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“Don’t you know why?”
A brown man rejects an English rose. Robin watches, wonders, asks why; Ramy knows that Robin has an answer.
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Set during the ball, ft. some Chinese phrases that came to mind, and a generous amount of unresolved tension (turned into somewhat resolved tension.) Slight canon divergence, because that one scene deserved so much more than getting interrupted by everything else in the world.
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The building begins to fall around Robin at a violent pace. He’s gripping the silver bar tightly now. It won’t be long. The floor is shaking, the roof is falling, and he thinks of that happy place of his, that memory, and then he desperately whispers the words engraved on the bar—
Nothingness. For an instant, there is absolute nothingness.
And then—
Robin opens his eyes. For a moment, he wonders if he’s made it to the afterlife. He’s on that hill again, and next to him is the picnic basket. He could smell the cheese laid out next to the chocolate that he and Ramy had spent too much of their money on. His eyes begin to water at the sight.
“Birdie?”
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Before Robin dies in the collapse of Babel, he gets a second chance to do it all over again. He’s not going to waste it.
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“Birdy.” Ramy breathes out as he closes the distance between them, and Robin can taste the peppermint tea on his lips, “Don’t you really know?”
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‘Why won’t you dance with Letty?’
‘Because—’ The words caught on Ramy’s tongue. Robin stared at him expectantly, his eyes boring holes into his own, eyebrows furrowed as if he could already see what Ramy’s true feelings were deep down.
‘She wants you, you know?’
Oh, Ramy knew alright. He couldn't care less. For he knew exactly what Letty felt like in that moment.
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Or the 5 times Ramy almost confessed and the 1 time Robin told him he loved him.
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It’s love, is what it is. And it’s horrible.
((They're in loveeeeee))
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A speculation: what if Ramy had been there, at the end? Would it have changed anything?
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a world unbroken by journalofimprobablethings
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Wonderful questions and conclusion
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So step down Birdie, and let’s go and have that glass of water.
That night in Canton.
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Summer came.
But perhaps a gunshot wound did not completely close up before then. -
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“Don’t you know why?”
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“There’s a lot they take away from us, Birdie. I won’t let them take you, too.”
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Just a bit of the scene on the bridge in Canton from Ramy's point of view.
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At Robin's home, or what once ought to be his home, before he was ripped out of it. Now his lids were heavy with opium induced high, his impression was absent as he leaned further over the side of the bridge and starred into the water.
I would jump right after you.
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Robin felt a fleeting anxiety when Ramy disappeared through the door into his room – he had grown used to Ramy’s company during all those nights on the voyage, and he was scared of being on his own for the first time in weeks, with no other voice to soften the dark.
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A great flood of emotion, of nonsense, rushes through Robin; he bites his tongue to keep it all at bay. You are life itself, and what a terrible job I would be doing at being human if I did not love you.
(ch 17: an excerpt from ramy and robin’s opium-laden walk back to the english factory in the middle of the night)
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also cute
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Robin had never been as selfish as he was when it came to Ramy.
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Flashes appeared unbidden before his open eyes. Screams and shouts and a phantom feeling of urgency and anxiety gripped his bones. Birdie’s weight helped ground him in reality, drawing him back from whatever terrible precipice his memories awaited him in.
Or, Ramy, Robin and Victoire escape Letty's betrayal and try to put the pieces back together. Ramy and Robin both realise they should act on their feelings sooner than later.
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Robin struggles to translate ancient love poems -- there is an indescribable feeling that he can't seem to capture into words.
Ramy helps him see the face of God.
In such a stark quietness, he looks to the one person in the room he is most comfortable with, finding deep, brown eyes staring back at him. One second turning into two, and then forever, and maybe, Robin wonders, this is what the poets wrote about. This is the feeling he can’t quite capture into words, the reason why his love poem translations always seem to be lackluster and dull.
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I read Babel by RF Kuang and you should too.
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i barely see you through my tears by journalofimprobablethings
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
19 Oct 2022
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When Robin sees Ramy every part of him stills, his eyes wide and lips parted like he's seen a ghost. It's an expression of such shock and devastation that Ramy's mouth goes dry.
What could have possibly happened, to make Robin look at him like that?
Ramy takes a single, tentative step toward him, and Robin flinches.
"Birdie?"
And at that – just one word, just his name – Robin's expression crumples.
After the fall of Babel, Robin wakes up back at Magpie Lane. Then Ramy knocks on the door.
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“Don’t you know why?”
Their eyes met.
What if Ramy and Robin revisited this question at the party in Babel’s tower?-
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babel is one of my ultimate favorite books ever, so naturally i had to find some closure in ao3. this did it for me
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“You are not such a fool to believe he loved you,” Griffin murmurs.
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profection from the latin profectus (to advance, to progress, to grow); derived from profecio, the latin pro (in favor of, on behalf of) and the proto-indo-european fakiō or dʰeh (to put, place, or set.)