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    rain shadow: noun. a patch of land that has become a desert due to mountain ranges blocking much of the rainfall necessary for plant growth

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    A compilation of works that explore Beta and Sokorra as characters, as a pairing, and their interactions with the general world of Horizon Zero Dawn.

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    this au posits that jiran took talanah hostage as a guarantee of the hunting lodge's good behavior around 8-9 years or so before the canon time-line. that lasted a few years before tensions reached a breaking point again and he had talanah's brother and father executed anyway. he then engaged her to marry kadaman- which gave him a lever with which to keep his heir in line... which is why kadaman hasn't gotten himself killed already; he's worried would jiran would do to talanah to punish him. bc jiran has been a bit more politically canny, the red raids have continued and the liberation of meridian has not yet occurred. aloy is captured at some point during one of the red raids and transported to meridian to be sacrificed in the sun-ring.

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    clarke/lexa prompts in no particular order

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    collection of one-shots, both AU and canon

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    “Can you read?”
    Sothis tumbled to the floor, grabbing at Byleth’s coat with tight fists. We have been had, child! Code yellow! Swerve! Swerve!
    The words fell from Byleth’s lips without hesitation.
    “I don’t know. Can you write?”

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    Byleth can’t read, Sothis can, and the Garreg Mach student body tries to see how far their newest professor is willing to push her luck.

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    04 Jul 2026

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    “My teacher,” Edelgard presses. “Whatever she said, I can handle, I assure you.”

    Professor Byleth clears their throat, but the discomfort is still clear on their face. “Hilda said the only way she would join the Black Eagle’s house… is in a world in which you were not in it.”

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    Edelgard's uncle drags her to spend winter in Goneril territory to attend Shambhala business right before she is to start her year at Garreg Mach, thus meeting one Hilda Valentine Goneril. Shenanigans ensue.

    [CF route] A look into their turbulent relationship Pre-Academy, Academy days, and Post-Academy.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    Edelgard von Hresvelg lost her war to the Holy Kingdom of Feargus. Dimitri stabbed her in the chest. And then she woke up. Back in the officer’s academy. The day Byleth decided to teach the Blue Lions.

    Even the mighty Edelgard has a breaking point. And losing the same war over and over again has a way of breaking people down.

    Or, how it takes several lifetimes for Edelgard to actually make friends.

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    “It is not your concern,” ART said. “They are no longer your clients.”
    That was true. They weren’t my clients. But they used to be, and the thought of them going off by themselves to get chewed on by hostile fauna or whatever was doing funny things to my performance reliability.
    I didn’t say that out loud, but ART knew I was thinking it anyway, because it’s a monster.
    “For a construct that claims to hate its function, you are remarkably dedicated to it.” ART does this thing sometimes where it says something that sounds like a compliment but in such an obnoxious tone that it feels like an insult anyway.
    “Fuck off, ART.”
    “You fuck off.”
    So, I decided to go on the survey.

    Several years after they met on RaviHyral, Tapan and her collective contact Murderbot with a job offer. As their security consultant on a planetary survey, Murderbot must contend with malfunctioning equipment, hostile fauna, and an overabundance of human emotion, all while maintaining its increasingly fragile disguise as an augmented human.

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    I had been incredibly skeptical when Ratthi had sent me ‘Midnight Eclipse.’ I knew what fanfiction was, I had seen it in the more niche entertainment feeds before. Never specifically for Sanctuary Moon, but I'd assumed it existed. That didn't mean I had any actual interest in it, though. When I had first looked at them, I hadn't liked them. The quality varied too much and a lot of them weren't finished, or were really short, or really out of character. And I hated that. I really really hated that.

    This one was different.

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