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When Steve gets trapped in the Upside Down, Vecna offers him a deal: become lieutenant of the monster armies and gain some of Vecna’s power, in exchange for being the bait to lure his friends back to rescue him. Steve takes the deal, believing wholeheartedly in the Party’s ability to save him and finally kill Vecna, but discovers quickly that his power to infiltrate the memories and dreams of people in the real world is very limited; in fact, he can only visit one person in his new monster form.
Thus begins Steve’s haunting of Eddie Munson, who, coincidentally, has been in love with Steve since they started secretly hooking up after a Halloween party in 1984.
Or: Steve is Kas, and also Eddie's secret boyfriend.
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This time, he looks at Eddie and Eddie looks back, and Eddie wants to say, you don’t have to tell him. You don’t have to admit it’s me you’re tied to. But Steve is brave. Steve runs at danger when Eddie runs away. So Steve looks at Eddie and Eddie looks back, and Steve is still looking at Eddie when he says, “He’s my soulmate.”
David Harrington doesn’t say a word, but his movements slow as he unbuttons the cuff of his other sleeve and rolls that one too. Slows like he’s thinking, his face hard and set.
“I,” says Mr. Harrington, “fail to see how that’s relevant.”
Steve and Eddie, post-post-apocalypse.
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- Part 2 of no retreat, baby, no surrender
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“Oh, haven’t you heard? Steve Harrington doesn’t cry.”
In which Steve Harrington breaks up, breaks a few hearts (including his own), breaks free, and finally gets to break down.
or: 5 times Steve didn't cry, and 1 time he did.
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The people of Hawkins were still alive, folding donated t-shirts into neat piles in the middle school gym, and passing out boxes of canned food to families in need, and smiling to each other as they said, hanging in there? Good, me too!
But then the ground fell and the fires started.
And then the Hawkins citizenry abandoned ship like they were time travelers aboard the goddamn Titanic.
And then the Hellfire Club and associated extended party members commandeered Loch Nora and turned it into a safe zone for the miniscule remaining population of Hawkins.
And then the dead people started showing back up.
Or: Eddie’s in love with Steve, but it doesn’t really matter because the world ended a few months ago and he’s been living on borrowed time ever since. Steve’s in love with Eddie, but he’s been through this before with a wild-eyed, steady-handed survivor who was better off without him, and doing it again might be enough to kill him this time.
Or or: The Party are vampire hunters in post-apocalyptic Hawkins, in a world where soulmates can't harm each other.
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- Part 1 of no retreat, baby, no surrender
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Sokka takes a strategic step back, but he also smiles: triumphant, like he baited Zuko into exactly what he wanted. Like it’s a challenge. It’s the same way he looked when they sized each other up at the prison, with Sokka in chains that left red marks around his wrist, in tattered prison garb, malnourished and angry. Back then, that was Sokka saying: I see your power. I see you. Now, see me.
Zuko saw him then. And he sees him now; different, but the same. I see you.
Zuko lights his daos in flame. Sokka grins, back to gravel and heat. “Come on, Fire Lord. Impress me.”
Zuko burns. His vision flickers with fire. His heart races. His blood sings. His body is like a magnet, pulling ever onward to meet Sokka’s. He advances.
He pins Sokka to the wall, blades against his throat.
Or, Zuko found Aang first, Sokka and Katara were imprisoned in Boiling Rock for trying to rescue their dad, and all Sokka knows is he's pretty sure he's not supposed to think the Fire Lord is attractive but he's never let things like rules stop him before.
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In which Hawkins is overrun with vampires, soulmates are real, and Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington love each other despite (and because) of it all.
series title comes from bruce springsteen's no surrender.
part one: highway's jammed with broken heroes | complete
Eddie’s in love with Steve, but it doesn’t really matter because the world ended a few months ago and he’s been living on borrowed time ever since. Steve’s in love with Eddie, but he’s been through this before with a wild-eyed, steady-handed survivor who was better off without him, and doing it again might be enough to kill him this time.
Or: The Party are vampire hunters in post-apocalyptic Hawkins, in a world where soulmates can't harm each other.
part two: breathe the fire we was born in | complete
Steve and Eddie, post-post-apocalypse.
part three: fill them long summer nights | coming soon
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Whoever Falls First by liodain
Fandoms: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, DC Extended Universe
05 Aug 2016
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"There's more kryptonite out there. When the Superman returns, there's going to be an all-star battle royale in the criminal underworld. Every megalomaniacal freak will want a piece of it so they can get a piece of you. And some of them will manage. They'll weaponize it and won't hesitate to use it against you, and when that happens I will not have you flailing around like an idiot."
aka: Bruce teaches Clark how to fight.
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The Downsides to a Secret Identity by liodain
Fandoms: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel (2013), DC Extended Universe
10 May 2018
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Bruce Wayne has taken a shine to Clark Kent, but Clark is more interested in the Bat of Gotham. The Bat, however, has it in for the Superman in a big way. Clark should probably have considered that before falling quite so hard. They're working together to track down some missing Kryptonian weaponry, after all...
Written for the Superbat Reverse Bang 2018!
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25 Jul 2026
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grasp his heart (once and for all) by liodain for susiecarter
Fandoms: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, DC Extended Universe
18 Aug 2017
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Bruce Wayne doesn't believe in fate.
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24 Jul 2026
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all each riddles, when unknown by susiecarter
Fandoms: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel (2013), DC Extended Universe
15 Jul 2017
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Post-MoS AU: Clark, struggling to deal with the events of Black Zero Day, is assigned a straightforward human-interest piece—on Wayne Enterprises. Then Batman catches Superman's attention, Clark Kent starts investigating Batman, Bruce Wayne spends a lot of time
arguing withhitting on Clark Kent, and Bruce's best efforts to find a way to hurt Superman start to bear fruit.And then things get complicated.
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a constant satellite of your blazing sun by cherryfeather
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
07 Aug 2025
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Bruce skidded to a halt, breath hissing through his teeth.
Superman’s head came up sharply, like the sound of Bruce’s shock still meant something to him—and it was Clark, but he was different. Different lines on his face, a subtly different curl to his hair, and as he looked Bruce up and down his eyes blew wide.
Bruce’s hand dropped immediately to his belt, a chill sweeping through him. “Not our Kal.”
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Bruce and Clark have been in a relationship since the founding of the Justice League almost twenty years ago. When the League tries to bring in a thief with stolen reality-shifting technology, Clark is accidentally exchanged with his counterpart from a universe that's almost identical—except he's married to Lois. And they have a son.As each side scrambles to swap their Clarks back, Bruce and Clark find themselves grappling with new questions about their life together, faced with the possibility of things having gone differently for not just the two of them, but their children—the ones they have, and the one they've never met. Along the way, they do their best not to to blow up their counterparts' lives by dredging up any long-buried feelings. (They may or may not succeed at that last.)
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