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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: A Way Out (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leo Caruso/Vincent Moretti, Leo Caruso & Linda Caruso Characters: Leo Caruso, Vincent Moretti, Linda Caruso, Alex Caruso, Julie Moretti, Carol Moretti, Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: rated for later chapters, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Restaurant, Restaurant Owner Leo Caruso, Food Critic Vincent Moretti, Enemies to Lovers, or like. petty businessmen to lovers, Domestic Fluff, Family Drama Summary:

In the aftermath of a messy divorce and amidst great pressure from his publishers, blunt and jaded food critic Vincent Moretti visits The Black Orlov, a so-called ‘family owned,’ hole-in-the-wall restaurant specializing in comfort food. While the restaurant has rave reviews, he is underwhelmed, and writes as such in his review. He doesn’t think much of it—just another overhyped restaurant in the heart of the city—and has more important things to worry about, with his eight-year-old daughter’s recent behavioural issues and his publishers breathing down his neck. However, the co-owner of the restaurant takes his review a lot more personally than he’d expected, and Vincent is suddenly thrust into a side of the culinary world he’d never even known existed.

Leo Caruso is a man who takes responsibility for his actions. Getting his best friend pregnant and dropping out of high school wasn’t in his life plans, but he thinks he’s done pretty well for himself and his family. But after a dead-faced, pretentious food critic gives the restaurant a horrible review, things start going wrong, things that are out of his control. He’s angry, hurt, and dead-set on showing that pompous bastard that he couldn’t possibly be more wrong.

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IT'S FINISHED

Rondo, the last work in the Piano Concerto No. 2 series, is finally finished.

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the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

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just realized there’s already a death note tma au so i need to come up with another tag askdfaskfj

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a bit of a doodle with some vague ideas

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been working on this Death Note TMA au with @maybe-i-am-boring for quite a while now, and I’m massively stoked about it, so have some unfortunate children

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laszlo texting john if the alienist was set in the 21st century

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Fic List

Hello! I figured I’d finally make a pinned post, mostly for my own sanity. I may edit it to add my tumblr writing as well, but for now here is a complete list of my fics on AO3!

A Way Out

Multi-chapter In Our Bedroom After the War [Complete] Rating: General/Teen Chapters: 7 A light plot, heavy fluff fic following Leo and Vincent a few years post-game as they take a trip to visit their families and attend Carol’s wedding.

Educated Guesses [Discontinued] Rating: General/Teen Chapters: 4 An AU where Vincent is Alex’s teacher and Leo is in an open marriage with Linda, and they are both very stupid.

Night Watch [Complete] Rating: Explicit Chapters: 2 A Vincent/Leo smut fic set during the events of the game, told from both Vincent and Leo’s perspectives.

One Shots Fictober 2020  A series of my oneshots from the collaborative A Way Out Fictober 2020 event! To check out the whole collection - a total of 20 works from an assortment of A Way Out fic writers and some fanart as well! - click here!

I’ll Be Home For Christmas  Rating: General Words: 3k  Set a while after the events of In Our Bedroom After the War, almost 4k words of complete fluff following both Leo and Vincent’s POVs as they visit family for Christmas.

Expectations  Rating: Explicit Words: 7k It’s Just Smut.™ Following Leo’s thoughts about his relationship with Vincent post-game, and the things he doesn’t know about him (but wishes he did.)

How Wonderful Life Is (While You’re In The World)  Rating: General Words: 3k  Based on a req/prompt I got on tumblr and ended up liking enough to post. A fluffy and lightly angsty childhood friends AU where Vincent grows into his friendship with Leo, as well as himself.

Pulse  Rating: Teen Words: 1k A fluff/hurt-comfort work about Leo learning about and learning to deal with Vincent’s nightmares post-game.

It Takes Two To Thaw  Rating: Explicit Words: 4k Literally the most popular work on my page, somehow ^^’ Basically PWP, following a night on the run post-game. Subject to a very unfortunate naming coincidence - it was supposed to be a play on the phrase ‘it takes two to tango,’ and I was happy with it until a certain game got announced and I realized what I’d done,,

The Alienist 

Multi-chapter Allegro [Complete] Rating: Mature Chapters: 3 The first in the Piano Concerto No. 20 series. Following John’s POV as he realizes the nuances of his friendship with Laszlo.

Romanze [Complete] Rating: Explicit Chapters: 3 The second in the Piano Concerto No. 20 series. Following John’s POV as he and Laszlo navigate emotions, change, and personal issues.

One Shots Snowflakes on Street Lamps Rating: Explicit Words: 4k Smut with feelings and light plot. John and Laszlo’s relationship has been strained for unknown reasons, and when he gets snowed in at Laszlo’s house, they’re forced to confront it.

Lavender Rating: Explicit Words: 2k PWP; A soft afternoon between John and Laszlo.

A Firelit Respite Rating: General Words: 1k Post Season 1, Cyrus realizes the toll the investigation and subsequent events took on Laszlo, and discovers how he’s coping. Pretty much just fluff.

Aftermath Rating: General Words: 1k Angst and hurt/comfort. Cyrus and Stevie pay respects to a loved one. (Probably my personal favourite tbh)

Too Much Rating: General Words: 1k A fluffy piece wherein Laszlo overworks himself and refuses to admit it, and how he’s forced to accept that he’s just a human and sometimes needs to be taken care of, too.

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Violet Hayward deserved better and we all know it 

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The world needs more kreizloore fics. That would be good I think

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yes i am in fact rewatching season one after watching it all in one go instead of moving to angel of darkness. you wanna go

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possibly controversial take but Laszlo was completely within his right to be angry as he was with Sara. Like, okay hitting people is Wrong and all that, but how it was presented in the show made her seem more like a victim, and given her prying into his disability and the way she treated him over it, she really wasn’t on the right side of that one

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Laszlo and Sara's relationship is just "I loathe you, you're my bestie, you're a genius, you're an imbecile, you're my closest confidant, I wouldn't tell you the day of the week if you asked, I enjoy spending time with you, I will push you off a bridge,"

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John and Joseph's relationship >>>

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there’s so many fucked up concepts and situations in the alienist, but one of the things that always gets me the most is seeing the paresis hall boys during the day. like,, it really hammers home the point that they’re just kids, roughhousing and playing around and goofing off and just. fuck, man