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  1. Rec 10

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    He won’t answer. It’s Akihiko, who else? He hates Akihiko. He will not let Akihiko in. Not now, not ever. Akihiko will only leave with Ugetsu’s heart thumping madly in his hands.

    It’s Akihiko’s home, too. He could come in if he likes. But Ugetsu smokes his cigarette to the stub, and still there’s no sound of feet on stairs.

    Akihiko has left.

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    Studying a period of time in the space between one of Ugetsu and Akihiko's many breakups, and the moment when Akihiko returns.

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    27 Dec 2025

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    Uenoyama lowers his head a little. “You—” It comes out almost between his teeth, like he’s gritting it out. “You’re really sticking with Kaji-san lately.”

    Is that bad? Does that mean he is angry? Does that mean Mafuyu made him angry?

    “That’s—”

    Uenoyama whirls around, lodging Mafuyu’s words in his throat. He flinches by accident, just because Uenoyama is so close, and Mafuyu expects there to be a hand, next, coming just as fast.

    He wishes the antidepressants were working, because he’s feeling the wrong things, right now. He’s feeling scared.

    He’s not supposed to be scared around Uenoyama. He’s not supposed to be scared of Uenoyama.

    “You really think I wouldn’t be angry?” Uenoyama demands. His eyes narrow, unfriendly and accusatory.

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    Based on the Given: Uragawa no Sonzai OVA, but angstier, because damn they really let me down with that one

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    27 Sep 2024

  3. Rec 11

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    Shenhe can’t describe the feeling blossoming in her heart—it crawls up her throat, bitter-sweet, like the delicate thorns of a rose.

    She is not built to be gentle. Yet he is soft and sweet in her arms, an angel, and she wants to make every exception for him.

    Against all sense, she holds him a little closer.

    Shenhe learns to love.

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    09 Apr 2024

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    “There’s something wrong with Childe. You’ve noticed. Haven’t you, Zhongli?”

    “Yeah! He’s not acting like his normal self at all. Didn’t even challenge her to a fight last time.” Childe’s willpower has always been one of his most appealing traits.

    “Did he, now?”

    Zhongli mulls it over. His actions had been regrettable, and surely, he’s scared the young man off for a time. Childe is in a delicate state. A shell of himself in his mysterious ailment. Zhongli has the overwhelming urge to fix it. Overtake that foul stench with his own, throw Childe to the ground and fill him with his seed until it was him the young man reeked of.

    He had not. Zhongli has restraint. But it struck him with such a heated desire that it disturbed him. Zhongli has not felt a need to stake his claim in such a way for a very long time.

    “I worry,” Lumine confesses in the thoughtful silence. Truth be told, Zhongli does too.
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    OR, Childe falls to the call of the Abyss a second time.

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    30 Mar 2024

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    Mr. Zhongli is talking again. Childe loves listening to his voice. It's smooth as silk and wraps around him like a warm cocoon. He would gladly stay here, lost in his voice forever. He feels so good and safe whenever he's with Zhongli.

    How strange that afterwards he wouldn't be able to name a single topic they discussed if someone were to ask.

    With Childe hopelessly tangled in the plans of two gods something is bound to break.

    Inspired by the Zhongchi week prompt hypnosis. Please read the tags.

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    30 Mar 2024