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Rise to Grace Vol. 2 by MoodiestMags
Fandoms: Borderlands (Video Games), Tales from the Borderlands - Fandom
03 Feb 2024
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One year after the death of Handsome Jack, the Crimson Raiders have started to set down more prominent roots across Pandora. Keeping bandits at bay, scanning the skies for new adventures.
Angel, while still being trained as a Siren by Maya, frequently patrols the deserts of Pandora with Timothy Lawrence. It’s routine, it’s normal.
But something they find in that vast sea of sand changes plans.Series
- Part 4 of Rise to Grace
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"His ego can't fit on Helios. Anything he can't fix with money, he threatens, and anyone he doesn't like sees the wrong side of an airlock."
"As a joke, right? Right?"
"Go knock on his cabin and ask him yourself. It's not far from you, actually. Just don't piss him off. I don't want to fill out another report about another guy found in his own geyser of blood."
Rhys blinks wildly, "What?!"
"What? The guy's alive. But you could still die, is what I'm saying."
(OR: Rhys' summer is spent being a Forest Ranger on Pandora, along with being bossed around by his on-call supervisor, Fiona, being scared by the wildlife, and being reasonably unimpressed by the guy in charge of it all, Handsome Jack).
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There is an unfamiliar, dark-haired teenager in the office when Rhys gets back from lunch.
How Rhys finally meets Handsome Jack's daughter.
(now with a bonus chapter)
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- Part 5 of The Three Most Important M-Words
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With family grudges running generations deep, neighboring ranches Lawrence and Strongfork have had bad blood running between them for as long as Rhys can remember. After a particularly nasty introduction in town, Rhys is not surprised why he was brought up with one single demand hammered into him: stay away from the Lawrences.
As a violent storm brews over town, Rhys is left in Jack’s reluctant care, though Rhys is loath to accept. Despite the lifelong rivalry, Rhys finds himself seeing a side of Jack he’d never been privy to. A Jack who cares for his daughter, is firm in his convictions, and striking against his preconceptions of what Rhys thought he knew about the current figurehead of the Lawrence family.
Secret rendezvous, family tensions, and poisoned livestock threaten the budding relationship, leaving Rhys apprehensive about what will be left of him after the dust settles.
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Lost in memories, Rhys waits on an echo call.
He thinks about the past and his relationship with Jack before his death. Before he was demoted and ended up with a psycho AI in his skull of his ex-boyfriend.
An AI who didn't know him then tried to kill him in some bid never to let him go.
He thinks about all the memories and how he was simply under the spell of the man that was known as Handsome Jack.
When the call comes in, he finds himself wondering as he rushes to meet the newest person in his life, as he's decided to start over.
Is he ready for another spell?
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- Part 1 of Borderlands Mixtapes
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there's poison, there's silver (that's home) by definitelynotshouting
Fandoms: Borderlands (Video Games)
11 Dec 2021
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Rhys dropped to his knees beside the bed frame, fingers stretching for the hidden box underneath. Dark, gunmetal grey; a lockbox, with a pin pad on the side. Rhys punched in the code with distracted motions, waited for the soft hiss of disengaging mechanics, and reverently opened the lid.
It was a pocket watch. Rhys mapped the familiar geometric grooves under his hand, tracing old, scratched ports and smoothing a finger down the glossy blue finish covering its face. He’d been carrying this prototype with him for five years now as a good luck charm.
He’d been carrying the secret behind it for even longer.
Or: Rhys is Handsome Jack's son. This complicates some things.
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This is the second 10 of my AUgust stories. :) Each chapter is a different AU. Summing things up in the tags would be complicated, so I'll just list important points here for your convenience, and add detailed tags to the author's note. :)
11th - Farm/Ranch AU - [T]een and Up, Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Platonic Relationship
12th - Crime AU - [E]xplicit, Illegal Boxing, Med Student Rhys, Angst, Love Confession, Dark Tim
13th - Rock band AU - coming soon!
14th - Vampire AU - coming soon!
15th -Role Reversal AUCoffee Shop AU - [G]eneral, Fluff, little Angel, Rhys & Angel
16th - Treasure Hunters AU - coming soon!
17th - Firefighters AU - [T]een and Up, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Plot™
18th - Bodyguard AU - coming soon!
19th -19th century AUSteampunk AU - [E]xplicit, Steam-Powered Fucking Machine, Blow Job
20th - Single Parent(s) AU - [T]een and Up, Angst, Happy Ending, Rhys is HJ's PASeries
- Part 2 of AU-gust 2020
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If you think I'm gonna let you leave me, guess again by seasonschange
Fandoms: Borderlands
25 Dec 2020
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After his capture by Handsome Jack, the improbable male Siren known as 'Rhys' was considered an oddity too strange to kill, and ended up in one of Hyperion's secret underground facilities, where he was left in the hands of ruthless scientists tasked with finding out his abilities, and a way to best exploit them for future profit. Which left Rhys with few options: survival at any cost, even if that meant becoming the Devil's attack dog.
Or just fake it until the first opportunity to escape arose.
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Handsome Jack and his secret daughter Angel go for a vacation. They meet Rhys. Angel likes him. Jack even more. (I'm bad at summaries, ok? It's F L U F F.)
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As Rhys and Fiona follow their paths to become Atlas President and full-fledged Vault Hunter, they have found their adventures have not gone unnoticed, both by enemies and allies alike. After the Vault of the Traveller is opened, Fiona finds purpose as a new vault hunter recruit, tested to the brink of her loyalties and morals. Rhys uncovers the catalyst of a mysterious Hyperion program in the wreck of Helios, and it will be up for him to decide amongst the threats of dangerous rebels and broken relationships whether reliving his past truly is a blessing or a curse.
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Angel says back to her father, "Despite the way I go on at you, I think you deserve to be happy. We both do."
"Amen to that, Kiddo," Jack grins.
"And please tell Rhys we don't have a pet fish."
(Or a quirky morning dynamic between a single father with an obvious crush, and his witty teenage daughter).
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Angel knew she was going to die.
Digital may be the diet soda of immortalities, but it was her only option. She just had the bad luck to end up in the head of a Hyperion stooge on the run.
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AU where Rhys downloads an AI of Angel instead of Handsome Jack.
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Rhys is a really good singer, Jack loves to hear him sing and it never fails to put Angel to sleep.
Just some domestic fluff
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- Part 2 of Before The Storm
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The Atlas Corporation is hard at work recycling or reusing the infrastructure abandoned on Pandora after the fall of Helios. One of the more promising sights is the bunker in Thousand Cuts canyon where Hyperion once safeguarded a vault key.
Rhys has a hunch that the secrets buried below the bunker will shed some light on how Handsome Jack managed his meteoric rise to power, but instead of weapons, alien technology, or trade secrets, he finds something infinitely more precious; a survivor.
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- Part 1 of The Best and Worst Intentions
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Rhys thought he was ready for anything when he arrived on Helios as a newly minted Hyperion worker bee. Until the CEO was murdered on his very first day.
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"Hey there, kiddos! Handsome Jack here. I’m sure you’ve all heard the good news by now, or at least waved at it as it floated by the windows. If you look real closely at Mr Tassiter’s frostbitten face, you can see the tear streaks from when he cried like a pansy bitch in his final moments. Good times!”
“Anyway, just wanted to tell you all how honored I am to know that you dirty ingrates are already making attempts on my life. I’m expecting at least one more before the day’s end, so don’t disappoint me. I’ll be waiting."
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The story of how Rhys fell in love with the most hated man in six galaxies.
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- Part 1 of loves: a couplet
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One thing could be said for Daniel- the kid was quite the convincing actor. He almost didn’t notice the slight wince when Rhys said his name.
Something was off, and Rhys was definitely going to find out what it was. No matter what.
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She doesn't exactly resemble her father, paler and smaller as she is but now that Rhys has seen her in the flesh there is something about her that reminds him of his, for lack of a better word, beu. It's the way she tilts her head he thinks, the glint in her eyes.
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- Part 3 of e r r o r_f i l e_c o r r u p t e d
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'Can I just say, your defences on this place are seriously slack. I just walked right in, I'd look into that if I were you.' Rhys tells her to fill the silence, running a hand through his hair. Her brow pinches together and she looks him up and down.
'You walked right in?' It's not exactly disbelief that tints her tone but Rhys can tell she's dubious.
'That's right. I suspected more from sirens, I'll be honest.'
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- Part 2 of e r r o r_f i l e_c o r r u p t e d
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His music always fell upon silence but today, in a pause of breath, he hears an answering call. He scrambles to his feet staring intently onto the horizon for a flash of tail amongst the waves but the song is not coming from the ocean, it's coming from the land.
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- Part 1 of e r r o r_f i l e_c o r r u p t e d