Borderlands Big Bang
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our fate cannot be taken from us by ThirtySixSaveFiles
Fandoms: Borderlands (Video Games)
10 Dec 2017
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In the land of Terre D’Ange, Elua and his Companions left their descendants with one edict: love as thou wilt.
Centuries later, the City of Elua flourishes, a city of trade and arts and culture, a bright jewel on a rich continent. The thirteen temples and the Court of the Night Blooming flowers still honor the Companions, of course, but regular manifestations of divine favor have passed from living memory. The gods have moved on, the Queen says, if they ever existed at all. Terre D’Ange murmurs, but the skies remain silent.
Rhys knows what he believes. He knows who saved him from the indentured servant market, who brought him home and raised him, who taught him what his own parents hadn’t known - that the bright red mote floating in his left eye means he is god-touched, marked by the angel Kushiel to find pleasure in pain.
It’s not that Rhys has ever lacked faith. It’s just that the gods have never held his heart the way Jack does; and as Jack’s plans for him unfold, as Rhys navigates the Royal Court and eager patrons and an ever-complicating web of loyalties, he struggles to remember the one thing he knows is true: love as thou wilt.
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Handsome Jack is back. Thanks to the help of Rhys, an ambitious and loyal young omega, he has once again risen back to the top of Hyperion. Well—at the very least, his A.I. has, because clone bodies are hard to come by when vault hunters have tried pretty hard to destroy any and all copies of Jack's DNA. And while Jack is fairly content to hang around in his meat-suit’s body until his team of scientists figures it out, things get more complicated when Rhys collapses out of the blue at the gala where Jack had planned to finally present himself to both top-tier Hyperion employees and several rival CEOs.
Now, the scientists on Jack’s payroll have to both generate the man a new body and figure out exactly what’s going on with Rhys—and whether the presence of Jack in Rhys’ brain has anything to do with it. Tensions soon flare between the omega and the A.I. as they struggle dealing with not only Rhys' worsening illness, but also his oncoming heat, warring egos, and the trials of reestablishing Hyperion’s power and influence in the arms industry. Before long Jack finds himself forced to confront feelings about Rhys that he has been suppressing this entire time—before it’s too late.
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A young prince, set to be married, finds himself trapped with no hope of escape in this engagement to a ruler of a neighboring kingdom. In a moment of what one might conceive as either brilliant luck or brilliant misfortune Rhys finds himself in the claws of a beast who seeks to keep the prince for his own. But what Rhys finds behind scales and claws is something that he didn’t expect at all.
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In a world with little magic a small boon from the gods can provide a much needed upper hand, and supposedly the imperial family of Atlas has a tree tended by the Hesperides themselves.
Those that eat the apples can be blessed for the rest of their lives. But those the gods deem unworthy...
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Rhys of Atlas has been forced to beg for the assistance after his own father never sent troops to save his only heir, and Handsome Jack, king of Hyperion, agreed to the terms way too quickly.
What does Jack really want with the young emperor, and how much will their duties get in the way?
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Unkind Folly by orphan_account
Fandoms: Borderlands (Video Games), Tales from the Borderlands - Fandom
08 Dec 2017
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Timothy Lawrence was told by one of his only friends, that the new Atlas CEO was a different kind of boss, and that Atlas was now a different kind of company. Since he was in need of a job and not many people are willing to hire the doppelganger of Handsome Jack, he didn't have many options anyway. So when the CEO Rhys Fausse personally reached out to offer him a job, it seemed like the best course of action.
However, as Tim knows better than most, sometimes the most handsome faces, hide the darkest secrets.
Maybe he has nothing to worry about. Maybe Janey was right. It seemed different. I had to be different.
It would all be just fine. Right?'
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