Because there was a deeper, darker version of Dragonrend… Now Alduin must learn to live again, not as a devourer of worlds, but as a man.

"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind." (Jeffery Eugenides) The Winter Soldier's brain needed some work. Nick Fury turned to one of the greatest minds on earth to bring Bucky Barnes back. Bucky/OC

To save an entire world from a mad man, one goddess has given the Kages a means to send Naruto to another realm. Will Naruto be able to discover Kushina's divine identity and can he survive the challenges of being her son?

Lies and manipulation caused Loki to lose everything: his family, his power, his magic. In the aftermath of battle and exile, perhaps empathy is the only thing that can fill the void left within the Would-Be King and God of Mischief. Loki/OC

Three months after Operation Avengers all is well. Or is it? When Steve and Tony hack into SHIELD to find missing weapons shipments they find more than they bargained for in the form of a prisoner who should, by rights, have been sent to Asgard long ago.

She didn't have need for an assassin, but she couldn't very well reject the gift without angering the Serkonos regency. They were a traditional people with a traditional mind. She'd have to work around it. (A take on how Corvo Attano came to be the Royal Protector and the object of Jessamine's heart.) CorvoXJessamine mute!Corvo

People change like the season, and Steve is the summer. He always thought that Bucky was the spring, all fresh-stepped, rejuvenated energy, full of step and stride. He isn't sure what Bucky is now, isn't sure he's anything. Bucky doesn't remember who he is, doesn't know what he's doing, but there's a name on his lips and images of lazy Brooklyn days cycling through his mind.

Restored to his position as Lord Protector, Corvo is once again called to defend Emily, this time from assassination attempts that have come dangerously close to succeeding. From exile, Daud suspects the remnants of his former followers may be involved in some way. And caught between these elements is a spy, playing a deadly balancing act between all her masters.

Modern AU. Corvo Attano wants a new way of life, the freedom of sleeping naked again, and a chance to finally escape the half-brother who loathes him. However, when he decides to put his future in the hands of an enigmatic 'benefactor', known as The Outsider, he gets precisely what he asked for... and then some...

She was a normal person trying to survive the Army when she got caught up in a SHIELD experiment gone wrong. Now with the threat of another realm looming over Earth, her odd, blooming relationship with the God of Mischief doesn't seem so dangerous.