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Hollow Beneath the Sun by witchingwari
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
27 Aug 2025
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Loneliness was a creature with claws. It tore at him when he was still. It hollowed out his chest and filled him with ache.
He thought about the little boy again — the brief second of a smile, the wide-eyed curiosity. That flicker was enough to keep him moving forward. It had to be. But he knew, deep down, that the mother’s sharp tug and whispered warning was the truth of it. He was not someone a child could reach for without fear.
Not someone who could ever be welcomed as human.
The fire collapsed into ash. Vash closed his eyes, listening to the silence. The desert had no answers for him. It never did.
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OR; Vash reflects on his feelings of loneliness as he wanders through the desert and wonders if humanity will ever accept him.
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Tired of being hit on, Lu Guang embarks on a fake relationship with Cheng Xiaoshi - all while investigating a kidnapping ring, lying to everyone they know, and trying to Make More Money™.
(A.K.A. just another typical day at the photo studio.)
-- In which they’re both far too enthusiastic about pretend-dating, and the line between reality and fiction gets blurred
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06 Jan 2026
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Time stills for what remains (of you and me) by RaindropsOnAsphalt
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
04 Oct 2025
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“Yoshiki…” ‘Hikaru’ starts, soft and tentative, like Yoshiki is some scared, wounded animal that will flee or snap at the slightest startle. “Do ya miss him?”
His heart lurches, catching on each rib as it tilts sideways in his chest.
“Every single day…”
Another pause, another tense moment as ‘Hikaru’ visibly wrestles with some great conflict in the sprawling vastness of weeping fractals and grey matter churning in his skull. Bleeding greys dart to meet Yoshiki’s eyes, then drop to the floor.
For a fleeting moment, the cicadas quiet outside when ‘Hikaru’ speaks.
“There’s…somethin’ I wanna show ya, Yoshiki.”
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A fic exploring Yoshiki’s unresolved grief, Hikaru’s wish, and an idea I’ve had that ‘Hikaru’ is not bound by the human concept of time.
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09 Nov 2025
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Heliotrope by Waiting_for_a_sunny_day
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
28 Nov 2025
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“Sorry, Yoshiki,” Hikaru groans as tears come out of one eye and more of him comes out of the other. “Ughh, I don’t – ”
Yoshiki can see how hard he’s trying to calm himself down, but it just isn’t working.
“It’s ok,” Yoshiki says, quiet. “It’s ok. Instead of shovin’ it back inside completely, can you try just...lettin’ it out? Just a little bit?”
He has no clue how any of this works, but maybe a half-measure is better than trying to force it all at once.
“Okay,” Hikaru says, but it sounds like a sob. More of the unknowable, incomprehensible swirl leaks out into the dark room.
“Yoshiki – shit – ‘m sorry but can I…” Hikaru’s face – what’s visible behind the bloom of him – twists in a small kind of agony. “Can I touch you? Not much. Just – ”
It's been years since Hikaru first took the body of Yoshiki's dead best friend. Despite everything - every horror and hurt - they managed to find a home in each other. Not quite friends or family. More and not. What they have is complicated, but precious.
But when Yoshiki escapes their small town – to college, to Tokyo – Hikaru follows. And things start to change for them both.
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- Part 1 of Heliotrope AU
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04 Nov 2025
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Watermelon seeds on a Summer day by Miphos
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
24 Sep 2025
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“I was just wondering. Why is it that only girls can give stuff during Valentine’s Day?”
“It’s the way it’s always been”, Yoshiki quietly replied, his calmness betraying the way his fingers gripped the mechanical pen.
“What about you?”, he kept going, his inherited impatience from Hikaru shining through as his body stood up and hurried towards Yoshiki. Unphased by the widened expression looking up at him, Hikaru dropped the thin papers on top of their homework, pointing at the pretty red and pink heart-shaped chocolate boxes. “Would ya’ like it? If someone gave you something like this? Do ya’ want this kinda’ romance too?”
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Hikaru thinks about Valentine’s Day. Burdened by Yoshiki’s impenetrable sorrow, he sets out on a mission to give him a date to remember — no matter that it was the middle of June.
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- Part 1 of We blossomed with the seasons
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04 Oct 2025
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There had been tension before, but in the absence of a contract and an implicit reason to be together, the knowledge that Wolfwood had searched for two and a half years and tracked Vash down of his own volition, and the knowledge that Vash had dreamed of Wolfwood during their years apart, even when the trauma from the July incident was so powerful that it washed out Vash’s memories of almost everything else…
Tension is putting it lightly. They’ve been closer. They’ve been—fucking feels far too crude of a word for it, even in Wolfwood’s own head. What he feels for Vash is too powerful to be written off as… attraction. Desire. Though both of those are certainly present as well. They haven’t actually put a real word to it—saying that they’re dating skews a little juvenile after everything they’ve been through, though, Wolfwood supposes, not in the worst way imaginable—but they’re close. Closer than two people who just mutually want to jump each others’ bones.
Wolfwood does want to jump Vash’s bones, though. Actually, he kind of wants Vash to get angry at him.
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Wolfwood makes a habit of testing the boundaries of Vash's patience, and does so a bad day.
Bookmarked by witchingwari
21 Sep 2025