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turn your face (towards the sun) by youareoldfatherwilliam
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
17 Apr 2021
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For most of the flight to wherever-they're-going, Chit Sang watches.
He's pretty damned sure that he's looking at the Crown Prince.
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24 Aug 2025
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The Price Of A Cup Of Tea by jin_fenghuang
Fandom Avatar: Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Dec 2013
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22 Jun 2025
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With the end of the Ultima Weapon and having recently earned the title of a hero, our new Warrior of Light is contemplating taking a rest from her new fame. But duty ever calls. For she is suddenly called away to an excavation of the Crystal Tower and learn the secrets that live inside it. Not yet realizing just how closely her destiny will be tied to this ancient pillar of sparkling rock.
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01 Jan 2024
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There was no virtue in living.
In the year 870, Joshua and Jote's travels take them to the Imperial borderlands, where a once-thriving lumber town is beset by something wicked. Joshua chooses to investigate further. What he finds may be more than he'd bargained for.
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11 Dec 2023
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Joshua awakes on a beach, somewhere on Valisthea. This is unusual, because he died. He knows he did. But his brother brought him back, at the cost of his own life. Now, Joshua must struggle to reconcile the world left Clive has left behind, and find the strength to continue on.
Some of that comes from unexpected places, and unexpected people.
His first goal: find his way back to the Hideaway, to let everyone know that he survived. Beyond that, he's not sure. How do you continue when you've lost those closest to you?
One step at a time.
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10 Dec 2023
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In the Aftermath of Phoenix Gate, Anabella finds a most precious treasure. One that will not only guarantee her position as Empress and ensure the preservation of her line, but one that proves the power of her noble blood. For who else can lay claim to being the mother of not one, but two Dominants.
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10 Dec 2023
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Anastasia AU. Joshua Margrace grew up an orphan in Sanbreque with no memory of his early life. His one keepsake is an intricately crafted armband of Rosarian make. Unfortunately, a longstanding war between Rosaria and Sanbreque makes it impossible for him to learn more about the armband’s provenance.
Joshua finds his chance, however, when Oriflamme issues a summons for a fire-aspected Bearer that matches Joshua’s exact physical description—a man the Imperial Palace, bizarrely enough, wants to send as companion to the Crown Prince Dion Lesage as he goes on a mission to finally negotiate peace with the Rosarian ducal family.
Written for the PhoenixFlare Weekly prompt "heirloom."
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- 5/5
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28 Nov 2023
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there is no gold in this river that i have been washing my hands in forever by ynayya
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XVI
17 Sep 2023
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all of seven summers, Anabella Rosfield washes her hands in the river near Eastpool, and what comes off is blood.
all of thirty-four summers, Anabella, soon to be, Lesage, washes her hands in the ocean overlooking Sanbreque, and what comes off is blood.
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14 Nov 2023
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After being pulled from the rubble of Phoenix Gate by Imperial Knights and carried back to his mother half-dead, Joshua struggles with recovery, guilt, and doubt: everyone says he is wrong about what happened that night, wrong about the identity of those who murdered his father and brother.
Fortunately, Joshua has friends who will not abandon him, and allies in unexpected places, and he is far more reslient than he or anyone else expects.
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- Part 1 of Doubt Thou The Stars Are Fire
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06 Oct 2023
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Buckling under the pressure of holding Waloed back at Belenus Tor, Dion is irresistably drawn to a new healer who has joined the war camp under a shroud of mystery. But the more time he spends with "Margrace", the more he is inescapably reminded of someone from his past... and the more he questions the role he is expected to fulfill.
(AU where Joshua decides to approach Dion in 873 before the fall of Drake's Head.)
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05 Oct 2023
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After Kaden zaps himself (he wasn't messing with things, he was evaluating their safety!), he starts having nightmares of a young boy that knows the battlefield all too well.
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- Part 2 of The 48: Ratchet & Clank
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19 Sep 2023
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Bloodletting by tragic_unpaired_electron
Fandom Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
24 Sep 2024
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Twinswap series where Vash was the one to crash Project SEEDS—thought not for the reasons you think—and Nai was left to pick up the pieces.
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11 Sep 2023
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Six years after the end of events in the original Trigun anime, Vash walked back into Milly and Meryl's lives. And everything changed ...
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15 Aug 2023
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—no one ever said it would be this hard
After the end, Vash and Livio try to carve out a place to keep living.
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08 Aug 2023
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“Have you heard of Millions Knives?” doesn't usually get a response, but “Have you heard of God?” sure does.
Vash runs. It's never far enough.
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07 Aug 2023
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Oh the possibilities... by mysteryghost
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
10 Jan 2024
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A plant engineer contemplates the new subject he has stumbled upon.
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26 Jul 2023
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all the world will be your enemy by a_waste_of_time_and_hot_glue
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
12 Jul 2023
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Vash the Stampede is the physical embodiment of (extremely annoying) sunshine. But Nicholas D. Wolfwood is a man on a mission, so he copes, seethes, and (not-so-secretly) pines. He just might fly too close to the sun, and then what?
An unconventional miracle unromantic love-love loser romance awaits!Bookmarked by optimustaud
12 Jul 2023
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The Second Celestial Evening by tragic_unpaired_electron
Fandom Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
24 Jun 2023
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Some stories from in-between the time when SEEDS fell and Vash and Knives' confrontation, featuring members of Vash's family that don't get much screentime, concluding with a post-canon wrap-up.
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30 Jun 2023
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an odious damned lie by riverenne
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
09 Apr 2024
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Meryl can't reconcile within her mind, a seraphic face and the eyes of a sufferer. "Well?" she asks again because she can't help herself. Everyone has a daemon on Gunsmoke, and the absence of one is jarring.
His smile strains. "It's complicated," says Vash, because it always is.
Daemons are part of whatever normalcy has been left of Earth, carried over light centuries by humanity. Records through time on No Man's Land claim that the notorious Humanoid Typhoon, Vash the Stampede, does not, in fact, have one.
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17 Jun 2023
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Wolves Without Teeth by Gummichii
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
26 Mar 2023
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Wolfwood supposed it was fitting in a cosmic sense that the highest of men had fallen back to the earth on their waxen wings. Perhaps that was why Vash could no longer take to the skies, despite the titanic wings that fluttered behind them. Even from afar, Wolfwood could see the ugliness that Vash felt within them. They were crooked and wrong — stunted like a scarred chest bound too tight. Do that long enough and you damn near train your body to accept failing lungs as a new standard of living.
What a way to live.
Thinking you’re only ever as much as your clipped wings and harsh bindings.
Wolfwood marveled at the fact. What a shitty way to die in half as many steps.
When he next looked down at Vash, he found impossibly baby-blue eyes staring back at him. There was a pleading look about it all as Vash weakly grabbed Wolfwood's hands. Vash was shaking hard enough that he could hear the man’s teeth chatter painfully with the effort it took to simply be present.
“Please,” Vash finally outright begged with a hoarse sob.
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With Vash injured after the fight with Livio, it's up to Wolfwood to pick up all the broken pieces left behind.
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05 Jun 2023