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What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks? by menatwork
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Sandman (Comics)
05 Oct 2023
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Bruce thought he had had the worst day of his life already. Unfortunately for him, it was only the worst day of his life up to today.
Or: In which Bruce loses his kids, and needs to find a way to keep going.
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Letting someone into your head means letting them know you to your core, and then losing them means being alone in a way you never could have been before.
Ranger Ryu Rumi, former pilot of the legendary Mark IV jaeger Demon Song and a survivor of the Jaeger Program's golden age, before everything went wrong and the war turned against them, has paid that price. Once the pride of the Shatterdome, now she's scarred and alone, and the sheer weight of the loss has her resigned to that fate.
So failed cadets Mira and Zoey, humanity’s last hope, have no place in her lonely world. But with the Breach growing more active again, Rumi is forced to return to the Shatterdome to teach them how to love what she lost, and to hold on to each other harder than anyone outside of the Drift ever could.
But the Drift is a tricky thing, it calls to the heart and soul, so they start to want to hold on to her too, even as she tries to stay away. Because the Drift already ruined her once, and she doesn't have the strength to risk it happening again.
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11 Jul 2026
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46 chromosomes, 23 pairs. They're miniscule things, and yet, they constitute who someone is as a person. Whether they'll be tall, short, have blue eyes or green, brown hair or blond. But... What else do they decide? Quirks? Thoughts? Emotions?
There are so many questions to ask, and Izumi Midoriya, a girl with bright green eyes and dark green hair, thinks that she doesn't quite want to know the answers. Can she be good if all that she comes from is bad?
Shouta Aizawa has a chance encounter with a young vigilante who, for better or for worse, seems to have more potential in her pinkie finger than his entire class at Yuuei. Of course, she turns out to be a problem child who refuses to accept help for anything, and insists that she isn't worth wasting his time on. He's set on proving her wrong.
However, things start to become confusing the more Aizawa runs into her-just what is her Quirk, and why does she insist it's evil? Shouta doesn't know, but he's certain of one thing: he refuses to let her potential go to waste. Everything would just go so much smoother if she wasn't doing gymnastics using the line between 'legal' and 'illegal' as a balance beam.
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Part 2: 22-44
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27 Mar 2026
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Panem et circenses by I_aced_being_bi_by_being_bi_myself
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Squid Game (TV 2021)
01 Apr 2026
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Zoey is alive.
Or she guesses she is.
Ever since Huntrix split, ever since she cut bridges with the only people who gave her a sense, she hasn't really been feeling like it.
Unable to hold a job, unable to forgive herself, unable to forget.
But she's breathing, so that means she has to be alive, right?
Well, the man in a suit seems to think she is, or he wouldn't be offering a card.
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Mira is surviving.
Stuck in a loop that leaves her feeling like she's been doing nothing but repeating the same actions for the past three years, head stuck to a perfect relationship she won't be getting back, fagocitating what little is left of it in a hope to still feel like she's there.
With a family she will never get back.
Taking a gun in her hand every year.
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Rumi is dead.
Or, at the very least, that's how she feels.
Jaded.
Every year, watching others play to die under Celine's ever vigilant eye.
Missing the treasure she used to have in her two best friends.
Her partners.
Betting on losing dogs.
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16 Mar 2026
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I Wear The Black by p1tufina
Fandoms: Absolute Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DC Comics, Batman (Comics)
13 Jun 2026
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Love was not a matter of agreement, or even shared values. That is how it is with family: you can clash, and argue and fight, but no one else can. No one else has the right to.
But even after a thousand disagreements and even more arguments, Bruce remained the man who raised them. The man who grew into the role of a father for every kid that had lived under this roof.
So if this alternative Bruce had no Robins, one could at least hope there was someone else waiting for him. Someone who thought of him beyond just Batman. It was only fair, for no Bruce should ever be alone. Even if Bruce himself most often did not realize so.
Bats are social creatures, after all.
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Absolute Batman lands in the Mainline universe and learns that maybe his mission doesn't need to be a lonely one.
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06 Mar 2026
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The room was hot. Mira stirred, half-asleep, wondering why the air conditioning wasn't working. The Bellagio had central air. It was always perfect. Why was it so hot?
Something was pressed against her back. Someone. An arm around her waist. Mira's eyes opened.
Wrong ceiling. Wrong room. The walls were beige and water-stained, not the crisp white of her hotel suite.
Her head throbbed. The kind of headache that only came when you'd had too much to drink. The arm around her waist was warm.
An arm around her waist?
Mira looked down. Bare skin. Her bare skin. She was naked. A sinking feeling hit her stomach.
What happened?
Chaebol daughter Kang Mira has never made a choice in her life. K-pop idol Ryu Rumi is rebuilding after a scandal. Cho Zoey works three jobs while her parents call music a hobby.
One Vegas night. One bar. One 4 AM Elvis wedding.
Now they're legally married. Annulment means public record. Divorce takes months. And Kang Mira needs to figure out what the hell she's going to do about it. Even if it's the last thing she does.
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04 Mar 2026