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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    Dion delivers a forbidden letter to his dear friend, Terence, under cover of darkness—an act of defiance that costs him dearly. But some bonds cannot be severed, even by those who would break a boy to forge a weapon.

    Distraction. That’s what they called Terence now—like he was a weakness to be excised, like the empathy he was meant to shed. No friends, no lovers, only the cold light of Bahamut waiting to be unleashed on command. Kept in a gilded cage on a pedestal high above those he would protect, those he was meant to slaughter.

     

    Inspired by the Logos passage read by Stewart Clarke.

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    02 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    In the depths beneath the imperial palace, in a prison called the Aerie, lives a boy with amber eyes and dragon wings. Dion has never known kindness, never been treated as anything but a weapon—until nine-year-old Terence stumbles upon his cage and sees a person where everyone else sees a monster.

    Over years of stolen visits and whispered promises, Terence teaches Dion to read, to hope, to believe he deserves more than chains and darkness. He brings him books and honey cakes, brushes his hair with gentle hands, and promises that one day they’ll see the world together.

     

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    A loosely canon divergent AU where Bahamut is feared rather than revered. Sylvestre’s first heir is thought to have died at birth and Dion grows up in cell deep in the dungeons of Whitewyrm, raised to believe he is nothing more than a weapon.

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    02 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    Kihel lay on the settee, head propped on the armrest, clutching a bouquet of lavender and baby’s breath to her chest like she was attending her own wake. Ironic—considering she’d just witnessed a murder. Not a real one. No blood, no mess. Just the kind of death you can’t come back from, no matter how many titles one’s father paid for.

    She stared at the ceiling as the events of the last hour replayed over and over in her mind’s eye—starting, as all great tragedies did, with a boy and a bouquet and two doting fathers.

    A series of oneshots featuring Terence and Dion as the original lawnmower parents.
    (Humorous, not crack)

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    02 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    There's an ongoing and unspoken agreement between Johan and Judai that there's just kind of no chance for them being together. It's more than far-fetched. They're both pretty comfortable in the fact that it just wouldn't work out between them, for various reasons. There are clearly no unresolved feelings and nothing needs to be talked about.

    Clearly.

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    01 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    The Barians remember, and the scars marring their bodies reminds them that they'll never forget.

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    01 Feb 2026