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  1. Public Bookmark 54

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    Yamada Hizashi is an internationally famous singer, musician, and performer. Aizawa Shouta works in IT, an overnight shift where he successfully hides away from most of humanity. The machinations of fate (and of their two best friends) work hard to pull the pair of men together; but both have been burned in the past, leaving them each with scars that make it difficult for them to connect with others. At the same time, other forces behind the scenes want to tear them away from each other. How will they build a trust that can withstand the pressures that threaten everything dear to them?

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    25 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    Most people going about their day-to-day lives didn’t stop to think about the ways the infrastructure of their city posed a danger to them; but Hizashi wasn’t ‘most people.’

    Over the years, he had learned as much as he could about the bones and arteries that held a city together; the strengths and weaknesses of the structures above and below ground that kept life flowing. Buildings, tunnels, roadways, and bridges each had their own unique risk factors, and Hizashi had made it a point to understand as much as he could about what conditions might lead to catastrophic failure.

    Unfortunately, all that understanding did precisely jack shit when barely twenty meters ahead of him, right in the middle of the roadway, the earth opened up with a rumble and devoured his best friend.

    Whumptober Prompts: (2) Sewer, (14) Wounded Caretaker, (17) Redemption, (22) Self-Sacrifice

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    22 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    Shouta threw out a length of his binding cloth and swung off the ledge of the rooftop. It was muscle memory as much as anything else; he’d done it thousands of times. But even with the familiarity, it still gave him a rush; a flutter of nerves in his gut as he was momentarily in freefall.

    His nightly check-in with mortality.

    He didn’t suspect that in a few minutes, he’d be staring death directly in the face.

     

    Whumptober Prompts: (7) Pushed Beyond Breaking Point, (19) On Patrol, (25) Left to Die, (27) Bedside Vigil, (31) Bleeding Out

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    22 Dec 2025

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    “I dunno,” Hizashi shrugged. “He’s clearly not the worst guy in the world, considering who he goes after.”

    “I heard he’s pretty brutal,” he pointed out, not disagreeing.

    “Some of those people deserved brutal,” he said and decided to push a little more. “Did you hear about his last victim? That pharmaceutical director using experimental drugs on his son?”

    “Daughter,” Shouta corrected mindlessly before stiffening.

    Hizashi grinned.

    Gotcha

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    12 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 97

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    I’ve known you a few years...
    I’ve known you a few beers
    I know you right now, right now, right here...
    Right now, right now, right here
     
    Why can’t friends just kiss on the lips sometimes?
     
    or: Hizashi and Shouta are idiots who only show their true feelings when they get drunk

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    09 Dec 2025