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Sometimes finding your place means letting go of old happiness. Sometimes the people you love are better off without you. Sometimes you're better off without the people you love.
Struggling to let go of his once best friend, Jesse finds comfort in the company of another boy wrestling with the same feelings of displacement and rejection, albeit for very different reasons. Eugene Labao, ex-reserve for Jesse's ex-best friend's new team, is exactly who Jesse needs, and while Seiji found belonging at Kings Row, Jesse's not convinced Eugene can ever find belonging there now.
It's a good thing there's an achingly empty spot on Exton's fencing team.
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Nicholas Cox and Seiji Katayama grew to be friends, in fact, best friends. In the years at Kings Row and having been a part of the fencing team, it felt like for both, it was only likely they would develop feelings for each other. For Seiji, it seemed clear his likeness in Nicholas, it was apparent from the get-go for him but he hadn’t wanted it to stick. Over time, graduation came, allowing for both boys to find paths post-high school, leading for the two to find different directions in their futures.
After some time, they soon lose contact. Nicholas hadn’t realized he’d see his old friend again, not until he gets invited to an National Fencing team, where he finally reunites with Seiji.
But just like their first meeting, Seiji is the same cold and distant boy he had met, only this time with a greater sense of enmity.
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- Part 1 of Off-Guard: A Series
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your ribs, covered in a lover's spit by sometimeswritingsometimesdying
Fandoms: Fence (Comics)
28 Jun 2025
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An argument that spirals, and all its consequences.
(Or, a very typical friends with benefits situation, except Harvard is in love with Aiden, and Aiden is in love with Harvard, and nothing is ever as simple as it should be.)
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Fame is a fickle and frustrating thing, both allusive and invasive.
Fame found Seiji Katayama when he was seven years old as his genius on the piano captivated the world, but twenty-five-year-old pianists aren’t nearly as interesting or impressive to the world.
Fame found Nicholas Cox when he was twenty-four, sweeping him up from the life of a mechanic with a guitar and a band in a shabby clubhouse to a rockstar on his second national tour in a year.
Their fames never should have intersected. They never would have. If not for an incident almost a decade in the past that gets dug up for Nick’s new celebrity status: a solo piano concert and a custodian shoving the prodigy himself into his piano. Now, fame makes a mess of both men as they face the consequences of that single point of overlap.
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- Part 2 of The Way We Connect
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"He sent you postcards every day whenever he went away, to say, Thinking of you."
"Yeah, because we're best friends."
"Every day, Harvard?"Harvard and Aiden have written each other letters (and postcards, notes, stray notebook pages) every summer, whenever they were apart. They tend to stack up, after a decade of doing so.
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It’s not that Aiden has a thing. Like, seriously, he doesn’t have a thing.
It’s more of a feeling that sometimes arises in very specific situations. Like when Harvard pushes him into one of the changing room stalls, and kisses the breath out of him.
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don’t say yes by scottishgremlin for sometimeswritingsometimesdying
Fandoms: Fence (Comics)
01 Jun 2025
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“Something had changed between them… Aiden [had] slipped out of his hands like water.”
Harvard, a newly-promoted starship captain, returns to his home planet for a restful break away from life-or-death situations that hinged on his decisions. Unfortunately, the need for decision making follows him back.
Aiden, the son of the ogliarch who owns about half of the galaxy they live in, is unsatisfied with a life that, by anyone else’s standards, would be considered desirable or even perfect. However, soon, he’s thrown into situations and must face challenges he could never have imagined (the challenges in question? emotional intimacy).
(Title from Speak Now by Taylor Swift)
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did you get used to the haunting? (the willing, the missing, the wanting?) by sometimeswritingsometimesdying
Fandoms: Fence (Comics)
15 May 2025
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Liquid courage, he thinks, as the morning light washes over him, is the dumbest name for alcohol. Maybe enforcer of bad decisions, or, surefire way to break your own heart would be better fitting.
They had gone home together.
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Secret Fencing Signals by Fair_Kid for sometimeswritingsometimesdying, scottishgremlin
Fandoms: Fence (Comics)
15 May 2025
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Harvard is mortified to discover the whole team knows about the secret thing he and Aiden do every time they fence each other.
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The world of Menarths has gone for a long period of time without any disturbances of the greater peace (for the most part, excluding the time there was a war between the country of Mistfold and South Pelinath, but that's besides the point), but when the princess of Mistguard disappears through a treacherous gate on the other side of the known world, the King holds a tournament to search for the best fighters in the land. Hopefully, in creating a solid party of adventurers, the princess can be safely found and brought back to the place she belongs.
His hires include the paladin Harvard Lee, infamous for solving a werewolf problem without silver, a sportfuck bard from a noble house, Aiden Kane, a monk from a part of Lowtown with a heart of gold (and, perhaps, a surprising understanding of the blade), Eugene Labao, the renowned monster hunter Seiji Katayama, traveled from the largest city in the world just to be hired, and an underdog fighter who cost a lot of people their bets, Nicholas Cox.
This was, to put it lightly, an utterly terrible idea.
(M for strong language/violence/referenced sexual content — any warnings tagged in the chapter notes)
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Nicholas Cox used to dream of becoming a great fencer; now he mops the halls of a prosperous company. Seiji Katayama used to be a great fencer; now he works for his father. From opposite ends of the corporate hierarchy, amidst dreams locked up in glass, something strange sparks between the two.
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Aiden is a holy terror in the morning, courtesy of his insomnia. But Harvard knows how to handle him. All it takes it sweet talk, coffee, and lots of friendly bro-style snuggling.
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in shades of grey in candlelight by sometimeswritingsometimesdying
Fandoms: Fence (Comics)
05 Apr 2025
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Aiden Kane peered up at him all the same, green eyes as pretty as the day he’d left last.
“Hello, detective.”
With his heart caught in his throat, Harvard opened the door to let him in.
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or, a crime of dire passion, a late night encounter, and lessons in old friendships rekindled.
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As he prepares to leave Kings Row at the end of his senior year, Nick's life seems full of possibilities. The only problem? Life isn't ready for him to leave Kings Row.
It goes like this: survey the empty room, talk to Seiji, take the bus, smell the popcorn, go to bed, open eyes, repeat.
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Eugene was pretty sure best friends weren't supposed to do— well, any of this.
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When Seiji first arrives with his parents in Exton City, he's anxious to meet his new betrothed. But when he finds it's his old friend from school, Jesse Coste, it looks to be a perfect match.
Or is it--will their marriage be threatened by Jesse's mysterious past relationship?
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- Part 2 of Fence Gay Arranged Marriage AUs
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when he comes around, my feet don't touch the ground by sometimeswritingsometimesdying
Fandoms: Fence (Comics)
01 Mar 2025
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Aiden visits Harvard at work, and the kids get it all, horribly, terribly wrong.
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Aiden's decided he hates his new glasses, and nothing will change his mind about that. Pre-comic.
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- Part 16 of Small Fandoms Drabbles
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Aiden has been with many men (no, like, seriously). It’s really quite inconvenient that his heart belongs everywhere but their beds.