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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    (this is a finished work, I'm just chopping it into chapter-sized bits as I edit)

     

    Two boys meet in the dark - one with bloodied knuckles, the other with nothing left to lose.
    What follows is years of quiet want, bitter loyalty, and the slow, brutal rise to power.

    It’s the story of two Kings and the City that made them.
    Of the people they lose, the ones they fight for, and the child who might still save them both.

    It starts with survival, it ends in ruin.
    Everything in between is theirs - and maybe, if they’re lucky, what comes after will be too.

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    05 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    Vander hasn't come up to bed yet, and Silco's eye is continuing to bother him. He goes in search of his partner, only to find Vander struck down in a moment of grief.

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    09 Mar 2025

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    When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”

    Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?

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    Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.

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    25 Feb 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 21

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    When he’s alone, Vander talks to a ghost in the mirror. Sometimes the ghost talks back. Sometimes it’s quiet. Vander hates himself all the same.

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    20 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 97

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    To be feared was better than to be loved.

    Silco was sure of that. He’d been hardened by the pain of betrayal, transformed into a man who would do anything for the power he desired.

    He was better for it, he thought—until Vander came crawling back, and he was forced to reckon with the two halves that battled inside him. The optimistic young man that he used to be and the monster that he’d become.

    He wanted so deeply his best friend back—but how does one forgive the unforgivable?

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    Silco and Vander reconnect after Vi’s death. Silco attempts to join the council, quits Shimmer, and slowly falls in love with his once greatest enemy.

    Takes place within the alternate universe featured in Season 2 Episode 7, and starts immediately where the timeline diverged.

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    18 Feb 2025