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    The first prayers are hazy, fragmented things. They’re wordless, made only of emotion and impression—a flash of longing, the burden of grief, an overwhelming scent of blood. They lurk in the corners of his mind at all times, but they don’t feel like they belong to him. They feel other.

    Xie Lian thinks he’s going crazy.

    Hua Cheng prays for centuries as he searches for his god. His god hears.

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    07 Jan 2026

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    Xie Lian found something in himself that he thought was gone—worn away with every mistake he had made.

    Faith.

    His arms opened, and the child was hesitant—but eventually, he fell into them, his body trembling with silent sobs.

    "I remember you," he whispered again, voice breaking as Hong-er clung to him.

    I remember you.

    I remember you.

    I will always, for as long as I live, remember you.

    (A re-telling of TGCF where Xie Lian has his cursed shackle placed in his eyes, blinding him. And yet, through all of his struggles; there is always someone watching over him.)

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    11 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    "‘Is this the reason you pursued my acquaintance all this time? You wanted me… - you actually supposed yourself capable of inducing me to kill you?’

    ‘What other reason could I have?’ questions Dazai woodenly. ‘I have seen your records – if there ever was a man who could become my salvation and grant me the greatest boon of all, it ought to be you. You are the hero, are you not? Go on, hero. Slay the monster.’

    ‘I have already,’ says Chuuya. ‘That part of me is dead.’"

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    A Regency AU, in which Chuuya is a military man, retired early and trying to [somewhat unsuccessfully] navigate genteel society, while Dazai is a bored and wealthy gentleman looking for anything to distract him from a future that promises nothing but misery.

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    07 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 36

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    By the time Chuuya gets the news, it’s already far too late. 

    “What? ” he hisses into the phone. On the other end, he can hear the shallowness of Gin’s breath, giving away the turbulence of her emotions in spite of her practiced steadiness, before she resumes speaking.

    “He threw himself off the roof, and by the time we got to him he was beyond saving. Cleanup crews are on standby. We’re now waiting on your orders… Boss.”

    In the aftermath of the boss's death and Akutagawa's invasion, the Port Mafia is in utter disarray. Next in line for the highest responsibility, Chuuya steps up to clean up the mess, trying hard not to let his emotions get the best of him. Unfortunately for him, grief is patient, pervasive, and agonizingly relentless.

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    03 Nov 2025

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    “Who are you then?”

    “I am Dazai. Dazai Osamu.”

    Chuuya’s eyes opened wide. He blinked a couple of times, then let out an incredulous breath. While retreating into his chair, he mumbled, “I... didn’t think it would work.”

    “It really didn’t,” Dazai smirked. He made sure to inflect his tone with scorn and mockery; let it be known that he would not bend to a human’s fleeting desires. “That is not my real name.”

    “It is.” Chuuya inclined his head to the side, curls caressing his features in fire, highlighting the redness of his cheeks — he was embarrassed, Dazai mused. Humans’ foolishness really was amusing: they had so little time and spent so much of it feeling. “As long as we’re together, that is your real name.”

    Or,
    Dazai is the Lord of Dreams. He breathes life into humans' dreams and nightmares, despite not being interested in them at all... until he encounters one human that wishes to live forever.

    And so, Dazai and Chuuya start meeting every hundred years.

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    03 Nov 2025