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    “So, I really don’t want to sound like the stereotype, saying all Asian people look the same, no offense, really, but,” Ava stretches out the vowel as she props up her head, “you’re like a carbon copy of your dad. It’s almost scary, like a mini clone.”

    “Wow, really? I never noticed before. That’s crazy,” Gakushuu deadpans, and he hopes it sounds as dead as he feels. No wonder no one noticed a ten-foot yellow balloon of an octopus at their school campus, if that’s the observation skills everyone’s been blessed with.

    “Very funny,” she rolls her eyes and gestures at him with her pen. “Listen, I’m just saying if that’s how you’re gonna look like as an actual adult, damn.” She whistles and Tyler very soundly chokes on nothing.

    “Did you just call my dad hot?” Because ew. Ew.

    Ava just shrugs while Tyler clearly tries not to suffocate. (He doesn’t sound very successful.)
    “Don’t hate the player, hate the game. But I mean it, it’s kind of scary. You’re not actually a clone, are you?”

    Gakushuu lets his head bang against the table.

    “Just kill me.”

    Or: The one in which Gakushuu is a responsible adult and definitely not avoiding anything.

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    “I’ve been wondering—”

    “Now, now, don’t overexert that pretty little head of yours.”

    “Yeah, yeah, shush it.” She rolls her eyes. Christ on a stick, do all men have to be born with that fucking superiority complex? Whatever nutter posted that the Radio Demon is such a gentleman needs to be committed right now.
    “As I've been saying, I’ve been wondering. Your deal with Vox? It doesn’t make any sense.”
    She still can’t forget the literal baby talk he offered the deal with. Like a parent trying to get their toddler to eat some broccoli. And Vox fucking fell for it, hook, line and sinker. Hell, he threw himself off the cliff of self-respect and rationality as soon as the other even opened his mouth.

    “I would say it’s been a well worth investment.” He spins in his chair, sitting sideways with his legs crossed over the armrest.

    “It sucks and you know it. Unless,” she examines her nails, “there’s something you’re hiding, of course.”

    Or: Somehow Velvette keeps getting stuck with babysitting their literal prisoner. (Vox should really look up the definition of that word, thank you very much.) At least the Radio Demon makes for a half-decent conversation partner.

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    “Oh, you did not watch the child endangerment trials on TV.”

    Right, he’s not in Japan, these people probably don’t know about the whole ‘human experiments middle school murder plot covered up by airing his family’s dirty laundry’ thing.

    “The what?” His teammate Ava chokes, and yeah, Gakushuu actually doesn’t really want to get into that right now. Like, no thanks, he’s fine.

    “Doesn’t matter. Anyways,” he claps his hands like an elementary teacher and gives them his best saccharine, I-would-rather-be-anywhere-but-here media smile, “where’s our fourth group member? Last time I checked, sleep deprivation made me see things double, not vanish people, and I only count three of us.”

    “He’s a no-show, but…” He stops listening. Fantastic, exactly what they need for this torture of a project. The ground looks very inviting. Gakushuu actually finds himself contemplating the benefits of just faceplanting right now.

    “What was this about brainwashing? Can we just circle back like two sentences, please?” Tyler asks.

    “Nope.”

    Or: The one in which Gakushuu suffers through his group project, gets stabbed and stockholms a doll. Not in this order.

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    Humans are social creatures.
    And even though Rui wasn't human anymore, it still rang true for him. He yearned for that connection, for the closeness that pervaded everything they did. Despite knowing that it was impossible for him.

    Until he met Edward. Selfish asshole Edward.

    Or: A short exploration of the effect of the reaper curse on Rui's life and his complicated feelings regarding Edward.

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    He’s really dead.

    It should feel worse, but somehow it’s the same as the last few years. It feels… hollow.
    No, that’s absurd, he still had plans, so much he wanted to do, didn’t he? He should be angry, furious, blood boiling under his skin or at least sad, he still wanted to, he, he…
    Was there anything he was still living for?

    Stranded in an abandoned mimicry of Japan, Gakushuu is faced with the decisions he has made in his life.

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    I am no better than his jailers.

    I can trust him.

    Lyca's imprisonment through the lens of two friends.

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    Lucas watches the steady rise and fall of the blanket, guilt crawling beneath his skin.

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    It happens in a split second.

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    Sho doesn’t even remember what he said before the sound of Subaru’s laugh derails his thoughts. It’s a fragile, fleeting thing—like a delicate breeze brushing against a wind chime.
    Sho’s heart squeezes, and he feels like he’s under a spell he never wants to break.

    He grins and leans closer, reveling in the feeling when Subaru doesn’t shy away.

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    Gakushuu knows that his father and he have an unusual relationship.

    It’s like a tower built of blocks on uneven ground. It sways and trembles, gaps in certain places, but it always stands strong.

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    “Rui, please,” she pleads, voice heavy with tears as her body contorts.

    They didn't find a cure.

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    Gakushuu opens his front door and sees the doll levitating over a crudely drawn Sigil of Satan in a circle of candles. Flames fill the room, and he is pretty sure that his apartment is not supposed to be burning.
    He closes his door and opens it again, just to be sure, and, yep, alright, it’s still on fire.
    The doll’s head does a sick 180 and watches him with empty eyes.

    Yeah, okay, he’s not doing that.
    So Gakushuu does what every sensible adult would do: he closes the door, walks away, and hopes that his problem solves itself.

    Or: Gakushuu tries to survive finals week (and gets haunted along the way, but that's really not as big a deal as it sounds)

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    Satan is a demon.
    At least that’s what everyone tells him.
    Though every time he looks at his reflection, he can’t help but feel… wrong.

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    With a sigh, Lucifer runs his hand through his hair, practically feeling exhaustion burrow into his bones, and dark rings form under his eyes. The meeting with the Chamber of Lords lasted far longer than they all anticipated, and he can already sense the incoming headache after listening to their endless drivel.
    He is content to drag himself to his room and collapse onto his bed for a few hours, when a faint light from the kitchen catches his eye.

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    Emu Otori is nothing less than a bundle of sunshine.
    No, she is the sun itself.

    There is no point in denying it; Nene has accepted her feelings long ago. She is content with the way things are now. Emu wears her heart on her sleeve, and Nene knows her feelings aren’t reciprocated. But that’s fine, nothing has to change as long as she can soak in Emu’s warmth just a little longer.

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    Ren finds Gakushuu lying on the grass on the hill behind their school.

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    Gakushuu glares at the abomination in front of him.
    The muffin sits innocently on its plate. It looks fine. It smells fine. By all accounts, it seems perfectly fine.

    If it weren’t for the fact that Natsuhiko baked it.

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    Gakushuu’s eyes wander back to the water, staring into the flowing currents beneath them. His traitorous mind whispers to him, leaning closer to the fall. But before he can stop it, a question already slips past his lips.

    “What’s it like?”

    “What do you mean?” Ikeda looks at him.

    Gakushuu watches the water below, observing the foam on top of it swirling around, light as if it were cotton. A longing crosses his eyes before he looks away and sets his gaze on the horizon line in the distance. After a few moments, he speaks again.

    “Drowning. What is it like?”

    Gakushuu starts to continuously see a strange boy, who bears an eerie resemblance to his father’s deceased student. First, he chalks it up to a coincidence or his imagination, but after a while, the stranger confronts him.

    Claiming to be Ikeda Rikuto.

    Or: Gakushuu and ghost Ikeda.

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    Hanahaki.
    A rare disease caused by unrequited love, inducing flowers to grow in the affected person’s lungs, slowly suffocating them. Only curable through a reciprocation of their feelings or surgery.

    Gakushuu’s father dies while he’s still in elementary school.
    No, he didn’t really die, but one day he comes back home and isn’t his father anymore. He hates this man despite the flowers in his lungs trying to convince him otherwise.

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    218
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    “Just remind me again, why I’m even doing this,” Gakushuu sighed while he opened his wardrobe to pull out a dress with a cardigan.

    “Because I’m an idiot and you’re a great friend who’s helping me,” Ren said, the guilty look still on his features.

    Okay, maybe it hasn’t been the best idea to tell his relatives he would bring his girlfriend to his birthday party, so they could get to know her. His girlfriend who he had been together with for one week, his girlfriend who broke up with him just a few days ago.
    No, scratch that, it had been an awful idea.
    His parents told him to just tell them the truth, but Ren really didn’t want his cousin to tease and mock him again. So he did the only thing he could think of; asking Gakushuu to pretend to be his girlfriend.

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