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1. Public Bookmark 37

   Death is not an option here by PacManTCO

   Fandoms: Animator vs. Animation (Short Films - Becker)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   02 Jan 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • The Chosen One & Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Agent & Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One & The Dark Lord (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Agent (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Dark Lord (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Orange | The Second Coming (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Alan Becker
   • Violence
   • Blood and Injury
   • Blood and Gore
   • Goretober 2024
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Character Death
   • It’s just Chosen getting killed over and over again
   • still deciding on whether or not I should let him live or not in the end
   • The Chosen One Needs a Hug (Animator vs. Animation)
   • he definitely needs at least thirty
   • Back injury
   • The Chosen One Has PTSD (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Trauma
   • Burns
   • cigarette burns
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Neck injury
   • Strangulation
   • Whipping
   • Branding
   • Waterboarding
   • Drowning
   • Manipulation
   • Second and Dark will come later in this fic
   • Dehumanization
   • Electrocution
   • Suicide
   • Read the tags for your own safety

   Summary

   (LATE!!)

   Goretober

   Victim tries out different ways of torture to force Chosen to talk

   *REWRITING AS OF 2026*

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   11,364

   Chapters:

   9/31

   Comments:

   116

   Kudos:

   311

   Bookmarks:

   37

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   12 Jun 2026

2. Public Bookmark 67

   Drawn to Darkness by spreadsheetgremlin

   Fandoms: Animator vs. Animation (Short Films - Becker)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   12 May 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • The Chosen One & The Dark Lord (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One & Orange | The Second Coming (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Alan Becker & The Chosen One (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One & Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Dark Lord (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Orange | The Second Coming (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Alan Becker
   • Color Gang (Animator vs. Animation)
   • the entire AvA cast pretty much
   • also - Character
   • Purple (Animator vs. Animation)
   • King Orange (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Captivity
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Because come on
   • Chosen was definitely a kid
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Chosen Whump
   • Dark Whump
   • Second Whump
   • Whump for everybody
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Some chaps are more violent/gory than others
   • but I'll warn you beforehand
   • Possible canon-divergent
   • not much though
   • Found Family
   • but sometimes it's your real family also
   • Chosen is a complex person
   • Also definitely sort of a villain
   • more apathetically bad than anything else
   • brother bonding
   • brother fighting
   • Sadness
   • the past will come back to haunt Chosen
   • present already haunts Chosen
   • he just carries around a lot of ghosts
   • Victim Needs A Hug
   • Mild Swearing
   • but not a lot
   • I don't know it's way too early in the morning to be tagging things

   Summary

   Chosen was enslaved the day he was created.

   For four years, he thought about that day. About revenge.

   But he never thought about what he might do after he had his revenge. After he escaped. And he never imagined he'd have a little brother escaping with him.

   -OR-

   Chosen takes an absurdly long time to realize that he does, in fact, need a redemption arc.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   80,928

   Chapters:

   73/73

   Comments:

   1,271

   Kudos:

   377

   Bookmarks:

   67

   Hits:

   8,422

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   29 May 2026

3. Public Bookmark 3

   Whispers, Weapons and War Crimes by DragonMaster66

   Fandoms: Animator vs. Animation (Short Films - Becker)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   04 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • The Chosen One & The Dark Lord (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One & Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Purple & Purple's Parents (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Gold & Orchid | Purple's Mother (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Gold & King Orange (Animator vs. Animation)
   • King Orange & Purple (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One & the entire rest of the population of the internet
   • The Chosen One & Avast Antivirus
   • No Romantic Relationship(s)
   • The Chosen One (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Dark Lord (Animator vs. Animation)
   • victim mentioned but not here
   • Purple (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Orchid | Purple's Mother (Animator vs. Animation)
   • navy mentioned but not here
   • King Orange (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Gold (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Avast Antivirus (Animator vs Animation)
   • he's a mech now
   • Alternate Universe- Backstory
   • parallel canon
   • fleshing out the flashbacked 2010-2020 Interspace Attacks
   • and fusing AvA to AvM
   • Aftermath of Violence
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Terrorism
   • Implied/Referenced Genocide
   • Computer Viruses
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Godlike Power
   • King Orange (Animator vs. Animation) is named Mango
   • mango adopts purple
   • Negative character arcs
   • Going viral (in both senses)
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • the goal is to make the audience think about those flashbacks in ava5 as much as I have
   • and it's been a full three years now
   • No Beta We Burn Like The Interspace
   • The Chosen One & The Dark Lord & victim Are Siblings (Animator vs. Animation)
   • everyone's tragic backstories colliding VIOLENTLY but plotted out before we knew any of them!
   • Heavy Trauma and Angst
   • I'm not planning on adding tags as we go but I think I've forgotten some so. mm yeah. sorry ao3.
   • Canon-Typical Tragedy
   • this AU is a mix of dark tragedy and all the types of unwavering love that somehow stand despite it
   • Canon-Implied Violence
   • Canon-Implied Whump
   • antiviruses are terrifying
   • early viratech
   • Cycles of Violence
   • The Chosen One Needs a Hug (Animator vs. Animation)
   • theres a tag for it :0 lookit ao3 go. thats fantastic
   • Everyone Needs A Hug
   • this is also true
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • Author Was (and still sometimes is?) Sleep Deprived
   • Angels of Death (Animator vs Animation)
   • dark v mango before it was cool
   • victim haunts the narrative
   • chosen is godlike when he's angry and I think those implications should come up more

   Summary

   Figured out the problem with writing this chapter! And said problem was that it was secretly supposed to be at least eight chapters.
   Tags shouldn't change much. I don't usually pre-tag, but I feel like yes this time around since I know the bounds of this book.

   Life doesn't discriminate
   Between the sinners and the saints
   It takes and it takes and it takes
   And we keep living anyway.
   We rise and we fall and we break
   And we make our mistakes.
   And if there's a reason I'm still alive
   When everyone who loves me has died
   I'm willing to wait for it.
   (Wait For It, by the cast of Hamilton)

   In which every tragic backstory Alan's given to a character collides spectacularly in a whirl of flame, because the Interspace attacks seemed like a reasonable point to start to fuse the timelines.

   or: chosen's trauma, what he and Dark do about it, and the rise of a king.

   Absolutely no idea where the line is between Teen, Mature, and Explicit in terms of violence.

   Series

   • Part 3 of Nightmares and Memories

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   12,874

   Chapters:

   4/?

   Comments:

   26

   Kudos:

   40

   Bookmarks:

   3

   Hits:

   557

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   19 May 2026

4. Public Bookmark 32

   Half-Life by Mountain_Ash_Splash

   Fandoms: Animator vs. Animation (Short Films - Becker)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   04 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • The Chosen One & Orange | The Second Coming (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Agent & Orange | The Second Coming (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Orange | The Second Coming (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Agent (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Corndog Guy (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Gold (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Purple (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Heavy Angst
   • Wrongful Imprisonment
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Dark is dead
   • Victim is dead
   • Mitsi is dead
   • Second is Agent's adopted son
   • Second never met the Colour Gang
   • Canon is a sandbox and I am a construction company
   • Shock Collars
   • Feral The Chosen One
   • Everyone Needs A Hug
   • Angst
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Dehumanization
   • Muteness
   • Chosen is mute
   • Past Character Death
   • Character Death
   • Song: Neglected Space (Imogen Heap)
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • No Romance
   • No Smut
   • The angst is strong with this fic
   • i cannot promise a happy ending
   • The Chosen One Whump (Animator vs. Animation)
   • I think this counts as whump?
   • Emotional Whump
   • no beta we die like... well you'll see
   • Slow To Update
   • past Chodark
   • Not a Crossover
   • IT HAS ART NOW!
   • I did not make the art!
   • Link to the art is in the end notes of chapter 2
   • The Chosen One Needs a Hug (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Self-Harm
   • Morse Code
   • Codes & Ciphers

   Summary

   “Whoa, who are those two?” Second asked, gently brushing a layer of dust off of the old photo he gripped in his hand.

   Agent plucked the photo from his grasp. “Old friends. Not like it matters. They’re both dead now anyway.”
    

   Second is just an ordinary stick figure living on the interspace. It doesn’t matter that he’s from a PC; that’s all in the past. Found and adopted by a stick named Agent, he’s quite content with his life.
   But everything changes when he stumbles upon a buried secret. One so horrible and life-changing that it challenges everything Second thought he knew about the world, his adopted father, and even himself.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   22,991

   Chapters:

   20/42

   Comments:

   271

   Kudos:

   221

   Bookmarks:

   32

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   19 May 2026

   Bookmarker's Notes

   delicious

5. Public Bookmark 67

   King Orange's Guide to Adopting Traumatized Minors by arrowchristian

   Fandoms: Animator vs. Animation (Short Films - Becker)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   02 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • King Orange (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Gold (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Chosen One (Animator vs. Animation)
   • The Dark Lord (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Orange | The Second Coming (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Yellow (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Blue (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Green (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Red (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Purple (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Original Stick Figure Character(s) (Animator vs. Animation)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Found Family
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Chosen and Dark and Gold are siblings
   • Alan was a bad dad
   • King is their dad now
   • Purple is also their sibling just later
   • This is my first time on posting on Ao3 I'm way too excited about the tags
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • A couple of OCs but they're not super important
   • King Orange is NOT named Mango
   • Because my sister who is beta-reading this for me hates the nickname with a burning passion
   • I don't have the faintest idea why
   • okay I was wrong the OCs are a little important

   Summary

   Chosen was barely alive before he was enslaved by his creator.

   Dark was born a grand total of two hours ago.

   Neither of them have ever heard the word "family," much less know what it means. Good thing Orange is here to teach them.

    

   (Basically an AU where after escaping Alan’s PC, the first person Chosen and Dark run into is King, who accidentally immediately adopts them)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   16,078

   Chapters:

   4/?

   Comments:

   223

   Kudos:

   391

   Bookmarks:

   67

   Hits:

   3,941

   Bookmarked by psychoanalysis_nerd

   18 May 2026