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    “Math?” And a published academic journal, at that?

    “Yes.” Ratio returns the book to his bag, carrying on, but Aventurine’s stuck on the fact that this is apparently what he does in his free time outside of composing music.

    “…I thought you were a pianist.”

    “I am a pianist.”

    “But– math?” Even Aventurine doesn’t spend that much time thinking about math, and he spends twelve hours a day staring at financial models.

    “Does it not occur to you that it's possible to have more than one interest?”

    Aventurine lives the same week on repeat: eighty hours of his soul-sucking high finance job, then two nights of dancing off the stress to the beat of his favorite anonymous DJ. His move into a luxury apartment building brings him next door to Ratio, an esteemed classical composer with a love for piano. Eager to make a good impression, Aventurine keeps his clubbing habit under wraps — but he’s not the only one hiding secrets under strobe lights.

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    11 Feb 2026

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    “Ratio?” he asks, stepping a bit closer. “It’s me, Aventurine. Are you… do you want to go home?”

    At the mention of his name, Ratio stills, a light startle in his step as he turns to face Aventurine. He drops his hands, lacing them back together in front of him. He looks dazed, normal intensity lost from his eyes as they open glassy and vacant. They flex wide with recognition, but he doesn’t say anything.

    Ratio goes quiet, and Aventurine doesn't know what to do.

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    11 Feb 2026

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    Love love love this fic so much.

  3. Public Bookmark 86

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    March can change pictures from inside the camera, so she becomes part of the Amphoreus trailblazing expedition alongside her friends.

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    13 Oct 2025

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    People keep coming up to Kaveh to congratulate him. Kaveh doesn’t really know why, and he’s a little too scared to ask at this point, so he heads back home, content if not a little bemused.

    He is, unfortunately, reminded of it the very next day, when the door slams open and Al-Haitham stalks in. “Mind telling me why everyone was congratulating me today?” he demands. “About your pregnancy?"

     

    Or: Al-Haitham is, without a doubt, the most annoying person Kaveh knows. Maybe the world’s second-most annoying person can help Kaveh figure him out.

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    25 Oct 2024

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    Kaveh never expected to fall on hard times, nor did he ever expect to hear from Alhaitham again after college ended. Yet here he is, in Alhaitham's car, being driven to his house.

    Modern au brainrot, Kaveh moving in with Alhaitham and his adoptive daughter Nahida.

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    25 Jun 2024

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    Cyno sighs. "It could be some time until Gandharva Ville is once again suitable for human habitation," he says. "Even once the Ley Lines are repaired, it will take time for the energies at the site to disperse."

    "I have a Vision," Collei says. "I can help."

    Cyno shakes his head. "High concentrations of unguided energies are known to be particularly harmful to post-Eleazar individuals. The protection that your Vision offers would be more than canceled out."

    Collei folds her hands in her lap. "It's my home."

    "I know," Cyno says.

    After Gandharva Ville is attacked, Collei must spend a few weeks living in Alhaitham's house in Sumeru City. It's not what she's used to, but sometimes that's what someone needs to grow.

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    04 Mar 2024

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    It is biologically impossible for a man to replicate technological functions. As much as Kaveh (and colleagues) like calling Al-Haitham an index of niche and generally insignificant information on legs, he will never quite live up to the title.

    Here's a novel one: people must have taken to thinking of him as a human compass because they always seem to come to him when they're looking for Kaveh.

    People keep coming to Al-Haitham when they want to know where Kaveh is. Al-Haitham would be lying if he said he didn't know why.

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    03 Aug 2023

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    If Alhaitham hadn’t taken both keys with him, he wouldn’t be in this goddamn mess. He’d be at home, sipping tea over a nice book – that is, not trapped in the body of a damn cat out of all things, miserable and stuck out in the rain.

    Surely his day could not get any worse than this, is what he thinks, right before he runs head first into said roommate.


    In which Kaveh turns into a cat, and Alhaitham unwittingly adopts him.

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    03 Aug 2023

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    He lost his parents in an accident when he was too young. His grandmother followed suit years later. He met a peculiar senior, who left after their falling out without much closure. People had come and gone in Al-Haitham’s life, leaving him behind.

    In his vivid memories, they remained.

    A reunion by chance, he returned.

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    30 Jul 2023

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    Since he was young, Alhaitham has followed a self-imposed, unspoken rule not to touch other people unless strictly necessary. Over the years, there have been two exceptions.

    One was his grandmother, whose side he would cling to as she read him books on the living room couch. She would pet his hair, and he’d lean into the touch, not unlike a kitten blissfully being groomed by its mother.

    The other exception was an Akademiya upperclassman named Kaveh.

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    29 Jul 2023

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    "When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune."

    In which, Kaveh realises that to heal you sometimes need something more than time.

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    13 Jul 2023

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    “But I must start my investigation soon,” said Cyno. “It would be unethical to let Alhaitham die.”

    Cyno goes on vacation to take care of Tighnari during his rutting season. Upon arriving in Gandharva Ville, he accidentally and immediately uncovers a conspiracy to assassinate the Akademiya’s Chief Scribe.

    So, now it’s a workation.

    ( In which Cyno goes undercover as an Akademiya student majoring in comedy. And Tighnari grows progressively more unhinged from horniness. )

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    13 Jul 2023

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    "The consequences of obtaining knowledge is the overwhelming feeling of loneliness. "

    In which Alhaitham realizes that a peaceful existence does not have to mean a lonely one.

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    06 Jul 2023

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