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    Western Au!

    Harry is running from the law and the past when he finds himself captured by Kim, a handsome stranger seeking to collect on his bounty.

    (Takes place in the DE universe but at a different time period with some smooshing together of geography and some extrapolations on lore.
    Also all of Harrys Skills have been given a new coat of cowboy paint!)

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    12 Feb 2025

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    Kim is standing beneath the #1 Whirling-in-Rags. He doesn't know that the room upstairs is in a total state of disrepair. He doesn't know that the man upstairs is Harrier Du Bois, infamy manifested in the flesh. And he doesn't know that Harrier Du Bois' efforts to bludgeon himself into oblivion over the past two days just met its catastrophic failure.

    What he does know is this: The window upstairs is broken. He's here to investigate a lynching. And he's angry that he couldn't get here sooner.

    Or:

    In which Harry Du Bois didn't lose his memory in Martinaise and has to deal with the consequences of his actions.

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    07 Feb 2025

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    What do an uncomfortable mattress spring, a pink phone and an oddly named antique shop have in common? Well they shouldn't be talking to a detective in his mid-forties, that's for sure.

    TASK LIST:
    - Stay sober □
    - Keep your head down at work □
    - Refurnish your miserable flat □
    - Wonder if you'll ever see Kim again □
    - Stay sober □
    - Solve THE FOUND FAMILY □
    - Try not to lose your mind □
    - Stay sober □
    - Be *naughty* in the stacks □
    - Stay sober □
    - Buy a gift □
    - Surprise your new best friend in a completely normal and appropriate way □
    - Don't get murdered in the process □

    [Edited 03/01/24 to add gorgeous art by @paleyonder on tumblr!]

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    07 Feb 2025

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    Set one year post movie, Charles overloads himself in Cerebro, and his mind goes walkabout; wherever he is (and he’s around), it’s not in his body. Erik temporarily takes over the school in his absence, and finds that there’s little time for resentment or hatred when he’s busy organizing assigned reading for English lit, keeping the youngest children out of trouble, and trying to talk Raven into wearing clothing for the boys’ sake. Somewhere in between taking responsibility for the students and dreaming Charles’ dreams every night, he manages to remember that he’s something rather more than a weapon. In other words: A Love Story between two Gentlemen, told in Prose, Epistles, and Nonsense Rhymes.

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    15 Dec 2024

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    The year is 1954. The discovery of abiogenesis, DNA and the double helix have made massive waves in the fields of biology and chemistry. Erik and Charles meet as young men attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, initially opposing one another on the Mutatis Mutandis panels.

    Erik is an ex-Sonderkommando and Haganah veteran who fled to the USA after defecting at Sinai, versus Charles - a too-privileged-for-his-own-good trust-fund nepo baby with more depth and complexity than the former could ever truly comprehend. Raven is a "private investigator" in polite company, and a mercenary to everyone else. The CIA shows up to ruin everyone's day.

    All of their lives are forever altered by these intersections. Lots of bickering, trauma, and yes, the overwhelming power of love. Follows Erik and Charles as they establish the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youth, and over time develop disparate views as Erik grows increasingly radical in his pursuit for mutant safety and Charles suffers a devastating injury at the behest of Sebastian Shaw.

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    08 Sep 2024