6 Works by onlyslightlyhyperbolic
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When Arthur returns, he barely understands what's happening. First he'd been dead, and now he isn't. Alive, somewhere he doesn't recognize, with a Merlin who isn't quite the man he remembers. But it's Merlin, and that's as good a place to start as any.
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“Will you tell me about what it is that haunts you?” Thomas asks, as forward as ever when shepherding James through his own recalcitrance. There’s no surprise in this, considering that the only things that James has not yet shared are the parts of his history that spook him from the darkness within which he keeps them.
The parts that cannot be spoken without also speaking of John Silver.
More ghost than man; a shadow that breathes alongside him and tethers part of him to the darkness. To expose him now, even to Thomas, may at last serve to banish that ghost to somewhere James cannot follow. Somewhere he’s desired to leave Silver since the moment everything ended, but cannot. Will not. The echo of him is as perplexing and infuriating as the man himself.
And damn it all, James misses him.
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- Part 2 of approach thy grave
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does it eat you alive in the dead of the night? by onlyslightlyhyperbolic
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
02 May 2025
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Several years ago, Borsalino had watched as a dear friend shepherded a man to the end of his life.
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If anyone had told Wei Ying a few days ago that he'd get to go on a thrilling road trip with the
unrequitedlove of his life, but only after kidnapping an innocent toddler, he would have laughed himself to death.And, yet. Here he is. Doing exactly that.
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It’s remarkable, James muses, how alike gathering his thoughts in this moment is to finessing his crew back from mutiny. Anticipation knots his shoulders. Control of the situation dances neatly from his grasp, each deed he wishes to confess keeping its distance but watching him with hungry, demanding eyes.
It’s challenging to determine which confessions to watch back; which will turn on him and become the noose with which he hangs. Which ones would put the lever in Thomas’ hands. Which may then convince him to pull it.
Thomas had been willing to pardon pirates, all those years ago. Would he pardon a monster, surrendered at his feet?
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- Part 1 of approach thy grave
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"When you were sinking to the bottom of the sea, who do you imagine it was who dragged you onto that beach?"
Flint sits in a tiny boat on a windless stretch of sea and wonders if whatever he will be left with in the end will have been worth it. Silver sits behind him, and is more help than he might think.