#therentyoupay beyond lost

[therentyoupay]

hey i was just wondering whether you’re going to finish that zutara fic you last updated in around 2014? great work btw!

thank you!! 💖💖💖💖 and i hope so! 😂🤞 it's not on the long-term to-do list right now, and i am full-throttle academic writing until march-ish, but i would ideally like to finish all my WIPs eventually!

here are the WIPs i am desperate to finish before i graduate from my doctoral program in spring 2025:

at the center

snow globe

technical difficulties

that one night

(also my dissertation lmao) (and also the non-fiction book that i am writing simultaneously on my research)

any other WIP fanficion updates possible beyond the list above by may 2025 will just be bonus material! ✨

i'd love to finish my beyond lost sequel/series one day, so it will likely be after 2025! 💖🙏 thank you for your patience!! 🥰

[therentyoupay]

“... dead?”

that’s a good way to describe it 😂😂😂😂🫠💕👀

im thinking about an old fic and could use your help finding it .. all i remember is that both katara and zuko were like... dead? or almost dead, and in some sort of purgatory.. ik thats not much but i hope you can help me.! 🥺🙏

i believe you’re looking for Beyond Lost by therentyoupay!

“It's the end, isn't it? — Zutara. Pre-Season III.” (T, oneshot)

[swingsdown]

“What happened doesn’t change anything.”

pairing: marinette dupain-cheng/adrien agreste + miraculous ladybug, future what!if. 

Marinette almost doesn’t say it. Adrien is looking at her like he’s rediscovered the sun, and she thinks about how easy it would be to cross the scant foot of air dividing them.

But even though it’s been a long, long time since she’s been Ladybug, Marinette has always been brave.

“What happened doesn’t change anything. This—this doesn’t change anything.”

Adrien doesn’t make a sound—he doesn’t even avert his gaze—but the happiness crumbles from his face. Marinette doesn’t know whether she wants to laugh or cry at the absurdity of it: it is the exact same expression she’d seen on Chat Noir last. They’d thought they were lost to each other forever, when really—They’d each been in the other’s orbits all along.

She barely remembers what combination of words had been said, what snippets of their past lives had been let slip for the pieces to slot together so neatly. 

But here is Chat Noir and Ladybug, revealed and reunited, ten years too late. Here is Adrien Agreste, newly engaged to a woman that Marinette had introduced him to, a woman that Marinette counts as a close friend.There is a foot of air dividing them; there is a decade of space holding them apart.

Marinette goes home to her empty apartment. Eyes dry, body tucked into a small ball, she thinks about the terrible sort of sadness that is beyond even tears.

She half-dozes on her couch until someone starts knocking at her door at five in the morning and doesn’t stop.

Dazed, Marinette drags herself to her feet and opens the door. She should have expected him—should have anticipated the dizzying punch of pain, but she hadn't, so she is left wondering how her heart can still be in her throat when she’d been so sure she’d last left it by his feet.                                 

Predawn indigo is just beginning to lighten into soft lavender behind Adrien. The color is the same shade as the dark shadows under his eyes.

“You told me to go out with Emile because it could be good for me, that I had a right to be happy.”

There is a small suitcase behind him.

“You’re my happy.”

The first soft splashes of sun soaks Adrien’s face in gold, hits his eyes in just the right way so the green shifts and changes.

Chat Noir.

A small cry—only a breath, really, a half-exhalation of his name—and Adrien stumbles forward, does what Marinette hadn’t had enough courage to do. Because walking away from him may have been hard, but going to him? Cupping his face in her hands and looking in his eyes and pressing tear streaked kisses to his forehead like he’s doing to her—?

That is so much more terrifying.

“Marinette?”Standing at her open door, standing on the cusp of something monumental, Ladybug and Chat Noir regard each other through half-lidded eyes.

There is only one thing left to do:

Marinette lets him in.

--fin--

note: for a really, really, really old askbox angst meme (so you can’t blame this one on me). sorry for taking so long,  @therentyoupay (and anybody else who’s ever sent me one of these requests)!

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(-for a slightly but just slightly lighter take on the ~separation/reunion~ scenario see franny’s fic-)

[therentyoupay]

Have you finished Break the Ice series?

not yet! as soon as i finish writing my ‘trapped in an elevator’ au for the miraculous ladybug fandom, i am going to be starting a rewatch of both avatar: the last airbender and legend of korra. i have been craving those ‘summer of tahno(rra)’ feels lately with the nice weather rolling in, so i am hoping to really bang out a new chapter for both ‘beyond lost’ and sccri. ✌🏼✨

thanks for checking in!

[zutaraficrec]

[FF.net] Beyond Lost

Title: Beyond Lost Author: therentyoupay Rating: Teen Status: Complete

Summary: It's the end, isn't it? — Zutara. Pre-Season III.

[therentyoupay]

What ever happened to your Beyond Lost sequel? I even searched around the net for it. If it's been abandoned, can you please say as much on your AO3 page for it? I understand you're busy, I'm a kindergarten teacher too!

hello! :) i have it posted to FFNET here. i’ve been meaning to x-post it to AO3, but haven’t had the time or motivation. :(

same goes for the actual writing of it. womp. i also don't really believe in abandoning fics... just hiatuses. that last for 3+ years.

O________O

also, do people actually read author profile pages anymore?? is that still a thing? should i update mine???

kindergarten teachers unite!

[therentyoupay]

I would love to see you work on Existence: The Beyond Lost Conclusion, because that oneshot literally was the most amazing thing I've ever read and I'm dying to know what happens next but it hasn't been updated in foreverrrrrrr.

this was sent to me as part of an askbox meme 3 months ago. :)

[therentyoupay]

You are a terribly wonderful person for updating it. So much heartbreak!

[therentyoupay]

OH MY GOSH!!!!!! OH MY GOSH ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?!?! PINCH ME FOR I MUST BE DREAMING! YOU UPDATED BEYOND LOST!!

i did………

i did……………….

it only took three years, i’m sorry. ;____________________;

[therentyoupay]

A:TLA : zutara | “e x i s t e n c e”

ᴇxɪsᴛᴇɴᴄᴇ : the ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴅ ʟᴏsᴛ conclusion

It's as real as we make it to be.

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Pairing: Zuko/Katara Genre: Romance/Angst/Tragedy Rating: T Chapters: (3/7) Latest: ----------------- 3. + aware +

[therentyoupay]

Hey, I just read Beyond Lost and fuCK YOU!!! NooooooooOOOOOOOO!!!!! My feels!! My babies!!! Why would you write something so tragically beautiful?!!!? I'm a mess, you evil genius!! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????????

[zutaraficrec]

im thinking about an old fic and could use your help finding it .. all i remember is that both katara and zuko were like... dead? or almost dead, and in some sort of purgatory.. ik thats not much but i hope you can help me.! 🥺🙏

i believe you’re looking for Beyond Lost by therentyoupay!

“It's the end, isn't it? — Zutara. Pre-Season III.” (T, oneshot)