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The mattress dips as somebody sits down on the bed. Oscar stirs. Through fluttering dark eyelashes he sees the shapes of a person. Coppery hair combed through with pomade, sharp shoulders bearing the weight of a holster. Oscar doesn't quite flinch when a gloved hand reaches towards him, only to card through his hair, "Hello Oscar."
Oscar blinks away the stickiness of sleep. He squints, which only partially defines the figure in front of him with scars smeared across skin. Oscar slurs, "Ar…thur?"
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Back In Arkham by alwaysGradience
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), Batman - All Media Types
21 Jun 2026
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Spoilers for season 4
After Addison, Arthur wants to go back to Arkham and John agrees. They get on a train back to Massachusetts, and it's almost good for a short while. But after loosing The Butcher, they somehow get transported to a mental hospital of the same name, in a completely different time period. They don't how they got here, but they do know they have to leave, and leaving is only the first step in this long journey.
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Drifter gets forced into a bat form, and for reasons that he can't articulate, he goes to The Baroness.
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Oscar is used to nightmares, but he hasn't had one like this in a while.
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Hypnagogia is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep, also defined as the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. Mental phenomena that may occur during this "threshold consciousness" include hallucinations, lucid dreaming, and sleep paralysis.
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Kayne is mostly sure there’s a reason why he’s in this hallway in particular. He hears people, wondering if that’s why he’s here. There are a series of short doors along the hall, exposing the bare feet or the shoes underneath. Changing rooms.
“We don't exactly have a lot of room for choice.” Arthur wavers, setting a shirt down.
Ah, that’s why Kayne is here.
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When Gerard Keay dies, the catalogue of the trapped dead is put in police custody. But isn't a pair of hunters that pull him out of it.
Instead, he is greeted by a tall, blonde, spiral thing that looks far too pleased to see him. "I have found you, Gerard Keay."
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Parker strided over to Arthur, glancing at the page underneath Arthur’s hand expecting it to be the subject of the conversation except Arthur plucked the cigarette from his mouth. “Wha-hey!”
Arthur put the cigarette out on the ash tray on his desk, because Arthur smoked too! “Let’s not smoke in the office.”
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Arthur wakes up. Something is wrong. He's not alone.
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Parker doesn't want to get between Arthur and John. So he just watches
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Kayne dreams, for the first time in a while.
(Ep 59 spoilers)
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What is more heterosexual than a man shaving another man?
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Arthur needed to transcribe his shorthand for Parker; he wasn’t allowed to check out some of the more mysterious books out of the Miskatonic library, but he took notes. They read about monsters and ghosts, and creatures from beyond the veil and things that existed behind mirrors. (“I am not bein’ haunted by Bloody Mary.”)
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Having his arm cut off wasn't the only change that happened to Oscar that night.
Five years later, Oscar has moved to upstate rural New York, and is almost happy. Until Arthur Lester comes knocking at his door.
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Aurelius is one of Princes in Yellow, son of the immortal King in Yellow. He has a lot of important duties as a prince, some of which become compromised thanks to his brother, John's, reckless rebellion. As frustrated as John's antics are, they are familiar. The stranger that shows up as a representative during a political convention is not, and frankly Aurelius does not care that he's such a mystery, all that matters is that John stays away from one Arthur Lester.
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Noel hates being late-- so to cope with the anxiety he pulls out a cigarette.
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Michael never liked mirrors. It supposes that's why the hallways are full of them.
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Sinner asks Oscar and Noel to ascend to godhood, so that they can be with Sinner forever. In an adjacent timeline, they ask The Butcher too.
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“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” -Mark Twain
The result of Arthur, Kayne, and Noel, trying to take over the order.
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Noel wakes up early enough to watch John cook breakfast, and they end up talking about how they each get their names.
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Murderbot goes job hunting by alwaysGradience
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Marvel Cinematic Universe
21 Aug 2024
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Through a freak accident, Murderbot gets transported to the MCU universe and figures out that stealing shit from Tony Stark while trying to solve physics in order to go back home is a good idea.
HIATIS: I'm following the dopamine in a different fandom now, but I don't think this work is abandoned yet. I don't know what exactly would lead to me updating this fic again, but it wouldn't be impossible for me to revisit.