Unexpected Mercy
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Episode-tag for 'Brothers in Arms'. The truth rears its ugly head, and Guy learns that everything is a choice - but not every choice is consciously made.
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A Kingdom in My Wake by AnzaAmon (TheBudgieOfDojima), TheBudgieOfDojima for Sheliak
Fandoms: Original Work
12 Mar 2020
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A kind gesture from a good heart is paid in kind.
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"Your previous owners," his new owner began.
Hiruma wanted to know what he was good for, Sena guessed, and resolved to make himself sound useful by any means possible. He didn't kid himself that it would save him from whatever pain was in store for him, but maybe in the end Hiruma might decide not to kill him, if he had some long-term value.
"They ever play you in a team?"
What few pitiful examples of his own usefulness Sena had managed to gather now fell apart in the face of his confusion.
"A sports team," said Hiruma impatiently.
It wouldn't do to look too incredulous. If his master looked at his pathetic body and saw some cannon fodder for whatever sport he had in mind, Sena had to show willing.
It must not have worked, because Hiruma gave a pleased little smirk. "Good, no one's seen you, then."
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"So how'd you win first crack at me alone?" Kurapika spat. His mouth still felt stiff, like he hadn't regained full control of it; the words dropped from his lips by sheer force of loathing alone. "Out of all the Spiders, you were the most bloodthirsty?"
"Something like that," said Leorio, and cupped his cheek. The calluses on on his fingers were gathered at the tips, as if from the manipulation of fine instruments, rather than at the palm, where a weapon would wear. Kurapika allowed this for just a few seconds. Then he snapped his jaw around, and bit him.
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Leorio doesn't take the hunter exam, and joins up with the Phantom Troupe instead. Sure, sometimes he has to do unsavory things, like torture innocent prisoners who were only seeking justice for their murdered kin.
But on the bright side, the pay is better.
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Long before the game takes place, two outcasts meet in an Alternian prison.
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The sweltering heat would have been clue enough, all else aside, that the ship they boarded was no human one. That, and the strange, lingering echo of their footsteps, too loud and too hard, sketching out a ceiling far taller and broader than needed to accommodate a human frame. Lan was struck, once again, by what a foreign place his new home was to be.
Here there be dragons, he mused to himself, on the teetering edge of hysteria.
"You were always fated to perish to dragonfire," came the answering whisper in his mind, immediate and unwelcome as a recoil.
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Xiao takes a blow that was meant for his lord. It should be the end of him, but Morax won't let him go so easily.
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What is a duel? A miserable little pile of homoeroticism. But enough talk. Have at you! by Rubber Chicken With A Keyboard (RCWAK) for fencesit
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
26 Jul 2021
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"After rigorous testing, I consider you a worthy opponent," the priestess explains, as if she is speaking to a very small child. "One awarded my respect, and my... admiration."
There is another, longer pause. And then it clicks.
The faint warm shadow on the priestess's dark cheeks. The coy stance, the playful smile. Her laughter. (Laughter that echoed bell-like in Hornet's head for hours after their first meeting, that seemed like it would haunt her merrily forever--)
"You," and Hornet has to take a breath here, in and out, to steady her stance, "have been hounding me by blade and foot-soldiers through your kingdom for a fortnight like some common beast of the hunt, and now you claim you have all along aimed to court me?"
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"If we'd met back then, Senkuu, you might have been my first friend."
This is the "back then" that could have been.
Night after night, Tsukasa wrecks his body in cage fights for a paycheck. His goal? A revolutionary new medical procedure developed by Ishigami Clinic, with the promise to cure his sister, if he could only afford it.
Along the way, he befriends a strange young man offering to patch him up after fights, and even upgrade his moves through the power of science. Little do they both know, Senkuu may be able to help him with more than just that.
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At the old crossroads, that liminal space where worlds intersect, that's where Kid makes his desperate deal.
He's failed everyone that ever mattered to him. He won't do it again, no matter what the cost.
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Carl's been shot. Rick, desperate to save him, stumbles upon a settlement led by—of all things—a former trauma surgeon. He bargains for Carl's life by promising to trade them medicine in return.
Medicine that their settlement needs.
Medicine that he absolutely lied about having.
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Chahut stumbles on a familiar face in an Imperial prison cell, and finds something she once lost, or never knew.
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Everyone's a Sinner in the Balancer's Eye by truebluemoon for meikuree
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 Jun 2022
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Vi has an opportunity to end Sevika once and for all. She doesn't.
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Twelve-year-old Trillium is a Warlock's familiar, a glorified mana battery powering her country's bitter and relentless war. When an unexpected turn grants her a chance at freedom, she doesn't think twice. But in order to escape the battlefield for good, she may have to return to the role she loathes—as passive mana source, without any rights or agency—and this time, for the enemy.
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It is Wildflame's first week of solo patrols. Why did he think it was a good idea to tangle with a supervillain?
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Red Carnations by sarriathmg for Heteronym
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Comics), New Teen Titans
22 Aug 2022
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Jason didn’t know who his captor was. They called him the “Dragon,” and he had kept Jason in this dark room for reasons beyond just using him as bait.
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- Part 28 of Battleship 2022
- Part 79 of DC one-shots
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The plan had gone much better in Milo's head. Get down to the docks, check the manifests, find a ship headed outward—for planet Earth if he was extremely lucky, or just in the general direction of Sol, if only slightly. Of course, he'd overlooked one very crucial point. After being kept naked in his cell for months—if not years, who knew how time passed up here—it hadn't even occurred to him to consider the matter of clothing. At least not until he'd crawled up out of the ventilation shaft, into the station's main hub, and found every single eye in the room instantly plastered onto him like flies on paper. Being naked, and human, was like having the universe's biggest target drawn right on his chest. He might as well have rolled around in some honey and dropped himself into a bear cave.
God, he'd kill to see honey again. Even a bear. Those were the inappropriate thoughts running through his brain as he tore his way through the station, bare feet slapping on the metal floor panels in time with the sound of the various clicks, squeaks, and trills of his pursuers.
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Second Star To The Right by 17 pansies (17pansies) for LoneswaggingRanger
Fandoms: Original Work
19 Aug 2022
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“A stowaway, hm?” the Captain asks.
Oh god, no, thinks Wil. This is where he dies. This is where he bleeds out on the sun-bleached wood, throat slit for all to see.
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Months after Calliope leaves, Juliette falls ill because of her distance to her soulmate. Juliette doesn't want to tell her anything in other not to force her to help, but her dreams lead her to believe Juliette needs her help, and while still grieving for the loss of her brother and trying to accept his existence as a vampire, Calliope convinces Apollo to take her to Juliette. Once they meet again, it's impossible to deny that they still have feelings for each other, and after their reconciliation, Juliette can finally admit that they are soulmates.
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Of eggs and thieves and one confused speedster by Fancy_Dragonqueen for InnerCinema
Fandoms: The Flash (TV 2014)
03 Aug 2022
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“The only difference was one person. Seems as if this is an Allen-trait.”
The thief smirked when Barry looked at him slightly puzzled.
“You upped the game. You gave it a purpose we had lost.”
“What Snart wants to say is that he saw your pretty little ass and your bambi eyes and was a goner.”
>> When Barry finds a dragonegg, there's only two people that come to his mind that he would like around to rescue it. of course not because he wants to impress them. it's just because his team is occupied elsewhere. Right?
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When Shikako had realized that the world she had been reincarnated into was the world of Naruto, she had been primarily concerned with the Akatsuki and Pein’s eventual attack on the village. It had been the largest, most devastating attack in the entirety of Naruto at the time she’d died in her original world after all, so it seemed prudent to be concerned about it.
Clearly she had missed whatever came after, because this was total bullshit.
OR: The events of later-Shippuden are occurring, and Shikako didn't have any information on any of these events. Her main concern is keeping her friends alive, whatever it takes.
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The plan had gone much better in Milo's head. Get down to the docks, check the manifests, find a ship headed outward—for planet Earth if he was extremely lucky, or just in the general direction of Sol, if only slightly. Of course, he'd overlooked one very crucial point. After being kept naked in his cell for months—if not years, who knew how time passed up here—it hadn't even occurred to him to consider the matter of clothing. At least not until he'd crawled up out of the ventilation shaft, into the station's main hub, and found every single eye in the room instantly plastered onto him like flies on paper. Being naked, and human, was like having the universe's biggest target drawn right on his chest. He might as well have rolled around in some honey and dropped himself into a bear cave.
God, he'd kill to see honey again. Even a bear. Those were the inappropriate thoughts running through his brain as he tore his way through the station, bare feet slapping on the metal floor panels in time with the sound of the various clicks, squeaks, and trills of his pursuers.