icarus_chained
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- The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (143)
- Original Work (77)
- Iron Man (Movies) (64)
- DCU (Comics) (45)
- Supernatural (TV 2005) (38)
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In the Flooded District, in the aftermath of betrayal, in a world rotten and half-drowned in the tide of betrayal, Corvo Attano doggedly pulls himself onwards. And wonders, in a world without mercy, why Daud didn't kill him.
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"The fin does not stop swimming. She is dead, as comprehensively as anything as anything down here has ever been dead. But something remains. Something yearns. Something swims. She has given everything. It is time, now, for you to give something back."
In the aftermath of the Evolution storyline, a monstrous zee-captain must embark on a quest to bring fulfilment to the remnants of the bravest and most worthy of vessels. The diving bell, the Medusa's Dream, has been utterly destroyed. But death is not always permanent in the Neath. What the zee takes, with the right offerings, the zee might also give.
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"One more question, if you'll indulge me. Tell me, are you a synth?"
In the aftermath of Far Harbour, and the Institute before that, Nick and Nora sit on a boat and ... question their realities, and their choices, and what, if anything, it all makes them.
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Azune, Bolaire, a little bit of Julien, and attempts at comfort and friendship that are perhaps not entirely successful. Though perhaps not wholly unsuccessful either.
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Heroes in the Dirt by icarus_chained
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
05 Sep 2025
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The night after that Lane lady had a talk with the Council, and before Bruce and his collection of idiots went to have a talk with the Justice League, Harley has a moment with Pamela. There's some things she's never said before, and right now it feels like maybe Pam needs to hear them.
Set just after What Happens If She Doesn't Kill You, around the same time as Bend Around the Break.
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- Part 21 of Wings over Gotham
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Wings over Gotham by icarus_chained
Fandom Aquaman (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Martian Manhunter (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Wonder Woman - All Media Types
05 Sep 2025
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“Eighteen years ago, an earthquake ripped through Gotham City, and in the aftermath, instead of helping, the US government sealed the city under a ‘quarantine’ and left them to die. Two years later, when signs of life and even civilisation were still detectable inside the shattered city, the government sent the military in to reclaim and rehabilitate Gotham. Gotham has not forgotten, and they have not forgiven either.”
An AU where an altered version of No Man’s Land happened while Bruce was in his late teens/early twenties, and Batman was born in the hellish crucible of a trapped city that was left for dead and then violently retaken. Gotham may pretend to run by mainlander rules for the sake of those who would have died otherwise, but under the surface, Bruce, Jim, Leslie, Ivy and Oswald and their pack keep their own council, and look with jaundiced eyes on the mainland.
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Set in mid-to-late 1920s, during the Prohibition Era, in New York City, with reference to Atlantic City and New Jersey.
Tony Stark, heir to one of the oldest, richest and most corrupt families in New York, is almost murdered, and takes a turn as a bootlegger and crime boss as a result. These are the ripples out from that choice across an ensemble cast, and one very particular turf war in late 20s New York.
Unfinished/Abandoned Series
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"The SHIELD interceptor spaceship Avenger is under final attack. Aboard her, sitting in his cell, the war criminal Tony Stark gets ready for the confrontation, and the revelation, that he knows is about to come."
Space Opera AU, focused on Tony & JARVIS, with Steve, Bruce, Natasha, Clint, Fury, Maria, and original AI characters.
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JARVIS by icarus_chained
Fandom Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (2012)
03 Mar 2013
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Overarching story dealing with Tony and JARVIS' (and the other AIs) relationship, and how it expands out to the rest of the Avengers over time.
Divided out into subseries: Reasons Why is the Rhodey & JARVIS, post-IM2 prequel. Then Deus Ex (complete), and continuing in Creation-Connection (ongoing). Threads Woven Through is more of a potential future, not necessarily a direct sequel.
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A Good Person by Halcyon305
Fandoms: 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Manga), 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Anime)
29 May 2026
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Genau feels more than he lets on, but hides his true emotions behind an iron wall of cold pragmatism. He considers this necessary for survival, but is haunted by his partner’s death and the destruction of his village.
This story is a deep-dive into Genau’s emotional state during the Revolte arc and after, and how he slowly comes to accept kindness from without.
Eventual Methode x Genau.
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28 May 2026
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Mist to Veil the Roads by Cat on a Keyboard (CleverCatonAKeyboard)
Fandoms: Vampyr (Video Game)
01 Jun 2026
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Flu cases are down, Skal plague nearly gone, and Geoffrey McCullum has never had more problems. Creating an exception, cooperating with a leech, if only to save London, may tear apart Priwen as the epidemic never could.
Flu cases are down, the Blood of Hate is vanquished for now, and Jonathan Reid has barely any fewer responsibilities. He has his family and old friend to care for, and his patients, and his new progeny, and his project to cure Elisabeth Ashbury.
When McCullum is attacked and wounded steps from the Pembroke Hospital on a trip to make peace with the Brotherhood of Saint Paul's Stole--by a human--it becomes clear they have more worries still, and they need each other still. But pulling the thread will simply reveal a tangle of plots and schemes, by dangerous mortals and immortals grasping for control in London's secret societies and streets by night, with no clear way out.
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- Part 1 of Mist and Fog
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11 May 2026
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Robert Robertson the Third disappeared shortly after he finished high school, vanishing one summer day without a trace.
Just over a decade later, Robert Park is hired by the Superhero Dispatch Network's Torrance Branch to help in their IT department, and maybe he'll end up helping more along the way.
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03 May 2026
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Kukri kept sending me media about “Robbing the Hood” and telling me to watch it, that I’d understand what was going on better if I did, but I had no interest in watching people rob Hoods, whatever those were. I didn’t like robbing in real life (I did it because I had to not because I wanted to) and I doubted I’d like it in media.
Shortly after hacking its governor module, a rogue SecUnit is involved in an ill-fated space battle and finds itself alone save for the company of a mourning raider ship bot pilot. It would like to spend the rest of its life watching media in what remains of the ship's crew quarters, but it turns out that "the rest of its life" wouldn't be long at all without the money to pay for proper maintenance. There seems to be only one way to get that money.
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28 Feb 2026
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Because you wanted me, but I didn't want you, crucify me. (A Festivids 2025 gift for UnhinderedDreams.)
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- 20
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- 1/1
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- 1
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05 Feb 2026