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Monsters, We. by Tafferling
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game), Dying Light 2 Stay Human - Fandom
11 Jun 2026
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There are three kinds of people in this collapsed world. The many who’ve accepted their lot. The rest that claws for survival at any cost. And those rare few who continue to live unabashedly—shamelessly—even with their humanity a fragile thing.
Aiden finds Villedor at what he hopes to be the end of a too-long search for what’s left of his family; an end to a life he lived alone, one muddy, dark road at a time.
It’s all he’s ever known and he’s far too young to be so weary.
Kyle Crane, Zofia by his side, seeks Villedor in a final effort to turn back time on a curse that threatens to unravel them both; to make them forget what they so stubbornly kept on living for.
It’s far too hard to fight and, sometimes, forgetting is a tempting mercy.
This is a campaign rewrite: New heroes, new villains, new end game.
Season One: Completed
Season Two: Completed
Season Three: OngoingSeries
- Part 4 of Latchkey Hero
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We Don't Stop in Hell by Tafferling
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game), Dying light: The Beast
02 Apr 2026
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tenacious, adjective
te·na·cious | tə-ˈnā-shəsa: not easily pulled apart
b: tending to adhere or cling especially to another substanceSeason One: Kyle Crane steps into a world he no longer recognizes, carrying grief on one shoulder and fear on the other. He grieves the loss of his own life, snatched from him, and he fears for his soul; fears he’ll slide across that thin line between monster and man, with nothing left in this fallen world to guide him back.
Then again... he has a man to kill. And revenge? Vengeance? Maybe a monster—leashed by anger—is what it’ll take.
You know the drill! This is a campaign rewrite: More heroes, more villains, new end game.
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Three Simple Words by Tafferling for m0thh0wl
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game), Dying Light 2: Stay Human
29 Mar 2026
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You'd think a Pilgrim had steady nerves. You'd think—at the very least—they'd have the pluck to take three simple words, put them in the right order, and say them out loud.
Well, you'd think wrong.
All Aiden had to do was to tell Max what they deserved to hear; all he ends up doing is nearly killing them.
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Eager Beaver: Local Man Still Unable To Say No by Tafferling
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game), Dying light: The Beast
06 Nov 2025
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Kyle Crane finds a newspaper. Lovingly hand written. Lovingly illustrated. And DEAR GOD does he hope no one else ever gets to read it.
This is an art piece with a bit of flavor text from me. The art is by rageflippedtables.
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The Lone Wolf of Harran and The Child Screwed By The Narrative by Tafferling
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game)
22 Apr 2025
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You know what one of the worst feelings ever is? Futility. The Fucked if you do, Fucked if you don’t kinda shit. It haunts Kyle Crane, especially with how his favorite Earth got shafted beyond recognition despite his very best efforts to keep it safe. But c'mon. He's just one dude, slash, wolf. What did he expect?
And now? Now, three years into Earth's Fall, he's just tired. Tired and fed up. Until one day, Kyle finds himself taunted back into the grinding wheel named destiny and set to challenge the fate of the child Aiden Caldwell, whose life (or death, or something in-between) might make slobbering zombies seem downright pleasant.
Sequel to The Lone Wolf of Harran.
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- Part 2 of The Lone Wolf of Harran
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Kyle Crane has left Harran in his rearview mirror.
The world is saved.
What now?
Time for PZASC, that's what.
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Horizon's Crown was an Earther triumph; a stage at the frontier of the settled systems, a city of hope and dreams and infinite potential.
Then one man bit another.
Now, under the watchful eye of its orbital island, it straddles the line between dead and dying; a city of nightmares and endless sorrow.Varrett Vild Vickers belongs into a pilot's chair. He's meant to dodge asteroids, to race dragons, not chase credits so he can pay rent while HC's major demographic clicks its teeth at him and tries to eat his face off. But it's fine. Really. He copes.
Or that's what he tells himself, all the way until a woman falls from the sky and turns his already upside-down life very sharply sideways.Armed with nothing but her worst-kept secret and a ledger of lies, Sophya Soulwright tricks her way into Horizon's Crown, looking for not only her sister, but for redemption and a meaning to a life she’s never held dear.
What she finds instead is a city trying its hardest to live, and a man who courts death every step of the way. He's infuriating, tireless, and after a glitch binds their souls together, he is now stuck with her. -
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Kyle Crane says he won't share this blanket.
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Approximate value of homework. by Tafferling
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game), Dying Light 2 Stay Human - Fandom
30 Jun 2022
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The approximate value of- what?
Pineapple? Pistols? Pigs? Pillows?! Aiden is puzzled.
Kyle Crane finds this particularly punny. I mean, funny.
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Harran fits him like a well-measured suit.
Kyle Crane—the Legend of Harran—is said to be unbowed. A tenacious, tireless hero.
But that suit comes with a mask. A mask which slips when no one is watching.
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In which Kyle Crane finds it horribly difficult to stay on target and regrets having put on jeans for the day. Plus, there's a game of Hide and Seek in the Tower's lower levels that turned a little grim.
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- Part 2 of Latchkey Hero
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Season 01 "On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." - George Orwell
The fall of Harran robbed man of its humanity, and Zofia Sirota of her innocence. Finding redemption, with the city rotting away around her, seems to be a pipe dream at best, until a man falls from the skies and turns futility to hope. Either that, or he's about to make things a whole lot worse. COMPLETE
Season 02 Beaten by a ruthless storm and at the mercy of an uncaring outside world, Harran sits at the brink of a grim and unsteady future. But its heroes are far from done. Together they set out to search an abandoned shelter beneath the luxurious domes of Old Town, even as whispers herald a much greater threat than the remnants of Rais’s legacy. COMPLETE
Season 03 Hidden in the sprawling outskirts of the crumbling Harran metropolis, sits the key to a cure. Supposedly, anyway. Not like it matters, since Kyle Crane is done waiting for the outside world to fix this mess and hasn't ever shied away from trying his luck where there's often none to be found. COMPLETE
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- Part 1 of Latchkey Hero
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Babar Kizil was totally full of shit. Garlic? Wolfsbane? Cinnamon? Eat all that and your lycanthropy was cured? Holy shit, no, that wasn’t how this worked.
And Kyle would know.
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- Part 1 of The Lone Wolf of Harran
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We found them in the back of a turned over lorry that had gotten wedged in a storm drain. Paper lanterns. Hundreds of them.
Naturally, Crane insists we bring them.
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He is a Ghost who likes to dream. She's a Guardian who wishes she didn't.
Book 1 When he found his Guardian, all he could think of was how they'd be great together. How they'd be heroes. Make a difference. Those sorts of things. But what he hadn't expected was just how badly he'd mess up. Because she remembers. Her name. Her death. And everything she lost. COMPLETE
Book 2 The Last City isn't home. Her Light is wrong. But her Ghost insists she give him time. Time to make her see she's meant for this.
And while Nicole struggles to accept her second chance at life, the Vanguard has struggles of its own: Murders. Guardians and their Ghosts have turned up dead within the walls, their Light ripped from them and their bodies no more than empty husks.
Completed and abandoned. A conclusion is provided.
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"Whose a good boy?!" is going to be a question her Guardian will never not be asked...
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This year's end comes with a faceful of Chris Redfield.
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Latchkey Hero Lost Scenes by Tafferling
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game), Resident Evil, A Shielding Thing
09 Nov 2017
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This is a dumping ground for my Dying Light Fan Fiction, Latchkey Hero. The scenes and drabbles showing up here may or may not turn up eventually during Crane's and Zofia's adventures, and as of such can contain spoilers for the finished product.
They are unedited, not fleshed out, so do not expect anything stellar.
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Kyle Crane loves his job, and he's damn good at it. Obviously, since he's still around to take more contracts, and when the GRE approaches him for one very particular deployment, he finds it very hard to say no. But how do you prepare for Zombies? It's not like there's a ton of handy training material available, so Kyle decides to improvise.
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Pint Sized Wordsoup: Prompts by Tafferling
Fandoms: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse)
21 Aug 2017
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An archive for my prompt fills from Tumblr.