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a world that exists because i want it to by yagouaroundi
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
30 May 2026
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Derek changed the narrative to save Avery from becoming the King's vessel. Avery can do the exact same for Derek. A lot of learning to live with chronic pain, headaches, all other consequences that come with merging your mind with an otherworldly entity, and how to live despite knowing you'd die comes after.
or— a "what if" alternate universe where Derek lived because Avery willed it.
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21 Apr 2026
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Paratise by yokoneedsmoney
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
16 Apr 2026
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A human brain is incapable of processing information all at once, especially the amount of knowledge equivalent of that goes beyond the multiverse and endless dimensions. But, Derek Hutchins survives. It's proven to be scientifically impossible--so how? How did a mere human survive when their mind is already so corrupted?
That's the question the DMS strives to seek answers on, and they will do anything it takes to get their hands of a college drop out that the King in Yellow now bounds himself to.
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Derek Hutchins lives, the king in yellow lives inside him but the DMS won't let him live a peaceful life, so does the King. He's not having fun at all.
(I was never really good at summaries.)
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15 Apr 2026
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There's one thing the Hatchling needs to do before they'll let the time loop end. One thing locked behind 33,000 possibilities.
Luckily, they've got nothing but time.
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24 May 2025
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“Hey, I thought I might see you before the big launch,” you call out as they approach you. “Nerves getting the better of you?”
They don't reply, just... look at you for a while. They slowly scan over your clothes, your hands, your face, lingering at your scarred eye.
You arch a brow at them. “Need something, hatchling?”
Eventually, they settle within themself, square their shoulders, and look at you. “Think you can give me a hand with something for a minute?”
or - a series of goodbyes that didn't stick.
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08 Apr 2025
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Place Your Bets on Winning Hats by starlightshore
Fandoms: In Stars And Time (Video Game)
07 Mar 2025
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You're getting a failing grade in being Human.
There's more to it than you remembered. Having a mouth to speak, lungs to breathe, a stomach to fill.
But mouths are complex structures of meat, and the rules to breathing are contradictory, and food? Don't get you started!
And worst yet, playing the role of Siffrin is an impossible one. Your coactors are onto you.
How long until your mask slips and they discover the corpse hiding beneath?You've won the fight, but you'll always be the true loser.
Living within the body you've stolen, you'll claim your victory for as long as you can.
Get up, Loop. You've got a future to behold.
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(Novel length Slowburn. Loop wins the 2hats fight. Now human and with a future, they'll need to learn to become a person again.)
(Contains illustrations!)- Language:
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- 11/?
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10 Nov 2024
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Everyone had a dream where Siffrin got crushed by a rock. Except Siffrin.
Weird.
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04 Nov 2024
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Why Dormont? Why not anywhere else?
Odile notices a discrepancy within the House of Change, one that cannot be explained away through Kings or Travellers. Perhaps a consequence, a reaction? Regardless, she is known as the Researcher for a reason, and it's time to put those chops to the test.
Accompanied with footnotes from Isabeau and additional work from Mirabelle Chevalier. Please be careful, who knows what lies at the other end of a question.
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- 20/20
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11 Oct 2024
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Siffrin is selfish. Loop knows that Siffrin is selfish, so why do they do this? Offering to share their life with Loop, just so Loop isn't lonely. It's too much. But Loop is selfish too. Surely there's no way that this could go well, and there's no way they could accept. Unfortunately, it's not like they're given much of a choice here.
(Siffrin brings back a guest for their post-game travels.)
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18 Sep 2024
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After breaking free of the loops, Siffrin is more than ready to move on and enjoy life again. They’re with their family—their friends—for another journey, one without the King’s Curse nipping at their heels, and everyone will be together for the foreseeable future. So Siffrin is fine. Great, even! The others don’t need to know that their experience in Dormont still hangs heavy as a noose around their neck.
They just need to get over it.
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Or: Siffrin has trauma, learning to open up is a process, and the others realize the loops left deeper scars than previously thought.
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16 Sep 2024
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A great source of despair draws Nightmare to an abandoned AU. There he finds an unfinished Sans with no name, no companions, no purpose, no world, and a soul. Nightmare gives him the option to get out of his abandoned, empty world. He accepts the offer but refuses to destroy anything or hurt people. Instead he finds another purpose. In return the Bad Sanses give him a home, companions, a life, and a name. They call him Ink.
Or: Before he can destroy his soul and enter the Doodle Sphere, Ink is recruited by Nightmare. He accepts his role as best he can, even if he sometimes feels like he is meant for something more.
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02 Nov 2023
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Nosks are an intelligent species to a degree - as they're still rather feral in nature and incredibly territorial - and they have their own secret society in Deepnest. Given that they have proximity to the Pale King, it was inevitable for them to gain minds and sapience... but they still retain a hostile nature to them.
They morph and contort their bodies into makeshift lures, baiting unfortunate bugs into their traps and devouring them without a second thought. Before infection struck, they could even mimic voices.
Hunting is all that matters. Providing food is all that matters. Your territory is all that matters.One Nosk in particular, however, does not share in that sentiment.
While sure, attachments to others are unnecessary and strength is incredibly important in survival... why can't a Nosk be more than a ruthless animal? Why can't they gain honor outside of their kin? Why can't everyone know one Nosk's name?
Why can't a Nosk be a knight?Better yet... a knight of great renown?
Hmm. He likes the sound of that.Translation into Portuguese in progress!!!
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20 Feb 2023
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It has always been more, more than what was asked of it, more than what was ever needed. Faster. Stronger. Perfect. Pure.
And now, when it is inches away from what it was made for, when the title many have already begun to whisper is a breath away from truth, it has failed.~
Just prior to being knighted, the Pure Vessel receives its armor—and, for the first time, reaches its limits.
Or: the Pale King sees an opportunity to make the Pure Vessel stronger by giving them the magical equivalent of cyborg implants. This does not go well.Bookmarked by EphemeralEntropy
21 Dec 2022
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Responsible Practices in Engineering (a Vessel) by ArcaneMap
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
31 Dec 2023
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The Pale King, God of mind and knowledge, King of Hallownest, was first and foremost a scientist and an engineer.
It would be foolish to just get one Vessel from the Abyss for his plan to seal the Radiance
What if the first one broke?
Maybe he'd just get one more from the Abyss, oh and there's another one, and another one, and another one...
Now has Mandarin Chinese translation by @templar-of-tyre here!
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05 Dec 2022
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The capacity for selfish desire has always been within the vessels.
Ghost, ascended, grants Hollow a wish born through void-blessed defiance: Return to a time forgotten.
Save the Hollow Knight.
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02 Dec 2022
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Broken Open Revealing Hollowness and Vibrance by JaxxCapta
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Game)
13 Apr 2020
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Hornet woke in the Black Egg Temple to the sight of her sibling's fractured mask. For the walk from the temple's central chamber to its exit, she thought herself truly alone in the world once more.
When Hollow followed her out, she realized that wasn't so. But now she has to try and take care of her older sibling as they recuperate and learn to live in a world where they do not have to be pure, figure out what to do about what Little Ghost left of a body, and try to piece together two kingdoms which fell long ago.
Life keeps throwing her surprises, too, which does not help.
(Post-Dream No More ending, though it's fudged and mixed with the Godseeker endings some. Characters and tags will be updated as more chapters are posted.)
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- 57/57
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02 Dec 2022
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Stag Beetles and Broken Legs by Aryashi, relationshipcrimes
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Game)
07 Sep 2019
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A chance meeting on the shore of Blue Lake interrupts Quirrel making an unfortunate decision.
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- Part 1 of Stag Beetles and Bonus Scenes
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- 12/12
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30 Nov 2022
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To protect the vessel, the Dreamers lay in slumber. To protect the kingdom, the vessel hangs in chains.
To protect his conscience, the wyrm king believes his lies.
And to destroy the very basis of belief in such denials, another imperfect vessel walks into the heart of Hallownest centuries too early.- Language:
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- 36/36
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19 Nov 2022
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Drained of Light (Into the Welcoming Darkness) by BSplendens
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
26 Dec 2025
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Freeing the Hollow Knight from a mad god’s clutches is one thing; freeing them from their own self-imposed chains is entirely another. Particularly when they understand their rescue as no rescue at all, but simply another god taking those chains in hand.
Ghost did not request any of that.
Hornet, having spent the past few centuries desperately believing that all her siblings died in their eggshells, has learned the truth just in time to struggle with how to help a sibling who firmly believes that their own existence as a living thing is the most heinous of crimes.
Oro is not remotely pleased at having been pulled from his perfectly fine hut to help, and is most definitely not unusually invested here, thank you. No attachment whatsoever to someone who, despite being half-dead, still tries to make of themself a living shield. None at all.
(He’s also a bad liar.)
Friends and allies can only get you so far when someone’s greatest battle is against their own mind, and many things in this crumbling ruin of a kingdom are inclined to interfere in the matter. Not all that is dead is willing to stay dead, and the past is not content to remain in the past.
Nor are these the only Void-kin still alive.Series
- Part 4 of Reprieve from Burning Light
- Part 6 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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- 35/?
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13 Nov 2022
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Something is very wrong in Hallownest.
The Hollow Knight wakes up outside the Temple of the Black Egg. Hornet feels a shift in the kingdom from all the way in Greenpath. Together, the two of them discover the sacrifices each has made—and the grief neither one of them was allowed to feel.
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Hollow survives the Hollow Knight ending, though severely wounded and close to death. Against her better judgement, Hornet takes them under her care. Along the way, Hollow begins to acknowledge their emotions, and Hornet slowly discovers she's been lied to about the true nature of Vessels.
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- 47/?
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13 Nov 2022