(AV) KHEPRI
Khepri.
That was the name she’d settled on.
It hadn’t been her first choice. Or her second. Honestly, it hadn't even been a serious contender. She’d added it to her shortlist more...
2025-07-09 07:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Khepri.
That was the name she’d settled on.
It hadn’t been her first choice. Or her second. Honestly, it hadn't even been a serious contender. She’d added it to her shortlist more...
2025-07-09 07:49:25 +0000 UTC View PostGreg stared down at his notebook, its lined pages filled with doodles of swords, gears, folding joints, and some truly terrible attempts at sketching guns. The edge of his pencil had worn down to a...
2025-07-08 06:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostAmy didn’t question the first day she wasn’t called in.
Brockton Bay’s hospital system was a mess at the best of times. Schedules changed without warning. Shifts were shuffled last-minu...
2025-07-08 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe van rattled down an old industrial road, its frame shuddering over every pothole, and its muffler coughing and sputtering every few minutes. But it kept going, and that was all that mattered.&n...
2025-07-05 08:30:08 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor didn’t know what to expect when Armsmaster called her to his office.
It wasn’t the first time. Since she had become a Ward, he’d summoned her regularly for training reviews, tact...
2025-07-04 07:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostDanny Hebert was pulled violently from sleep by a sound he hadn’t heard in years: a scream.
It wasn’t the startled cry of a child jolted by a bad dream. This was raw, panicked, and an...
2025-07-03 08:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto sat cross-legged in the uncomfortable plastic chair outside Principal Blackwell’s office, idly spinning a pencil between his fingers.
Naruto sat cross-legged in the uncomfortable pla...
2025-07-03 07:37:34 +0000 UTC View PostEric Pelham knew he wasn’t the first name that came to mind when people thought of New Wave. Or the second. Or the fifth. Or even the ninth. But he’d learned to live with that.
M...
2025-07-02 09:19:17 +0000 UTC View PostA voice broke the silence at last, soft, trembling, and achingly familiar. “You’re not like the Butcher.” Greg’s head snapped up, eyes dart
A voice broke the silence at last, so...
2025-07-01 08:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostEmily Piggot had always been a woman who thrived on control.
A necessary trait for commanding the capes under her watch. The foundation of every choice she made, every strategy she executed. ...
2025-07-01 07:24:10 +0000 UTC View PostSophia Hess was no stranger to dread. She knew what it felt like to lie to her mom about where she spent her nights. She knew the cold weight of a weapon hidden inside her puffy jacket as she ducke...
2025-06-30 05:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostUpdates will return as scheduled from next week. I've just been off for these past few days, and I apologise for only updating three stories instead of five or six.
2025-06-29 05:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt happened during the second round of paired drills. Taylor wasn’t partnered with Greg or with anyone today. She’d spent most of class work
It happened during the second round of paired ...
2025-06-29 05:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe bus rumbled beneath him, its worn shocks groaning with every pothole, but doing nothing to soothe Greg’s nerves. He sat near the back, h
The bus rumbled beneath him, its worn shocks gro...
2025-06-28 14:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostI have three announcements to make:
I know everyone’s aware by now that The “S” Stands For Hope is currently on a hiatus (heh), but don't despair. It will be back soon, and unti...
2025-06-27 17:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor didn’t want to fight the PRT. She wanted to prove them wrong.
There was a difference.
She wasn’t looking to bring down the system, wasn't aiming for revenge...
2025-06-26 09:03:23 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor Hebert woke up at 4:37 AM.
The red digits of her alarm clock glared at her through the darkness, bright and perfectly still except for the steady blink between the hours and minutes.&n...
2025-06-26 08:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostThey came fast, just as Skidmark had screamed for them to. At least a dozen, maybe more, spilled out from the warehouse’s broad industrial doors in a disorganized, frothing wave of noise and aggr...
2025-06-25 13:26:21 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor sat on the floor of a bedroom in Gojo’s apartment, knees drawn close to her chest, and hands wedged between them so tightly they trembled. The room was warm and quiet, peaceful even, but n...
2025-06-24 09:26:34 +0000 UTC View PostDirector Emily Piggot sat behind her desk, spine rigid, and hands steepled beneath her chin as she read through the files glowing on her tablet.
Madison Clements’ statement; a timeline anal...
2025-06-23 08:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe costume had taken her months.
It had started as a heroic obsession, made with spider silk spun in the basement and monitored in the quiet hours between school and sleep, one of the only t...
2025-06-22 11:34:19 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor Hebert wasn’t sure when it had happened, when gym class stopped being a chore and started to feel like… something else. Not fun, exac
Taylor Hebert wasn’t sure when it had happen...
2025-06-20 09:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostArmsmaster had always trusted in his capabilities.
His armor was calibrated down to the micron. His halberd had multiple distinct configurations, each accessible in under a second. His HUD pa...
2025-06-20 07:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostGrue had always known he wasn’t a ‘real’ villain, at least not in the traditional sense. He wasn't the chaos-for-chaos’ sake type, or the ty
Grue had always known he wasn’t a ‘rea...
2025-06-19 04:39:21 +0000 UTC View PostAnakin sat in the passenger seat, unmoving, eyes fixed on the darkened road ahead. The city blurred past in streaks of sickly yellow from flickering streetlights, casting long, shifting shadows acr...
2025-06-18 10:26:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out being wanted didn’t mean the PRT came crashing through your front door at dawn.
Taylor had expected something dramatic: blaring sirens; spotlights from attack helicopters swee...
2025-06-17 06:27:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a stupid idea. Gojo knew that. Not the kind of stupid that got people killed, he could handle that. Not the reckless kind either; he
It was a stupid idea, Gojo knew that. 2025-06-17 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
As stated in the current chapter, I honestly don't know whether to have Taylor find out Sophia is a Ward too, and have her do something totally justifiable, or quietly have Sophia removed from the ...
2025-06-16 12:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostSophia Hess wasn’t afraid of much.
She’d walked the backstreets of Brockton Bay long before she ever got her powers, through alleys thick with ABB thugs with knives in their pockets and m...
2025-06-16 06:22:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Four of my original fiction, Marked For Death, is now available to be read on Royal Roads here: