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    Scar has transferred to start his second year at Hermiton University of Craft and Engineering in London, ready to leave America behind. What he doesn’t expect is to recognise one of his fellow students from his flight –Grian, and his adorable cat.

    Grian is back in England after a decade in the States, settling into business classes and hiding his cat in a dorm he technically shouldn’t have. Seeing his friends again is a breath of fresh air and meeting an attractive dude on his flight that happens to be attending the same university him was certainly a bonus.

    With Scar adapting to the differences between America and England, and Grian finally feeling at home after ten years, the two grow close.

    But not everything can be a fairy tale.

    A University AU full of pining, miscommunication, and gayness

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    This fic now has a discord! https://discord.gg/cFU7PCYrAc

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Grian presumed his soul was actively leaving his body – providing him with just another last minute delusion to take him into the next life - until he heard music.

    His tired delusions were a lot of things, but they were never music.

    Grian blinked, once, twice, then a third time. Still, the shape on the horizon didn’t fade. The light didn’t fade. The music didn’t fade. This wasn’t the blurry shadow of what may or may not be a rock, or the light of the moon against a wave imitating a town. This was a genuine miracle. This was his relief.

    It was a ship!

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    After being cursed by a witch, Grian finds himself stuck in the form of a parrot with no way to change back, and only a conveniently handsome pirate captain to rely on until he reaches land.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Grian did everything right.

    He never missed a single lesson. He got good grades and did all his extra curriculums. He even got into a great university. He did everything he was supposed to do.

    So why did he feel so wrong?

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    Scar seemed to do everything wrong.

    He was struggling with his uni classes. He has been crashing on people's couches for months, barely managing to feed himself and his cat. He was failing at everything.

    So when he sees a boy in his class that catches his eye, it just feels right.

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    Or, two architect students fall in love and get better because of each other

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Grian and Mumbo
    10 Nov 23
    7:32am

    Grian: guess who got the fucking job then
    Mumbo: was it you
    Grian: of course it was me
    Mumbo: nice

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    When Grian joins Mumbo working at The Hermit Coffee Co., he is thrown into a world of caffiene and chaos, with meddling co-workers, rambunctious regulars, and an absolutely henious amount of group chats. The friends he left back home miss him, Mumbo's college friends (cough, frat bros, cough) keep pestering him, and his new friendship with a certain scarred individual is developing in a way he never expected.

    Will he be able to shake off the meddling redstoners? What will happen when there are two potential romances blossoming on either side of him? And will these baristas ever stop texting each other and just make me my goddamn soy-milk capuccino?

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    A coffeeshop AU told through the texts between hermits. Now a combination of texts and prose from chapter 7 onwards.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    The man hovering over him leaned back, releasing Grian completely. Cold night air rushed in to fill the void.

    “I guess it’s out in the open now,” the stranger hummed. “Shame. I wanted to avoid this.”

    With the additional glow occupying the space between them, Grian was finally able to catch features that were lost in the prior darkness. His curiosity outweighed all else, and he drank them in greedily. As soon as he saw who sat across from him, alarms blared in his mind.

    This man wasn’t a civilian, wasn’t even a hero.

    “Hello, Doctor,” the villain mused. “You were quite the help today.”

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    Grian is a vet. After a chance encounter in the dead of night, during which he accidentally saves a villain from the brink of death, he suddenly finds himself entangled in a world beyond anything he could've ever imagined.

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    28 Mar 2026