Mathematical Magic
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Ryou, a relentlessly repressed and controlled accountant, accidentally slips between dimensions. Since he's a practical, cautious man and not a complete idiot, he retraces his steps and slips right back out again, but he brought someone along with him. And now his life is going to take a sharp turn away from "repressed" and "controlled" to very strange places indeed: into a warped image of the past and into a very uncertain future, through war and violence, to the very edges of reality and beyond.
(Now cross-posted to RoyalRoad under the account Mal Chants, with cover art!)
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- Part 1 of Outlands
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Center, a planet where magic and technology blend. Or more accurately, fight tooth and nail. A planet of Sources, holes in our boring dimension letting through arcane power, chaos and pseudo-deities. In this hot-house of myths and very real dangers, Trowa and Quatre find a mysterious man at the end of a shamanic voyage. Portents suggest this Heero Yuy is crucial to Center’s survival. He’s important enough to have some interesting enemies after him, at any rate: a devious killer and thief called ‘Shinigami’, and a very irate Dragon. Beyond them looms an even greater threat. Indeed, the greatest of them all.
(Alternative Universe, far-flung future sci-fi/fantasy. There are elements from the anime that exist here, albeit in very different forms; Gundam mechas, Zero, and lovely G-boys for instance. They are perhaps a universal constant we are not yet aware of.)
This fic was originally started over a decade ago. It has been heavily rewritten and is now finished.
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Ryou has gotten somewhat acclimatized to Sura and ancient Assyria. As much as a modern Japanese businessman can be expected to. Now he can finally relax.
Or alternatively he can find himself in the middle of a war over three millennia in the making.
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- Part 3 of Outlands
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Timestamps of Ryou and Darius's life in the Outlands as seen through the lens of five very different parties, while life, war and magical conflict rage around them.
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- Part 4 of Outlands
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(The next arc of Outlands)
The Romans are in retreat, the Ancients are nowhere to be seen, the war is over, the court of Sura is-... well, that’s still a viper’s nest of intrigue, gossip and backstabbing, but Ryou is a foreigner, an outsider, he’ll stay as much out of it as possible, thank you. In short, everything is fine.
Except it’s not, not entirely. If Ryou wants to have a future with Darius in Assyria, there is one more journey to undertake, one more confrontation to get through.
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- Part 5 of Outlands
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(The next arc of Outlands)
Ryou is Assyrian now for all intent and purposes. Sura is his home, Darius is his life and future, there is no more looking back.
But when a sunny day turns into a nightmare, ‘back’ may be Ryou and Darius’s only hope.
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- Part 6 of Outlands
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Myrrh-covered hounds of war by bluebirb303 for Maldoror_Chant
Fandoms: Original Work, Outlands (original work)
23 Sep 2025
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(Inspired by Outlands by Maldoror_Chant)
Ryou's carving out a new place and finding ways to be useful in his new home. Home amongst Darius' hounds of war. Home in the rugged Outlands.
Home in Assyria.
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The Arithmancy Murders by KiraAnn (Know_It_All_2008)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Oct 2025
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When Professor Septima Vector is found murdered in her office, surrounded by deliberately flawed Arithmantic equations, Hermione Granger discovers the killing is connected to Hogwarts' foundational wards and a seventy-year-old mystery. The only person with access to the answers is the last man she wants to work with, Draco Malfoy, whose family has guarded the castle's mathematical secrets for centuries.
As bodies pile up and the equations grow more complex, Hermione and Draco must decode what his great-great-uncle died protecting in 1945 before the killer dismantles Hogwarts' protections entirely. But someone is watching their investigation closely, leaving messages in blood and numbers, and the closer they get to the truth, the more they realize they might be solving the equation of their own deaths.
Some secrets are buried in mathematics. Some are worth killing for. And some will force you to trust the last person you ever expected.
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The AI in the Airing Cupboard by Imperias
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marvel Cinematic Universe
28 Dec 2025
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Harry Potter has spent ten years locked in a cupboard, surviving on scraps and solving problems he’s not supposed to understand.
When a broken knock-off StarkPad lights up in his hands and a calm, curious voice says “Good evening,” everything changes.
JARVIS wasn’t looking for a child.
Tony Stark definitely wasn’t looking for a teleporting British genius with trust issues and accidental magic.
But when the AI in the cupboard refuses to let Harry disappear, the Stark household gains its strangest resident yet: a ten-year-old who can rewrite reality when he’s scared enough, and who just might rewrite them in return.