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They help, is the thing. They show up, and they help, and then they disappear.
I guess that’s why I want it to be true. It’d be nice if it was true, if—if these things are changing for the worse, but there’s someone out there. Helping. It’s, uh. Reassuring, I guess.
Maybe it’s stupid. Maybe it’s pointless and I’m just chasing after empty hope and wishful thinking. This stuff is only getting more dangerous. But… that’s the thing, isn’t it? It’s getting more dangerous. More people are getting hurt, or worse. More people are going to get hurt.
So maybe we could all do with a little hope.
---The tether is cut, and another world changes. In the midst of encroaching horrors, Gerard Keay searches for answers.
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18 May 2026
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That had never been part of his plan. Leaving Vash, hair blackened and his body and mind flayed by Knives’ own hands, in the care of strangers—as Millions Knives himself slunk off into the desert sands to die. His body had started to disintegrate before they even touched down on the sands outside the church, shedding pieces of decaying matter and stardust as he staggered towards his brother’s salvation. The energy it had taken to rebuild himself from bones would not last into the night, and Millions Knives did not want Vash to watch as he crumbled in agonizing slow motion.
So, Knives leaves. He slips out the back door while the father and child of Mesa Probe Church tend to an unconscious Vash, on silent, padding feet scattering energy in his wake. An apple tree sprouts from one shallow footprint; against his better judgment, Knives grants the seedling a burst of his own fading power as his cloak slides from his shoulders. It would be put to better use, he thinks, given to something that intended to grow rather than rot.
The child tries to call for Vash when Knives turns his back on the tree.
—And then Millions Knives walks into the dune sea of No Man’s Land, and he does not die.
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We Hide Our Hearts in Plain Sight by HyperbolicReverie
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
22 Mar 2026
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In another universe, another time, things go just a bit differently, and Donquixote Rosinante lives, albeit seriously injured and bedridden.
But with his son refusing to speak until he gets news of the boy he'd left behind, Sengoku is forced to locate a child who turns out to be far more trouble than he was expecting before Rosinante's reticence gets him court-martialed, or worse. Hiding a precocious child with a legendary devil fruit is hard enough. Hiding one marked for death by World Government order is another thing entirely. Doing it at Marineford itself? That's just the height of folly. And yet, this is what Sengoku finds himself doing in order to keep the peace.
But there are eyes everywhere in Marineford, and not everyone can be put off by a protective Admiral. Politics are well and truly alive in the fortress, and someone is always looking for an angle to exploit. The clock is ticking, and one wrong move might mean the end of a career--or a life.
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05 Jan 2025
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The Wild is a mirror, a magic realm of possibility parallel to the mundane one, and people like Luffy, changelings who've made a devil's bargain for power, walk the line between worlds daily.
When Luffy makes a mad dash to rescue his brother from certain death, he sets off a chain of events that makes the very foundations of that realm shudder. Soon, he's got several other people along for the ride, and the situation quickly spirals out of control. There's something the people in power aren't saying, and it might be the key to all the strange events that keep happening around them.
Luffy just wants adventure and fun and freedom. Law just wants to be left alone to live his life. Kid wants to never be beholden to someone else again. And Ace just wants some goddamn agency for once.
But there are other entities in the Wild with agendas of their own, and they don't care about what others want at all.
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09 Sep 2024
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Ounce of Prevention by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
25 Dec 2023
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If one suspects strangers of causing the apocalypse, one generally should not allow them to continue to roam free. They should ideally be restrained until their innocence (or guilt) can be proven. Even if one of them is a child and openly sobbing at the thought of her only family hating her. Even if the other one's absence is probably going to be noticed by a very large, very dangerous Pokémon.
Elsewhere, the rift spits out a man in white. He's not her Warden, but Sneasler will take all the help she can get in finding him.
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01 Sep 2024