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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    Definition: Dépaysement (n.) – the feeling of being taken out of one’s familiar living environment and placed in a new one for the first time.

    Pronunciation: /deh-pays-mwoh/

    Word origin: French

    Tumbling through the veil between worlds you must find your way home in one piece.

    Japan was supposed to be a fun holiday arranged by your sociology course in order to study a different culture and better understand how different cultures effect society as a whole. Being semi-fluent in the language you jumped at the opportunity to finally visit.

    The warm sticky blood of your fellow classmates, not quite the warm welcome you expected.

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    28 Aug 2025

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    “It appears your brain does work,” he said flatly. “How nice. I was beginning to think it was simply filled with useless drivel and smiles.”

    “The things I say aren’t useless.” You crossed your arms, slightly glaring at him.

    “You just tried to apply aspects from a video game into real life,” he replied, shrugging. “Seems pretty useless to me.”

    “It isn’t if that information is accurate,” you protested. “Nothing I said was false.”

    He gave you an unimpressed stare.

    “Fine.” you grit your teeth, giving him a spiteful look. “After this game, I’ll prove to you that I was right. Just so that I can shove that smug look right off of your face.”

    That earned you yet another annoying smirk. “How, by shooting me?”

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    Or, where a video game obsessed Reader ends up in a screwed up parallel world where you're forced into death games. Life sucks, and then you meet Chishiya Shuntaro; a man with a shitty Walkman-taser and a pair of dead eyes.

    Life still sucks after that, but hey, at least you aren't alone anymore.

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    25 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    Look, if the shoe fits, wear it. There’s a small part of you that’s too much a coward to come face-to-face with the people you’ve been ogling on a screen for a few years.

    Also—if you let yourself get your hopes up, that there might be a hysterically joyous upside to dying—then you might be horribly let down when they aren’t there.

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    17 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    It was a never-ending game—sometimes cat and mouse, sometimes a battle of wills. Whatever it was, it felt endless, fitting for the unforgiving world you had both been thrown into. The line between love and hate had long since blurred, leaving you caught in a dangerous balance.

    You both had your flaws, your moments of cruelty and understanding, yet somehow, you still gravitated toward each other. It wasn’t perfect, but it was something. And as long as neither of you crossed that final, irreversible line, you could stay by his side, bound together in this twisted existence.

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  5. Public Bookmark 46

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    How was I supposed to decide the value of a life?

    An outsider to the Borderlands finds herself in the midst of dangerous games... And having to deal with even more dangerous players.

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    I looked into his eyes then. I don't know what I was looking for—maybe some flicker of humanity, signaling he would be a good ally. But there was nothing readable in his cold, dark gaze.
    "Guilt is unproductive." He said, smirking slightly, amused by my question. I wondered if he had always been like this or if somewhere, sometime along the way in this strange world he had gotten all twisted up inside.

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    17 Aug 2025