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Evil Abed says, “There are a multitude of ways to begin your villain arc. Some, less unpleasant than others.”
“Like what?”
There’s a pause in which Evil Abed waggles his eyebrows. Abed chokes.
“Oh, come on,” Abed says, voice taut. “That’s—this is crazy. Even for me.”
Or: Evil Abed tries to showcase the advantages of the villainous lifestyle. Abed isn't buying what he's selling.
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Law of the Instrument by the_hypercube
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
31 Mar 2025
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Vi was the first person to see Jinx clearly. She saw her for what she was—something else hiding inside of a child’s skin. Not like a snake, shedding its skin, which implies thought, progression, but something formless, changing without growing, a fluid filling whatever space it can find. A tool—not multipurpose like a Swiss army knife, but multipurpose like a hammer. To a hammer, everything looks like—well.
Or: Post season-1, Jinx and Sevika talk.
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Angel Dust Switches from Hustlers to The Devil Wears Prada by the_hypercube
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
19 Mar 2025
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“I’m going to pin it so it won’t pop up. We don’t want any creases or bumps, so I’m just going straight in.” Velvette almost finished with Is that okay, but changed tack at the last second. “You’re not going to be a pussy about this, are you?”
Angel Dust was grinning. “What, do you want me to flatter you?” He put on a squeaky falsetto. “It’s the biggest I’ve ever seen, I swear mister. I don’t know if I can take it.”
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comes on over, wants to drown his sorrows by the_hypercube
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Double Life SMP Series
02 Mar 2025
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“Okay," Joel said. He shook out his shirt before pulling it on again. "Okay. No hard feelings, but this isn’t happening.”
“What?” Etho didn’t move from his spot at the foot of bed. “No, Joel—you can—you can just talk me through it a bit.”
“Sorry. It’s just a personal rule—I don’t do gay awakenings anymore.” Joel stepped into his pants. “Bad for my mental health.”
Etho cast about for something to say in response to that, and eventually landed on the simple, but true: “I’m not gay.”
“Oh, god,” Joel said.
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A decade before Alastor and Vox fall out, and a few years before Vox meets Valentino, Alastor and Vox have a standing arrangement to get dinner once a week. For Vox, it’s the highlight of his week. For Alastor, it’s excellent entertainment.
Until it isn’t.
Or: Vox cooks for Alastor. It doesn't go well.
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There are fledglings to tend to, behind the dark, rising walls of the castle. There's a family here for Owen. There is.
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25 Mar 2026
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In one glorious half-hour, Alastor has broken or completed three contracts, freed himself from two separate forms of bondage, and enjoyed a rousing jaunt through nearly half the Pentagram. Incidentally, he may also have shattered Vox’s psyche and his heart. But you know what they say about making omelettes; that was a price he was prepared to pay.
He is less prepared to be personally tasked with unscrambling the eggs.
(A post-canon fix-it following the S2 finale and the events of They Could Have Been Worse.)
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23 Mar 2026
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“I know, it takes a second,” Vox is saying. “Val said it felt like kissing a mirror, the first time—and yeah, I did ask him if he kissed a lot of mirrors.”
He just keeps talking, as if Alastor hasn’t just gotten the shock of his afterlife. As if it weren’t out of absolutely nowhere.
“It’s some kind of good luck ritual with a lipstick mark he used to do before his shows,” Vox carries on, as if he hasn’t noticed or simply doesn’t care that Alastor is—that Alastor doesn’t know what he is, in fact. “Maybe it worked. Hell, look where he is now.”
Alastor grapples for a grip on anything. Anything at all. What his overtaxed mind gives him, as Vox reaches out to cup a hand around his face, is this:
Vox is nervous.
He’s rambling like Charlie losing her spot in a set of talking points and he’s gripping one of the armrests like an anchor. And he’s glowing; there’s a bit of cyan beneath his eyes.
Well, fuck. What the Hell is Alastor expected to do about that?
(In which Vox makes an attempt at romance, Alastor weathers a series of foul moods, and Charlie has a terrible day.)
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- Part 6 of They Could Have Been Worse
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20 Mar 2026
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“Yeah, this is not what Val is doing,” Vox says, gesturing to the foot of space between them. Alastor has to snicker to himself again. “…unless?”
Vox performs a miraculous recovery from emotional turmoil to open lasciviousness. Alastor doesn’t know why he’s at all surprised.
“I’m not going to fuck you,” Alastor says bluntly.
“Technically not what Angel Dust is doing.”
Alastor smiles sheer incredulity across the bedspread until Vox tries again.
“Fine, we don’t have to do that,” Vox says, still creeping forward. Alastor heaves an open sigh—frankly, he’s a bit theatrical about it. It does little to deter Vox from coming to straddle him again.
Nor to reach between his wrists, and—
Fuck. He’d almost forgotten about that. Vox’s claws pluck at their deal chain, suddenly heavy and tangible where it hangs like manacles from his wrists.
“But you did mention something about this, the other day,” Vox croons, in a tone that Alastor has heard him use with Valentino several times. “Want to play ‘contract?’”
(In which Vox and Alastor spend some quality time together, Angel Dust is circled by sharks, and Rosie haunts the narrative. Set in S2E6.)
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- Part 7 of They Could Have Been Worse
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17 Mar 2026
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Owen finds Pyro holed up in a cave. Then, Scott arrives.
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12 Mar 2026