CHAPTER TWO: SIFTING THROUGH PIECES OF BROKEN HOURGLASS
The house, as it sits in the middle of a ruined city, is unsurprisingly low on food. Nightwalker says he and the others have been tryi...
2024-03-28 12:59:57 +0000 UTC
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“What do you mean you don’t know where Dirk is?!”
The guy who’s introduced himself as the Autoresponder lifts a shoulder, barely turning back as he continues down the ruined street. He said he and the others have found a hou...
2024-02-23 09:54:02 +0000 UTC
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Cronus Ampora is on the floor of his living room.
The fireplace is dark, but his skin is heated. Warmth envelopes his whole body, and his eyelids barely lift when he tries to open his eyes. To his right, bright light streams through the wind...
2023-12-30 00:07:02 +0000 UTC
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#16: ALL THINGS END by HOZIER
It takes less than twelve hours for the house to turn into a warzone. By the end of the day, Dirk has dumped the whole salt shaker into his older self’s food while his older self h...
2023-07-21 08:52:48 +0000 UTC
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#15: KING by LAUREN AQUILINA
One grounds the older Dirk on the first floor and the younger one on the second floor. Neither of them can go anywhere other than their specific floor, and if either of them break qua...
2023-07-14 05:15:53 +0000 UTC
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#14: DESERT SONG by MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
The hallway stretches as far as Dirk can see, disappearing into the darkness ahead. There are no doors or windows in the narrow space, only plain cement walls and a concrete floor. The...
2023-07-07 04:05:32 +0000 UTC
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#12: AFRAID by THE NEIGHBORHOOD
2023-06-23 03:27:09 +0000 UTC
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#11: ABSINTHE by IDKHOW
27 HOURS AGO
Something has caught him.
Davesprite freezes in mid-air where the wind has cushioned his fall. Above him is the angry, pulsing tear in the sky that he's falle...
2023-06-16 07:34:02 +0000 UTC
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#10: GOLDEN BY FALL OUT BOY
The First Guardian blips into existence at the breakfast table unprompted. Everyone flinches in surprise, because how the hell else do you react to that?
Three scoots his chair closer to Dir...
2023-06-08 05:52:14 +0000 UTC
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#08: SEDATED by HOZIER
They go right back to rearranging the archives when they go back home. As interesting as it has been to see Kisaragi, sometimes it's too much too fast, and the holidays nearing isn't helping much. Even...
2023-06-01 09:47:45 +0000 UTC
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#08: NO PLAN by HOZIER
They stay at the hot springs for two more days before they return to One’s, and then another day there before Dirk and Three go home. The First Guardian does not show up again (although One says thei...
2023-05-22 06:41:42 +0000 UTC
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#07: SO GOOD RIGHT NOW by FALL OUT BOY
They have a visitor in the morning.
The First Guardian is an imposing figure standing in the middle of the living room. Dirk spots him on his way towards the stairs. How long he...
2023-05-22 06:40:51 +0000 UTC
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#06: NORTHERN DOWNPOUR by PANIC! AT THE DISCO
He goes to bed sometime around dawn and only gets a few hours of sleep. Despite Hal constantly scaring him as he works, the soul does not explode or shatter or disappear. It look...
2023-05-03 03:43:52 +0000 UTC
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#05: THE KINTSUGI KID (TEN YEARS) by FALL OUT BOY
Three sews runes into the inside of his coat to make it responsive to temperature and keep its wearer warm. Then, they fly at top speed north, following the coast until the a...
2023-05-01 05:09:18 +0000 UTC
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#04: IT'S ALRIGHT by MOTHER MOTHER
Three quietly slips out of the room while Dave comforts his little brother. This isn't his business, this is private, and so he steps out into the hallway to let them have some ...
2023-04-28 07:15:55 +0000 UTC
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#03: MEDICINE by DAUGHTER
The scanner arrives a week later, in perfect condition. Dirk immediately takes it apart in his room (the office is liable for fires) and reassembles it so it's structured like a loo...
2023-04-25 06:19:09 +0000 UTC
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#02: DAWN by CIRCUS-P
They don't talk about the incident after, or the days following. Dirk is more than happy to let it pass, save for Three's passing comment about him drifting. Obviously, having fought another version of ...
2023-04-25 06:17:21 +0000 UTC
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#04: HOW VILLAINS ARE MADE by MADALEN DUKE
Seven lets her roam the city, giving her a phone and a number to call him in case she gets lost, though with his apartment being at the tallest floor of the tallest building of Hats...
2023-03-23 03:31:06 +0000 UTC
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INTERMISSION - KISARAGI MIXTAPES - SIDE A: DAMARA MEGIDO
#03: (IT’S NOT ABOUT) RUNNING by TUVABAND
Despite the late hour, the city is alive with sound and light. Neon signs of pink and blue scream ad...
2023-03-06 05:14:53 +0000 UTC
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#02: HOME IS JUST A STATE OF MIND by ROD LADGROVE
Seven lives in Hatsune city. The only god residing in the living world, despite the fact that his older brother Three should be with him. When Damara points this out, he shru...
2023-02-15 07:44:54 +0000 UTC
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THE KISARAGI MIXTAPES (INTERMISSION)
SIDE A: DAMARA MEGIDO
#01: PAPER CROWN by ALEC BENJAMIN
What does a cornered animal do?
Pit against a wall with nowhere else to go and ...
2023-01-24 07:28:23 +0000 UTC
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EPILOGUE
“For real? You actually killed her?”
Sapphrel Angeles sighed, far more dramatic than they needed to be so Eridan could clock that this was an insincere, exaggerated reaction, and proceeded to slump over th...
2022-12-05 05:00:04 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: I WILL FOLLOW YOU INTO THE DARK
They could not afford to let her fly. Eridan only had a few minutes, and Anshu’s body was a sprite. If she managed to take to the air, then it was all over.
So Eri...
2022-12-05 04:59:01 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL
“Manifest.”
Eridan’s eyes snapped open, jolting awake as if he’d been electrocuted. He sat up and began to frantically pat down his chest, trying to see if his hear...
2022-11-28 03:45:44 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: HONEY, BELIEVE ME, I’LL HAVE YOUR HEART ON A PLATTER
???
They ended up having to duck behind a building, blocks away from their original drop-off point. Cronus wrenched himself ...
2022-11-22 03:03:19 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: YOU SAID YOU’D LOVE ME FOREVER
FEBRUARY 1, 2014
NIGHT VALE
Between Karkat, Meenah, a strange adult’s arrival from a completely other planet and Dualscar...
2022-11-17 02:25:04 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
JANUARY 31, 2014
NIGHT VALE
Dualscar awoke, slowly, to an unfamiliar ceiling, in an unfamiliar bed. While in any other situation, he woul...
2022-11-10 06:04:32 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: DON’T YOU FEEL LIKE IT’S BEEN FOREVER
THE LAND OF SNOW AND STARS
Aradia’s ancestor was terrifying.
After Karkat had given up on arguing with Kankri for something as stu...
2022-11-04 05:28:10 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: NOBODY BELIEVES YOU NOW
The coast of Florida was flooding.
It had to happen someday, but for it to be minutes after the entire state had gone into a statewide blackout wasn’t what most people ex...
2022-10-29 03:09:09 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: NOBODY BELIEVES YOU NOW
The coast of Florida was flooding.
It had to happen someday, but for it to be minutes after the entire state had gone into a statewide blackout wasn’t what most people ex...
2022-10-17 05:33:56 +0000 UTC
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