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Ava is a ghost. This has been the truth ever since that explosion that took her parents life - and, really, hers too. She doesn’t exist – not truly. She is just an imitation of a human being, close to correct but wrong around the edges. She thinks and she feels and walks and talks just like a human, but she doesn’t exist like one. Not quite.
Ava is a ghost. She goes through life entirely unnoticed, haunting every room she steps in but never being noticed. As soon as she is gone from someone’s sight, she ceases to exist. No one remembers her unless she is needed. Nobody needs her unless they want something from her.
or: ava has a rough day, and yelena finds her
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- Part 2 of we may be but nobodies in this world
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i will keep on growing, so please keep watching over me by tzushi
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
17 May 2026
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Yelena knows she has issues— she’s known for a long time; she just doesn’t particularly care to fix any of them. Doesn’t really think most of them are fixable to begin with.
Being raised to be the best child assassin in the world starting from age six does that to someone, she supposes. Her mental health never stood a chance; now she’s here.
Yelena has a whole myriad of issues, but the most pressing is this: Yelena is not a person. She never has been.
or: yelena, and how the thunderbolts help her heal
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two stars glimmering in the night sky by tzushi
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
07 May 2026
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Yelena must notice her, being the trained assassin that she is, but she doesn’t greet Ava. Doesn’t even turn to look at her. She just stares out at the city, legs idly swinging back and forth, letting Ava set the pace. Ava gingerly takes a seat next to Yelena, cross-legged rather than letting them hang in freefall almost a hundred storeys in the air. Her chest still feels a bit tight, her hands still red and raw.
"...Are you okay?" Yelena asks. Her eyes are glued to the skyline, fingers tapping a steady rhythm on the ground.
“I’m okay,” Ava replies. “Just… dreams.”
“Ah,” Yelena hums. She hesitates for a moment, glancing at Ava from the corner of her eyes. “Do you want to talk about it?”
or: ava, yelena, and a rooftop
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- Part 1 of we may be but nobodies in this world
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we played hide and seek in waterfalls (we were younger) by tzushi
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Widow (Movie 2021)
09 Apr 2026
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There’s a silence when Natasha turns back around, the two of them laying on their sides and staring at each other. They have done this hundreds of times before; perhaps that’s why it feels so strange now. So much time has passed, so many things have changed, but they are still here. Their childhood is so far away now, an entire lifetime ago, but they still made it back to each other.
It is bittersweet, Yelena thinks, but perhaps more sweet than bitter. Yelena will never be able to return to the time where the scariest thing in her life was the boogeyman who her big sister would protect her from. Time has passed, and Yelena has grown into the monster under the bed; her big sister is still here, though. Her big sister still protects her.
The first few months Yelena was in the Red Room, all she wanted was this. She doesn’t think she ever grew out of the need for her big sister, despite the years that passed. Now she has her big sister back, and she doesn’t want to let go.
or: yelena has a nightmare, and seeks out her big sister
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Rumi is eleven, and she is going to die. This is a fact. It’s true for everyone, she supposes, but it’s different for her.
Rumi is going to die. Not today. Probably not tomorrow. But soon. Sooner than most. Rumi is not going to live a long life. She might not even make it a quarter of the way through.
Rumi is eleven, and she realizes just how short her lifespan will be. Rumi is going to die young, just like her mother, because she is a demon. She is both demon and hunter, predator and prey, and there is no possible way she will get to grow old.
or: rumi, and her birthdays throughout the years
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we may be but nobodies in this world by tzushi
Fandom Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
04 Jun 2026
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my vaguely connected starrlight fics ? title from saisei sanbikyoku from revue starlight. Naturally
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the worst of all blessings, the best of all curses by tzushi
Fandom Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Dec 2024
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unrelated fics of missing scenes from arcane s2!
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unconnected warrior nun character studies
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Caitlyn, Vi, and an uncooperative Jinx flee the scene where act 2 draws to a close.
It's only after this that things get interesting.
Or: Caitlyn's begrudgingly left to babysit Jinx, or Powder, or whatever the hell she goes by nowadays...and then accidentally helps her become a warlord. As one does.
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16 Dec 2024
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it's a new morning, a new stage by starqings
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
27 Jul 2024
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"Saki, you're going to get your makeup on the sheets," Ichika says.
"Mmmmfg," Saki replies. Shiho digs a finger into her side and Saki twists away with a whine, but remains firmly faceplanted on the bed.
She mumbles something that would be unintelligible to anything else but them. But it's them, so Ichika recognises the exact tone and cadence of the words Shiho-chan's so mean.
“You little—”
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11 Oct 2024
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i'm singing a song in the morning glow by everyrest
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
30 Jul 2024
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“—chan? Icchan? Hey, she’s awake!”
“Ichika-chan?”
“Did you seriously fall asleep?”
Ichika blinks slowly, disoriented and confused. Why is it so dark? Where is she? Where are her friends? As her vision gradually comes back to her, all her questions are answered: she’s in the movie theater, the credits are rolling, the lights are fading back to a dim, and the faces of Saki, Honami, and Shiho all peer down at her as they stand around her chair.
“Hrk—“ she groans, to answer Shiho’s question.
“She did fall asleep,” Saki says, and laughs, shooting Shiho a smug grin. “I won the bet. You owe me money now.”
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Or, four times Leo/need fell asleep on one another, and all the nights they'll forever spend together.
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30 Jul 2024
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Home, to Ava, is flannel-backed chairs and worn quilts and lacy placemats and a rocking chair they find abandoned on the side of the road.
Home, to Beatrice, is Ava’s hand in her own as she drags Beatrice through the kitschy home store four towns over and Ava’s shout of triumph when she finds a matching set of salt and pepper shakers and Ava’s waggling eyebrows when they buy the bed that she (again) calls ours.
(Six days in Switzerland, and then a few more afterwards.)
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- Part 1 of happiness is a warm nun
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22 Dec 2022
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It makes heat burn up Beatrice's face the first time she rises early, fingers thrumming with anger and desperate to hold a bow, and comes upon Mary and Sister Shannon, cloistered in the entrance to Sister Shannon's room. There's nothing untoward about it, per se, a perfectly respectable distance between them, but Sister Shannon's hair is mussed with sleep and Mary's looking at her like she hung the stars in the sky and it's all too much for her.
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Beatrice joins the OCS. Through it, she finds a family.
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- Part 1 of newbea
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30 Jan 2023