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  1. Public Bookmark 73

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    This is living, the Outsider thinks, while splashing water on his face to wake up. This is living – while digging a sliver of glass out of the sole of his foot. He shouldn’t have taken his boots off the night before. The little wound aches all morning on his walk to procure more fruit, so he uses most of the coin Billie left him that day to buy a pot of salve that claims to be ‘Thoroughly Proven To Eradicate All Manners Of Infection And Promote Speedy Healing!’ in bold print on the packaging. This, too, is living. And this, as the day drags on. And this.

    A long, slow, sometimes painful, sometimes sexy exploration of the Outsider coming to terms with his humanity, following DotO. Corvo does show up eventually, I promise!

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    23 Jan 2024

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    “You would never forgive yourself, I know. But you never forgive yourself for anything, Corvo, whether or not it was your fault. What difference would it make if you feel guilty here, in a palace that’s never been home, or in a sunny apartment overlooking the Seta Canal?”

    Corvo sets down his plate too, and says, “You wouldn’t understand.”

    “No,” the Outsider tells him, irritated, “I wouldn’t know anything about that useless yet inescapable guilt one feels when they can only watch as events they can do nothing to change cause unmitigated suffering. The kind of guilt that’s thousands of years deep, thick and foul enough to make you hand a mercenary a blade, and hope that they might drive it through your heart just so you don’t have to watch anymore.”

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    post-doto goodness, corvosider in its final form, learning what it means to be a real human being after being a silly cruel little void god for literally thousands of years

  2. Public Bookmark 26

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    “Don’t spend your second chance at life pining,” his mother says in that small hospital room, a gentle smile on her lips. “You deserve to be happy.”

    And while Piers agrees that he deserves to be happy, he can’t bring himself to stop pining. Not when the feeling sits like an old, familiar friend in his chest, and tells him that friendship is better than rejection as Chris’ unwavering support throughout his recovery is stronger than concrete.

    But when Chris volunteers for the two of them to road trip it back to HQ after his first mission back on active duty, Piers gets an intimate glance into a life he could have.

    If only he stopped running away.

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    18 Jun 2023

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    A Resistance pilot and a reformed stormtrooper walk into a bar. Finn's not sure what the punchline is, but he's almost certain it's gonna hurt. (He's wrong.)

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    15 May 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Nothing much had changed as a result of that short but painful conversation. Finn had acted strange for a week or so. Poe had not acted strange for any amount of time. The only real difference, in the past two months, had been the steady beat of regret under Finn's breastbone, telling him too late, too late, too late, every time Poe smiled at someone else. Poe smiled a lot. Finn's life was a misery of his own making.

  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    Attempt at consolidating my Pendleton family headcanons, but really just a biography of one Lord Treavor Pendleton.

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    09 Apr 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 36

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    Chris thought he had one Lieutenant Piers Nivans worked out - as serious as he is dedicated and actually meaner when running drills than the drill sergeants, Chris is sure he's browbeaten the recruits into good reviews at the end of the year.

    Then he gets to know Piers outside work, and Chris's understanding of Piers - as well as his own sexuality - takes a spectacular tumble.

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    09 Mar 2023

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