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Who Loops Who? by ProgWords for Ficsandmusings
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 創の軌跡 | Hajimari no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game), 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 クロスベル編 | The Legend of Heroes: Crossbell Arc (Video Games)
11 Jul 2025
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Musse is adamant that she and Juna are stuck in a time loop, but Juna is not about to fall for the oldest trick in the book.
Just how dumb does she think she is? It's such an obvious excuse to get close to her for the day, so they whisper to each other and figure out what's different, and how to escape. That's such a bad lie; how would that even work if she bought into it? It wouldn't.
Time loops aren't real.
And why is Musse so determined to get that close, anyway?
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Blood, Salt, and Barley: The North Ambrian Disaster by ProgWords
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 創の軌跡 | Hajimari no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game), 英雄伝説 クロスベル編 | The Legend of Heroes: Crossbell Arc (Video Games), 英雄伝説 空の軌跡 | Sora no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 黎の軌跡 | Kuro no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak Series (Video Games)
10 Jul 2025
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After decades of work, a certain history professor takes it upon himself to publish his late friend's life's work with as much transparency as possible.
The church, the guild, and several other organizations are split on whether or not to censor it, be it fully or even partially. There's a great deal to be ashamed of in this tale. Humanitarian failures greater by magnitudes than anything since the Great Collapse itself. In the end, they decide to allow the last wishes of the dead to be honored.
The story of North Ambria's collapse, and hopefully eventual rise, can finally be told...
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Death and Dissonance by ProgWords for Ficsandmusings
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
28 Mar 2025
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Ingrid was born to die.
For her king, for her family, and her eventual children.
Every feat and aspiration will inevitably be boiled down into how she spent her last few breaths. Were they noble? Righteous? Suffering for the greater good?
Just like Glenn.
Or will it be cowardice, born of avarice, abandoning her starving lands to kneel at the foot of that childish obsession with honor and idealistic heroes beyond her station?
Again, like Glenn.
Maybe she'll get lucky.
Maybe she won't die at all.
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The Lanster School of Acting by ProgWords for whythursdaynext
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 黎の軌跡 | Kuro no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
13 Feb 2025
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Vita Clotilde is no one's co-star.
She's the marquee, the queen bee, and the last performer you'll ever need to see.
Judith has absolutely no idea who she is.
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You can't raise the dead.
Once someone is gone, that's it. They're not coming back. No amount of grief, anguish, or rage will ever “fix” a tragedy.
There is one exception to this absolute of life; a miracle weaved within omnipresent mockery and haunting silence.
Jecka and Emily are going to fight like hell to seize that power for themselves. They want the same thing, after all.
Turn back the clock. Undo everything.
Bring Nicole back to them.
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Jecka can't escape her job, her dad, or her life in general.
Oh, wait, she could totally stop that last one.
Nicole, knowing these signs all too well, won't let her.
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Ari and Nicole are dating.
That's not a good thing, but it might not be the worst thing.
At least they're not alone.
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High Voltage by ProgWords
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 クロスベル編 | The Legend of Heroes: Crossbell Arc (Video Games), 英雄伝説 空の軌跡 | Sora no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 創の軌跡 | Hajimari no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game)
22 Jun 2024
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On the morning of October 6th, S. 1201, at the future site of Orchis Tower, Sara Valestein, former A-Rank Bracer and newest Regimental Commander of the Zephyr jaeger corps, is arrested for the murder of CPD Detective Guy Bannings; the very same murder she was trying to solve.
The Blood and Iron Chancellor demands the case become cold. No leads. No investigation. No court date. So long as the status quo was maintained, nothing was off limits. Naturally, Claire Rieveldt and Lechter Arundel can't exactly ensure that there is no hope of conviction without an understanding of the minutiae.
But, the more they dig, the more horrors they unearth by the dozens. There is a secret there, hidden between monstrous conspiracies and ancient prophecies written in black; a riddle designed to be unsolvable until the appointed time. The roots of a thousand-year delusion, entrenched so deeply into the continent that they've become entwined within fate itself. While the entire picture eludes them, knowing even a piece of the truth is more than enough to set everything ablaze.
(Or: Sara, Fie, the Ironbloods, and quite a few unlikely allies accidentally pick up where Guy Bannings left off; chaos theory becomes law)
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- Part 11 of The Ballad of Ice and Lightning
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Fuck Life, Fuck the Universe, and Fuck Everything Else by ProgWords
Fandoms: Class of '09 (Visual Novel)
19 Jun 2024
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Nicole hasn't read that book.
She's not a bitch who reads. She's not a bitch who does really much of anything at all. Why put in the effort if you're just going to get yanked behind the hardware store and put down like a mangy dog even if you're Mother-fucking-Theresa?
If she's lucky, that'll happen today, tomorrow, or the next day. Someday soon so this can all just fucking stop, because doing shit is hell when nobody's gonna listen to you scream even when they do. She'd finish the job herself if she hadn't fucked it up so many times.
Get up. Don't die. Sleep. Good job, bitch, you woke up. Do it again. Forever.
It's easier with Jecka, so long as she keeps talking.
Please don't stop.
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Nicole gets into a fender bender on the highway.
She's fine, and the car is fine; everyone is fine.
Jecka doesn't believe that for a second.
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Everything was supposed to be simple after graduation.
Everything was supposed to make sense. Life was supposed to finally feel good, right? Nice and easy? Yeah, sorry, no. Nothing ever is.
Barely two weeks into their final summer before college, Nicole and Jecka self-destruct into a firestorm of bottled trauma, lies, sex, drugs, and not nearly enough punk rock to justify their bullshit.
Unfortunately, or, in Emily's case, fortunately, the fallout is so catastrophic that it drags basically everybody they know into the inescapably messy black hole they’ve left in their wake.
It’s one hell of a day.
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Jecka screws up plugging in her phone before going to bed; misaligned the charger. Happens to everyone, but the one time she slips up is the time she wakes up to several hundred missed calls and half as many texts from Nicole.
She's moving out of state. Again. She's basically already gone. And that really sucks, yeah, but it could be worse. It's not like she's all that far away! Just a few hours on the interstate, and Jecka has a car so, in the grand scheme of things, the girl she is really kinda falling for being somebody she has to super deliberately make time to visit every weekend? Kinda romantic, and not in a gross way.
It's fine, though, it's all fine. Jecka can visit whenever she wants.
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Half an Eternity Might Be Nice With You by ProgWords
Fandoms: Class of '09 (Visual Novel)
12 Apr 2024
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Jecka Miller is the Kingdom of Braddock's foremost deadly assassin.
Lady Nicole Yu is the sole child of a backwater fiefdom's duchess.
After inexplicably surviving twenty-nine attempts on her life over seven years, she has garnered a reputation as an 'impossible' contract. A woman who cannot be killed. The payout is massive; so much so that Jecka can retire and live out the rest of her days in luxury if she succeeds.
She does not, but, on the eve of the Harvest Festival, a far better deal arises from their fateful meeting.
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Nicole and Jecka are in a near constant state of bickering about everything and nothing.
It's getting really stupid. What if they just stopped for a day? Truce, cease fire, no-fly zone. A break from their own bullshit in the middle of their last Summer vacation before college? Took a deep breath, stopped trying to push it all off, and just existed next to each other. Wasn't that the whole point of "them", anyway?
It works a helluva lot better than either of them expected.
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Nicole and Jecka have been dating for about a month after circling each other for a year and a half.
Emily doesn't mind watching all of that go up in flames. Not one bit. It's a win-win-win!
Except for Nicole. It'd be nice if she didn't need to get dumped to feel truly happy again.
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Sharing No Spotlight by ProgWords for twentyskylines
Fandoms: Class of '09 (Visual Novel)
11 Apr 2024
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Jecka has a starring role.
Nicole is a star against her will.
These are two very different things.
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- Part 5 of Meth Eaters
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One-Thousand (and Forty-Two) Miles Without a Guide by ProgWords
Fandoms: Class of '09 (Visual Novel)
10 Apr 2024
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There's a bit of a wrinkle to Nicole and Jecka's clean exit strategy.
If they want to bring Jecka's car to college, it has to actually go with them. Either they pay way too much money to hire somebody to tow it seven-hundred miles due west, or they drive it there themselves.
Make a road trip out of it. See the 'sights' of Middle America along the way.
It'll be lame, sure. Boring as hell. But she'll be with Jecka, too.
So, why not, right?
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Nicole does stand-up after work a lot.
It's a fun hobby and keeps her brain active in spite of the mind numbing hell of the average work day. Basically the only creative outlet she feels okay doing anymore, since the last thing she wanted was to be some lunatic super-star going on tour for comedy. Zero pressure to succeed or excel; just doing it to reach people because at that point it was a compulsion.
On one particular evening, absolutely none of that changes, but she does meet someone. It's hardly 'love at first sight', or anything like that. She's just that easy to talk to, laughs harder than anyone Nicole has ever met, and happens to be the single most gorgeous person she's ever seen.
Even if nothing comes of it, it's still the best night both of them have had in years.
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Jecka was losing her damned mind.
She'd already had her 'sexuality crisis', more or less. She figured out her shit, put it to bed, and that should've been the end of it. Of course, it wasn't. She wasn't really questioning anything, no, that would've been much easier. So much more simple to deal with and understand and test and poke around. That would have been fine! That would have been normal, and reasonable, and understandable.
Naturally, Jecka just had to develop a 'Nicole Crisis'.
Which, on paper, was a complete nightmare and disaster of an idea. She could do better! So much better, and it sure sucked that she didn't want to do better than the most gorgeous, vicious, horrifying, confident, and addictive monster she'd ever met or would meet. And she knew, she absolutely knew that this was going to crash and burn instantly with zero hope of either of them living through the night.
If only feelings were rational.
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Assorted Appendicies and Letters to the Editor by ProgWords
Fandoms: Class of '09 (Visual Novel)
26 Feb 2024
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A series of drabbles and shortfics exploring ideas that don't fit anywhere else.
Come for the fluff and/or angst, stay for the humor and/or hurt/comfort!
Updated at Random Intervals!