cupiscent
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Edgin's wife died years ago, but he's only just now letting go. He can't talk about it with any of the others, but Xenk - aggravatingly - understands. Perhaps neither of them need to carry these burdens alone.
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Just that thing where the agent on a mission sends a horny voicemail back to his lover. Except--and here's the kicker--the Protagonist is absolutely certain he isn't sleeping with Neil. (Yet.)
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Ives knew Wheeler was the one the first moment he set eyes on her file. He just didn't realise quite how many problems she was the solution to until they were already locked into an entirely-business fuckbuddy arrangement...
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Neil has a lot to cope with, reuniting with his dead lover who doesn't know him yet. But this job is too important to let grief get in the way. Ives is there to support him, whatever he needs.
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He recruits Neil fine, but then he doesn't know how they go from there to where they were. Weirdly, it seems like the answer is going to involve Neil pretending (very convincingly) to be a stripper, and a whole can of related worms.
(OR: "Let's be honest, he just doesn't want to do it because the plan is to send him and Neil deep undercover on an isolated island as a violent thug and the stripper he's been gifted for the weekend. He doesn't want to to it because it starts with Neil shimmying out of spangled trousers on stage again, and only gets worse...")
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tys hard to be a seinte in the cytie by indigostohelit
Fandoms: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
11 Apr 2023
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“The Material Planes are not realms of punishment,” said Xenk. “The gods no more deny us the warmth of physical pleasure than they would the warmth of the sun. They only warn us, through each, of the dangers that lie in excess.”
“…Huh,” said Ed again, and, lacking further retort, grabbed up the new tankard and swigged deeply. Then he spat it across the bar.
“This is water, though,” said Xenk peacefully. “You are going to have a hangover in the morning.”
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15 Apr 2023
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Then Be Not Coy, but Use Your Time by antimonyandthyme for cupiscent
Fandoms: Tenet (2020)
01 Mar 2021
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“Well how did you fare in those Cambridge networking events, hm?”
“Poorly,” Neil grins at him. “I showed up in a lab coat and they treated me as one would a box of wasps.”
(Or, the Protagonist invites Neil to share in the administrative side of things.)
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The possibility of not recruiting Neil at all is never discussed.
It brings up a lot of questions, the protagonist thinks later that night, staring up at the ceiling. He will recruit Neil because he knows who Neil will become. It’s a stunted paradoxical little loop. How did it start?
The protagonist knows how it will end.
Unless…unless he walks away. Lying in the dark, wide awake, the protagonist is tempted.
(Can we change things, if we do it differently?)
But…
“What’s happened, happened,” the protagonist reminds himself.
Besides (selfish, selfish). He wants to see Neil again.Somewhere in between the end and the beginning, Neil and the protagonist manage to find a little time.
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03 Mar 2021
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The long slow unfurling, recruitment to final mission
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You barely know the man. You don’t know you’ll die for him yet.
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18 Feb 2021
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Outstanding parabola with so many perfect details
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He doesn't understand the way Neil looks at him sometimes, awestruck and trusting. It reminds him of the way his men used to look at him. And now they’re all dead.
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18 Feb 2021
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"When they see each other again, he hopes he can be half as good as Neil thinks he is."