mel_lifluously
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tattoos on the ether (fadin' in the light) by mel_lifluously for DeltaFell, Lucerni
Fandoms: Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game), Dispatch (Video Game)
11 May 2026
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An assassin is contracted. A hit is put out.
A squeaky-clean SDN heroine is slated to die.
The Red Ring's newest "field medic" steps in to set things right.
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i'm yours to use (and i sure wish you would use me) by mel_lifluously for thesweetestsapphic
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
04 Jan 2026
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In the glorious, halcyon days of After Shroud - once the city is no longer a smoking wreck and the rubble has been more or less cleaned up - the corporate overlords of SDN do as they all inevitably must and hatch some bullshit plot to “shake things up.”
Namely, granting the Torrance branch’s newest dispatcher a fancier title that does nothing to reduce his workload, support his team or do anything of use at all.
After the “mandatory team discussion” turned bonding bitch-fest at Robert’s apartment, Courtney sticks around.
They talk about it. And other things.
And then they don’t do much talking at all.
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It’s a sticky, sweaty, straight-from-Satan’s-asshole Wednesday morning in the middle of a heatwave when the worst idea the SDN powers-that-be have ever dreamed up crosses Robert’s desk.
(mandatory team bonding ballet lessons, featuring robert being a mess, coupé being intense, and something like a friendship coming out of it anyway)
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streetlights in the dark blue by mel_lifluously
Fandoms: Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)
09 Aug 2025
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The first time it happens is … unintentional. A charged slip of the tongue.
Honest.
(banks is snappish under pressure. jen has a weakness for being bossed around.
they don't acknowledge it, until they do.)
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“Is Banks hot? She can’t actually be hot, right?”
To his credit, Zan doesn’t laugh. Right away, at least.
(jen is having a crisis. zan does his best to help.)
Recent series
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widowmaker caitlyn au by DeltaFell, mel_lifluously, TheHomelyBadger
Fandom Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
15 Feb 2023
- Words:
- 4,090
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 15
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our love spins a gun around its finger by mel_lifluously
Fandom Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
30 Jan 2023
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A collection of assorted CaitVi drabbles and ficlets. <3
Title is from Fistfight by the Ballroom Thieves.
- Words:
- 3,901
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 25
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wasteland, baby (the last of us au) by mel_lifluously
Fandom Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
31 May 2022
- Words:
- 4,505
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 11
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AU Central by mel_lifluously
Fandom Critical Role, Critical Role (Web Series), Hades (Video Game 2018), The Last of Us, The Secret World, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
29 Dec 2020
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All of my AU fics, crossposted and compiled in one nice - and - neat place! :)
(You can find a lot of these as chapters in the drabble collection - I just sorted them all out here in case people missed them or were looking for AU content only)
- Words:
- 7,094
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
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"Are we listing the...Sleeping Beauty's seven dwarves?" Robert sighs, dragging a hand down his face.
"Did you say Sleeping Beauty?" Visi asks.
"The seven dwarves aren't—they're fr-from Snow White," Waterboy clarifies helpfully.
"That's what I said?" Robert frowns. "Are they not the same thing?"
"This is either deeply pathetic or just plain sad," Prism snorts. "Girl, you don't know your Disney princesses?"
"Probably all of Bob-Bob's comas catching up to him," Flambae says, "I bet reckless. He is a stupid idiot, after all."
The likelihood that he's the current topic of conversation—and betting pool—increases somewhat. Robert sighs again. "Why are you guys talking about... is it the seven dwarves?"
Or: The Z-Team gets Robert drunk.
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- Part 1 of non-disclosure agreement
Bookmarked by mel_lifluously
20 May 2026
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“There’s a leader—rank—board for d-dispatchers?” Waterboy blurts. Robert's lips tip upwards, an amused little smile.
“Of course there is,” he drawls. “What, did you think you guys were special? Corporate likes to look at numbers going up and down."
“What are you guys even judged on?” Prism asks. Robert raises a hand, counting on his fingers as he speaks.
“Team synergy, mission success rate, call completion efficiency, subscriber satisfaction…” his smile widens wryly. “Collateral damage.”
“Where are you in the rankings?” Unable to contain his curiosity, Sonar cuts back in. Robert levels him with a blank stare.
“You spent an hour mid-shift last Tuesday ‘powdering your nose’,” he deadpans. “Where do you think I am?”
The Z-Team finds out about Robert's continued lack of furniture, the upsetting state of his wallet, and the dispatching team's leaderboard. They hatch a plan. Robert suffers a normal amount.
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- Part 1 of property bothers
Bookmarked by mel_lifluously
20 May 2026
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Grandpa Bobbie and his daemon Alba, who died before Robert was born, settled as a bobcat. Not the biggest daemon, but big enough one’d have to start considering the size of spaces when it came to their daemon. Dad and his daemon Solas settled as doberman. To a young kid, this was setting a pattern of bigger and bigger forms as the Robertson legacy continued.
Robert and Valda rarely ever went small. They did cheetah, tiger, lion, crocodile. All sorts of breeds of huge dogs. Wolves. Predators and hunters, animals befitting a hero who would protect people and hunt down villains.
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Dispatch with daemons. (Previously titled From the Dust)
Bookmarked by mel_lifluously
21 May 2026
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“That’s kind of depressing,” Blonde Blazer murmurs, shuffling a stack of papers.
“You learn to deal,” says Robin. She leans towards Blazer, tone conspiratorial. “One time, a villain said I was ‘the Mecha Man version of Scrappy-Doo?’ That was my actual low point.”
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It was searingly obvious that Dad would have preferred another strapping young boy, Bobby’s stock, but giving fate the finger was an old family tradition by that point.
Bookmarked by mel_lifluously
20 May 2026
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A Mountain Called Hunger by RunePhoenix6769
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
24 Mar 2026
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Sagarmāthā, aka Everest. The highest point on Earth.
Five vertical miles of glory, shattered ambitions, and broken bodies.
Mountaineers embrace suffering, and walk hand in hand with death. It's a risk all mountain climbers accept in pursuit of personal triumph, critical acclaim, or social media notoriety.
Carrying a legacy, Caitlyn chases the end of a journey her father never got to finish.
Vi climbs for the conquest, for the thrill, for the sheer defiance of it—flipping off the naysayers as she aims to carve her name into history.
Their relationship exists in fragments: stolen moments between expeditions, fleeting warmth found at the feet of the most beautiful and brutal mountains on the planet. But Caitlyn has drawn a hard line: when this climb is done, she swears she’s hanging up her crampons for good.
Where will that leave her and Vi?
Vi lives for the mountains—for the danger, the triumph, the glory.
Once they’ve reached the summit, will they choose each other, or go their separate ways?
And will the mountain even give them the chance to choose at all?
AKA The one where they are stubborn, ambitious idiots.