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Embers Alight by Vicious_Helix
Fandoms: Deus Ex (Video Games), Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
26 Sep 2025
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The dark magic cultists Pritchard had been trying to infiltrate had smoked him out of his cover, turned the newest three 'recruits'—himself one of their number—into little more than meat buried in permafrost, entombed in an avalanche on the side of the mountain. He was a ghost now, that much had to be true. Gravity was gone, there was pressure from all sides, and it hurt too: every inch of touch was enough to make him want to implode.
If he could still feel it, maybe he hadn't died yet. Moving his hands was impossible, even if they hadn't been encased, but the magic to send a message was negligible and required no gesture to shape it. Whether he could speak was another thing entirely. Claustrophobia was ripping open his ribs, peeling them away from his heart and lungs like a set of giant, gleeful fingers. He managed one scream into the muffled prison before dissolving into despair.
"Jenseeeennnn!!!!"
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Pritchard is caught in an avalanche, and Jensen sets off to try to save him. Unfortunately, a snowstorm strands them with essentially no shelter.
Fantasy AU! Jensen is a dragonborn/turns into a dragon (augs are dragon limbs while in his human form), Frank studies dark magic.
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Feral Tendencies by Vicious_Helix for doggoos
Fandoms: Deus Ex (Video Games), Deus Ex: Human Revolution
15 Feb 2025
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Something alien crossed Jensen's face, and he flicked his eye shields away.
"...So he can be nice."
"He is... Trying."
"Succeeding." Pritchard flinched. "Don't back out now, Francis. You've almost got me."
"That's... what I'm worried about."...
Frank wasn't used to being wanted. It didn't matter how: even just in the context of a friendship felt alien. Needed was different, was what he was used to. He was a valued contributor to Sarif Industries despite his personhood. The entity that was Francis Wendell Pritchard was tolerated so that cyber threats were guaranteed to be remedied without incident.
Perhaps that was why he'd been able to navigate this connection with Jensen in a way he'd failed to develop others. Jensen needed him. The ex-cop was a wreck, drinking himself to sleep and barely keeping his energy converters fueled and sliding dangerously close to a complete mental breakdown. He might not survive much longer without a capable person's intervention. Frank was just the one that fit the bill.
(Narrator: He was not just the one that fit the bill.)
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...He's barely rested since they pulled him off the ice, it isn't long before things go awry. Ignoring limits doesn't remove them.
Jensen is injured trying to find out if Belltower has any more kidnapping victims, and his augs disabled beyond basic functionality. He's smuggled out of the Belltower-controlled city to recover at the home of a disabled ex-vet tech, with guidance from their paramedic friend. Recovery isn't exactly smooth, and Jensen grapples with how he feels like he has to be useful at all costs... including his health. But he has a watchful host and their guard dog to keep him grounded.
Meanwhile, Malik and Pritchard cope with their own issues, and frantically try to find their missing friend.
Jensen and Pritchard are also dealing with the feelings they've caught for each other.
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AU where Adam destroyed Panchaea before it could broadcast, but everyone INSIDE Panchaea was exposed to the signal and killed each other mysteriously. A bit of worldbuilding/layperson POV -
He Drowns by Vicious_Helix
Fandoms: Deus Ex (Video Games), Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Black Light - James Swallow
28 Feb 2024
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Adam's semiconscious processing in the Arctic, after destroying Panchaea.
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Postindustrial Complex by Vicious_Helix
Fandoms: Deus Ex (Video Games), Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Deus Ex: Black Light - James Swallow
05 Nov 2023
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Set during the dark years between whatever happened after MD and before DX1. Adam Jensen essentially no longer exists: instead he is a shambling, decommissioned husk, surviving in a post-mechanical-augmentations world by carrying out hits for crime lords. Until he runs into an old friend.
Frank works a remote IT job, doesn't leave the house except for groceries, and had thought his ex-coworker was dead... Now that he knows otherwise, he's not sure he wants to let go.
Happy ending, cw's by chapter. Rating will not change.
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Five days off of work, just after coming back from his leave. Pritchard isn't a mechanic, a doctor, or a friend, and he has to keep all this in check when he finds Adam in his apartment. Regection isn't the worst thing that can come from new augments.
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19 Aug 2025
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all the pretty things that we could be by cybercrow (aceofcorvids)
Fandoms: Deus Ex (Video Games), Deus Ex: Human Revolution
11 Apr 2020
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“Crime. We’ve turned to a life of crime. I can’t believe what boredom has done to us.”
Francis, having stripped down to his skinny jeans and a loose T-shirt, glared at Adam without any real malice. “If you don’t shut up I’m going to push you into the pool fully clothed.”
“Try me.” Adam flashed him a million-watt smile, to which Francis responded with a particular hand gesture that required no knowledge of American Sign Language to understand.Or: Francis and Adam ditch a boring pretentious work party to go break into a swimming pool and talk about their unresolved definitely-not-platonic tension. You know, as you do.
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19 Aug 2025
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Verba Corporea by VladtheImplier
Fandoms: Deus Ex (Video Games), Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Deus Ex: Black Light - James Swallow
02 Feb 2026
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The Illuminati are in disarray, their schemes in shambles—for the moment. In the aftermath of the Vote, Jensen must decide how much he will risk, in lives and in integrity, for the answers he still covets. If he is to exploit his enemies’ confusion, he must resort to their methods: put aside doubt and sentiment, take advantage of the trust bestowed on him, and hope the ends justify the means.
But inside jobs come in many guises, and the ruin of all his plans may strike from closer than he thinks.
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- Part 4 of Gods of Flesh and Steel
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09 Aug 2025
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Tar Pit by SkartoArgento for iso_lovebird
Fandoms: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Deus Ex: Black Light - James Swallow
28 Dec 2017
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[Jensard Secret Santa gift] Pritchard has an uncomplimentary term for Jensen.
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16 Mar 2025
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C0MPUTER L0VE by bangbangbatarang
Fandoms: Deus Ex (Video Games), Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Deus Ex: Black Light - James Swallow
26 Apr 2019
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Adam is in Montréal, hunting his way through yet another tangled conspiracy. When he misjudges a seemingly straightforward mission, who will come to his rescue? Answer: a pathologically sarcastic hacker who may or may not be stalking his former co-worker.
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30 Dec 2023