Cracksiverse
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The Cracks in the Lake (a mighty fine grave) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
31 Dec 2024
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He's engaged.
As of this afternoon he’s officially engaged to be wed to the Codfather, whom he’s never met. Of course, this is an expected reality for him – he’s a prince, after all – but still. Some part of him had hoped he’d get to choose
Two weeks from now, Scott will meet his husband, and he will have to make his peace with whoever he finds.
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- Part 1 of Cracksiverse
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Hold Me Closer (although you leave before the sunrise) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
01 Jan 2025
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“You come here often?” Skizz starts with a wink, putting the mead down in front of prince Smajor.
The prince rolls his eyes at his antics but does gratefully pull the mead towards himself.
“Yes, actually,” Smajor says, “do you?”
Skizz knows the reputation this bar has – knows that very few people will be leaving here alone today – but that’s an invitation if he’s ever heard it, and he’s in a reckless mood.
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The start of something beautiful and finite
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- Part 2 of Cracksiverse
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I Started Running (nowhere to run to) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
18 Jan 2025
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Scott’s eighteen when his world comes crumbling down.
On a cold autumn morning he decides it. He’s eighteen now, an adult by Rivendell’s standards, and therefore old enough to hire his own staff. He’s a prince, after all. So, he pulls out a map of the empire, splays it out on the main table, and lets his eyes glide along it to its northernmost point.
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- Part 3 of Cracksiverse
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A Mountain Song (chills my warm skin) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
07 Jan 2025
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Since the assassinations, the general mood in Rivendell has been weird, to say the least.
He knows they whisper amongst themselves when they spot him on the balcony, the ravine they owe their name to beneath him. He bows his head there, sometimes, and shoots a prayer up to a silent god. Neither of them are permitted choices now.
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Prince Smajor, in the wake of his parents being assassinated and his brother being crowned Emperor, addresses the crowd.
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- Part 4 of Cracksiverse
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Lift Me Higher (let me look at the sun) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
11 Jan 2025
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It's alive. Maybe. Maybe it’s got a brief shot at being alive and sentient and more conscious than the sun has permitted it to be before. Maybe there is a split-second where the sun hits it just right and evokes the illusion of something more. Something that’s worthy of a name that bears repeating – a life that’s actually worth living.
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- Part 5 of Cracksiverse
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Light the Fuse (lean into the blast) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
25 Feb 2025
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When Scott wakes up, it’s to the sun shining bright into his window and an arm slung around his waist. He allows himself to bask in it a moment, ducking further under the covers and into his husband’s arms. The morning can wait a moment longer, preferably for when Scott’s head stops pounding.
Jimmy mumbles something sleepily as he pulls Scott closer, arm squeezing around his middle for a moment.
“Morning can wait,” Jimmy mumbles into his skin, and Scott is rather inclined to agree with him. Unfortunately, they both have empires to run.
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- Part 6 of Cracksiverse
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God's Very Simple (love shouldn't burn) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
01 Mar 2025
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In the time Before, when fae still lived in their own realms and nothing roamed our Continent with thumbs to create or minds to conceptualize, there exists the start of something terrible and infinite. Endless cycles, for all their cyclical nature and lack of endings, must still start somewhere. This, too, is true about the Clash of the Stags.
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- Part 7 of Cracksiverse
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You and Me (won't be unhappy) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
18 Mar 2025
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Scott bows before his parents as he enters the room, barely managing to suppress the hand that wants to reach up and fix his hair further. There’s still some purple hair clinging to him from where he’d fixed Xornoth’s hair in the hallway. He knows his mother will be mad at him for it.
Next to him, Xornoth also dips into a bow. They’re angry, of course, as they always are, and Scott prays to Aeor that his brother’s anger won’t boil over today.
He can’t remember the last time he heard his father speak.
Series
- Part 8 of Cracksiverse
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The Tide's Slow (the river moves fast) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
03 Jun 2025
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A short walk away, back in the castle, an exhausted owl collapses on Emperor Consort Smajor’s desk, worn out from the fastest flight of its life.
Attached to its foot is a short letter – more of a note, really, scribbled on a scrap of paper. The edges are singed slightly in spots. It’s tied to the owl with a strip of fabric that looks like it was cut from someone’s robes, rather than a piece of string.
The message itself is short, only four words.
“Snow owl. Cuckoo’s nest.”
The paper reads. It’s meant for Scott’s eyes and nobody else’s. Martyn finds it instead.
Series
- Part 9 of Cracksiverse
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Silver (beats the devil) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Empires SMP, Hermitcraft SMP
25 Jul 2025
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It shows up on an unassuming morning, bright and glittering in the centre of town. Purple swirls in a pitch-black frame, dancing in the sunlight like nothing Mumbo’s ever seen before. When he looks out his window, he can see it.
He goes to work like he normally would, though the takes a wide berth around it, following the throws of people also straying from their usual paths right across the market square. The café he gets his breakfast at is emptier than usual, and he has a sneaking suspicion that some Grimm fae have decided to avoid the square altogether.
Mumbo can’t, though, since he works here.
Series
- Part 10 of Cracksiverse