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November 2025 update

Hello!

Only two months till the end of the year. Time sure flies, huh? I've been at my job for 11 months now and I'm just about getting sick of it, which is why I'd already put in a notice last month and will officially leave on the last of November.

I've saved up some funds to theoretically survive a couple of months even without any income and I'm hoping to push for becoming a full time writer in that time. Obviously no guarantees, but I think I have decent chances this time. 2025-11-02 03:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Soul Split #015 - Registration

A/N: Hello there! I apologize for missing the upload on Wednesday. I've had several rough days at work in a row and brain just didn't want to do words. I'll try to make it up by doing a 3 chapter week either next week or the one after that!

Cheers!

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Sat at a bench facing the Hunter’s guild, the twins marveled at the speed and resourcefulness of Anxia’s residents. It had been, what, four days? And alrea...

Soul Split #014 - Deckbuilding

Dusk let out a sigh as Dawn rubbed her eyes.

Even with their half day of exploring the city and listening to an old man ramble, another day at the medical tent and exhaustion once again permeated their souls come next morning.

“I’m glad we decided to stay here.” Dusk sipped his juice as he glanced around the inn’s interior.

“We would die if we slept there too.”

Even still they had trouble sleeping the last two nights because of the incident back at the medi...

Soul Split #013 - Death

CW: Death

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A loud scream jolted the half-asleep twins from where they were bandaging a catkin’s leg. Dusk continued the motion while Dawn stood up and looked at the tent’s entrance in anticipation, unfortunately already quite used to this.

These past two days of non-stop healing and helping the injured had somehow been even more tiring than trying to survive in a fresh rift or fighting an Epic-tier glass giant. W...

Soul Split #012 - Underground

The setting sun loomed on the horizon, looking a great deal more ominous with the city wrecked like this. Buildings in ruins, streets peppered with holes and debris, collapsed bridges, and wrecked elevators. It felt wrong for this grand place to be in such a sorry state, even if it matched the air of death and decay of the titan’s corpse better now.

But already, people ran around, using their skills, relics, and other tools to patch up the damage done by the spill. Architects were set...

Soul Split #011 - Two in one

Dawn carried Dusk, while Dusk swung his flail to attack. It was like being one person again with extra steps.

The ground trembled as an explosion of dust manifested on the horizon. The twins ignored it, focused on their own fight.

The flail came down on the glass arm holding the hammer but instead hit the hammer as their foe shifted. It proceeded to stumble and fall to its knees as its weapon exploded.

Not as steady on its salt legs, huh?

Their flail still lived despit...

Soul Split #010 - Chaos

“Warning: The Saltglass fortress rift had spilled over! I repeat: The Saltglass fortress rift had spilled over!” the panicked yell echoed through the city as the sirens howled, then died down.

A second later, panicked yelling and screaming filled the air.

The twins’ first instinct told them to run. The giant looked like Epic-tier and if the rift had been breached, more would come.

But with the monster wrecking the city right in front of them, how could they? N...

Soul Split #009 - Iridion’s Shawl

“We should split up. Independence training.”

“I hope we don’t randomly keel over in the middle of the street though… What if there’s a range limit or something?”

“Well if there is, we gotta test it at some point. What better time than now?”

They had a couple of errands they needed to take care of before going to get their free bread.

First of all, Dusk needed a new money card. After transferring what he had to Dawn’s duplicated card, Dawn tore it up...

Soul Split #008 - Archivist

When the morning’s light forced Dusk’s eyes open, Dawn’s followed despite sleeping face down.

““Ugh…””

For a moment, seeing double confused them.

Then they remembered.

“Oh...”

Dawn turned to face the ceiling like Dusk. Then the two proceeded to stare at it.

“...So. We’re… I am two now.”

“Yeah… I… Actually, we shouldn’t say things like that. People would figure it out.”

“Right. Keep preten...

October 2025 update

Why hello there, fancy meeting you here!

Although I'm still polishing some details about it, the new story, Soul Split Chronicles is officially a go! If you missed it, there are already 7 chapters of it available for my Patrons and more is coming. Right now, I am hoping to release at least two chapters a week, every Wednesday and Friday. Hopefully I can gradually raise that number.

For those not subscribed, don't fret. As always, I will be releasing the story for free on ScribbleH...

Soul Split #007 - Anxia

A/N: Hey there! I just wanted to say that I've made some edits to the earlier chapters. Mainly, making the pronoun shift in chapters 2-3 less chaotic and more consistent, but also making the MCs less cowardly to make them feel more compelling.

Now, onto the frontier city mini-arc!

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As they approached, one of the guards setting up the perimeter stopped them and gave them a slip of paper each.

‘Fresh Rift subjugati...

Soul Split #006 - Double or nothing

Elis dashed at the frog in front, sword in hand, while Layna prepared her bow to support him. That left the twins to deal with the frog at the back.

They didn’t hesitate.

““[Tricky Trail]!””

They shot their glowing bombs at the nearest frog in unison, which instantly combined and continued their trajectory as one.

The frog jumped out of the way.

Shit.

The resulting explosion still tore off one of its legs, but didn’t manage to ...

Soul Split #005 - Second opinion

They had never been more terrified. Even their escape from the cult couldn’t compare to this.

The whole party stood frozen, waiting for the grotesque thing to make its move with bated breaths.

Sweat dripped from necks, fingers twitched in anxiety, cards waited to be manifested.

Then the thing disappeared and everyone flinched as they heard it land behind them.

They collectively whirled around and stared as the beast dug its front limbs into the dirt...

Soul Split #004 - Twins

“Gyah!” Two screamed, while One flinched and almost got impaled by a clawed hand of a camouflaged monster.

“Gah! What are you doing?!”

He abandoned his efforts to help the elf and instead rushed to his other body, [Healing Light] in hand.

“Stop that, you idiot! They are friendly!” someone yelled from the side.

Two landed in a heap, clutching her cold bleeding hip. She gasped as One spotted a metal frog with its mouth open, preparing to fire a steel ball at ...

Soul Split #003 - One two punch

Two snapped her head up; One stiffened and instinctively readied [Transfrogify] just in case.

A giant frog made out of steel eyed us from its perch on top of one of the pipes. It opened its mouth and out shot a mace-like tongue.

One dodged left. Two jumped right.

Getting the hang of moving them separately!

The mace tongue smashed the ground, then immediately retracted as the frog jumped down.

Two brought out [Tricky Trail] and One used [Transfrogify] at ...

Soul Split #002 - Two’s a company

I waited for my swimming vision to settle as I held my head.

When it did, I saw two identical people. Me and me.

Short and messy blond hair; yellow reptilian pupils; black markings on their faces; black and yellow scales on their arms, legs, and tails. Both had my gray shorts and shirt, along with a short cloak.

I blinked.

Felt like looking into two mirrors simultaneously.

“...What?”

My voice came out doubled. Two different pitches overlaid on top of ea...

Soul Split Chronicles #001 - Double trouble

Hello, everyone!

Sorry for the wait. I fell into a trap of endless editing and refining of these first few chapters and managed to burn myself out. Whoops!

So to put an end to that, I'll finally be releasing them here. I have 6 chapters written right now and I'll be releasing one every day until I run out, then I'll try to settle into a more regular schedule of 1-2 chapters a week.

Now without any further ado, I present to you: Soul Split Chronicles.

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September 2025 update

Oh boy, it's monthly update time!

Hello, everyone! Just as promised, I have finally finished Fate Weaver's Legacy part 2! And like I already mentioned, I will now be taking a break from this project to work on something else. I will, of course, come back (one day) to make some edits to the whole thing and continue it, but for now, this is it.

As for my next project, well I already mentioned it several times. It's going to be 'Soul Split Chronicles', a story about a 'boy' who accid...

Weaver #130 - Really? It took being isekai’d to finally become popular?

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Weaver #129 - At least the rewards are nice

Three fingers.

Two fingers.

One…

“Heeello, my little Aquamarines!” I cheered as I leapt into view. “It’s me! Aoto Nana! Your favorite tier three individual!”

JamieWasTaken3: hell yeaaaaa
Jeofffff: niceeeee
KaiEbikoOfficial: yaaaaay

I began walking while keeping John to my right, trying to imitate a ‘walk and talk’ vlog.

“That’s right! I am tier three now! For those who missed it, go back and watch the Limit Break....

Weaver #128 - I HATE YOU!!!

I woke up with a gasp.

I reached up and grabbed my arm… I had my arm back. No more burns, no searing pain in my side, no residual ice around me.

My blood went cold.

I shot up and hurriedly looked around to see the same wrecked alleyway I’d come to everytime I’d died.

“No.”

Had I not defeated him? Had dying reset everything and I would have to beat him again?!

But then I paused as my eyes caught something.

Instead of the red...

Weaver #127 - DIE ALREADY!!!

I retched for the millionth time in the past few hours, and for once, I didn’t immediately run out of the alleyway to plot another angle of attack.

Instead, I kept kneeling there above my vomit and tilted my head just enough to see the red door still chilling in the alleyway.

I just… I…

I didn’t want to die again.

I’ve had enough.

A flutter of wings above me triggered an immediate Pavlovian response in me and all muscles in my body tensed.

Weaver #126 - Can’t you hold back a little?!

“Time travel…?” I murmured as I wiped my mouth with hydrokinesis and looked around with a weird sense of deja vu.

This… wasn’t the demon guy’s doing, was it? Although the name of his other racial skill might hint at something to do with time travel, I didn’t think that was it.

More like, this might have been the work of the Fate Weaver. Maybe even an actual feature of the Limit Break.

And then it hit me.

“...There was no warning for death. Poss...

August 2025 update

It's monthly update time! Yay!

I have once again been busy with my job, but to my surprise, I actually got a lot of writing done! In fact, unless something goes horribly wrong, I will likely finish Fate Weaver's Legacy part 2 this month! Damn! It's been so long!

So what's gonna happen after that?

Well, I'm probably going to take a bit of a break from posting anything (for at least a week or two) and perhaps even a break from writing altogether, but after that, I've been want...

Weaver #125 – How am I supposed to beat you?!

Content warning: vomit, death (?)

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I crashed into the apartment building next to mine and quickly scrambled to recover.

But just as I did, something hit my shoulder. Something hot.

I screamed, but still somehow managed to punch the ground to form a crystal barrier in front of myself.

Said barrier exploded into pieces a moment later.

Still, that moment was enough for me to get back up despite the s...

Weaver #124 – LET ME AT HIM!!!

“Huh?! What? You know my name?”

I wasn’t as if I’d said my name out loud when I’d fought his dungeon self. Rather, we hadn’t talked at all. I’d just attacked him straight away.

“Ah… Sorry,” the demon said, scratching the back of his head. “It’s been a while for me. You haven’t met me yet.”

Say what?!

“You’re from the future?!” I blurted out.

The demon winced.

“Ah… No�...

Weaver #123 – Could I just… stay here?

“I’m… back…?”

My voice sounded brittle, my previous descend to insanity coming to an abrupt halt.

“What…? No… No, this is still inside the Limit Break.”

I took a couple of deep breaths and I tried to calm myself down as I looked around.

Then I spotted the people.

There were people!

I froze completely and was about to call out to a guy walking across the street when I noticed something.

He had no face.

I whipped my head...

Memories of Crystal Tide #2

#02 - Identity crisis

CW: Misgendering, Gross injury description (minor)

When she regained consciousness again, the only thing greeting her was pain. Her entire body felt like it had been put through a grinder, part of her chest felt as if someone had poured lava over it, and her head throbbed something fierce.

She couldn’t help the pained groan as she struggled to open her eyes. She only managed to open her left eye; something ...

Memories of Crystal Tide #1

So, you may recall this as one of the stories I teased in one of my monthly updates. This is actually a story I began writing over two years ago but only finished two chapters of it. Rather than let it gather dust in my Google docs, I decided to share with ya'll what I have. Chapter 1 today, chapter 2 tomorrow.

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Synopsis:

When I woke up, I couldn’t remember anything.

They told me I was a boy, but the mirror told ...

Weaver #122 – I’m done, I’M DONE!!!

I woke up with a scream and quickly looked around.

There was nothing there.

Just an empty room with a red door and the two entrances blocked with crystals.

I took a few labored breaths and then slowly settled down again.

God… Even if nothing attacked me in my sleep…

Of course I would get nightmares. Of course I would! As if living through it once hadn’t been enough, I just had to dream about… about…

I didn’t even remember what I’d dre...