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[Sokka is five when the first mark appears.
It writes itself in a deep red like a wound, as if someone had carved the word “nonbender” in a messy font across the knuckles of his left hand, as if it was handwritten with a knife.
When he asks his mother, as she applies salve on Sokka’s knuckles, she sighs deeply and says nothing for a few moments.
“Sometimes, spirits don’t make much sense.”
Sokka has yet to turn thirteen when he wakes up screaming in pain, about ten soulmarks all over each other between his left shoulder and his ear, red and vivid like burning flesh. Among the few words that are somehow possible to read out of the disastrous scribbling, “disrespectful” and “coward” and “burned” and “sorry sorry sorry” are the ones that stand out the most to Sokka. He thinks, at the tender age of twelve, whoever did this to his soulmate will be sorry too, one day.
A month after Hakoda leaves him with the job of the protector at the age of thirteen, Sokka realizes, with a bitter taste in his mouth, that he’s got more soulmarks than his entire village combined.]
Or, to have a soulmark is to carry the vilest things that your soulmate believes about themselves on your skin.
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11 May 2026
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The Best-Laid Plans of the Stupidly Heroic (and Other Failures) by lettersfromnowhere
Fandoms: 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Manga), 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Anime)
31 Jan 2026
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Himmel excels at heroics—daring rescues, spectacular victories, and, perhaps most of all, putting his own feelings aside. At the close of a ten-year journey, resignation is the rule of his life, and he'll wait.
Problem is, finding an orphaned young elf was not in the cards when he made that plan, and the fact is that no one is more qualified to advise him on the matter than the woman he swore to himself he wouldn't chase.
(Or: Himmel acquires a daughter, Frieren is confused, and everything—finally—comes back around.)
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- Part 1 of Best-Laid Plans 'Verse
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10 May 2026
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"There was something odd about Jasper, Nevada. In the sixties the groundwater had been tinged electric-blue and tasted of saltpeter, it was still said."
June Darby does not believe in aliens, or in haunted highways, or in government conspiracies, or in any other small-town folklore.
The new mechanics in town are uncanny, all the same.
Or, Breakdown is willfully oblivious to skinjob culture and Knock Out is all too eager to embrace it.
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07 May 2026
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The Difference by c_c_cherry for CryRan88
Fandoms: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse)
19 Mar 2026
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“You—you told me Raccoon City was where you couldn’t make a difference. How do you—” She tried to find the words. “How did you get that feeling to stop?”
Grace closed in on herself when Leon hit her with a look as cold as ice. Any kind-hearted expression had left his face. A part of her wanted to reach out and make sure he was real, that she hadn’t left him behind with a bullet through his head or his body beyond salvation.
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Or: Post-RE9 with more guilt and more parallels and more Porsche and also more comfort I guessBookmarked by localspaceghost
19 Mar 2026
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"suppose i want a different life, that i truly believe i am quite capable of something more, even when i am not allowed to have anything else."
in which a brilliant boy like theo sharpe is perfectly aware that eloise bridgerton deserves better. he knows he can’t give her that but he’s determined to try and do so anyway.
alternatively... a retelling of their story if miss bridgerton had decided to run away from high society to chase a simpler life with a mere printer’s assistant
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- Part 1 of love her but leave her wild
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09 Mar 2026