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    Trickle.

    The skin on her arm is cleaved away. It is rough and messy and painful, but Rumi doesn’t care. For once, she has hope to fix things. Through half-lidded eyes, she watches the wound knit itself back together. Her hand is still holding the knife, and she is willing to try as many times as necessary to fix herself.

    It heals quickly, a large scar taking over its place. Her chest feels empty, like a part of her soul had been taken away, but—

    The patterns are gone.

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    or, demons have always been known to recover easily, and a certain half-demon girl’s mind starts to unravel at a far too young age.

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    or (+1), Rumi slices her patterns off, loses a few buckets of blood, and makes it everyone's problem (something about your patterns being part of your soul?)

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    Mafuyu is the sole daughter of the royal, esteemed Asahina family. There is royal blood coursing through her veins. She wanted nothing more than to drain every single drop of it.

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    06 Feb 2023

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    Mizuki Akiyama only ever knew what it was like to be alone. So when the hues of love begin to color their life, along with the deep and dark ink of fear, they want nothing more than to estrange themself from everything.

    But Ena won't let Mizuki wander into the wilderness to fade away. And neither will Kanade, Mafuyu, Rui, or anybody else their life has brushed up against. And in community, Mizuki may yet find feelings they never knew were missing.

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    04 Dec 2022

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    Eighteen years old, and Mafuyu’s world is ending.
    Twenty-one years old, and her world is ending anew.

    History repeats itself, but life finds a way.

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    21 Oct 2022

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    When she opened her eyes, Ena was on her phone scrolling through Twitter.

    Why is it always so hard with you? Mafuyu wanted to ask, but instead she opted for, “You were there when it happened. In my Sekai. With Kanade, the things we’ve promised each other, the things we’ve said to each other—sometimes those were the only things that kept us around. And now I don’t think I… I don’t know how to make sense of it.”

    “And what. Are you saying you want to disappear again?” Ena’s voice dropped to a whisper. Her eyes hadn’t left her phone screen, but she wasn’t scrolling anymore.

    “That does sound like the easier alternative than this.”

    A quiet realization and a sudden confession send Asahina Mafuyu into a spiral. She can no longer afford to mindlessly allow herself to be swept along. But what is left for someone who believed, for so long, that she was an empty shadow of a person? With the future and everything that comes with it compounding, she is forced to confront her reality.

    Content warning for suicidal ideation and discussion.

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    16 Oct 2022