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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    Cloud made a deal to save his dying village. Now he can't tell if he'd drowning, or being pulled deeper intentionally.

    The Mer's otherworldly presence tempts him further from the safety of the shore. Cloud must untangle truth from enchantment before there’s nothing left of him but longing—and blood on the water.

    He has no idea the true danger he is in.
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    A Dark Merman story.

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    16 Jul 2025

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    Alpha and Omega populations are tanking, with what Omegas are left being outnumbered roughly six to one by remaining Alphas, so Omegas are typically encouraged to enter a pack of Alphas where they are treated like pampered and spoiled breeding machines. Cloud had no interest and has been on the run and living on the streets since presenting, except for a small detour where he became a SOLDIER. After meeting four very, very strange Alphas that take him in, he just might change his mind.

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    11 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    There are few living things in this world that Aerith would consider useless.

    Most living things have a purpose, after all, and it’d feel far too judgemental for her to disregard parts of this world just because she couldn’t “get them”, or simply because the creature was a bit hard to understand.
    However, Aerith wryly noted, there are two living things she’d consider useless.

    Firstly, ticks. Disgusting little bugs, they are, and she couldn’t fathom how the world would be worse off without them. They hold no purpose beyond spreading sickness, biting and infesting every animal it gets in contact with, and she couldn’t even justify their existence by claiming they served an important purpose as prey to another animal or beast, since there were truly no animals who’d ever choose to consume the wretched things.

    The second living thing Aerith would consider useless was Zack Fair, resident idiot.
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    Or, the unfortunate time Zack Fair fell in love with the new exchange student, if you were to ask Aerith and her beloved kitchen chairs.

    (roughly an update a week, give or take some!)

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    03 Oct 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 61

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    When the water in the old Sector 5 church starts to turn the color of the Lifestream, the last thing Cloud expects is for Zack Fair to come drifting back to him. While Zack adjusts to life in Edge and begins his journey to settle his unfinished business, he and Cloud quickly become closer than they had ever been.

    Everything would be perfect, if Cloud wasn’t keeping a secret that Zack was bound to find out about eventually.

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    18 Jul 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 90

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    Cloud Strife thinks he's shit out of luck when he's attacked in a Sector 5 alleyway and left on the brink of death.

    Fate has other ideas.

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    07 Apr 2024