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There's nothing out there to prepare you for living twice the span of years you convinced yourself you ever would.
There are many benefits that come with not dying, though, as Zelos well knows.
(HAPPY 6/10 TO THOSE CELEBRATING!)
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okay but let's discuss that at the hospital by cuthbert for SaltedSaltine (EliPot)
Fandoms: Wind Breaker - にいさとる | Nii Satoru (Manga)
06 Jun 2025
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In the aftermath of a fight that might have ended very poorly, but didn't, Hayato Suo decides he's willing to make a little change.
(The alternate title for this was "like a little prayer".)
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Sometimes, coming home can be a bit more awkward than leaving. A brief moment of domestic fluff surrounding a slightly heavy conversation.
(Please note said conversation deals with the lingering impact of Lloyd having grown up in a declining world i.e. being a bit weird about food and somewhat underweight as a teenager... and as an irresponsible-in-Zelos-Wilder's-
obviously-expertbiased-opinion adult.)Not at all DotNW compliant.
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and we all went to heaven in a little rowboat by cuthbert, SaltedSaltine (EliPot)
Fandoms: Moonrise (Anime)
31 May 2025
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Post-series.
It's Labor Day, again. Jack is not okay, again. But he has to be.
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Acting Like A Goat by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, Vampire Killer | Castlevania: Bloodlines
22 Nov 2023
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or, What To Do In Segovia When Your Best Friend Has Gone Crazy
(Not shiptagged because Johnny doesn't want to admit to it and Eric remains completely oblivious the whole time.)
Realizing you're possibly - maybe - sort of Sweet On somebody you really shouldn't be is bad enough. When he's done lost his mind to an obsession about whose family heirloom is the more powerful weapon, it's just plain painful.
But, thankfully, sometimes knocking sense into somebody works when it's done literally.
(Or: puberty hit John Morris like a freight train, and Eric Lecarde desperately needed someone to kick his ass after that Time Rift business. These two things are separated by fewer degrees than one might think.)
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Who knows what stands in front of our lives? by cuthbert
Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts (Video Games)
16 Oct 2023
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One doesn't simply stop grieving after talking with one's best friend about the fact that one is. Xehanort is becoming better and better at compartmentalizing, but Eraqus... isn't.
Or: everyone else seems to have their take on how things would go after that graveyard chat at the end of Dark Road, why not post mine.
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A Crack In The Mirror by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ ギャラリー・オブ・ラビリンス | Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series
19 Jun 2022
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It's October 1945. The second Great War (already starting to be called World War Two) is over. Life in America is starting to look like it might go back to a normal far removed from the austerity of the 1930s.
But nothing can ever really be "normal" when you've been raised to fight monsters. Between the challenges neither of them really expected in a new kind of relationship and a mission assignment that is nothing like it first seemed to be, Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin have their work cut out for them in the Crescent City. At least they've got a few allies waiting... and, just maybe, a few answers to questions neither of them had the chance to ask.
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In The Land That Our Grandchildren Knew by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, 悪魔城ドラキュラ ギャラリー・オブ・ラビリンス | Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, 悪魔城ドラキュラ Grimoire of Souls | Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls (Video Game)
28 Feb 2021
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Magical constructs are not supposed to remember their entire lives. Not when that includes years - decades - after the point in time that allegedly inspired them. Lucy got some things very, very wrong, and while Hermina soon won't be a problem anymore, now a mismatched band of heroes have a wholly unfamiliar future sprawling out before them.
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Four Against The Night by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, 悪魔城伝説 | Castlevania lll: Dracula's Curse
11 Sep 2020
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It wasn't all so bleak as later stories would have it. Indeed, Trevor Belmont's greatest talent seemed to be making friends....
(Just my own attempt at spinning stories out of CV3, in no particular chronological order - hopefully in a tone more like to the old monster movies that inspired it than not. Updates will be sporadic; the first chapter is about as depressing as I'm going to let this be.)
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Left Unspoken, Not Unwritten by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ ギャラリー・オブ・ラビリンス | Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series
21 Jul 2020
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John Morris, unlike his father, was an obsessive diarist.
Jonathan Morris, unlike his father, didn't really want to read his father's notebooks until he was nineteen.
Charlotte Aulin, somewhat like a distant ancestress, is (still) stuck dealing with an heroic idiot who doesn't know how to process his own grief.(Or: it's 1945 and you killed Dracula last year, do you know where your heart is at? Or: this is the closest thing I've written to curtainfic in a very long time; starts off gloomy but gets less so I swear.)
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It's A Sin by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, 悪魔城ドラキュラ ギャラリー・オブ・ラビリンス | Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
16 Dec 2019
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At school they taught me how to be/So pure in thought and word and deed/They didn't quite succeed....
Charlotte Aulin overthinks everything, particularly where romantic longings are concerned.(I PROMISE THE LAST CHAPTER OF "LEFT UNSPOKEN" IS COMING, YOU GUYS, IT'S JUST BEEN A ROUGH YEAR....)
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Susan's Problem by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, 悪魔城ドラキュラ ギャラリー・オブ・ラビリンス | Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
20 Jun 2019
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Being taken lightly because you're "only a girl" always stings. Being taken for nothing but a girl from Texas when you fought Dracula just a few months ago hurts.
(Written mostly because being a book-smart teenage girl with very little knowledge of how people really work is something I remember all too well, and misaimed teenage rebellion as a response to coming back to a world that's simply too normal is something I haven't written nearly enough of over the past decade and a half.)
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Halfway Home (Or Something Like That) by cuthbert for kyanve
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ 暁月の円舞曲 と 蒼月の十字架 | Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow & Dawn of Sorrow, 悪魔城ドラキュラ ギャラリー・オブ・ラビリンス | Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
23 May 2019
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They didn't expect to end up raising the (actual) Last Belmont. That was supposed to be a job for the new generation. But with no other alternative but the tender mercies of an extranational Agency or military coalition, there was no other choice.
Charlotte didn't expect him to be so brightly broken at age seven.
(This is the same continuity as "First Blood", but doesn't need to be read in connection with it.)
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You don't expect to wake up naked in a chicken coop when your family sent you to America to learn how to kill Dracula from someone who did. You just don't. Unfortunately, Julius seems to have inherited the Belmont luck....
Originally written on tumblr, but evidently I can't link to my presence there any more, so it goes here despite being very VERY short.
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that which is left (ayúdame) by cuthbert for Mieldyne
Fandoms: Vampire Killer | Castlevania: Bloodlines, 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series
12 Nov 2018
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His best friend's grief very nearly did result in John Morris setting out alone.
(Underage warning is ticked there because it's not just implied, it's directly referenced. I can't seem to stop writing various iterations on "Gwen dies, then dies for real, Eric falls to pieces, John has many emotions about this", and it keeps hitting me how damn young Morris & Lecarde really were in 1917. Parenthetical is the working title, it's in Spanish because I'm just that pretentious.)
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"all realities are valid uwu"
-Slav, probablyFragments of time. Or, other futures and other presents and other pasts for the Paladins and their people. Or, "where cuthbert dumps all the stuff she's written herself into a corner on".
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06/27/1939 by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, 悪魔城ドラキュラ ギャラリー・オブ・ラビリンス | Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
14 Jun 2018
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Grief makes you into a different person.
Experimental piece. Deals primarily with a kid not handling the death of his father well, if the tags weren't warning enough.
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First Blood by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, 悪魔城ドラキュラ 暁月の円舞曲 と 蒼月の十字架 | Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow & Dawn of Sorrow
09 Jun 2018
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Ask a surprisingly pointed question, get a surprisingly pointed answer.
Julius takes a little trip down memory lane, prompted by Soma to recall a summer morning shortly before his tenth birthday.
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In Hearts That Perish by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, Vampire Killer | Castlevania: Bloodlines
19 May 2018
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Dear mid-90s Konami, you can’t just mention a character finally decided he’d be a vampire hunter because his lover got turned and then not use her as a boss at some point like that, what the heck.
Or: Several hours' drive from Pisa, Italy, Eric Lecarde's past catches up to him... and she's not happy.
(Working title of "why don't we do it in the road" finally replaced with a final one on 5/19/18.)
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mood: whiplash by cuthbert
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ 暁月の円舞曲 と 蒼月の十字架 | Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow & Dawn of Sorrow, 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series
13 May 2018
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Sometimes pretending you're someone else makes it easy to get off. Sometimes - especially after traumatizing experiences - even that doesn't work. Soma "Eternally Awful Luck" Cruz is about to learn this the hard way.