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Calamari (Link)antation by tilapsci for Nebulapaws
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), Splatoon (Video Games)
09 Aug 2025
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“One, are you okay?” Tetra asks, but there’s no time to respond.
Another gleam somewhere ahead of him, and Wind rolls again, but this time he doesn’t go unscathed. The ink rips past his shoulder, and though it’s barely a graze, it burns.
He gasps, his arm locking up instinctively in response to the unexpected pain, but he forces himself to raise his dualies again. He needs more light, and more space to work, and some cover would be nice, too.
“One?” Tetra asks, much more urgently this time.
“Found it,” he chokes out, and then has to dive behind an electrical box to avoid a shot through the head. “Or, it found me.”
Wind, Spirit, Tetra, and Four proudly make up the Inkopolis sector of the New Squidbeak Splatoon, working to monitor and shut down Octarian activity in the area. Things have been quiet for a while, but strange power outages have recently drawn their attention to Octo Valley and force them to investigate.
There are bets going around on whether wild sharks are responsible for causing the outages by chewing on the cables. Spoilers: it's not sharks.
Or, a Linked Universe Splatoon AU!
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“I am not leaving him in there alone,” he continues, starting to loosen the clasp over his shoulder keeping his scarf in place. “He needs us-”
Just then, there’s an audible disturbance in the water. Warriors whips his head around in time to catch a splotch of dazzling pink amidst a cloud of bubbles in the otherwise dark lake, and then a lizalfos genuinely comes flying out of the water. He stares dumbly as it crashes into the deck between him and Twilight, screeching and squirming in pain and fury, with brutal looking claw marks around its face and throat. What the fuck?
When a portal drops the Chain in the middle of a huge lizalfos camp, sprawling halfway across an unknown lake, everyone expects the worst when Legend ends up getting dragged under. They quickly find out just how well he can hold is own in the water, though, and add a new fact to their ever-growing list of Legend's magical abilities.
Or, the Links learn about the mermaid suit, and they're more interested in marveling at the unique transformation than judging Legend for it, much to his surprise. Legend tosses a lizalfos, Warriors makes a fool of himself, and everyone has a good time.
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Wind squints back down at his letter, trying to recall what day it had been right before they left. All the eras have a slightly different calendar, his more rudimentary than most, but even he knows that the timing must be close.
“It’s nothing. This is just a birthday gift from my sister, so I was trying to figure out when my birthday actually is.”
Immediately, everyone in their little group whips around to stare at him. “...What?”
“It’s your birthday?”
Or, the Chain might not be able to throw the most elaborate birthday party while on the road, but turning fourteen is a big deal. No matter how short notice, they'll gladly do whatever they can to make Wind feel special on his big day! (...Even if they probably have the wrong date. Time travel gets confusing, okay? It's the thought that counts.)
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- Part 5 of tilapsci LU sprints!
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Brothers in Arms, Brothers in Tankards by tilapsci
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
01 Feb 2025
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“Great Zephos, they are totally shit-faced-” Wind hisses from over his shoulder, peeking out of the doorway just like Four is. He sounds like he’s having the best day of his life. Maybe he is.
“You’re a good man,” Warriors continues on, entirely oblivious to or uncaring of the audience he has amassed. “Y’ remind me of,” a thick, ugly sniffle, “of m’ own mum.”
“Oh, wow,” Four mutters.
Or, Warriors and Twilight sneak away from the rest of the Chain in the captain's era to enjoy a well-deserved break and celebrate the end of a long, long week. They, uh, might have celebrated a little too hard, because now it takes three separate heroes to drag them to bed and get them to focus for more than five seconds on a subject that isn't their deep, undying, brotherly love for one another.
Tears are shed, drunken heart-to-hearts are had, and lots of blackmail material is collected. At least Four is thoroughly entertained. Written for a sprint prompt in the LU Discord!
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- Part 4 of tilapsci LU sprints!
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“What are you doing?” Twilight asks, giving a significant look to the book loosely held in his lap. Wind immediately snaps it shut. “Do y’ like the waterwheel?”
“...Is that what it’s called?” Wind asks, keeping his eyes trained on the structure. After a moment of deliberation, he opens the book again and scribbles out his previous note. He can feel Twilight watching him, and when he whips his head up in preparation to deliver a withering glare, he simply finds the rancher looking at him curiously. He deflates a bit, at that.
“Yeah,” the rancher confirms, giving the home across from them another significant look. “Forgot for a minute that you wouldn't've known that.”
Or, the Heroes of Courage are always curious, and Wind is no exception. Sometimes the simplest advancements in one era are groundbreaking in another. There's not a lot of information about what life on the mainland is like in Wind's time, so he's trying to document some of it while he has the chance.
And, unsurprisingly, Twilight is a good brother. Written for a sprint prompt in the LU Discord!
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- Part 3 of tilapsci LU sprints!
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A collection of (unless otherwise noted) disconnected short stories/one-shots made for sprints prompts in the LU discord server! I don't post everything I make, but my favorites usually end up on here, and now I have a fancy little series to organize them :D
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The knife goes in. The tower falls. When Jon opens his eyes, he is sitting in the uncomfortable chair in front of Elias Bouchard's desk, signing his employment contract as the Magnus Institute's newest researcher.
He is alone in his memories of the future; his old friends might as well be worlds away. He demonstrably does not do well alone.
Luckily, in the year 2011, he has options.
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02 Sep 2026
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“It’s a preexisting condition,” Jon explains, sipping more bitter tea. “I sort of got—hm. You know Spiderman?”
Tim raises an eyebrow.
“Heard of him, yeah.”
Jon nods, studying his tea.
“It’s sort of like that,” he says. “A spider killed and ate me when I was a child, and now I can’t stay dead.”
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Resurrection isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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31 Aug 2026
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08 Aug 2026
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im genuinely playing though AJ right now and physically restraining myself from finishing this series before im done and it’s PAINFUL
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one step at a time by OuterWilde (foreveraugust)
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
08 Sep 2020
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Phoenix harbours no illusions that getting his badge back is going to be an easy task, even if the hardest part of clearing his name is technically over. He's fully aware that his reinstatement is going to be a bit more complicated than just passing the bar and is going to be more of a case of:
Step 1: Save money to retake bar exam
Step 2: Study frantically to pass said bar exam
Step 3: Pass bar exam
Step 4: Hope and pray that he'll somehow be able to still pull in clients after his reputation got burned to the ground
Step 5: Haircut
Step 6: New suit
Step 7: Finally, finally confess his passionate love for Edgeworth that has been eating him up inside for the past 25 years
Step 8: ???? Lawyer???Thankfully he has a pretty solid support network of people willing to help him out. And if Edgeworth has anything to say about it, they'll probably be able to cut out a few of those steps along the way.
Which is why Phoenix promises himself one thing. If he passes the bar again, he is absolutely going to kiss the Chief Prosecutor square on the lips. Whatever happens after that, they'll just have to wait and see.
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06 Jul 2026
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Trucy pulls something out of her bag with a flourish. "Aha! Presenting my extra-special get well soon gift."
"For the elbow to the ribs?"
"Mainly for getting hit by a car, but you can lump that in too." Trucy gives him a brilliant smile, along with the bright blue envelope. "For you, Daddy."
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08 Aug 2026