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    The winners of the life games discover that there is despair hidden in the depths of victory.

    (title from Better Off by Jeremy Zucker and Cheslea Cutler)

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    Can a family that's been broken apart for so long really come back together after all this time?

    or: There was always another member of the SBI, even if Grian didn’t always want to be part of it.

    title from Toby Fox’s song of the same name

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    Tenna could hear the kitchen. The clatter of plates. The deep rumble of Asgore’s voice, rising—then flattening into something hoarse. Toriel’s sharper. Less like a yell, more like a scab picked sore too many times. Kris would wander in, shoulders stiff, and press their cheek to the static. Sometimes, if the TV was warm from recent use, the glass would fog. They’d breathe slow. Not watching anything. Just being close.

    He’d glow soft blue beneath them. He always kept his volume low. Just enough to give them something steady. He thought of himself, in those times, as a nightlight. Something for a scared kid to feel near when they didn’t want to cry.

    And then, sometimes, Kris would draw.

    Little stick figures with marker right on the screen. Green for themselves. Brown for Noelle. Big loopy lines for antlers. Red for Dess. a big triangle with gashing spikes . Toriel would scold them gently when she caught them, but she never got angry. She’d say, “Markers are for paper,” and Kris would shrug and say “Okay,” and do it again next week.

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    ode to the cathode

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    30 Jul 2025

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    “I’ll be honest, you’d make a good sidekick,” Heizou muses. Kazuha turns his head to him as he continues, “I need to call you something other than ‘ronin,’ though. So will you tell me your name now?”

    “Perhaps when the time is right,” the samurai says with a slight smile. He seems to be in better spirits since the day they first met in the city — his eyes are now holding a light that was missing before. “But next time, I’ll have to weave a lovely poem for the lovely detective.”

    or: 5 times heizou asks for kazuha's name + 1 time he gives his own

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    03 Aug 2024

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    Kaveh used to think that Alhaitham had mastered the art of ignoring him. The man would remain unflappable as he continued to read his worn copy of The Origins of Enkanomiyan Language, even when Kaveh was a hair’s breadth away from shattering the windows of their house with his severity of pitch.

    No amount of screaming, threats to throw things, or violently waving in front of him could get Alhaitham to pause in his thirst for knowledge. As it turns out, Alhaitham literally just turns his hearing aids off so he doesn’t have to listen to Kaveh.

    It’s for this exact reason that Kaveh has decided to learn Sumerian Sign Language.

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    Kaveh learns sign language just to continue bickering with Alhaitham.

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    03 Jul 2024

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    Aventurine makes it out of the abyss - and into a different world. Things are different here - simpler. There are no Aeons, no intergalactic factions and corporations, no Paths and Blessings. He is not naïve enough to assume that there is no cruelty and discrimination here - for there always is - but for the most part, everything is peaceful.

    Here, Aventurine's priorities are getting people's coffee orders right. Fairly straight forward, if you ask him.

    Except for the bit where he is surrounded by too many familiar faces, and they remind him of a place he can no longer return to. That's okay. People come and go, and so will they.

     

    Except for the bit where they come and go and come back.

     

    AKA. Aventurine gets dropped into a coffee-shop AU with all the memories from before. He's handling things until he's not handling things. That's okay, because he still has friends (and Dr Ratio) in this world. He just doesn't know it yet.

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    05 May 2024

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    Jingliu turns to face him. He has grown taller in the few years she’s been gone. He still reeks of child; somewhere inside her she understands what Jing Yuan saw in him. “This will hardly be the first loved one you fight.”

    Yanqing swallows, looking everywhere but at Jingliu herself. “I don’t know if I want to fight anymore,” he whispers, shaking his head.

    She kneels beside him. “And it is exactly why you must continue to utilize the blade.” She stares into the horizon of the Luofu.

    “I can’t. It’s not the same without him.”

    She sighs. “It will never be.”

    Jing Yuan succumbs to the mara. The Luofu keeps moving forward.

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    05 May 2024