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Ren bounced to his feet as the train announced his stop, his heart soaring with hope. This time, he knew what was coming, and what mistakes not to make.
This time, Ren would make damn sure he survived.
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A NG+ story where Ren has lived through the events of the base game once but third semester will be new to him.
Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
12 Apr 2026
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A collection of oneshots/non-continuity Touhou stories, featuring fluff, mild to moderate shipping... you know, the usual kind of thing.
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20 Jan 2026
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Solar Red by dainobones
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures
31 Dec 2025
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Red’s dream of outdoing his legendary cousin Ash Ketchum gets sidetracked when he finds out:
・magic is real
・magical people are REALLY weird
・there's a secret magic school in the regular school in Paldea
・Arceus expects him to bridge the gap between the magical and non-magical worlds
・His roommate N is in some kind of Pokémon Rights Cult? And can also speak to Pokémon?A lot of weird things are happening but hopefully Red can make some friends along the way.
Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
31 Jul 2025
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WE’RE SO BAAAAAAAAAACK YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY 🩷💚🖤❤️🤍🧡❣️💙💗💝💕🤎💙🧡💗🥰😍
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An online message board devoted to a cult fantasy author wrestles with his baffling final book.
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18 Apr 2025
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“Would you still love me if I was a worm?"
The space between Akechi’s eyebrows formed a favorite wrinkle of Akira's. "What does that question have to do with anything?"
Or, in which Akechi and Akira have a moment for an iteration of their favorite hobby: an incredibly important philosophical debate... about worms.
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- Part 1 of this world for two
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08 Mar 2025
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“You know I love you in the same way moths love the moon.” Akechi’s teeth brushed Akira’s palm lines: fate and love and mind and life. He pulled away, but not far, just enough to adjust his posture and let the low lamplight ignite his serious expression. “Instinctively, mystifyingly, desperately. Hungrily. I’ve died for you, Akira Kurusu, and I’d do it again without thought. Then again, with all my consideration. You have to know that.”
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Hangfire: an unexpected delay between the triggering of a firearm and the ignition of the propellant.
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In which a fever forces Goro to stay with Akira for a few days during the third semester, and consequently splits his soul in two.
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13 Aug 2024
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"“Take a look around! This place isn’t exactly inviting anyone, least of all me. Do you really think I want the one piece of my mother I possess to spend its days here? In this miserable shithole?”
The box stops singing, so Goro winds it up again. And again. And again. And again.
“Look how cute it is, Akira!” Goro says, breaths coming quicker. “Isn’t it cute? Don’t you just want to wrap it up and take it home?” His throat is growing tight. “You know this song, right? Don’t you? Robin Hood and Little John, walking through the f-for—”
He saws his words off with a violent sob."
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Rebel, You're in Stalemate by ez_cookie
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series, Persona 5 Tactica - Fandom
29 Jan 2025
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With his boyfriend Akira finally moving to Tokyo after a hellish year of battling as rivals and a perilous summer vacation, Goro Akechi should be happier than ever, but he can't help but regard the change with apathy. Avoiding both university and the Phantom Thieves, Goro focuses all of his energy on preventing himself from becoming the pawn he once was.
But, when a Diet Member goes missing and turns up in a strange new reality with new dangers, Goro must confront the fact that he isn't just running from his past anymore. He's running from his future too.
Sequel to Daredevil, You've Hit the Wall.
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- Part 2 of Daredevil, You've Hit the Wall
Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
13 May 2024
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There’s something missing in Ren's life, something utterly essential. Sometimes, when he’s lying awake in the early hours, he swears he can almost grasp the memory of it in his bare hand. It seems so real. But like a dream, he can’t recall anything about it. Only the feeling and the hole its absence has left behind.
Dr. Maruki's medicine is going to help him.
It has to.
It must.
When a crow lands at Ren's feet, he decides to nurse it back to health. But doing so has unforeseen consequences.
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Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
30 Apr 2024
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Otherwise titled: injecting irritatingly unnecessary amounts of politics into mah vidya gaems
Yet another romantic dinner ruined because Akira won't stop arguing with him about the ethics of the death penalty.
Akira says it's Goro's fault because he never wants to lose an argument, but Akira just needs to admit when his rhetoric is inferior.
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13 Apr 2024
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[Shuake Week 2023: Day 1 - Fairytale]
“The Captain’s order was your removal. But as you know, there are some fates worse than death,” the Copy said silkily as he shifted, the muzzle of his gun leaving Akechi’s cheek to point towards Ren instead, “what was it that you said? To watch them fall in front of you, one by one?”
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06 Jan 2024
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26 Oct 2023
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The way his shoulders shake, the corners of his eyes creased from his smile- that combined with his glamour, he looks so human in that moment that it makes Akechi want to be sick.
"You can't hear it...They're calling out for this. For us. A myriad of voices crying out as one. Begging for retribution at our hands."
Akechi narrows his eyes and scoffs. A seething disgust trembling in his fists. Self-righteous bastards, all of them- Unsure if he means the fae or the people of Japan.
"That sounds like a load of bullshit to me. And what, do you think they're right? That we should just sit here and let the world crumble so you bastards can inherit it?"
The corners of that blissful and untouchable smirk finally turn down, and Akechi suddenly feels he understands what people mean when they call eyes windows. Only Joker's feel clouded over, a thick fog against the glass. The kind a child would press their finger to and draw a smile.
"No, I don't."
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A phenomenon known as leyline blossoms are spreading across Japan like wildfire and it's on Akechi's shoulders to find the cause. Only one thing, or rather one person, keeps standing in his way.
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11 Oct 2023
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"Did you know that tomorrow's full moon is a blood moon?" Goro says, apropos of nothing.
"Nope." Ren glances back up at the moon again. Its familiar cratered face gazes back at him patiently, but all of a sudden he feels like he's seeing it in all its loveliness for the first time. "...Are you looking at it right now?"
"Do you want me to be?" Goro shoots back, the playful dip of his voice sending Ren's stomach swooping. Do you want me to be? God, he's such an asshole.
Ren wishes Goro could hear him roll his eyes over the phone. "It's a yes or no question."
He hears rustling, and then footsteps. "Yes, I'm looking at it, too," Goro says softly.
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in which Goro quits his job, cuts his hair, and gets a dog (not necessarily in that order)
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- Part 1 of bonnet of pins
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Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
05 Oct 2023
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"If only we'd met a few years earlier..."
There's been news about a cursed child moving into town. The townsfolk are ruffled; Akira is unconcerned. There are far more pressing issues to fixate on—like pestering this random boy in the woods into becoming his life-long rival.
Meanwhile, Goro has only just moved into the soon-to-be newest installment of his long line of failed foster homes and he's somehow already picked up a second shadow. His pest is naïve, delusional, and a total space case. Not to mention, Goro's pretty sure he only has a single brain cell bouncing around in that souped-up skull of his.
At the very least, he's entertaining.
In which Akira and Goro do indeed meet earlier. And the consequences are permanent.
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Goro Akechi returns to life six months after the fall of Maruki’s reality, spit out by the sea of souls onto a remote island off the coast of Japan. He brings back with him an ancient fairytale forest haunted by the ghosts of everyone he’s ever killed. And he is the only one who can free them from imprisonment in the woods. Instead of destroying everything inside, Goro chooses to stay. Wandering the forest, he completes impossible task after impossible task in the hopes of saving all his ghosts.
When Ren Amamiya learns Akechi survived he becomes focused on the challenge he believes has been thrown down - to find him and drag him back to Tokyo. But for Ren discovering where Akechi has gone proves to be its own impossible task, one that might unravel him.
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- Part 1 of Rose and Rot
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Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
10 Jul 2023
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“You appear to be wasting away up here.”
“Yeah, well—” Akira drags a hand through his tangled hair, “—that’s not really any of your business anymore, is it?”
Something sharp pangs in Goro’s chest, suspiciously close to his heart. “I suppose not.”
Crossing his arms, Akira regards Goro across the distance still separating them, and somehow the few meters of squeaky wooden floorboards suddenly feel like miles. “So then why did you come?”
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- Part 16 of After Hours at Leblanc
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30 Jun 2023
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“I never want you to hurt,” Akira whispers. “Not once for the rest of your life. And if I’m too weak to spare you that—then I can at least promise that you’ll never hurt alone.”
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Goro pads forward, telegraphing his movements as much as he can, and, when Akira doesn’t stop him, wraps his arms around Akira’s waist from behind.
“Don’t worry about that,” Goro says into Akira’s shoulder.
Akira’s pace stutters, knife pausing right over the taught red flesh of the tomato. “Let me take care of you,” he responds softly.
Goro tightens his grip, pressing his chest to Akira’s back. “You always do.”
“I—”
“Let’s eat later, Akira.” Goro noses at the nape of Akira’s neck. “I need something else right now.”
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- Part 8 of After Hours at Leblanc
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25 Jun 2023
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"It’s a longing that circumvents reason and physics, and each movement of Akira’s mouth, Akira’s hands, sends Goro into covetous fantasies of non-euclidean anatomy.
Goro wants Akira impossibly, unscientifically, apocalyptically."
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He was still being watched when he took a break twenty minutes later. The black-haired guy was leaning against the barre, his camera held in one hand with the strap looped loosely around his wrist.
Or: the one where Akechi dances ballet and Akira is a photographer.
Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
14 Jun 2023
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"He was a permanent resident at a gas station motel. Other people had homes. Just because he lived here didn’t mean he didn’t resent it.
And when it hurt, it was his."
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The first letter is soft and humiliating at the same time. The second letter is a ketchup-stained napkin. When the third one comes, written on coffee-scented paper, Goro already knows the reason. The stranger writes to him, more often than he should: he talks about crimes, cats, and questions that can’t be answered—and it’s haunting, really, how similar he is to the brilliant boy Akechi Goro never stopped loving.
Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
05 Jun 2023
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oh lordy lord this one has me in my feelings
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Ren has never been so relieved to see a disgruntled expression in his life. His features are all the same as Ren remembers, nothing monstrous or out of place, just pure Akechi Goro—part annoyed and part irate.
Akechi’s eyes widen. They glow almost red in the sunlight. For a second, he looks genuinely, unobstructedly surprised.
“Amamiya,” Akechi says, and his voice is the best thing Ren has heard in months. “What are you doing here?”
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One year after the collapse of Maruki’s reality, Ren starts meeting a dead boy in his dreams.
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Bookmarked by unhappyrefrain
07 May 2023