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Mari, fifteen years old. Standing in front of the checkered blue backdrop with the prefecture's crest stamped over and over behind her like wallpaper. She had a gold medal looped around her neck and a trophy in one hand, its little red gem catching the light funny. Her hair was flat with old sweat, and she stared wide-eyed into the camera with an expression that wasn't quite a smile—more like she hadn't figured out yet how to arrange her face around something this big. And beside her, red hair a wild halo under the fluorescent lights—
—Lara.
Also fifteen. Holding up Mari’s certificate with both hands like it was hers instead of Mari's, looking so unreasonably delighted that you'd think she'd been the one to win.
Mari remembers that Lara hadn't even been able to read half the kanji on it. Had asked, loudly in the middle of the ceremony, what it said.
Almost three years now.
It doesn’t feel like it was that long ago. It feels like last week, and also like something that had happened to somebody else.
Mari looks at the photo for a long time.
or: seventeen-year-old mari wouldn't admit she's burned out and impulsively takes a train to see lara in kobe
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- Part 1 of safe harbor
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04 Oct 2026
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Mari Otsu is, as of last week, Japan's featherweight boxing champion. Despite the exhaustion, she has agreed to an exhibition match in Kyoto. Lara comes to watch, and they go out for drinks.
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29 Sep 2026
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Lara is not heavy. That’s the first thing Mari notices when she pulls her out of the water, both dripping wet and tired, Lara’s legs covered in cuts for days. Hauling Lara onto her back is as instinctual as breathing, and so is, she imagines, the way Lara wraps her arms around Mari’s neck for balance. A small wobble, a grunt, and Mari is walking.
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Mari and Lara and what happened in those six months.
Bookmarked by Hamadryad111
29 Sep 2026
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what is this, a center for idiots?! by arpeggeo
Fandoms: さよならララ | Sayonara Lara | Goodbye Lara, Sayonara Lara, Goodbye Lara
20 Aug 2026
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How the fuck is Mari supposed to tell a hospital nurse she puts herself in a ring under an abandoned warehouse and lets people punch her in the jaw for a living?
(or: Mari is part of an underground fight club and Lara is the nurse who makes sure she doesn't die fighting.)
Bookmarked by Hamadryad111
08 Sep 2026
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It All Comes Back to You by Crowl_Soul
Fandoms: Sayonara Lara, Gooodbye Lara, さよならララ | Goodbye Lara (Anime)
05 Sep 2026
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Lara nodded once, keeping her hands clasped tightly against her skirts. She held the stranger's gaze, her expression guarded, yet curious.
"I'm Mari," the recruit offered casually, taking another step closer. "What’s your name?"
Lara opened her mouth, but only a soft, breathy sigh escaped her throat.
Or,
What if Mari was a knight when Lara first took the potion 200 years ago.Bookmarked by Hamadryad111
07 Sep 2026