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The First Real Resident by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
10 Jun 2026
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"Our first real resident!"
The announcement had echoed through his head since Charlie had giddily exclaimed it. If Angel wasn't a resident, then what was he? He didn't have a job at the hotel, unless acting out the skits Charlie put together counted.
She had said he was family, but if anything, that only worried him more. He'd had a family before, on earth, that had given him a home all the way up until the point where they hadn't. How long would it be until the others at the hotel discovered one of his preferences, like his father had, and decided it meant he deserved to be homeless? Between her mother and her father, it was hardly as though Charlie had a family that stuck together through thick and thin.
No, Angel decided to himself as he lay awake staring at his ceiling, if he wanted to stay -and he did- he'd need to pull his act together and try to change himself to fit the hotel rather than the hotel to fit him. Maybe if he was just useful enough, he could prove to them he was worth keeping around.
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All Roads Lead To Haven by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
21 May 2026
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The goal of Angel being freed was achieved, but what happened after that?
Well, the Hotel Family figured it out together, that's what.
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Throughout five seasons and sixty-five episodes, we - and therefore Merlin - never once heard the actual prophecy that guided, led, and dragged our characters to their ends. There were quotes and excerpts, cliff notes and summaries, but never once the prophecy itself.
Merlin stood by Arthur’s side for more than a decade, working toward their shared future without ever once hearing the prophecy that foretold it.
How would things have changed if he had heard it?
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Angel Enchanted by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
11 Apr 2026
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Angel had known that there would be a severe punishment for saving Niffty, even as he stepped up to do so, but he had been so sure it would come in the studio that it had never even once crossed his mind that it would be the hotel that was the actual problem.
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Consent is key by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
11 Apr 2026
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True to her word, Charlie's next lesson was on boundaries. It didn't go quite how Angel expected it to, but it might just end up being the most important lesson of his entire afterlife.
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The Captain’s Wings by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Top Gun: Maverick (2020), Top Gun (1986)
11 Apr 2026
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Maverick really should have known better than to promise to settle things with Rooster after the mission and still expect them all to come through unscathed.Maverick’s second ejection in a month didn’t leave him quite as uninjured as he’d thought it had, and it’s Rooster that has to try to pick up the pieces. Luckily he has a whole aircraft carrier of people to pull him through.
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Behind The Scenes by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
03 Nov 2025
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An impression of someone is generally formed within the first seven seconds of meeting, which is then typically reinforced with each new interaction.
Sometimes, though, sometimes the view of someone can completely change with just one quick peek behind the scenes.
Husk is kind of afraid he just had one of those moments... Vaggie thinks she might have, too.
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The Real Hell Is The Friends We Made Along The Way by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
03 Nov 2025
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Will someone please save Angel Dust? At this point I would be fine with literally anyone saving him, anyone at all, but until the show delivers, fanfic will have to answer the call.
A collection of unrelated one-shots of all the ways Angel could be set free from his contract with Valentino, some more serious than others.
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The Ol' Razzle Dazzle by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
03 Nov 2025
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Vaggie really wasn't sure how she'd gone from only barely tolerating Angel to scheming with him, but somehow the love of her girlfriend continually got her into such situations...
Ah well, Charlie was worth it.
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The Bard Who Cried Wolf by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
22 Oct 2025
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Upon returning to his alma mater whilst his wolf wintered in Kaer Morhen, Jaskier could hardly wait to spend long cold nights laughing with his closest friends from school and bright, sunny days instructing the newest generation of talented young bardlings Oxenfurt housed.
Everything was going splendidly, right up until Jaskier’s one true enemy, Valdo Marx, decided he would also be wintering at Oxenfurt.
Nevertheless, Jaskier resolved himself to have an excellent season. He was sure nothing too catastrophic could go wrong in one short winter, no matter how unpleasant the company may be.
(*Narrator voice* : Everything went catastrophically wrong almost immediately -and the company was indescribably unpleasant-, but then again, what’s a little unadulterated hatred between friends?)
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Angel spent the entirety of his life on earth as a protective big brother —Yes, Molly, eight minutes older counts as a big brother!— and evidently the instincts to defend little sisters had followed him to the afterlife.
He wished he'd been aware of that fact before he was squaring up to the king of hell without any sort of a plan, but he was an actor and ad-libbing as he went was a well-honed skill that would hopefully get him out of the mess rather than executed.
Either way, it was still better than a day in the studio.
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House Rules by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
21 Sep 2024
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Valentino really thought that he could threaten to hurt Lucifer's daughter, and then actually hurt one of the residents under his protection? Yeah, no.
Maybe it was time for a reminder of who was really in charge of hell...
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Kill 'em With Kindness by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows, Im_a_queer_bastard_and_Im_proud_of_it
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
09 Jul 2024
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Angel had heard the phrase 'one good deed begets another', but over his time in hell he had more consistently found that no good deed goes unpunished.
Sometimes he still couldn't stop himself, though, which is how he finds himself innocently trying to walk down the street only to end up with his good deed of the day, a furious coworker, an unwanted overlord sighting, and... a new friend? Maybe, just maybe, for once things were starting to swing his way...
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When It Rains, It Pours by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
23 May 2024
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Angel truly does try not to make his issues other peoples' problem. When he can't take showers anymore without flashbacks, he shoves it down and goes about his day. When he can't hear running water without panicking, he shoves it down and tries to flash the other residents a smile. When he staggers home from yet another waterboarding shoot, he shoves it down and drinks at the bar with Husk.
When he feels his ever-present terror start to rise, he shoves it down, it really is just terrible timing that it all comes flooding out in the rain.
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Courage Can't Exist Without Fear by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
25 Apr 2024
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Sometimes, all it takes is one interaction to change a viewpoint of someone forever. Vaggie would be the first to admit that she and Angel Dust had gotten off on the wrong foot, and then stayed there in a vaguely barbed truce only held together by Charlie’s sheer willpower to make the hotel work.
Vaggie had formed an opinion on the sinner in the back of the limousine the first time they had met, and it hadn’t changed much since that day, until one interaction blows away everything she thought she knew about him. Maybe Charlie really was right about souls being able to be redeemed after all…
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Just Desserts by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
24 Apr 2024
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Sometimes the lesson a student learns is not the lesson the teacher was trying to convey, but despite going about things the wrong way, Sir Pentious may very well have ended up with the right answer.
Charlie's lessons on redemption are a work in progress, but her students will get there eventually.
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Sleep, Perchance To Dream by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
15 Apr 2024
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A chance encounter at the hotel leads Angel to the baffling realization that overlords, like negative numbers, can cancel each other out into something positive. In a confounding turn of events, the solution to his problem turned out to be more overlords in his life rather than fewer.
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Keeping It Clean by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
01 Apr 2024
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Despite how much he may pretend to think of redemption as a joke, Angel really did try to take the hotel seriously, especially when Charlie was the one making a request.
When Charlie had fixed him with her criminally adorable puppy eyes and asked that he pretty please not do drugs in the hotel he had given his word, though hell was making it almost impossibly difficult to keep that promise despite all his best efforts.
Angel had them, drugs in hand, but the memory of Charlie's pleading face gave him just enough of a wisp of motivation to do what he needed to do. As he found himself doing more and more often when he was struggling, Angel ran to Husk.
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The Will-be Has-been by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
20 Feb 2024
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Heaven may not be willing to acknowledge that Angel is good and deserves far better than he got, but his friends-turned-family at the hotel are all too happy to right a few wrongs.
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Forging Forgiveness by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
09 Sep 2023
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Geralt had proven more than once that he had the patience, dedication, and fortitude to forge a blade. He had been able to practice again and again until his technique was perfect, but when he finds Jaskier -fuming and hurt from the shattered heart he had left on the mountain- he knows he will only have one chance to try to forge Jaskier's forgiveness.