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For Whom the Sun Died and the Stars Fell by MohMaya
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
21 Mar 2022
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“You’re one of the Fortunates."
“No, I’m not."
“Huh? Yes, you are. You survived the Insurrection, didn’t you?”
“Not because I was lucky.” He spat out the word like it was an insult. “I survived because…”
“Because what?”
“Because I was loved. Despite it all, I was loved.”
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In which the king dies suddenly, an asshole assassinates a member of the prestigious Callenreese family, the nobility descends into a power struggle at the same time a people’s revolution is in the works, and Ash and Eiji's love shakes the very foundations of the Earth.
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- Part 1 of For Whom the Sun Died and the Stars Fell
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23 Dec 2025
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"What is this place?"
"It's our place. It's called the Flowerbed. It's where every Ash and every Eiji from every world comes to after they die. The universe is kind like that."
The universe is kind, huh. Now this Ash had to hear.
"Kind how?"
"It puts soulmates together in the Afterlife."
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Alternatively: Ash's adventures in the Afterlife as he waits for Eiji, and learns that they were only tragic half the time, got their happy ending sometimes, and loved each other fiercely every single time.Series
- Part 1 of In Bloom
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- English
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- 109,162
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- 15/15
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12 Dec 2025
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For The Taking by ghost_proof for Imperviousmelodrama
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
08 Oct 2024
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Doesn't matter
That they don't think
You're amazing
'Cause I do
You're not breaking
You just keep on
Hesitating
Why don't you
Take a step back
Check the reasons
While you're waiting
Think it through
Pick yourself up
This is still yours for the taking— Fox Stevenson, For The Taking
Eiji guides Ash out of a nightmare.
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21 Jun 2025
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“Hello.”
His voice is pleasant, pitched in a way that lays soft on Aslan’s ears. He has fluffy black hair that creeps out beneath his winter hat and flips up around his neck; Aslan traces the curls with his eyes.
He’s still warming up to these people, still unsure what his place is among them. He manages to say hello back, though, earning a genuine grin from the boy with the bird backpack. Eiji.
Growing up together in shy stutters. It takes a village.
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27 Jun 2024
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Two years Eiji was gone with barely a word sent back home to his mother. Two years of her son’s life that Hiroko will never know.
Hiroko is angry at Ibe for failing so spectacularly at keeping her son safe. She’s angry at Eiji for not coming home at the first opportunity. But her true fury has nowhere to go.
Ash Lynx is already dead.
(except he's not really because this is my fic, and I say Ash lived; welcome to my post-series "Eiji's Mom Meets Ash" fic)
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- English
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- 20,915
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- 7/7
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- 452
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15 Mar 2024
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"I leave you unattended for a few hours, and when I come back, you're doing drugs," Ash says, touching a hand to his forehead as Eiji cackles next to him. "Unbelievable."
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02 Jan 2024
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27 Dec 2022
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Cherry popsicles, bummed cigarettes, wrinkled photographs and shirtless nights. The summer a Japanese tourist moves in across the street, and an American boy falls in love through the fire-escapes.
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- Part 1 of Summer's End
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- English
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- 57,074
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- 16/16
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- 2
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- 413
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27 Dec 2022
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By the Hand of Eurydice by suffragettecity for nightscrawls
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
26 Jun 2022
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Blood and body, he’ll give Eiji everything, and Eiji the same; they promised forever, once, and they kept that promise through death. If that isn’t trust, Ash isn’t sure what is.
Foolishness, maybe.
"What color do you think of when you think of me?"
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- Part 2 of no shade in the shadow of the cross
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27 Dec 2022
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Ash comes home for summer vacation, working his way through university payments by fixing up old cars. Eiji visits a family friend in Cape Cod, tending to his failed athletic career by lifeguarding the locals.
The buzzing of a once dormant youth.
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- Part 1 of American Teenager
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27 Dec 2022
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“Beauty needs a witness.”
“So does a testimony.”
Ash gave a laugh at that, the sound throaty and true. “Well,” he breathed. “You're a damn good crime, then.”
Artistically, carnally, lovingly: “You have all of me, Ash.”
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27 Dec 2022
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“I like being with you.” No holds barred. “You’re my buddy. You’re my pal. You deserve to hear it sometimes.” Eiji lolled his head to AJ's side, resting on his shoulder. “I feel like myself when I’m with you. I mean, who else will listen to me rant about the snooty dog piles I see on Architectural Digest?”
“That all I am to you? You goon.” He playfully pushed Eiji’s head off of him. He unfurled from his shelled position and melted into the cushions, staring up with a grin on his face. He laughed as he stared at their reflections on the disco ball. “Look at us. Two young stallions, rambunctious rapscallions, lonely on Valentine’s Day and pouring their hearts out to each other. Damn. It’s sad.”
“There’s gotta be some kinda subtext I’m not picking up on.”
“Exactly what I was thinking.”
He blinked slowly. “So, anything you’d like to confess to me, AJ?”
Friendship expressed through vellum drafts and sales pitches.
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17 Feb 2022
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Ash Lynx was the sort of cool that oozed Schlitz and lemon-lime seltzers. Was the sort of rad that left Tootsie wrappers and denim under the soles of his Converse wherever he stepped. He was as smart as an apple in the way that he was both street and pillow fluent, and that he didn’t need to rely on his trigger fingers to rip and tear. Was cruel, calculating. Always on target. Always one shot, one kill. He was Ashie on the weekends, Aslan Jade behind closed doors. He was as bitter as sumatra beans, sweet as molasses once you got to know him physically, emotionally, spiritually.
To many, Ash Lynx was a conniving bastard. Tortured genius. Stone cold fox.
To Eiji, boyish.
Stories from Apartment 705 on 59th Street.
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17 Jan 2022
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Front-man Ash Lynx goes from coast to coast with his bohemian band. Photographer Eiji Okumura goes from journalist to groupie with his newfound freedom.
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- 10/10
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05 Sep 2021
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“Oh,” a soft voice to his right startled. Ash drew in a sharp breath as he turned to catch the silhouette of a man at the end of the aisle, backlit by the window and washed in the same radiant auburn of the setting sun that cast the stacks so warmly. “Sorry.”
|| Ash Lynx meets Eiji Okumura on the fifth floor of the university library on a Saturday evening. It's a disaster. ||
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30 Mar 2021
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Ash just wanted Eiji Okumura’s attention.
He couldn’t justify it, couldn’t unravel the logic of why he always craved the older boy’s dark eyes on him. Ash had spent most of his life being the centre of the show; the disgusting old men in Golzine’s club, the patchwork of gang members who followed his every move like he was a messiah. Even simple passerby seemed to watch him like they were cataloging something glamorous, something other worldly.
He always hated the attention he drew, and yet—he would do anything for Eiji to look at him, to focus on him, to stay with him just a little bit longer.
[Ash's need and Eiji's unconditional love, in four snapshots.]
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- English
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- 14,055
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- 4/4
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12 Oct 2020
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“Oh, darling, do you remember… what was his name? Makoto, was it?” Haru freezes in place, his breath catches in his windpipe like cloth on brambles. He feels Makoto stifle a gasp and try to shrink into himself.
“I asked if you ever saw him again.”
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13 Sep 2020
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Leo drags Jason to a role-playing game, and Jason quickly becomes interested in the gamemaster.
Generic High School AU with a side of role-playing and video games.Series
- Part 1 of Game Sessions
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- 18,538
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- 1/1
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13 Sep 2020
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There’s a kid in the bathroom stall. He’s curled on the floor, asleep or passed out with his forehead pressed against the toilet’s base.
In which Yukine is a runaway, Yato’s homeless, Hiyori works at the local shelter, and it’s the winter of the deepest freeze Tokyo’s seen in thirty years. Human!AU
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- 2/2
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10 Sep 2020
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dance with me, tomorrow is still far away by erytheia
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
08 Feb 2020
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“Dance with me.” Ash says, and there’s a pleasant swoop in Eiji’s stomach that feels a little like flying, like he’s thrown himself from the ledge and into the lights, daring the wind to take him. He laughs again, with eyes shut tight against the suddenly too-bright light of everything around him.
“Of course.”
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10 Feb 2020