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Hatred Is What Drives Me by KingNovaCrimson
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
23 May 2026
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Maul's life flashed before his eyes as he fell down the hole that would take him to a ship to Lotho Minor. Watching memories of where he was just a character on a show was not what he expected nor was the other soul binding to his.
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Revan: The False War by SilentWalrus52
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Video Games), Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game), Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Comic), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
23 May 2026
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The Age of Heroes is dead. The Age of War is coming.
In the decades since the ruin of the Great Sith War, the Jedi Order has turned inward, sealing itself within the bright halls of Coruscant, fearful of the darkness without and the darkness within. But in the Outer Rim, a true war is being quietly born: The Mandalorians, silent and savage, wage a campaign of terror the Republic refuses to acknowledge.
Amid this mounting dread, young Jedi Knight **Revan** is sent with his closest friend, Alek, to a silent outpost behind the fray. His mission to find a lost Master is the first step on a road paved in good intentions, leading him and his generation directly into the horror they were sworn to prevent.
As the shadow of the Mandalorian Wars lengthens, the paths of three heroes begin to diverge: Revan's descent to the frontier; **Meetra Surik**’s desperate battle against an inner void; and **Jorah**’s fierce refusal to abandon the innocent. They do not know it yet, but their separate journeys through stagnation and betrayal are all threads leading toward a single, devastating fire.
All roads lead to war. And war will change them all.
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- Part 1 of Revan
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Marcus Tilman followed the red line because someone wanted him to. Nick Valentine followed it because someone else was watching them do it. The Railroad doesn’t recruit with riddles. It recruits by deciding whether you should be alive by the end of the day. But in the end, everything is about the choices you make…including who you keep choosing over and over again.
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The day I became a God by Dashadile
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
23 May 2026
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You weren't dragged into the dark; you looked at the man with the neon-blue eyes and the stapled skin, and you chose to follow him.
It was your choice, for once it was really your choice.
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Sorry I'm no good at summaries. Mostly canon-compliant AU, gritty, dark, confusing.
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He stood there, inconspicuous, confident, his hood pulled low over his face, hiding his eyes. His posture didn't suggest he felt uncomfortable or out of place. With one leg relaxed against the dirty, grayish-brown wall of the building and his hands buried deep in his pockets, he exuded a casual ease.
He's a dealer—the only one who deals in almost pure drugs. His codename: the Archangel.
When Evan first meets him, neither of them suspects that this is the beginning of something special. Something seems to connect Evan and the mysterious archangel, who hates nothing more than drugs and tries everything to keep Evan away from them.
Drawn to the archangel's freezing stability like a moth to a flame, Evan becomes the one unpredictable variable the young dealer can't control. In a gritty world dictated by addiction, violence, and shadows, they might just be each other's only salvation-if they don't destroy each other first -
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When Harper Voss’s father is executed by the Syndicate, survival is all he leaves her.
The Crimson Vipers teach her how to use it—how to fight, steal, and stay one step ahead of the men who run East Halworth. For a while, the wreckage almost feels like a life.
Then a job goes wrong. The Syndicate comes back to finish what they started.
Dragged into their concrete maze of cages and cameras, Harper becomes leverage in a war she never chose. To stay breathing under the eye of the Syndicate’s enforcer, Brock Lawson, she’ll have to decide what she’s willing to trade: her loyalty, her mercy, or the last pieces of herself that still remember who she was.Series
- Part 1 of VOSS
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Ruins and Rust by StellaDeProfundis
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
22 May 2026
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The Pokémon world reimagined - rusted out in the rasputitsa mud of a forgotten northern port.
Fresh out of a three-month prison stint with zero marks to her name, Hilma Sointula just wants to buy a pack of papirosy and stay ahead of the city fines. Instead, she's about to get dragged straight into the meat grinder of criminal underworld politics, corporate greed, and anomalous psychic horrors that make the old war look like a playground.
A bleak, deadpan, and grime-coated look at the Sariola region, inspired by 90's depression era Finland and post-collapse former Soviet Union. Nobody is safe, the water is toxic, and the local pub is low-key managed by a smoking Seedot.
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The Belter Team by Rokudenashi
Fandoms: 니케: 승리의 여신 | Goddess of Victory: Nikke (Video Game)
22 May 2026
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A freelance commander, four specialist Nikkes, and a secret they weren’t supposed to uncover.
Commander Scipio traded the Ark’s comfort for a rugged life as a surface freelancer. Now he and his team of veteran Nikkes travel aboard the Amos, a weathered land frigate, through the harsh expanse of Dead Zone Thirteen. Living contract to contract, their main concern is keeping the engines humming.
When a high-stakes deal goes awry, Scipio and his Belters are thrust into an unexpected partnership that puts them in the crosshairs of brutal raiders, renegade Raptures, and the long shadow of the Central Government.A grounded, tactical action-adventure with inspirations from The Expanse, Girls' Frontline 2, and Firefly.
한국의 지휘관님들께:
이 이야기는 자극적인 요소보다는 니케 세계관의 심오한 군사 SF적 서사와 성숙한 관계에 초점을 맞춘 팬픽션입니다. 가벼운 마음으로 들러 읽어보시길 바랍니다. 언제나 환영합니다!Series
- Part 2 of The Iron and Cinders Anthology
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Whitecoat by bambibeee
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game), Mafiafell - Fandom, Mafiatale - Fandom
22 May 2026
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In a city where monsters rule and humans disappear, you keep your head down and your scalpel sharp. They call you Freya. The cartel’s private doctor. Human. Untouchable. Employed for reasons you can’t remember, protected by monsters you don’t trust. But memories never stay buried forever.
“there’s no basement, dollface,” Sans says.
But the ground is humming. And you’ve learned to stop trusting.
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Mike knew more about destruction than desire. Violence came easier to him than wanting; it always had. Until this. Waxy bathroom light and stained-red gauze and Will.
Mike and Will, at the end of the world.
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A Better Call Saul alternate universe in which Lalo Salamanca has a daughter and "Nacho" Varga has a brother. After Hector Salamanca's sudden health decline, Lalo Salamanca travels to Albuquerque to run things- and he decides to bring his 22 year old daughter Esperanza along for the ride. Esperanza and the cartel's money distributor, Luis Varga, develop a stronger bond than they would like. While things in the cartel get grittier, Lalo gets more suspicious of his daughter's affairs with Luis. How will Luis and Esperanza manage their feelings for each other whilst Luis deals with the grief of the death of his older brother, and Esperanza desperately tries to prove herself to her father? (This story takes place during seasons 4, 5, and 6 of bcs. Most plot points are the same to the show, except in this universe Lalo has a daughter and Nacho has already passed away, and his younger brother Luis is here to replace him. (I do not take credit for Better Call Saul or any of its characters. This story contains some foul language, and some descriptions of the cartel/violence. Lots of in-depth character thoughts/feelings and emotions! This contains many chapters and is still being written, so please be patient!!)
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Some people leave their dead in the dirt. You carry yours in a weathered leather pouch in your apron pocket.
To the rest of Alexandria, you’re just the eccentric gardener who brews strange tea and reads the future in a handful of smooth, white knuckles. But when Rick Grimes’ group rolls through the gates—feral, blood-stained, and half mad from the road—they don’t see a healer. Abraham thinks you're a swamp witch. Daryl Dixon thinks you're a lunatic.
He doesn't trust a single thing about this gated paradise, least of all you. But after a sharp tongued outburst earns you the nickname Bones, the tracker starts lingering. Daryl thinks it’s a joke. He thinks you're just playing games with smoothed pieces of the dead to soothe a soft town.
He has no idea whose hands you're actually holding. Or what happens when his own ghosts start talking back.
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In a city where the smoke is thicker than the blood on the pavement, four
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Two years after a drunk-driving accident destroys his Olympic future, Jimmy Kim reconnects with the childhood friends he abandoned, only to discover they now run one of the most dangerous gangs in Echogreen.
Loyalty runs deeper than blood. Violence is currency. And Global wants him back.
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All she could think about after was how close she came to being burned—
stranded in a storm at a dead bus stop with a stranger, lip split, knuckles busted open and still bleeding.Eyes like lightning caught wrong, mean and bright.
And after—
that taste sitting heavy in her mouth.
Copper.
Like she bit into something living… and didn’t spit it out.
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Tsunade’s gaze turns to Kakashi, her eyes narrowing.
“Why are you late?” She glares.
He blinks at her.
“Didn’t wake up.”
Tsuande picks up an ornate paperweight, hefts it in her hand, and then flings it at his head.
Kakashi steps neatly out of the way and spins to watch it fly into the wall with a loud slam.
Sakura’s jaw is hanging wide open.
“Sakura,” Tsunade purrs, her eyes flashing with something feline, “meet your new team partner, Kakashi Hatake.”
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Imke survives the Berghain queue, but not the night of her twenty-fifth birthday. She wakes up in Grymforge, which feels excessive even for a bad comedown.
She has no powers, no party, and no idea how to save someone who is already marked for death—no matter how the story goes. But Imke has stomped out bad situations before, and Toril is about to learn that a terrified girl with a foul mouth can very be difficult to put down.
More pressingly: where the fuck do you get a proper döner at four in the morning in Faerûn?
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After surviving his race’s genocide, Bardock leads a desperate rebellion against Frieza in a world without Goku. Navigating a reality where death is permanent, he must forge uneasy alliances and break his limits to rewrite a dying race's legacy.
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"Identity confirmed: Racheal Pace. Agent 44: 'Sky'. Welcome aboard, Ma'am."
In the rusted graveyard of Detroit, the idealistic ghost of America is dying a slow, cold death. For Racheal Pace—once known in the Division’s logs as 'Athena'—the fall of the city was only the beginning of her own disintegration.
Abandoned by the system she was sworn to protect and broken by the very Directive that promised order, she sits on the edge of an abyss, staring at the crimson omen of a Rogue’s watch. She is no longer a student, no longer a savior, and no longer a cog in a failing machine.
Under the watchful eye of a man named Lucas, and haunted by the digital rasp of a rogue protocol named ANNA, Athena must die so that Sky can be born. But in a world of bloody shadows and shattered loyalties, is she finding a new family—or simply a different kind of cage?
A dark, psychological exploration of betrayal and rebirth in the ruins of the Motor City.
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- Part 1 of The Division: Silence Before the Storm
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The Bat by MarcusAnnaeusLucanus
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Superhero - Fandom, DCU
19 May 2026
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The first installment of what will hopefully become a multi-work series, The Bat looks at the first months of Bruce Wayne's return to Gotham and the rise of his second half: Batman. Crime abounds as statistics are covered up, and the underworld effectively rules Gotham with an iron fist. Much of the police department is under Carmine Falcone's influence, and it appears that justice is too forlorn a hope for the weary citizens of the once great city ruled by law and order. In the midst of all of this, Bruce Wayne sets off on a quest to find his parents' killer and bring him to justice; will he have the strength to do what's right? Along the way, Bruce will have every facet of his upbringing and lifestyle questioned, and the ultimate test of his will - justice or revenge - will shape the kind of man and hero he will be for the rest of his life.