7 Works by alter_idem
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when it's over, you're the start by alter_idem for nayuana
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
29 May 2025
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In that undefined liminal space between the realms of friends and lovers, Lance and Keith must decide whether to remain in the dark, or risk what they have to become something more.
OR: five gifts, four lessons on love, and one overly complicated relationship—but when has anything been easy between Lance and Keith?
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nothing's felt more sure (than when you were next to me) by alter_idem
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Feb 2024
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“Do you understand now, Fujin? I would tear the stars down from their places in heaven’s court if it meant that you’d be safe and strong again, and I could be in your presence once more."
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a conversation between two adepti, in the aftermath.
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i'll be alone (with everybody watching me) by alter_idem
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 Nov 2023
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It’s a familiar scene:
Kaveh’s father, his body being swallowed slowly by the gaping maw of the desert, staring at him with blood-red eyes. Eyes that are blown wide, scared, accusative, and he can hear his father’s hoarse voice in his head, crying, why did you have me come, son?
Kaveh can never seem to reach him in time. Whenever he regains control of his shock-frozen limbs, it’s too late: his father is gone.
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and all i was, in ashes by alter_idem for dailyandgaily
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
28 Feb 2023
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LANCE!
LANCE, LANCE—
His head hurts so much. More than it’s ever hurt before. And it’s dark– why is it so dark?! He can’t feel his body. He can’t, why can’t he– why can’t he–
“Lance! Lance, oh gods Lance, stay with me,” a softly accented female voice pleads somewhere above him, but he can’t open his eyes, he can’t move, his head hurts, it’s so dark, why the hell is it so damn dark?
“I’m so sorry, Lance,” the voice sobs, “please forgive me. This is the only way. I’m sorry, I’m sorry,”
And suddenly he can feel everything. He can feel everything, every pang of pain in his battered body, the constant stream of blood from his abdomen, how his lungs struggle– It’s too much. He passes out, surrounded by liquid darkness.
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A study in learning how to keep living and loving, even when you're not exactly human anymore.
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a story of two siblings, separated by space and time.
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“Lance,” Rachel whispered to her brother one night, lying awake in their room staring at their popcorn ceiling.
“Mm?”
“D’you think we’ll always be together?” Rachel had turned on her side to see her brother better in the dark. He, in turn, had flipped over on his side to meet her eyes. He hummed in consideration.
“I sure hope so,” he finally answered, before scrunching his eyebrows together. “Though there might be some times when we can’t be together. But I don’t think they’ll be long."
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“ your room was square /
i once noticed from there /
in your bed as you slept, and i held my breath /
everything had its own place, and i wondered what space would i take /
in the order you kept ”☓☓☓
It was 3 AM and Keith was awake. He was awake, and beside him was a softly snoring boy, hair mussed over his face, body splayed over the bed. Around them, the world was quiet and still, and Keith felt like he was suffocating.
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i'm lucky i'm in love with my best friend
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“One more week,” he said.
“One more week,” Keith echoed on the other end of the call. “What have you been up to lately?”
Lance thought about the little box waiting in the back of his sock drawer. What a ridiculous place to save something so important, something so life changing. The ridiculousness of the hiding spot took a bit of the edge off of the thought, and Lance’s nerves. He exhaled a long breath.
“Oh, y’know, the usual."