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Grand Killing Game: Academy for Dangerous Ultimates by Kinni
Fandoms: New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing, Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
21 Oct 2020
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Ultimates. They are talented students that the whole world pays attention to.
But what about those with... darker talents? Those whose abilities are so dangerous that they can't be recognized as official Ultimates?
They exist, all over the world, those unofficial Ultimates... But what would happen if they were to be gathered for a killing game?
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Khan has escaped, and kidnapped a member of the Enterprise crew. What Khan wants is clear: the return of what remains of his people, and revenge on Starfleet. What is the Federation willing to do to remain safe?
Parts of this story get pretty dark. Warnings for violence; torture; manipulation; suggestive threats.
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Nearly four years have passed since the Hundred Year War ended. But unrest still lurks in the aftermath and there are whispers of a revolt on the horizon. Under increasing political pressures and the necessity of an heir, Zuko chooses to marry Mai, leaving Katara heartsick and broken. In a moment of lovelorn recklessness, she seeks out the one most fluent in manipulating Zuko, who might help her coax him back to her side: Ozai.
But Ozai’s help comes with a price. Parched with the thirst for vengeance, he has dreamed of nothing more than retribution on the Avatar. In prison those dreams would ever remain dreams, and even then, it could only be possible with the help of a waterbender—one who, by some stroke of fortune, has shown up on a silver platter.
Katara’s plan goes horribly awry and careens her down a far different path, fraught with untold dangers. Along the way, she discovers there is more to Ozai beneath his hard shell of armor, that his heart of stone may once have ached and bled. As a natural healer, she is drawn to broken people, her deepest instinct to save those who are suffering.
But trying to save a man at war with himself is its own kind of violence.
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Holly Potter reveals the tale of the Potter twins to Dumbledore after being chosen to go back in time and try to stop the second wizarding war from ever happening.
Or, Harry Potter has a Ravenclaw twin that would let Britain burn if it meant the people she loves are safe.
(Not a wrong boy who lived story. I wanted to explore a genuine sibling relationship instead of severe bashing.)
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On the Inconsiderate Nature of the Lesser Races by ktyxdovahkiin
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
16 Nov 2019
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This story is a homage to J.M. Barrie's short story, "The Inconsiderate Waiter".
After the White-Gold Concordat, Thalmor Embassies were established in every major population center in the Imperial Heartland. Embassies need staff. Some of those Altmer who found employment were Imperial citizens born and bred. They took new oaths as citizens of the Aldmeri Dominion.
Altmer mage Ancotar made a home in Fort Caractacus, near Aleswell north of the Imperial City, during the Oblivion Crisis. All he has ever wanted in his life is order, structure, routine and reasonable comfort. Two centuries were enough for him to sate his curiosity about arcane research, and he now resides in Chorrol, a Senior Secretary in the Thalmor Embassy. Interactions with others are kept to a minimum, and he has the creature comforts of the Oak and Crosier to enjoy daily. The curmudgeonly misanthrope has this much, and no more, to look ahead to for the rest of his life.
Until he meets the Dragonborn.
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Till now, the sides of Thomas Sanders have been coexisting hesitantly, privately observing the newest addition to the inner circle, Virgil. Mistakes were made and arguments were had as the young actor's mental health continued to diminish. As the tension between the four facets grew, it was as though everyone was holding their breath, waiting for the pin of their faux peace to be pulled.
And it was a raised, ungloved hand that did so, and their whole tentative world imploded.
Their new knowledge of these once proclaimed "Dark Sides" provided a breeding ground for distrust, resentment, and a self-destructive love triangle.
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In the eye of the beholder by Akumzae
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types
06 Jun 2020
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At first, she watches Obi-wan and Anakin because she wants to learn. To learn how Obi-wan manages to her husband’s wild anger with nothing more than the accented curl of his name. But to learn one secret is to discover many others, forcing Padmé to address her own insecurities about her marriage and the crush her husband doesn’t realise he has on his ex-master.
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Pureblood-Slytherin Hermione is rescued by the Order Amidst a capture, a war, and dubious loyalties, she falls in love with the Gryffindor warrior assigned to keep her safe; only, he hates everything about her. Burdened with her past and struggling to rediscover herself and her loyalties, will she be able to win his heart, or will the war tear them apart forever?- Complete Fic available on ffn
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This wasn't how it was supposed to end. Everyone they have ever loved is dead, or dying, or wished they were dead. The kingdom is in ruins, the survivors barely holding on. If they could fix it, they would. If only they had more time.
And time was theirs to command.OR
Ghost ascends to godhood, decides to travel back in time and fix things, and saves those they couldn't before. They deserve a family, and nobody deserves to die (except soul master. fuck him.)
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- Part 1 of What Once Was, Now Shall Never Be
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He Thinks He'll Keep Her by Toongrrl1990
Fandoms: The Baby-Sitters Club (TV 2020), Bridget Jones's Diary - All Media Types
31 Dec 2022
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#JusticeForTheExMrsDarcy a.k.a. Mark Darcy's "cruel raced" ex-wife.
Kimiko (also known to book fans as Rioko) Kishi meets her ex-husband's former fiance and new wife in a middle of a catfight before the Women's March starts and tells them a story about her to get the record straight about her reputation as his "cruel raced" ex wife.
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kuroo tetsurou x reader (Hybrid AU)
Tetsurou had live such a wonderful and euphoric life, never did he knew that his ending was sooner. An ancestry curse, that was inevitable and he never wants his fate to be this way. An ability to shapeshift into a cat might sound harmless but sadly, it shortens his lifespan to 18 years. Breaking the curse was too difficult as he was tasked to find true love when he never willingly wanted to. Stuck in an endless rollercoaster of overwhelmingness, there you were, entering his life out of the blue. He didn't expect you to help him with this monstrosity but somehow you have worsened circumstances, even more, when your family secret slowly got unravelled.
[Fluff] [Angst] [Slowburn] [Friends to Lovers]
PG-13
Started: 22/6/2021
Ended:Main lovers: Kuroo Tetsurou x Reader
Side lovers: Shibayama Yuuki x Original CharacterDisclaimer: I do not own any Haikyuu characters, all of them belong to Haruichi Furudate. I only own the reader's character and some OCs.
⚠️ Warnings will be stated in every chapter⚠️
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Let Your Memory Lead You by TheDiamondSword400
Fandoms: Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats (1998)
30 Nov 2021
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Grizabella's past is a complex tapestry. Here is one thread.
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- Part 1 of Cats OC Stories
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Mirabel settled down in between the two roots next to her tío, gathering her skirt neatly in her hands and smoothing it out on her lap.
The night around them was just bordering on cool, but the animals and the insects were active. Through the trees they had a good view of the village and Casita.
Mirabel breathed out, breath caught somewhere between something wistful and sorrowful.
"When I stepped into that river, there were ghosts speaking to me."
Bruno looked up sharply from where he was tracing the edge of his fingernail around the pale crescent of an old scar.
Mirabel stared forward, voice soft, absent of the youth and joy that usually colored it.
"I stepped into the waters and I could hear the voices, when I moved my eyes it was like… like seeing an echo. There were men on horses, people on the shore."
She looked down at a spot on her skirt and pulled it taut so she could fidget with the embroidery, "I saw Abuelo Pedro."
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Split the Lark, and you will find the Music by devilsfootroot
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
23 May 2022
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Stede and some of the crew run into someone from Izzy's past that makes them question what they think they know about him and his role in Blackbeard's life
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i’m begging by koyaqtkoya
Fandoms: รักโคตรร้ายสุดท้ายโคตรรัก | KinnPorsche: The Series (TV)
04 Jul 2022
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Just as his eyes are trying to find something, anything to help him escape, his breath catches as something cold and sharp is placed under his neck, pressing into the skin hard enough that he’s afraid to breathe, worried that any movement will make the knife nick the skin.
“Aw, aren’t you cute.”
The voice is unrecognizable and coming from somewhere behind him. Tem lets out a little shuddering breath.
“I’m not going to kill you. I want you take a message back to Time. Maybe I’ll even give you a new look as a present.”
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- Part 4 of us, maybe
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Napalm (Male Skeleton Reader) (Under rewrite) by orphan_account, Yuvky
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game), Undertale Multiverse - Fandom
11 Oct 2025
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You're pathetic
Rotting beneath trash, worthless.
You're alone
Inconsequential. Useless.
Stop
Do you here that?
Running water.
Go down.
You shouldn't be here.
(Male reader he/him pronouns will be used)(Oct 2025 Rewrite in progress)
The writing isn't shit, it just makes me cringe to think about it...definitely not my best work
Papyrus, Sans, Gaster Sans, W.D Gaster variants are all options.
This is an explicitly Queer fanfic, Don't like, Don't read. There is minor allusion to the ML being Trans ftm but that will be left up to reader interpretation. I Will not be making a neutral or female version of this fic, do not attempt to yourself. I am sick of the erasure of Queer media. I will be handling any heavy topics with care, both as a victim and activist.
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There’s a possibility that I may rewrite this fic eventually but it I’m not actively updating or writing
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take me or leave me i'm going home (but i'd rather be going your way) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Chucky (TV 2021)
25 Oct 2022
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Devon has held his tongue and himself together for far too long and after a day of no one truly seeing the danger of Chucky or why he's upset...he makes a decision.
post 2x3
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Jungkook, a young struggling photographer weighed down by stagnancy and hardship finds solitude in the person of Moistmuffin, an anonymous cam girl he discovers and takes a liking to , too quickly. The story depicts an unusual love story and a peculiar longing
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𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗙 𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗢𝗡𝗦 by winnterfell
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
17 Sep 2023
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𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴.
A legitimised daughter
challenges the arsonists
with the art of pacifism,
only to be left burnt herself.( oc x oc)
( aemond targaryen x oc )
pre-game of thrones / dance of dragons / house of the dragon.
𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎
𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝: 𝐓𝐁𝐀
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Hermione quite literally crashes her way back through time by roughly twenty years. There is no going back; the only way is to go forward. And when one unwittingly interferes with time, what one expects may not be what time finds...
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Harry Potter, of all people, knows that life isn’t always fair. And no one gets to be happy all of the time. But surely there’s something more—something better—than a rubbish Ministry job, and a lonely old house, and that feeling that everyone out there is doing a better job of living than Harry is.
And it really doesn’t seem fair that Draco Malfoy is back in Harry’s life, all of a sudden, and even though he’s wandless, and living with Muggles, and making his mother cry with his lifestyle choices, he’s happy. So what's he doing right, that Harry isn’t?
Because things don’t really change, do they? And if Harry can’t be happy, he’ll settle for a good night’s sleep, some posh antiques, and the opportunity to find out what Malfoy has been up to for all these years.
And that’s what starts it all.
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- Part 1 of Modern Love
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Ginny is sorted into Slytherin. It takes her seven years to figure out why.
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A month after the Battle of Hogwarts, war-scarred, pre-Auror recruit Harry has a new target: Antonin Dolohov, the man who killed Remus Lupin.
When a tip from Malfoy leads Harry, Ron, and Hermione into an ambush, however, Harry’s Master of Death power awakens and sends him— and Malfoy— to the time of Dolohov’s first murder in 1978. As Harry and Draco struggle to find their way home while (re)doing their seventh year at Hogwarts, Voldemort is at the height of his power in the First Wizarding War. And, despite not being born yet, he’s still targeting Harry. Harry and Draco fight for their lives and their future, burdened with the knowledge of what will happen to everyone around them.
The Marauders, on the other hand, are more concerned with pranks, love, and N.E.W.T.s than the war outside the castle.
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Bookmarked by Bookobsessedwaterpoloplayer
06 Feb 2022
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Ch. 11
Draco jumps in front of a killing curse aimed at Harry and they get launched back in time, just down the street from where Gertrude McKinnon (twin sister of Marlene) is under attack by Dolohov
Harry of course steps in to save the day (horribly injured, wearing only Draco's cloak, and using the suddenly appeared Elder wand).
Harry and Draco are now attending their seventh year with their respective godfathers and Harry's parents (along with Remus whom Harry had just been trying to avenge)
Draco wants to go back home, so they are doing some research and Dumbledore has strictly forbidden them from changing anything
But truly both Harry and Draco just want to savior these few available moments with these people they love who are dead where they came from
I am being way more detailed and poetic in my description then usual, so final bullet reminders so i don't get confused
The one where:
- Sirius pees on Snapes bed leading to both Draco and Harry coming to his defense by challenging the Marauders to a duel
- Harry defends the Black brothers (especially from each other)
- James is a jealous, possessive ass with a good heart who wants to help people
- Sirius and James eavesdrop on Draco convincing Harry to go flying leading them to hear about Voldemort being after Harry (and a bunch of Harry's trauma) and causing them to be very confused
- Also an epic battle scene in Hogsmead that appears to only be happening in hopes of kidnapping Harry, but they take James instead. -
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Darius didn't know, when he first gained a mentor, how much his life would be forever changed by the Golden Guard legacy.
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He just wanted out. Isn't that what the Narrator wanted, too?
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Severus Snape had made his choices long ago and would never forgive himself. He lives a life of regret for what he has done and resentment for what has been done to him. Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, but the horror of his wrongful imprisonment cannot be forgotten. Every day he faces a battle that no one else can ever truly understand, but love for Harry and hope for a better world and the family they'll someday be gives him the strength to keep fighting with an open heart. Harry Potter has always had too much asked of him but he's never had to fight alone. While being forced by Dumbledore to learn Occlumency from Snape over the summer, he realizes that he's had a protector in the professor all along. With the discovery of common ground between them, nothing will ever be the same again.
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“Are you going to throw a fit again?” Minho asks warily, voice barely above a murmur.
Jisung gives him a wide-eyed look of innocence, and Minho responds with an equally fake sigh. He knows he’ll have an obsessively needy, whiny Jisung on his hands, as if Minho should feel guilty for letting his own boyfriend touch him. Minho will mock Jisung for it and pretend to be annoyed, because these are the rules of this little game of theirs.
It’s not as fun if one of them is so in love he’s choking on it, sweating it out of his pores and wrestling back the words with every breath, and the other just likes to get his dick wet where he shouldn’t.
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Bookmarked by mise_en_abyme
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This fic wrecked me. Realistic depiction of the before, during, and after cheating. Author was not afraid to shy away from the ugly parts too.
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Harry is removed from the Dursley family when he is eight years old, and enters the wizarding world a few years younger and a lot wiser. He discovers a surprising dark heritage, and develops goals that do not involve vanquishing a certain Dark Lord or becoming the Chosen One. Adopted into the Black family, Harry will fight against the expectation that he is to defeat the Dark Lord and instead dedicates himself to protecting the dark legacy that has been left to him.
Eventual Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort.
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Ch. 78
The one where Harry got removed from the Dursley's at the age of 8 when his primary school teacher spotted a concerning bruise. He was taken into the custody of Gareth Greengrass, the head of the department of child protection. He developed a close friendship with the Greengrass family and began to learn about his magical heritage alongside the Greengrass daughters from their mother's twin brother, Ezra Yaxley, a teacher a Durmstrang.
- Weasley's are blood traitors because they were originally a dark house
- Blacks use blood adoptions to ensure their children have dark magical cores
- Severus Snape is the closest Lucius Malfoy has to a brother, and he has threatened to end their friendship if Lucius ever knowingly allows the endangerment of his students.
- Barty Crouch Jr. was freed when his father was imprisoned shortly after Harry was removed from his muggle guardians and Sirius was freed
- Sirius and Rabastan Lestrange were Azkaban cell neighbors
- Nymphadora Tonks was Blood adopted by Cassiopeia Black, Ted Tonks is the leading expert in the hereditary disease bloodbane, and Andromeda Tonks has rejoined her rightful place on Morgana's court as a dark witch
- Harry as a Peverell descendant and a Dark wizard is a descendant of Morgana and inherited Avalon along with Crystals which the Goblins find religiously significant
- The Sacred Twenty-Eight each have a lordship except for the Weasleys who lost their due to betraying their Dark Heritage by marrying a light witch causing all their children to be magically neutral
- Quirrell was not possessed by Voldy, but still tried to kill and killed unicorns for their blood which he got caught for and then died.
- Harry started a Heritage club with Daphne at Hogwarts
- There are lots of other important details I am surely missing, but hopefully this is enough to remember the basics well enough to not need a complete reread upon each update
- The author puts summaries at the beginning of each 10th or 11th chapter, so I can always reread those if necessary. -
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Yoongi promised to never leave Jungkook.
And then he did.
Ten years later they’re reunited at the Ascendant Court, where ambition rules and nothing is as it seems. Yoongi is cold and deceptive, and Jungkook finds himself questioning everything he’s ever known.
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Frisk accidentally wanders into the scene of a crime, Sans is tired, and a mugger has a very bad day.
(Or: why robbing children isn't as easy as it looks.)
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“You aren’t absolutely evil. If you were trying to be, then you messed up. And so late into the show, too.”
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Helen had everything she wanted until monsters trespassed onto her precious Overridge Academy. She was determined to keep the PTA free of them as well, but her problems double when a literal skeleton starts attending the meetings...
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This is why he doesn't make promises.
Because it makes people care.
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- Part 1 of Burden
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"You can decide when it ends."
The world is saved, but that wasn't enough. Asriel remains lost in the dark. To retrieve him, Frisk is ready to crack apart time itself. As they turn back the clock again and again, undoing every happy ending, Sans reluctantly confronts his own past in the most secret corners of the underground. Together, they must overcome their regrets, recover the last soul, and give the world back its future.
Hold your friends close. Seek the broken man. Beware the whispering shadows. Be kind. Be brave. And above all - stay determined.
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Thousands of thoughts, hundreds of feelings. None of them fit in the neat little boxes he wanted them to fit in.
It was all his fault.
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we make little pretty things by partingxshot
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
28 Jul 2019
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“But if Connor can abstract love—make it a blueprint, viewed from above, not quite a part of himself—he can begin to decode it. To understand.”
(Contains: the dubious benefits of over-identifying with pop music, an ill-advised game of emotional chicken with Amanda, the world's worst lake trip, copious robot angst, and Hank trying very hard to be a good dad.)
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21 Feb 2023
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I think I would die for this version of Connor
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“Sixty,” Connor states firmly, and Sixty stops talking. “...I want you to pretend to be me.”
“Wh-what?! What are you saying? I can’t do that! Connor, please, just transfer—“
“Please... I don’t want Hank to have to go through the pain of losing another son,” he admits sadly, and Sixty freezes.
(Or: Connor is dying, and he begs Sixty to pretend to be him so Hank won’t have to go through the grief of losing another son. He gives him all his memories, leaving Sixty with a new mission: Impersonate Connor.)
Bookmarked by RumoredToBeCygnus
21 Feb 2023
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IM GOING TO CRY ITS SO SOS SOS DGOKGKGDE
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Clap If You've Got A Ticket To The End Of The World by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
23 Aug 2018
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Connor decides to attend a protest for equal android rights, despite the fact that the march has had threats leveled at it all week. Of course it all goes down hill when he runs into one of the humans trying to destroy the march.
Bookmarked by RumoredToBeCygnus
21 Feb 2023
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I love how you can get attached to people without names like goddamn you're making me wanna fight for the blonde guy even though objectively he's a shit person
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While working a seemingly normal case, something happens that makes Connor realize how easy it is to lose someone. When the people he values are suddenly put in jeopardy, it scares Connor in a way that he didn't think was possible.