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Till bends his head down. Somewhere along the way, his Ivan has vanished. Till sweeps Ivan’s wet hair away from his face, smooths his palm down Ivan’s broad chest to feel for the heartbeat thudding slow but solid there. He’s only trembling slightly. He puts his lips to Ivan’s ear.
‘Get the fuck up, idiot.’
Ivan opens his eyes.
In the end, Ivan comes back to Till in the form of a cryogenic chamber. (Or: Ivan and Till get worse before they get better.)
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The emotion in Akechi’s gaze felt like it was flaying Akira alive. Akira wanted to shut his eyes from it all, so that he would no longer have to look. At the hurt and honesty both in Akechi’s expression, at the sympathetic pity Maruki was giving, at the distressed concern emanating from Morgana’s furry features. Akira can’t look at Akechi’s face without seeing an image of him, vacant-eyed with his brains shot out and rivulets of blood running into his eyes, overlaid over Akechi’s living, breathing being like a decaying negative, and god, god, Akira had killed that boy, he’d killed Akechi, and now he was the one dead and Akechi knew about it. He’d shot Akechi Goro in the head. If put in the same situation, he would do it again. (Would he? He would. Would he?)
Akira never planned on telling Akechi the truth behind his survival of Shido's palace. And he hadn't had to—not until the night of February 2nd.
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Moodily, Zoro flicks a piece of lint across the cashier counter he’s stuck manning for the next few hours. So far, the shifts Mihawk assigns him are always non-rush hour, presumably to give Zoro the space to learn the ropes without fucking anything up. But this means that Zoro never has anything to do. He flicks the lint again.
A pair of scissors jams down just slightly left to where his finger used to be.
‘Will you stop that,’ Perona snaps. ‘I could feel your sulking from the other side of the store!’
‘Jesus Christ, woman,’ Zoro yells, staring at where the pair of scissors are stuck upright into the wood of the counter. ‘What the hell are you trying to do, cut my finger off?’
Zoro is—to put it delicately—bad at customer service.
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- Part 2 of it's not NOT a hot-topic au
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‘I’m talking about the other convenience store.’
‘This mall only has the one convenience store.’
‘Are you going to give me directions or not?’ He snaps.
Perona sighs with all the beleaguered world-weariness of the truly put-upon.
‘Oh, if I must,’ she says.
She gives the directions, the boy thanks her (the same way a man might thank a barracuda, which is honestly so very rude of him), and that should’ve been the end of it, except she’s just watched the stupid green lug walk past the store she’s working in eight times in the last half hour now, and she doesn’t think she can stand it much more. The first four times were funny, but now? Jesus.
Zoro gets a minimum wage job. He also meets Perona. Jury’s still out on which one’s going to be worse.
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- Part 1 of it's not NOT a hot-topic au
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This far from the lights and sounds of the party the only thing Hancock can hear is the crashing of the waves, close to their feet—and the calming sound of Luffy, snoring loudly and contently, his chest rising and receding with each breath, just slightly out of sync with the sea. There’s just a little light, reflecting from the moon over the silvery dark waters, to see by, but enough to see clearly. And maybe it’s the combination of all these factors at once, of both safety and ambiguity, that makes Hancock even deign to consider answering the sniper seriously.
‘You love him,’ she says, staring out to the sea. She has one long leg crossed elegantly over the other, is reclining back with one arm draped over a knee, ‘and thus, I will compete with you for his affections.’
The sniper frowns. ‘When I said I loved him, I meant that as a friend, or a crew-member does. Like—a brother?’
For the first time in her life, Hancock confronts what it all really means—to love, and be loved, with her beauty.
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The man who just entered moves, slowly and purposefully, as though demanding everybody’s attention be on him, until he stops right in the middle of the restaurant, in front of where Zeff is.
Zeff eyes him over his food. ‘To what do I owe this visit,’ Zeff says mildly, ‘Vinsmoke Judge?’
Across from him, the militant monarch of the Germa Kingdom takes a seat.
Judge thinks that Sanji is a failure of a son. Zeff doesn't think that much of Judge at all.
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left me with no compassion by guiltylights
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
16 Jul 2022
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The call-out post had hit most major entertainment news sites by the time Sylvain saw it. It’s the biggest idol scandal since the time Hilda Goneril had been caught leaving a condominium that was not her home in the wee early hours of the morning—and unlike the Goneril incident, there’s more than just a blurry photo to work with this time. An anonymous social media post, but more than ten paragraphs long, accusing one Sylvain Jose Gautier of having cheated on her with multiple women over the course of their one-year relationship. The post called him a manipulator and a liar, a bastard with no heart that hid it all behind an idol smile. True, true, true and true, so.
Idol life has taken many things from Sylvain. It stands to reason then, that after a while, Sylvain would find it easier just to lose them himself.
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There are hands again, hot as a brand, clutching at Akechi’s wrists, gently but insistently trying to prise Akechi’s arms away from himself, ‘Akechi, what’s going on— Talk to me—’
And Akechi feels wholly, abruptly furious, at this situation, at Akira, at himself, at every other miserable choice he has made in his life that has led him to where he is now, an ex-hitman and a man, alive and in love with someone he had once tried to kill. Trust karma to finally get him now. Trust the gods to never give him anything he’s ever wanted.
Summer is the season for cruelties. On his twenty-second birthday, Akechi tries to get a fucking grip.
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That the two brides could stand in front of a crowd and recite vows of love and trust, in front of a whole ballroom full of people who supported and celebrated them, felt like nothing short of a miracle. Akira had felt that all the more acutely when witnessing the laughing faces of two people in love, both in wedding dresses; had dared to imagine, for just a moment, of the opposite scenario, of two bodies of suits instead. Love so precious that it could afford to be ordinary. It sang like triumph.
After a wedding, Akira has a question.
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But neither of them knew how to choose what was best for them. Only what was most important. And so they held onto each other, unwilling to let go of the bond that they had forged in fire and blood, until finally one day they had looked at each other from across the way and decided: if they refused to grow apart, then their only option would be to do so together.
Every other anniversary Akira and Goro have created for themselves has always been explosive. It’s only fair that they get to have one with no fanfare. Or: Goro and Akira, ten years later, and the devastating inevitability of getting what you’ve always wanted.
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The situation here, is this:
Their neighbour, having rescued a poor abandoned kitten off the streets, came to Goro and Akira about it.
Or rather, a rephrase: their neighbour, having rescued a poor abandoned kitten off the streets, and believing Goro and Akira to be experts in cat training and petcare, came to Goro and Akira about it.
This sentiment is a problem in many ways.
Goro and Akira’s neighbour is convinced they’re cat whisperers. It’s not their fault Mona’s special.
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Akira does not know how the story of Orpheus and Eurydice ends. His schools have never been big on teaching them about Greek mythology, and Akira has never had enough of a personal interest to research it himself. But he knows, in passing, of the story: a tale of love and loss, a journey of courage that endlessly seeks to defy the laws of reality and even death, for even the smallest possibility of another chance.
When Orpheus begins his momentous ascent to above ground, the shadow of Eurydice at his heels, Akira’s heart begins to thud inside his chest.
In which Akechi Goro does theatre.
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Goro only breaks off mid-sentence when the taxi begins pulling away from the curb without any prompt or directions; but when he catches the eye of the taxi driver in the rearview mirror, he swears.
‘What the fuck,’ he says, with feeling, ‘are you doing here?’
Akira, confused, twists around to see precisely what all the fuss is about—only to be met with the sheepish expression of one Takuto Maruki.
‘Oh.’
Maruki smiles. ‘It’s nice to see you again, Akira.’
A man and his arguing boyfriend get into a taxi. What follows next is one of the most awkward couples’ therapy sessions to ever occur—and not just because said boyfriend had once tried to kill their driver.
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The silence that reigns afterwards is deafening. All eyes are trained on Goro, who is beginning to feel a deep and terrible sense of foreboding.
‘Akechi’s persona mask reminded you of a… mosquito?’ Makoto says, slowly.
The silence continues for only a beat before Futaba begins cackling, and that’s when Akechi knows it’s over.
The Thieves realise that Goro’s Crow mask reminds them of a mosquito. Goro and Akira are hiding the fact that they are dating. These two things come together in Goro’s life, somehow.
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‘Goro.’ Akira sounds so tired. ‘I can’t— This isn’t— Please.’
That pleading tone of voice again. Somehow every ugly writhing emotion in Akechi dies at the sound of it.
On the night of 2/2, Akira and Akechi go to confessional.
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got nothing to believe by guiltylights
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
25 Dec 2020
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Felix turns around. The torches that ring the training grounds cast low-flickering shadows across Felix’s face; it flushes Felix’s skin warm, shades his eyes to something brighter and more intense. Said eyes are pinning Sylvain down like an insect to a display case, leaving Sylvain feeling exposed and vulnerable. He’s fucking devastating to look at. Absolutely fatal to Sylvain’s emotional well-being.
‘She didn’t. She didn’t mean anything,’ Sylvain adds.
Felix’s frown deepens further. ‘And yet you did it anyway?’
When Sylvain cheats, Felix’s reaction is not what he expects.
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‘Things like me?’ The demon barks out a short laugh. ‘Kids these days. Rude and getting ruder.’
‘Oh, I’m sorry—am I supposed to give a creature like you respect?’ Rise asks, snarky.
The demon’s eyes flash gold.
‘Watch it, girlie,’ he snarls, and his voice has the crunching undertone of hot coal stones, ‘I’ll toss you into the torturous rivers of Hell myself, and we’ll see how ready you are to jump off buildings and die then.’
A demon and a teenage girl try to make a deal.
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drop into the ocean by guiltylights
Fandoms: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, CLAMP - Works
05 May 2020
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‘Marriage is a luxury, here,’ the innkeeper, this world’s Sorata, explains while stirring a cup of tea with a spoon. (The three of them had been offered tea too, but they’d declined.) ‘I don’t know what it’s like where you guys are from, but here, to get married there’s an office that you have to go to, and to the person in charge there, you have to prove that you’re worthy of the status of “married” by proving that you’ve paid—’ And here Sorata lifts his hands up and makes air quotes, ‘—“the price to stay together”.’
Syaoran, Kurogane, Fai and Mokona land in a world where marriage is measured by price, and where the symbol of marriage is displayed by wearing matching earrings. Fai and Kurogane wear matching earrings. They must now prove their right to wear these earrings in the land's Office of Union, before the noble landowner and his (incredibly arrogant) family.
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This is just for his stupid class play, Kageyama reminded himself. Though Kageyama doubted that Hinata would have to look up at the girl he would performing this with, and it didn’t feel like they were practicing for much of anything right now.
And then, quite suddenly, Hinata’s hand raised, and he laid a palm against Kageyama’s jaw, fingers small but strong as they brushed over the skin on Kageyama’s cheek. The touch was soft, but there was no hesitation.
Hinata was chosen to play a romantic male lead for his class play, as part of Karasuno High's end of year school festival. Obviously, he enlisted Kageyama's help. Kageyama said yes, though there had been a weird air hanging around the two of them recently.
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for all the love and gold (don't just do as you are told) by guiltylights
Fandoms: One Piece
15 Sep 2019
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‘Why?’ Nami asks, again, and when Sanji falls silent at that again, Nami feels her frustration rise. ‘Couldn’t you have just told me? Or why didn’t you just cut Luffy’s diet down, like I said? He eats so much, surely he doesn’t need all of that food, if you could’ve just—!’
‘No.’
Nami pauses. ‘What?’
‘No, Nami,’ says Sanji, and though he looks almost regretful to be saying it to her, Sanji’s voice is strong and unwavering. ‘I won’t cut down Luffy’s meal portions.’
Nami asks Sanji to reduce the amount of money spent on grocery shopping.