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  1. Summary

    Fics within the same universe in which the premise is that the reward for winning is a power boost that made the Winners into Gods.

    Organized in chronological order, but it may be best to read them as written:
    1. Hey, You (Feed The Machine)
    2. Starlit Sunflower

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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    “He’s funny,” Henry murmured, kind of charmed in a very irritating (to Natalie) way.

    Natalie glared. “He literally fainted in a Walmart yesterday.”

    From the kitchen, Gabe’s voice rang out, “AND I LOOKED MAJESTIC DOING IT.”

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    04 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    She insists, too loudly, that she's fine; you twitch backwards to confirm her fears. She is scaring you. As if you're something capable of fear.


    You're scared, and you don't want to show it, but some animal part of you still flinches away from her. As if she could hurt a dead thing.

    Kind of ironic that a ghost could still have survival instincts.


    Gabe as Grief—

    —and Gabe as Ghost.

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    04 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    God, she really was going insane. Either she was accidentally high off her ass, or she was talking to her brother’s literal ghost. She felt too coherent for the former to be true.

    She inhaled sharply. “How?” was all she was able to say.

    Her brother shrugged and kicked a pencil across the floor. “You tell me.”

    Natalie lowered her textbook. “You’re- I mean, aren’t you dead?”

    He raised his hands like this was all obvious. “As a doornail.”

     

    Or; On Natalie's seventeenth birthday, she starts seeing strange things

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    04 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    When Natalie found her dad crying in the kitchen, she could have sworn someone touched her hand. That same night, a strange boy appears in her room.

    Or: Natalie finally meets Gabe, and they do some sibling bonding.

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    04 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    She stood frozen, staring. He pulled a clump of sod from his hair. Even from here she could smell it, the heavy, acrid scent that clung to him, like earth turned over, like pavement after rain.

    “Natalie,” her mother beamed, eyes huge and bright and wet, “Say hello to your brother.”

    He waved at her. “Surprise,” he said mildly, as if he were dropping in for dinner. “Can I use your shower?”

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    04 Mar 2026