Stroods
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The person who saved Romeo doesn't turn around. He clicks his blades together into one, and hefts the sword over his shoulder. Like scissors, Romeo thinks absentmindedly. A mop of curly brown hair covers part of his face as he turns his head. And Romeo knows he's being stupid, knows that people don't just come back from the dead, but-
"Carlo?" he asks.
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In which Carlo doesn't die, Romeo finds him, and everything follows from there.
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02 Jan 2026
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my golden crown of sorrow, my bloody sword to swing by elphaels
Fandoms: Lies of P (Video Game)
26 Jun 2025
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When Romeo looked back at her, it was with a small, delicate smile that spoke only of reassurance and empathetic understanding.
It was the same sad, kind look he’d given Lea when she’d entrusted him with her locket long ago, when she had feebly told him that she could no longer bear the overpowering grief looking upon the three smiling faces kept within its ornate casing would lance through her heart. The longing for those beautiful but ephemeral days had been too much.
Lea’s chest constricted, like her lungs were valiantly trying to throttle her to death. He should not be trying to reassure her— she was not the one who deserved reassuring. He should not be looking at her like that, like she was the one who was the worst off out of the two of them. He had no reason to smile at her so warmly, as though she wasn’t entirely to blame for the tragedy he was now entrenched in.
For not the first time, and certainly not the last, Lea felt sickened by the sheer profundity of her own failures.
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In which the Legendary Stalker survives the events of the Rose Estate, and lives long enough to see what became of her ill-fated, sole surviving apprentice.
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12 Nov 2025
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If We Burn Up Like This by carrottheluvmachine, CorvidScreams
Fandoms: Lies of P (Video Game)
27 Oct 2025
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Carlo sighed happily, taking a sip of his hot chocolate once he knew it wouldn’t burn his tongue. He had already had to reprimand Romeo for trying to drink his too soon, the damn boy was far too impatient. However, Carlo suspected Romeo had burnt his tongue on purpose so that Carlo could soothe it with his own. He leaned back against Romeo who had finished his drink and had his arms wrapped around him, his cheek resting atop Carlo’s head.
“You think it’s gonna be like this forever?” Romeo asked, his voice sounding genuinely unsure. It made Carlo’s heart ache.
“It can be however we want it to be.” Carlo answered quietly, though he knew it wasn’t true. They could only control their fates so much. Krat was changing around them, the alchemists were planning something and the future was uncertain. That was why they had to live while they still could. Who knew how many more falls they would have together.
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03 Nov 2025
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The Hermit's Cave didn't offer the most comfortable accommodations, but it was a relatively safe place to rest and recover while the group planned their next move. The reprieve gave Romeo time to think, Carlo time to overthink, and P time to adjust to the dynamic developing between the three of them.
Romeo POV interlude taking place between chapters 7 and 8 of Beneath Some Happier Star; best read after chapter 8.
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02 Nov 2025
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If there’s one thing P has discovered he likes even more than music, it's dancing.
Or, two very different dances in P and Romeo's lives.
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09 Oct 2025