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    Five years after the war, an anomaly spits Vi into worlds she doesn’t recognize. The one constant? Caitlyn Kiramman isn’t hers. Yet.

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    15 Aug 2025

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    Slender fingers find her own in her mindless grazing over Caitlyn’s skin. They trail over the top of Vi’s hand, her touch pointed and gentle where Vi’s skin is split open.

    “We should–” Caitlyn clears her throat, the sound almost shy. She’s holding Vi’s hand now, thumb taking inventory of Vi’s self-inflicted wounds. “We should take a look at your hands.”

    The suggestion is so soft. So tentative. And in some less hazy part of Vi’s brain, she knows Cait’s right.

    It isn’t even a thought when her arms wrap around Caitlyn’s waist, pulling them even more flush together. She buries her face in the crook of Caitlyn’s neck, shamelessly breathing her in before murmuring, her voice a cracked and low hum, “Later, Cupcake. Let me have this first.”

    Because there was a moment– several moments, all of them scattered in broken glass bottles on an apartment floor she never wants to see again– where she never thought she’d get to have this.

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    The moments after they reconnect

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    14 Aug 2025

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    “Have any of you seen combat?” she dares to ask. It was the first question she wanted to ask the moment she entered the room, the answer already clear in the nuisance of their house banners flooding the throne room, decorative feathers and jewels hanging from all of them. Peacocks among wolves.

    They all stare at her with red stained cheeks. “Real combat,” Caitlyn clarifies when one of the knights begins to step forward, his stature of someone who’s barely seen the sun outside of a brothel. He steps back only for the nameless knight to take a step forward.

    Caitlyn doesn’t recall closing the distance, something in the knight acting as a siren call to the princess. “You,” Caitlyn states simply. It isn’t a judgement or an accusation. But remembrance. The way her gloved fingers felt when taking the favor from Caitlyn’s hands, her helmet still hiding the whole of her face.

    “The one and only, Princess” she quips quietly. She doesn’t bow her head as the others had when she met them at eye level. No. This knight raises her chin. Not in defiance but in something Caitlyn can only describe as a challenging reverence.

     

    I dare you to choose me as I am.

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    14 Aug 2025

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    Without the demands of a century-long war, waterbenders use their gifts for art rather than combat. Katara and her family’s troupe of waterbending performers travel to the Fire Nation to exhibit for its lord. With a dance of moon-silvered water, Katara ensnares an admirer who offers gifts and unsigned notes.

    As the troupe spends six weeks with the capital’s firebenders to craft an unforgettable tandem performance—a union of fire and water—Katara extends an invitation to meet the admirer. She is not expecting Fire Lord Zuko himself.

    A hidden duet between them ignites kinship, passion, and then fierce devotion.

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    Vampire AU - Vamp!Caitlyn VampHunter!Vi

    After an attack that put an even deeper divide between Zaun and Piltover, Vampires were forced into exile. Many lived happily in Zaun, but there was always the unfortunate possibility of turning feral. And now there was a streetdrug that increased that chance, even expediting the affliction. Vander and his kids kept the streets safe, Vi being the leader of their group with Vander's retirement to run The Last Drop. But these new ferals are proving to be too much to handle.

    Word of the drug is starting to spread and, if it reaches Piltover's ear, then even more discourse and violence will ensue. But Caitlyn Kiramman, one of the last remaining vampires that lived Topside, swore to stop the violence between vampires and humans. She decides the pick up the trail, which leads her to an even better find.

    Vi.

    Investigations, interrogations, fighting urges, and giving in to temptation breaks Caitlyn's usual cycle of watching from afar.

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    06 Aug 2025