13 Works in author's personal favorites (bereft_of_frogs)
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apocalyptic appellations by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki (TV 2021), Into the Night (TV 2020)
06 Jul 2022
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Damage to a communications relay sends a pair of survivors out from the bunker and into the mountains, where they encounter a stranger.
Sylvie, once she’d shed the name of ‘Loki’ for good, had to get her name from somewhere.
Like everything else about her, it came from an apocalypse.
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dissonance by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order (Video Game), Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV)
21 Jun 2022
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“Third Sister,” the Grand Inquisitor says as a greeting. “I regret to inform you that the Second Sister is deceased.”
Reva doesn’t react. Not a single muscle in her face even twitches. It’s windy today. The gusts coming off the ocean bring the smell of acrid smoke and burning oil and tug at her braids, at her cape. She takes a deep breath of that salty air and asks, “How did it happen?”
The death of the Second Sister, from the perspective of the Third.
(Spoilers through Episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi)
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I'm just wearing old bones by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
01 Dec 2021
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By the time the Crows make it back to Os Kervo, they're all in rather rough shape, exhausted from their journey, and looking forward to a night in a warm, sheltered inn. But misfortune trails them, as it has since the moment they left on this cursed quest.
aka: there was only one bed (and that's a bit of a problem)
[ 29. All Work and No Play ]
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- Part 12 of strange trails (whumptober 2021)
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do you see no ghost in me at all? by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order (Video Game)
17 Nov 2021
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In a slight canon divergence, the Mantis crew doesn't quite walk off their injuries escaping Nur, and Obi-Wan Kenobi briefly emerges from exile only to remember another reason for his banishment.
[ 16. On a Need to Know Basis ]
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- Part 9 of strange trails (whumptober 2021)
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don't you like falling down by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton
04 Nov 2021
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Obi-Wan and Siri have to escape a rather perilous situation, but may have not quite mastered all the necessary skills to make their grand escape.
[ 4. Trust Fall ]
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- Part 4 of strange trails (whumptober 2021)
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narrower than a razor's edge by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: Darth Plagueis - James Luceno
29 Oct 2021
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[A Phantom Menace AU]
The line between light and dark is narrower than a razor's edge...and the universe teeters perilously between the two.
A small shift in the duel on Naboo leads not to death, but betrayal and capture. Master Qui-Gon Jinn is not dead but finds himself in an impossible trap, torn between the past and future, trying to understand how he had missed so many signs of growing darkness, while also protecting the young lives in his charge.
aka: Dooku tips his hand ten years earlier because he can't stand the thought of his former apprentice's murder, and that might just be enough to save everyone...if it doesn't get them all killed first.
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where is your sting by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
15 May 2020
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“Hello, brother,” Thor’s voice says. Loki opens his eyes. His breath catches in his throat. Thor stands above him, gazing down at him. The Grandmaster doesn’t notice a thing. As Loki looks closer, he realizes he can see through Thor. His brother’s form is not quite opaque; Loki can see the garish curtains through his head.
“Oh,” he says quietly. “You’re not really here, are you?”
“No,” Thor says clearly. “I’m not.”
“Shit.”
Loki is knocked from the bifrost by Hela and falls to a glittering, maddening cage.
Or: what happened on Sakaar.
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like a tear on a cheek by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
30 Jan 2020
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Loki almost looks shocked for a moment, but quickly hides the expression behind a mask. He attempts another step towards Heimdall but stumbles, falling on one knee. His hand is clamped over the massive wound in his chest. Blood drips onto the ashen sand.
“So that’s it then?” Loki rasps through bloodless lips. “You’re here to finish it? Finish me off?”
Odin banishes Heimdall from Asgard for committing treason against the throne one too many times, and the Watcher is left bereft of purpose. He thinks to follow Thor into battle against Malekith - but then his eyes catch on an odd sight on the ruined world of Svartalfheim. Loki, alive but gravely wounded and alone.
Heimdall saves Loki's life after he's stabbed by the Kursed and they have a talk about life, death, and forgiveness.
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spare me over by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Aug 2019
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O Death, won't you spare me over 'til another year...
Thor gives up the throne and runs from Asgard, but cannot run from his grief.
Until Tony Stark calls with a proposition to reunite the Avengers, and Thor goes looking for a way to say goodbye to his brother for good.
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...and dying leaves on the branch by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
22 Jul 2019
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Alternative Ending to 'bone and broth'.
Loki has been brought back to Asgard and locked away in the bright cells far beneath the palace. But something is wrong with his magic and, upon returning from an extended trip away, Thor fears he might be too late to save his brother's life, especially when Loki's sickness seems to be tied to more sinister machinations.
But he's going to try.
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- Part 2 of hard road
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bone and broth by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Jun 2019
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Post-Avengers (2012) canon divergence
Loki gets up after being beaten down by the Hulk, but the healing is slow going. Something seems to be wrong with his magic, but Thor can't get any answers out of the furious, snarling thing his brother has become. It doesn't matter. Loki is locked away in the lonely cells beneath Asgard and should begin to recover.
But then he doesn't.
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- Part 1 of hard road
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400 years ago, the princes of Asgard and the Warriors Three were sent to break up a group of slavers.
Now, a few months into the Revenger's voyage through the cosmos, an accident aboard the Asgardian refugee vessel sends them in for an emergency landing on a planet whose vices feel eerily familiar. The planet's kinship with a certain immortal despot brings back bad memories. Thor has to keep his head, protect his people, and navigate them through the complicated political world - without letting anyone on to their biggest secrets. But he's perhaps not as unaffected by past trauma as he thought, and he starts to feel that he might collapse under the pressure.
Or: Sakaar left unexpected scars and Thor's not sure he can deal with it.
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dark underground//violent sky by bereft_of_frogs
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 May 2019
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(not quite an) All-Human AU
The moment Loki Odinson turns eighteen, he runs. He moves to the city, gets a terrible job and a worse apartment. He ignores all attempts by his mother and brother to contact him. (His father doesn’t even try.) But then, a year later, he begins to hear something. Something coming from the empty apartment next door.
All is not what it seems. This is not the story you think it is.