Between us, a mirror smithed out of silver.
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a burning building, a broken neck. by carlemon
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics)
16 Mar 2025
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It was enough to have killed Paris, before it wasn’t. In Paris, Mark watched humans wither as down came the Eiffel Tower and smoke filled Versailles. He hovered in a mad, red, and suffocating sky and ground his teeth into dust, and thought about the boundless span of this Invincible’s life suddenly withdrawing into a pinhole. He breathed fire, and it was good.
After the wasteland and the wreckage of titanium plates from which he scavenged William, it was enough to be close to him. It was everything. First there was his voice in Mark’s childhood room; dispersed through white silt; and then: his voice, his voice, his voice for real, keening for Invincible—
After escaping the wasteland, Maskless Mark gets a second chance with William. Unfortunately, something always gets in the way.
EDIT: As of 18/03, chapter one has been reworked.
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heed the cuckoo's fatal call. by carlemon
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics)
20 Mar 2025
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"This is the weirdest horror movie porn parody ever.”
He should be sorry, so sorry that he lives in a world where any Mark ever existed at all. He should be begging and crying to be reborn in the world where he dies long before he nears comprehension of the gulf between them.
Sinister Mark watches Maskless Mark fuck William. He's very normal about it.
Alternatively: William Clockwell finally gets dicked down. God help him, there are always consequences.
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greed is good. by carlemon
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics)
25 Jun 2025
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It makes sense, of course— in everything, there is its opposite. In the waste of his Earth, there was his mother, his father, even William and Eve— before they each decided in their own ways to put their necks to the chopping block. In the glory of the Viltrum empire, there is a huge, aching hollow that conducts rage and electricity through him. On every billboard screen are a few dead pixels where his face skews as it looms over him, parroting back his own voice, his own insipid, juvenile, bullshit dogma. In his father’s truth was Mark’s truth, the real truth.
Over the three days of the Invincible War, Target Mark goes sliding down the drain.
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the invention of arithmetic. by carlemon
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics)
13 Apr 2025
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Devour everything in this world — she looked down at her own right hand — and silently smiled — "There is still something I haven't eaten!" — Conchita's last gruesome meal — the ingredients were, yes, herself — the body that has devoured every food — no one will ever know the taste of it.
— mothy, Evil Food Eater Conchita.
That one where Sinister Mark successfully makes everyone a lot worse, because what the hell else is a guy supposed to do in the wasteland.
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like iridescence exists for any reason other than to expect envy, and envy to beget blood. by carlemon
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics)
03 Jun 2025
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Mark hears this is what it’s like for addicts. Weaning themselves on and off and on again. He’s considered asking the prisoner, but he won’t risk the humiliation waiting to happen. Mark isn’t addicted. It’s not the coke, or the miasma of Everclear and bullshit Mark let Rex keep in his minifridge, or the home movies, or even the red red blood. There’s no particular thing he needs but to be kept from going still. Going quiet. Anything that keeps him moving, that’s his vice of choice, though the glimmer of his face over a dark screen in the pitch, promising underworld of night— the door to the office locked and double-bolted, but still, somewhere beneath him, fourth floor, unit A, somewhere around there:
a man to which inertia does not apply and all the laws of reality and physics cower from— there, a man to which all men sink towards or sprint from— the kind of guy who has never, ever known what it’s like to stay still, because lying in wait doesn’t count—
Certainly make it easier.
Target is the building manager of the apartments where the variants live; Sinister is the serial killer dragging down the property value. Hijinks ensue. Let's call them hijinks.
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