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Existential Questions

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20 works open to everyone here carry this tag; 85% are complete. The average one runs about 9,700 words. Read any of them in your browser, save it as an EPUB, or listen to it.

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The Old Guard (Movie 2020)

When You're Older

by mybeanieandme

Nile has many questions for her new immortal family. With the revelation that Andy can, and may within a lifetime, die, she wonders how the other members of the team feel about their mortality and their relationship to it and each other.

General 1.1k words 1 ch Complete 382 kudos

Comfort No Hurt · Existential Questions · Nicolo "everything happens for a reason" di genova · confident defiance of gods· +2 more

Elvis Presley (Musician)+2

Lets Get Outta This Town

by wintersday85

After the wrap-up of another exhausting performance season at the International, Elvis is having one of his worst weeks in recent memory, and ditching his Vegas entourage to go undercover for an afternoon of desperately needed peace and quiet doesn't quite go the way he hopes.Until you -- a gutsy, free-spirited stranger -- help him escape from a mob of overenthusiastic fans, and you both decide to get the heck out of dodge for a multi-day adventure that neither of you will ever forget. Can a shift in scenery and company help Elvis change the trajectory of his increasingly challenging life and career?i.e. Elvis receives a great kindness from strangers, instead of what's usually the other way around. A fix-it fic of sorts.__“Have you given anymore thought about where I can take you?” you ask.“Yeah,” Elvis says surprisingly easily at that. “Anywhere but here.”

Teen 86k words 8 / ? ch In progress 209 kudos

Road Trips · Hurt/Comfort · Elvis Gets The Break He Deserves · Elvis Needs A Hug· +19 more

Gravity Falls

Monsters From The Other

by Fooeyburr

Stanley finds a stranger side to his brother; Stanford has found a stranger side to the world.

Teen 4.6k words 1 ch Complete 58 kudos

Character Study · Weirdmageddon · Post-Canon · Existential Questions· +3 more

Moonlight Chicken (TV)+6

The Painter

by veligfie_tsune

May’s art always made Fourth feel a lot of things. These paintings were bizarre in a way, so soft and full of life that he couldn’t help but wonder who was the very person standing on the other side of them. Little could he imagine that one day he would have a chance to meet his idol in the flesh and discover other parts of his odd, complex, and undeniably gorgeous soul.

Teen 43k words 8 ch Complete 56 kudos

Angst with a Happy Ending · Art Block · Autistic Burnout · Autistic Characters· +14 more

Ted Lasso (TV)

seven scenes of becoming

by theroyalwelton

Set sometime between the Season 2 finale and Sam’s flash forward three weeks later.A somewhat existential exploration of Sam and Rebecca individually: their experience with each other, their pasts, and their futures. They reflect separately on their time together, and feel out how it will become part of their larger stories moving forward.

Teen 7.1k words 1 ch Complete 43 kudos

Existential Questions · Parallels · Post-Canon · and going in different directions· +9 more

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)+1

Dear Buffy

by BeatriceEveryTuesday

Dear Buffy,//(Love, Cordelia)The above is the actual title of the fic, AO3 just doesn’t accept strikethroughs in titles. But this is what I’d name it if I could.- - - - -Buffy is dead and Angel is away. Left with no one in L.A. who actually understands what it means to have loved and lost Buffy Summers, Cordelia finds herself writing letters to a dead girl in an attempt to process her own feelings.- - - - -  Dear Buffy,   If you had to die, couldn’t you at least have become a ghost? Not forever, but, just for a little while? You know, to say your goodbyes before you moved on to whatever comes after life? Because I wish I could’ve talked to you one more time.   Not that, if you were a ghost, it would’ve ever occurred to you to visit me.   — Cordelia

Teen 8.7k words 1 ch Complete 38 kudos

Epistolary · Unreliable Narrator · Emotional Hurt/Comfort · Grief/Mourning· +24 more

The Spirealm (TV)

The Science of Falling

by Fiathel

Ruan Lanzhu reflects on everything leading to his fall – what was written in the script and what was not.

Teen 2.8k words 1 ch Complete 37 kudos

Based on the show specifically · Major Spoilers · Reflection · Falling In Love· +4 more

Video Blogging RPF

life's in a different color

by mintyfrxsh

“What keeps you up at night?” Karl questions delicately, his words taunt against the feather-light backdrop. Sapnap purses his lips, and debates letting his mind spill and words filter away into nothingness. He could be truthful, or he could lie. So he decides to be honest, because Karl can see right through him anyway. “The stars,” he replies.

General 1.2k words 1 ch Complete 28 kudos

Alternate Universe - Fantasy · Constellations · Deeper Meanings · Existential Questions· +11 more

Attack on Titan

Would You Still Love Me If I Were a Titan?

by orphan_account

It’s past 1AM. The war is over. The bed is warm. Erwin has survived, Levi has nearly forgiven him for it, and they’re finally in the same room without a battle map between them. But peace, it turns out, means Erwin has far too much time to think.And Levi? Levi just wants to sleep. A short post-war domestic snapshot in which Erwin is plagued by philosophical what-ifs, and Levi is plagued by Erwin.

Teen 990 words 1 ch Complete 23 kudos

AI-Generated Text · Canon divergence - everyone lives · Domestic Fluff · Emotional Intimacy· +15 more

Trigun (Anime & Manga)

Scenes from Purgatory

by severalspoons

Nicholas D. Wolfwood thought he was dead and damned. Now he was dead and not-so-damned, and he wasn't sure what to do about it. There will be at least 3 chapters. The total number of chapters, and overall plot, are TBD. Chapter 1 takes place in the same universe as Costume.

General 4.4k words 4 / ? ch In progress 16 kudos

Alternate Universe - Afterlife · Alternate Universe - Post-Canon · Angry at God · Angst· +42 more