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  1. Public Bookmark 54

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    Love kills.

    There’s someone out there, a single person, who can love you; save you. For the unredeemed: flowers, blooming everywhere, sprouting from bone and flesh. Tendrils reaching out like children’s arms. Blooming from the throat, the mouth, an endless vomit of wilting, darkening petals. Clogged airways; inevitable death.

    There’s a luck factor. The flowers can bloom on your arms, or legs, or forehead instead, and you will be left as some human monstrosity, but you will live. There’s medicine. Stops the growth before it wraps you in it. There’s other people’s tales, to serve as a warning: some singer with roses strewn along her mouth; a pianist gone blind, peonies blooming inside both eye sockets. So: Don’t fall in love. The person that is meant for you, the one that will allow you to exist as your whole self, already exists somewhere. Anything else is rotten. Sickness. Don’t nurture your vain hopes. Don’t cherish your feelings.

    Phainon turns sixteen and his flowers are nowhere to be seen.

     

    Or: Mydei is sick and Phainon isn't.

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    12 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 61

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    It gets jealous. Mydei likes seeing the rage flashing in its face when someone dares touch him.

    “You’re mine,” it says, seething. It kisses him like it has nothing else. “You belong to me.”

    Mydei belongs to Phainon. Phainon is gone.

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    06 Aug 2026

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    “As if I have any eye for art,” Mydei replies.

    Castorice rolls her eyes. “As if plating isn’t just sculpture with food.”

    He opens his mouth to fire back a snide rejoinder, realizes she’s right, and holds his tongue instead. She’s doing him a favor, forcing him out of his house, one of his only friends who’s stuck with him over the past year of tremendous, never-ending grief. No one knows how to deal with a widower’s pain and loss. No one wants to. But Castorice has faced even more death than he has, and she hasn’t let him pull away from the world despite his attempts.

    After the unexpected death of his partner, Khaslana, about a year ago, Mydei meets photographer Phainon at a gallery exhibition he's forced to attend by his friend, Castorice. Unexpected sparks fly between them as they grow closer through Phainon's photography.

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    01 Aug 2026

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    Mydei does the math in his head. It’s July right now, therefore… Phainon should only be three months older than him. He scoffs. “Don’t get too cocky. Three months is hardly a difference.” 

    “I wasn’t trying to be cocky!” Phainon insists. Despite Mydei’s cold words, Phainon seems too happy. “So you’re an October baby, huh? Were you born on Halloween?”

    For a moment, Mydei wonders why his friends and Cyrene left him with this guy again. Then he feels a sharp pain in his head, and the memory of Phainon catching him before he faceplanted onto the ground resurfaces. He resigns himself to his fate. 

    Mydei goes to Aedes Elysiae for the summer. He doesn't expect to meet the love of his life there.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    Phainon is twenty-nine years old, possessing a degree that does nothing but sit in display, and working odd jobs. Oh, and also close to losing his home thanks to Aedes Elysiae’s delightful housing costs.

    An opportunity comes in the form of a Jadeslist posting made by concerned parents seeking a ‘date’ for their son, Mydeimos, who has been suffering the curse of being single for all twenty-one years of his life. The pay? Nymphbook Air and twenty-five thousand Balance Coins.

    Phainon might just be the person for the job.

    (or: one sweltering summer, two people who are absolutely not in love, and a play in three acts.)

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    24 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 46

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    The next time Mydei sees Phainon, there's a heap of soil on the floor.

    The order of events, specifically, is this: Mydei had walked into the flower shop, and a pot had slipped from gloved hands, ultimately cracking against wooden tiles. It had been, and still is, paired with the ocean blues of mortification, looking at her as though Mydei had personally knocked it over herself.

    A white-haired florist catches Mydei’s attention across the street from the tattoo parlor.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    "Chiron only trains heroes." He repeats the same words from that day. "It’s not something you choose.”

    "And you are one?"

    The question stung. Mydeimos’ jaw tightened. "It was foretold."

    “Right. Foretold,” Phainon scoffed, as if it were a minor detail. “Well, no one’s foretold anything about me, so I guess I have to make my own way.”

    One trained by fate, the other chasing it. The gods, of course, remain entertained.
    Chiron watches them both, and wonders how many ways a heart could break.

    Or; Ancient Greece—Mydeimos and Phainon grow up together in the forest, undergoing a decade of training to become heroes.

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    01 May 2026

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    "Do you have work for me, or are you simply gawking like the rest?"

    Work. Monsters to be vanquished or demons to fight. One doesn't hire a witcher unless they're desperate.

    Phainon shivers. "Not work," he says, watching the witcher blink, breathe, study him. From his mannerisms alone, he reminds Phainon of a half-tamed animal. Alert, keenly aware of everything. They say witchers can smell fear. What, then, does he smell on Phainon? "But I have another request."

    "Speak, then."

    He inhales, swipes his tongue over his lips to taste the rainwater on them. "When you set off," Phainon says, "take me with you."
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    Mydei just wants to fight monsters, collect his paycheck, and move on to the next miserable village and the next miserable client with something to slay. Phainon would do anything it takes to grow stronger and escape his past, even follow a witcher around. Neither of them was ever meant to fall in love.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    No one was as qualified to call themselves a Mydeimos Super Fan as Okhema Security Pvt. Ltd.'s most diligent cog in the system; Phainon.

    A lucky opportunity had him brushing shoulders with an old bandmate from Mydei's early career days, and perhaps, if he was even luckier, the man of the hour himself. And so, Phainon hatched a semi-professional plan of working his way into his Idol's good graces.

    What Phainon's plan, namely, did *not* involve was punching said Idol's million-dollar face to save his boss from a PR disaster. Nor did he expect it to work.

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    25 Apr 2026

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    20 Apr 2026

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    "And?" He asks tiredly, manages to make a circle in the air with his hand before it flops back down to the ground uselessly. "I'm willing to bet anything that I've loved you since our first real meeting, even if I cannot recall it."

    Mydei considers him carefully for a long moment. An unreadable look crosses his face before he shakes it off. "You are hopeless," he says quietly.

    Phainon smiles, a smaller but no less genuine expression. Mydei's gaze snaps to his lips, and Phainon revels in the knowledge that his eyes haven't left him once, even after their battle ended. He hums happily. "Perhaps so."

     

    or; Phainon loses his memory, and is convinced he is dating Mydei. Upon finding out he isn't, he makes attempts at courting.

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    16 Apr 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 32

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    Phainon huffed, glaring at the radio device as if it could wilt beneath his ire. “What kind of local station is this?”

    Phainon had meant it. What kind of radio station excluded one of the year’s best hits and one of last year’s best ones? He would have thought that Mydei, being a broadcaster himself, would agree sagely and validate his feelings.

    Instead, Mydei laughed. It was a quiet, restrained thing that immediately softened all his features and demeanor. Whatever annoyance that may have been plaguing Phainon all fell apart in the wake of that sound.

    “Don’t worry,” Mydei reassured him, still smiling. “We always have the campus radio.”

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    or, how do you win the heart of your campus crush when both of you are well-versed in music?

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    22 Jan 2026

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    “Three sessions.” Khaslana says at least, with his empty doll eyes under the shadow of the trees, he looks more like a ghost than ever. “I give you three sessions. If you don’t get to paint something I like, I leave.”

    “Hm, you really think I can’t.”

    “I know you can’t.”

    How terribly arrogant. Mydei grins, wild and prideful, heart thumping with what might be either adrenaline or anger. “Three sessions.” He agrees.

    They say whoever attempts to make a muse out of Khaslana goes mad. Mydei thinks that’s fine. He wants less of a muse than he likes a challenge. Somewhere along the way, he falls in love.

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    14 Jan 2026

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    "Forgive me if I'm being presumptuous, Lord Phainon," Castorice says, all too politely. "But could you not just message him?"

    In the wake of Mydei’s departure from Okhema, Phainon pines, has dreams, gets psychoanalyzed by Hyacine, and loses a duel to his Titan-possessed ex-professor—not necessarily in that order.

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    24 Dec 2025

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    Perdikkas comes into view, stepping closer to blink down at Phainon and Mydei on the ground. “You’re all here?”

    Ptolemy scoffs, kicking lightly at the dirt. “Guess who has the extraordinary pleasure of being assigned the babysitting duty to the dumbass trio over here?” He rolls his eyes with a sharp sigh. “Not Peucesta, clearly. Lucky bastard.”

    “Don’t lump me in with them,” Hephaestion protests. Ridiculous. Everyone knows who instigates the fights just as often as Phainon and Mydei.

    “We don’t need babysitting,” Phainon says at the same time, words muffled as Mydei’s hand smashes his head into the ground, resuming their fight now that Ptolemy is distracted. Phainon almost bites down on the dirt by accident.

     

    or; Phainon finds Mydei drifting at the Sea of Souls after Aedes Elysiae is destroyed. Pulling the other kid out of the water might be the best decision of his life

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    22 Dec 2025

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    “Well,” is what Aglaea says at last. “This is certainly… a predicament.”

    Her voice is as unreadable as ever, so it could mean anything from this is manageable to this is a disaster the likes of which the Flame-Chase Journey will never recover from. As things stand, Mydei is more inclined to believe the latter.

    Beside them, Tribbie finally pops up from where she’s been studying their joined hands. “What Snowy said is true!” she proclaims in a voice far too cheerful for their current situation. “He and De are one hundred percent stuck to each other.”

    While out on patrol, Mydei and Phainon get hit with a curse that binds their hands together.

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    19 Dec 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 89

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    For the sake of sportsmanship, he can admit that the man is built like one of those sculptures you see in museums— handsome features most are either jealous of or attracted to and a body worth ogling, that with the hard muscle tensing beneath pale skin with every little movement.

    Mydei tells himself this is but an objective observation and that the flutter of his belly has nothing to do with it as he leans against the ropes.

    Love at first sight? Not quite. More like at first jab.

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    16 Dec 2025

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    Phainon seems to pick up on his thinly veiled dismissal, his smile falling.

    “I—yeah. Yes. You’re right, I’m sorry. Um—”

    “Goodnight, Phainon,” Mydei says, a touch gentler, pushing off the railing and heading back to the door.

    He can just barely hear Phainon’s soft, “Goodnight, Mydeimos,” before he’s shutting the chamber door behind him.

    Or: a mutual, unprompted kiss is left unresolved. Mydei and Phainon aren't quite sure how to breach the subject.

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    14 Dec 2025

  19. Public Bookmark 101

    Mystery Work

    Part of Personal secret vault stash thing
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    This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!

    28 Nov 2025

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    After the mysterious death of King Eurypon, his son, Mydeimos inherits his land and his vassals, including his accountant, Phainon of House Khaslana.

    Mydei finds himself wanting the older man that’s unbefitting of his social rank.

    Or a Victorian AU where Mydei pines after his accountant.

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    26 Nov 2025

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