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in your time, as it was in ours by hi_its_ellis
Fandoms: 十三機兵防衛圏 | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Video Game)
20 May 2026
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“Just pisses me off, you know?” Amiguchi said. “That he did all that stuff wearing this skin. And now I’m the one stuck wearing it for the rest of my life, like some fucked up predatory meat popsicle.”
A different Takatoshi, a better one, had once said to a different Okino: I’d rather be holding you right now myself. That Takatoshi had worn his face but not his skin. He realized, suddenly, that he had no idea whether any Takatoshi had ever let anyone hold this current body, or whether it had been the same miserable cycle all the way down, top to bottom, over thousands and thousands of years.
It was a massively exhausting prospect.
(the danger is to the body, and it can kill)
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15 Aug 2026
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A Cold and Broken Hallelujah by athena_crikey
Fandoms: 名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed
03 Jul 2022
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“Bourbon?” says Akemi the next morning, as she’s icing his bruises. They don’t really need icing at this point, but she insisted and Shuuichi lets her, sitting shirtless in their bed. “I’ve never met him, but I’ve heard he’s dangerous. Cold as ice and hard as nails.”
“I see,” says Shuuichi, wincing as she shifts the ice pack.
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22 Jul 2026
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Shuuichi can’t be killed so easily.
If he ever said that to Furuya, he would probably laugh at him, furious, and call him arrogant with a scathing tongue. But Shuuichi means it quite literally.
It’s difficult to kill a man who won’t even die from a bullet to the head.
But when Furuya points a pistol at his head, and Shuuichi stares back up at him, smiling ever-so-slightly, and waits-
He knows that Furuya can’t kill him, logically. But he can’t help but think, in one dazzlingly illogical moment of indulgence-
If anyone could kill him, it would be Furuya.
Furuya kills Shuuichi, but he recovers, just as always. But no one knows he’s alive this time, not anymore.
And so Shuuichi leaves. On an aimless journey, to nowhere at all.
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07 Jul 2026
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Shuuichi sighs, deep and long-suffering, and Bourbon chuckles into his back in response.
“Stop pretending you regret it every time you sleep with me,” Bourbon says. “If you really did, you’d stop doing it.”
And Shuuichi has to hold back a grimace, because Bourbon has hit the nail on the head. He really should stop.
But he’s not stupid enough to delude himself into thinking he will.
It would be a lie to claim Shuuichi hasn’t ever wondered if Bourbon had Shuuichi’s name on his skin. Bourbon is always so certain that Shuuichi still loves him, and no matter how true it may unfortunately be, Shuuichi doesn’t think he’s showing it.
But Shuuichi is an FBI agent, and Bourbon is the criminal who blew his cover.
(There’s always only been one way their story could ever end, and they both know it.)
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07 Jul 2026
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“Marry me, Furuya-kun,” Akai says, and Rei chokes on thin air.
“Are you drunk?”
“I’m perfectly sober,” Akai insists, but that’s not possible. Even Akai can’t be this utterly insane.
“In case you’ve somehow failed to realize,” Rei says, voice flat, “We aren’t dating.”
“Ah, but we’re in love,” Akai says, and Rei chokes on thin air for the second time that night. “And I’d like a spousal visa.”
Akai wants to marry him, which is an utterly ridiculous idea. But it’s a miracle that both of them have survived for as long as they have, and it’s true that he does like Akai, as unfortunate as it is. There’s no reason to say no.
(Even if he doesn’t quite want Akai to inevitably divorce him.)
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06 Jul 2026