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Badgers From the Same Hole by skeevy_nyx
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
12 Apr 2025
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Rean is a young detective of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s homicide division, and a member of a specialized branch utilizing experimental new technology. He’s always been uniquely sensitive to others’ emotions—which makes him the ideal candidate for the prototype of the “VALIMAR System”, a partner program which allows him to delve into the subconscious mind of a subject as long as he maintains eye contact.
He’s proud of the work that he does... but having to internalize the emotions and motivations of scum who show no remorse has taken a mental toll on him. The nature of his job keeps him pretty busy, but he still tries to make time for friends and family... although his mental capacity for socializing has been dwindling by the day. And forget relationships... even if he wanted to give it an honest try, his heart was too muddied by his complicated situationship with someone who was admittedly pretty useful as an informant, even if he was damn annoying... it was just complicated.
[Inspired by the “AI: The Somnium Files” games. I know the concept of “AI” has become really cringe and we all hate it, so just pretend it’s the cool cyberpunk version of AI everyone imagined in the 80s and 90s lol]
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13 Apr 2025
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where the river meets the sea by crimeamarches (haloud)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
06 Nov 2024
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For three years, the dreaded pirate Azure Siegfried has terrorized Erebonia's waters--but as tensions rise toward civil war and conflict sparks with the Republic of Calvard over the small island nation of Crossbell, pirate attacks are only one of many worries plaguing Erebonia's people.
Young naval captain Rean Schwarzer thought he would welcome anything to distract him from the role he's been forced to play in the blockade of Crossbell. When pirates attack a civilian passenger ship with him on board, he gets all the distraction he could have asked for and comes face to face with someone he thought long since lost.
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07 Nov 2024
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(i'd never dream of) Breaking this Fixation by EmpyrealFantasy
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 黎の軌跡 | Kuro no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak Series (Video Games)
22 Feb 2025
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“I mean, I’m amazed you’ve let your guard down enough in a single month to even have a repeat encounter, let alone actually get sappy. How are baby’s first feelings? Do you feel butterflies? Man, now I want to extend my visit just to document this phenomena. Aaron Wei: Actual Adult Feelings Edition.”
He slid down in his seat just a bit, feeling warm. This was why he had been avoiding her, damnit all!
“Still weird you didn’t just tell me, though. What would stop you—” Ashen cut herself off. Oh no. Aaron’s eyes slipped closed without his say so, feeling a headache start. Her sucked in breath was loud. “Are you banging the spriggan?” she hissed in the loudest whisper imaginable.
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Or: Aaron tries very had to fuck away his, ugh, feelings.
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30 Aug 2024
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A Night in North Ambria by BeyondNothingness
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
22 Mar 2026
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In the midst of Erebonia's invasion of North Ambria, the last thing Major Rean Schwarzer needs is his subordinates' twisted idea of a gift.
Rean hasn't accounted for one thing: Crow Armbrust is an unstoppable force.
(Written for CS1's 10-year anniversary.)
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10 Aug 2024
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Intersecting Paths by Hao for knockplease
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
30 Jun 2024
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Spoilers for Knockplease's work: Intersecting Vicissitudes, where Crow chose Rean and Class VII just before the Civil War, doesn't shoot Osborne, and survives the Civil War. This work will not make sense if you have not read that. Please go read that first if you haven't it's amazing.
Crow's been having nightmares, when an opportunity reaches Class VII's ears they send him something to help cheer him up.
With the Occupation of Crossbell, there's a lull in the fighting between the Empire and the Republic. The SSS receives a request from the Bracer Guild for a delivery and learns about an odd man that is more than what he seems.
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30 Jun 2024
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Catch and Release by abyssal (valoirs)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
28 Sep 2023
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At the academy, any dispute at all can be settled with a duel. It is the single ironclad rule that has been in place since its conception.
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18 Jun 2024
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A Labyrinth of Steel by Rosie_Rues
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 空の軌跡 | Sora no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Series (Video Games)
29 Oct 2023
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Six months after the Great Twilight, Majors Rieveldt and Arundel discover an artifact in the Osgiliath Basin. Things get rapidly out of hand from there...
In which Class VII, the Ironbloods, and various others encounter their very own recluse cube.
Spoilers up to the end of CSIV, but I'm still trying to keep myself spoiler-free for anything after that--please don't spoil my fun by 'correcting' me in the comments. A 'well, actually,' is still a spoiler. For those who have played ahead, consider this a Pratchettian alternative trouser leg of time, designed primarily so I can have lots of fun making everyone banter their way through their trauma.
Updates weekly, characters and tags will be updated as the story goes on. All Moon and Star doors can be read as standalones, but also form part of the overall jigsaw puzzle.
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- Part 1 of Labyrinth of Steel
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18 Jun 2024
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I'll Wait For You by BeyondNothingness
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 空の軌跡 | Sora no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 クロスベル編 | The Legend of Heroes: Crossbell Arc (Video Games)
31 Aug 2025
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As Crow lay dying in his arms, Chancellor Giliath Osbourne made Rean an offer: co-operate with the government-spun narrative of the Ashen Chevalier as a national hero, and he would save Crow's life. Refuse, and watch him die.
Rean didn't hesitate to sell his soul to his father.
With Crow's life hanging by a thread, Rean has no choice but to ruthlessly follow the orders of the Erebonian government in his back-to-back missions across Zemuria. But as Rean becomes increasingly isolated from his friends, he begins to sink into despair with the reality that Crow might never wake from his comatose state.
But his heart is set: he'll wait for Crow, no matter how long it takes.
A post-CS2 alternate timeline where Crow's injuries in the final battle leave him comatose. Spoilers for all games up to CS4.
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18 Jun 2024
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By Design by abyssal (valoirs)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 創の軌跡 | Hajimari no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game)
31 Dec 2023
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“Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing,” says Rean softly, the gentlest slope to his mouth.
Crow gives him a little grin, just to be difficult. “Dunno,” he says, the syllables drawn out, teasing. “What am I doing, Rean?”
Written for CrowRean Week 2023.
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18 Jun 2024
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an honest day's work by crimeamarches (haloud)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
08 Jan 2024
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Rean has a problem. Despite the perfect control over his body he has with his sword in hand, he has trouble relaxing in bed, no matter how much he wants to.
Crow is more than happy to help him find the solution and has more than enough patience and creativity to pull it off, knowing the reward will be worth it.
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18 Jun 2024
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Due for a Miracle by abyssal (valoirs)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
14 Feb 2024
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So. They must be meeting the bigshot that Cayenne’s been preparing for.
And if the latest person to enter is any indication—
“Ah, wonderful that you could make it, Rean,” says Cayenne, voice only a few tones off from feeling outright obsequious.
Crow has been an agent of the Black Workshop for as far back as his memories go, struggling to reclaim his sense of identity. Answers come to him in the form of Rean Schwarzer, the nation's most beloved hero.
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18 Jun 2024
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Event Horizon by abyssal (valoirs)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
25 Feb 2024
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“You’re an Awakener,” says Rean without fanfare, cutting to the chase. There’s no mistaking the pulse of energy that came through to him from the combat link. He knows what he sensed and how similar it is to his own connection to a Divine Knight.
“Yeah? So are you—” A pause, and then, a mockingly reverent murmur. “—Ashen Chevalier.”
Rean tries to stay afloat in a nation split by warring political agendas and an unnatural threat encroaching along the northern border. An encounter with a man named “C” draws him deeper into the labyrinth, searching for the truth.
Where they’re going, there’s no turning back.
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18 Jun 2024
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Stream starting soon… by zerotrajectory (sfxlled)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
29 Feb 2024
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Towa perks up. “Oh,” she says, utterly innocent, “have the two of you met before?”
Met is a subjective term. “Uh,” says Rean, memories already mapping out every dip and curve of Crow’s abs hidden beneath his shirt. “No?”
Crow is a hot tub streamer. Rean has spent the last three years throwing far too much money at his Paypal. Surely, this will have no consequences whatsoever.
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18 Jun 2024
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every face a different shade by crimeamarches (haloud)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
14 Apr 2024
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Her Imperial Highness Princess Alfin Reise Arnor invites Messrs. Rean Schwarzer and Crow Armbrust to, on the anniversary of her birth, celebrate as honored guests at the Karel Imperial Villa, where will be held a most bewitching masquerade ball…
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18 Jun 2024
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losing game by zerotrajectory (sfxlled)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
20 Apr 2024
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Rean goes on the Pantagruel with his ears, and comes back without them. No one even needs to ask.
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18 Jun 2024
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Secrets of an Ironblood by BeyondNothingness
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
21 Apr 2024
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Crow Armbrust would rather die before than ally himself with a bastard like Cayenne. He decides to forge his own path to revenge, even if he has to sacrifice his soul in the process.
Yet Osborne's merry band of misfits are nothing like he expected. His sickly fellow Ironblood, Rean Schwarzer, is an enigma he's determined to solve. Living in self-imposed exile from his aristocratic family, Crow isn't sure if he resents the man's privilege, or welcomes how easy he is to take advantage of.
Regardless of the truth, he can't tear himself way.
But he won't allow anything to stop him on his path to revenge.
(AU where Crow joins the Ironbloods, and Rean's there too.)
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18 Jun 2024
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Azure Ashes by Ilrinia
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 創の軌跡 | Hajimari no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game)
20 Jul 2024
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Things have finally settled down after the events of Reverie and Rean is ready to start the next school year. With staffing changes and a few unique first years, things will be interesting to say the least.
Characters will be updated as they appear.
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18 Jun 2024
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Alone Together by sh1defier
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | The Legend of Heroes: Sen no kiseki (Video Games)
10 Oct 2017
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“I’ve got it… You just can’t stop thinking about how hot the outfits I’m working on for the concert are going to look, can you?” Rean balks at him. In response, Crow cups his hands around his pectoral muscles, drawing Rean’s eyes to them in spite of his (steadily weakening) willpower. They’re round and much more taught and well-defined than he’d expect from a crack shot like Crow--they have the sort of sinewy definition more typical of people who specialize in melee weaponry. Crow jiggles his hands; his pecs are too firm to bounce, but Rean gets the idea. He is beginning to wonder if he’s still dreaming. “Yeah? Finally coming around to my artistic vision?”
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09 Apr 2024
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Just Let Me Pretend by sh1defier
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | The Legend of Heroes: Sen no kiseki (Video Games)
24 Sep 2017
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Rean is invited to attended Princess Alfin's debutante ball, where he encounters a mysterious 'stranger'...
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09 Apr 2024
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as you mean to continue by crimeamarches (haloud)
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games)
21 Dec 2023
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A snapshot: Crow struggles to comprehend what it means to be part of the world again
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22 Dec 2023