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An alternative ending to Bioshock Infinite. Elizabeth decides to break the cycle of violence.
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19 May 2026
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Watching him hold Anna tightly to his chest, half-formed promises on his lips, she notices that forgiveness feels less like flight and more like a favorite blanket. Her hand moves to her pendant, as she contemplates bequeathing it to Anna but decides against it. That Booker DeWitt belongs to her, and her alone.
That much, at least, is hers.
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When Anna was a baby, he’d fetch her from her crib on nights like that and sleep with her lying on his chest, warm and breathing and safely nestled under his palm.
(He knows better than anyone that there’s no underlying design of the universe that keeps a protective hand over the innocent, no twist of mercy on nature’s part to make sure things too horrible to imagine stay unhappened; it’s why you have words like ‘widower’ and ‘orphan’, but none for someone who has lost a child.)
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19 May 2026
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Head or tails, bird or cage - Anna or Elizabeth. What the hell kind of choice is that?
“You’ll be happier there, where I don’t even exist.”
“What’s that got to do with anything? I’m not about to abandon you, either.”
“You’ve already chosen,” she says quietly. “Somewhere out there, you’ve made every single choice at least once. If you don’t end up being the man I know... someone else will.”
And he knows the truth of it, can feel the thousands, millions of men who are and aren’t him like phantom aches in his head, ready to go back out on the stage and speak the right lines.
“I don’t know which one I am,” he says.
“Then just flip it and see.” She puts the coin down in his palm. Her hand is very small in his, and very cold.
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Some choices are illusions. But some mean everything.
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18 May 2026
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Maybe there was a man, but there wasn't. Maybe there was a bird, but then there was not. Maybe there was a daring rescue, and there was, but not the one Daisy saw that single glimpse of, which might have been a dream except she knows it wasn't. Maybe there was a lighthouse and a man, but that was a lie. That was wrong. There is not always a man. There doesn't need to be. Sometimes there is no man at all.
Maybe there was a war, and there was.
There is always a war.
That part is true.
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Cunk on Fangs by beemovieerotica
Fandoms: Cunk on Earth (TV), Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
18 Mar 2025
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Philomena Cunk interviews the vampire.
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03 Apr 2026
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“When I was a little girl, my family had a greyhound,” I begin. Everyone turns to me and stares, as if I’ve just swallowed a baby quail whole. “His name was Churchill, and we didn’t know it at the time, but he was afflicted with ‘sudden rage syndrome.’ I don’t know if the real Churchill had sudden rage syndrome—probably not, since he wasn’t a dog, and he was born in 1874 when people had plenty of things to be enraged about without needing a syndrome for it. That was a hundred and fifteen years before the release of Belgian techno anthem Pump up the Jam.”
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Kobeni Higashiyama was terrified of Ms. Makima. This statement should elicit a feeling much like the experience of a blue sky, or green grass. The warmth of a big, bright Sun, perhaps. That is to say, all of the constants in the world exactly as one would expect to find them. As Kobeni was terrified of most anyone, and most anyone with sense was terrified of Makima, this was, to reiterate, perfectly natural.
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02 Dec 2025
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“Hahah… yeah, that was great… If I were inclined to make you happy, I’d be glad to know what to avoid in the future. Now what about Little Miss Kobeni? Tell me how you feel about her.”
A flood of words came to mind all at once, a hopeless attempt to encapsulate everything the woman had become in her life after such a short time. She’d felt contentment, frustration, worry, fear, safety. In her absence, nothing seemed to shine like it did before. No single word could say it all, but the one that won out was,
“Irreplaceable.”
Makima sat with the word for a time.