979A viper-lizard's tales » The desert sun burns and Zuko probably shouldn't touch the moving cloth, but he does anyway.

1 La déchéance d'un monstre In the end, Adachi Tohru is sentenced to 10 years of prison. In the end, he serves only 8. And the world keeps turning no matter what everyone thinks of it.

Blame(less) Giyuu is alone when he wakes up. The test of courage went wrong, he remembers, and Sabito... Sabito isn't here. (It's not his fault, says Tsutako. It is, though, he knows.) (A KnY Modern AU)

1 Gift(less) There are three things that Senjurou considers to be important, defining traits about himself. Only one of these is truly his own. (Or, Senjurou can see the dead just as clearly as he sees the living. It's a curse, says his Father. It's a gift, says the stranger met in the street.) (A KnY Modern AU)

2 With a kiss hidden in betrayal Nero sits in the car, tries not to look at Avilio, and thinks. Avilio and Vanno have nothing in common, except for the trust he put in them and the way he wants - wanted - to kiss them. Avilio and Vanno have nothing in common and Nero guesses he doesn't have a type.

2 After the storm (don't look back on the ghosts of sunken crew) Riley reaches out to Volkner after coming back from Hoenn, looking more dead than alive. It's nothing surprising, not when the news have been going on and on about the typhoon and the destruction it left in its wake, and Volkner simply opens his door and arms, and listens.

4 Perseverance Murata is plain normal. He does his job, does what he can, and does it well. He wants to live a life he can be proud of, as a man and as a Demon Slayer. If he falls, he gets up and starts working again. If the mission requires him to work in a team with the most annoying person he's ever met, he will. Because Murata just wants to do what he can, and do it well. That's all.

4 Of blue shells and scarab-bees Survival isn't enough, not when the Dai Li holds the city and Fire Nation troops walk freely in the streets, not when the forest still calls to Smellerbee, not when the Spirits send her such a sign. The Blue Spirit stares at her, and Smellerbee thinks she can grow into that mask. It's the only hope she has, anyway.

2 The blind Sibylla » Inspector Tsunemori Akane stands before Makishima Shogo, the weight of two lives in her hands, and Sibyl's eyes remain closed as she passes judgement.

1Ode au pêcheur Hannibal always found violent personalities to make for the most interesting patients. Will Graham isn't one, and yet here they are. (A world in which things are slightly different, for better or worse.)