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Title: FWOOSH Fandom: MCU Characters: The Ebony Maw, mentions of Stephen Strange, Tony Stark, Peter Parker Rating: Gen Warnings: Infinity War spoilers Word Count: 374 Tags: Infinity War spoilers, basically crack, no one will read this but it has nevertheless amused me terribly, character sketch, one shot Summary: “Squidward” goes for a ride.

Note Spoilers for Infinity War, read at own peril. Basically I think it's funny when aliens may not have the vocabulary to grasp a hero's witty repartee, and I genuinely adore the Ebony Maw, so here we are.

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Title: Auto-da-Fé Fandom: Fate/Apocrypha, Fate Series Characters: Ruler | Jeanne d’Arc, Gilles de Rais, Sieg, Amakusa Shiro, Caster | Shakespeare Rating: Gen Warnings: Mentions of harm to children, some depiction of death by hanging, spoilers for Fate/Apocrypha Season Two Word Count: 1982 Tags: Scene study Summary: Gilles de Rais is conjured forth to meet Ruler. The past catches up with this mysterious present, and Gilles must confront his crimes.

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He is barely Gilles de Rais at all, merely the idea, the memory of a man who had felt so much, so terribly, who had become so wasteful and so cruel. And yet it is as real to him as the noose that had tightened around his neck on that beautiful October morning, as real as the flames that had scorched his body. The instructions come to him as a revelation. He is but a powerless echo, save that he might convince the Maid of Orleans to undertake the salvation of all the world. They can all atone. All that evil can be undone at last, but she must be made to see.

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Title: A Hundred Miles from Yesterday Night Fandom: Overwatch Characters: Tekhartha Zenyatta, Tekhartha Mondatta, Shimada Genji Rating: Gen Warnings: Canonical Character Death Word Count: 1 300 Tags: A little hurt/comfort, platonic hand-holding Summary: Two departures. The night Zenyatta leaves the monastery, and the wake of Mondatta's assassination.

Excerpt Zenyatta knows as soon as he powers on that he will never forget this night. Of course, he cannot forget. Omnics can preserve their memories in perfect detail. Even lost, they can be found again within the Iris. Tonight, however, does not feel selected. Does not feel retrieved. He must remember it. It is just below 0°C in the Shambali monastery, and the village has seen its first snow. It will be some months before they see rhododendrons in bloom again. Zenyatta will see the vibrant pink flowers in his dreams much sooner, and for many months after. He will never fully decipher their significance. His feet do not touch the floor, and he drifts out of his room as if the wind is simply blowing him along. There is no such current; for once, the air is still in the mountains, and the course of fresh snowflakes from the atmosphere to the ground is undisturbed. If Zenyatta ever breathed, it would condense in these temperatures. Perhaps he might shiver. Having neither reflex, his journey to the shrine is as undisrupted as the snow. When he finds Mondatta awake, and waiting, he wonders if the Iris has summoned them both to look. Zenyatta lets his feet find the stone. “I am leaving,” he says.

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Title: The Merciless One Fandom: Fate/Grand Order, Fate Series Characters: Jeanne d’Arc Alter, Gilles de Rais Rating: Gen Warnings: Character Death, depictions of violence Word Count: 1593 Tags: Jeanne Alter wins AU, some depiction of violence, Gilles is not a Heroic Spirit in this one, Except when he's Caster  Summary: "The Dragon Witch shall always remember, at the end of glory, a knight was hurt, defeated, and at the end, fell to darkness." Jeanne Alter's assault on France verges on success, but one obstacle remains.

Excerpt “It doesn’t have to be this way,” he tells her. Clever, but unsubtle as he is, she knows he is playing for time. Noble, but ultimately meaningless. Even if she pauses here, Fafnir will make a feast of the Baron’s scattered forces by sundown. No one will save them. Just as no one will save this brave, foolish knight who has decided to go out fighting. The French retreat has taken them back to an old battlefield, roughly made crosses strewn over it to mark the many dead. A meaningless gesture, for soon they’d all lie in ashes. The Dragon Witch smiles.

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Title: Where Unicorns Go Fandom: The Last Unicorn Characters: The Unicorn (Amalthea), King Haggard, The Laughing Skull Rating: Gen Warnings: Canonical Character Death, Death Imagery Word Count: 2078 Tags: One shot, second chances Summary: The Unicorn returns to what's left of King Haggard's castle by the sea, and discovers something there she does not expect.

Excerpt “It’s you.” A half-shattered skull washed up on the shore. “Yes, you. There you are. I know you. Come without the magician this time, eh? No chance at a swallow of wine before I’m back out and out to sea?” It clacked its remaining teeth. “I suppose that’s as much as I deserve,” the skull burbled as a rush of water lapped over it, “but I don’t imagine you might take a moment to crush me, would you?” Seafoam bubbled white out of the skull’s empty eye socket, running down a crack in the cheekbone. The unicorn said nothing, but lowered her horn to trace along the edges where the crown of the skull had broken open. “Oh,” the skull whispered, and the empty socket turned dull, and darker still. The unicorn pressed on.