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    “Although I admit I am curious as to why you are so stressed out about us asking you questions, Felix. Yeah, I get that it sucks that the choice is taken away from you, but honestly, Fe.”

    He paused, considering Felix, and he felt ice enclose his heart, no, no, no, but Sylvain continued, “you don’t usually pull your punches, anyway. It’s like—what, you got a secret crush on someone or something?”

    “Yes, I do,” Felix said, and seriously considered running until he hit Imperial territory and got murdered for his troubles.

    They stared at each other, there in the silence of the training grounds. Distantly, he heard the last bell for dinner.

    Felix gets hit by a truth spell and reveals that he has a secret crush. Sylvain tries to guess who it is.

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    17 Nov 2025

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    “Your mark is something wonderful, Sylvain. I know your father and Miklan...I know it doesn’t seem like it is now, but you will see it one day. And it’s your soulmark, remember that. Not anyone else's.”

    Sylvain is six when his soulmark appears, and although he has some recollections of the time before this, they all seem to pale and fade against the downwards spiral that begins on this day.

    The day his life stops being his own and belongs to other people. Including someone he's never met, who he isn't sure he ever wants to.

     

    A Sylvix soulmate AU.

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    Love was a foreign concept to Sylvain - it didn't matter if it was being given, or being received, he didn't recognize it. So it's laughable, really, that this would be his downfall. Sylvain hadn't even thought that he could love. But apparently he could.

    And it was going to kill him.

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    Sylvain's touch still lingers there, like he's afraid he might have woken Felix up. But when Felix still doesn't move at all, Sylvain lets out a soft and breathy noise that falls somewhere between a sigh and a laugh. There's a barely perceptible shift in weight in the mattress, like maybe Sylvain is leaning a hand against it, and ...

    That's when Felix feels it––the brief shiver of Sylvain's breath, followed by the gentle press of his lips on Felix’s forehead.
     
    or, Sylvain keeps showing Felix signs of affection, but only when he thinks Felix is asleep … and Felix, who is actually awake every time, starts to realize his true feelings for his best friend.

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    Felix watched as Dimitri gathered up his papers, shuffling them slowly, absently. Something was wrong. There was something he wasn’t telling him. “What else did Sylvain say?”

    The silence lasted a second too long. "He said —" Dimitri stopped, hesitating for another excruciating moment, before he lifted his head to meet Felix’s gaze. “He said he was getting married.”

    Felix stared at him, unable to even muster up anger at the sight of pity on Dimitri’s face. It felt as though a sudden wind had blown over him, extinguishing the growing flicker of hope he had pretended he didn’t have. “Oh,” was all he managed to push out of his throat.

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