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    Navia stands up and nearly spills her tea in the process, and Clorinde startles.

    With her palms slammed into the table, she blurts out, “We should get married!”

    It takes precisely four blinks for Clorinde to say anything. A traill of her tea runs down from her knuckle to the bone of her wrist, though Clorinde doesn’t seem to mind nor care.

    “We should… what?” Clorinde says.

    Or, Navia proposes they make an arrangement of sorts. But she's sure that it won't mess with their friendship at all, she insists.

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    31 Dec 2025

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    Sometimes he missed his father. The thought made him want to die.

    or, Neil's struggles with fatherhood and family while staying with Mr. Keating after the night of the play

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    03 Dec 2025

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    “I used to ask Judge every day what I did to deserve this,” King thunders. “Do you know what he finally told me?!”

    Sanji’s chest wracks with something dangerously close to a sob. “He said it’s because you were born!”

    And despite all his grace, King stumbles –– like an angel cast out of heaven, taking his first wobbly steps on mortal ground. It’s clear he thought the question was rhetorical from the way he wavers, “How did you know that?” like he hadn’t even expected an answer, let alone the right one.

    Sanji tries to respond, but he looks at King and sees a twisted science experiment, and sees––god, fuck, himself. Sees a man who spent his childhood strapped to a surgical table, and it was the closest thing he had to being held.

    This is it. He has nothing left to hide. Sanji reaches a precious hand into the Pandora’s box inside his soul and rips it open, lets the ruins fly.

    “Because he said the same thing to me!”

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    In an alternate universe, King fights Sanji instead of Zoro during the Raid on Onigashima. There, they discover how true the phrase 'I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy' can really be.

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    13 Nov 2025

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    For everyone else, Park Donggyu is a perfect gentleman.

    He is the type of person who writes thank-you emails to the catering company at 2:07 am, because their strawberry tarts are an ‘appreciated boost to the morale’. The type who bows down ninety degrees every time he sees professors in the hallway, like some actor from the period drama. The perfect student council president that sees a recycling bin in the wrong spot and returns it back, wheels squeaking, posture straight.

    He is also, to Kaiwen’s private delight, a complete bastard. Selectively.

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    03 Nov 2025

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    "...it is bold of you to come here, Focalors."

     

    Furina jumps up, ignoring the mud seeping into her shoes. Puts her hands on her hips. Remembers her lines.

     

    "Oh, great Leviathan, hydro dragon sovereign of legend, arbiter and adjudicator of all waters, and- um- inheritor of the primordial ocean's authority...I have come before you to ask of you a favor."

     

    Leviathan looks at her thoughtfully. "...very well."

     

    Neuvillette and Furina across four centuries, hundreds of rainstorms, one doomsday scenario, one hydro vision, and one admission of a sibling relationship.

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    24 Jun 2025