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what wastes and deserts of the soul by magistrate
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
29 Dec 2023
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Eight years have passed since Blackwater, Saint Denis, and the fall of the van der Linde gang. The survivors are trying to make a life for themselves – some moving on to nobler pursuits, some circling back like carrion birds to the scores they left behind.
And outside a town called Purgatory, West Elizabeth, a man wakes up without a scrap of memory or a name, haunted by a black wolf and a golden stag.
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03 Apr 2026
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Where Joel miscalculates the situation with David and the hunters, and Ellie pays the price. Ellie and Joel struggle to cope after Ellie is raped. Thrown into unfamiliar territory-- Will their bond grow stronger, or will the trauma tear them apart? Begins during the winter, and follows the pair into Jackson as Ellie grows up in the aftermath of the decisions that have been made for her.
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19 Aug 2025
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An AU where Joel and Ellie get to have their movie night. Rated M for language.
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23 Dec 2023
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Ellie paused for almost a minute, “You think I was a pawn in their war all along?”
“Based on everything we know of the Fireflies, it’s really hard for me to believe they would all of a sudden make their priority to take a selfless and altruistic journey across a world full of raiders and Infected to look for innocent people to immunize,” Joel shook his head, “And how could they get vaccines to thousands with the scarce resources they had? Remember how we had to cross the country to get to one place that had proper equipment? They never gave us the chance to think about or ask how they planned on mass-producing and distributing the vaccine.”
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Rewriting the last conversation between Joel and Ellie from Part II, but here they discuss everything that there was to be discussed about the vaccine that Part II didn't address, including Ellie's trauma from Riley's death, followed by an alternate take on the encounter with Abby.
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11 Nov 2023
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a shoeless child on a swing, reminds you of your own again by mqsterminds
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Feb 2024
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“Where are your parents, kid? You need to leave.”
The girl’s face turns guarded for a moment, then it switches, and she points at the sky silently, a mock serious expression on her face.
“What type of answer is that supposed to be?” He doesn’t have time for this girl and whatever weird shenanigans she’s trying to pull.
“It means they’re dead, dumbass. I live in the group foster home down the street."--
(or: Ellie shows up in Joel's yard one day when she's eight, and she doesn't stop showing up in his life after that. Takes place over the course of six years.)
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30 Oct 2023
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When Ellie opens her eyes, she is sitting on a porch, the soft sound of guitar beside her and a familiar smell of earth mixed with coffee bringing quick tears to her eyes. She turns her head and intakes softly.
“Joel?”
It’s barely a whisper, a question, her voice cracking as the tears stream freely. Warm eyes look back at her, and the strumming stops.
“Hey there, kiddo.”
Ellie is given a second chance at the worst year of her life.Series
- Part 1 of A Twist In Fate
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29 Oct 2023
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growing pains by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Sep 2023
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“Ellie’s gonna be out there one day.” He says, cutting her off. Beneath his exhaustion, he feels the first creeping tendrils of dread that he’s been resisting since it happened, imagining his little girl grown up and on a patrol of her own, imagines her bright, proud grin.
Imagines her eyes going glassy from someone else’s goddamn mistake getting her killed.
“Jesus Christ,” he says, already winding himself up. “All it takes is one fucking mistake, and she’s gone, Tess.”
(even four years after starting this life with tess and ellie, joel still has a few scars from the past that act up)
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- Part 20 of babyverse
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24 Oct 2023
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sovereign by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Mar 2023
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Her ears are ringing when they pull her away. Joel took the brunt force of the flash bang, swinging her around like she weighed nothing to curl around her, but she’s just the slightest bit wobbly when they try to take her away from him, still on the ground.
Doesn’t stop her from screaming for him, though.
Even half out of it, Joel always answers when she calls, and she sees him trying to stagger onto his knees, calling back for her.
Then a soldier hits him on the back of the head.
And Ellie sees fucking red.
(alternate ep 9 ending in which ellie chooses to leave on her own)
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22 Oct 2023
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Hank decides it’s his responsibility to embarrass Connor in any way he can. It’s just what fathers do, after all.
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23 Sep 2023
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Ellie’s not afraid of Joel.
She’s seen Joel do a lot of things that should scare her. Back in Pittsburgh, a hunter tried to choke her and she watched Joel beat his face into nothing. She’s watched him take people apart with nothing but his fists. She knows that should scare her.
It doesn’t, though. She thinks at this point she couldn’t be afraid of him if she tried.
She doesn’t like the idea that she can hurt him.
Or: Ellie accidentally hurts Joel.
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09 Sep 2023
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Connor wakes from rest mode to find that his automatic, overnight maintenance check hit an error, leaving his head pounding and his vocal system uncooperative. He could sit and work to repair himself, but the deviancy in him has him going to Hank.
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05 Sep 2023
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There Was Before and Then There's Now by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
17 Aug 2018
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Hank and Connor end up in a car accident, and Hank can't help but to think about how Connor and Cole are alike.
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24 Aug 2023
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A timeline order of my DBH post-peaceful revolution universe revolving around Connor and the Detroit Police Department's 7th Precinct as they work together and get to know each other, while the city of Detroit navigates the uncharted waters of recognizing androids as living beings.
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11 Jul 2023
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Connor has a secret lover, or so Hank thinks.
That misunderstanding probably won’t cause too many problems. Right?
(Or: The one where Connor plays the theremin)
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26 Jun 2023
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31 prompts of whump involving the squad at the Detroit Police Department.
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- Part 32 of Detroit 07
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26 May 2023
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A standoff with a deranged group of anti-android bigots ends poorly for Connor when he becomes critically damaged in the line of duty. It's a race against time to save Connor from shutting down after one of his vital biocomponents begins to fail and a replacement part cannot be readily found.
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14 May 2023
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Loss is a constant variable in anyone's life, but how much in each lifetime is never equally measured out. It can't be calculated in individual grams like red ice or as a statistic in an android's scan. But it can be reflected on over and over again until sorrow seems to overshadow the joy.
Or in which a drug bust goes horribly wrong, Hank has to face his mistakes, and Connor is slowly dying. Oh, and Markus is really worried about his friend.
OR (if we want to get really specific) how many chapters will it be until Hank finally calls Connor his son.
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15 Mar 2023
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Androids are disappearing, only to die in gruesome explosions when sighted again. Hank and Connor are working off of only a few leads and even less time. Connor knows his new-found feelings will only get in the way and tries to ignore them. Failure is not an option and Connor is determined to find the culprit no matter what it takes, even if it puts him in danger.
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08 Mar 2023
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While the android was throwing his fit, he took in the boy's appearance. He was torn to shreds. Missing his right eye, he wore a rather large gash that rode over most of his face. His hair had been a mess of curls filled with what looked like little twigs and garbage of some sort.
“You stupid piece of flesh and meat! How could you-“
They both froze, eyes locked to each other as they slowly stood.
“Connor...?”
Hank was never one for philosophy or “acts of fate,” but he recognized his happening upon Connor had been no accident. When things start growing dim and suspicions begin arising, Hank must figure out his lost name and the complications behind someone who was not the same as they once were before it's too late.
(I.E, despite their friendship, Hank leaves Connor behind after cyberlife tower and Connor has had to fend for himself alone in the cold cities of Detroit.)
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- Part 1 of The Man on the Bridges End
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08 Feb 2023
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After a traumatic car accident, resulting in the loss of his wife, Hank has a rough time coping and taking care of his only son. With an android revolution on the horizon and his new partner Connor being a constant pain in the ass, can Hank Anderson learn to move on and solve this problem? Or will his guilt consume him before he learns to live again for Cole?
An Alternate Universe in which everything is almost the same, except Cole Anderson is alive.
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30 Jan 2023