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“Does the grey layer have a name?”
El, so curious about the world she inhabited, often asked questions like this. Definitions to store away and use for later, as if to prove to others that she deserved to be listened to because she had learned more. Will understands — there’s always been a level of disconnect between him and planning against Vecna. His friends are scared something will happen if they throw him into the middle, so he always has to be more sure, more brave, and more determined than anyone else if he wants to be involved.
It’s because of this understanding that Will eagerly gives her these names and phrases and definitions, and often gives her an answer before she even asks. But the name of this particular technique is heavy in the back of his throat.
“It’s called the dead layer.”
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An exploration of Hawkins, Will, and his relationship with Mike and El, through the lens of an art term. -
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"Vaguely, Mike registers Joyce and the rest of the Byers-Hopper family get out of the car. But his eyes follow Will. It's hard to see him, because somehow he seems to be pulling in all of the light.
He's so bright, like the sun."
Mike Wheeler is entirely miserable after everything is over. It feels like his current fate is inescapable, but maybe he can choose a different door.
(short post canon fix-it because they did Mike so dirty)
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"Loving was the easiest thing Adrien's ever done. He fell fast and hard like it was the most natural thing he could do. And it was. So incredibly perfect and natural and ingrained in him. To love. To protect and hold his special people so close like he was scared to lose them."
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Ordinarily, one does not get hanahaki when the person they love loves them back. Of course, this only works if you know they love you back. But our two favorite heroes have a lot they don't know about each other
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His father is Hawk Moth?
Adrien grins. "Well, I guess that cat's out of the bag."
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Things just keep not going Adrien's way. A focus on self-discovery, growth, and learning how to unlock the potential of the miraculous. All while Adrien has to take down his father from the inside.(Or: my personal interpretation on how a miraculous user gains full power)
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Chapter 2 Snippet:Adrien grins, a Chat Noir classic because he knows Adrien Agreste shouldn't agree.
It's impolite to come in without an invitation.
Yes, father.
But he's Chat Noir right now, at least in his mind. Only, his father knows. And he's a disappointment in either form.
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Mike doesn't care about a body in a quarry. His mark, a swingset, still sits on his left ankle as an important reminder. He checked. And then checked again just to make sure his brain wasn't playing a stupid trick on him. Imagine. If that body really is Will and Mike's mind is delusional that it's forcing him to see a mark that isn't there. Just the idea of that makes Mike dizzy. He thinks he'd rather die than for that to be true. But he still feels Will's terror and pain. It hurts to feel his soulmate so scared but it's grounding. Will is somewhere. That body is not his.
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Or: soulmate au where your mark fades when your soulmate dies. So that's obviously why the body in the quarry isn't Will's.
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Or pt2: Mike argues with Hopper about the status of Will's aliveness.
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Colors Bloom (LU Soulmate Series) by xylemsap
Fandom The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
16 Nov 2020
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Linked Universe: Soulmate Edition
This series will feature the soulmate event where you see color when you look into the eyes of your soulmate!!
All of them will be tagged 'Linked Universe' but not all of them with take place during the time period of Linked Universe (aka instead they take place during their adventures)- Words:
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Linked Universe Oneshots & Drabbles by xylemsap
Fandom The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
12 Nov 2020
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When Harry sits down with Malfoy, he's really only looking for a reprieve from the constant stares and whispers. (Mostly.) What he gets instead are a series of strange events that lead to a friendship that is something else, questions that nobody knows how to answer, and the realisation that the person that Harry doesn't know how to hate, anymore, seems to be the person who knows exactly what he needs.
A story in which everything is complicated. And yet, somehow, none of it is.
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30 Aug 2026
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Harry returns to Hogwarts for his 8th year, determined not to let Malfoy get to him. But when the snarky teasing starts up again, Harry finds that returning the jibes with compliments has a far more interesting outcome.
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28 Aug 2026
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Written on the Heart by who_la_hoop for noeon (noe)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
31 Dec 2016
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Harry doesn’t mind that so many Slytherins from his year have returned to finish their NEWTs, really he doesn’t. It’s just – do they have to be so friendly? He’s not prejudiced, really he’s not. It’s just – they’ve got to be up to something, right? Unnerved by the attention he’s attracting from everyone – the Slytherins are the least of it, to be fair – and struggling with a raft of changes to Hogwarts itself, Harry wishes he could be happy that one constant remains: Draco Malfoy really fucking hates him.
When he’s hit by an illegal love-spell though, Harry finds he has more to worry about than whether or not Blaise Zabini actually wants to be his friend. For if everyone affected has been blessed – or cursed, by the look on Malfoy’s face – with a magical tattoo revealing the name of their soulmate, what does it mean that Harry’s skin remains completely bare?
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27 Aug 2026
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After a reckless action leads to the fall out of Mike and Will's friendship, they haven't spoken in years.
Will has built a stable, yet unfulfilling life in New York with his boyfriend, when he finally gets an out; a job offer for an art teaching position in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Will, Mike is living in the very city he is about to move to, teaching at the same school, whilst raising his five-year-old daughter alone.
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26 Aug 2026
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Its Pride in NYC and Mike tags along with Will to the Pride Parade. Along the way he learns to embrace change and find a little pride for himself.
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20 Aug 2026