A character saga
Read 5 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Vash and Cerberus across different rivals and endings.
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Each short stands alone, but together they trace how this character changes when the rival and circumstances shift.
The plaza had been a marketplace once, before the Monopoloid Marauders turned its ledger-stalls into glass and its fountains into frozen ink. Now it stretched open and pale beneath a sky the color of unspent receipts,…
Read the storyThe alley reeked of wet stone and ozone, and Vash was already grinning before the first blade cleared its sheath. "Three heads, one brain between us," he said, thumbing the hammer of his revolver. "Statistically, that's…
Read the storyThe plaza had the texture of a place that had been emptied on purpose — a wide concrete square, wind-polished, ringed by buildings that watched with glass eyes. Vash stood at its northern edge with his red coat snapping…
Read the storyThe dusk had already begun to bleed across the ridgeline when Vash crested the rise, and the smoke drifting up from the valley below carried a smell he knew too well—ozone and scorched stone, the residue of a power that…
Read the storyThe dust of the palace's outer bailey hadn't settled before Vash realized he'd read the room wrong. He'd come in expecting a straight brawl—guns against whatever the striped-shirt kid could conjure—and the wide, cheerful…
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