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build your wings on the way down by ShanaStoryteller
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
28 May 2018
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Where the loss of ignorance is more valuable than the knowledge gained, and Edward figures out the source of alchemy a lot sooner than before.
"Edward has cockroaches under his skin and leeches in his veins. He's vibrating and bursting and his body is too small, too big, doesn't fit quite right. He needs Al to know - needs to tell someone, anyone, but he will cut out his own tongue before he burdens anyone else with this knowledge."
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Bookmarked by curiousbeast
28 Sep 2018
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Interesting story with a bit of ishvalan world building.
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are you tired, because you’ve been running through the labyrinth of my heart for so long by juurensha
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018)
24 Nov 2020
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Asterius wasn’t sure why his half-sister’s ex kept coming to his gym and tagging him in workout pictures afterwards, but he wasn’t complaining; it helped him keep track of their shared workouts.
It was a little weird that these pictures were all of Theseus shirtless and sweaty, but that was how good workouts usually ended.
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“I owe you an explanation of what I said before, about the heroes Achilles and Patroclus,” Asterius starts.
“Nonsense, Asterius! You feel better now, do you not?”
“No.” Theseus’s eyebrows lift, and Asterius snorts. “Yes, I feel better. No, it is not nonsense.”
“Speak, then!”
“I know little of friendship. If we are friends—”
“We are! From the depths of my heart, we are!”
Asterius casts his gaze away briefly, focusing on the axe under his hands instead. Theseus is sincere as the sun, and can be equally difficult to look at.
“If we are friends, they do things we do not.”
After a chance encounter reveals what their bond could be, Asterius tries to navigate his feelings for Theseus, and seeks some advice.
Bookmarked by curiousbeast
16 Oct 2025
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Asterius is a cute bean tho just wants someone to answer his questions
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a shadow on tatooine by marcustulliussithero
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
30 Nov 2023
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Maul dares not move, not think, not breathe - even as the child comes closer and closer, and reaches out one small, pale hand to touch the hilt of his blade. Because this is not a child.
Children do not move silently across the sand, feet barely grazing the surface. Children do not cast two shadows. Children’s forms do not shift and warp, fluid as water. Children’s eyes do not burn like that.
Children do not have that many teeth.
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Commander Fox is Completely Fine by Maddy_B
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
16 Jun 2022
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Cody was still staring at him. Fox wasn't sure what made him keep talking.
"It's always the shinies who think they're invincible," he muttered, "who think they're above the rules."
Cody nodded slowly.
"Yeah," he said, voice a little hoarse, "that's usually how I lose them too."
Fox watched as his little brother finished the rest of his drink and stared down into his empty cup.
It wasn't the same, he wanted to say. That's a battlefield, this is the centre of the Republic, it's different. The truth is that it's not as different as it should be.
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- Part 3 of The Not Good, Very Bad, Terrible Jedi