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Eliza's whole world was in flames. Not only figuratively, but also physically.
She was forced to watch her whole world burn. After her foster father set a fire and burned down the house, she loses her little sister and everything she knows. She gets placed in the care of George and Martha Washington and their adopted son Hercules.
But when everything seems to be on the way to stability, her world is set ablaze. Again.
(a.k.a a Foster Care AU where the first few chapters are angsty but then it gets better)
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The currents of time flow only ever onward, with little variance. Misrule takes is place in the eight corners, the Brass Tower walks, the Trice-Blessed fall. The White Tower is doomed to crumble, the Tower of Snow is destined to bleed, and one way or another, the Wheel will turn on the Last Dragonborn. It matters little where, or on who.
One hapless Snow Elf finds this out the hard way.
(Now with tasty translations for your reading convenience.)
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The house on Neibolt was standing again.
Bill was talking about going in alone. How?
“So does somebody want to say something?” Eddie asked, still breathing, still fucking breathing and alive and not dripping his Goddamn organs out of his chest.
“Richie said it the b-best when we were here last,” Bill said.
“Holy fuck.”
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The FIRST ORDER is in a state of insurgency after General Hux reveals that Kylo Ren is responsible for the death of Supreme Leader Snoke. By exposing Kylo Ren’s betrayal, Armitage Hux is declared Emperor and orders Kylo Ren to be executed. The mutinous uprising pits the entirety of the First Order against the duplicitous Ren. Fatally wounded in the battle, Kylo Ren escapes in a stolen TIE Interceptor and speeds through hyperspace to meet his final resting place…
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can't let it get to me by kiriangel
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
24 Nov 2019
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bakugou closes the door to his dorm, locking himself away from the rest of the world—including his forgotten feelings and emotions.
or the one where bakugou gets help
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Falling (into open arms) by River_of_Dawn
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
24 Nov 2019
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It's been two months since Peter had attempted suicide. And he just doesn't seem to get better. Now it's up to Tony to help him.
But with the press hounding them that's not as easy as it sounds.
///You don't have to have read the first two parts to understand the story, but I would still suggest doing so\\\
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- Part 3 of Falling
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sub·mer·sion (v): the action or state of submerging or being submerged
sub·merge (v): completely cover or obscureFirst year high school student Yuugi Mutou is an avid gamer, an unfortunate social pariah, and the shortest kid in his class. Aside from that, though, he's a relatively normal teenager. A relatively normal teenager who has just solved the Millennium Puzzle, a supposedly magical Egyptian artifact, in the hopes that by doing so, he will be granted his wish for friends.
Amazingly, his wish is granted. He's gained two new friends! But they're not all he's gained.
By completing the puzzle he's unleashed a spirit of the shadows, and as he comes to realize, the price he must pay is horribly steep: the spirit has chosen Yuugi as its host.
Darkness is descending on Domino City.
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The loss of identity and the sands of time force the Puzzle spirit into an almost animalistic mindset, a dark soul clings too tightly to the light, and no one reacts well to realizing they're possessed.
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- Part 1 of Submersion verse
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Evol by InoruMarufuji for WhyAreAllUsernamesTaken
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band), 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
24 Nov 2019
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The Evol gene is an extraordinary gene everybody is born with which wields the potential to trigger an Evol, a unique otherworldly power that goes beyond anything science can understand.
The gene is inactive though and all attempts to trigger it have turned out unsuccessful thus far.
So when some idols suddenly start showing signs of their Evol activating, isn't the obvious choice to experiment on them?
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You were accustomed to struggling through a world you knew you'd never quite find your place in. But when an encounter outside of your workplace lands you jobless, you soon find yourself swept up in a series of events that force you into accepting a ludicrous offer from strangers in order to keep a roof over your head.
Never would you have thought your place would be right by their side, nor that they'd fight so hard to keep you there.
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- Part 1 of The Ties That Bind
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If something important is broken, then you have to fix it, even if in the process you end up being in the same state or worse, Mario keep saying this to convinced himself that he could help at his friend no matter what.
Ok, I'm going to situate this at the end of season one, because it's been stuck in my head since then.
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A Mockery of Rebirth by LadyGreenFrisbee
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
24 Nov 2019
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"There you are, Midoriya Izuku."
By all means, it should have been the soft, calm way Kacchan spoke that clued him in. It should be the fact that he had not seen his childhood friend since that horrible night in the mountains where Izuku had been just too weak and slow to reach him in time.
But its not.
It's how the face and the hair were the same but the person hiding behind his eyes was different. What were once bright, lively eyes full of energy were now alight with something deceptive and sinister and wrong , hiding among familiar ruby red like a snake in the grass. The sight of that angular face, not darkened by its usual frown but smoothed out by eerie, unnatural, uncharacteristic calmness set the hair at the back of his neck on end.
Kacchan then smiles. It's a soft grin, as pliant and serene as the look in his eyes. It's the smile of someone who has all the time in the world. Someone who could do anything they wanted and they were confident that the world would bend to their will.
It's at that moment that Izuku understands that the person behind those eyes wasn't Kacchan at all.
(Or; In the face of mortality, All for One makes a decision.)
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- Part 2 of All That Is Left
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The team gets struck with an Ability causing anyone in the vicinity to fall head over heels for Ranpo, of all people.
It can be reversed easily enough, so there's no reason for concern, right?
There's a catch, though. There's one thing causing a problem.
Kunikida isn't acting any different.
Meanwhile, Chuuya and Akutagawa become friends, and maybe more, despite their differences (and probably because of their shared hatred of one Osamu Dazai).
It all goes downhill very quickly.
These are two very different paths that have been chosen. They're intertwined more than anyone knows.
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MaddieFirefighter!AU
Buck has finally escaped an absuive relationship with his husband, Doug, and came to LA to visit his newly engaged sister.
He didn't plan to stay long, but a certain pair of hazel eyes made him think that maybe, just maybe, he would get that happily ever after he's always dreamed of.
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The little death, the renewal by written_constellation124
Fandoms: The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner, Absalom Absalom! - William Faulkner
23 Nov 2019
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It is September 1909 when Quentin, an introvert running from his Mississippi past, and Shreve, a witty, talkative Canadian, meet for the first time.
They instantly dislike one another, but what will happen when circumstance (not to mention their mutual pining) pushes them together?~ you don’t need to read Absalom, Absalom! or The Sound and the Fury to understand this
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icicles don't soften when they die (they sharpen into sabers and they stab you in the eye) by mind_gutter
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
23 Nov 2019
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Izuku narrows his eyes as he stares at the sunset. "You told me to jump off a roof and I did. I don't think I can forget something like that, even if I really tried to." He grumbles.
Katsuki pauses. He then scoots a little closer to Izuku, eyeing his face curiously. ".. Even if someone brainwashed you?" He questions.
Izuku glares at him from the corner of his eye. He scoots away. "I will bite you, Katsuki," he says.
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Floras Amarillas by bandiito
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), BLURRYFACE - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
23 Nov 2019
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"For someone who lived in Dema all her life, you're pretty good at running."
"It's probably just about the only thing I'm good at."
Running and lying, she reminded herself.
Both of things had gotten her to this point in her life, and she didn't know whether or not it was a good or a bad thing. Well, she supposed to herself, being free of Dema and of the Bishops was a good thing, but having to lie to those she was growing close with, well... That was probably the bad thing.[i'm really bad at summaries sorz]
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The untold stories get buried in a grave of secrecy and illness. Nevertheless, trauma and violence demand attention. Murder will out. Atrocities emerge, if not symbolically, if not through language, as illusions, fantasies and ghosts.
Bucky recognized he was fucked in the head. A broken skull and electricity often resulted in brain damage. He relearned how to walk and speak. He kept his name written on a piece of paper to carry around. He holed himself up in his room for days and yelled at anyone who crossed ways with him. Steve was convinced it was all part of the onerous path of recovery.
Until Bucky started going psychotic.
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"What I'm trying to say is that I won't ever be able to understand the pain that you're going through, but I understand the feeling of being so helpless, that you just want to give up. It's so much easier than to keep on fighting; to slip away and never have to deal with the burden that weighs on you… but if you're able to fight back, then why not try and live?"
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Thirteen years ago, their parents went missing. The Tsukishima house was left ravaged beyond repair, and all that was left behind were the meaningless numbers pressed into the uncertain palms of a frightened child, and an unfulfilled promise of return.
Eight years ago, Tsukishima Kei became a victim of child abduction.
Several years after an incident that scars both the Tsukishima brothers for the remainder of their lives, they are left with only the memories of the morbid past as they learn to overcome their hurdles and trauma through togetherness and self-discovery, though the shadows of the past are never too far behind.
This story takes place in three timelines:
Past: Before the incident.
Concurrent: The incident itself.
Present: After the incident.Contains heavily implied rape, abuse and trauma. Proceed with caution.
Strongly inspired by the movies 'Kidnap' and 'Gardens of the Night'.
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A Second Chance to Make It Right by Crystalitemoon
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Nov 2019
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Izuku was always there, following after him. Stumbling stubbornly even as Bakugo continuously threw abuse at him. It infuriated him to no end.
So when did he stop following him? When did he give up? How did he not know? He was right behind him!
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Why didn't he notice the signs until it was too late?But fate granted him a second chance, and he would be damned if he didn't use it.
(or the timeline where Izuku jumps off the roof at Bakugo's suggestion, and Bakugo tries to make amens by applying he and Izuku to a team program that allows support course students to become pro-hero's with their partners. Bakugo was never caught by the sludge villain, so all might never meets Izuku.)