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    After the doctor hurts Rio, a freshly-orphaned Viktor is taken in at The Last Drop. Years later, there's a riot on the bridge.

    In which child-Viktor refuses to abandon Silco; an act of devotion that changes the trajectory of Zaun's uprising. While Vander negotiates with Enforcers, Silco single-parents a revolution in the dark. Someone has to fund his son's endless charity work and vaccinate zaunish kids.

    There's siblings-of-divorce, waverider eggs, volatile crystals...and a Piltie wandering around the Lanes looking for blue gems and a ghost.

    Illustrated! +more art on tumblr, bsky, twitter, insta.

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    Simon has never been good with kids. When a child appears out of thin air in his submarine and the COI still refuses to pull him up, all Simon can do is protect her from the horrors of the ocean. Even if he knows there's not much hope for either of them to live.

     

    Ryland Grace is living his best life on Erid. He has a wonderful best friend, scientific colleagues who respect him, and students who adore him. Unless he decides to make the journey back to Earth, however, he doesn't expect to see another human any time soon. He certainly wasn't expecting to stumble upon a traumatized father and daughter welded into a blood-filled submarine.

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    encordés (French, mountaineering, plural): roped together; tied to a partner on the same rope, so that if one of you falls, the other can hold the line.

    Gustave is an experienced climber. When a route in the French Alps goes wrong, he expects broken bones and weeks of gruesome recovery. What he does not expect is, instead, to fall, slowly and catastrophically, for the unfairly attractive mountain rescuer who keeps visiting his hospital room.

    But Verso carries his own scars, and Gustave has learned the hard way that being wanted means hiding the parts of himself that are broken, and that leaving first hurts less than being left behind.

    This is a story about concussed flirting, scars and second chances, about being seen completely — and two stubborn idiots learning that the rope works in both directions.

    (Complete; updates twice weekly)

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    In which Gustave wakes up and tries to put the pieces together.

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    When the faceless boy asks Verso to look after his sister, he reluctantly agrees. He should have known that living among the people of Lumière, with friendship, community, and a sister who is not his sister, would derail his plans.

    Gustave holds on to hope that one day, he will defeat the Paintress and create a future for his city and the man he loves. But hope is a fragile thing, especially when what you believe in is built on lies.

    The road to salvation demands a heavy toll. Tomorrow comes, one way or another.


    The shout on Gustave's lips died when the white-haired man spoke again.

    “What happened to your face, Verso?”

    “Just a temporary measure.” Silvery chroma curled from Verso's head, and just like that, most of his scars were gone, leaving behind the face of a stranger. Questions, words, crowded in Gustave’s mind, but he couldn’t string them together into a sentence.

    This wasn’t Verso.

    This was Verso.


    Updates Fridays. I know some of you are here for the smut, so I must admit that according to my calculations, this thing is 95 % drama and 5 % smut (good for them). If you're looking for the 5 %, please check the notes for Chapter 1.

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    26 Jun 2026