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In the summer of 1978, Maynard and his friends—Adam, Les, and Paul—found the body of a boy in the woods. In their desperation to make sense of it, they changed the course of several lives.
Now, decades later, the past won’t stay buried. Forced to reckon not just with old wounds but with the shadows creeping into his present, Maynard discovers that danger may be closer than he ever imagined.
Maynard's life was supposed to calm down after the events at Blackburn Manor. But when his co-star, Paz, gets pulled into a glamorous new "self-help" group in Hollywood, he's the first to notice something is off. Desperate to save Paz from the cult's clutches (and maybe from herself), Maynard enlists Danny's help navigating a world of secret rituals and sinister cosmic weirdness.
What starts as a rescue mission turns into a city-wide crisis as the cult's leader attempts to bring back something that should have stayed dead… and LA begins to rot from the inside out.
Danny has a box of cold pizza, a ride home from Lollapalooza, and a very inconvenient crush on his best friend. He also has only one bed. What could go wrong?
Danny’s a paranormal YouTuber with a grumpy bald cat and a grief-shaped hole he’s not ready to name. Maynard runs a high-concept OnlyFans where he pours wine on himself in moody lighting. One quiet tip turns into a DM. Then they're texting about cryptids and emotional repression. It's fine. It's totally normal. No one is catching feelings here. Probably.
When young mage Danny meets Jim in the woods, their connection is instant, and their teenage romance blooms over a short span of years until a brutal war between mages and commoners tears them apart.
Danny flees the wartorn continent to a sun-drenched, neutral island. But Jim is dragged through hellfire and transformed into Maynard, the military's infamous Gunslinger.
Years later, Danny returns to the wounded land and uses his magic to repair and rebuild. An investigation into magical anomalies leads him to Yuelin, a young girl with powerful, untrained magic—and her guardian, a haunted man with a mechanical arm and achingly familiar eyes.
Reunited by chance, Danny and Maynard must reconcile who they once were with who they've become as old feelings resurface, complicated by the blood on Maynard's hands and the price on his head.
A story of trauma, atonement, and the fight for second chances.
Or: The one where Maynard's a war criminal.
Maynard is an ex-con rebuilding his life while secretly hunting the supernatural creature he believes killed his mother—a conviction that landed him in prison. Now on parole, he volunteers at an animal shelter and agrees to walk a stranger's dog while the owner recovers from an injury.
That stranger is Danny: the most disarmingly genuine person Maynard has ever met. As their relationship deepens, Maynard finds himself torn between moving forward with Danny and pursuing the entity that haunts his past. But when the creature attacks Maynard's home and leaves behind physical evidence, he discovers he's not alone in this fight. With Danny's magical empathic abilities, their friend Adam's genre-savvy expertise, and an experimental sonic weapon, they form an unlikely monster-hunting team.
Yet the creature feeds on suffering and grief, emotions Maynard has in abundance. To defeat it, he'll need to confront not just the monster, but the emotional wounds he's carried since his mother's death, and decide if vengeance is worth risking his second chance at life.
A 5+1 of escalating intimacy, banter, filth, and Danny realizing he’d wine and dine this man if he asked. (Maynard does ask. Kind of.)
Fire never asks permission. On the tradition-bound island of Solémar, fire mage Maynard has spent his life treading the line between belonging and burning it all down. His world cracks open when Danny, a visiting surfer with an easy command of water magic and an infectious grin, arrives and sees the brilliance Maynard hides.
Their bond ignites, but in a moment of desperation, Maynard makes a life-altering choice: trading his fiery passion for the peace of a normal life. The life of someone who doesn't have to shrink to belong.
But Danny refuses to let Maynard’s wildness vanish without a fight. A stolen painting smuggled into Solémar's yearly festival shatters Maynard's peace and makes him a pariah all over again. The outrageous piece catches the eye of a gallery curator on the mainland, where art is encouraged to be wild and challenging—all the things Maynard used to be.
As acclaim draws him into the mainland’s vibrant chaos, Maynard faces one final reckoning: Is it better to belong, or to be true?
Following the events of Dark Side of the Moon, Danny is thrown into a brutal combat tournament, where the grand prize is not only the powerful talisman known as the Nimbus Shard, but also his life.
As the day of the eclipse approaches, Maynard's ka-tet scramble to collect Gaia's Rose before the Saturnine can. When disaster befalls the group, Maynard and his companions will face their toughest challenges yet.
Five times Danny pretended he wasn't attracted to Maynard, and the one time he really couldn't anymore. Or: Danny's "oh no he's hot" crisis stretched over five acts of bisexual panic, followed by one act of very enthusiastic relief.
AU. 1996. Maynard has his record store organized perfectly, thank you very much, and he doesn't need a certain tall drummer coming in and disrupting his filing system with lectures about occult mathematics. He especially doesn't need Adam's mysterious "delivery run" turning into an all-night adventure. And he definitely doesn't need to find Danny increasingly hot.
…Actually, maybe he needs all of those things.
When Maynard wakes up with no memory of the last sixteen years, he's shocked to discover he's married to Danny with two adopted kids. The last thing he remembers is being single and definitely not in love with Tool's drummer.
Danny's determined to help Maynard recover his memories while juggling parenthood and keeping the band's upcoming shows from falling apart. But as Maynard starts falling in love with him again, Danny realizes this might be a chance to fix the little cracks that had formed in their relationship over the years.
Maynard's relaxing vacation at the Blackburn Manor is interrupted by poltergeist activity and the arrival of Danny, a handsome and charming paranormal investigator.
After escaping the Gulch in Heart of the Sunrise, Danny and Maynard learn the locations of two more artifacts to collect in the race to stop the Saturnine. One of these relics, the Black Mirror, will put Maynard through the psychological gauntlet, and in order to survive he must finally face the past and his own mysterious shadow.
Just days after the events of Moon Crying, Maynard and Danny resume their quest for the relics by traveling to the Gulch, an underwater metropolis populated by opulent elites. Rumors that Neptune's Key, a powerful talisman commanding the forces of the seas, resides here.
A new member soon joins their ka-tet--a student of psychology named Adam with a pair of magical ravens--but the trio quickly learn that the shining city under the sea is far from a utopia. When the city's founder, Asherah, takes a liking to Danny, danger closes in on their ka-tet, threatening to undo them.
“It’s beautiful at night,” Maynard says, wistful as he gazes at the dark sky. “Don’t you think?”
“Yeah.” Danny sits across from Maynard and watches the sky. The night is a canvas of possibilities, each star in the clear desert sky a beacon guiding him towards a different fate. He wonders if that’s what brought Maynard here, too. Some dark thing he’s trying to outrun, or at least put in the rear-view long enough to breathe.
When Maynard, a descendant of the Moon lineage, embarks on a quest to find a magical artifact capable of healing his mother's paralysis, he discovers a sinister plot by a mysterious cult. The Saturnine, powerful mages endowed with the magic of Saturn himself, plan to destroy the sun and moon during an approaching eclipse. Teaming up with Danny, a cheerful Sunborn with fledgling healing powers, is Maynard's only hope to prevent the Saturnine from completing their terrible quest.
Not that celebration really means all that much to him. He’s told Danny over and over that it’s just another day on the calendar, so what if they miss it, but Danny knows Maynard’s secret romantic heart, the softness he hides even from himself. Which is why Danny has commemorated every anniversary in some way, from the small to the grand.
After a sensational tenth anniversary tour, pop star Maynard's PR team urges him to reunite with his old bandmates for a special concert series in Los Angeles. With Adam and Paul already onboard, only Danny stands in the way of a full-fledged Tool reunion.
Since their bitter dissolution years ago, Danny hates everything he thinks Maynard's solo career represents: fame, decadence, and disposable music for the lowest common denominator. Danny's not exactly living his best life, though, so when Maynard offers Danny the cushy gig of acting as his bodyguard, it's a chance for them to reconnect and repair the past.
“So you want me to eat a magic mushroom and go on a psychedelic adventure to help you climb a metaphorical tower and open a door that will show you what’s missing in your life?”
“Yes, it sounds crazy when you say it like that,” Danny says, blushing under Maynard’s hard gaze.
AU. Now working as a private investigator alongside Lars, Kirk is hired to spy on basketball star Danny Carey.
What seems like a cut-and-dry case of infidelity becomes something more sinister that puts Kirk at a crossroads between his integrity and a dark desire for revenge.
In the small town of Whetstone, Maynard and Danny investigate a string of curious disappearances that stretches back decades. But what starts as an exploration of the town's dark past soon turns into a battle for survival.
A JRPG-style fangame where you play as the members of Tool. Fight aliens, demons, cultists, and your own fanbase on your quest to recover magical grimoire pages and save the world–or just kill time between tour dates.
In which Danny and Maynard wake up married, and they're both idiots.
AU. Danny "accidentally" summons an incubus as a plus-one for Justin's wedding.
AU. Maynard and Danny are soulmates, brought together by fate. But as the universe gives, the universe also takes.
Danny burrows his face into the slope of Maynard’s shoulder, nose buried in his hair. The slow rhythm of his breaths soothes Maynard’s racing heartbeat. He closes his eyes and focuses on the warm points of contact where Danny’s skin touches his own.
This is my soulmate.
Maybe, after this long, Maynard can be okay with that.
AU. 2000. Maynard hasn't spoken to his ex, Danny, in the twelve years since their breakup. Now Danny is back, intent on fixing the past at all costs if it means a second chance with the love of his life.
But maybe their breakup isn't exactly as one-sided as Maynard remembers it...
AU. When (the after)life gives Maynard pomegranates, he turns them into wine. And Danny, the god of spring, is thirsty.