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In some timelines, Valerie Gray is benched by Danny Fenton revealing her identity to her father and can do nothing to assist in the fight against Pariah Dark. In others, she fights and dies, and in some of those she only dies part way. In most of those timelines, Danny goes on to face a potential future, requiring culling a timeline to save another.
But sometimes, Clockwork is wary of these solutions to their problems. And sometimes, as they are fond of telling mortals, the slightest difference can bring about monumental changes to the way things should be.
Even their foresight can't know what will happen around the bearer of the Crown of Fire, the Infinite's chosen avatar, the monarch of the Realms. But they could never quite have predicted the result of Valerie Gray making a bold, desperate gamble for the artifact.
As for Valerie and Danny, they'd just like to keep themselves pulled together and save their home city, thanks. They certainly didn't ask for Infinity to look them over and declare dibs.
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Learning to Catch at the End of Everything by Fridurmus
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game)
18 Jul 2025
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Sanidine is ready to get out into space, and nothing is going to stop them from hopping into their ship and becoming the new best there ever was. They'll solve the mysteries of the Nomai, find the truth behind their missing idol, and advance Hearthian exploration more than ever before, with the help of the translator that they built with Hal and a brand new ship Slate calls their finest work yet. Their launch day is going so well, until suddenly it isn't. A chance encounter with a new artifact in the museum sends them rocketing to Giant's Deep, seeking out Gabbro right away to talk about a shared experience.
It's the first of many shared experiences the pair have, as they come to realize their situation. Faced with the reality that the only person either of them can turn to is the other, they're soon forced to learn what it really means to catch someone when they've got nowhere else to fall, and to let themselves be caught in turn. And if they can do that, then maybe, just maybe, they can save the universe... or at least save each other.
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- Part 3 of Orbiting the End
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You don't remember your name. You don't remember their faces. You just remember your regrets, your failures, and your agony.
...is that a voice you hear?
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It’s been two weeks since Wesley Weston joined the team, and although Valerie Gray did in fact get fired, things have settled into a sort of uneasy routine.
She's been training as hard as she can, but Danny in particular isn't yet willing to let her fight alone if he can help it. It's almost stifling. For as much as she understands his drive to keep her safe, and as much as she gets that she's got a lot of improvement still to do, part of her still can't help but feel angry and smothered by the attention and concern.
Still, things are looking up in almost every other way, and their relationship is otherwise healthier than it ever was before all this.
Naturally, that's when one of Danny's most dangerous enemies comes to visit the twin cities. Given everything that's changed since the last time he saw Valerie, he's all too interested in making her a new offer of employment, whether the team thinks she should be anywhere near him or not.
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- Part 6 of We Were Born To Step Into The Storm
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Valerie Gray is really, honestly, kind of looking forward to getting back to school. It's something normal after a weekend of life-altering (and death-altering) revelations, conversations that somehow hurt worse than her death, and ghost fighting in a whole new way.
Too bad Wes Weston is waiting for her, somehow knows way too much, and isn't willing to let things go easily.
(Valerie and the team POV of The Kids Aren't Alright)
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- Part 5 of We Were Born To Step Into The Storm
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Valerie Gray is the Huntress, an efficient, effective vigilante protecting Amity Park and Elmerton from ghosts. Receiving an upgraded suit under mysterious circumstances only two weeks in has done nothing but make her more dangerous.
The Phantom is her enemy, rival, nemesis, target. A monster whose actions destroyed the foundations of her and her father's life. A wraith that tries to act like something more than a predator. She hates it.
The pieces are familiar. The board is set in an age-old pattern. By all means, the game should play out roughly the same, and its players should make the same choices.
But then, she chooses to stand and fight with the Phantom and Plasmius when Pariah Dark's army invades, allying with them instead of attacking them.
Then, she and the Phantom make a desperate last stand against the tyrant king himself instead of fleeing the battlefield, the Ring of Rage a tool instead of a distraction.
Then, she's killed by Pariah Dark's mace sending her into a solid steel upright pole. The last thing she knows is the King reclaiming his ring. Checkmate.
Then, she wakes back up, and the old game is upended to make room for something new.
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My Scars Aren't Silent (Selectively Mute Jason Todd) by CreamcheeseBagel
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
18 Jun 2022
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After years of rehabilitation and running, Jason returns to Gotham after having had his throat slit by Batman.
On good days, Jason can speak. More often than not he can't - communicating through sign language instead.
Returning to Gotham entails Jason facing his demons, and reconciling with his family. Well most of the family, bar one. All under the nose of Batman, of course.
But can Jason keep from falling under Bruce's thumb?
(An AU amalgamation of RHATO Post #25, Under The Red Hood and Jason’s PTSD).
I can also be found on Tumblr @ jasontoddawareness
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21 May 2025
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ouroboros, ever hungry by Yevynaea
Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
07 Sep 2025
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ouroboros: a circular symbol depicting a snake swallowing its tail. cyclic renewal. life, death, and rebirth. eternity, and the soul of the world. the beginning and the end of time. a serpent, whether venomous or harmless, is ever hungry. mouths open wider than their own bodies to swallow their prey whole.
Things to be found in this series: Generational trauma, one thousand and twenty-four years of violence, family feels, canon major character deaths, a truly pretentious number of parallels, and two timelines' worth of Donnie's two very different lesbian situationships.
Installments will be individually tagged, comments will be loved and appreciated.
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08 May 2025
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Quatervois by Amaranthine_Nostalgia
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Red Robin - Fandom
31 Jul 2025
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Quatervois:
(n) a crossroads; a critical decision or turning point in one's life
Timothy Jackson Drake was not created to fail. He was created to soar, to be a beacon of pride to carry on his parent’s legacy, even if he wasn’t quite expected. Over and over again, he has walked along a tightrope, appeasing the expectations of his family and his own desires.
His life has been full and happy all things considered. It’s part of the reason he doesn’t have a grappling hook. He’s always known that dancing with Ra’s Al Ghul would spell his death. At least this way, he had one last victory over the man.
He closed his eyes.
Finally, there is peace.
In other words, a series of connected one-shots following the aftermath of Tim's interactions with Ra’s Al Ghul.
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24 Apr 2025
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There's some lunatic in a red helmet running through Jason's territory. He wants to think it's a copycat.
He's wrong.
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the patron saint of the lost causes by evanescent
Fandom: Batgirl (Comics), Batman (Comics), Birds of Prey (Comic), DCU (Comics)
07 Oct 2018
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Pre-Flashpoint AU based on canon what-if Lady Shiva was not only Cassandra's biological mother, but Jason's, too. Mostly focuses on Cass and Jason's relationship, and how that fact changes the dynamics in Batfamily.
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