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    foil (narrative)
    1. in any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.

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    recovery (noun)
    1. a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.
    2. the action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost

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    parallel (noun)
    1. a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another.

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    What if Voldemort went after Harry and Neville, and gave no one a chance to die for them? What if both Chosen Ones died as children?
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    There was no prophesied boy, but there was still this--dozens of shadowed young faces refusing to run, even at the very end of the world. Dumbledore looked out at his chess pieces, pawns and queens; his children and his friends; his collateral damage. He had the beginnings of a plan swelling in his chest.

    It would take them decades to get their hands, quietly, on every Horcrux. Tom Riddle had to think they were secret. He had to think he was safe. It would take them almost decades, but one day he would be mortal again.

    These dozens of faces--they were mortal now. Alastor Moody could feel mortality in the aches of old broken bones; Andromeda rewrote her own last name. Remus and Sirius felt empty, gaping holes in the seats around them, and they made crude, expansive, joyous toasts to friends' memories.

    When Molly first reached over and held Arthur's hand, they knew this was something that could not last. That was why they held hands, held on, held tight.

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    15 Sep 2026

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    To say that he runs to his car would be incorrect, as he is a Lan, and running is both undignified and unnecessary unless in immediate danger. Nor does he slam his key into the ignition, or aggressively swerve around the cars on the freeway, or have a mild panic attack at the fact he is picking A-Yuan up late from school for the first time ever.

    He comes close, though.

    By the time he arrives, it’s 4:35PM, and he has imagined about fifty different worse-case scenarios. The door is partly open when he gets to it, a messy label of 104B—Art Room scrawled with chalk on a placard next to the faded wood. As he opens it fully, he expects to see a wailing, terrified child, or perhaps a scene of utter misery and betrayal.

    What he finds is his son, hands covered in paint, being sung to by a beautiful, dark-haired stranger.

    “Ducks live in the pond, yellow ducks, happy ducks!”

    Lan Wangji stops in his tracks.
     

    (Or: Falling in love with your son’s art teacher, in five parts)

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    05 Sep 2026

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    "That's different," Albedo says, “a flower can’t desire a person.”

    Kaeya laughs softly and tilts his head at Albedo, hair falling away to show his eyepatch. “You are not a flower, Kreideprinz. Look at you.”

    Albedo does, instinctively, glances down at his chalk body and his pale skin, gray in the moonlight. Kaeya runs his thumb over the back of Albedo’s hand, says “you feel human to me.”

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    05 Sep 2026

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    Following the lives of Sirius and (to a lesser extent) Regulus Black as they navigate their family, Hogwarts, and the first wizarding war.

    Everything follows the story as you know it... until Kreacher decides the young Master Regulus is not going to die tomorrow.

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    04 Sep 2026

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    Dedue has long since come to terms with the fact that Dimitri is an impossibility. He is a brave man, an emotional man. He is perfect and flawed.

    He is missing.

    As Dedue recovers from injuries sustained while saving the one person he has ever loved, he finds himself refamiliarizing himself with the language of his childhood. There are some… growing pains. Fortunately nothing that can't be fixed.

    Or: the five times that the people of Duscur misunderstand Dedue's references to Dimitri and the one time they completely understand.

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    19 Aug 2026