Sunlight_Stars
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All Those Shadows by Sunlight_Stars
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Agent Carter (TV), Captain America (Movies), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
17 Apr 2025
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Hunger Games AU
Steve Rogers is a scrawny kid from District 12. He's always been a fighter, just maybe not in the way people expect.
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A Broken Shield by Sunlight_Stars
Fandoms: Agent Carter (TV), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
01 Jun 2019
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"Steve turns his head, wide-eyed, to see his best friend staring straight ahead with his mouth set in a grim line. “I’m not– I haven’t–” Steve splutters, because he hasn’t really let himself consider the possibility. He wants to (God how desperately he wants to) but he couldn’t. He can’t. There’s too much resting on his shoulders.
On his tired, broken shoulders."Captain America has done his duty. Steve Rogers deserves to be happy.
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Marcus Kane runs a professional photography business that is always booked months in advance. His life changes one night when a mother comes into his studio with a sick little girl and asks him for a favour.
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sanguine by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Mar 2023
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He knows from the moment he sees Joel helping the girl down from the horse she’s on that something’s up. There’s an ease to the movement that says he almost certainly helped her up on the horse as well, and the way she moves with absolute trust that he won’t let her fall says there’s a bond there that’s had time to develop.
The girl sticks close to Joel’s side, eyes wary, as he guides her back over.
“This is Ellie,” Joel says before turning to her. “This is my brother, T-”
“Tommy, yeah. I heard. Not all of us have shit ears, grandpa.”
He blinks at the comment, but Joel doesn’t seem offended, even as he rolls his eyes.
This is his second hint.
(Ellie and Joel from Tommy's POV, ft. some jelly Ellie, Ellie whump, and family bonding)
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07 Dec 2024
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Joel and Ellie arrive in Jackson ready to live, not just survive, but it isn’t all smooth sailing. When Tommy first arrived in Jackson and thought he’d never see his brother again he confessed all his, and Joel’s, sins for everyone to judge. That, combined with the state Ellie is in when Joel and Ellie arrive, means Jackson wants to take Ellie away from Joel and find her “proper” parents.
Joel and Ellie don’t want to separate, but neither of them are ready to get back on the road just yet. Ellie endures family after family trying to make her stay while Joel experiences a fear over 20 years old: being separated from his daughter and fighting for custody.
Both of them have to define what they mean to each other after, and if Jackson can be their home after all.
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- Part 1 of A Father By Any Other Name
Bookmarked by Sunlight_Stars
11 Mar 2025
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Like there's someone, when there's no one even there by Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Apr 2025
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Ellie’s standing outside the building, Maria explaining where she’ll be staying, and about the basket on the ground with items she may need, the words pass over her, dull and formless, unable to penetrate the hazy fog that’s fallen over her. She hasn’t been away from Joel for more than a few hours since Boston, nearly eight months ago, and while she’s the one who asked for it, the reality of being alone once again has her feeling unmoored, her tether cut from its anchor.
The sounds of shouting and scuffling boots from inside the building drag her back to her body, the noises around her suddenly too loud and grating in her ears.
“Baby girl, please,” Joel calls from the door, his expression one she’s never seen before. She thinks it might be despair.
IE: A story where Ellie doesn't live with Joel once they return to Jackson. Instead, she uses Jackson's version of the foster care system, and through interacting with the families she lives with, she learns about love, loss, grief, and sacrifice.
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- Part 15 of A Step to the Left
Bookmarked by Sunlight_Stars
22 Aug 2026
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sparrows at dawn, ravens at dusk by marchflower for lkay09
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Nov 2024
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Don’t even need to be big, he’d told Sarah once. He tells Ellie that now, watches her face fold and unfold, a flower in bloom. Don’t even need to be big - because what a fucking privilege it is, he thinks, to be twenty years past the end of the world and still holding that dubious honor of cradling all the small parts of a little girl in his hand.
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Two different girls. One dad.
Because even after the end of the world, parenting doesn't change all that much.
Bookmarked by Sunlight_Stars
08 Aug 2026
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dust before the dream’s gone cold by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Oct 2024
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Ellie’s crying again, quieter, the sound muffled by her arm or her backpack or her exhaustion. He sits there on his heels, thighs burning with the prolonged hold, fingertips braced against the cold floor of the cave for balance, and wonders what he should say, what he should do. He’s not good at this. Ellie knows this; she’s not expecting him to do anything, and he pretends like this makes it easier for him to lie back down and listen to her cry in the damp darkness of the cave. She’s only cargo, he tells himself. Cargo doesn’t need comfort.
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Ellie gets a sunburn. Joel takes care of her.
Rinse, and repeat.
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Fulfills the prompt: Sunburn
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2024
Bookmarked by Sunlight_Stars
08 Aug 2026