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Just where exactly is the line between “to love” and “to be in love”? What difference is required between “flatmate” and “husband”? (Besides the rings, obviously.) No, the important bit is that they have each other. Thirty years, give or take, in an atypical marriage. Basically a long bit of platonic domestic fluff.
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Once Riz gets past the initial shock and terror at things changing, there’s a part of him that’s just want. That selfish, greedy part of him that he’s had to learn how to quiet, to stop focusing on the things he’s scared he’ll lose or that he’ll never have when he’s so spoiled with the things he does have now, it hears all the quiet promises in Fabian’s words and wants to clutch it all tight, no takebacksies. He wants to be wanted. He wants to bask in however Fabian wants to express his love the same way that he’s always loved it when Fabian expresses his love. He wants to not be scared of the thought of it. He wants to want it. He might want it? He wants to know if he does want it.
(Or, discovering your best friend of over a decade is in love with you might bring some confusion, some complications, and plenty of recontextualizing, but it might also bring so much happiness.)
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02 Nov 2025
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Something in the past year had gone horribly wrong.
No, not the shit with the dragon, of course Fabian helped fight a fucking dragon in his first year of high school. That made perfect sense. Not him killing his father, he was probably always going to do that at some point— let’s be real here, it’s not like the man was ever going to allow himself to die of old age.
No, something had definitely gone horribly wrong, something else, because there was absolutely no logical world in which Fabian Seacaster was sitting on the floor of the Gukgak family apartment, staring at The Ball absolutely demolishing a microwave pizza, and thinking, ‘God, I wish that were me.’----
Something was wrong with Fabian Seacaster, and as his unofficial best friend, Riz was the man on the case.
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02 Nov 2025
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Torse needs help disassembling his weapons. Max needs something to do with his hands or he'll punch the ship and Marya will be mad at him.
Set between Episode 12-13 in a skipped "downtime" scene.
Chapter two set in the two day down time at the beginning of Mounting Mysteries at Mount Charuk"The night air was a comforting coolness against Torse’s metal body. The stagnant air in Romansu had been stifling, and he’d always felt a bit out of place in the bright sunlight in the sky.
He looked out into the forest and wondered to himself -for an uncountable time- if he’d ever find somewhere in Zood he felt he’d truly belong. Lifting his gaze to the sky, he tries to see Zern, even knowing they’re simply too far away.
He’s pulled back to reality by the soft call of his name, “Torse? Are you alright?”
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- Part 1 of Warm like the Sun
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It starts—as most things on the Zephyr do—as a drunken bit.
“Gotch.” Van says solemnly. Her flesh hand shoots out to grip his shoulder tightly. Her eyes burn into his skull. “I’m gonna be your dad.”
Maxwell blinks. “What?”
“Your father is an absolute arse, and if he doesn’t want you, I call dibs. I’m your new da.”
Or: Longspot Gotch sucks. Van, ever the problem-solver, steps up.
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02 Nov 2025