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    This was Tomioka Giyuu, the prodigy and world champion, the youngest ever to win gold at the Olympics in all of fencing history.

    The bane of Sanemi’s existence. The pinnacle of his years. His dearly despised, most devotedly beloathed.

    And Shinazugawa Sanemi stood as his rival.

    (A Twenty Five Twenty One AU)

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    “I think it’s still happening,” Kyoujurou says, looking the closest to sheepish that Akaza’s ever seen him. “The Blood Art, it’s making me… say things.”

    “…Say things,” Akaza repeats.

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    Or, the one where Kyoujurou gets hit by a Blood Demon Art that forces him to be honest.

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    All he knows is that there’s something beneath Akaza’s aloofness. And he knows that, when it reveals itself, it tilts the playing field on its axis.

    It’s selfish to want more of it. But Kyoujurou glances out the window to the shadowed world outside, where he knows he’d find Akaza if he went looking, and feels a phantom itch under his skin.

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    (or, the one where kyoujurou plays hard to get, there’s lots of sparring, and akaza is Good.)

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    31 Dec 2025

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    A knight’s oath is as sacred and permanent as their duty to protect their liege.

    Kyoujurou is a knight from a prestigious noble family, and was bestowed the honour and responsibility of guarding the heir to the empire’s throne - Crown Prince Akaza.

    And yet, no oath has been made.

     

    Kyoujurou is hopelessly, and utterly, in love with the crown prince, but knows that his feelings are not returned. When the emperor forces an arranged marriage onto Akaza, his life is turned upside down on the night that Akaza is to select his mate. With the threat of the emperor's wrath looming behind him, Kyoujurou finds that his unrequited love might not be so one-sided after all.

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    02 Oct 2025

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    Do not incite the wrath of the sea, for she is heartless.

    That is the saying every human who lives on the coast knows. It warns of the savage sirens who hunt humans for their hearts, who sing sailors their deepest desires before dragging them under.

    Kyojuro wonders, as he cleans this ice cold sword that has tainted the sea crimson so many times, if the sirens are ever warned of him.

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    Kyojuro saves a siren.

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    24 Sep 2025