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2D understood the unspoken words, "He's bad for you." He couldn't argue with that. It's him who always chooses to come crawling back, like Murdoc's the opioids he used to be hooked on.
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The Forever Cult is no more. Now hiding from the police in a shitty motel, 2D struggles as he finds himself making the same choices over and over again.
or: how *those* lyrics ended up in 2D's bedroom
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Decidedly, he thinks Thomas is horrible at making descriptions of people.
There is the cardinal he was waiting for, but the thick fabrics of his vestments are bunched up and wrinkled, unlike how any cardinal would let himself dress. His usually hunched posture is heavier, and the beat of his footsteps sounds slower. One would think moving brought him pain, and Aldo has never seen eyebags deeper and darker than the ones on Tedesco's worn face.
The man looked as if hell itself had descended upon him, but what shocked Aldo the most was the hair.
It is long. Shoulder length, unkempt. Thick strands of silver tangling together to form a greasy, stiff mess. It didn't even sway as he walked on. Tedesco did not seem to care.
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Goffredo Tedesco returns after eight months of radio silence. Aldo Bellini finds more than he bargained for.
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Aldo Bellini is often an irritable and self-conscious man. Through all the raised hackles and sharp claws, Vincent Benìtez sees, and brings out the best in him.
Or: Four times Aldo Bellini is compared to a cat, and the one time he doesn't mind.
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before the mystery ends (can we pretend sweetly) by Zialaw
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
14 Apr 2025
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Thomas makes an unexpected request.
Vincent feels like he's running out of time.
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- Part 1 of walk with faith, one step at a time
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Edgeworth stared him down, the weight of his gaze unrelenting, and he hates it. Hates that what he saw in it is something akin to contempt. Hates that he can also see the regret, sorrow, and fear behind those steel-grey eyes. Hates that he couldn’t find any trace of the boy’s smile from so long ago. Hates that he is even looking for it, knowing he has no right to it.
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Phoenix Wright, the things he realizes, and the things he doesn't.
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walk with faith, one step at a time by Zialaw
Fandom: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
14 Apr 2025
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Amidst the doubts man faces in loneliness, faith will help them find each other.
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All 2D had to do was act like everything was the way it was ten years ago and pretend he was happy and make it seem like there was nothing on earth he’d rather do than stand here with Murdoc.
Murdoc would eat it right up. He knew that for a fact because, on his transmitter, he was able to pick up bits and pieces of Murdoc’s radio show. He knew how lonely Murdoc was.
Locked on Plastic Beach with everything he's scared of, 2D knows he won't get off the island alive unless he starts taking control of his fears - including Murdoc.
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27 Oct 2025
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Murdoc Niccals is finally free.
After months in Wormwood Scrubs, he expects a grand return, a hero’s welcome—only to find himself stranded, alone, and forced to crawl back to the band on his own. He seethes that 2D has moved on without him, but his perspective shifts when he finally sits down and listens to the album written without him.
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03 Oct 2025
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Routines reek of dull monotony, but Murdoc will put up with it if he can live them like this. A tall coffee and a tall boyfriend are, all things considered, not an awful way to start the day.
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02 Oct 2025
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Tedesco is a patriarch, unrelenting, stuck in the past, cherries and booming voice preceding his appearance.
There’s nothing soft or gentle about him, and sometimes Aldo does wonder—had there been a time when it hadn’t been so? Had he always been so strict, so angry? Had he ever been sweet?Aldo Bellini and Goffredo Tedesco drive down to Matera, the Patriarch's hometown.
In the city of stones, nothing ever really changes.
Act I, Italienne—Matera, ouverture.
Act II, Tedesco—Bord de mer.
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30 Jun 2025
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Vincent Benítez has always experienced fullness in his soul, ever since he began his ministry in Mexico. It haunts him as a cornerstone of existence, until he finds someone who alleviates and worsens the fullness of his soul in ways he never thought imaginable.
Another experimental piece featuring cannibalism as a metaphor for love and faith, and the horror of discovering parts of yourself you never knew before.
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- Part 2 of satiation and salvation
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28 Mar 2025