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At first, Acht doesn’t know what to make of Pearl.
Face to face with Marina again after almost a decade and she looks so different, yet completely the same—so much so that Acht almost completely misses that Pearl is an inkling. First contact with the supposed enemy, and she’s a puny thing in a giant coat who will not shut up about Marina until they rescue her. And Marina, steadfast, serious Marina, is completely smitten with her.
[Pearl is the first inkling Acht has ever met. Slight spoilers for the very beginning of Side Order.]
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- Part 10 of Author's Favorites
- Part 1 of Climbing(Endlessly)_Tetralogy.Floor
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13 Oct 2025
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“Oh, pfft. You act like an eternity with me would actually be a bad thing,” Pearl smiled, unapologetically cocky. Marina could feel the corners of her own lips turn up in response.
“The worst,” Marina teased back, giving Pearl’s hand a light squeeze.
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12 Oct 2025
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During the period of time that Callie was missing, Marie had grown to like Agent Four. She was a consistent light in her life back then, as well as a great agent - the agent part being the reason Marie decided to go out of her way to find things to add to the Agent Four Factopedia. Watching Four's matches and keeping track of her stats means she can see how the agent is improving, which is why she wants to know so much about Four. Obviously.
Callie knows her cousin is just an idiot with a crush, but whatever floats her boat.
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12 Oct 2025
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“I wanted you to climb the tower to rescue me,” Marina rushes out once she’s caught enough air. “But you also couldn’t do it yourself because the point is to help the octolings—”
“Rina,” Pearl grumbles, grabbing Marina by the shoulders to force her to look at her, “stop.”
“I’m trying to tell you—”
“I almost lost you. Let me kiss you."
[A love story.]
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- Part 2 of Climbing(Endlessly)_Tetralogy.Floor
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12 Oct 2025
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In the early days, it wasn’t unusual for Pearl to go out on their off days. She had a life, and Marina felt like some stray that she’d picked up back then so she was happy to sit in the room Pearl had given her in her huge estate and study the Inkling writing system or trawl the online encyclopedias to test the translator she was coding (and to practice her vocabulary) while Pearl continued on with her life.
That changed sometime in the last year, Marina reflects. Pearl stopped going out. Sometime around when Pearl synced their phone calendars so they could both see each other’s appointments, Pearl went cold on the dating front, and, when pressed, she gave some half-hearted excuse about focusing on their music.
But now...? Three weeks after finding out that Marina had been lying to her for years, Pearl is picking up girls again.
[Directly Post-Octo Expansion]
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12 Oct 2025