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Sandrone retells the story she has explained thrice by now; the backup plan in Fontaine, the blueprints updated after her interactions with the Wanderer, Master Albedo, and the witches of the Hexenzirkel, the important nature of her core, and all the instructions a robot can give to be rebuilt over and over again if needed. Lauma listens, and listens, and the sun setting behind her gives the warmth in her eyes a certain spark that makes Sandrone feel as if she could remotely understand what dying and reviving by her own hand feels like.
“It pleases me to hear of your success,” Lauma says, when Sandrone runs out of things to explain. “Nod-Krai welcomes you back again, for as long as you may need. Though I suppose you came here with a goal in mind?”
In the aftermath of her rebirth, with Columbina dragging her along into a mission to get Lauma and Nefer to fix whatever is keeping them apart, Sandrone finds that what comes after death and learning to live again is an odd thing indeed.
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13 Jul 2026
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Snow came down over Nod-Krai thick and slow, and Sandrone was making the tea herself, exactly as demanded, because half an hour of arguing with Columbina had gone the way it always went.
"Two sugars~" Columbina sang from the armchair by the fire, folded into it with her feet tucked under her, holding a half-finished wooden puppet hand up to the light and wiggling its fingers.
"Put. That. Down. Those joints took me three days, and your grubby doll-poking is going to loosen the calibration, and then I will have to dismantle YOU for parts, do you understand me?"
"It waved at me. It likes me more than you."
"It's a hand, Columbina. It doesn't like anything. It doesn't have the capacity for taste, which, incidentally, puts it above you."
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09 Jul 2026
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Columbina Hyposelenia was born into silk and crystal chandeliers.
She has three older sisters who cherish her dearly, wealth and status resting easily in her hands, and above all, she is a princess held in reverence by all.
By all accounts, Columbina lacks nothing.
And yet, there is a quiet space within her heart that no title, no crown, no gilded ballroom has ever been able to fill.
Sandrone Guillotin—
A technological prodigy. The adopted daughter of Alain Guillotin, a unfortunate engineer.She chooses to live in the margins, never allowing herself to shine too brightly.
She knows Columbina is a high and mighty princess.
And Sandrone does not care.
This is a gentle coming-of-age story—
where the heaviest thing on a young girl’s shoulders is not her crown,
and where love begins not with grand declarations,
but with ordinary moments shared between two people who lived in different worlds.Or,
The princess just wants to make friends, and the genius refuses to bow to her.
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- Part 3 of Sandbina AU - MagicalDuck
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26 Jun 2026
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you taste like attachment issues by rinareinstein
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
13 Jul 2026
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no strings attached. that was the deal.
columbina hyposelenia is spectacularly, embarrassingly, completely bad at no strings attached.
sandrone guillotin is even worse at admitting that maybe, possibly, she does not actually want no strings attached either.
six months of this. of almost. of hands reaching and pulling back. of closed doors and warm mornings and kisses that say everything neither of them has figured out how to say out loud yet. of columbina looking at her like she hung something and sandrone looking away before she has to decide what to do about it.
the deal made sense. the deal was clean. the deal did not account for tuna sandwiches remembered without asking, or 1x1 photos kept in ID holders, or being walked to practice like a pretty princess by someone with embarrassingly red ears.
something has to give eventually.
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15 Jun 2026
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To the world, Columbina is the Damselette, the ethereal voice of Fatui Entertainment, living a life of fame in high-rise penthouses. But when the cameras stop flashing, she drives a black sports car to a workshop in the Industrial District, seeking the only person who sees the girl behind the glass case.
Sandrone, the Marionette, prefers machines. Machines have manuals. Machines follow the laws of physics. People do not. As a brilliant but reclusive engineer, she measures her life in efficiency and physics. But when a deranged stalker named Zandik bypasses Columbina’s security, Sandrone is forced to recalculate her priorities.
Caught in a terrifying new reality, Sandrone makes a split-second decision that shatters her arm but saves Columbina’s life. What follows is a long road of recovery for both of them, where the lines between friendship and something statistically improbable are blurred.
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31 May 2026