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    He has loved Izuku since before he had a name for it. Best friends, coworkers, rivals. Always too close to be normal, and too stubborn to admit why.

    For Katsuki, a lifetime of wanting gets managed down to something controllable: a career, a structured arrangement with an older colleague, a careful life where no one gets all of him and nothing can collapse.

    Then Izuku gets engaged. And the architecture Katsuki built to survive his own feelings starts to show the cracks.

    A story about the cost of loving someone for so long it stops being a feeling and becomes a framework. About what it takes to learn that being yourself was always enough.

    Language:
    English
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