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So tell me... how was it, being alive?
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no story exists in a vacuum. this is a personal collection of my favourite fanfics -- those that have haunted me, inspired me, or both. if you like what i write, then i highly recommend checking out the talented work of the passionate writers featured below!
recommendations categorised by fandom. spoilers unmarked.
Shulk is alone when Zanza makes his offer.
“Become one of my disciples,” Zanza says.
Shulk closes his eyes. He remembers the lonely hours before this confrontation. The last conversation he had with Fiora still sits on his tongue, heavy.
“Okay.”
length: 6 891 words
When it feels like everything is crumbling, Shulk goes back to where it all began. Reyn comes along to help put things back together.
length: 1 276 words
fiora finds herself in the hospital after regenerating a homs body.
length: 2 654 words
Fiora stumbles on Shulk going for a swim, and they find themselves having a talk about scars.
length: 1 589 words
Here, when no one has need of him - and sometimes, he admits to himself, even when they do - Shulk sits on the humble bench that survived the collision of two worlds, looks out over the crumbling structures and running waters and glinting metal of his new home, and speaks to the air.
length: 3 chapters, 2 354 words. ongoing.
Alvis, the Fog King, and the will of the world. Future Connected, a little to the left.
length: 17 / 18 chapters, 104 300 words
Zero has lost.
A car drives through the Nevada desert.
length: 2 260 words
post-Safe ending, examining those left behind. dear god, if you get emotional about the protagonists of 999, this is the fic for you. it feels like it could be a deleted scene from the game; the author has captured the games' themes and characters so masterfully! it's a painful kind of closure, and i return to this fic any time i get emotional about the Safe ending.
He disappeared for a week, is the thing. Up and vanished without telling anyone. When he got back, he brushed off all the worried questions - said there was a family emergency back home, he'd had to hop the soonest flight, no time to tell anyone or email any professors. It should've ended there, everything back to normal.
But Junpei came back different.
length: 3 126 words
Akane Kurashiki knows better than anyone that time is not fixed and that the results of our choices are not always a foregone conclusion. But she cannot blame others for what they are unable to perceive in their minds, and she therefore excuses their stubborn belief that time only moves in one forward motion.
Akane spends an afternoon visiting different realities.
length: 3 524 words
A tale of nine children aboard a sinking ship, and the unbelievable story of how they survived.
length: 20 chapters; 111 512 words
exactly what it says on the tin: an imagining of the first Nonary Game, 9 years before the events of 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors. an ambitious concept supremely well-executed. this is one of those fics that kept me awake until the early hours of the morning, reading until my eyes gave out on me. the author does an incredible job melding original ideas with the canon backstory in a compelling manner that never feels gratuitous. it's absolutely bittersweet and heartbreaking knowing everything that's to come for these characters, and some of the twists had me with my hands clapped over my mouth. a thoroughly enjoyable read!!
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