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He wouldn’t call finding the skeleton an accident. Not quite. Not when he’s been out day and night, forfeiting sleep, meals, training, to look for any sign of the familiar wrongness. He also can’t call it an accident because, crouched on a building, looking for the anomaly with the knives and the crazy look in his eye, the skeleton walks up behind him, silent, casual, and asks what they’re looking for. Ben nearly tears him apart right then and there. But that isn’t winning.
“I’m not sure that’s any of your business.” Ben lands on this response because it will throw the skeleton off the trail, and let him know that Ben is nothing close to an ally just because of some strange residual familiarity they (may have) had in a different (deceased, murdered) timeline. Need to put these anomalies in their places. They’re nothing. Less than nothing.
“Yeah, well, most things aren’t, but you’ve been circling in on Diego and that makes my balls a little itchy. I also haven’t seen Luther or Allison in a couple days. So, again, What’re we looking for?”
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Exploration of a dynamic between New Ben and Klaus
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Nile knows that New Year’s means very little to her travel companions, realistically, which is a shame because it means everything to her. Means fresh starts and appreciating the old and new snow and friends and family and champagne and putting down one novel and immediately starting a new one getting the plots tangled together in beautiful ways. Means less to the others than birthdays, even. Like, did Scythia even use the Gregorian calendar They’re celebrating tonight, though, in a way. New Year’s with a group whose youngest is her, officially twenty-six, and whose second youngest is nine-hundred and fifty-one. At least they’re doing it in style. If she has to infiltrate a fancy party to assassinate a sex trafficker CEO and his rich friend cronies that the law leaves behind, she might as well do it on New Year’s Eve wearing a goddamn flapper dress.
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Seven Pounds Eight Ounces Healthy Beautiful Perfect by sunriseseance
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
22 Dec 2020
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Allison wanders more, not ready for the sleep to end, and takes in the breadth of nothing in which she’s draped her house. The fad of void that reflects her heart completely, or else does not at all, and to such a frightening degree she can hardly think it. What if Claire hates it here? What if Claire hates it everywhere? What if Claire has powers and Allison was right, always right to not want kids? What if the nightmares are premonitions and Reginald comes into the dark empty house and rends the child from her breast and talks about finally having a useful seventh and there’s still milk on Claire’s little lip and Allison can’t do anything can’t even breathe and the worst part is that maybe Claire is better off because at least Reginald can do something other than ache.
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An exploration of Allison, trauma, and motherhood. -
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See, the thing is, Klaus recoils from touch like it hurt him. Like the kindness Dave sends his way has ripped a hole in his flesh before. Like he has nothing to gain. His response feels warm, on the surface, and kind, almost, but it lacks cordiality, it lacks warmth, like Klaus’s skin when Dave manages to touch it for long enough to get any physical sense.
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Romance is hard when you're closed off and traumatized.
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Happy In That Moment by sunriseseance for hermitreunited
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
26 May 2020
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She did cry a little bit when she looked out at her family’s section and saw four empty seats instead of the planned three. She did add Ben’s rose, and then Five’s rose, to her bouquet to be pressed later. It was tradition, she heard, to place roses on the seats of deceased family. Save a place for them. She didn’t bother to look into what happened after. Should she have thrown the flowers away? Vanya’s chair sat empty, asking her if she had ever made a good choice in her life. She couldn’t answer.
________________________________________________________Allison is a good woman who has done a lot of bad things, and I love her dearly. In this piece, I wanted to explore her wedding, her feelings about her wedding, and also explore her as a flawed character whose flaws hurt her as much as they hurt anyone else. Inspired in part by the amount of evil Allison I see. I wanted to write an Allison who does bad things, but is not bad, because that is the Allison of canon.
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We took the blame, took our bags to the train by sunriseseance
Fandom The Umbrella Academy (TV)
06 Jan 2020
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for worlds adrowse by vaguely_concerned
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
28 Sep 2026
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Olruggio says: “How long have we been doing this?”
“Since the Tower of Tomes. The first time around. You did make it there that night, you just don’t remember. I suppose you can gather why, at this point.”
“But — but that’s years, that’s almost a decade! It’s been years, and this is still the best plan I’ve come up with? Seriously?”
“Well,” Qifrey says bleakly, “you tend to only have minutes to work with each time you actually know the nature of the problem, so… give yourself a break in that regard, at least.”
One of the many rounds of the merry-go-round perpetual motion machine of misery that doubles as Qifrey’s life support; an ingenious early design by Olruggio of the Torch, aged about 12. This is set pre-apprentices, but after they’ve built and lived in the atelier for a while.
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05 Oct 2026
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Really really good memory erasure one with a lot of good descriptions. Suicidal ideation.
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root bound by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi), zmeess
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
01 Aug 2026
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The hands at his waist grip a little tighter. Qifrey, who has been cautiously opening himself to this kind of physical contact in the past few months, has been surprised to discover that he likes it—being held, pressed, kept tight. It stokes the part of him that is terrified of being trapped, just enough to keep him from relaxing.
It’s precisely this interplay between comfort and uneasiness that made him consider the possibility of using it to their advantage.
(Or: an exploration of trauma, healing and acceptance, of settling into one's own skin, and of what it means to make a home in one's heart.)
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30 Sep 2026
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In the only way he can by glittergoblins
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga), とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Anime)
31 Aug 2026
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There are so many ways a person can say ‘I love you’ to the ones they care for, and Qifrey seems to have perfected all the ways to say it without really saying it at all.
A series of vignettes where 5 times Qifrey showed Olruggio he loves him and the 1 time Olruggio returns the favor in kind.
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Drowning Lessons by magellanicpenguin
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga), とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Anime)
27 Sep 2026
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“It is an awful feeling, to drown,” he managed to at least begin a line of thought. “The water burns going down the wrong path, but you can't keep yourself from trying to breathe.” Olruggio listened in silence, his head still resting on Qifrey’s shoulder. “Your body is trying so hard to keep you alive, that it makes death hurt more.”
A beat of silence. Then:
“You're not dying, Qifrey. Not anymore.”
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Or; Qifrey decides to ask for Olly's help.
Bookmarked by sunriseseance
29 Sep 2026
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Hair washing fic that is a great exploration of trauma
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dream logic by battle_cat
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga), とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Anime)
11 Sep 2026
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When the landlady had first shown them the apartment, there had been a heavy oak dining table taking up most of the floor space by the hearth. It had seemed logical—inspired, even—to wrestle the massive table into one bedroom, so Olruggio could have a dedicated workspace to contain the constantly shifting ecosystem of his crafting materials and thought processes, and move both single beds into the other one.
Sure, they were two grown men (if only barely), but they had slept side by side countless times as boys. It would be fine.
It is not fine.