Characters
Outis/Penelope (Limbus Company), Outis (Limbus Company), Outis/The Barber | Nicolina, Dante & Outis (Limbus Company), Outis/Calypso (Limbus Company), Gregor & Outis (Limbus Company), Outis/Rodion (Limbus Company), Outis & Yi Sang (Limbus Company), Outis/Don Quixote (Limbus Company), Faust/Outis/Hod (Limbus Company), Ishmael & Outis (Limbus Company), Odysseus/Penelope, Outis & Ryoshu (Limbus Company), Odysseus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
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Summary
Prompt fills for Three Sentence Ficathon 2025, all centered around Outis and/or Odysseus.Respective ratings and warnings are in each chapter title.
Note
i actually wrote the first chapter of this collection back in 2024, but i never wrote more that year so i didn't upload it! here it is. i often think of odysseus' suicidal ideation in the original story of the odyssey and feel sad... stay strong for your puppy, outis!
fused together - T, w corp outis & w corp ryoshu
April 20, 2025 at 09:28 AM
They are born, within the train: two employees of W-Corp, stuck in its doors by unfortunate circumstance, fused together into one entity over time, until neither of them can remember who they used to be without each other. Outis' heart aches endlessly for a daughter she's never held, while Ryoshu mourns a wife she's never known, their anguish mingling like oil and fire. The station clock ticks forward, oblivious to their eternity of suffering crammed into ten fleeting seconds.
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"No point in wondering what happened," Outis murmurs, staring at the rails after being put back together, unable to shake the feeling that whatever had happened, they were still carrying it inside them.