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    ⚠️ spoilers for both dgs games! ⚠️

    “I think it’s not out of the question for you to make a full recovery.” Yuujin folds his arms in front of his chest. “But you should also be prepared for the slim possibility of this being a lifelong condition.”

    Kazuma can feel the true length of forever stretching out in front of them in the ensuing hollow silence. In two or twenty or forty years, still sleeping upwards of fourteen hours a day, still dealing with pain splitting his head open, still struggling to organize his thoughts. Still forgetting, and forgetting, and forgetting, retreading the same steps ad nauseam. Like God is at his shoulder, mocking: This is what you get for cheating death.

    kazuma hasn’t fully recovered from his head injury on the ss burya. he and ryuunosuke deal with the aftermath

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    ⚠️ spoilers for both dgs games! ⚠️

    “You don’t have to say it back,” Ryuunosuke says, with that eerie confidence to his voice, like in court before he presents his evidence. “You could hate my guts for all I care. I think it’s rather like belief, love is. Once you’ve made your mind up about it, there’s not much anyone can do to shake it.”

    Of course I don’t hate you. I love you. I love you, Kazuma thinks, and says nothing. Because it’s rather like belief, isn’t it. It comes down to whether you feel it for yourself.

    kazuma leaves ryuunosuke behind with all of his belongings. a year later, ryuunosuke does the same to him.

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    ⚠️ spoilers for both dgs games! ⚠️

    It is a vulnerable thing, to trust and to be trusted. To be wholeheartedly accepted, no matter the risk. It makes you feel naked, your skin cold and defenseless against whatever act of aggression or tenderness may come. You haven’t even said everything and still it is too much to bear. How easily it comes to the faceless other, how little hesitation they have. You tell yourself it is naïveté, because the idea of it being bravery makes you feel small.

    the masked apprentice, and the process of regaining a 'self'

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    “Are you listening, brat?”

    His vision goes white as he’s kicked across the face, hard enough to send his glasses flying and make his nose bleed. He knows that there is no right answer to that question, it’s purely rhetorical, made as an excuse to justify whatever violence they wanted to carry out against him. He wonders if he’ll die before someone finds him.

    That wouldn’t be good, he thinks hazily, ears still ringing from the hit. Kiryu might not like discovering a corpse. He decides he’d rather die another day, if only to spare Kuro the guilt of finding his body.

    kuro and keito navigate the underground (and unwanted feelings)

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    To Keito, 12:00 is no different from 11:59.

    The stars, thousands of light-years away, twinkle just as bright as before. The chill of the nighttime air and the rooftop concrete is unrelenting. There is no rest nor key change in the crickets’ symphony. Next to Kuro, the tranquil rise and fall of Keito’s chest as he slumbers continues. The only thing that has changed is that Keito is officially 20.

    kurokei week day 7: happy birthday keito!

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    “I’m glad. That you never met the person I was in junior high.”

    “...Who said I didn’t want to get to know him?”

    kuro tells keito the stories behind his scars.

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    Merumeru. There’s a certain comfort in the name, because it belongs to “him” alone, invented and used in the absence of Kaname. Irritating, childish, but “his.” It tethers HiMERU somewhat. Rinne has always been that way – a tornado that pulls HiMERU into its eye, paradoxically stabilizing in its chaos.

    rinne notices when himeru isn't fully there.

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    But Kuro knows it’s him, if not by his earlier reaction, by the way his own heart threatens to leap out of his chest, by the nostalgic fire that climbs up his neck and into his cheeks, the way his breath feels like it’s been punched out of him. Because Keito, even years older and worn out and under the unflattering fluorescent lights of the bakery aisle, is still so mind-numbingly beautiful and Kuro is still so, so, achingly in love with him.

    kuro meets keito again after six years apart.

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    And as they’re twenty seconds to the ball drop, Kuro decides he hasn’t caused Keito enough heartache for the year yet, because he says: “Hasumi, can I kiss you?”

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    a chronology of kuro and keito’s relationship

    or, five times kuro calls keito by a name, and one time keito does it back

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    “Kiryu,” he cuts in.

    “Hmm?” Kuro hums, a vibration against Keito’s wrist.

    “My glasses.”

    From what little he can discern, he can still tell that Kuro’s mouth drops open as he balks at the statement. “You’re still thinkin’ ’bout those at a time like this?!”

    keito appreciates the various benefits of glasses.

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    They’re your boyfriends, kissin’ is normal.
     
    Keito glances back at Kuro, who’s yanking at his shoulder in a tricep stretch, blissfully unaware of the effect that his offhand comment is having on Keito’s pathetic, overactive little brain.

    Kuro. His boyfriend of two months. Who he hasn’t kissed yet.

    keito needs his first kiss with kuro to be perfect.

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    If Keito is the author, then he certainly has writer’s block. He can’t focus on what dialogue might be appropriate to insert next, what makes sense for the trajectory of their interwoven plotlines. He must be tired. All that seems clear to him is how if he reached out a little further he could take Kuro’s calloused hand in his own, if he leaned in a little further he could press his forehead to Kuro’s and –

    Oh. This is character development.

    kuro and keito get locked in the student council office overnight. keito doesn’t know how to move forward.

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    Kuro sighs. “I’m not… pretty like you guys are.”

    For a few moments, the clinking of cups and squeaking of moving chairs fills the silence between them. Then, Keito pushes up his glasses, exasperated. “Kiryu. With all due respect, that is the most absurd thing that has ever come out of your mouth.”

    kuro thinks he isn’t pretty. keito is determined to change his mind.

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    “Adonis? You’re lookin’ at me all weird, and your face is red. Got sunburnt or somethin’?”

    “Ah, it’s not that - I…” he trails off.

    “What…? If it’s serious, spit it out, will ya? Your expression is freakin’ me out.” Koga’s concerned now, and there really are no more outs, because he definitely won’t let it go until Adonis tells him what’s going on.

    So he takes the leap. “Oogami, I…

    If you and I were socks, we’d make a great pair.”

    adonis consults the internet for the best way to confess to koga

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    They were both still in their date attire, actually, and sweaty from dancing. But those were all tomorrow morning's problems now. Chiaki climbed back into bed, pulling the covers over them both, and planted a kiss to Kanata's forehead.

    "Goodnight, Blue."

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    Shu pressed the doll's mouth to his knee, a ghost of a kiss, so light Kuro could barely feel it, but he felt all his pain evaporate right then and there.

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    The perpetrator stood a little ways away, grinning ear to ear with a challenging look in his eyes. "Don't just stand there, dumbass!" Koga jeered. "Fight me back!"

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    "Er... what do I hold onto?"

    "Me, silly!"

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    "Kaoru."

    "Yeah?"

    "Try not to think about it too hard. Holding hands is 'romantic', isn't it?"

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