CrypticVirago
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knowing little of your wounding (share our mending all the same) by CrypticVirago
Fandoms: Subnautica (Video Game)
03 Aug 2024
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One minute Robin's planning on nursing a mounting headache after a run-in with some of the local, aggressive fauna, and the next, she's turned over operation of her body to the alien voice in her skull.
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Time was not a kind companion in his life, and it was not a particularly useful companion here in his afterlife. But it sat next to him regardless, and its closeness wasn't the fellowship he longed for in this place.
He longed for the warmth of another, his heart's companion, his beloved, his Achilles. Truly, this was the gods cruelty. To place him here, Forgetfulness, Oblivion, resting at his back, a gentle, tempting song.
The greatest cruelty, to be separated now, where time no longer mattered.
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He was made to be a killing machine.
He wasn’t made to be domestic. Wasn’t meant to clean or cook or take care of a dog.
But he’ll try. He’d be damned if he didn’t.
He wanted to be more than what he was programmed to be.
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LochAndLoaded — Read your profile and I think you might be exactly what I’m looking for. Never done this before, have no idea what I’m doing. I’m used to being in control, but I think I’d like to see what it’s like to give it up.
John’s stomach flips as he reads it over, fingers tightening around the phone, breath hitching tightly in his chest. He doesn’t regret what he said, because it’s true. He does want to know what it would be like. And yet, he can’t help how raw it makes him feel, how exposed. Like something has been peeled open inside of him, and John is helpless to stop it.
He doesn’t even know when these thoughts started, only that he’s been thinking them for a while. This wanting turning into a need, sharp and relentless, plaguing John’s every waking thoughts. He knows he could go to the bar, knows he could find a pretty lad or lass and settle the ache in his belly.
But that ache always comes back.
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15 Jun 2026
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An alternate first meeting, where Ghost and Soap meet each other in the field under infinitely worse circumstances than either of them would have liked:
Ghost wakes up in a pit under a building with a bomb attached to him, certain he's going to die. Soap, an EOD tech amongst his other specialties, is the only person available to at least try to save him. It should be fraught, and tense, and miserable all around, and it is; a whole lot of Ghost slowly losing his mind while Soap does everything he can to save his life. But it would probably be easier if Ghost wasn't a stress-flirter, and if Soap wasn't the kind of endlessly competent that he loved, and if, by virtue of their situation, they didn't keep ripping open each other's wounds and then patching each other back up again after.
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14 Apr 2026
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“Don’t kill me,” Soap blurts out and, Christ, that was not a good start. Ghost raises a brow, waiting for the bomb to drop. “But, uh, want to be my boyfriend?”
when soap invites ghost back home to scotland for a week, ghost hadn't imagined he would wind up in a fake dating scheme to trick soap's family, of all people. it also doesn't help that he's head over heels in love with soap, of all people.
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02 Apr 2026
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innocent, innocent, innocent again by Soupdepartment
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
10 Mar 2026
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He couldn't remember the last time touch meant love to him. It must've been some time when he was little, when his mother's hands were still tender and he looked less like his father. As he grew taller and bulkier, and his words grew defensive and harsh, she began to stare straight through him. The last gentle touch he'd ever taken without shivering beneath it was her thin fingers dragging over the bruises mottling his arms, never apologizing but always looking sorry.
His body waited for Soap to grab, to pull, to dig his nails in just because he could — but he didn't. He roamed over Ghost's skin like it was fragile, never lingering on the remnants of a past he'd never spoken of. It was too much. Too Johnny. He wished his shoulders would stop trembling just for a moment so he could feel that sweetness without a lingering sense of dread in his bones.
or: A new recruit triggers a flashback by pinning Ghost down during a sparring match and ignoring his tap out. Panicked, Ghost dislocates his own shoulder to free himself, and Soap has to pick up the pieces while Ghost confronts feelings from his past he thought he'd buried.
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25 Mar 2026
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It was a dream, John flying out to London to meet with the team, Price explaining that he would get his in-house editors working on the project, that revisions and such usually took a few months. But everything was handled for him, the cover artist, the designs for the physical book itself, social media promotions. Everything.
And John didn’t even have words for how excited he was.
He glances at the name of the editor one more time, brows furrowed as he tries to remember who the fuck Ghost is. He met a ton of people at the office the other day, John Price welcoming him with open arms before introducing him to his team, a small group, and yet John knows he would remember the name of this person.
Seeing as it really wasn’t a name at all.
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19 Feb 2026