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  1. Summary

    Shen Yuan, cultivator, scholar of the four arts, and eager researcher of flora and fauna. He had been minding his own business when he had seen the most beautiful mer kept in appalling conditions. How could they do this to a confirmed sentient creature? What was Shen Yuan to do, not save him? He didn’t know it at the time, but his decision to save the mer ended up changing his life forever, unearthing secrets that had been kept from him for decades.

    Recommended Read Order
    Twining Tails
    To Deeper Depths
    Anchor Lost
    A Price Paid
    (Unamed To Deeper Depths sequel)

    Series Timeline and Status:

    Anchor Lost - Twining Tails Prequel Complete
    A Price Paid - Companion fic to Anchor Lost - Complete
    Twining Tails - Complete
    To Deeper Depths - Twining Tails Sequel - Complete
    (Unanmed) - To Deeper Depths Sequel - WIP

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    One shots written for Liushen Week 2025

    Cinnarbar Red - Wine Loosened Lips
    Mandarin Orange - Orchard Days
    Golden Yellow - Rise as One
    Sage Green - Eager Prize
    Royal Blue - Endless Dreaming
    Wisteria Violet - Mid Autumn Moon
    Rainbow/Free Day - Magical Gifts

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    Cloud's ma was wrong. He wasn't obsessed with Sephiroth. He didn't have a crush (ew). Sephiroth was just objectively the coolest kid in town - and yeah, he never left that weird old manor, and his dad was a greasy rat, and he had a propensity for staring at Cloud like he could make lasers come out of his eyes. But that was all part of the Sephiroth experience! It was fine! Cloud would be fine.

    Thanks to a wish granted by the lifestream, Cloud is born in 1984, two years earlier than he should be. Sephiroth is being raised in secret within the walls of Shinra Manor by Hojo and a handful of Shrina employees, and Cloud (age eleven) is a willful magnet for trouble.

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    20 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 93

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    Sephiroth faces an unforeseen predicament while at the front lines in the war against Wutai. There is a mysterious baby in his tent, one with startling similarities to himself in fact. Thus begins the upheaval of everything Sephiroth thought he knew about the world and himself as the infant throws him straight into the chaotic jaws of parenthood.

    Elsewhere, after the events of Advent Children, a new conflict arises and threatens everything Cloud Strife had built for himself and all that he holds dear. Despite being unable to win the fight, Gaia refuses to let her Champion fall under the weight of this threat. Her Champion, although reluctant to accept the form of her aid and its price, does not refuse the mission given to him by the Planet. He will set things right, one last time.

    Meanwhile, everyone else is wondering how to retain their sanity as the First-Class SOLDIER decides to adopt a baby despite having no experience in parenthood or childcare, in the middle of a war by the way, and an enhanced man of unknown origins is dead set on being an ecoterrorist with a vendetta.

    Otherwise known as: Sephiroth adopts a baby and it becomes everybody's problem, especially Cloud's.

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    14 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    He took a deep breath to steady himself just as the clouds opened up and rain started to pour down.

    He almost laughed out loud. It was almost poetic.

    He turned, climbed back into the truck, and jammed the key into the ignition.

    He spun the wheel hard, the truck lurching as it turned back the way it came.

    Back toward the fight.

    Back toward the boys.

    The black-haired boy…

    There had been something about him.

    The way he had asked for help—so alive, so determined, even with death sitting beside him. The way he had stayed close to his friend, speaking to him like he knew he could still reach him, like he refused to let him go.

    “You know I couldn’t do that to you. We’re friends, right?”

    Viktor hadn’t caught every word.

    But he didn’t need to.

    Because something in that voice—

    Steady, stubborn, unyielding—

    Had stayed with him.

    And now…

    It was pulling him back.

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    14 May 2026

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    In which the Batfam develops their own secret code over the years and it brings a lost Robin home.

     

    Based on this Tumblr text post

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    10 Apr 2026

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    The whistles were for the Waynes. Tim may have forced himself to be a bird, but it wasn’t his place to force himself into their lives even more. There was a line that Tim still wasn’t allowing himself to cross. He was here first as a crutch for Bruce, now as a tool to help control the crime in Gotham.

    OR: Tim doesn't know the whistle code, at first. He ends up wishing that he did know both the code, and how to finger whistle.

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    Day Nine of RHR Promptober: Birds

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    10 Apr 2026