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"Hey there, Ric. It's me, ya boy." by PayloadOfGeckos
Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
30 May 2026
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"Raz called me." Too simple, too honest, and much, much too sure for someone who'd been hallucinating his dead friend regularly since watching him fall from a window. Not fall. Jump. He had watched Raz jump. He didn't stop it. No amount of therapy in the world would convince him that he couldn't have stopped it, maybe if he'd just—
"You're drunk."
It was an accusation, not even a question, and a part of Ricardo wished she was right.
Nearly four years after the Heartbreak Incident, Ricardo Ortega gets a phone call from the dead.
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It should be an average Thursday in Los Diablos, but Winnifred Smiths is having one hell of a run of bad luck.
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Warranty Voiding Maintenance by PayloadOfGeckos
Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
28 Apr 2026
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Really, I don't think that's in the manual...
(Nothing like a pair of broken legs to push a guy into testing some new mod maintenance techniques on his not-boyfriend)
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Put Your Arm 'Round My Collarbone, and Open the Door by PayloadOfGeckos
Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
06 Apr 2026
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"Raz..."
He's here, waiting in the quiet, sitting on the edge of my bed with his back to me. If this room was real he would be looking towards the window, but the walls are all he gave himself. My jacket— the one I know that I am wearing now, outside of this thought— doesn't do enough to hide that Raz looks fragile. Like the only thing holding him together is the breath he still hasn't taken. He denies fragility, no-matter how many times he's been broken, but I know the truth is that parts of him grew back brittle. I know how I got here.
After everything, there is always an end.
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"¿Qué cojones? Since when does that mean 'I'm gonna charge him'??" Raz caught a glimpse of Ricardo mirroring his earlier gesture, which did seem to suggest two people circling around. He was too firmly committed to dying on the street to bother explaining his reasoning to the Marshal.
"Since about a minute ago."
A few months after his debut as Sidestep, Raz Becker nearly gets heatstroke.
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Tell me, love, if the devil ever comes, to make good on the debts that I owe by mothmanslilguy
Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
04 Jun 2026
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There’s an innate wrongness in how still he is. Ricardo Ortega, larger than life and as bright as any sun, the man that lived life like it was something to be wrangled into submission. Sure, he’d been hurt before, it’s an inevitability in his line of work, but he always seemed…
Untouchable.
Until he wasn’t.
Bookmarked by PayloadOfGeckos
04 Jun 2026
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AU Sidestep heads south instead of immediately tearing into old wounds and overwhelming noise of Los Diablos, determined that if they're going to die, it's going to be in the most open, warm, bright, safe space they can imagine.
Thankfully Snowball saves the day.
Now everyone else has to deal with the aftermath
Implied canon typical Farm nastiness
Unbeta'd, first fic i've posted here to ao3,Series
Bookmarked by PayloadOfGeckos
01 Jun 2026
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Author: Halfwaywrongway07
Title: A Different Direction
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It’s been a week since the Heartbreak attack, and you feel like death.
Outside, there’s people fighting. Couples, family members, strangers. A girl stalks her crush, careful footsteps as she peers over a convenience store rack to see the pretty brown eyes that haunt her dreams. Someone frantically runs through the streets, looking for their lost dog. They taste blood in their lungs, and their legs ache, but it’s nothing compared to the heartache inside.
You can relate to that. You taste vomit on your tongue, and your eyes itch from all the tears, but it’s nothing compared to the burning emptiness inside where your heart used to beat.
Anathema is dead after all, what else matters?
Bookmarked by PayloadOfGeckos
11 Oct 2025
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Author:thehappiestdays
Title:What Death Leaves Behind
Summary: Vendetta survived Heartbreak, told Julia the truth, and now ne has to learn how to survive grief.
<3 : Amazing writing, and Ven is such a delightful Sidestep, both in the heaviness featured in this fic, and the humor in other works the author has shared on different platforms. The emphasis on words throughout this fic and how they are so important to Vendetta, how they are connection, is so beautiful. -
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This is what you were made for, to spy for your masters, to gather information and pass it on, and Los Diablos is ripe with secrets, ones that you have been sent to extract.
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26 Oct 2025
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Author: aflyingcoffeebean
Title: Livewire
Summary: What if Sidestep isn't Sidestep? Cyrus' first escape was a failure, and now he has been sent to spy on the Rangers, or maybe just given a longer leash to test his loyalty...
<3 : Love love this fic, I've revisited it a truly embarrassing and wonderful number of times. The author does such a great job balancing Cyrus' personality and sense of self with the repression of both to stay alive at the Farm. The banter between him and Ricardo is masterfully done, as are the portrayals of telepathy and the Farm itself, and I am so eager to learn what happens next. -
I’ve Got a Secret and it’s Starting to Rot by GreyGravy (TheronMahariel)
Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
17 Apr 2024
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“He doesn’t waste time, he tackles the man out of the way, he goes down hard, weighs more than Ryker would have thought, and he barely dodges out of the way of his arms before the man can get a hold on him. He rolls off and starts sprinting across the parking lot.
“Ryker!”
A name.
His name.
He doesn’t have a name at the Farm, just a number.
He spins around to look at the man.
And it’s Ortega.”
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What if Step actually called Ortega when he escaped the Farm a second time?
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26 Oct 2025
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Author: GreyGravy (TheronMahariel)
Title: I've Got a Secret and it's Starting to Rot
Summary: to be added
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