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" Mitya tilts his head, blinking slowly up at him. “Uh, are you the delivery guy?”
In his well-pressed suit, freshly-shined medals pinned on his chest, Valeriy can't help but look down to check if he accidentally wore the wrong thing today. He'd wanted his appearance to reflect how reliable he would be as head of Mitya's security detail.
“Do I look like a delivery guy?” He asks, genuinely bewildered.
Mitya considers. “No…”
“I'm with the Fatui.”
“Oh.” He scratches the back of his neck. “That’s - ha, I'm not usually into military types, that's all.” "
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The story of Valeriy's first few months as Mitya's bodyguard.
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28 Aug 2026
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Mitya had spent years running. Valeriy had spent just as long chasing. When Valeriy dies on stage during the theatre investigation, Mitya is forced to confront everything he's been running from.
Now, in the aftermath of Act II, they're both trying to figure out what comes next.
"Life will be all the duller for not having to run away from you, my friend."
He said those words to a corpse. Now he has to say them to the man who came back.
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24 Aug 2026
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“My work is here.”
“Here?” Mitya’s head is pounding, so he’s not sure if he’s actually hearing him right. “You’re not-”
“The first tenet of my assignment,” Valeriy cuts in, “was your safety. We may have forgotten it over the course of these years, but escorting you back to work was always the secondary task.”
Mitya looks away. The snowstorm is still going.
Valeriy sets down the containers on his table, his motions slow and unpracticed. “If it is my role to protect you from your own mind,” he continues, quietly, “then understand that I will be there.”
“You’re taking on an… impossible task, Sarge.” Mitya’s scarf wraps around himself a little more tightly, as if trying to reassure him. He’s not sure that it’s succeeding. “You shouldn’t. I’ve always been crazy. They knew that too. It’s a small price to pay, to see our world freed from these curses.”
Valeriy does not say anything, but Mitya knows he disagrees.
OR: Mitya, on the topic of research and faith; and Valeriy, who will always be there.
(and in some ways: Orpheus, and Eurydice.)
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23 Aug 2026
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"What do you want from me?" Aventurine snaps.
What does Ratio want from him? Ratio recalls an earlier thought. He wants the man.
"More than you're willing to give, it seems."
Aventurine sends Ratio looking for a file in his desk. Ratio finds his will instead—and, inside it, himself listed as a beneficiary. The money is the least interesting thing Aventurine has left him.
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22 Aug 2026
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to find an intended (a bit unintentionally) by nyoomerr
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Jul 2022
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It takes about five minutes after they first meet for Shen Yuan to start flirting with Luo Binghe. Aggressively, too, in a way that even some of Luo Binghe’s most frequent bed partners wouldn’t dare to. It’s shocking and infuriating and, unfortunately, Luo Binghe finds himself charmed.
Too bad Shen Yuan doesn’t actually know that his actions come off as demon-flirting in the first place.
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