Why's Whumps 2024
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Logan: 0 | Dimension Travel: 2 by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), Batman - All Media Types
11 Oct 2024
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Instead of dying a fiery, horrific death, Jason Todd watches as a strange man with eerie eyes and a too-casual attitude towards death saves his life... seemingly at the cost of his own. He is, understandably, more than a little bit shaken up over it.
Logan wakes up buried twenty feet underground, choking on dirt and a lack of air. For him, this doesn't even make the list for top ten weirdest things that have happened to him.
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From Jason's perspective, this is a tragedy. For Logan, it's a Tuesday.
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- Part 1 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Side-by-Side by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Oct 2024
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A version of Katsuki, inches away from death, appears in front of Katsuki before the final battle. They talk, curse each other out, and ultimately solve nothing, except for the part where they dwindle down his only two regrets to a regret and a half.
But hey, at least that's a little bit of progress, right?
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- Part 2 of Why's Whumps 2024
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On Silent Mode by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
12 Oct 2024
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“Kacchan? Why the hell are you wearing socks with my face on them?”
They were custom-made and bought off of Etsy for fifty dollars. Katsuki may or may not have originally purchased them as a gag gift for their class’s annual White Elephant last year, but then liked them too much and decided to keep them for himself. He also may or may not have been waiting for the best opportunity to show them off.
“So I can crush you every day, idiot.”
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Five years after graduation, sometimes Izuku wakes up in the middle of the night, the image of Kacchan lying dead in a pool of own blood burning through his memory, and cannot fall back asleep.
Five years after graduation, Katsuki is still waiting for Izuku to stop trying to do everything by himself.
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- Part 3 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Down the Mountain by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
01 Oct 2024
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Instead of Tanjiro selling charcoal that fateful day, Nezuko takes his place, and returns to a grusome and bloody scene.
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Two Calls from the Crow by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
03 Oct 2024
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“Oh,” Nezuko murmurs, quiet and delicate, "Oh. I see. This isn't real, is it?"
How long has she been here? Listening to her dead siblings rant and rave at her for not being enough, for failing them, for being too weak, too slow, too stupid understand the full picture?
And this fake version of her brother had just watched. Waited as the ghostly apparitions—Nezuko’s own imagined penance—tired themselves out, running out of cruel things to say after exhausting the seemingly endless well of her own self-hatred.
Dream Tanjiro smiles, sweet and kind, “No. It is not.”
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First and Second Meetings by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
04 Oct 2024
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Nezuko isn’t like her brother.
She isn’t brave, nor does she have an endlessly deep well of compassion inside of her.
She has no special senses, no stone-hard head—metaphorically and literally—and Nezuko is pretty sure that she stole her brother’s grand destiny.And yet: here she is. A Demon Slayer.
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Ninth Form: Rengoku by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
06 Oct 2024
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Rengoku's proud, golden head looks off somewhere in the distance, toward something Nezuko cannot see. He says, “Good,” in that decisive tone of his, and then, less decisively, but far warmer, “You will do great things, Nezuko, but only if you believe that you can.”
(Nezuko doesn't know if she believes, but Rengoku does. That has to mean something.)
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Carving through the Dirt by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
08 Oct 2024
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In the aftermath of Rengoku's death, Sanami bullies Nezuko, and she repeatedly fails to kick his ass.
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Two Siblings by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
14 Oct 2024
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The not-quite-fabric slackens its hold around the woman, cut off from its source: a dark haired demon, who turns to face Nezuko with palpable disgust written all over her delicate features.
Yellow-green eyes bear into her, the kanji for Upper Moon Six written within them.
“What the hell is wrong with you!” The demon exclaims, “That nasty bitch has it coming—little ugly twerps shouldn’t get twisted up in a woman’s business.”OR
The Entertainment District
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Hot Water by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
15 Oct 2024
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“You are Fukushūki,” the King proclaims. In his hand is the prey. Alive. Wiggling and squirming. Terrified beyond reason, beyond sense.
The King holds his meal out of reach.
“You are Fukushūki,” he repeats, voice thunderous, “Loyal only to me.”
Words escape him, get lost between his head and his tongue—his tongue, which craves iron and salt, marrow and tendons.
Still, he nods.
Loyal only to the King.OR
Tanjiro is turned into a demon.
Series
- Part 7 of "Unfortunate Slices of a Bloody Life" (Demon Slayer Role-Swap AU (ish))
- Part 10 of Why's Whumps 2024
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there is a moment by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Oct 2024
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Katsuki, in a collection of moments before his death.
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- Part 11 of Why's Whumps 2024
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body too small, hands too soft by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
18 Oct 2024
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Nezuko hadn’t understood, then, how grief could turn someone so bitter and cruel. Even after her father died, there had been so much love within their household, every inch filled with his memories and legacy, heralded by earrings that dangled from Tanjiro’s newly pierced ears.
(She understands that bitterness now)
Series
- Part 8 of "Unfortunate Slices of a Bloody Life" (Demon Slayer Role-Swap AU (ish))
- Part 12 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Another Mountain by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
21 Oct 2024
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Abruptly, the demon turns, their hair swishing around their neck, blood-red eyes locking onto Nezuko.
All of the air is sucked out of her lungs. She’s hallucinating—has to be—but the singular Hanafuda earring, swaying with the sudden movement, brushing against the demon’s neck, says otherwise.OR
Nezuko and Tanjiro finally meet again.
Series
- Part 9 of "Unfortunate Slices of a Bloody Life" (Demon Slayer Role-Swap AU (ish))
- Part 13 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Nezuko v. Genya by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
23 Oct 2024
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Nezuko doesn’t see the punch coming. A tightly clenched fist slams against her cheek, snapping her head to the side—a new bruise will undoubtedly form before the next morning—causing Nezuko to reel backward.
When she turns to look at the boy, he’s frozen, as if just realizing what he did, and he starts to lift his hands upward in a silent apology. Nezuko doesn’t let him, charging forward, her shoulder slamming into his gut.OR
Nezuko and Genya's meet-ugly, ft. an unammused Kanao.
Series
- Part 10 of "Unfortunate Slices of a Bloody Life" (Demon Slayer Role-Swap AU (ish))
- Part 14 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Only craters left behind by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
25 Oct 2024
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A landscape of frost; jagged spikes of ice, emerging upward from the ground in violent surges, pushing aside land as though it were insignificant; horror-struck faces forever caught in agony, even as their bodies remain lax, completely unprepared for the rush of frozen death. Kocho stands in the middle of it all, her controlled exhales betrayed only by evenly timed clouds.
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Swordsmith Village
Series
- Part 11 of "Unfortunate Slices of a Bloody Life" (Demon Slayer Role-Swap AU (ish))
- Part 15 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Cracked Sunglasses by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 Oct 2024
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And whatever. Katsuki is—
He’s tired, or some other bullshit, and he’s dying in the most ironic way possible—a wound that’s only decaying him from the outside-in because of his own rotten personality. Had he just asked for help—bitten down on his own pride (if that’s what he’s calling his crippling fear of appearing weak, which he is, so, fuck off)—then he wouldn’t be in this situation.OR
katsuki struggles with analogies while dying.
izuku races to the rescue.Series
- Part 16 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Two Empty Graves by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
26 Oct 2024
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With a sharply clipped voice, Nezuko interrupts him, blood boiling at the insinuation that Rengoku didn’t know exactly what he was doing. Because, unfortunately, he did. Even if Nezuko doesn’t agree with his choices, can’t agree with his choices, he made them because his honorable moral code left no other option available.
“Rengoku-san is the best of all of us, Sir. And if you can’t see that, then you are more stupid than I thought.”OR
Nezuko, after two different deaths.
Series
- Part 12 of "Unfortunate Slices of a Bloody Life" (Demon Slayer Role-Swap AU (ish))
- Part 17 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Death, I fear, will do us part by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
02 Nov 2024
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Almost as one, Mitsuri and Shinazugawa turn to Nezuko, their swords still singing from the haste in which they had decapitated the dragon.
Two shouting voices: one an instruction, the other a plea.
“Find the main body!” and “Be careful!”OR
The Infinity Castle
Series
- Part 13 of "Unfortunate Slices of a Bloody Life" (Demon Slayer Role-Swap AU (ish))
- Part 18 of Why's Whumps 2024
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Our graveyard of candles by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
03 Nov 2024
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Lacking the words, Nezuko shrugs, opting to tuck her nose into a shoulder she could identify out of millions of shoulders, forehead snug against a smooth neck, save for the dotted texture of four scars—once holes, where fingers had dug in tight, now just raised bumps, a memory. Brushing against Nezuko’s cheeks, stained with dark red marks that will never disappear, clacking with every breath, are almost-twin earrings—if not for the singular chip.
A soft laugh, equally as grieved, is pressed into the crown of her head, the faint trace of lips curving into a sad smile.OR
Nezuko in the aftermath, two years after the final battle.
Series
- Part 14 of "Unfortunate Slices of a Bloody Life" (Demon Slayer Role-Swap AU (ish))
- Part 19 of Why's Whumps 2024