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An epilogue following the true end, in which Sunny remembers how to be a real person & his friends grapple with the truth. No ships in particular but arguably also all ships, since Sunny has a lot of Big Feelings about his friends.
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Then everything is different and the same.
The water comes out of the taps differently, in thin little lines that prick too-hard at his skin. Sunny imagines that they’re the first wave of an ongoing invasion, the stinging tendrils of a far larger hivemind. And the Hive Mother is so, so old. To her, the whole of the Glittering Harbor is just another little flicker of light. Her foot soldiers advance and the skin on Sunny’s back falls away cleanly. She yawns and the city stands empty, apartments stiff and silent like toy soldiers. She blinks a thousand onyx eyes and the harbor’s boiled dry, the skyline only dust. A city for ghosts.
Also, the ceilings are higher. And Sunny can see the ocean from his bedroom window.
Here’s what’s the same: The house is big and white and empty. Mom doesn’t come home. His sister is dead. Sunny is alone.
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- Part 1 of It Gets Better
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14 Aug 2023
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World of Memories by mirror_to_the_past
Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts (Video Games), OMORI (Video Game)
20 Aug 2024
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After finishing their journey in Symphony of Sorcery, Sora and Riku await the finale of their Mark of Mastery exam before they are suddenly wrenched into an unexpected world of pastels and dreamlike surroundings. This world is Headspace, a strange new Sleeping World neither of them anticipated. A black and white boy named Omori, a lost boy named Basil, and a Stranger who watches them menacingly from the darkness promises a confusing curve-ball to the duo's assignment.
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09 Jul 2023
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"You're buying plants at an IKEA?"
"Where else would I buy them?"a few phone calls between basil and sunny after sunny moves
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- Part 1 of telephone wire
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12 Jan 2022
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When he had asked about how to proceed, his counselor had a glimmer in her eye, and said simply: “Just talk with him. Clear and to the point. Get to what matters.”
If only it was as simple as she put it. Coming down from the high that was the idea of his best friend acting as his savior instead of another struggling human being, riding the waves of his perceptions of their diminished friendship over those painful four years, replaying memories passed over and over again in his head as Basil ran his finger over scribbled photographs he didn’t have the heart to repair, but knew what their contents were by heart- it was a lot to get over. He really has tried to get better, but in quiet moments like these where Basil’s heart cried out pitifully for a gentle solace, he sometimes reverted to incorrect thoughts like "Sunny knows best."
Old habits die hard.
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Basil and Sunny talk. They had needed to for a while.Bookmarked by splashdragon
04 Jun 2021
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Delinquent Basil AU
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“He won’t even fight back! Fucking pansy!”Basil quivered with anger and his own sobs as he closed in on himself. What these idiots didn’t know is that pansies were some of the most resilient flowers he’d had the pleasure to grow.
Another kick plummeted into his gut.
No matter what seemed to happen to them, they always seemed to pop back.
A punch hit his jaw, and he tried feebly to bite out at the hand that did it.
His grandmother ran over a bed of them with her car one time. All the blossoms died, but the roots remained.
The same hand roughly gripped his face, their stubby fingers digging in, clamping his mouth closed like an iron vice.Rain, snow, even hail, those stubborn flowers just never seemed to die.
His hair was being grabbed and pulled. Basil cried out in pain. Won’t they leave? They won, just go…
Those stubborn flowers just wouldn’t die.
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04 Jun 2021