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Names are important. Names have power, though what kind of power depends on the kind of name. This much, he knows.
Real Names are the Name your parents give you, the first Name you knew meant you. They’re tied to you before you know how to say them, so much part of you they must be treated with care, kept secret from all but your closest loved ones, for any who know them can exert their power on you for their own ends.
Then there’s the name you choose, the Safety Name, your public name, closer to a mask than a name. It’s attached to the you shown to the world, it functions like a shield, a wall between yourself and any who might attempt to magically influence you.
He thinks he remembers there being more kinds of names than that, but he can’t remember what they are. He just knows— he thinks that they exist.
He knows all of this. What he doesn’t know are his own names. Not anymore.
Not after It found him, and changed him somehow. Everything before It is blurry and indistinct, save for that he knows he wasn't always like this, and that It is why he is.
No, the only Name he knows himself by is the one It gave him, after finding amusement in his well-founded terror of It: Anxiety.
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14 Jan 2024
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thinks about this thinks about this thinks about this
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Virgil has been able to erase memories since he was a little kid, and his best friend Janus is similar in that he has a superpower too, the ability to sense lies and secrets. Virgil never really intends to use his power other than to get rid of awkward moments that would otherwise keep him up at night, but unfortunately, the new student Diggory has other plans, and his actions towards Virgil will dramatically alter his life in a way Virgil isn't sure he'll ever be able to come back from.
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If there’s one rule about knocking on strange doors, it’s that you’d better be damn sure that what’s on the other side of them is better than what’s chasing you down on yours.
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"You've seen the posters. You know, the ones for missing kids. The ones hung on grocery store bulletin boards and gas station walls, dog-eared and ancient-looking under their scratched, yellowing glass. All those names and dates and blurry, weather-stained snapshots. Look at those faces some time, really look. Because I’ll tell you a secret.
It’s a lie.
The ones who vanished without a trace? Missing for years, even decades…just gone, like they’ve dropped off the face of the earth? Those are Fae kidnappings.
My name is Virgil Storm, and I was one of them."
Virgil escaped from Arcadia after sixteen years of faery imprisonment, bearing colored rings around his pupils and the ability to sprout flowers from any substance. He thought he was free.
Two years later, his faery master tracked him down.
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- Part 1 of The Grimmverse
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06 Aug 2023
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Tommy really wishes everything was how it used to be.
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careful son (you got dreamer's plans) by angelsdemonsducks
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP
30 Jul 2021
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Wilbur gasps back to life with mud between his fingers and rain in his eyes.
Wilbur was dead. Now, he is not. He can't say that he's particularly happy about it.
Unfortunately, the server is still as tumultuous as ever, even with Dream locked away, so it seems that his involvement in things isn't a matter of if, but when.
(Alternatively: the prodigal son returns, and a broken family finally begins to heal. If, that is, the egg doesn't get them all killed first.)
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- Part 1 of break them right (and feel alive)
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09 Sep 2021
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your wayward children by Anonymous for WreakingHavok, kermoppi
Fandoms: Video Blogging RPF, Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP
06 Sep 2021
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An SBI-centric urban fantasy AU.
An angel, a hunter, a chaos spirit, and a not-quite human find family in each other against all the odds stacked against them.
But some things were never meant to be; when Wilbur’s dark past inevitably catches up to him and threatens to hurt the people he loves, they’re all forced to discover how far they would go for each other.
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Or: It takes a village to raise a child but a family to find and bring him back home. Phil, Techno, and Tommy are up for the job, though, and they will never, ever give up on Wilbur.
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- Part 1 of wayward children
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- 7/7
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Bookmarked by codevassie
26 Jan 2021
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i've thought about nothing else for the last week or two
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Sometimes, I think the universe would be a lot better off without Lance McClain.
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01 Jul 2020
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It's Always Been This Way (Hasn't It?) by Greenninjagal
Fandoms: Sanders Sides (Web Series), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Dec 2019
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Dee had told him on the first Train Ride to Hogwarts about the Sorting Hat.
“It uses Leg-ili-men-cy,” Dee had said holding up identical Chocolate Frog Cards with Salazar Slytherin on it “Thats a type of magic. It reads your thoughts and figures out where you’d best fit.”
Virgil had been so happy to be a Hufflepuff. He had never thought it was going to end up being a death sentence.
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aka two boys curse themselves to a terrible fate in order to save the world. Maybe they wouldn't have quite so many regrets if they hadn't fallen in love with the same three boys in the middle of it.Series
- Part 1 of Time and Time Again (I'd Choose You)
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Standard Extraction Plan, I Guess by Cryptic_Stories
Fandoms: Sanders Sides (Web Series)
11 Jun 2022
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Roman Phillips: 29-year-old spy assigned to a fairly standard mission. The goal? Find Virgil Morris, an alleged hacker who somehow managed to download the personal information of every spy in Roman's agency--The Rogers Institute for Intelligence and Security (more commonly known as RIIS). But it seems that the unassuming target is far more valuable than RIIS anticipated--something COTECH (RIIS's rival agency) plans to take full advantage of.
With the help of Patton Hart and agent Logan Fletcher, they plan to expose these plans and topple the corrupt rival agency.
They're going to need a lot of coffee.
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Virgil swallowed hard, trying to shove down the thoughts about how attractive this dude looked when he was flustered and focusing on the fact that he had literally just started speaking gibberish: 'What the hell is COTECH? Why am I, of all people, being accused of hacking secret government files? Can you cut fingers on cheekbon—Damn it.'
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Bookmarked by codevassie
04 May 2020
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I have no chill when it comes to this fic.
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Virgil tried so, so hard to avoid becoming a supervillain. He really did.
But when your superpower is literally manifesting a person's worst fears, it's a hard thing to avoid.
Still, he really, really tried. Even when his own parents feared him. Even when the whole school feared him. Even when he hated himself and his Propensity so much that he wanted to give in.
He might've succeeded, if he hadn't met him- Roman Reyes, AKA Roman Spectacular, AKA The Prince, AKA the worst thing that has ever happened to him (which is saying something). -
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Virgil, once one of the greatest thieves ever known, ended up in poverty. In order to survive, he has to accept what one would call a suicide mission: stealing an extremely valuable jewel from a mysterious nobleman. However, his wings fail him and Virgil finds himself alone and injured in a foreign kingdom, not sure who he can trust.
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Soulmate AU.
Sir Roman, Right Hand of the noble King Thomas is sent to deal with a rogue Warlock terrorising the locals, hopefully by diplomacy but he is granted leave to do whatever it takes to protect the innocents living in the villages.
He fails.
Dragged before the victorious Warlock, he expects to be killed. Instead, he meets his main adviser Logan, his prisoner Patton and his servant boy Virgil - the latter catching his eye the most.
But things are not what they seem.
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20 Jan 2020
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Anxiety hurts Thomas. It's just what he does, what he has always done. It's not what he wants. He only wants to protect him but that is easier wished for than done.
When the opportunity to prove himself opens up to him, he grabs it, for once not caring about the consequences.
Things go downhill from there.
The fall, rise, fall (and rise again) of Virgil.
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please don't take me away, calla lilies by Anonymous
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
24 May 2019
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Eiji appreciates Yut-Lung’s attempt at trying to keep his patience, he really does, but he’s nearly a second away from their potential unemployment.
“For the last time, we do not have flowers meaning dumbass.”
Or, Eiji didn’t mean to fall in love with Yut-Lung’s #1 worst customer, but now he’s going on not-dates and coughing up flower petals by the end of the day.
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20 Jan 2020
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“Alright. But you stay safe okay? I mean-” Eiji immediately regretted his reflexive reply to a goodbye. This wasn’t just your ordinary stranger, this was probably a powerful wizard for crying out loud.
But instead of an awkward laugh, the wizard settled with a gentle smile, the kind that reached his eyes and made the mystifying jade more brilliant than ever.
“Thanks. You stay safe too,” and with that, the wizard hopped off the balcony and vanished into the crowd below.---
In which Eiji gets cursed into a ghost, the kingdom wages war on its neighbours, and the devil wizard Ash Lynx roams the wastelands while striking fear into the strongest of hearts.
But of course, fate would see the seemingly heartless wizard fall in love with a heart that had so much to give.
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20 Jan 2020
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Lance McClain constantly dreams of the day he'll finally meet his mysterious soulmate. They don't say much, if anything at all, but they leave him with gorgeous paintings temporarily tattooing his skin. It's not exactly the situation he hoped for, but when he feels the connection between them, he can't bring himself to resent them. As much as he wishes his soulmate would just talk to him, he's resigned himself to being patient. In the meantime, he has a loving family and good friends to help him get by.
Keith Kogane dreads the day he'll finally meet his obnoxious soulmate. He's just an art student who's struggling to find his place in the world. There's so much he hasn't been able to control in his life, and the thought of having a soulmate, just another thing in his life which he also has no control over yet can't do anything about, is a little terrifying. So he ignores the words that occasionally appear on his skin. He has other things to focus on: like being a new student at a big university where his childhood friend and step-brother go.
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20 Jan 2020
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Well, bite me, Eiji's mind supplied, never thought I’d get shot twice in my life, but here we are I guess, and smiled. He was going home. He’d been so, so tired.
The man adjusted his aim - Same spot too, Eiji noted - and turned the safety off.
And the whole world froze over.
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somewhere between the seed and the sky (fly away, flyboy) by kay_cricketed
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
31 Dec 2018
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Freelance photographer Eiji Okumura unexpectedly attracts the attention of a local superhero and, with it, equal shares of wonderment and trouble. He'd be happier about the change if not for the amount of evil monologues he's had to sit through.
Like, there are so many.
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Bookmarked by codevassie
16 Jan 2019
Bookmarker's Notes
A fun, playful, bit sarcastic style. Banter was witty and characterization was excellent. I fell in love with this fic.
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The one where Hunk bets Lance that he can't get the phone number of the hot new librarian within a week, and Lance realizes that he's in for more than he bargained for.
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Bookmarked by codevassie
16 Oct 2018
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Lib Sci major Keith. Literary and art references. Need I say more?