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It was done. Amphoreus was free.
Yet instead of feeling delight, relief or happiness, Phainon... didn't know how to feel. After all of his emotions had burned along with him to ensure they had a chance at winning, there weren't many of them left to feel. But with the new Dawn, came fragile hope that perhaps things could get better.
And that's when the cracks appeared.
He should have known there was yet another price he had to pay, that his body could never withstand so many cycles. He thought that perhaps he would have more time to finally bask in the sunlight with others, but instead he has to learn to count his days as his mind falls into despair and his body breaks down.
Perhaps the only thing he can do before he runs out of time is... to say goodbye to everyone.
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Attrition - (n.) the process of making something weaker and destroying it through sustained attack or pressure, especially the strength or confidence of an enemy by repeatedly attacking it.Series
- Part 6 of well of depression (angst)
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27 Aug 2026
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Hallowed Ground by F-117 Nighthawk (F117_Nighthawk)
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
04 Nov 2025
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He is not going to last this cycle. A thousand cycles ago he had to drape himself in an old cloak taken from the ruins of Aidonia to hide the worst of the damage he has done to himself. A hundred cycles ago he shattered Dawnmaker, and has not had the capability to forge it anew. Fifty cycles ago he picked up a set of armor from the ruins of Castrum Kremnos to hide the state of his face. Forty nine cycles ago he gave up convincing Aglaea and Cerydra and Tribios on who he was under the armor and cloak and fell back to the only plan he had left, the one he knew would always work.
Last cycle, the Lance of Fury almost tore his body into pieces before he could take the final coreflame.
And so now he is here, following the young version of himself. They are close to the end, just before the mission to Styxia and a few months before the final advance on Aquila that heralds the death of light, of hope, of everything. But he is not going to last this cycle.
Not unless he tells this Phainon, this Khaslana, everything.
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27 Aug 2026
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Following an attempted assassination on Aglaea's life within the Era Nova, Khaslana commits multiple murders. Aglaea is, understandably, a little bit concerned.
//OR, After massacring the Council of Elders, Khaslana buys apology flowers.
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26 Aug 2026
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Distracted from a spar, Phainon finds himself talking to Mydei about his childhood friend Cyrene. It's only natural that he ends up mentioning Khaslana as well.
// OR, Phainon, Mydei and the name Khaslana.
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26 Aug 2026
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unbury you, unbury you, unbury you by QueenWithABeeThrone
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
10 Nov 2025
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He takes the lead between them, Cyrene trailing behind. At the doorway, he stops and looks back.
“You coming?” he asks.
(Who can grow me a new sister? — paraphrased from Antigonick, trans. Anne Carson.)
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26 Aug 2026
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spoiler excerpts. for ease of searching when wanting to reread
{She laughed, a little. “And I’ll always say it, because every me has her charm.” She pressed the sickle into his hand, and said, “I’ll let you finish your cake. I’ll tell you a story. And then, when he wakes up…”}
{Phainon has a different question: if you never quite called each other siblings, do you still get to mourn her like one?}
“She was Peach to me,” she says. “She told me stories. She was the first person I ever talked to. I miss her.”
“Her and her charm,” says Phainon. “You have it, y’know? Her charm, but not quite. Something all your own.”
Cyrene laughs, and it sounds a little wet, like she too is trying not to choke up. He realizes, then—she loved her just as much. After all, imitation is the greatest form of flattery there is, and Cyrene has made herself a memorial to her long-gone friend, his long-disappeared sister. “Thanks,” she says. “She loved you, you know? And…every story she wrote, she called you her brother.”
“She—She did?”
“Yeah.” Her fingers catch in his hair, scratch over his scalp. “So I’m sorry, for your loss.”
“I’m sorry for yours,” Phainon says.
:biggest eyes:
You count them and come up short, and turn—
—and there is your best friend, your sister, smiling at you. She didn't cross the threshold. She didn’t join you in the light of the new dawn, brought by your gremlin friend from beyond the sky. She stands in the doorway, smiling, hands linked behind her back.
fUC K
on shared grief. on the "romance of ruins". on standing because otherwise they won't step into a "happy ending"