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Zuko goes into exile with a scar, a mission, and a wife.
The girl wears ill fitted ceremonial silks. She is too thin, with jutting bones and hollowed eyes. Dirt smudges her cheek. Her lower lip has a healing split in it. Gaudy as her finery is, she wears it like prisoner’s rags.
All of this Zuko registers in the time it takes him to reach the dais and bow. Every muscle aches with the remembrance of what happened the last time he knelt before Father. This time there is no begging, no roar of the crowd, no burning. Still—Zuko’s grateful to stand once more.
Slipping into soldier’s parade rest, he waits for what will come next, all too aware of the girl’s defiant body next to his.
“I am told that this is Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” Father says, cruel amusement oiling his words. The phrasing makes the girl sound like a thing. “The last waterbender of their pathetic tribe.” Flames conceal all but his shadow, yet Zuko knows from long experience the exacting blade of his father’s smirk. The smirk he must surely wear now. Because he has built up his insult and now he lets it fall. “Your bride.”
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22 Sep 2025
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this is not a place of honor by cricketing
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
29 Aug 2025
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You were a scientist before the world turned you into a soldier. Now, you’re injured and stuck in some sort of commune in the middle of fucking Wyoming of all places, arguing with some asshole about god-knows-what. He’s infuriating and stubborn and rude and you can’t fucking stand him—
So why is this the most alive you’ve felt in years?
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20 Jun 2025
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doctrine by aevallare
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
23 Feb 2022
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"They're going to destroy us," Jayce says.
"They're people, Jayce. If one thing in my life had gone differently, I'd still be down there myself."
Jayce won't meet his eyes.
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viktor finances ekko and the firelights. this is not a conflict of interest until it is.
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- Part 3 of like water in your hands
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24 Mar 2025
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In Vaulted Halls, Entombed by agustsea
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
31 Jul 2025
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Viktor never leaves Zaun. Instead, as Singed's protege, he draws the attention of Silco and ends up taken under the kingpins' wing, another stray in a makeshift family of outcasts and orphans.
With no one to stand by his side after the Council's ruling, a disgraced Jayce Talis enlists as an Enforcer and swiftly climbs through their ranks until he is assigned a mission befitting of the golden boy of Piltover's Police Force.
When a cadre of Enforcers barges in to the Last Drop demanding to speak with Silco, Viktor does everyone a favor by intervening in the conversation between them and his little sister before it can escalate to explosive porportions.
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17 Mar 2025
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honey, honey by notquitegucci (notquiteguchi)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Jun 2025
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“So, run it by me one more time.”
Vi paced the length of the room with her chin pinched firmly between her fingers. She had been tracing a wide oval on the floor, her boots clanking heavily with every step. They had been over the plan several times already, Viktor lamented soundlessly, but he understood her nerves. Ekko, who was busy spinning himself in one of Viktor’s office chairs, slowed to a stop with an exaggerated groan, dragging the toe of his shoes along Viktor’s floor. “Vi, how many more times are you gonna make us—”
“Until it’s perfect, Ekko.” Vi interrupted brusquely. “Everyone needs to be on the same page about what they’re doing, where they’re supposed to be, and what we’re after. We’re not gonna get another shot at this for months if we fail.”
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OR: The kids from Zaun have a plan—find whatever Jayce Talis has been working on and steal it. The Progress Day Gala is the perfect opportunity to do so. The only issue? Viktor has to attend to "present" his research to Heimerdinger. He should be in and out quickly—just long enough to get Vi into place and dip. If all goes smoothly, he'll never have to interact with Jayce Talis at all. Simple, right?
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- Part 1 of lay all your love on me (verse)
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15 Mar 2025