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  1. Public Bookmark 84

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    Scaramouche, a junior year Biology student, attempts to finish his semester-long thesis paper about aviary evolution and behaviorism, juggling his intense writer’s block with personal hardships including the standoffish nature of his estranged mother and her reaction to his coming out.

    He meets a boy with lilac eyes and warm hands, who propositions him for a mutual situationship. There’s only one debilitating, overarching rule, of which becomes increasingly difficult to adhere: No strings attached.

    Things must break before they are fixed.

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  2. Rec 51

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    “Hi Master Diluc,” Venti giggles, braids windswept and beret askew. “Happy Windblume Festival!”

    It’s only through years of practise that Diluc keeps his expression perfectly neutral, a single eyebrow raised. “You seem especially energetic this evening. It doesn’t happen to be because you’re expecting free Windblume drinks off me, does it?”

    “You have no faith in me!” Venti whines, unwinding one of his arms from around Diluc’s neck to poke at his nose. Diluc scrunches it involuntarily. “Even though that is part of it…” he mumbles, then continues cheerfully. “But no! I have a gift for you~”

    (or, Venti gives Diluc a flower crown, and Diluc lets him get away with far too much)

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    21 Nov 2021

  3. Rec 14

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    Venti comes over to bake brownies, and by "bake brownies," he means, "make Diluc bake brownies for him."

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    21 Nov 2021

  4. Rec 41

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    “You’ll be fine, milady,” he says, flashing her one of his easy smiles. On a normal day, it would’ve comforted Ayaka instantly. But tonight, all it does is worry her further. “I doubt the Tenryou Commission will ever act against your family that quickly. Especially not by force. I don’t think even the Raiden Shogun would risk upsetting the balance of Inazuma like that, especially right after closing its borders. It could spark a civil war.”

    “That’s not the main thing I’m concerned about tonight,” she mutters, frowning. Thoma was always quick to think about her, or her family, but rarely about himself. Did he not realize how valuable he was as a member of the clan?

    How valuable he was to her?

    (How loved?)

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    Or, the story of why Thoma has Ayaka's fan.

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    13 Aug 2021

  5. Rec 45

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    Wading in the water with her wasn’t something that someone who was just a retainer did, no matter how much that said retainer wanted to anyway. That act was reserved for friends, for real friends, and not those whose lines were blurred in the name of service.

    Or whose lines were blurred because one of them was stupidly in love.

    Love wasn’t necessarily part of his job description, but there Thoma was, doing it anyway. Quietly. Without the intention of Ayaka ever finding out.

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    13 Aug 2021