fic recs

Phoenix Wright needs some time to recuperate. There's really only one place to go.

Or, five weddings that never happened (and one that almost did.)

Snapshots into the girlhood of Dahlia Hawthorne.

"Knoll returns to Grado, where he dedicates himself to rebuilding it and fulfilling Lyon's vision. When the country is restored to its former glory, he disappears without a trace, never to be seen again." -Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones epilogue.

Knoll only stays in Grado for as long as he is needed.

When they fought together it was like for the moment they were inhabiting their former selves again.

"If an opera is made about my life someday, I wonder how I'll be portrayed. The revolutionary who guided the Empire to a new dawn, or the foolish ruler who took her revolution too far?"

In the summer, the people of Fhirdiad puts on a festival to celebrate their victory. Linhardt, on sabbatical from Garreg Mach, goes to see an opera with an old friend.

He didn't understand how someone like Marilyn, who was the focus of so much love, could feel so all alone.

Marufuji Ryou, before he was Kaiser.

Neji is seventeen. Hinata grows old.

Someone has been freeing the caged birds in the Hyuuga compound.

His father had fifty wives and his father's father had fifty wives and all the fathers before him had half a hundred wives of their own.

Kimblee has long been bending circumstances to his advantage.

Practice losing something every day.

His first bid for power comes full circle.

"As the leader of Fifth division."

The dead timeline lives on, and Katsuya Suou stubbornly persists in it. His brother is determined to do better.

Living after the end of the world is hard. Living with yourself is harder. Tatsuya Suou comes home to find not everything is where he left it... and some scores are yet left unsettled.

(Or, "Persona 2: Atonement")

A post-EP epilogue of the Other Side... but why are his friends still there? Why has someone new donned the Joker mask? Who are the City of Heaven cultists? Why is Kei Nanjo working with Tatsuzou Sudou? And can Tatsuya work up the courage to ask that damned boy out on a date, or what? A story of finding a place to belong.

Ginji who is strong and smart and desperate and pukes black stuff and can do enough thinking for both of us but is that really okay? Lisa thinks not but Lisa thinks a lot of things that never happened.

Five years later, Miki and Kozue search for teenage fencing incest turtles.

Akio's starter harem.

Life is more than a collection of still frames.

Ritsuko’s hand was warmer than she could have foreseen. Misato kept her hand atop hers for an overlong moment, if only to make good on the gesture, before she retracted it and wiped the small film of moisture that had accumulated on her palm onto the counter.

[Misato and Ritsuko try their hands at friendship, again.]

Now, right now, in SEELE’s wreck of a hospital ward, smelling the rot of the place, the rot of the world, like Hiroshima, like Nagasaki, like hell itself had swallowed up—everything—Mari breathes in blood and breathes out poetry.

The story of the end of the world, told in two parts.

Hyuga Makoto is the most pessimistic optimist in all of NERV, according to Aoba. Unfortunately he also has all the willpower of a heroin addict when it comes to the central cause.

“We’re here to discuss a better world,” says Sudo, quietly, after a moment. Slowly, Satomi’s fists unclench; slowly, Komori sheathes his knife. “A world where those who live are those who have earned the right to live.”

“Oh, God,” says Bungo, and drops his face into his hands. “No offence, Sudo-kun, but I knew you were too good to be true.”

(Before they had their shadow dragons, and before they were a team, and before they had a plan - they were all still just as fucking weird.)

She's not broken; she's misassembled.

Cyrus hates hating her.

"I was not the one who confessed to the wrong girl," Crystal snipes, watching Gold flinch.

He thinks of her as his, but doesn't allow her the pleasure of a vice-versa.

"Aren't you going to wish me 'good luck'?" — AU, where Mayaka falls for Houtarou instead of Satoshi in middle school.

In some other place, a little boy takes his turn drowning in the river.

Maybe she should have taken the Beatles' way out and told him she just wanted to hold his hand or something.