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1. "The Heart's A Stubborn Muscle" by sadmax (acewtaste)

   Fandoms: BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   29 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Frank Fontaine/Brigid Tenenbaum
   • Frank Fontaine
   • Brigid Tenenbaum
   • Yi Suchong
   • Jack (BioShock)
   • Andrew Ryan
   • Diane McClintock
   • Atlas (BioShock)
   • Bill McDonagh
   • Sullivan (BioShock)
   • Fix-It of Sorts
   • AU where Fontaine also grows a conscious
   • Jack gets to keep his weird parents
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Sometimes a family can be a mad scientist a con artist mob boss and their two year old bioweapon
   • Fontaine and Tenenbaum seek redemption together
   • Based on John Shirley’s prequel book BIOSHOCK: Rapture
   • Good Mom Brigid Tenenbaum
   • Reluctant Dad Fontaine
   • Fontaine is down bad for Tenenbaum obviously
   • Jack is the babiest boy

   Summary

   “…but these children—“ She looked through the window again. “They awaken something in me.”
   “Something— like what?”
   -BIOSHOCK: Rapture by John Shirley

   What if Tenenbaum was able to awaken that same something in Fontaine? What if he realized he liked playing the role of the hero? What if orphans could find a family? What if there was such a thing as redemption?

   And a few other impossible questions with impossible answers…

   (Mostly based on the canon of the RAPTURE prequel book, with a divergence after the Second Age of Rapture)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   35,318

   Chapters:

   10/?

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