Dandyism



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    • Собака [Sobaka]
    • Traditional Drachman, meaning "Dog"

    Newly promoted General Roy Mustang has been missing for four months—drugged, gagged, and dragged from his home in the late evening. His car is missing, his flat ransacked, and his private phone line hanging off the hook, blaring its monotonous dial tone.

    (Roy wakes up blindfolded, his face too long, his teeth too sharp, and a foreign language whispered in his ears.)

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Leon is an anomaly - He's been bitten by infected, tossed around biohazardous warzones and thrown into literal hell on earth, and still he remains. He walks, he talks, and he does his job.

    He wants everyone to think he's fine. He doesn't want to end up someone's experiment to end the world. He's just a normal guy, after all!

    The reality is he is far from normal... and he hasn't been in a very long time.
    He wasn't normal before Raccoon City, and he surely won't be after...

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    Playing the RE2 remake got me thinking - Leon's been bit by so many infected things there is no way he hasn't been exposed to something crazy Umbrella cooked up in a lab.
    Story takes place over the course of RE2 and eventually RE4, jumping around and playing fast and loose with the canon timeline.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    The first time the change happened Merlin was only 10 summers old.
    It had felt like he tripped, falling to his knees suddenly and without warning. He thought the pain of skinning them was the worst of it, and for a few moments that was true.
    “Merlin?” Hunith called after him, “You okay, love?”
    Merlin couldn’t even focus on the ground as his fingers shook against the dirt, “I don’t know, mum!” Pain crackled along his back, it had lanced up every individual bone and struck at the back of his skull.

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    Once a month Merlin is beset by a transformation. He can only describe is as monsterous.
    His hopes for a cure are wearing thin, but still he does his best to keep his nature hidden as he naviagtes his life in Camelot at Arthur's side.
    When the timing doesn't work, Merlin has to risk being discovered if he is to continue protecting his prince.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    “And you?” the drider said, his voice gravel and disdain. “What are you?” There was the briefest hesitation as his many eyes regarded Phaere, then dropped to the lyre that was still clutched in her hands.

    “…aside from a dark minstrel." Astarion noticed how Phaere’s shoulders tensed at the term. “One who truly appreciates the beauty of the lyre.”

    Astarion heard her take a breath, but before she could speak, he watched as she practically folded in on herself, the tell-tale sign that her mind and parasite had connected with the drider’s.

    Then the connection broke, and Phaere stumbled forward. Astarion and Karlach both moved simultaneously, stepping forward to catch Phaere by her arms as her legs gave way and her lyre clattered to the ground.

    “Are you alright, darling?” Astarion asked in a hushed whisper. He could hear her heartbeat this close, a quick and steady thud-thud-thud of… something like fear? “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

    Phaere lifted her head and audibly swallowed.

    “…Rylbros?”

    Or: A formerly lolth-sworn Drow bard comes face to face with her past. And she must make a choice.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    “You wish for me to infiltrate their ranks, master?”

    Dark Link tries to keep the incredulous disbelief from his voice. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how idiotic this plan or his master is being. If that was what Demise wanted, that would be what it got. Demise did not accept disobedience. Or failure.

    Which is how Dark finds himself staring down the blades of nine heroes, wondering why this is his life.

    “So,” he begins. “Sorry ‘bout the whole, uh, trying to kill you repeatedly for millennia thing.” For some reason, this makes the heroes tense further. “…No hard feelings?”

    -Or-

    Dark Link joins the Chain.

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    06 Jun 2026