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• My choice, despite everything by dezzert

  Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  16 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gepard/Sampo (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Gepard (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Sampo (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Serval (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Lynx (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Landau Siblings' Father (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Landau Siblings' Mother (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Pela (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Sparkle (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Pre-Canon
  • Original Character(s)
  • Past Relationship(s)
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Character Study
  • Gepard-centric (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
  • Whump
  • Eventual Happy Ending
  • Slow Burn
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Physical Disability
  • Canon Era
  • Character Death
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Drug Abuse
  • Pining
  • Written Before Version 3.3 (Honkai: Star Rail)
  • Coming Out

  Summary

  In the six unfortunate years that Gepard has known Sampo Koski, Sampo has proven himself a liar, a thief, and a coward who would abandon anyone at a moment's notice. Yet for some unfathomable reason, Sampo keeps saving Gepard.

  It takes far too long for Gepard to learn how to save Sampo back.

  —

  Episodes of Gepard and Sampo throughout the years, and what they learn about themselves through each other.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  150,449

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