Rococospade
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Pretend for a moment you’re Juzō. Or don’t; he barely wants to be him, some days. But suppose you do: you're going through puberty as a child soldier in your shitty hometown and trying to make yourself something you’re not, because you can just see the shape of it: the kind of shinobi that people respect, a member of the Seven, someone with a future. Focus on that. Really focus, because you want it, if you’re Juzō. You want it so bad it aches. And try not to think too long or too hard about your teammate (and his teeth, the way he snaps them when you’re irritating), or why you did anything you did on that last mission (that dumbstruck look when your gazes locked, the way the blood striped his skin. Because you can forget that, surely) or the way his cheek dimples when he smiles. Yes. That's manageable, isn’t it? Juzō told himself so, and all he had to do to get there was shut down his mind and shut up the overthinking and move like a shinobi was supposed to. Really. For sure.
He told himself all that, and he still ended up going. He was doing it for the squad. He was doing it to shut up the voices in his head. He was doing it to shove away the memory of blood on Jun’s mouth. Whatever he needed to sell himself on things. -
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Digging into another shinobi's past was a faux pas in better situations and actively dangerous in his, but Uchiha Itachi had never seen a bad idea he couldn't improve into an abysmal one. As Hoshigaki Kisame could attest.
(Kisame would also attest: how lucky for the kid that he's interesting.)Of course, if you asked Itachi about it, he'd insist that what he was doing was perfectly reasonable. Intelligent, even. Unfortunately the only person who tended to ask Itachi these things was Kisame. And in this case it was very much imperative that Kisame have no reason to ask — because it was his past Itachi was digging into. According to Konoha's files, Hoshigaki Kisame was a team killer who'd died years ago.
So... who exactly was Itachi working beside?(AKA the “what do you mean you were married back home?” AU.)
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- Part 2 of Civic Duty AU
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“You’ve found others like this.” Kisame regarded him sceptically. He didn't add and you survived? though the question was implied.
“Yeah.” The boy’s jaw worked a moment, and he passed a pink tongue over thin lips. “Folk with a map for the wrong province or the wrong island in the middle o’ nowhere, mostly frozen. ‘S always a hassle to get the bodies back to the village. Glad y’ won’t be one of ‘em.” He set the meat on a wooden platter and took a knife from his hip to cut it open. “You feelin’ hale, shinobi-san?”--
Kisame finds himself in a ghost story, with precious little company besides a local hunter and the wide empty woods of North Water Country. And, of course, the Lady.
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A few streets away from the temple (derelict since the regime change), cramped between buildings old enough to predate his grandfather, there was a shopfront with Apothecary writ on the sign in faded paint. The pharmacist in residence: a nominal shinobi, inactive duty, and a local curiosity for the simple fact of having survived so long. Kisame might have gone on ignoring that curiosity, if personal circumstance hadn’t shifted enough to make poison a necessity.
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- Part 1 of Out of context
- Part 1 of Civic Duty AU
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Trying to figure out what Ascelin was doing at any given time was more work than his teammates were really equipped for. So mostly they just wait, and let him tell them when he’s ready.
Unfortunately that sometimes means things like sitting in a restaurant and having him blurt out wildly inappropriate questions over lunch.Or, a Choir Scholar, a Church Prospector, and a Hunter walk into a bar... and get into an argument about sex. The argument is resolved in a brothel, because of course it is.
A sidestory from before Choral starts, starring Vasilissa, Drogomir and Ascelin when the city isn't in an unusual level of crisis.Series
- Part 9 of Before the nightmare
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Stories in the same continuity as Choral Composition, an OC centric fic written to explore some lore implications. Includes missing scenes and some loosely related background stories.
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An examination of how a noble and idealistic man from a long line of knights ended up serving a duplicitous foreigner whose healthcare plan was “inject the people with magic blood.”
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What was he supposed to do, NOT take the free baby? by Rococospade
Fandom Elden Ring (Video Game)
09 Oct 2024
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The Mare's Nest fic and assorted side stories. (Currently just 'made to order').
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They've fallen into a routine
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- Part 1 of Grimmjow/Ulquiorra Week
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01 Jun 2026
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Rivalries aren't the only things born on the battlefield
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P.O.W. by Bibliotecaria_D
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One
30 Apr 2026
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It's against the rules, but it's still for sale when the price is right.
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26 Mar 2026
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It began with a dream.
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26 Dec 2025
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Roy wakes up with no recollection of an ill-fated tangle with some Cretan wizard, or of having been married to Edward Elric for the past several years.
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25 Dec 2025