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Vincit Omnia Veritas by AlstroemeriaDSNC
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
09 Mar 2025
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Dr. Ratio is trapped in an ever-looping dream where he has garnered the sacred gaze of Nous, following the triumphant launch of his anti-planetary weapon—and has been inducted as the latest member of the Genius Society.
He hates it.
He wants to blow his brains out with a gun to escape the dream.
But he can't.
The reason: he meets the Past and Future(?) Aventurines, little Kakavasha and the more outspoken, unfiltered gambler who Ratio only see glimpses of whenever the Aventurine of the waking world is too stressed and mentally weak to hide his own inner demons. Ratio decides to stay in the dream for these two, intending to heal them, and perhaps in the process, mend the man fragmented by these neglected aspects of his psyche.
However, Ratio eventually discovers that the person most in need of healing is, in fact, himself.
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29 Apr 2025
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“How unfortunate for you to have someone that cares about your wellbeing.”
Kaveh laughed. “Is that what it is now? I wasn’t just disturbing your sleep?”
“Believe what you like.” It was both. Unfortunately for Alhaitham, he did care about Kaveh’s wellbeing, which is why he chose to do things like this. But it seemed no matter how often Alhaitham explicitly stated this, Kaveh would brush it off. It was a dance they had done for years, and Alhaitham didn’t make any more effort to make Kaveh understand he was serious. Kaveh wouldn’t believe him, or he would choose not to. It wouldn’t change anything if Kaveh believed it. Alhaitham would still be going through the motions of getting him to sleep in his bed on nights like this. They would still be having the same arguments. This was just another thing that had become a fact for Alhaitham about his life. Alhaitham cared about Kaveh. He would continue to care about him and for him, and Kaveh would continue to dismiss it. This was a fact that Alhaitham had learned to accept, ignoring the annoying twinge of pain that came with it.
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Bookmarked by hernightcat
23 Apr 2025
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Yet, despite his meticulous planning, Aventurine unfailingly threw him off kilter– his charming smile like spun glass, brittle and thin, stretched over a fractured heart and a mind sharp as a crystal shard. Even when Veritas thought he had it handled, a fleeting gaze had been enough to make him unravel.
Had he been desperate? The question nagged at him. His crossed arms tightened a fraction around his chest.
(In Veritas' equation, Aventurine became the unexpected derivative / Sequel to moonshot)
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- Part 2 of the law of large numbers
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23 Apr 2025
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Drunk and Stupid (but painfully honest) by entowento
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
15 Jun 2024
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Whatever Ratio had drunk, it must have been strong for him to be acting like this. “Yeah, Doc, it’s time you go to sleep-”
“I love you.”
Aventurine’s head whipped back into place to face Ratio. Those words couldn’t be real. Not coming out of Ratio’s mouth, and not directed towards Aventurine. He needed confirmation. He needed confirmation that this was real, he wasn’t dreaming, he wasn’t insane, he was here, he was real and that actually happened. Because not even in his wildest dreams would something as impossible as this occur. Desperately, Aventurine seized Ratio’s arms which were loosening around him as he looked to him for validation.
Aventurine stared at him in horror.
Ratio was passed out.
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A drunk Ratio admits he loves Aventurine. Only Aventurine remembers the confession by the next morning.
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23 Apr 2025
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Neuvillette knows little of what it means to be a dragon; he has spent his entire life among the people of Fontaine. Everything he does know about dragons, he has uncovered himself through trial and error and the occasional bit of obscure research. But this, at least, he recognizes.
Mating instincts.
By protecting him, the duke is behaving like a dragon seeking a mate, and that has triggered Neuvillette’s own instincts to judge the duke’s adequacy.
When Wriothesley begins acting like a dragon courting his mate, Neuvillette finds himself torn between duty and desire.
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- Part 1 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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23 Apr 2025