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the cities in which i love you by aerimmiese
Fandoms: The Poppy War Series - R. F. Kuang
04 Jul 2026
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“Ready?” Nezha laces their fingers with a startlingly familiar tenderness. His expression doesn’t betray the contempt and unfamiliarity of the last five years, only the spitting image of the face she loved in Sinegard, all those summers ago.
Rin wants to run. They shouldn’t be doing this. How the fuck is he doing this? How could he reach for Old Nezha, her Nezha, so easily, as if he’d just been there this entire time and never left—as if she had never left?
“Just fucking get this over with,” Rin grits out.
His smile is beautiful and open, the way it was in her memories and worst nightmares.
“Good,” he says, more to the guests honed in on their conversation than to her. “Then it’s about time everyone met my beautiful, brilliant girlfriend.”
Five years after the fact, Rin reprises the role of Nezha’s girlfriend for his sister’s wedding.
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26 Aug 2026
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It only counts as self-harm if there’s proper intent, right? This has to be something else, if it’s for the sake of some larger purpose. There’s no point in dwelling on it. What matters is that this is what Sayeon needs to do for this plan to work.
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13 Aug 2026
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“I must have loved you a lot.”
“You did.”
“But you still love me, don’t you?” Sayeon, of course, could still be cruel. There were no rose-colored glasses to soften her blows.
And since the truth is what hurts most, Ryujin says, “Only sometimes.”
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13 Aug 2026
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“You know what I really think?” he finally said after a particularly long pause. “I think you’re more terrified than she is.”
Altan blinked. “What?”
“I think you’re seeing her, and it’s like looking into a mirror,” Chaghan continued. “And you know that her fate is your fate, and you don’t know how to deal with it.” He was trembling a little now, knowing that he was perilously close to crossing an invisible line, unable to tell where it really was and where he was standing. Yet he went on. “Her death—or imprisonment—is your own. You’re hoping that it can be avoided, that there’s a way out, because if she can escape it then so can you. But she can’t. And you can’t, either.
“We’re shamans, Altan. Our destiny precedes us. There’s nothing we can do to change it.”
aka: a very self-indulgent take on what the cike and especially altan may have been like pre-tpw.
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12 Aug 2026
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“I prefer to see them as karmic returns,” The godling cuts in. A tide of water genially budges Sayeon backwards as it turns to face her again.
“Those who indulged in my benefaction were aware of the costs of doing so. What they did with it solely depended upon-”
“How much they valued their personhood. Believe me, I know.”
Sayeon, not for the first time (and certainly not the last) is paid a visit by her favorite deity.
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09 Aug 2026