Puppet's Lament

Puppet's Lament

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WpMetadataNoticeLast published Mon, May 18, 2026
What if the men you loved on screen came to life... and blamed you for all their suffering? London, 2023. Eleonor Vance is a 30-year-old lawyer with a crumbling career and a closely guarded secret: she writes fanfiction dedicated to the complex and tragic characters played by Alan Rickman. What was once just a cinematic escape turns into the darkest of nightmares when an anomalous storm bends the laws of reality, tearing these figures from their fictional universes and materializing them right in her living room. Severus Snape, Hans Gruber, Colonel Brandon, Metatron, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and others now share the same space and the same face. Stripped of their original powers and scripts, they discover a cruel truth: they are merely puppets doomed to scripted endings and inevitable defeats. The shock splinters the group. While heroes and tormented souls try to protect the author and find meaning in free will, the villains taste the bitter flavor of fury. Led by a cold and calculating intelligence, they plot in the shadows of London, willing to do the unthinkable to destroy their creator and seize control of their own destinies. Can fiction ever forgive the one who wrote it?
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"It causes your immune system to turn against you," I explained gently. The color terrifyingly drained from his face as he stared at his knuckles. "I have a spot," he whispered, his voice scraping like glass. "Right here." He let out a strangled noise as the stadium footage buffered. "Riley!" he shrieked, covering his burning face while peering through his fingers at his future self. "Those pants leave absolutely nothing to the imagination!" He went so unnaturally still I thought his heart had stopped beating. His charcoal-stained fingers curled into tight fists. "Fifty," he whispered, scanning the fatal summary on the glowing screen. "I am... I am gone at fifty." What if the only way to save your future was to completely abandon your past? In 1982, Michael Jackson is suffocating. Trapped behind his family's compound gates and drowning under industry pressure, the rising star just wants a life of peace and normalcy. The universe answers-violently ripping him from his timeline and dropping him onto the bedroom rug of Riley, a freelance graphic designer in the year 2025. Stranded forty-three years in the future, Michael must face a world that already knows his tragic history. But Riley fiercely refuses to let that history repeat. She offers him the anonymous, ordinary life he always craved, rebuilding his shattered confidence brick by brick and teaching him the radical concept of self-love. More importantly, she arms him with the ultimate weapon: the brutal truth. She gives him the exact names of the snakes hiding in his 1982 backyard, the upcoming betrayals, and the devastating tragedies he is destined to face. When the universe inevitably pulls him back, Michael is no longer the timid pop star terrified of his shadow. He is a king preparing to claim his throne, knowing exactly how to rewrite music history and what it takes to survive. But armed with the future, changing his fate might cost him the one person who taught him how to live.

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