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Friendship does not come to him easily..
Dream understands the general shape of it. He can see the lines of it when it draws others together. A part of him must know what it is. It is in the gentle lushness and golden light of Fiddler’s Green; it echoes when Matthew and Mervyn laugh, raucous and bright, in the library; it even shines from the warm note in Lucienne’s voice when she chides them for the noise. These are all parts of himself. Infinitesimal components of his vast entirety. This means he must know how it works.
It has to mean that.
(Aka: the classic "how they get together" fic. Aaka: two character studies stacked in a fic shaped trenchcoat.)
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- Part 1 of The Audacity Universe
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16 Jun 2026
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"Friendship does not come to him easily..
Dream understands the general shape of it. He can see the lines of it when it draws others together...This means he must know how it works."
Ch 5 (15jun26)
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Returning to Hob felt like a formality, right until Dream stopped outside the crumpled skeleton of the White Horse Inn.
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24 Aug 2025
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"Returning to Hob felt like a formality, right until Dream stopped outside the crumpled skeleton of the White Horse Inn."
Dream is doing a lot of disassociating right after getting free and hob is quite concerned.Ch 4
Reread x3 (14jun26)
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Part two of The art of living (See you in five?)
A year has passed since Orpheus returned to the world – to noise, to strangers, to coffee shops and airports and the overwhelming, beautiful chaos of being alive in a body again. It hasn't been easy. It hasn't been simple. But he isn't doing it alone.
With Dream of the Endless learning what it means to be a father in the present tense, and Hob Gadling, who has loved life stubbornly for six hundred years, showing him that stumbling is not the same as falling, Orpheus is finding his way. One song at a time. One day at a time.
Because surviving was only the beginning. Now comes the harder, stranger, more extraordinary part: the rest of their lives.
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- Part 2 of Songs for the living
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13 Jun 2026
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Hob finds the island where Orpheus head languishes. They become friends and hob visits every five years to tell Orpheus stories and bring him things from around the world. From hob, Orpheus learns to live.
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Danny's trying to be optimistic about having to flee to another Universe, he really is. Luckily, it turns out that NASA is insanely well-funded here, and superpowers are a hell of a lot more normalized. Only problem is, he doesn't officially exist. And when he learns that superpowers have an established presence here, he's not sure whether he's actually safe or not. So when he meets another teenager with powers, he's got balance the opportunity for friendship against the myriad risks of being known. But if he's smart about it, maybe he can finally build himself a life where he doesn't have to fight to be happy or help people.
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The bath takes care of the sweat. Takes care of the burnt bits of skin and fat that still cling to his palm. Zuko scrubs his body until it’s raw, blushing red; he dunks his head under the hot water and stays there, staring up at the dark, vaulted ceiling of the washroom until his lungs run out of breath to use.
The oil of honeysuckle and opium and cinnamon, sweet and sharp and earthy, does not wash the stench of scorched flesh out of his nose.Zuko falls asleep on the evening of his official coronation, when he’s twenty-one-years old and has finally reached his majority. Zuko wakes on the morning of the Agni Kai with his father, eight years earlier.
This is annoying for several reasons, like the fact that the War is still ongoing, that he has zero friends, and that Ozai is not in jail.
It’s time to scheme.Series
- Part 1 of to try again-verse
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06 Jun 2026
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"Zuko falls asleep on the evening of his official coronation, when he’s twenty-one-years old and has finally reached his majority. Zuko wakes on the morning of the Agni Kai with his father, eight years earlier."
