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I would tear the world apart for you. by AidaRonan
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Aug 2018
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Thanos tears the universe in half, steals brothers from sisters, nephews from aunts, lovers from lovers.
"Oh God, Bucky."
Chaos ripples through all of creation, pushing it dangerously close to the brink.
But the universe doesn't give up without a fight, and there are things more powerful than the stones.
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08 Sep 2025
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You’ve grown here, laughed here, loved here. You’ve razed it to the ground. But it always comes back in the next cycle, another coded bit of data, just like you, just like every person here.
“Are we even real, Mydeimos?”
He seems furious, now. His hand reaches for yours, gripping it with force enough to bruise and slamming your palm into his chest. A heart beats there, but he’s dead, isn’t he? You are too, so why do your hearts still beat? “Do I feel real enough for you?” he asks. “After thirty-three million cycles, is there really anything to doubt?”
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In which you are Phainon, and he is Mydei, and the weight of deliverance is no longer on your shoulders.Bookmarked by InfernalMachinae
05 Sep 2025
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“What happens now?” you ask, breathing him in, squeezing your eyes shut as you hold him. He’s always been so warm, so solid. Rigid with muscle but soft in ways he’ll pretend not to be. In so many cycles, you’ve loved him for this. You’d be an idiot to think you could ever stop.
He draws back. You wish he wouldn’t. You wish you could stay here for another cycle or ten, listening to Aedes Elysiae’s wheat fields sway in the wind, smelling earth and salt in the air. Loving without fear or worry for the first time in your too-long existence.
He takes your face in his hands. Your eyes are blue, you know this. He looks at them and almost smiles. “I’ll be reborn,” he answers. “I’ll pave a path, and then we’ll wait.”
“Together?” you ask.
“I’ll forget,” he reminds you.
“And after?”
He laughs at this, a fond, tired thing. You have millions of memories of that exact sound. They play back now. He could rip your heart out and you wouldn’t even blink. It would only be fair. “What?” he asks. “After I die?”
“You don’t know if you’ll come back,” you say.
Whatever hint of a smile sat on his face slips away. He nods. “It’s the last cycle, regardless of the outcome. None of us can be certain of anything, but…” He brushes your hair out of your eyes, studies you like he hopes to remember you in a cycle where you don’t exist.
“They need you, don’t they?” you whisper.
He nods, pressing his forehead to yours, and you’ve already given up so much for this journey. You can afford a little more. You can afford to lose him one more time. Your sigh takes all of you with it. “Carve a path, Mydeimos.”
“With you as the dawn, we’ll reach the new world,” he says. You can feel him fading from the place, just like you can feel the way you’re stuck. Phainon would believe his promise. You’re long-weary and afraid to hope. But he needs that faith, that smile, that version of you he fell in love with thirty-three million times, even if it’s not quite you anymore.
“We’ll meet again,” you tell him, trying to smile, “at the end of the west wind.”
“Until then,” he says, and when he’s gone you blink your eyes open to wheat fields and ocean, and with your burden on the backs of others, you can do nothing but wait for the true end to this story.
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“On second thought,” Phainon says, turning back, “I’ll keep you company for a little longer.” He almost manages to not sound too heartbroken.
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- Part 3 of Teach me how
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01 Mar 2025
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Phainon will never forget. Nor Mydeimos, neither the glory of the now fallen Kremnos, even if it’s only something he’s witnessed through its prince alone. He’ll remember each of the fights they had and their every embrace, remember all the times he should have said something and didn't, hesitating, even now. His steps slow to a halt while Mydeimos continues on.
There is no word to convince him to stay, the same way there is no word for love in the Kremnoan language.
Phainon wishes there was no word for goodbye either.
Mydeimos turns and smiles in a way he's never done before. Resolved yet sorrowful, and like he will always cherish the memories of them. For making it the first and the last time he’ll witness it, and for binding them to this parting fate, Phainon will hate every god except one.
“Farewell, Mydeimos,” he says.
Farewell, my love.
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the world watches on by pengwingparade for gjollvangr
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
15 Jan 2025
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Walls have ears, and Penacony watches Ratio as he returns, this time on his own.
or, what it's like to miss someone, through the eyes of others.
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17 Jan 2025
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playing the fool by via_the_cryptid for SleeperCat Ze-Zer (Sleepercat_ze_zem)
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
11 Nov 2024
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Nie Huaisang travels back to before his brother’s death, and realises that this is his chance to make everything right. He can prevent his brother and best friend’s deaths, can make sure everyone he cares about ends up happy, and do it all right under the nose of the one he hates the most.
…And maybe he also wants to exact his revenge on A-Yao a second time. For the one who wanted his brother dead, one lifetime of suffering can’t possibly be enough.
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- Part 2 of mxtx aus
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30 Dec 2024