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Pareidolia: the tendency to see meaningful likeness, specifically faces, in ambiguous shapes. An example would seeing long lost loves in shifting shadow.
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A retelling of Night Road with a female Lasombra courier, focusing on the romance and the complications of diablerie.
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- English
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Veritas Filia Temporis by synchodai
Fandoms: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Video Game), Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (Video Game)
05 Jan 2026
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When dusk settled the next night, the Nomad awoke in that same basement of that same Seattle apartment by that same unfortunate security guard. The mark marred their flesh once more, and their powers diminished. It filled them with dread having to be shackled like this once again. If this was a vision, it felt all too real and all too close to how Phyre remembered it.
Except…
Fabien was not in their head. No, more than that…
Fabien survived.
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Farewell, Seattle by synchodai
Fandoms: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Video Game)
20 Nov 2025
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Sunflowers upon an empty grave.
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With the Absolute vanquished, the disinherited godchild finds herself, for the first time, alone. If she was going to be haunted by the sins of her past, she preferred to know what those sins were. In exchange for a piece of her soul, Withers agrees to bring back someone who claimed to know those sins better than anyone — Enver Gortash.
"That person you once knew… I don't think there's any bringing them back, either — not in the way you knew them."
She paused, thinking back on the few months her meager memory could retain. Someone had always been there to direct her — to a better or worse path, she couldn't always say. But they had pushed her forward at least. Always forward.
"I've changed," she said.
A shadow of pain passed ever so briefly on Gortash's face, then it was gone. He put on that practiced and easy smile — the same one he wore to patriars' balls and deals with devils alike.
"Then I'll simply have to get to know you all over again," said Gortash.
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Ketheric needs Gortash to restrain the Dark Urge from harming Isobel. Unfortunately, it is a job only the Banite can do. Fortunately, it is a job he finds most pleasurable.
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- Part 4 of The Scent of Ether
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Short stories surrounding the Dark Urge centered around grief, forgetting, and caring for bad people.
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A Song For Lovers Lost to Winter by synchodai
Fandom A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, House of the Dragon (TV)
17 Sep 2024
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A mostly canon-compliant series devoted to the romance of Cregan Stark and Jacaerys Velaryon.
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(Based on the 1 time I made a Titanic submarine joke, and when I paid entry to the pool at 13 and they didn't let me swim and didn't let me call my parents so I was trapped in limbo and had to walk all the way home it was so horrible oh my god I hated that day)
Lord Steffon Baratheon reported to have finally found a suitable bride for Prince Rhaegar, a maid of the Old Volantene Blood. That success was short-lived, however, as his ill-fated journey home ends with him and his lady wife in a watery grave. The prospect bride has been found ashore. She is alive, But...
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- Part 1 of Bride Of The Deep: a Duology, or as I refer to it internally project Goth Talisa from the Show
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06 Apr 2026
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Stroke of Midnight by boredwriting
Fandoms: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Video Game), Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
14 May 2026
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A 1925 Phybian AU. Detective Fabien, a fledgling of barely five years, is unexpectedly invited to the Camarilla’s 1925 New Year’s celebration. He assumes it’s just another security assignment, until she arrives. The Nomad, calling herself Fadime, makes a stunning entrance into Seattle after accepting Lou Graham’s invitation to investigate a looming threat. Before confronting that danger however, she captures Fabien's attention and draws him to her. By the end of the night, Fabien finds himself enlisted in her cause, and swept into an encounter he will never forget.
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17 Dec 2025
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As I was making my way through the front doors of the opera house, I collided with a young man who was making his way out. He was ever so apologetic, and chastised himself for his clumsiness. I assured him that I was alright, and he said he was relieved to hear it. Then he bowed deeply and said, “Enver Gortash, at your service…”
Excerpts from the diary of Lady Wisteria Jannath. Based on the "Perfumed Days, Passionate Nights" letter.
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02 Aug 2025
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“You grant the semblance of life and intelligence to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer up to 5 questions you pose. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive. “
You are as likely to open wounds as you are to close them.
The night after the assassination of Evner Gortash, the Dark Urge takes to Wyrm's rock with five questions. This story is about what they ask. This story is about what Gortash's corpse answered.
And this story is about the five memories behind those answers that the corpse of Enver Gortash cannot speak to.
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- Part 4 of Here There Be Monsters
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06 Mar 2025
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Orin had watched it happen for too long now.
Her brother had been perfect. Bhaal’s favorite, murder incarnate, the master that let her study his craft by his side. Perfect.
And then Enver Gortash came along. A banite snake, driving a wedge between The Dark Urge and his duties.
No more.
She’d fix it. And then her brother would see that she was far more worthy of standing beside him than Gortash ever was.
Yes, everything would be perfect once Enver Gortash was dead.
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AU fic where Orin attacks Gortash instead of Durge, and the two chosen swap places in the story.Series
- Part 2 of Default Dark Urge
- Part 3 of Multi-chapter fics (Durgetash)
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05 Mar 2025