Darth_Pancake
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A knight without a kingdom, bereft of duty, without her monarchs, is no knight at all.
Dryya wakes in the Queen's Gardens months after her death, confused and alone. The White Lady is gone. There are no more infected mantises polluting her Lady's realm, just a scattered collection of mutated wild animals. She has stood valiantly at her post for three centuries. Without her Queen, what is she to do?
Without purpose for the first time in almost a millennia, Dryya must forge herself a new one: she will reassemble her lost knights and do what she can to put the broken remnants of her King's realm back together. But much time has passed since her quasi-exile in the Gardens, and much that once was is now lost. Despite her long centuries as a warrior of unparalleled might, Dryya will learn that the toughest battles are those that come when there are no enemies left to fight.
Disclaimer: This is an intensive character study and an extremely long-form fic, covering the events of Dryya's very long life from the birth of Hallownest to long after its fall. Slow burn. Extremely extensive flashbacks which start early on. Read the tags.
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- Part 1 of The Pale Remnant
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One kindness will not doom Hallownest.
Five, though, just might.
Short fic focusing on the Pure Vessel and the relationships it isn't supposed to have. Tags will be updated as subsequent chapters release so as to avoid spoilers.
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- Part 2 of The Pale Remnant
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The Spark of a Leader by Darth_Pancake
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon)
09 Aug 2023
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Three days after the defeat of Mandroid, Megatron notices that something is wrong with Twitch. She doesn't smile, she doesn't laugh, and she avoids her family. When things go awry at a victory party held in the Malto family's honor, he becomes determined to find out why.
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The Monopoly of Grief by Darth_Pancake
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
13 Oct 2022
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After blowing up Megatron's space bridge, Arcee is confined to base while she heals from her injuries. Now that she's finally stopped moving, her thoughts catch up to her. The death of a loved one takes time to get over, and time is something she hasn't had... until now, where she suddenly finds herself with far too much.
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- Part 2 of Out of the Past
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Moon of Rannoch by Darth_Pancake
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
01 Mar 2022
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Quarians are meant to be selfless, but all wells eventually dry up. After spending four years fighting a war that no one else believed in, Tali and Shepard attempt to settle down and live quiet lives on Rannoch. Things go as expected, but not as planned.
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An anthology revolving around "Dryya the Fierce", my passion project. All works will be canon to that story, but some may be separate enough to also be considered stand-alone or canon compliant.
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Out of the Past by Darth_Pancake
Fandom Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
13 Oct 2022
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A series of oneshots focused on Arcee and her relationships, mostly with Cliffjumper
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When the Sole Survivor is nearly killed during a firefight, Ada's personality subroutines go haywire. She's lost too many friends as it is, she'll do anything to avoid losing this one too.
Bookmarked by Darth_Pancake
18 Feb 2026
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Lieutenant Kathryn Janeway boards the USS Elba, excited to start her commission as the ship’s senior science officer for a year-long mission in space. Except nothing goes quite according to plan.
A time travel story based on episode 05.24: “Relativity."Bookmarked by Darth_Pancake
18 Nov 2025
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Meet the Skywalkers by frodogenic
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars
21 Feb 2021
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Newly returned from the Unknown Regions with Darth Vader, Admiral Piett doesn't expect much of a welcome from the New Republic. And not in a million lifetimes would he have predicted that their very first guest would be Luke Skywalker. After all, Skywalker and Vader are still mortal enemies...right?
Multichapter prequel to Lord Vader's Limpet and Driving Lord Vader.
Chapter 17: Epilogue
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- Part 1 of Limpet AU
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- English
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Bookmarked by Darth_Pancake
20 Aug 2025
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I found it on Ao3 too? Hype, suck it FF.net
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Two hours after the prisoners have been recruited from Tartarus, they find Wash with his fists covered in Sharkface’s blood. What’s left of Sharkface dangles from the tops of the cell bars.
(AU where Wash went to jail at the end of season 8 and winds up on the prison ship Tartarus, where he's later recruited by Felix and Locus to wage war on Chorus against the Reds and Blues.)
Bookmarked by Darth_Pancake
07 Apr 2025
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The first thing Epsilon opens is Wash's personnel file. Most of it is information that Epsilon can remember from Alpha, who'd been given access to every Freelancer's file. Epsilon scans it quickly, in case there's information in there that they had hidden from Alpha and doesn't miss the large gap in Washington's service history immediately following Epsilon's implantation.
That should have been his first hint that something was deeply and terribly wrong.
Epsilon realizes that something isn't adding up about what he remembers from his and Washington's time together, and goes to dig for the answers.
Bookmarked by Darth_Pancake
07 Apr 2025