ObsidianMage
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Maelle looks at the mirror shards scattered across the floor, a disarray of sharp and jagged pieces that can never be put back together again. "I know you’re not him..." she admits in a shaky whisper. Her tear-filled eyes find Verso, the blues and greys of paint starting to unravel the edges of them, mocking him. "But you deserve to be happy,” she says. We deserve to be happy, she means.
“I deserve to be myself,” Verso says, and it sounds like a plea more than anything else. The skin around his left eye aches, as if it’s waiting for his scar’s return.
Maelle sighs before she sweeps her hand through the air, calling for her rapier. It appears in a flutter of gold petals, glimmering in the dim light of the bathroom. Her eyes are cast in shadow and her disappointed smile is somewhat crooked. "Alright. Let's try again."
or: Maelle wants a happy end for everyone she cares about, and she will keep trying until even Verso gets it right.
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21 Dec 2025
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pi·a·nis·si·mo
/ˌpēəˈnisəˌmō/
Music
adverb
(especially as a direction) very softly.
"she played pianissimo alongside the full orchestra"
adjective
performed very softly.
"the final verse was beautifully balanced and controlled in the pianissimo ending"
noun
a passage marked to be performed very softly.Or, Verso is stuck in a time loop. Maybe the canvas has one more story to tell.
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- Part 1 of A Life to Dream
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20 Dec 2025
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Once upon a time there was a girl and a demon.
The girl’s hair was the color of Dust, a gleaming gold, and with it shining in the wind she lifted her sword, and drove it straight into the heart of the demon that had tried to call her little village its own. The people loved her. They say her soul was a brilliant white dog, a guardian, large as an ox. He grappled with the monster. With his fur a light to drive it back.
And so time turned on. Technology improved. The people lived. A thousand years passed. A kingdom grew, the loyal mutt-souls of the common people protected by the noble lines of knights, bloodhounds and shepherds and retrievers. Happily ever after, right?
Tsht. Yeah. You know, they say only dogs get happy endings.
(A Nimona daemon AU: in which Ballister's daemon changes shape, impossibly, the night of the Queen's murder, and this is of some interest to Nimona.)
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12 Dec 2025
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nothing beside remains by ApatheticRobots
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pokemon Legends: Z-A (Video Game)
17 Nov 2025
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She's musing about the past, as she does in spades these days, staring at her own painted visage like she can see him in the brushstrokes if she looks hard enough, and she finds herself thinking; so this is how it felt.
And then. She stops.
Ah, Floette thinks again, with more intent. With more horror, looming grief and sinking dread. So that's how it feels.
(Or; they are alike in many ways.)
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- Part 2 of the hand, the heart
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18 Nov 2025
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Hatred, or Lack Thereof by Hiding_Under_The_Willow
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Z-A (Video Game)
11 Nov 2025
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Team MZ has made a tradition of throwing a little get together at Hotel Z once a month since the incident with Ange to bring everyone who saved the city together again. Corbeau makes the effort to show up every time. Now, a year after everything, someone he would rather not see is back in Lumiose. L sits alone at the edge of the courtyard, and Corbeau forces himself to have a conversation with the man with his mentor's face.
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11 Nov 2025