#rec.niki & rec.ranboo & rec.techno & rec.phil

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canis corpus

Writer's Summary

"you must learn, once you have sampled the freedom of a life without a chain, that it is better to return and be chained again." - how to be a dog

dream comes to techno with a request: stand by while he's executed.

it's not a request that techno likes but he trusts the strange, green necromancer. but this time death is permanent and in the wake of dream's final death, things on the server begin to fall apart. techno and the syndicate take up the task of trying to stop the server from descending into rampant capitalism and possible war. it's not easy. they need help from old friends.

then out of the shadows comes a nameless person clad in black, identity hidden behind a black dog mask to offer support. can they trust this person? do they have any choice?

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Word Count: 10k

Status: Incomplete

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

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snowy night

Writer's Summary

after the prison, dream stays with techno in the arctic, trying to heal from the what happened in pandora's vault, in more ways than one. it's not easy but dream learns that sometimes healing and realization comes slowly then suddenly, all at once, on a snowy night.

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Word Count: 3k

Status: Completed

Rating: General Audiences

Content Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

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Ghosts of Children Past

Writer's Summary

It hadn't occurred to Dream when he died, that he'd be forced to return. It didn't cross Dream's mind, as he severed his connections to those he could reach, that death would not end him, not really.

Dream smiled, his mouth full of water and vibrant green eyes on full display for any fish to see should they swim towards him.

Hundreds of blocks away, Technoblade curiously wandered over to where he knew Dream built his stasis chamber, wondering whether or not it'd been used.

Bobbing in the water, was Dream's white smiling mask.

Dream drowned. Or;

Dream backs out of his original plan for the final disc confrontation and escapes A day later, Dream commits suicide and comes back as a ghost of himself, but when he was the age of 6. Phil finds him floating in a swamp after two weeks and takes him home

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Word Count: 35k

Status: Completed

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death

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A Home from which to Watch the World Burn

Writer's Summary

Dream leaves for parts unknown after L'Manberg gets blown up the first time. He knows what will happen, but he isn't going to stop it. He's done with everyone on the server. So he builds a house far from everyone with the intent to watch the whole server and everyone on it burn.

AKA The best revenge is living well (and watching as those who mistreated you don't.)

...or so it was supposed to go.

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Word Count: 163k

Status: Completed

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

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Don't let them take me

Writer's Summary

Dream, having just escaped the prison, desperately seeks shelter away from the SMP. When he’s taken in by Technoblade's wolves, he realises the only way for him to stay safe is to become one of Techno's pets. After all, Technoblade would never let his pets die.

(Dream sees himself as less than a person and Techno has a hard time convincing his friend that he's a person and not a pet— or a monster.)

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Word Count: 59k

Status: Incomplete

Rating: Mature

Content Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

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It's Kill or Be Killed : Flight

Writer's Summary

Dream is a prisoner serving his time as a gladiator of the Western Coliseum- a special one, with his own dedicated Keeper. One night, he meets the Hero of the Northern Coliseum, who hails from Syndica. But their fight... doesn't quite go the way it should.

[Dream's past is catching up to him, yet in a good way.]

[Tags for TW ig]

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Word Count: 3k

Status: Completed

Rating: Not Rated

Content Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

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How could I kill him if he's already hurt?

Writer's Summary

It had been about three weeks since Phil and Techno had brought Dream - a bloody, barely alive Dream - back from the prison. Ranboo had wanted Dream dead, yes, but he couldn’t kill a man who couldn’t even walk, who had still healing wounds all over his body, who slept so much and yet couldn’t sleep at the same time. Ranboo wanted him dead, yes, but he wasn’t a monster. He'd have to wait for Dream to heal first.

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Word Count: 4k

Status: Completed

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

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The Extradition

Writer's Summary

Technoblade owes Dream a favor. 

And, like Tommy had feared, Dream ends up calling it in to get Techno’s help in order to bust out of the prison. 

Except… Techno gets another idea after noticing a loophole in Dream’s request. 

An idea that would keep the other members of the Syndicate safe. 

An idea that would free himself of any fear of retribution. 

...and an idea that might just inadvertently save the SMP.

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Word Count: 191k

Status: Incomplete

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

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a rotten body (flowers shall grow)

Writer's Summary

"Dream leans back, eyes trained on the northern star, and he wonders where everything went wrong with his plans."

Or

The fic where Dream gets broken out of prison by the Syndicate after too many months of continuous torture and he learns how to heal, how to be himself again.

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Word Count: 29k

Status: Incomplete

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

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arctic anarchist commune au

— SERIES —

Writer's Summary (of first work in series)

spring sprouts in the cold winter; the aroma of new leaves fills in the valley,  after the sunrise tomorrow, the new year becomes clear.

- fan chengda

there's one sure way out of pandora's vault: dying and dream will do anything to get out.

sometimes ranboo finds himself in places he doesn't remember going to. this time he finds himself in a familiar place with a man whose face he doesn't recognize.

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Word Count: 197k

Status: Incomplete

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

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rabbit run

Writer's Summary

if they catch you, they will kill you. but first they must catch you. - watership down

techno has always been a soft touch when it comes to stray animals. he has an entire menagerie to back that claim up and so when he finds a rabbit in the woods on the brink of death, he brings it home and tends to it.

but there's something about the rabbit that's familiar and now techno has to figure out what exactly his act of kindness has gotten him into.

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Word Count: 88k

Status: Incomplete

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

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weltschmerz

Writer's Summary

Technoblade owes Dream a favour. And, when he finds him bleeding out in the middle of the forest after escaping prison, he knows this is the perfect opportunity to repay it before his rival can cash it in on something more sinister. Recovery is a delicate thing, healing tenuous, but Dream has always been a survivor.

But with the new Butcher Army chasing Dream, along with a few personal demons they’ve all yet to deal with, Techno wonders if inviting Dream to join the Syndicate had been hasty. And Dream is keeping a secret — an explosive one, and it’s only a matter of time before Techno unearths it.

The prison Warden is on the hunt, the Syndicate is demanding answers, and time is running out for Techno and Dream. 

[Or,

The Syndicate Dream AU (TM) I’ve been promising.]

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Word Count: 36k

Status: Incomplete

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings