Couples Therapy Debacle
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Stubborn Discoveries, Exalted Revelations by NightShiftShenanigans
Fandoms: Dr. STONE (Anime & Manga)
09 Jul 2026
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Senku often prided himself on the vast knowledge he’d spent the better part of 24 years on the planet collecting, learning, and mastering. The edification he’d curated for himself knew few bounds; topics never solely devoted to a single subject of interest.
Even still, he’d never been boisterous in said pride—like most assumed he would be upon first meeting him—but more so prideful in the standards he held himself to when assessing a problem, calculating potential solutions, then selecting the most efficient route to pursue based on the expansive knowledge he housed within his own mind.
The one instance he’d ever failed so blunderously in this regard, though, was the day he’d lied to his friends and family about having romantic relations with a completely fictional paramour.
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Senku lied about having a boyfriend for a year so his friends and family would let him focus on his and Chrome’s rocket. But when the lie spiraled out of control, collapsing in on itself like a core of subcritical fissionable material being compressed by external variables into a super-dense state, Senku was forced to face the lie he’d woven by attending couples therapy with a stranger.
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- Part 1 of Couples Therapy Debacle
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Waiting for a World with You and I in It by NightShiftShenanigans
Fandoms: Dr. STONE (Anime & Manga)
30 Jul 2026
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Gen had been with many partners in his lifetime; dating was no new thing to him. There’d been a girlfriend his last year of junior high, a couple of male flings throughout high school when he discovered he far preferred the male body, and many a one-night stand after entering the entertainment industry. He was no stranger to knowing another person emotionally, physically, and romantically.
However, in each and every one of those instances, he’d instinctually-meticulously-voluntarily molded himself into whatever his partner at the time was looking for. Someone meek, someone strong-willed, someone worth spoiling, once even someone so vain, he made Narcissus look humble in comparison.
In short, Gen had never been in a relationship with someone as just himself.
But this time appeared as if it was going to be different. Compared to every other fling he’d given parts of himself to, this would be the first time his partner would have the opportunity of truly knowing him. The whole him.
Senku had seen him.
Had seen him at his lowest. His most vulnerable. Had seen the masks and told him he was better without them. That he was better as just who he was; fears, apprehensions, flaws, and all.
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- Part 2 of Couples Therapy Debacle