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    The first time it happened was the third time they’d had sex, and Chuuya pulled away as soon as he noticed it. “Are you okay?” he asked.
    Dazai gave him a confused look. Chuuya felt a wave of relief at making the right decision—Dazai just hadn’t been enjoying it. He maybe hadn’t even known that he hadn’t been enjoying it. The relief grew into pity.
    “I’m okay,” Dazai said, predictably.

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    14 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    Stelmaria had always—even in the early days, when his eyes were mismatched and she held a bow instead of an epée—had trouble meeting those striking eyes. 

    She felt unbearably seen by them.

    The worst, most revolting parts of her turned over, accepted and adored. 

    Her past and future laid before him for his perusal. 

    All of her deception and subterfuge laid to waste in his sanguine gaze.

    Emet-Selch lingers like an impolite ghost in the back of G'raha and Stelmaria's minds, even after everything. Suffice to say, they don't handle it well.

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    08 Oct 2025

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    The Warrior of Light answers the call to the First and among the light-ravaged land of Norvrandt finds something wholly unexpected: the time and the peace to remember what it is to be merely human rather than the Weapon of Light. The allies he kept at arm's length so long become family, and finally, here in this most doomed of lands, is some comfort from war and all it has taken from him.

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    The Exarch will stop at nothing to save his inspiration, even from the darkness inside the Warrior of Light's own heart and mind.

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    26 Sep 2025

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    comment on later with better words than good

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    The Warrior of Light gets trapped by a voidsent that grants its victims hallucinations of their soul’s happiest memories while it consumes their aether. Only, this time, it reaches so far back that it ends up using Azem’s memories instead.

    [Set after 6.0, EW spoilers. Mostly an excuse for me to play with the WoL's identity crisis and the Lotus-Eater Machine trope.]

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    05 Jan 2025

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    The fact that he feels like none of this is real should count as neither strange nor concerning, since none of this is real.

    Or: Four times when Shen Qingqiu is left feeling adrift and disconnected from reality, plus one time when Binghe is there to help him deal with it.

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