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    The man hovering over him leaned back, releasing Grian completely. Cold night air rushed in to fill the void.

    “I guess it’s out in the open now,” the stranger hummed. “Shame. I wanted to avoid this.”

    With the additional glow occupying the space between them, Grian was finally able to catch features that were lost in the prior darkness. His curiosity outweighed all else, and he drank them in greedily. As soon as he saw who sat across from him, alarms blared in his mind.

    This man wasn’t a civilian, wasn’t even a hero.

    “Hello, Doctor,” the villain mused. “You were quite the help today.”

    - or -

    Grian is a vet. After a chance encounter in the dead of night, during which he accidentally saves a villain from the brink of death, he suddenly finds himself entangled in a world beyond anything he could've ever imagined.

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    31 Dec 2025

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    “Something has been stolen from us,” Thanatos said, his wings puffing up as he spoke. “Something that is very important to us. And we are fairly certain that the person who stole this thing of ours is in this very crowd.”

    Dream tensed beside Tommy as the crowd broke out into murmurs. Eyes were darting towards the different heroes in the crowd, the benefactors no doubt assuming that the culprit had to be a hero.

    “Like we said, we haven’t crashed your party to cause trouble. But we want this thing returned to us, and we won’t hesitate to take extreme measures to get what we want.”

    or, Tommy was a lot of things: a newly debuted hero sidekick, an amnesiac, and a former kidnapping victim of the Syndicate.

    Tommy didn't actually remember that last one though. That was just what Dream told him.

    Only weeks after his hero debut, the Syndicate announces they are searching for something, and Tommy knows it has to be him. The scariest part? If they find him, Tommy will have no clue what to expect, because the Syndicate might know him, but he has no memories of them.

    So he can't let them find him. No matter what.

    Of course they end up finding him anyway.

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    26 Dec 2025

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    The insurmountable sound of the roof caving in, the support beams failing, and the marble decorations shattering around him seemed to stop all at once. There was nothing but silence. Cold, abrupt, threatening silence.

    As quickly as it had begun, the disaster simply ceased.

    “Woah,” an unknown voice chimed, echoing through the rubble. A man smiled down at him, his expression bordering somewhere between surprised and amused. “You’ve caused quite a bit of chaos here, haven’t you?”

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    After accidentally wreaking havoc inside a temple in the woods, Grian finds himself indebted to a god he doesn't know, as well as a strange man who calls himself the temple's priest.

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    17 Nov 2025

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    “ Oh don’t look so sad now, little bird. You knew what you were signing up for the moment you begged us to stop the explosion of the Hero HQ building.” Jangler says with an easy smile.

    That’s true. Grian grimaces, left hand gripping his arm nervously.

    “I do find it ironic though,” Jingler muses, “how the former hero who was the HQ’s favourite got stabbed in the back—”

    “Jingler!” Jangler gasps, a hand on his chest.

    “Sorry, sorry. I was just saying, no offence.” Jingler shrugged nonchalantly

    “…none taken.” Grian lied through his teeth.

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    Grian, more widely known as Xelqua, meets up with his rivals, the anti-heroes Jingler and the Jangler, strikes up a deal with them after being thrown under the bus by the Hero HQ. In exchange for their help in the upcoming terrorist bombing in the HQ, he exchanges himself in to be theirs.

    OR OR

    Willingly or not, Grian gets a family.

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    16 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 28

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    Grian isn’t wearing his mask.

    He should be. It’s at the top of the lengthy list of rules he was given years and years ago, when he first joined the Watchers and became an official hero. His superiors would be furious if they found out that he took off his mask during a patrol. They would…well.

    Grian rubs at a tender spot in between his ribs. He doesn’t want to think about what the Watchers would do.

     

    Or, Grian’s been a hero for far too long. He’s been fighting for far too long. He’s so tired—and the rooftop is all too appealing, tonight.

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    15 Nov 2025