najio's whumptober 2025
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Kristen's parents want her home. But of course, that simply isn't possible so long as she still holds all this doubt in her heart. Fortunately, there might be a way to... free her of those pesky questions.
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- Part 1 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Dr. Asha catches a glimpse of the teenaged girl behind Dr. Keller's odd behavior. What follows is a series of difficult conversations, many of them long overdue, and all of them utterly excruciating for everyone involved.
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- Part 2 of najio's whumptober 2025
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You can just nod or shake your head, dear.
Riza chose not to, because she resented being asked stupid questions with obvious answers. She resented the sickly-sweet schoolteacher for caring when her papa hadn't, and she resented her papa for being the only one who seemed to understand her. For sharing her single-minded focus, and her bluntness, and her vague aura of something off.
If only she weren't so much like her papa.
If only someone could do both—understand her, and care.
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- Part 3 of najio's whumptober 2025
- Part 1 of Autistic!Riza Headcanons go brr
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Nina Tucker wasn't allowed in her daddy's lab. Neither was her dog Alexander, and they definitely weren't allowed to play in there.
Until tonight.
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- Part 2 of Chimaera
- Part 4 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Riza has a vaccination appointment.
More specifically: Riza has many, many vaccination appointments, all happening at once, because the public health and safety initiatives of the big cities didn't reach as far as her hometown. Now she has to grit her teeth and catch up, no matter how terrified she is of needles.
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- Part 5 of najio's whumptober 2025
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This is what happens, whispered the hiss of crisping skin, when you hit someone bigger than you. Everything you have, they know they can take. If you hurt their pride, they will steal yours. Trying to build for yourself only puts you at the bottom of the pile.
It was funny. He'd spent so much time looking up—he'd never realized how much of the world was smaller than him.
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- Part 1 of Victim/Predator
- Part 6 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Aelwyn walks.
It's tedious—and rather insulting—that her newfound captors appear to be under the impression that she needs to be exercised like a fucking hamster. She may be a wizard but she isn't that kind of wizard, poised to blow over in a stiff breeze. Really, the whole thing is absurd, she can't believe her parents haven't gotten her out of here by now. How upset can they be about missing Solesian girls in Fallinel?
(or: Aelwyn Abernant & The Orb)
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- Part 7 of najio's whumptober 2025
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A bot pilot sends a distress signal to an unknown vessel, and gets a lot more help than it bargained for.
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- Part 8 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Riza has a bad night, and copes by getting really horny about fire.
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- Part 9 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Blake had a secret. A guilty, terrifying, exhilarating secret. And if she ever let slip even the slightest hint of it to her parents, she would destroy the man she loved.
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- Part 2 of Victim/Predator
- Part 10 of najio's whumptober 2025
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"We want the Colonel's notes. You lot will know where to find them, or we'll use you to buy them from him. It makes no difference to me."
An ambitious alchemist goes hunting for Colonel Mustang's secrets. Jean isn't worried—the team aren't alchemists, and the Colonel would never let Ed anywhere near his notes. They can't give their captor information they don't have, right?
Except that Lieutenant Hawkeye might not be as in the dark as the rest of them.
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- Part 11 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Sandra Lynn just figured that Kristen should have someone with her, if she was going to go back to her old church to help her brother. She didn't plan on getting into a fight with the kid's parents. And she really didn't plan on how fucking familiar the place would be. Helio is Sol's son, after all...
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- Part 12 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Ruby turns thirty, and has no idea what to do about it. In all honesty? She never thought she'd get this far.
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- Part 13 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Ruby can't let Yang know she's sick. Yang has summer homework to do, and she's already so stressed out about it, and if she finds out Ruby's sick she'll spend the whole night taking care of her instead—so she can't find out.
Yang can't let Ruby know she's hurt. There's nothing either of them can do about it, anyway. She just has to keep moving, get them both to safety, hang in a little bit longer...
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- Part 14 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Months ago, Ozma's smaller and more honest soul broadcast herself across Remnant to unite it. Fitting, then, that they should see her downfall, too—and learn just how useless it is to fight the inevitable.
(It's possible that this lesson becomes... muddied, by the end. Perhaps she shouldn't have let the girl talk.)
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- Part 15 of najio's whumptober 2025
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"I can't date," she said bluntly. "My father... made it difficult for me to be intimate that way."
Riza didn't realize how that would sound until it was too late. She regretted it immediately, because the whole point of saying it in the first place—instead of making up a long-distance boyfriend in Briggs again—was that she hadn't wanted to lie to the team. Even if she couldn't give them the whole answer, she could at least give them an honest one. But now they would all think...
It hadn't been like that. It hadn't. There was no reason why she should feel so unsettled.
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- Part 16 of najio's whumptober 2025
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How many burials at sea had she witnessed on this deck? How many children had she watched dissolve into that same dark smear across the sky? How was it that each time, it was as though every one of them had died all over again, as though she stood at all of their funerals at once?
Or: The Bad Kids never make it out of the cafeteria on day one.
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- Part 17 of najio's whumptober 2025
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An Ishvalan family fights for survival.
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- Part 18 of najio's whumptober 2025
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The thing about humans is that they can pack bond with anything. Various fauna, humanoid bots, even a toaster. It would be funny if it wasn't so fucking depressing.
Or: A client gets attached to her SecUnit, with deadly consequences.
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- Part 19 of najio's whumptober 2025
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Winter Schnee dresses up for her seventeenth birthday party. Or rather—Winter Schnee is dressed up for her seventeenth birthday party. The passive voice, in this case, better illustrates how much choice she has in the matter.
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- Part 20 of najio's whumptober 2025