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It was easy to forget, sometimes, that everyone in the New World was there for a reason. With how strong the Strawhats had gotten, with how strong he had gotten, the thought that they could ever be hurt, let alone defeated, crossed Zoro’s mind less and less. It was at times like these, however, when he remembered. When he couldn’t afford to forget.
Everyone in the New World was there for a reason. Everyone in the New World was there because they were powerful – powerful enough to survive the absolute insanity that came with the Grand Line. And sometimes – just sometimes – even the Strawhats were faced with a dilemma like this.
Zoro looked at his nakama, fallen apart, and wanted his captain.
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The Strawhats underestimate a group of marines, and face the consequences.
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- Part 4 of take me down easy
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“Robin-chan!” He shouted, his voice strained but carrying across the empty street to the receding tram nonetheless. Robin had been struggling to her feet, pushing off the hands of the people helping her up, looking for a way to get back to him, crossing her arms in front of her in vain, desperately trying to find a way to get him back – but she paused at his call, and he saw her look back at him. He kept smiling. “Go get Luffy – I’ll be waiting!”
The tram turned a corner and was gone, taking Robin safely with it. He kept watching the empty street, finally letting his smile drop as heavy footsteps approached. Gleaming black shoes filled his vision, and Sanji stared resolutely ahead as the man from before crouched by his side.
“Sacrificing yourself, eh? How noble.” Sanji snorted, curling his lip.
“Hardly,” he said, placing all of his conviction into his words. “Robin-chan will be back for me, and she’ll bring far more than you and your shitty henchmen can handle.”
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my scars are hiding, my branches don't show by chali for taizi
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
06 Jan 2025
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It had been one name, shouted in the heat of battle, that had stuck in Nami’s head. Yonji. She had turned at the sound of it, confused. Wondering if she’d misheard through the protective earplugs. Wondering how these people could have gone through so much trouble to steal her friend just to end up getting his name wrong – but then Sanji’s brother, the green-haired one, he’d turned too. And Nami had realised there had been no mistake – that was his name. Yonji.
Sanji.
Sanji and Yonji.
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A series of one-shots set during the journey from WCI to Wano, and the aftermath of the huge amount of trauma Sanji suffered at the hands of the Vinsmokes and Big Mom.
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- Part 2 of take me down easy
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It had occurred to him at some point after they had left Wano Kuni that the Vinsmokes must have passed through nearby waters, since Whole Cake Island had been so close.
Which was why, when the Strawhats docked at the first island they spotted after leaving Wano, Sanji was so nervous he almost considered staying on the ship while the rest of the crew explored the town.
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The Strawhats make their first stop after Wano, and begin to understand that the Vinsmoke name isn’t so easily left behind.
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- Part 3 of take me down easy
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He'd been walking towards the door. He'd wanted to leave, had been desperate to leave. The explosion had come from in front of him; he remembered being thrown backwards by the force of it. But then - he also remembered the same feeling from behind him just a few seconds later, and then the sound of a third explosion from the side -
We were bombed, he realised, and almost laughed.
Of course. Of course, during the one and only solo diplomatic mission that Keith had ever been sent on, something like this would happen. Of course.
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Keith is sent to negotiate a peace treaty with an alien community, but things go very, very wrong.
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Exploring the trauma that Sanji experienced at WCI and how that affects him afterwards - because someone has to do it if Oda won’t.
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He’s twenty years old, he’s been on his own for most of those years, and still some tiny, desperate part of his mind is waiting for someone to save him.
Or, Jonathan Byers realising he actually isn't alone.
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05 Jan 2026
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Caught in a storm of various too big feelings with no direct access to his preferred targets, he accuses Jonathan of not caring anymore. Jonathan looks down at the glass he’s holding, water swishing and swirling inside, and says quietly, “You’re the reason I’m still here.”
“Like, you feel stuck in Hawkins because of me? If that’s the case, then you—”
“No, Will.” His eyes dart up. “You’re the reason I’m still here.”
In which Will and Jonathan find that some things never change.
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30 Dec 2025
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It's a Long Night When You Do It On Your Own by lunar_years
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Nov 2022
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The apartment they share together is extremely small, the rent exorbitantly high, and the walls paper thin. Nancy listens half-heartedly as Jonathan answers the phone. “Hello? Oh, hey bud. Look, I’m a little busy right now—” Will. Nancy applauds Jonathan’s effort, but she also recognizes a lost cause when she hears one. Her five-minute warning is all but meaningless; Jonathan will talk to his brother all night if Will needs him to. She half considers picking up the remote and fighting with their horrible, secondhand television to try and flip to a decent channel, but then Jonathan’s voice grows suddenly sharper. “Whoa—what?! Slow down."
// After Jonathan gets a concerning phone call, he and Nancy take an unexpected trip back to Hawkins to pick up the pieces.
Written for JancyWeek2022 Day Five: stay with me until I asleep/family
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30 Dec 2025
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It started with something Karen said to her in the kitchen.
Well, not really. It actually started a few weeks beforehand, when Joyce first confided in Hopper that she thought Jonathan was acting strangely. They were in the tunnels, testing the network out against the map of Hawkins they’d spent the past month and a half drafting. Hop came to a full stop. When he turned to meet her gaze, he looked almost amused. “Well yeah,” he said, fond in the way that meant he was humoring her, “All that pot he’s been smoking will do that to a kid. I gotta say Joyce, I'm a little surprised you let him—"
But Joyce didn't hear the rest of the sentence. Pot? The word seemed to land with a clunk on the floor of the tunnel, where it sat heavily between them, impossible to ignore.
Now that the Byers are back in Hawkins, Joyce has started slowly putting the pieces together about her firstborn. On the eve of the end of the world, she wants to talk to her son about college.
Or, Jonathan and Joyce have a long overdue conversation.
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27 Dec 2025
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“Flo,” Hopper is saying, pulling the door shut behind him with some effort, his brows pulled together, face red from the cold. “What are you still doing here? You’re gonna get snowed in.”
“Your kid’s here,” Florence says, gesturing at Jonathon with her pen. “I wasn’t gonna leave ‘till someone took him home. His mama’s not getting him.”
“She is,” Jonathan inputs, shrinking again. He forces himself to get up to his feet, put his glass down. Hopper’s eyes zero in on him immediately, and the red in his face pales. He mutters shit under his breath, and Jonathan gets the distinct impression that either Florence didn’t tell him like she promised, or Hopper forgot. “Um. She’s looking for Will right now, did she tell you?”
AKA: After Will went missing, Jonathan isn't always the first thing on Joyce's mind. Hopper picks up the pieces.
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- Part 1 of The I-65 Scorcher
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26 Dec 2025