Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
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"It's easy to get lost when you found freedom." by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Empires SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
27 Sep 2025
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There it was.
Up on the mountaintop, with sturdy walls and lanterns on the lookout towards like beacons in the winter night of the old continent. Scott was bundled tight against his chest, under the blanket Martyn had given them. Jimmy was leaning with his back against a sturdy tree trunk, up in the canopy hidden in the leaves. His wings were half folded but relaxed as he looked up at that mountaintop city, beyond which somewhere not terribly far were the free hybrid cities.
Jimmy had a lot of suspicions about that. He hadn’t voiced them; he knew Scott, for all his determination, was still woefully naive about the ways of the old continent, about how they all function.
It wasn’t hybrids vs humans or anything. It was far more complicated than that. But thankfully, so far, Jimmy had proven strong enough to protect him.
Maybe that was why his mind was spiraling, tugging like the last persistent leaves on the dying branches.
{In which Jimmy puts something to the air, Scott appreciates cuddles from his feathery boyfriend regardless, and it really is about time for an introduction.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 1 - Ceremony)
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- Part 1 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 42 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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Maybe You Should Forget Me (Not) by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
01 Oct 2025
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She’d been sleeping.
Really comfy, actually. Her brother was curled up under one of her arms, and her cousin was to her other side. He was still so little that he nearly entirely fit under one of her raven-black wings.
A bunch of the other kids were all scattered around, the adults were talking in hushed voices by the main entrance. The room was big and echoey, Pearl thought it was fun when she would shout across to other kids, ask them to come and play. Some of the adults came and played with them, sometimes, too, adults Pearl never really recalled the names of, or maybe it was because some of them didn't give their names? She wasn't sure.
She’d been sleeping.
And then there had been the scream.
{In which three little birds get lost in the dark.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 2 - Sewer)
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It was a lot easier, the way Louis described it. Then again, Louis was a pile of ash right now, so what did he know?
Even the thought made him feel like vomiting, but Owen wasn’t sure if he was capable of doing that anymore. His head felt light and fuzzy, and the sores and pains that once marred his skin were all gone. He felt faster, stronger…but he was also currently running for his life.
Maybe he’d reacted poorly. Seeing your only friend being burned at the stake will do that to you.
Regardless, slaughtering an entire town drew some eyes…the wrong kind of eyes. And that's why he was currently in the process of running for his life.
{In which Owen runs to a ruined castle, and meets a lonely lord on a forgotten throne.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 3 - Isolation)
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- Part 3 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
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“How did you do it?”
The creeper mutant glanced up from the countertop where he was in the midst of calculating what sort of excitement he might be able to conjure together for dinner, considering the rather lackluster ingredients on offer. Pearl and Jimmy were out…Pearl had dragged Jimmy with her to stretch his wings, considering the youngest had been rather convinced that just staying in his hammock for two days straight was more acceptable. Tango was back at his apartment, working on something after having put in fourteen hours at the Labs that Doc had chided him over. Etho was in the Depths, dealing with the usual spread of issues down there.
That had left him and Grian home, just the two of them. And Grian, apparently, needed a bit of advice.
{In which Doc tries to be a good Dad when the world is crumbled around him...all over again.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 4 - “Don’t be scared, I’ve done this before.”)
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When he’d gotten back, it had been rather a sorrowful affair. His entire family was here, no one but him had ever gone topside to live, and yet…somehow, even they seemed to feel the pressure of the bedrock closing in over them.
They were all pretty tightly packed in the apartment, all of them having assembled close, and to be fair, Ren wasn’t the only one who’d moved out, at least. The Dogwarts clan was strange that way, with all of them living interconnected, and yet Ren had been entirely apart.
With their support. With their unending support.
But he was still back here, somehow...back here grieving. But what was that grief? It was like admitting something was already gone.
{In which Ren overhears his parents talk, and realizes that for all his work, he's still somehow right back where he started.}
(Whumptober Day 5: “My panic’s at the ceiling, but I’m face down on the carpet.”)
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No Grave Can Hold My Body Down by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Empires SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
06 Oct 2025
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Joel was standing stubbornly in the doorway of their apartment, chiseled into the walls of the near-surface. It was a big change from the clan houses Lizzie had grown up in, crowded by cozy with dozens of other cat hybrids.
Her family wasn’t as huge as the Dogwarts clan, but it was still big. Hunting clans tended to be that way. Lizzie had siblings. Six of them, to be precise.
They were fighting right now. Against creatures without souls, without mercy, without pain or fear or a lack of numbers. Because that was the problem, right now. Lack of numbers. So it was all hands on deck.
The under-city was sealed off from sunlight, right now. It wasn’t as though that actually reached that many of them, down here, but that gave more issues than you might expect. Joel's face was twisted with concern, his eyes shone with distress, but none of it made it to his voice, which was as uncooperative as ever.
Lizzie loved him for it. She also hated it right now. It grated on her already short nerves...because what other choice did she have?
{In which Joel knows the answer, Lizzie doesn't want to say it...and so neither of them admit anything at all.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 6 - Alternative - Soulless)
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- Part 6 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 100 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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Tell Me You're Ok by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
07 Oct 2025
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“Nah, man, it’s just been a long day. Are you ok?”
“…I’m fine.”
“Then so are we.”
{In which Scott is struggling, Martyn is playing peacekeeper somehow, Zed and Cub are driving each other up the wall...and Scar is nearly at his breaking point.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 7 - “Tell me that you’re okay, and I’m fine.”)
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- Part 7 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 101 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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“Oh horror, oh horror, what did you see?” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
09 Oct 2025
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It was strange.
Was it stranger than his existence before? Well, that remained to be seen. He was lying on a makeshift bed of sorts, mostly just a pile of pillows and blankets atop a bedroll Gem had from her travels. She had apologized that she couldn’t afford to use any more magic power on anything that wasn’t crucial.
Etho had barely been able to comprehend why.
It made no sense. No sense, no sense. If or not he was here sometimes...his mismatched eyes tried to find the soaking luxuries, the drench of glimmer and gold that once threatened eye strain everywhere he looked back there.
Back then.
{In which Etho struggles to stay anchored, and those with wings, ironically, serve as a way to hold him down}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 8 - Dissociation)
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- Part 8 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 61 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“We’ll make it alright to come undone.” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
10 Oct 2025
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Perhaps their arrival should’ve meant more.
Somehow been distinctive, somehow been intense. Underlined by some grand celebration, some sort of hurrah that would herald the end of a journey.
And yet, it was none of those things.
Instead, on that final climb up the mountain, Martyn found his mind assaulted by so many conflicting things that the gates passing over his head, the voices calling in awe of a witch in the town…it all fell to the background.
White noise compared to the figure next to him.
{In which Martyn seeks, Ren settles, and Scott and Jimmy know when to let themselves out.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 9 - Touch/"We'll make it alright to come undone."
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- Part 9 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 44 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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Nothing to Say by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
10 Oct 2025
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Cub was alone in the Hot Cave.
His project, the thing he’d been plugging away at, gone back to the drawing board, scraped and redone so many times in the last two months, was chaos over his workstation. His eyes were itching. His shoulders ached from hunching for so long.
Keeping secrets.
That was all it was, right now. Useless secrets, and yet, for whatever reason, his mind continues to rebel against him, and he continued to insist with this irrational fear that if he came out and admitted what he was…he’d be thrown aside.
Discarded. Like so much trash from the streets, returned to what he’d been as a child, fearful of what he’d hear in the dark.
{In which Cub struggles with something that doesn't seem to matter anymore.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 10 - Secrets)
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- Part 10 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 102 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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“And now if all your love is wasted, then who the hell was I?” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Empires SMP
24 Jan 2026
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Was it all just wasted? Or of a different kind.
A different time, where we all knew the end came swift-
-as mountain winds blew.
And I knew you. In every shade as you grew.
For all you struggled to do.
And I knew you. Stars above, I knew you.
And I loved you, for all I forgot to survive, for all that I tore to arrive-
-at this place, scarred and twisted and cracked, with a new cast of names all here at my back.
And I loved you, my dear, in all of your shapes.
For all that you ached to fly.
And you that I knew, though I’ll curse and I’ll lie.
It’s all what I don’t know.
Who the hell am I?{In which it's been a long time since I last saw you.}
(Whumptober Day 11/16/22 - “Can you get through all the pain inside you?”/Repressed Trauma/“All the battles I want to win, nothing matters but giving in.”/Collars)
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- Part 62 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
- Part 11 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
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Some people claimed he was sick.
Some people claimed he was finally showing his true nature.
Others declared he was at last taking power as he should, dominating as he deserved…but those were the ones who always profited.
As the King's right hand, Martyn had no choice but to bow his head as the demands grew more drastic, as the indulgences became staggering, as the monarchy began to gain more hateful glances by the day.
He could’ve left. Others had. But Martyn...couldn't leave him. Not then.
Not now.
{In which things are going gray in every possibly way, but Martyn still can't break his vow.}
(Whumptober 2025: 12 - "It'll be for nothing")
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- Part 4 of The Mad King AU
- Part 12 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
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Ring Around the Poppies. Loved You and You Lost Me by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Vampires SMP
14 Oct 2025
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When he first awoke, he’d sought the weight beside him.
It hadn’t been there.
What had…happened…?
Scott sat up groggily. He clutched his hands to his chest and groaned softly, trying to convince his eyes to focus. His fingers checked over the many adornments on him, his bracelets, his ring.
His castle was in ruins.
It had once been the grandest place on the horizon, gilded and gleaming in the starlight when he’d sat upon a throne of gold and had fresh blood served to him in the finest crystal glasses, still hot, freshly drained from willing veins in sacrifice, in near-worship.
What an irony that they had been worshipping him.
{In which Scott crashes into a new reality cold as stone.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 13: “How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished.”)
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- Part 13 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
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Who knew what had happened to her. What had happened to everyone down in the Depths. Etho had some awful memories. Cleo had lost a stars-forsaken leg.
This city had fangs.
It took and it took, and yet Etho knew better than to ask what had been stolen.
“What’s such a big problem for you that you’re pulling all this, then? What’s gonna make all of this worth it in the end!?”
Apparently, Cleo didn’t, though.
(In which Etho recounts a long, long walk, Cleo doesn't like being told no, and Sabbie wishes 'nunya' was an appropriate conversational tool.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 14 - "In the end, it's worthwhile")
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- Part 103 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
- Part 14 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
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Turn.
Toss.
Turn.
He hadn’t been sleeping well. Martyn had given him the lecture, that he needed to at least put out an air mattress or something, but somehow he just couldn’t bear it.
He’d endured a broken heart before.
Many times. So many times he’d even begun to make light of it. Play with those words of ‘it didn’t work out’ like they were bygone conclusion.
He’d learned how to deal with it. Earned, in some twisted way, the permission to belittle it.
But he’d never yearned like this.
{In which Scott is a writer, not a fighter.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 15 - Alternative - Yearning)
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- Part 15 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 104 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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I'll Crawl Home to Him by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Empires SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
17 Oct 2025
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Ok, so things may have gotten slightly out of control.
“Liz…take it easy…”
In retrospect, she should’ve expected something like this to happen.
Or maybe not quite like this. She probably should’ve frozen when she saw it. Her mind had flashed through memories, through agonies, through unnecessary dreams of irrealistic redemption. And all of it quieted again as she stared it down.
Bird-man.
{In which Lizzie goes feral, Joel stole a T-shirt, and crawling home at the end of the day is still better than the alternative.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 17 - Redemption)
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- Part 16 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 105 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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As the World Caves In by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
18 Oct 2025
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It wasn’t a very pleasant walk, the rest of the way.
It was tense and awkward, and Cleo was continually shooting him dirty looks about going along with this whole affair.
Etho wanted to complain, but he wasn’t able to bemoan his circumstances. No one around here could. Not in this world, in this seemingly endless dystopia, where they were always fighting, just...always fighting. Enduring. Opening their eyes with no reason other than to close them again.
It wasn't enough...but could they build more? Maybe not to take it themselves...but at least some sort of high road.
{In which Cleo speaks her mind.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 18 - Dystopia)
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- Part 17 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 106 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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And what are you, anymore?
He’d wanted to learn. Wanted to understand what was going on in these misty forests, the lonely lakes, the isolated villages that seemed stranded amongst the fog.
You aren’t, anymore.
He’d walked the paths even if they’d warned him not too.
Monsters, they’d said. Beasts who had wiped out the church's great heroes the last time they’d ventured into the forest almost fifty years ago.
But the city was a modern place. The capital knew better. It wasn’t real, none of it was. It was all superstition of those who hadn’t learned to comprehend the complexities of science and nature.
Not that Pyro had even been much of a scientist.
(Whumptober 2025: Day 19 - Dehumanisation)
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- Part 18 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
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Another pale purple bead rolled from between his claws, where he’d heated them up to shape the glass. Joined the others in the small bowl on his crafting table, and Tango, without even breaking his rhythm, dug his fingertips into the colored material to start crafting another one.
It’s over this time.
He knew it was.
As surely as a sunset, and of course, he’d never seen one of those.
{In which Tango crafts to breathe, is wracked with disbelief, and tries to fight the resignation that in the end he was always doomed to hurt what he most loved.}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 20 - Resignation)
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- Part 19 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 107 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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“Tell me once again I could have been anyone, anyone else…before you made the choice for me.” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
21 Oct 2025
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It had been the first time he’d felt that kind of hurt.
Because really, he’d never felt that kind of hurt before, not once in his entire life, in palaces that straddled seafood, in cities that spanned above and below the waves. Never. He’d never endured this.
Not even close.
Scott had seen what they were planning to do before they’d done it. The fear had bled into his bones as he'd watched them come toward him, humans less than human...but he'd already known that.
{In which Scott gets a haircut}
(Whumptober 2025: Day 21 - Kneeling)
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- Part 20 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2025
- Part 35 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}