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  1. Public Bookmark 97

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    The battle with Shroud had left Robert battered and bruised, but for the first time, he wasn't recovering in the solitary dark confines of his 'minimalist' apartment. Instead, Mandy’s apartment offered a sanctuary he didn't know he was starving for: warmth, safety, and the only person who saw beneath the Mecha Man suit in the way that she did. A home.

    For too long, they had drifted around one another in a gravity well of unspoken tension—partners in the field, pointedly focused, but incapable of slowing the tide that burned between them. But tonight, amidst the glow of the television and a half-finished bottle of wine, that orbit finally decays. A cynical debate over a reality show dating finale turns into a mirror for their own fears and insecurities, and the deflection stops.

    Tonight, the superhero masks come off. What starts as tender triage transforms into a collision of raw honesty and undeniable heat. It is an affirmation of a love long overdue—a shift from "partners" to "us," sealed with a quiet question in the dark and the approval of a very sleepy dog.

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    Canon-compliant, Post Ep. 8 • Robert/Mandy Centric

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    17 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 52

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    Doom incarnate has always been certain about himself - certain about how his eternity would unravel, and where the strings of fate might guide him.

    However, Melinoe's growing affect on him, was not one of those certainties.

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    03 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 56

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    A story following Zagreus and Thanatos as they learn to live a little.
    OR: zagreus knows a bit about rising and falling while attempting to escape, but when it comes to all things thanatos his idiocy level can only rise. thanatos is great at helping others pass on, but when it comes to talking with zagreus he may simply pass away. the rest of the underworld collectively rolls their eyes.

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    It should be enough for Thanatos to pull himself away, to fall into the familiar repetition. Yet now he can’t cast the memories from his mind: the lightness of Zag’s grin amidst the swarming wretches, his fluid bend and curve, so much cleaner in motion than Thanatos had thought him capable of. How easily Zagreus stole from Death. The wide-eyed way Thanatos caught him staring back. The hunger of him.
    No, he can’t cast aside the flicker of life below the surface, rising, rising, then—
    Gone.
    Thanatos flashes into the House, to the balcony, before he knows what he’s doing. As though he’s no longer his own. He can feel the souls call and protest above but he ignores them, turning instead to the curling red of the Styx.
    He waits.

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    03 Sep 2025

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    “Zagreus,” Thanatos sighed, a low and lonesome sound. “What is it that you need from me?”

    “Sleep,” came the choked reply. “Please. Whatever you must do. Anything to get me to sleep.”

    Or: Zagreus traverses the Underworld in endless cycles, unable to find any rest; though he grows stronger each time that he perishes, his body refuses to let him sleep. For this, he seeks a begrudging Thanatos, who becomes his only respite.

    | Inspired by the response given when interacting with Zagreus' bed in his chambers - "can't sleep". A slow-burn, Thanatos-centric character exploration/ZagThan coming-together story. |

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    03 Sep 2025

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    In which Tachibana Makoto could do with a little less introspection and a little more faith.

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    04 Oct 2016

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    For when I lose faith that love is real