KipRussel
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What if Simon was trapped in a time loop?
“Convict! Everything alright? Is the sub okay?”
“Is this a test?” Simon asks, voice wavering. The pause hangs heavy for a moment. The depth meter drops. The SM-13 groans under the weight and pressure of the blood around it. Simon’s eyes dart from the porthole to the intercom.
“This is the first time this sub has been used, yes.” Ava says finally. “Why? Everything holding up alright? I assure you the weld is—”
“A test for me. Me." he jabs a nervous thumb against his sternum, leaning toward the speaker, pleading, as if she can see him. As if that would make any difference. “Am I being tested? Is this some C.O.I. thing? Some kind of sick rehab?”
“...if you want to see it that way. Just… finish this and you'll have your freedom.”
Simon swallows hard, turning back to the controls he's learned so well, cobwebs of fear prickling in the back of his mind. A question flits through his thoughts that he doesn't dare vocalize.
What did I do to deserve this?
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Research & Records: A Remedy-Verse Oneshot Collection by KipRussel
Fandoms: Control (Video Game), Alan Wake (Video Games), Control Resonant (Video Game)
14 Jan 2026
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Another collection of Remedy-verse oneshots, written on my tumblr in response to ask prompts. Each chapter is a unique oneshot.
First Hand: Jesse stops at a motel due to Polaris’ guidance, and meets a kindred spirit.
Twist: Langston meets Warlin Door under mysterious circumstances.
Fog: Dylan fights to stay aware/unaware in his mind/nowhere.
Bridge: Jesse makes contact with something unknown during an Astral Dive gone wrong. (Brief appearance of Emily Pope.)
Orchestra: Jesse finds a program for a concert at the Oceanview Hotel, featuring Tom Zane.
Loop: A security staffer meets Ahti in the labyrinth halls of the House.
Loop: Dylan laments his action/inaction.
Telephone: A long telephone cord guides Dylan back to reality/a reality.
Commemorate: Arish reflects on the fate of his old Ranger squad & fate itself.More to be added.
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- Part 9 of Research & Records: Short Control Blurbs
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The Odd Couple by KipRussel
Fandoms: Control (Video Game), Control Resonant (Video Game)
28 Dec 2025
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What if someone is talking to Dylan in his earpiece in Control Resonant? What if it’s the Bureau's favorite chatterbox, Frederick Langston?
Con: Fred likes to ramble.
“There was this old report that said—”
Pro: Fred lets things slip to me that he shouldn’t.
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Maybe it's a prize to be proud of, but it makes him feel a sickly sort of guilty. In some ways, he thinks he deserves it.
Bodhi wins a creature called a butterfly in a gamble, but feels the weight of being held captive in a false home.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 531
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 15
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“I hope you’re not about to ask me to do a card trick. I don’t know any.”
Houdini scoffs in response. “Yeah, well, I do. Just like every other ‘psychic’ out there.”
Ah. So this was his aim. Doyle’s mouth pulls into a tight line before he goes back to his food. “Harry, can’t we just have a normal meal?”Houdini decides to prove to Doyle that psychics and mediums are simply using different methods and tricks to appear like they're magic. He interrupts dinner with a deck of cards to prove it. Doyle accidentally proves Houdini wrong.
“...so I’m lucky,” Houdini says finally, with a shrug too unsure of itself to be nonchalant.
“Luck? How very superstitious of you.” It’s Doyle’s turn to smile wryly, a twinkle of triumph in his eyes.
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faden in (or: how i learned to cry about dylan a lot) by KipRussel
Fandom Alan Wake (Video Game), Control (Video Game), Control Resonant (Video Game)
28 Dec 2025
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A collection of all my Dylan-centric fics, just because I like organizing things, there's a lot of them, and Dylan lives rent free in my brain.
- Words:
- 109,169
- Works:
- 13
- Bookmarks:
- 9
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Research & Records: Short Control Blurbs by KipRussel
Fandom Alan Wake (Video Game), Alan Wake (Video Games), Control (Video Game), Control Resonant (Video Game)
14 Jan 2026
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Short Control blurbs (typically ≥1,000, likely from my tumblr) that I wanted to put all in one spot over here. Cheers!
Ordered by event timeline and not by publishing date.
Marked complete due to it technically always being a WIP/available for a new entry.
- Words:
- 18,576
- Works:
- 9
- Bookmarks:
- 10
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The various snapshots and stories of my Shadowrun: Dragonfall character(s). Hide is the player character, and Oval a side character I've invented.
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- 6,982
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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The sun is fun, the land is dandy, I only talk to dogs because they don't understand me, my teeth are yellow, hello world, would you like me a little better if they were white like yours? I need to purge my urges, shame, shame, shame. I need an alibi to justify, somebody to blame...
(Alien Blues, Vundabar)
A series of loosely connected oneshots, in which Dylan finds himself increasingly uncomfortable with remaining around the Bureau, before he up and leaves.
It's a pretty big world out there— maybe even bigger than the never-ending insides of the Oldest House— and there's plenty for him to find and rediscover.
- Words:
- 60,078
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 2
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A collection of Hitman fics, exploring various characters and their stories, emotions, arcs, and scenes.
- Words:
- 7,596
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 13
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Happy Birthday Bitch by h0undhead
Fandoms: Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Mortal Kombat - All Media Types
27 Apr 2024
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“Kung Lao, buddy-“ he tried to get a word in through the mess of noise, “not that I don’t appreciate a random call now and then, but you nearly blew out my eardrum. What’s going on?”
Johnny could swear he heard a mumble of ‘this fucking guy’ from the other end before Kung Lao sighed.
“Johnny.”
“That’s me, yes.”
“Was it your birthday last week?”
That question caught Johnny off-guard, and a genuine wave of surprise washed over him.
“I have no idea what brought this on,” Johnny played off his shock with a chuckle, “but yeah it was.”
“WHAT-“
Bookmarked by KipRussel
08 May 2026
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would you move closer if i grew quieter? by ScreechTheMighty
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Control (Remedy Video Games), David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types
10 May 2026
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I'm biting down on my shirt sleeve / I'll lash out, lash out, lash out... | The convict from the AT-5 Threshold and the former Prime Candidate have their own demons to face. That doesn't mean they have to face them alone.
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Dylan Faden is a mystery to Zoe De Vera. The reverse is equally true. (AKA my cope fic after the recent Dylan lore drop.)
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- Part 2 of NYC, New York, 2026
Bookmarked by KipRussel
19 Apr 2026
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‘til i crash into the ending by benvoliotheorphan
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
26 Feb 2026
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“The tree?” Ryland asked before he could think better of it. “Only one?”
“There was only one left after,” Simon answered. “We watched it slowly die.”
There's a new passenger on the Hail Mary, and Ryland doesn't know what to make of him.
Bookmarked by KipRussel
27 Mar 2026
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The People We Meet at the End of the World by Blizzard96
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
26 Mar 2026
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“Transmitting…” The screen in front of him regains Grace’s attention.
There’s a crackle of static, and then, “–to next coordinates. Uh, I think it’s just gonna be more rocks. Is there- do you want me to try a few different angles?”
Grace nearly falls out of his chair.
(Or: The radio frequency that squeezes through a pinhole to connect two one-way trips)
Series
- Part 1 of Periapsis
Bookmarked by KipRussel
27 Mar 2026