it as a mercy to the confused members of Expedition 33 when they wake up in Paris. They tell them it was a rescue mission, to save them from the whims of the Painters—that this fight is now theirs, too.
But Gustave, Lune, Sciel and a very confused Maelle were not the only ones plucked from the Canvas. Beneath the Writer’s Council, Verso wakes in a locked cell, a new piece on the board of their war.
Turns out their Expedition might not be finished, after all.
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Fire Within, Ashes Without by drunknpylades
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
08 Aug 2025
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Sometimes there is an angry, raging inferno under his skin. All that rage needs to go somewhere or it's going to burn him up from the inside out. That's the thing about a forest fire; it leaves nothing but ash and the bones of what used to be in its wake.
Verso is having a no good very bad string of days and he's been left to simmer in his anger for a little too long. All that pressure has to explode sometime.
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12 Aug 2025
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Functionally, materially, you’re in the same situation as you were this morning. You’ve spent sixty-seven years thinking your sister was dead, and now she is. But for a split second there, before the crushing horror of what had become of Clea set in, you had experienced a world of emotion. Sheer shock and elation at seeing her after so long. Amazement to find her alive. Confusion, solidifying into regret that you’d ever stopped looking for her. But more than anything… relief.
Your big sister was here, and that meant that everything was going to be okay.
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03 Aug 2025
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Cellbit returns to Forever after infiltrating the Federation. As little as either of them want to do it, he has to be checked for implanted listening devices before he can be welcomed back into the fold.
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08 Aug 2023
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Phil, Wilbur, and Tommy accepted a job that tasked them with collecting a legendary weapon from a ruined castle, abandoned decades ago by its power-hungry nobility. They did not expect this weapon to be a person, trained with the sole purpose of serving in their master's wars.
Faced with a man who has lost all concept of being anything but a weapon, they decide on the only logical course of action: to take the Blade home.