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prompted by @megamegaturtle, who sent this post to me

Megamind/Roxanne

K+ rating, retelling-of-the-movie AU 

(AO3, FFN)

Summary: When you are loved, you grow wings.

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Megamind had wings once.

(soft and downy gray-white baby feathers, proof of his parents’ love, meant to be replaced with other, later feathers as love grows.)

The feathers fall out as he falls through the emptiness between the stars, as the two people who loved him are pulled into a black hole and wink out of existence. When he crashes to the ground, the prisoners who look down into the opening pod find a wingless blue baby with a too-large head, lying in drifts of colorless feathers.

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