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not like I need protection (it's just that I wanna change and go in your direction) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
09 Mar 2026
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Robert Robertson the Third had known he was cursed since he was 7 and a half years old. Maybe longer, but the childhood trauma tended to make his early memories a fuzzy mess of color and pain. So did the traumatic brain injuries.
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Robert Robertson has no idea he's an omega until he gets diagnosed with Omegan Separation Disorder, or OSD. He has been without a pack, and without healthy touch for so long, and is now forced to confront the long-term side effects: Que the Z-Team and members of the SDN stepping in to help.
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I had thoughts about the different ways the Z-Team and other members of the SDN would engage in touch with each other to portray love and support, and decided that I needed to put it on the internet - the Omegaverse came after
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don't go gently into that good night. don't you fuckin' dare. by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
20 Feb 2026
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Robert thought that if this was what the end of the mecha man legacy looked like, well. He didn’t think his father would be proud, necessarily, but he thought Robbie would have at least appreciated the irony of it all. An arch enemy beaten and another Robertson lost to the suit. The scales balanced once again.
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Robert loses his leg in the final battle against Shroud and has to find himself within the long and hard recovery afterwards. Will he let those around him help him, or will he push them all away? There's been a lot he's ignored about his body and past injuries, and now it's all catching up to him. But it's Robert, which means he definitely won't be going gently into that good night.
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the one where they're streamers by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
25 Dec 2025
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The amazing @unspecificedfigure on Instagram created art for a Streamer AU with the boys, and I wanted to explore that universe!
THE ORIGINAL POSTJohn 'Soap' MacTavish struggled when he was discharged from military service for medical reasons, but with the help of his friend Kyle and inspired by the streamer 'Ghost' who talks about similar experiences, he finds himself a fairly popular streamer. Then his hero-turned-crush follows him, and he tried to keep his like from spiraling once more.
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The one where Soap has to recontextualize his hero-worship as he gets to know the real man behind the persona @ghostghames, and where Ghost has to let people into his life other than his flat mate and former Captain. Chronic pain, PTSD, video games, and crafts. What could go wrong?
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NEW DESIGNATION by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
05 Sep 2025
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Zine: The Protocol Pages
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An AZ character study about a droid's spiral into semi-sentience due to a certain blonde clone
(I have feelings about droids and I think you should too)
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Of Fidget Toys and Forgiveness by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
03 Jun 2025
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THE AFTERMATH: A Bad Batch Zine
***A Last of Us/Zombie Apocalypse-inspired AU surrounding the Bad Batch and their friends
This piece explores Crosshair in the aftermath of making it safely to the base that Echo and Rex run with Omega. He is struggling with fitting in, and the memories and injuries left over from his and Omega's flight across the country from zombies and his capture by Hemlock (loosely based on the cult from the Last of Us).
You DO NOT need to know anything about the Last of US to read this!
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Viktor wished it was socially acceptable to bite people.
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a (very) brief exploration into a moment right as the tension between Viktor and Jayce begins to build, and how Viktor might have felt
(can be read as romantic or platonic)
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I did my job, I paid my dues, Love is for fools (Because nobody gives a F*ck) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
30 Aug 2024
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The era of the clone trooper was dying a quiet death.
Now, on the beach, Echo thinks that he might have been dying a quiet death too. A somber march towards the end full of rusting metal and clammy skin in solidarity with every single brother who would die in an empty base with an empty stomach and an empty heart.
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- Part 9 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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I hear your voice on the phone (now I'm no longer alone) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
28 Aug 2024
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He did not ask why Echo had called, nor for an explanation of the hour or panic in his brother’s voice. This was not the first time this had happened, nor would it be the last.
And he was happy to help, every single time.
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- Part 8 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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and i try my best to prove that nothing's out to get you by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
28 Aug 2024
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She couldn’t get enough of the way everything turned gold just for a moment before the sun finally slipped below the horizon, and she could swear she could feel it in her lungs as she exhaled slowly, matching her breath to the beat of the waves as the tide pulled out.
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- Part 7 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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tell me everything's alright (promise that I need nothing more) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
28 Aug 2024
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“You’ve never been a burden, ori’vod,” Hunter said. “Not once.”
Echo shuddered in his soft grip and nodded, his hand finding its way into Omega’s hair and scratching at her scalp to comfort her.
“We’ll figure it out together,” Omega said. “As a family.”
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- Part 6 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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so tenderly you watch me burn by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
28 Aug 2024
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"So here they were, Cross attempting to braid Omega’s hair at 2 am on a Thursday, the endless expanse of the galaxy the only light on their tanned faces as they both leaned into the warm caress of a familiar silence."
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- Part 5 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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Too Busy Saving Everybody Else To Save Yourself (And you don't want no help) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
17 Jul 2024
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Alt. Titled: Ain't Shit Free But Fallin' Out]
This one covers Crosshair as he struggles with basic tasks after losing his hand, and his feelings of inadequacy in the shadow of his brothers. Echo understands this deeply, however, and they find solace in their shared experience.
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"But here, in the gentle waning light of a room he called his own, the sun turning everything gold on its way below the water, Crosshair couldn’t find anything in himself but pure exhaustion."Series
- Part 4 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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To Love in Quiet Rooms by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
11 Jul 2024
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I wanted to explore Crosshair and Omega's journey of healing in this one. We all know this is not a linear process, and I feel like at the beginning, Cross would struggle more than most in finding a way to feel safe enough to open up. I see so much of his need to appear strong in Omega, and I think it would transfer to both of their coping mechanisms as well. And so this happened, and I made myself even more sad <3
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Omega finds Crosshair in the bathroom after a nightmare, and she finds that they are similar in their coping mechanisms. And their inability to ask for help.Series
- Part 3 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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No Longer A Biting Beast by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
30 Jun 2024
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I made myself cry with this one boys!
Something about those dog metaphors ruins me every time. I wanted to explore the depression that Echo struggles with, and how that looks when someone doesn't have a name for it, but still faces it head on every day. How it looks with a found family that you didn't necessarily ask for, not at first.'But he and his brothers were collared beasts no longer. They were standing on shaking new legs, reborn as something gentler, with teeth never meant to rip and tear and hurt. All learning to walk together.'
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- Part 2 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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Forgotten Soldiers and Unnamed Battles by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types
26 Jun 2024
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What about all the Clone Troopers who died in battles that were never named? Lost to history as easily as their names when only other brothers are left to repeat them.
I have written an original clone trooper character named Loth, and this is an exploration into him, and into what it means to be just another soldier on just another battlefield.
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- English
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Don’t Fuck with the Clones (or their little sister) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types
14 Jun 2024
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Ahsoka hadn’t really understood what made the clones Good Soldiers until this moment. Of course she thought they were good at what they had been created to do, had fought beside them long enough to trust their guns at her back when she threw herself into battle. She had bled beside the men she thought of as her brothers, grieved with them. But she had never been afraid of them.
Until now.OR
Humans are some of the only species in the galaxy to have adrenaline, this is why the Clones are made as humans. Other species are absolutely terrified of the clones in an eldritch-being kind of way when they watch them limp away from being literally blown up, or other horrific injuries.
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- Part 1 of Cryptid's Summer of Bad Batch '24
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What if we kissed in this pit full of questionable plant life? jk jk... unless? by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types
25 May 2024
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Tumblr Prompt from @freddykicksasses on Tumblr [account/post linked below]
Cody and Obi-Wan are infected by a weird plant and nothing happens. Except apparently it was supposed to make Cody fall in love with Obi-Wan and it's pretty weird that he didn't notice until he was throwing up on the Jedi's boots, right? It's almost like he already felt like that or something!
[Tom Foolery happens and then Feelings Talks ensue due Said Tom Foolery] -
A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours This Star Destroyer (i.e. Rex cries for the First Time) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
03 May 2024
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The moment when everything finally hits Rex, and without an inhibitor chip in his head to block it out, he has to Feel it all.
The moment when Rex cries for the first time, alone with Ahsoka in the control tower of a Star Destroyer, knowing that they will probably not make it. -
gaslight, gatekeep, girl boss (i.e. lying to people for fun) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
10 Apr 2023
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Neil and Andrew are nothing if not committed to a bit, especially if that means Andrew gets to fuck with cis people. It's an added bonus, really.
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Reporters and the internet make assumptions about people's gender and they bear the consequences (the consequences being Neil and Andrew's shenanigans)
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Friendship Bonding with Our Friends! (a 12 year old genius, a hunter AND gatherer, and this feral teenager we found in the woods) by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: The Owl House (Cartoon), The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Feb 2023
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Last of Us / Owl House Crossover inspired by fanart from soldraws_ on Instagram (included and linked in piece)!
A problematic series of events leaves several gays in a truck on a hellbent road trip to safety and three kids wandering around the woods in the general direction of Connecticut.
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Eda and Luz rescue Raine and Amity and try and head to a camp in Connecticut that provides safety and a way to fight back against Belos and his government base full of lies, secrets, and tightening rules and resources. Gus and Willow are resourceful and make their own way toward safety. There is someone following them through the woods, and it is not a clicker.*No characters or plot points from the Last of Us appear in this piece, this is purely using the universe and placing the Owl House characters within it - you do NOT need to know anything about the Last of Us to understand this*
