{Tezuka} Works

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• We make do (with these broken bodies of ours) by lovelytomeetyou

  Fandoms: Black Jack (Anime & Manga)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  03 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Black Jack/Pinoko
  • Black Jack & Pinoko
  • Pinoko (Black Jack)
  • Black Jack
  • Character Study
  • Angst
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Body Dysphoria
  • Introspection
  • Surgery
  • Medicine
  • Body Dysphoria (not of the gender kind)
  • Scars
  • Body Image
  • References to Depression
  • Canon Compliant
  • Angst with a Bittersweet Ending
  • No Sex
  • Discussions of Death
  • canon fitting medical descriptions
  • Self-Hatred
  • Body Horror
  • in a way for Pinoko it is
  • reality can't be changed sometimes and you have to live with what you have

  Summary

  Life and beauty can be paid for. In fact, it’s much easier to live if you have either money or health. Pinoko and Black Jack have neither. Nor can their bodies be “fixed” so easily.

  And Pinoko will never be a woman, in body.

  Series

  • Part 3 of {Challenge} Half a Moon 2026
  • Part 1 of {Tezuka} Works
  • Part 4 of Challenges & Exchanges & Gifts

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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  Chapters:

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  Collections:

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