Excalis
Fandoms
- 신의 탑 | Tower of God (7)
- Bleach (Anime & Manga) (7)
- DCU (4)
- Superman - All Media Types (4)
- Batman - All Media Types (3)
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#1 reason why you should get better at arranging dinner dates with your friends and family: imminent death! by Excalis
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
26 Oct 2024
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“Hokage-sama,” Kakashi said, aware he sounded like a harried retail worker. From the corner of the ceiling, Hawk's chakra fluttered with silent laughter. Kakashi flicked a glare at her before settling his gaze back onto his sensei's impenetrably beaming face, feeling distinctly harassed. “This is flagrant disregard of protocol.”
“Yes,” Minato-sensei said peaceably, and nothing more. The smile on his face didn't budge an inch. A silence filled with expectation swelled between them.
“What are you doing?” Kakashi asked finally, hands placed on his hips disapprovingly.
“Abusing my authority as your supreme commander,” Minato-sensei replied smilingly.
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be as you've always been by Excalis
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
06 Oct 2024
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“Difficult to explain,” Bruce said shortly, looking at nothing in particular.
Slowly, Clark lowered his head, wordlessly prompting eye contact. Then, he raised a brow.
“What was I supposed to say?” Bruce asked archly in response. “‘Hello, mother, your untimely murder opened my eyes to the glaring flaws in Gotham’s criminal justice system, and in the decades since, I’ve gone out every night in a bat costume to perform acts of vigilantism through gratuitous application of incredible violence. Would you like more milk in your tea?’”
Martha Wayne is resurrected for a day. Clark is mostly here for moral support and to make sure Bruce doesn’t crawl out of his skin from sheer stress, but he certainly wouldn’t mind making a favorable first impression on one of the most influential women of his best friend’s life. He just hadn’t expected her to be so incisively observant, though he really, probably should have.
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a stolen moment by Excalis
Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
26 Jun 2024
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Then, Clark’s eyes met his, and he pulled away so quickly that the sound of his retreat whipped through the air. His face, for a moment, was startlingly open, and naked grief cracked harshly through his expression like a fist shattering the surface of a frozen lake. Then, it was gone, and the slate was wiped clean as though there had been nothing but a mild smile there since the very beginning.
But Bruce knew what he’d seen.
“How long?” he asked.
Clark’s mouth twisted. “I don’t know why I thought I’d be able to keep it from you,” he said softly. “You know me too well. Was that even five minutes?”
“Clark.”
Clark’s lips turned up into a smile, fracturing his face, his eyes glittering shards of lapis lazuli. “How long for what?” he asked. “For how long we were married? Or for how long it’s been since you died?”
Series
- Part 3 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
- Part 2 of Kryptonite Week 2024
- Part 2 of the flower, never watered, turns to the sun
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A hand snapped out, wrapping around his wrist and tightening until he could nearly feel his bones grinding against each other. Superman’s eyes were open, but his pupils had swallowed his irises until there was only a thin ring of blue. He didn’t blink at all, gaze faraway and unfocused. Not quite conscious.
His grip certainly wasn’t weak, in any case. Batman took that for a good sign.
He opened his mouth to say something sufficiently reassuring that would hopefully result in him without a broken wrist—he’d still be able to get the kryptonite out, of course, but having to accommodate for an injury whilst performing a medical procedure wasn’t exactly his idea of a pleasant experience. But Superman cocked his head a little, and all the tension in his body fled him, his grip loosening from around his wrist.
“Br’ce,” Clark slurred indistinctly, his hand falling to his side, and immediately, trustingly fell back into unconsciousness.
Bruce stared at his slack face, hands frozen, mind buzzing with white noise.
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- Part 2 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
- Part 1 of Kryptonite Week 2024
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my heart (it digs its own grave) by Excalis
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
14 Apr 2024
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Kryptonians ran hotter than humans by about 5.4 degrees, give or take a few decimal places. Clark felt like a radiator even on the bitterest of rainy nights on Gotham rooftops, a foot's distance between them; Bruce wondered if it would feel different somehow, if he pressed his hand against his chest, where his shield would lay, with intention—touch for the sake of touching. If it would feel different without the barrier of triple-weave kevlar and impenetrable alien fabric between them, stripped of the context of battle and the excuse of necessity.
Bruce was, however, in possession of all his faculties and thus was sound of mind enough to create a 20-item list (organized by relevance) of all the reasons why following through on his desires would be unwise. Chiefly among said reasons was, of course, that there were approximately thirty minutes before Clark would be married to the love of his life, Lois Lane, and that Bruce would never jeopardize their happiness for something as petty as feelings that he’d failed to smother in the cradle—no matter his alleged ‘self-destructive tendencies’.
Series
- Part 1 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
- Part 1 of the flower, never watered, turns to the sun
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the flower, never watered, turns to the sun by Excalis
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Superman - All Media Types
26 Jun 2024
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Too little, too late, as they say. Bruce’s love isn't very little, but it is true, however, that it's far too late.
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Kryptonite Week 2024 by Excalis
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Superman - All Media Types
26 Jun 2024
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- 2
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Hurt and Comfort Bingo by Excalis
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Superman - All Media Types
26 Jun 2024
- Words:
- 16,069
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- 3
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Hurt/Comfort Bingo (Round 13) by Excalis
Fandom Bleach (Anime & Manga), Fate/stay night & Related Fandoms, ヴァニタスの手記 | Vanitas no Carte | The Case Study of Vanitas (Anime), ヴァ二タスの手記 - 望月淳 | Vanitas no Carte | The Case Study of Vanitas - Mochizuki Jun (Manga), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
05 Jan 2023
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Khun and Bam, and the things they would do for each other.
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It is raining rather heavily today, enough so that even his inhuman vision is somewhat obscured by the precipitation.
It’s not so obscured, however, that he’d miss the obvious figure squatting by the water’s edge. His first thought upon seeing them is that they’ll catch a cold — the legs they’re curled in on are pale and bare, and their owner has nothing to cover themselves aside from a top hat clearly designed for fashion and not practicality.
His second thought is, Oh, dear. I know that person.
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an unplanned reconciliation, and an even more unplanned dip in the sea.
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- Part 4 of a hymn to saint guillotine
Bookmarked by Excalis
07 Sep 2026
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Justice, duty, sacrifice. Justice, duty, sacrifice, guilt. Justice, duty, sacrifice. Justice, duty, sacrifice, guilt. Neuvillette threads these words over and over in his mind like beads of a rosary, guilt a final nail in refinement of his self-torture. Morosely, he thinks this might be something he loops in his head for eternity, something to atone for the rest of his life.
Neuvillette thinks he's under a curse, a haunting of sorts.
Bookmarked by Excalis
06 Sep 2026
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“Does that happen a great deal?”
“Oh, every now and then,” Furina lies, flicking her wrist as if the attention is nothing more than an annoying insect buzzing about her head — something to be crushed, and discarded, kept at bay with scented smoke. “I’m quite a big star now, you know!”
“The pride of Fontaine,” says Neuvillette softly, and Furina realises he must have seen her in the tabloids. How mortifying. “Which is what I was hoping to speak to you about, as it happens.”
Two years after Neuvillette and Furina break up, a letter arrives in Furina’s dressing-room at the Opera Epiclese.
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Bookmarked by Excalis
06 Sep 2026
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etterath (n.)
/.et-er-rath./the feeling of emptiness after a long and arduous process is finally complete.
focalors is dead and the people of fontaine have been saved. the play has concluded its final act; all that’s left is for furina to take her bow, and in the absence of purpose, she wonders and mourns a life unlived.
Bookmarked by Excalis
06 Sep 2026
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The Partial Iudex by Fandoms_Everywhere_United
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
20 Jan 2024
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In the immediate aftermath of the trial, Neuvillette takes Furina back to his room in the Palais Mermonia to give her some much needed care and rest. It’s such a shame their feelings get in the way.
Bookmarked by Excalis
05 Sep 2026