The Buddy System Series

Part 1: Find Your Buddy

Chapter 4

Fandom: Outer Wilds

Summary: No one really knows what to expect in the Outer Wilds, past some very educated guesses. There are still dangers to discover at every turn, but Outer Wilds Ventures has done well enough for themselves using an advanced combination of research and luck. That seems to be enough, until it really isn’t and Timber Hearth’s finest astronaut gets themselves stranded in Dark Bramble. Now no one knows what to do next, but it’s the Hearthian way to carry on.

Rating: Teen

Warnings:  Aftermath of Trauma, Alcohol Use

Characters: Slate, Player Character (Obsidian), Gabbro, Esker, Gossan, Feldspar, Hornfels, Chert, Riebeck, Micha

Relationships: Slate/Feldspar, Hornfels/Esker, Gabbro/Player , Gossan/Porphy, Character (Obsidian), Gossan & Feldspar - Siblings, Chert & Riebeck

Tags: The Universe Lives/Nobody Dies AU, No Timeloop AU, Feldspar is Found Almost Immediately, Feldspar is Stranded a lot Longer than That, Angst, Fluff, Feldspar and Gossan are siblings, Established Relationships, Breakup, Not Beta Read, Multiple Pov, The Founders Have Hatchlings - Let’s Find Out Who!

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Off The Marshamallow Stick and Into the Campfire

Chapter 17

Fandom: Outer Wilds

Summary: The light of the exploding singularity is brighter than anything Obsidian has ever imagined. Breathtaking as a spark of hope when they thought everything was lost. Obsidian would know, they’d worn that feeling like a  second skin, loop, after loop, after loop. The feeling still holds them even as pure light, pure possibility, consumes them. Then, nothing. 

Obsidian wakes up…

Rating: Teen

Warnings:  Major Character Death, severe injury, trauma, Existentialism, aftermath of trauma, alcohol use, references to suicide, mentions of substance abuse

Characters: Player Character (Obsidian), Gabbro, Hal, Gossan, Marl, Gneiss, Chert, Hornfels, Riebeck, Slate, Esker, Feldspar, Porphy, Rutile, Micha

Tags: Aftermath of the End of The Universe, Cannon Continuation, Gabbro didn’t just sit on Giant’s Deep the whole time, Player Character and Gabbro are friends, Science Compels Us to Explore the Multiverse, everyone lives kinda, things I wish the game let happen, liberties taken with in game timeliness and mechanics for easier write-a-bility, physics, metaphysics, fluff, hurt comfort, slice of life, Multiple POV, No Beta We Die Like the Universe, A Bit of Prose for Flavor, All the writers and artists in this Fandom are amazing and y'all gave me brain rot

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"Where are you going?" Gossan asks. They're suiting up along with Feldspar. Both clearly plan to follow. Obsidian is a little surprised Gossan is letting Feldspar go. But maybe it's just the unspoken truth in the venture that nobody let's Feldspar do anything. 

"The next window to Ash Twin is in fifteen minutes." Obsidian informs them. "I can check that the area is safe for Tektite and Marl to join us. Hornfels and Slate can test the Ghost Matter Theory while I do that. Then in another two hours you all will be able to join me."