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the one that got away by deadnotsleeping for randomrosewrites
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
07 Jun 2026
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"It turns out my mother is a god," Verso said, when he saw her approach. "And she never felt the need to tell her children."
As explanations went, that was a pretty good one. Demigods always caused problems.
"Is this going to keep happening?" Sciel asked. "You have to tell me if there's going to be a war. Wars are a very busy period for me. God-wars even more so."
Verso looked down and shifted uncomfortably. "I hope not, but Clea is… we're just trying to eliminate the Cult of the Writer for now. Then maybe look for more of us. Ones that don't try to kill us."
"That sounds like a war."
"A small-scale conflict," Verso insisted.
Sciel rolled her eyes. "Semantics."
Verso smiled, then looked down. Rubbed the back of his neck. Shifted nervously.
"What?"
"I'm sorry," Verso said, "About… all of this." He gestured to his body. "I imagine it isn't… natural, what I do. What I am."
On December 33rd, 1905, Death (or, as she prefers it, Sciel) meets an immortal in the process of discovering his immortality. Thus begins a 95 year long situationship.
Or, one time Sciel met Verso when he was dead and five times they met when he wasn't.
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stripping out the colours by deadnotsleeping for randomrosewrites
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
07 Jun 2026
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Verso moved his hand out of hers and towards her stomach. Clea let him, curious, and watched as his hand settled on her suspenders. His thumb moved over the metal clasps, leaving a dull smear of blood in its wake.
Horror, sharp and ice cold, poured down her throat and spread through her spine. She had missed that spot. How did she miss something?
Verso moved his bloodstained thumb to his face and sniffed theatrically. "Blood," he murmured. "You've gotten sloppy."
The cold horror flared and turned hot. Clea glared.
Brat. She was going to finish what the fire started.
"I don't get sloppy," she hissed. She grabbed his hand and yanked it toward her again. It must've hurt, must've stretched at his scars, but he let her do it without protest.
Post-fire, Clea and Verso try to take care of each other.
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heart of kyber by deadnotsleeping
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Star Wars - All Media Types
04 May 2026
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To Whom it May Concern,
My name is Jayce Talis. I am a PhD student at Coruscant University studying mechanical engineering. My focus is in material science, specifically kyber crystals. While its optical and energetic properties are well-known, I'm having trouble finding any information regarding its interaction with the Force. Would the Jedi Temple be willing to share any of its research?
I swear I am not making any weapons.
Thank you,
Jayce Talis
On one uneventful day, Viktor, former Padawan of Grand Master Heimerdinger, current archivist, and supposed Jedi, receives an intriguing email from a man named Jayce Talis. Three days later, they meet in the ruins of Jayce’s apartment.
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- Part 1 of 30 Days of AUs
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Months after her family narrowly escaped the fire, Clea Dessendre spends one perfect day setting up her new art exhibit with Verso and Alicia.
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The other Verso loved water, and so he did as well.
Other Verso Painted water everywhere in the Canvas, although presumably, like the rest of the Canvas, he Painted it for fun and not for death. Flying Waters, which was Painted in a fit of childish fury after he realized he could not live in the ocean, contained something like breathable water. It made for an adequate alternative to the traditional ocean on days when Verso craved the peace of being underwater but not the pain of drowning. It wasn’t nearly as calming as swimming in real water, but it at least didn’t tempt him with the sleep of death. Not more than usual, anyway.
Or, an exploration of Verso and his relationship to water, the sea, and a certain very cute aquatic mammal.
Written for Day 5 of Verso Hell Week: Drowning.
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30 Days of AUs by deadnotsleeping
Fandom Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Star Wars - All Media Types
04 May 2026
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30 (non-consecutive!) days of AUs. Multi-fandom.
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i will follow you into the dark by SummerFrost for alittlebitmaybe
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
23 Sep 2021
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"Admit it, Slayer," Spike says, still grinning at her. "I liven up the place."
Buffy rolls her eyes and says, "You're even deader than I am."
Aka: Buffy sacrifices herself to save the world and winds up in a heavenly dimension capable of granting her every wish. And, oh, yeah—for some reason, Spike is here too.
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12 Aug 2026
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Buffy flings herself off Glory’s tower to her death… and it’s only the beginning. Where is she? Joyce is here with her, and Merrick, and her little cousin Celia… and who’s the diffident guy in the Victorian clothes who seems too embarrassed to look at her? “Oh, my god. You’re William!”
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06 Aug 2026
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Today is the longest day of Angel's life, and the only person who understands is the last person he wants to be around.
Today is the shortest day of Spike's life. He just doesn't know it.
If you only had one day to live the rest of your eternity, how would you spend it? Who would you spend it with?
Bookmarked by deadnotsleeping
25 Jul 2026
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Six months after the Battle of Sunnydale, Buffy is trying to settle into her new life in London: patrolling, training new Slayers, and studying English Literature. But it's not great for her grades that strange demons are appearing all over the city – and it's not great for her sanity that she's suddenly dreaming about Spike.
And she only dreams when it rains.
(Goes AU post-Chosen.)
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22 Jul 2026
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the world moves on (and i without you) by taxicab12
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
22 Aug 2022
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She had her hair parted in zigzags.
Or, five ways that Willow and Tara never met and one way that they did
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- Part 1 of holding grief's hand
Bookmarked by deadnotsleeping
21 Jul 2026