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Mariko Higurashi was just another high school girl, sharp-tongued, secretly sentimental, and burdened with a power she never asked for. When flame butterflies start appearing around her and her headaches turn into visions, her quiet life shatters. Her Sacred Gear, Psyche’s Rebirth, is awakening. And with it… echoes of a life once lived as Ceres, a warrior from centuries past.
As whispers of her past resurface, so do dangerous figures including Adraxus, a cursed immortal who believes Mariko is the reincarnation of the woman he lost.
And then there’s Vali Lucifer, the cold, arrogant, and cruel to Issei, Mariko’s childhood best friend. She can’t stand him. He’s the kind of person she swore she’d never get close to or even worth shedding an ounce of sympathy.
However, fate is cruel, and the threads between them are tightening. There’s something about Vali she can’t ignore… and something about her that terrifies him.
As the world darkens and her soul begins to fracture, Mariko must decide if she will burn away the past or become the very flame that consumes her.
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‘That…..Was VERY rude.’
The first words even spoken to the Drifter from any of the Hex members still buzzed in his ears, even as the world swelled around him to turn back the clock as he slammed his fist into the concrete flooring. This would all be set on his terms. He could save them…He really could save them ... .He just hoped that he and ‘His Maj’ didn’t wind up destroying each other before that fact.
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- Part 1 of For Tomorrow
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uhhh yeah I'm in NamelessBeast66's discord server, and I've been doing a ton of sketch requests for the people in there! Figured I should post them here as well!! Please put requests in the comments :D
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Admittedly, hooking up with a strange guy in the catacombs might not have been my best idea.
But in my defense, I was horny.Series
- Part 1 of Southport is Gay(and so are these fucks)
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Always, when he would be ready to throw in the towel, Sett would appear and enter the ring with him. Maybe once a week, they would get to spar, a higher stakes and more high-octane match than either of them were used to getting. And Draven would always lose.
True to his word, Sett did not go easy on him. When Sett caught up with him, and Draven stared down the barrel of his loss, there was always that secret promise in Sett’s eyes, I’ll give you what you deserve. Draven took the beating like it was his lifeline.
Perhaps Sett understood his need. Perhaps he saw, in Draven’s desperation to shed blood, a penance. Though Sett’s fists were the ones distributing Draven’s punishment, in truth it was self-inflicted.
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A newly exiled Draven stumbles into Ionia looking to get himself hurt.
Luckily for him, Sett is well practiced at both the hurting and the soothing.
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New Kids on the Block by LuciaInTheSky
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, DCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCU (Comics)
29 Mar 2026
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“Jace!” cried the brown-haired boy, grinning sunnily at Jason. “You made it, finally!”
Jason returned the kid’s stare with far less enthusiasm and far more turmoil, though he attempted to conceal it. Wispy brows, shaggy hair, a spattering of freckles spread from cheek to cheek, and a roundness to his nose and jawline that would sharpen with age.
“… Peter?” he said cautiously and was rewarded with another toothy grin.
“Hi! You’re super tall now!”
Dick snorted and Jason shot him a glare. But he couldn’t keep his eyes away from itty bitty Petey for very long. It took the Bitsy nickname to a whole new level.
“I’ve always been tall,” he reminded Peter. “It’s just you’re even smaller than usual.”
On a routine patrol, Spider-Man and Spoiler are caught out by a new kid on the block. Now there are two more new kids on the block.
Jason is Not Pleased™️ with this development.
Compliant with 'Existential Crisis Mode' but can easily be read separately.
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- Part 4 of Crisis of Faith
- Part 4 of The Spideyhood Obsession Continues (More at Five)
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After Harvey fires Mike for betraying him with Jessica, Rachel demands that Mike confess what he is hiding from her. But unlike in canon, Mike stands by his refusal to tell her, even though that means losing the last person in his life that he loves who hadn’t died or abandoned him already. Harvey overhears their fight and finds Mike collapsed on the ground and sobbing in the Pearson Hardman library after Rachel storms out the door, leaving Mike behind. Harvey is nowhere near ready to forgive his former associate for betraying him, but he’s also not ready to let him suffer completely on his own.
Set towards the end of Season 2, Episide 16 (Season Finale)- “War” and extending through or replacing Season 3, Episode 2- “I Want You to Want Me.”
(No AU; not related to my other works).
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Devil Unleashed by doc_khaotrix
Fandoms: Tekken (Video Games), Dead or Alive (Video Games)
29 Mar 2026
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Kazuya Mishima continues to rampage, promising to herald a new world order measured by the depths of power. The only person who can stop him is the former warlord, Jin Kazama, who has turned a new leaf. Join Jin, Leifang, Lars, Lee and Alisa as Operation Lightning, the fight to save the world from Kazuya’s grasps, begins.
This story is part 6/6 of a larger series. This is basically Tekken 8 + a few characters from DOA 6.
1. Devil Reborn
2. Devil Awakened
3. Devil Within
4. Devil Released
5. Devil Revealed
6. Devil UnleashedSeries
- Part 6 of Tekken x Dead or Alive
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cut my hair and changed my name (only had myself to blame) by tulipasylvestris
Fandoms: Angel: the Series
28 Mar 2026
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Cordelia and Doyle often wondered what Angel was brooding about all the time. It couldn’t have been that interesting if he never shared his thoughts with them.
Then again, maybe he just thought about too many things too often.
Title from Wishing Well by The Oh Hellos
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Its a charity party at Top Gear HQ, and youre in charge of managing the lads and their busy schedules—but Mr. Hammond and Mr. May had…other plans, so to speak. One of which involves a (thankfully) very stable desk…
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Don't wake the Dragon by TMaria95
Fandoms: Dracula: A Love Tale (2025), Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Dracula & Related Fandoms
27 Mar 2026
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*Now completed*
The dark prince Dracul, has sheathed his blade after the events of the first Ottoman war. He believes his work is done until the next war is called. Little does he know, his sabbatical will be cut short with news that he must take a bride to cement his place as royal heir to the throne. It is only when a handful of prisoners of war (untouchables) are brought to court that a new—so far unexplored—feeling surfaces. A lust and yearning so intense, so dark, that for the first time in his life, Dracul is overwhelmed with an innate sensation of forbidden love.
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Exiled from the world of outcasts and stripped of his family's fortune, the tortured artist Xavier Thorpe is thrust into the soul-crushing banality of suburban public high school, where he must navigate psychic visions of pop quizzes, a retired monster-hunting art teacher, a surprisingly potent coven of normie psychics, and a possible romantic interest.
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Along Came a Spider (Spider-Man x Persona 5 crossover) by CloneShadow
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series, Spider-Man - All Media Types
26 Mar 2026
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The life of 2nd-year student, Yuuki Mishima was about to be flipped upside down by...... a spider?
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Before New Dream, before meeting others, before many revelations, Six was alone.
For seven years.
Or the little short stories of in between that fight with Six and Mono and when they meet up again seven years later.
(Heavily inspired by Fervidlizard32’s The Seven Year Nightmare. One of best fics I’ve ever read, that I just couldn’t get the thoughts out of my head about the seven years that Six spent on her own - with Sokage, of course - and so I decided to write it.)
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Wayne Origins | Bruce Before Batman by Krypton_Escapee_38
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
24 Mar 2026
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5 years after Thomas and Martha Wayne were shot and killed, Bruce Wayne is 16. Bruce decides to go to Public Gotham High School, where he's exposed to the true injustices that Gotham's Citizens face every day. He sees real people drove to insanity, and the corruption of Gotham's Police and Politicians. As he sees this, an identity begins forming in his mind, the identity of Batman.
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A collection of minifics from the Three Sentence Ficathon. Most Harlock/Yama, some gen, Toshiro-as-Arcadia-centric, and the occasional Kei/Yattaran.
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In the quiet town of Inaba, a disillusioned detective named Tohru Adachi navigates the aftermath of celebrity murder, while recovering from a recent heartbreak, and is caught in a comic matrimony with a mischievous goddess. He's drawn by a mysterious foreigner, hopeful for a chance at authentic love.
Meanwhile, an unofficial government operative by the alias Jhene Mizuhara goes undercover as a nanny to the Dojima household, in search of her sister’s killer as one last dying request from her father, and forms bonds along the way—until they begin to unravel.
As their fates intertwine, they are confronted by the darkness lurking within them, caught in a web of deception and control by it's grand weaver, the goddess Izanami, who has her own twisted agenda for the fate of the world.
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- Part 1 of Golden Playhouse
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When Rose, a vain but good-hearted Slytherin, is chosen to represent her school in the Triwizard Tournament, her seemingly perfect life starts to crumble as she finds out the truth behind her family's name.
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Man Enough For Me by MommyRhaenyra
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV), Game of Thrones RPF
21 Mar 2026
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At the local pub which, Asha owned, on a Friday evening, three friends sat in a booth and drank as they relaxed after a long working week. When Theon starts to insult Jon, Asha doesn’t watch idly, she gets involved and creates a situation which she would forever be grateful for.
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The Quiet You Give Me by NerdWithPersonality
Fandoms: DCU, Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
21 Mar 2026
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When Lex Luthor finally gains control of Superman, he doesn’t make him destroy the world. That would be a waste.
Instead, Lex removes the noise. The hesitation. The endless moral calculations that come with trying to save everyone. The noise.For a brief, impossible moment, Clark Kent experiences something he hasn’t felt since he became Superman:
Peace.
The Justice League breaks Lex’s control, the world celebrates, and the hero returns.
But Clark remembers.
And one night, exhausted by the weight of a world that never stops needing him, Superman flies to Lex Luthor’s penthouse. Not to threaten him.
To ask a question he’s afraid to say out loud... and Lex is waiting.
(Fic where Clark has to try and avoid the temptation of submitting to brainwashing from Luthor to lift the weight of the world on his shoulders (and fails). Lots of philosophical discussions. Very slow burn enemies to something, Superman/Luthor. Batman will show up at some point because I love him. Based on this prompt; https://shineyma.tumblr.com/post/799032163422093312)