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    "May 23, 51' 22:36

    There is a kind of sadness that pervades the hearts and minds of every Revacholian, a kind of unspoken loneliness that lingers through the iron-tinged marine layer and emanates from the smokestacks, a looming threat that echoes off the cloud layer.

    Often it sounds of aerostatic blades and looks of search lights dancing over rooftops, and so, Kim can't sleep, too stuck on thinking about the quietness of Martinaise.

    Of Harry."

     

    Kim Kitsuragi works his first case with Harry since Martinase. Journaling his descent into madness as he moves closer to becoming a full fledged member of the 41st and falls further and further into Harrys orbit.

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    03 Feb 2025

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    Long after THE HANGED MAN, Harry and Kim have settled into comfortable domesticity. An examination of a singular day in Kim's life, partnered with one of the stranger people he's ever met (not that he would have it any other way).

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    10 Dec 2024

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    YOU — You fidget with your fingers for a moment, and then look back at him. “Are you okay, Kim?”

    PERCEPTION [Easy: Success] — He blinks twice, surprised. Then he looks away, turning his gaze to the violet and blue sky.

    EMPATHY [Medium: Success] — He feels uncomfortable, sometimes, having such raw concern and sincerity pouring out from you with only him as recipient. You’re… intense, on a good day.

    KIM KITSURAGI — “I’m alright,” he says. His fingers twitch, like he’s itching for a cigarette. “It’s been… a long week.”

    ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Failure] — Oh, it’s been long, and it’s been hard. Makes you itch for the neck of a bottle in your hand, neurotransmitters firing wild, fireworks behind your eyes.

    (or; Kim has a rough week. Harry helps, in his own way.)

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    10 Dec 2024

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    Scenes from Gurathin's early days on Preservation as he adjusts to his new life outside the Corporation Rim.

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    Torpor.

    A thermoregulatory process exceedingly common for birds, in which physiological activity is drastically reduced when the animal enters a period of high metabolic stress. Hawks didn’t understand what that meant when his handler explained it to him, he was eleven, after all. He knew a bit here and there about biology, especially when it pertained to the avian aspects of his mutation quirk, but some of the more complicated bits still flew right over his head.

    or: hawks does the bird thing where they basically dissociate when they get cold/hungry. the commissions way of handling it + the LoV's way of handling it

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    02 Aug 2020