Deuce



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    Most people meet their parents in standard, almost traditional ways. They’re born to them and meet them before their memory even develops, they’re adopted or fostered by them through an agency, or they meet one half of them as a process of them becoming a parent, like when Hiro-kun’s dad started dating the woman he’d later call mom in fourth grade.

    Haruka isn’t like any of the other kids she knows, though. She meets her parents in terrifying, messed up situations, when they’re just strangers struggling to stay alive, before they have any idea that they’ll one day be a family. Sometimes Haruka still sees those moments as set dressing for her nightmares like backdrops in a theater. Her mom she especially sees in her nightmares and dreams, since she can’t see her anywhere else except when they visit her grave.

    Still, though, she wouldn’t change anything about it. She meets her dad, Kiryu Kazuma, in that blood soaked bar and he’s quiet but kind from the get go.

    Her father, however… Well, meeting him might be the most unconventional meeting of any parent-figure on the planet.

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    Kiryu nodded. “Did you have someone… someone you were taking care of too?” he ventured dangerously. Majima glanced away and was silent for so long Kiryu thought he must have offended him. Just when he'd stopped expecting an answer, Majima looked back up.

    “Yeah,” he said. “Someone kinda like Haruka-chan - well, more like a kid sister than a kid, but… y’know. Same difference. Same kind of person.” Kiryu watched as Majima's expression shifted into something faraway, pensive, heavy with reminiscence. “Someone you’d go hungry for without a second thought.”

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    Kiryu deals with losing the closest thing he's ever had to a father, and Majima tries to help. It actually works out better than it sounds. This is how they learned to survive in absence of the men that changed their lives.

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    After a very real nuclear apocalypse that leaves the world without electricity, Kiryu, Majima, and their friends form a theater troupe and try to put on a stage production of Dead Souls, a very fake zombie apocalypse B-movie with no parallels to or implications for their own lives whatsoever.

    Kiryu and Majima learn that some things (like grief, and love, and nuclear radiation) never fade away, that these things transform you into something new.

    Meanwhile, as the group reckons with pop culture, nostalgia, and whether it’s time to let go of the past and tell new stories, their lives become more and more like a stage production…

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    “So, uh, h-how d’you two know each other?”

    Kiryu looked down at the tip of the knife, then up at Majima’s waiting face. “We’re… colleagues.”

    Maybe you should call your best friend/rival/???/boyfriend to say you're in town, before you roll up to a love hotel with another man.

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