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    Or, Five (5) Times Kaz Asked Wylan to Make a Bomb and How This Resulted in Wylan Obtaining One (1) Boyfriend

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    Wylan knew all too well how to play with fire—as a chemist, as a tanner’s apprentice, as his father’s son, he had to be familiar with it—but this was a new kind of risk, leaving his heart exposed on the damp cobblestones to be stomped on. It was idiotic, he knew, to intentionally let himself be wounded in the Barrel. Things tended to get infected here, and people preyed on weakness like sharks.

    But he had been alone, been lonely, for so many years, long before he’d emerged from a freezing canal and found himself at the bottom of the Barrel. He needed this, and even if it was going to burn him, even if it was a poorly constructed bomb just waiting to implode, Wylan found that he didn’t much care.

    At least he’d have been warm and wanted for one night in his miserable, saintsforsaken life.

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    24 Oct 2025

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    “Maybe then, you should date me?” Jesper suggests—teases, certainly.

    Wylan flushes fully. I don’t have a crush on Jesper anymore, he reminds himself. There’s no reason to feel so hopeful by those words.

    So Wylan scoffs, and asks, “What, for practice?”

    Jesper looks away, and casual as ever, shrugs. He faces Wylan again with a grin. “Yeah. Yeah, I mean, why not?”

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    Wylan’s romantic life is in shambles; every date he goes on is somehow always disastrous. Maybe it was doomed from the start, since he’s only going on these dates to get over his equally-doomed crush on his best friend, Jesper, in the first place. When Jesper proposes a plan to oversee Wylan’s dates and re-create parts of them together for practice, what’s the worst that could happen?

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    16 Oct 2025

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    “It was a career-ending injury!” Wylan snaps. “What else is there to say? Are you trying to make fun of me?”

    Jesper recoils. “No! Saints, no, Wylan. That’s awful, I would never!”

    “You made fun of me for just about everything else.”

    “Well, that’s because I didn’t like you very much. I still don’t,” Jesper says bluntly. Wylan’s glare intensifies and Jesper hastens to add on, “But I don’t hate you!”

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    Seven years ago, Jesper Fahey was the up-and-coming rising star of the tennis world. The only person really in his way seemed to be the rich and haughty (and maybe, handsome) darling of Kerch tennis, Wylan Van Eck. But that was seven years ago, and after their match in Ravka—everything changed. Now, for the first time, they meet each other again.

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    16 Oct 2025

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    His first thought, when the taste of bitter rust and crumpled petal hit him, was: I’ve drowned before.

    His second thought was: What am I doing here?

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    Or, a hanahaki AU where Wylan coughs up jurda blossoms, Jesper comes home from six years of Grisha training in Ravka, and the blood on Kaz’s gloves is definitely not from planning a coup.

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    03 Oct 2025

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    Wylan keeps waiting for it all to go wrong.

    Ever since that first night, after they beat Pekka Rollins, ever since the night after that, when it wasn’t over. Every morning since, when it still wasn’t.

    Happiness isn’t reliable. Peace is not permanent. People do not stay. This is what Wylan knows; it’s the only proven hypothesis he has any reason to trust. And every day, he wonders how long he has left before everything good that’s happened over the last month is inevitably whisked away.

     

    Or: the scenic route to the Van Eck reveal. Wylan Van Eck, in the months following the Crow’s return to Ketterdam. Struggling with his past, relearning love in its many forms, and worrying an awful lot about how to keep it.

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    29 Sep 2025