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    The under-city wasn't exactly the nicest place, that much Scott was well aware of.
    He knew Jimmy still went down there, to visit his dearest friends or his adoptive parents. He also knew there was a lot he didn't understand about that place, the way it operated, how it looked, how it fundamentally shaped Jimmy to have come from the depths of a society below his feet. The man adored the open sky in large part because he'd grown up in the dark, right? He also knew Jimmy's family and friends down there were...shall we say, unique. A cast unlike any he'd ever met, who were unable to pass as humans and stroll the streets beneath the blue sky in disguise. Scott also knew it wasn't his place to ask tough questions, considering how complicated Jimmy's feelings on the under-city obviously were. He's taken things as they've come with Jimmy, and that's how he'll stay.
    Color him surprised when Jimmy invites him to a family dinner, with plans to meet his other friends along the way.

    {In which Scott is bracing for some serious shovel talk, Jimmy wants everyone to realize he's a grown adult already, Pearl and Grian are never ones to pass on a golden opportunity, Etho wins a bet, and so, so, so many others get a word in.}

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    17 Oct 2025

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    Pearl had been running solo in the over-city for years now. Which was fine. She didn't mind being alone. Besides, she had her twin brother and her cousin as well, but making friends as an illegal hybrid isn't easy. She's managed just fine. Even when she'd left to live up above, she'd always made the time to visit the under-city, but those times were growing farther apart. Because Gem and Impulse had never been to the over-city. When their birthday rolls around she encourages her brother to go enjoy his first birthday with a boyfriend and let Scar spoil him rotten.
    So what if she can't make the trip to spend her birthday, as she has every year, with her dearest friends?
    She was a grown-ass woman. Something as silly as autumnal soup and role-playing card games wasn't going to break her.
    But maybe the lack of them could.

    {In which Pearl breaks down while missing her birthday traditions, Gem makes the best soup in the under-city, Impulse beats back his nerves with a stick, and at the end of the day it's the three of them doing the same things as always, even if they aren't necessarily in the same place.}

    {Whumptober 2023 - 20: Found Family}

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    11 Oct 2025

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  3. Public Bookmark 40

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    Etho had found in the depths so many things.
    It was the lowest point of the Under-City, metaphorically and literally. He'd been running jobs for the mobsters that controlled this area for as long as he could remember, another gutter rat trying to make it to his next meal. He wasn't above playing with someone's naive ideas of empathy, he didn't feel bad for manipulating others to pity him as just a helpless kid. A runaway redstone pallet leads him to meet Doc, a creeper mutant with a genius complex and enough sarcasm and bravado to make Etho want to try stabbing him again. The two of them were in direct competition, and Etho hadn't signed on for things getting any more difficult than they already were.
    He'd found a lot in the depths. Scraped up enough to survive here. He hadn't been looking for a purpose to put his life on the line, but then again... wasn't that how the very best things were? After all, he hadn't been looking for love, either. Yet here it was.

    {In which Etho wants to stab anything and everything, Doc's sailing a boatload of trauma topped by a genius complex, nobody is getting out of this intact, and yeah, it was bad, but if it hadn't been bad, they wouldn't have made it out of the dark.}

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    09 Oct 2025

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  4. Public Bookmark 50

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    Scott had never said those three little words and meant them.

    Or, well, not the way he meant them when he’d said them last night. Everything he'd sought for five years now was there amidst golden feathers. So he really wished these fearful thoughts would leave his mind. Saying what had it been but a long con? He could insist to himself over and over that this time it was real, this time he meant it, this time he could be trusted. Trusted to hold such a fragile heart in his hands. But hadn't he said those things to all the ones before? To all the people he'd played with on weekend flings and college summers till he'd fled with pieces of broken hearts left behind him? Of course he had. So what made this different? What promise could he give that he wouldn't break Jimmy the same as he'd broken a dozen other hearts before?
    Nothing. He could give nothing.

    Maybe he was a terrible person after all.

    {In which Scott runs face-first into his commitment issues, Jimmy's trying to figure out what he did wrong, Martyn hasn't talked to this idiot in five years, and even he can guess what's happening, and this is all to say that it's ok to make mistakes, so long as you don't let them define you.}

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    02 Oct 2025

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  5. Public Bookmark 42

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    Jimmy might be in a little too deep.
    Not like he can run away now, considering Scott knows his biggest secret. An avian, a hybrid living illegally in the over-city. He'd been terrified of letting that truth come to light, but now that it had, it was oddly...mundane. Comfortable. Because Scott was over at his apartment after work, and they were talking about all sorts of things, and Jimmy's wings were folded neatly from the seams in his tee shirt, and again it felt like everything he'd never been allowed to have. He just had to hope exposure therapy would save him from blushing up to his tiny wingtips every time Scott lidded his blue eyes and aimed words tender, soft, and slow.
    Somehow he doubted it. Then again, he'd never thought these three little words in that particular order would ever leave his lips toward someone like this.
    So yeah. First time for everything.

    {In which Jimmy doesn't own a bed, Scott is a notorious smooth-talking tee-shirt thief, and three little words change things for the both of them.}

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    01 Oct 2025

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