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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    “If I spent my entire life destroying the people I swore to protect... Am I any different from the Symbol of Evil?”

    Enji Todoroki dies at eighty-six years old, broken, and completely alone—surrendering to the void while the world mourns the peaceful sunset of many others, including the very person whom he tried to overthrow himself or through his kids and destroyed his own family in the process. He expects nothingness. He knows he deserves nothing more.

    Instead, he opens his eyes to a body full of youth.

    Whether a second chance or a dying man's hallucination, Enji is thrust back to the beginning with decades of crushing regret. With Touya’s hair already turning white downstairs and Rei’s fear still fresh, the former Flame Hero must learn how to put out the flames he created—before his family burns to ash all over again.

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    15 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 34

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    It has been over six months since Odysseus returned, and the happiness of having him home is almost too much to be believed.

    Though that doesn't stop Penelope's nightmares. Or the awful clawing fear that reaches for her whenever she is alone, when he or Telemachus are out of her sight.

    But what does it matter? She wishes to soothe their pains, not burden them with her own. She is fine. She is fine.

    (Or, a fic in which Penelope is the one being cared for and comforted for once.)

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    29 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    “Look at me,” he repeats, he pleads — gently tilting her head up. “Look at me, Penelope. Will you not at least do that?”

    She hesitates. She relents.

    She looks at the dead man. His hands are warm against her cheek.

    (After a nightmare, Odysseus comforts his wife).

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    01 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 16

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    Odysseus had loved to sail.

    “Where are you?” She asked the waves, hoping that perhaps, wherever he was, he would hear.

    There came no answer.

    There never was.

    And even then, Penelope had never really learned to stop talking to her ghosts.

    (The four times she wrote him letters she did not send, the one time he read them all after his homecoming).

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    01 Aug 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    “I…” She exhaled slowly, vainly trying to keep her words even. “I dreamed that you were here,” she admitted, smiling, though her voice broke and her tears left burning trails down her cheeks.
    He looked at her in confusion, then frowned, and his hands — so real, though she knew they were not, she willingly embraced the lie — found her face. His thumbs wiped at her tears.
    “I am here,” her delusion told her, and oh she wanted to believe it, needed to, no matter that the harsh truth had been proven to her again and again and again. “You are not dreaming, Penelope, I swear it.”
    In spite of her flowing tears, her smile only grew, and she leaned into his imagined touch to pretend as long as she could.
    “You always do,” she whispered. And she always believed him, in the end, let hope and love restore her heart, to make it truly beat again. Only to wake alone.

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    01 Aug 2026

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