Apphia_Rotho

[picture of nbc's hannibal lector, as portrayed by mads mikkelsen, in hannibal's canonical silly winter hat]



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    a dumping ground for tumblr-originated shorts, one-shots, and ideas that I might expand on later.

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    Dante had no idea what to expect when he was took a job that brought him to the island cult of Fortuna, where the people supposedly worshipped his father. Finding out that he had a nephew was not one of them, especially not finding the poor kid trapped in some creepy underground laboratory.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    The bath takes care of the sweat. Takes care of the burnt bits of skin and fat that still cling to his palm. Zuko scrubs his body until it’s raw, blushing red; he dunks his head under the hot water and stays there, staring up at the dark, vaulted ceiling of the washroom until his lungs run out of breath to use.
    The oil of honeysuckle and opium and cinnamon, sweet and sharp and earthy, does not wash the stench of scorched flesh out of his nose.

    Zuko falls asleep on the evening of his official coronation, when he’s twenty-one-years old and has finally reached his majority. Zuko wakes on the morning of the Agni Kai with his father, eight years earlier.
    This is annoying for several reasons, like the fact that the War is still ongoing, that he has zero friends, and that Ozai is not in jail.
    It’s time to scheme.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Oh Merciful Agni, please no.
    Dreading the answer, Zuko bent forwards and shifted one of his whiskers to press against the Chief of the Sun Warriors forehead, projecting his question as much as he could.
    Which false Fire Lord is on the throne?
    Chimalli blinked, either at the question itself or the method of talking.
    “False Fire Lord Ozai. He ascended to the throne three years ago, at the passing of his father.”
    Zuko felt very cold, dread pooling in his chest, chilling his inner fire.

     

    or: Zuko and Gaang are sent back in time but they're not in the bodies of their younger selves, but in ones completely different then what they are used to.

    If not updated in a while, don't panic.
    I'm just slow

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Team 7 returns to Konoha to participate in the Chuunin Exams. Konoha is not remotely prepared.

    (Meanwhile, dangerous forces stir in the shadows and everything is about to change.)

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    02 Jun 2026

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    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

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    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

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    26 May 2026