Cuckoointhenest

photograph of a diederik cuckoo perched on a branch.



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    Beside him, someone stirs.

    Eddie turns towards it, thinking of sleepovers with the Losers, of Richie knocking on his window at 10pm and crawling into Eddie’s bed when he lets him in.

    His eyes adjust. It still takes a second.

    “Morning, babe,” says a man, a full-grown adult man, in his fucking bed.

    (Or, 14 year old Eddie gets a glimpse into what's coming.)

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    28 Mar 2026

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    She dreams of gold, when she finally manages to fall asleep — golden haired boys, golden tipped spears. The two entwine, just like they have every night since Caligula. When she wakes herself, screaming bloody murder, Tristan sits on her bed and strokes her hair, just like he has every night since Caligula.

     

    or: a study of Piper McLean, after the events of the Burning Maze

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    27 May 2024

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    Will has a breakdown over El's death years later and is comforted by his roommate

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    15 Mar 2026

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    Danny has PTSD, and has an episode because of the memories involved with his own parents hurting him as Phantom. Maddie and Jack are almost just as horrified as he is.

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    08 Mar 2026

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    Doctors Jack and Maddie Fenton make a pact; it's a perfectly logical one, albeit emotionally difficult to contemplate.

    Neither of them wants to become one of the evil, ectoplasmic monsters they hunt. So, after Maddie brings up the uncomfortable possibility of what if one of them did come back as a ghost, each of them makes a promise: if either of them does, in fact, die and produce a ghost, the other will dutifully eradicate it. Simple as that.

    A heartbreaking possibility, but ultimately comforting, Maddie thinks, to know that her husband won't let her become what they hate.

    At least, it was comforting, right up until the moment she wakes up outside of her own mangled body, surprisingly mentally sound and intact, only to find herself on the other end of Jack's blaster.

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    08 Mar 2026