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    The bar Zhongli chose was upscale, warmly lit and pleasant. Nothing like the grungy dive bars Childe frequented on his own. They got a booth in a secluded corner near the back, intimate enough to take Childe’s breath away. Zhongli’s long, elegant fingers twirled the stem of his wineglass, the gold wedding band glinting in the low light.

    Childe had known the professor was married, had spotted that gold ring the very first time he’d gone to office hours. It didn’t matter, not really. Zhongli would be unattainable even if he was single. He was a fantasy, safer from a distance.

     

    Or: Professor Zhongli doesn’t realize how unhappy he is until a reckless student crashes into his life like a storm.

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    29 Sep 2023

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    The inscription on his casket plainly displays a canned statement that does nothing to highlight the value of the man.

    CHILDE - TARTAGLIA

    11th OF THE FATUI HARBINGERS

    NOBLE SON AND BRAVE SOLDIER OF

    HER HIGHNESS, THE TSARITSA

    Pitiful, Zhongli thinks. Insufficient for who he truly was.

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    A darker, more deranged take on how a certain archon might react to the harbinger's passing.

    🔶💧 (not explicit)

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    26 Sep 2023

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    I need your help. Ordinarily, I wouldn't ask anyone to decipher life from my perspective, but I need you to understand the situation that I've found myself in. You need to see the events that led me here and have the clarity of mind that I lack because I am more lost than I have ever been, and I need saving. Help me, because I don't know how I got here, and I need to repair the damage I've done.

     

    “Demons run when a good man goes to war
    Night will fall and drown the sun
    When a good man goes to war

    Friendship dies and true love lies
    Night will fall and the dark will rise
    When a good man goes to war

    Demons run, but count the cost
    The battle's won, but the child is lost”

    ― Steven Moffat

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    02 May 2023

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    “You remind me of someone I once knew.”

    “Really? What were they like?”

    “Kind.”

     

    Childe becomes a teachers aide for a professor at his university.

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    08 Apr 2023

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    He clicked the pen his therapist had given him, opening the first page. In big letters, he wrote, “Reasons To Live: 1-100.”

    Then, he flipped to the middle of the journal. He paused, felt-tip inches from the page. This was gonna be another mistake to add to his long-running list, wasn’t it?

    Caving, he put the pen to the page.

    “Reasons to Die: 1-100.”

    The idea was simple; old as time.

    First to one hundred wins.

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    After being kicked from the friend group his second year, radio silence from Bakugou over the summer, and a suicide attempt, Kirishima starts to spiral when he returns to UA.

    Bakugou walks back into his life wanting to know why his hair is black all of the sudden.

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    05 Dec 2022