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Once upon a time, it is said, dragons were creatures of magnificence and victory and prosperity, creatures whose arrival could have a kingdom celebrating for weeks on end. But after a thousand years of disasters and legends shrouded in mist, dragons have become little more than specters of death, and those unlucky enough to find themselves living in one's shadow would do almost anything to step out into the sun. Even if it meant sacrificing one of their own.
It is fate that Aether and Lumine, twins marked by calamity, are the first to be captured when a dragon descends upon their village and demands a bride. It is chance that Aether is chosen over Lumine when the sacrifice finally arrives. Resigned to a short world of pain before violent death, Aether’s only comfort is that Lumine might still have a chance to safely live on without him.
Then he actually meets the dragon, with its warm scales and amber eyes. And as the seasons turn and change, he finds himself daring to hope for just a little more after all…
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Aether rips his sword out, pushing a wailing Paimon back and readying for a counterattack. It had worked on the fellflower Albedo, right? Sort of? At least it had forced the creature to reveal itself. But instead—
The imposter crumples to the ground. Soundless. Eyes wide and unseeing.
A faintly glowing crimson drips damningly down Aether’s blade.
Aether is no stranger to being used, whether as an Honorary Knight, experiment, or pawn. He's less familiar with getting his hands this dirty in the process, but that doesn't mean he needs the dozens of others reaching out, desperate to clean them... right?
The Aether-centric, headcanoned-timeline remix of Paralogism.
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“…Okay,” Paimon agrees quietly. “Instead… let me do the last thing I can to fix this. With the Heavenly Principles gone, I finally have the power. And you deserve a kinder ending.”
“Paimon—?”
“I’ll send you somewhere better than this world you were supposed to wander. Somewhere warm… where you might be able to fill the hollow your sister left behind.”
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White-hot pain lances though Aether's head, taking nearly all his vision with it, as if his body is punishing him for continuing to refuse Childe’s control. The moment his agony-fuzzed thoughts coalesce once more, Aether again curses his disgustingly weak body. A kinder ending… Paimon had been a liar to the very end, it seems.
In another timeline, the world ends, and Aether is tossed into a Teyvat that's peaceful and friendly and wrong, wrong, wrong. If only someone would explain why he keeps getting called a "sub."
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And If You Cannot Bring Yourself to Kill by winterlogic
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 Aug 2024
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Xiao is the name he was given upon his new contract with the great dragon Rex Lapis, but before that, he was Alatus, a weak adeptus twisted to the whim of the God of Dreams. The blood on his hands and karmic debt on his shoulders corrupt his Heart and drive him toward death, until he happens across an otherworldly light stumbling through a lonely valley.
Aether has visited and fled more worlds than he can count, careful never to get attached, but this is the first time he's truly been trapped on any one of them, stripped of his power and split from his sister. He is certain he will starve and fade, chained by his immortality to a life of unending agony, unable to even put himself to rest— until he meets a lost and achingly gentle adeptus who brings him new hope.
It will be a long time before either of them learn how to receive the love they are given.
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- Part 1 of Speak My Name
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Belong by winterlogic for Winter_warmth
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
26 Jul 2023
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He had not died, so he should never have been able to become a youkai. And like this, neither the human world nor the youkai realm will have a place for him.
At this point, becoming something less than human might as well just be part of an average Saturday evening for Takashi. If only Tanuma hadn't been dragged in along with him.
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The Sublime and the Beautiful by anodymalion
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
25 Jun 2025
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'The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror… A mode of terror or pain is always the cause of the sublime.'
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"If I come out," Hikaru says, "all the way, you promise you won't be scared of me?"
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it's you I find like a ghost in my mind by nex_et_nox for exalloid
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 Dec 2023
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Luo Binghe doesn’t mean to reach out to Shen Qingqiu. It’s a combination of instinct, the force of habit, and sheer agonized longing that causes him to do it anyway. His physical body is safely ensconced in his rooms at Huan Hua Palace, where he has recently been accepted as a visiting disciple, but his mind—
His mind is on Qing Jing Peak.
He doesn’t even realize it isn’t one of his own dreams at first.
or: while at Huan Hua, Luo Binghe keeps sharing dreams with his shizun, and it doesn't take long to notice that there is something very, very wrong with Shizun's dreamscape
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Omegas on the Isle of the Lost are ripped to pieces, so Carlos will spend the rest of his life pretending to be a beta.
Or: 5 times Carlos De Vil lied about being an omega (and the 1 time he didn't have to)
Author's Note: This fic is currently on hold so I can focus on the Grin and Bear It sequel. Autophobia is not abandoned or discontinued.
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26 Apr 2025
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This is remains unfinished is one of the world's greatest tragedies
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To Conquer an Emperor by zarasu
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
18 Oct 2024
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Transmigrating into the stallion novel he hates most is bad enough, but why did it have to be into the body of one of the protagonist's wives? Shen Yuan spends exactly two months dealing with harem intrigues, sullen maids and his husband utterly ignoring him before he decides to go on an extended holiday. Very extended. Surely no one will care if he just forgets about being married and becomes a cultivator, right?
(In which Luo Binghe goes on a quest to bring his errant husband home and Shen Yuan takes him on an adventure instead.)
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“Nothing but condescending remarks and denial— I am denied wine, denied information, denied—”
Aether freezes, his shoulders nearly up around his ears. Unwinds them slowly, carefully. Lets out a sigh. “I am older than they know, Xiao,” he says, quietly.