Walmartyr
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Inspired by that one optional codec call with snake and emma, a character study of a very minor character that means a lot to me.
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A very mediocre very short story about Raikov's imprisonment circa the portable ops era.
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Jaibo had always wanted to play God; fitting, then, that he'd be usurped by one deified unwillingly.
An introspective study of the parallels between Jaibo and Kanon.
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The desert sun appears and bleaches the night. You have not been captured. You are not dead. There is a road, or the idea of a road, and there, there just ahead: the spire, the fortress. You cannot determine its distance. It shimmers in mirage. With one step it is minutes away. With the next it slides backward, receding into the horizon, into geological time, light-years, an obscene trick of perspective. You have seen this before, in a garden maze designed to deceive the eye. André Le Nôtre’s decelerated perspective, the Hercules statue that retreats as you approach. Gozaburo had taken you and Mokuba there under the pretence of culture but the lesson had been, as always, political. He had wanted you both to meditate on the execution of Louis XVI. This is what happens, he had said in so many words, when a people decide their rulers are no longer tolerable. This is what rage does to proportion. This is how the head of a king becomes a point on a horizon that everyone agrees to walk toward.
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Kaiba awakens from his Mind Crush coma and considers his revenge. Pre-Death T.
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30 Apr 2026