cyndakip
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“We need a better way,” you say one time (which time? how many times has it been? you’ve long since lost track), spread out on the grass, staring up at the endless sky. Estelle uncurls and fixes you with a Look, twice as powerful as yours, two star-bright eyes burning into you, suspicious of where this is going. You never could beat yourself in a staring contest, even before the accident.
You look away instead, grip your dagger, hold it up to the sunlight. Your reflection stares back at you. Tired. Always tired. It’s getting harder and harder to pretend that you’re not.
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- Part 2 of In Stars and Dust
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When you die and then wake up, over and over and over and over and over and over again, there’s always a weight on your chest. It’s harder to breathe in and out for those first few moments, and yet that’s a comfort after the terrifying half-asleep numbness where you can’t feel anything at all. Just you floating in a blank void, cold, alone, the other part of you dissolved into dust because you’d forgotten about the stupid boulder or slipped on a banana peel like the doomed clown that you are or been killed by the king again.
And then you wake, and struggle to breathe, and open your eye to find your other two eyes staring back at you. Your daemon, curled up on your chest, real and alive, and so you must be alive, too, even when you feel like you’re not.
The first time you ever remember waking up -- back before loops and Vaugarde and your friends but after something devastatingly big that your brain could no longer understand, back when you-both-of-you still had four eyes and no names -- you’d stared at each other too, lost, confused, and sure of only one thing: that you belonged to each other.
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- Part 1 of In Stars and Dust
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They feel the disapproving gaze of an umpire burning into them and quickly say “It doesn’t matter! We can’t both be on third, we’re breaking the rules.”
“I thought being punk was all about breaking the rules,” Eugenia teases, and Ziwa doesn’t understand how she can be so cheerful right now -- and then she takes their hand, and Ziwa stops trying to understand anything, only holds tight to the sticky-warm feeling they’ve gotten so used to.
(That time Ziwa and Eugenia canonically held hands on base)
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Sunlight and Shadow by cyndakip
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pokemon Colosseum & XD, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
27 Jun 2025
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Wes is on the run from Team Snagem, trying to make a better life for himself and his Pokemon. Rui is on the run from her kidnappers, trying to make sense of the mysterious auras she's been seeing. Together, they find themselves caught up in rescuing these mysterious, dangerous Pokemon...
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- Part 3 of The Nuzlocke Cyndamatic Universe
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Lea by cyndakip for SpaceyPaints
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Gold & Silver & Crystal | Pokemon Gold Silver Crystal Versions
05 May 2025
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When she'd followed that song towards her new future, Lea wasn't sure if she'd fit in, wasn't sure when she'd feel like part of the team, but Mel and Zip don't hesitate to welcome her with open arms, to see her for her in a way no one ever has before. They're right there from the start, Mel eagerly tackle-hugging her and Zip jumping to defend her from the other Nidoran, both of them heedless of the poison. As if she's truly worth the risk, without question.
[Written for Nuzfight 2025!]
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ISAT but with daemons, HDM-style :)
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Where You Belong by cyndakip
Fandom Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team & Blue Rescue Team, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
19 Nov 2024
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A few PMDDX stories.
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A collection of fics focusing on my favourite blaseball player, PolkaDot Patterson, as they try to make a life beyond being a star pitcher. Has some overlap with my Alto series, not just a copy.
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The Nuzlocke Cyndamatic Universe by cyndakip
Fandom Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Gold & Silver & Crystal | Pokemon Gold Silver Crystal Versions, Pocket Monsters: Red & Green & Blue & Yellow | Pokemon Red Green Blue Yellow Versions, Pokemon Colosseum & XD
27 Jun 2025
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A collection of storylockes all set in the same universe, some more connected than others.
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Jade's Daemon by crookedbones for astralDeveloper
Fandoms: Homestuck, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
24 Mar 2014
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Sorry, not a typo of demonstuck. A crossover between Phillip Pullman's Golden Compass/His Dark Materials series and Homestuck- an exploration of what it might have looked like had a part of Jade's soul been externally visible- no, rather a third extraneous self- or fourth..fifth.. um. The difference being, this ones a magic mood ring animal
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- English
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- 1,605
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Bookmarked by cyndakip
29 Oct 2025
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Persephone's Waltz by ErinPtah
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
08 Feb 2013
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The more times she fails to save Madoka, the more desperate Homura gets...until kidnapping her and locking her in a basement until Walpurgisnacht is over stops sounding like such a crazy idea.
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23 Aug 2025
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Solar Red by dainobones
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures
31 Dec 2025
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Red’s dream of outdoing his legendary cousin Ash Ketchum gets sidetracked when he finds out:
・magic is real
・magical people are REALLY weird
・there's a secret magic school in the regular school in Paldea
・Arceus expects him to bridge the gap between the magical and non-magical worlds
・His roommate N is in some kind of Pokémon Rights Cult? And can also speak to Pokémon?A lot of weird things are happening but hopefully Red can make some friends along the way.
Bookmarked by cyndakip
02 Aug 2025
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a little bit of lovely by MashpotatoeQueen for PumpkinThistle
Fandoms: The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
01 May 2025
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One time Reynie wished someone would touch his daemon, and three times someone did.
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- Part 1 of tmbs daemon au
Bookmarked by cyndakip
25 Jul 2025
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You moved, did as they said. The scale of the weather was enough to encompass both of you. Two on the old bleachers, surrounded by the patter of rain on long aluminium seats, a perfect pair of strangers slowly soaking through to their centres.
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Bookmarked by cyndakip
17 Feb 2024