Phoenix Takaramono

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Current Lineup of Story Updates:

🟢 - active, the WIP currently being worked on

⚪️ - active, but is on the waiting list

⚫️ - temporary hiatus

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⚪️ Chariot and Wolf ch2 - Odysseus/ Poseidon

SUMMARY: Poseidon’s judgement soon fell. “Choose, Odysseus of Ithaca.” “Choose…?” Odysseus said, baiting. His grip on Penelope's hand tightened. ”Before you lay two roads. Choose to come with me, and I will take you to Olympus. Or you can choose to throw all that away and enjoy mediocrity. Before you, I will sink this island and all that inhabit it. Then you will be the king of nothing.” ༄﹏𓊝﹏༄ How difficult is it to defy the fate that’d been woven for you, when you already know what’s to come? AKA Odysseus is only an infant when the God-King Zeus prophesies the future humiliation Odysseus will inflict on Poseidon years after the mortal prince ascends the throne. However, the King of Ithaca will play a crucial role in the Trojan War. Zeus’ hands are tied as he is the one who prohibited the gods from interfering in the war. So the thunder bringer devises a trial. There are many ways of persuasion. Wherein somethings remain inevitable, but a tiny ripple can become a tidal wave. Poseidon rasped, “Zeus has his demigod sons, Heracles and Perseus. Athena has the warrior Achilles. But you, Odysseus of Ithaca, belong to me.”

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⚪️ The Name of the Game ch2 -  William “Billy” Butcher/ Homelander (John)

SUMMARY: Ambushed on a PR trip to Vought-American, Billy Butcher is accosted by an omniscient voice calling itself the SYSTEM. As its Host, he’s tasked to fulfill the dying wish of each soul he transmigrates into. Fight fate. Only then will he be permitted to return home.

The catch? He’ll be pitted against each Task World’s “virtuous hero.” Somehow he will have to win his enemy over—or it’s Billy’s death.

Whilst he’s digesting the information, the SYSTEM must’ve read what’s on Billy’s mind because it quickly creates one more ironclad rule. 【No, you cannot kill that person—or your soul’s forfeit.】

Billy sneers. “You expect me to know who that cunt would be?”

【Oh, you’ll know. You are destined to be natural nemeses in every world.】

In the end, Homelander’s embraced Billy. “Don’t you see how perfect you are by my side…?” The deep love wrapped in paranoid light has rolled into a vast ocean, seemingly swallowing everything. Rubbing the tip of his nose against Billy’s cheek, he laughs in a low voice. “One word, William. Just one word from you, and we can be together.”

(AKA Billy’s on a literal Enemies-to-Lovers Fix-It mission spanning seven parallel universes.)

🟢 Truce ch3 - William “Billy” Butcher/ Homelander (John)

SUMMARY: When the whole world sees Billy jacked up on V-24, CEO Ashley Barrett defies expectations and makes a strategic business decision: reform the English ex-CIA operative/ leader of a terrorist cell into the new model superhero of America and make him co-captain of The Seven. Ryan is over the moon while Homelander—John—is less than enthused by the development.

Until he realizes he’s developed a…fixation on William fucking Butcher, of all Supes. They were perfect as nemeses; now they were untouchable as gods.

Together, they were America's Power Couple.

And Billy was John’s perfect partner.

⚪️ Either TNotG ch2, Truce ch4, or TUT ch6 will be next (it depends on my mood after posting Truce ch3)

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🟢 The Untold Tale ch6 - Shen Yuan/ original!Luo Binghe 

SUMMARY: Let it not be said that Shen Yuan didn’t know how to be an accomplished—arguably better—writer than Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky! A middle-aged author in his hubris, he’d unknowingly triggered his fate and had his consciousness whisked away into an unfathomable mystical world that he would later learn to be based on Proud Immortal Demon Way and his very own work-in-progress. When given the opportunity to customize his character’s stats and to design his one remaining Customizable Skill Slot, as a veteran reader of transmigration stories and their tropes, Shen Yuan demanded, “Grant me the protagonist’s halo of course!”

The SYSTEM was silent all but for a minute. 【Understood. Unique Skill "PROTAGONIST'S HALO" activated. Esteemed Host, you share the Unique Skill "PROTAGONIST'S HALO" with one other.】

“Who?”

【This world’s Luo Binghe. From the original novel series.】

“...Hold on, I need some time to process this.”

(Little did Shen Yuan know that this world’s Luo Binghe is the same sadistic “Bing gē” from the released Extra short story. It was also too bad that Shen Yuan, in his mortal form, resembled Shen Qingqiu by a good thirty-to-forty percent.)

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⚪️ A Prince and His Baron ch5 - Blitzø/ Stolas

SUMMARY: It was undeniable that there was an upcoming and new threat in Hell, rivaling some of the realm’s most ancient fiends in ruthlessness despite his pedigree. Prince Stolas arranged to meet the hitdemon, ready to confer upon him a title. Their first meeting didn't go exactly according to plan.

Blitzø didn't think he'd catch a royal demon's interest in that manner, but as an assassin who's got several centuries under his belt, he might be able to roll with it.

(A sort of What-If AU, inspired by demon mythology and some other things like the Helluva Boss Instagram accounts.)

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⚫️ Green and Gold ch17 - Harry Potter/ Sesshomaru

*(ON TEMPORARY HIATUS)

I will resume this as soon TUT is marked as complete since TUT is borrowing a concept from G&G and G&G is conceived to be around 40ish - 60ish chapters. (As creative writing flashes can be strong and random sometimes, the exception to this temporary hiatus is if I’m struck with the impulse to write.)

SUMMARY: Due to the newest crop of alleged Death Eater sightings overseas, British Division Head Auror, Lord Harry Potter, was sent to Muggle Japan to thwart the renegade from performing another Dark Resurrection Ritual on a sacred site, thereby from desecrating a national magical monument―the Bone Eater's Well. For his troubles he lands himself as the minder of a 500-or-so year-old dog daiyoukai his magic tore from a distant past. Aloof and flexible morals aside, he doesn't know what to make of the feudal lord and sovereign. Yet. Similarly, Sesshomaru cannot help but be intrigued.

In the meantime, a storm is brewing in both eras, both in the magical UK and magical Japan...and perhaps even in Europe or America itself.

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⚫️ Finders Keepers ch7 - android!Rhys Strongfork/ Handsome Jack

*(ON TEMPORARY HIATUS)

I will resume this as soon TUT is marked as complete (or before, depending). At that time, I’ll see if there is still an audience or interest in FK—or if this will be one of those stories where I’m only writing for myself.

SUMMARY: By some miraculous twist of fate, Jack stumbles across an Atlas android hidden smack dab in Hyperion headquarters. Obviously, what is he going to do with it? Keep it for himself, of course, because as the saying goes, "Finders keepers, losers weepers." What he didn't anticipate was the clusterfuck he'd find himself in, when he discovers the valuable model he'd been hoarding has a hidden backstory. There is more than meets the eye.

(It's a sort-of tie-in to the Borderlands and Tales from the Borderlands universes. This is another attempt at an AU, although I hope to pay homage to elements from canon.)

*This is just the tentative lineup schedule, subject to change (priority depends on which of these six “children” is clamoring the loudest). This writer wishes to preserve the unique atmosphere and writing style for each story, and not see their worlds being mixed or influenced accidentally. Immersion into the worldbuilding is important. TUT, C&W, and G&G are more tonally similar, likewise for Truce, TNotG, and P&B and FK, so hopefully this order will reduce any bleed-over in the reading materials whenever they come out.