"to burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." - Federico García Lorca Staying out of trouble is not Frank Castle's strong suit. But is Jenavieve Howlett more trouble than The Punisher can handle? Frank Castle x OC [The Punisher, Season 2] WARNING: It's Frank Castle, so obviously, this story contains violence. #1 in #frankcastle - Oct24-June25 #1 in #thepunisher - Oct2024, Jan-March2025 #1 in #jonbernthal - Aug, Sep, 2024, May2025 #1 in #punisher - Aug2024 #1 in #daredevil - Aug2024

Frank Castle doesn't do neighbors. He doesn't make small talk. He doesn't get attached. And he sure as hell doesn't let people close enough to give him something to lose. Then Elana moves into the apartment across the hall with her one-year-old son, Noah. It starts small. A broken lock. A few bags of groceries. Noah's toy rolling against Frank's boot. Late-night texts that are only supposed to make sure they're safe. You home? Did you lock the window? Kid asleep? Frank tells himself he's just being careful. Protecting people is different from caring about them. Until Noah starts reaching for him whenever he walks into the room. Until Elana begins recognizing the man underneath the bruises, anger, and carefully constructed walls. Until the apartment across the hall starts feeling dangerously close to something Frank thought had been buried with his wife and children. A family. Frank knows exactly what happens to the people he loves. So when his violent world begins creeping toward Elana and Noah, every instinct tells him to walk away before they become another pair of names he carries with him. There's only one problem. Frank Castle has never been very good at walking away from someone who needs protecting. And somewhere between midnight text messages, baby toys scattered across his floor, and Elana refusing to be afraid of him, protecting his neighbors becomes something much more dangerous. He starts loving them.

indomitus: Untamed; untamable; fierce "He's going to get you killed." "I might be okay with that." Season 2 Daredevil

"Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway." - Edgar Allan Poe avant-garde: unorthodox, radical, daring, progressive. Words typically used for describing pieces of art and art movements. Young artist, Maeve Murdock, never thought she would use them to describe her life. But that can happen when someone like Frank Castle becomes your muse. soft Frank Castle x fmc (age gap) [Set after the events of The Punisher S1] #1 in #frankcastle - Sep-Dec2025 #1 in #daredevil - Sep-Dec2025

Crossing paths with a handsome human in a town full of undead was the last thing Amelia was expecting. Shane Walsh offers her solace, safety and protection. But which is more dangerous? Surviving the corpse ridden world on her own or falling in love? Shane Walsh x fmc [The Walking Dead, Season 1 & 2] WARNING: This story touches on suicide, death, loss and grief. Also includes language and depictions of violence. (And a lil bit of smut.) #1 in #jonbernthal: March-July, 2023 + Nov, 2023 + Feb, 2024.

For twelve years, the forests of Pandora have hidden a secret. After losing her scientist parents at five years old, Kaia Morgan survives alone, guided by Eywa and raised by the forest itself. Soon, when the time came, she showed herself to the Sully family by saving them from the Sky People and showing them that not all humans are born with hate. Eywa draws Kaia and the Sully's eldest son, Neteyam, together, and the future of Pandora may depend on the connection they share. Book 1

Honora, known as Nora, is twenty-three years old when she leaves Seattle after a painful breakup with Isaac. Worn down by the pressure of college life and the relentless chaos of the city, she returns to her father's home in the small town of Riverfront, Oregon, planning to stay from September until Christmas. She hopes to find peace, distance, and enough quiet to piece herself back together. But Riverfront isn't nearly as frozen in time as she remembers. As the past refuses to let go, old family ties begin to take on new meaning, and unexpected faces reappear, Nora quickly realizes that nothing will be as simple as she'd imagined. Especially when Tommy (Jon Bernthal) enters the picture. Her father's best friend, her neighbor, and a police officer just like him, he's sarcastic, self-assured, infuriatingly composed, and far too present. Ever since her return, he hasn't stopped teasing her, as though he'd never forgotten who she was. And in a town where everyone knows everyone, some secrets are impossible to keep. Some lingering glances are even harder to hide.

Rule number one: Don't look at her. Rule number two: Don't cross the line. Staying in her father's guest house was supposed to be simple, but Frank is finding it impossible to keep his eyes off Nora. He watches the way she hides behind her clothes and tolerates a guy who doesn't deserve her. Frank knows he's out of line. He knows he's too old to fall into this trap. He just doesn't care anymore.

At thirty-six, he's a lethal ghost who views her strictly as an assignment. At twenty-one, she's a reckless scientist who refuses to be told when to breathe. He's supposed to keep her safe and keep his distance. Instead, she's ruining his detachment, and he's realizing some lines are meant to be broken.

Dreykov's Widows are some of the world's deadliest assassins. The Red Room has agents deployed all over the world, trained at a secret facility for nearly a century. Those able to survive training are lucky, and those able to escape the Red Room are legendary. Natasha Romanoff was one of the first, followed by Maryshka 'Mary' Kravchenko, the Red Widow. Mary was once a little Ukrainian girl, but is now an American woman fending for herself on the streets of New York. Her chosen life is one of peace and pacifism. She doesn't choose violence, but violence chooses her in the form of Frank Castle, the Punisher. #1 ɪɴ ꜰʀᴀɴᴋᴄᴀꜱᴛʟᴇ