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    Michelle Jones is a ten year old half-orphan with an enhanced mind and a chip on her shoulder.
    Ned Leeds is a twelve year old computer genius who may be magic.
    SX-24 is an experiment. It doesn't have a name, or know its age.

    None of them have pasts to return to, even if they could- but maybe, together, they could have a future.

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    Tony Stark is a man who spends his days on the edge of a cliff. In the aftermath of Sokovia, he finds himself retired and alone in an empty Stark Tower. He drinks, and doesn't talk to his estranged wife, and thinks about how long it's been since his son's death.

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    three kids, stolen from their families (or lack thereof) grow up in a hydra lab, with nothing but each other and their gifts to help them survive. two parents grieve and try to find their way back to each other.

    I do Not consent to my work being posted elsewhere or fed into AI.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    There is a tap on the table top and a quiet, “Scusatemi, signorina,” and she looks up. There is a boy there, no more than twenty, and he is undoubtedly American, though his Italian is so polished that even she would be unsure if not for his hesitant slouch— discomfort, it says I am out of place. His gaze is not demanding. It is not cold, either— but intelligent, distant. Not assessing, but calculating. As if she is made of code, and he is reading her.

    “I speak English,” she tells him, “better than Italian.”

    He slumps with something akin to relief. “Oh- that’s. That’s cool. I’m really sorry to ask-“ and he looks it, wincing and pulling his own fingers, “-but would it be okay if I sit with you? My mamma is in a formaggeria across the piazza and I desperately don’t want to stand in there and smell cheese for an hour so I was gonna grab an espresso but every other table is filled and I don’t want to impose but—?” He looks at her. He is sharp, ardent with a wisdom that puts her teeth on edge. No young man should look like that: as if he has stared straight into the barrel of a gun and laughed at the bullet, swallowed it whole.

    He looks old for his age. He just. He looks.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Tony Stark(Tonio) met Natalia at a gala, age 8. Natasha (Natalia) met Tonio on her first mission, age 8.
    After that night, Natalia vanished, only to show up the next year. And then the next, and the next.

    This is the story of the heart and soul of the MCU, and what would happen if they grew up as friends.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    His eyes travelled around the familiar features–just older, but the same; thick eyebrows, long eyelashes, and that tooth, peeking over his lip even though his mouth was closed. Till’s chest heaved, and he pulled off his gloves so that his shaking hands could cradle the face, thumbing underneath tired eyes.

     

    This had to be a dream, and he was going to wake up soon–any second now. But time only stretched on, and he was still there in that downpour, hovered over his unconscious body.

     

    “Ivan?” Till squeaked out–a name he hadn’t said aloud in nine years. To anyone else he was always that guy, that brat, that… feeling I didn’t understand until you were gone.

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    Or: While scavenging in the wreckage of a plane crash, Till clashes with a Guard, and comes face to face with Ivan. The real Ivan; the man he thought died in an act of sacrifice, and proceeded to haunt him for years afterwards.

     

    This story is now available in Russian, translated by Tsukimi_77

    When It All Burns Down

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    23 Jun 2026

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    Virgil starts seeing a lot of a dark side he hadn't before, and this particular side makes things seem worse than they really are. Yeah, making things seem worse. Because things aren't really as bad as he says... are they?

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    07 Jun 2026