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    Keeping his hand under Laios' shirt, Kabru tilted his head to nudge the side of his neck with his nose. Laios squirmed in his sleep, letting out a soft gasp. It was adorable, Kabru found, how sensitive he was to touch, whether asleep or awake. He seemed to react to the slightest bit of stimulation – a kiss on the cheek, a gentle squeeze of the hand, a subtle shift in position – though, interestingly, it usually took some effort to fully wake him up. Hopefully the affection gave him nice dreams, Kabru thought fondly as he pressed a kiss to the side of Laios' neck. Laios let out another gasp through his open mouth. His fingers curled at the small of Kabru's back.

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    It took courage not to recoil as the figure drifted close, its white shroud billowing like smoke to the night air as it stood before him. Kabru willed his hand to rise, his fingers brushing against the thing’s freezing cheek, just beneath the hollow where an eye ought to have been.

    “Are you hurt?” he whispered, breath caught in his lungs as the creature's lips curled.

    “Your hand trembles."

    Kabru offered a feeble smile. “So it does."

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    After preventing his own engagement party, Kabru is sent away by Milsiril to a secluded manor in the country, where he is meant to reflect on his defiance and, in time, resign himself to marriage. However, Bramblethorn does not rest quietly, and Kabru is not the only soul trapped there.

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    To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring upon ourselves. ~Lorca

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    Kabru from 20+ years in the future decides slowburn is not for him.

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    “She kind of looked familiar, didn’t she?”

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    The world turns topsy turvy for Kabru in his PhD program when the Utaya Defense Treaty, an international agreement to control confidential information about Utaya is finally gone. Now he can finally uncover information about the Utaya disaster that the Elven government so desperately wants to hide. However, that doesn’t mean the Northern Central Continent is going to play fairly with keeping what they want under wraps, even if that means targeting those abroad who wish to put their nose where they don’t belong. Fighting against the Elven government's attempts to reinstate the treaty in less than a year and threats being posed to those who dare to challenge them, Kabru has no other choice but to risk himself for the cause of figuring out what the Northern Central Continent is hiding about Utaya.

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    Marcille finds fan fiction about King Laios the First.

    What, like she’s supposed to keep that information to herself?

     

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    She’d heard that abroad there were independent spinoff works of the Dalatian Clan series, and people would come together at small but lucrative events to sell and swap stories. Some placed the characters in a different time period, or changed their race, or wrote sequels. Some of them were stories focused on individual characters, and others still about couples, canonic and speculative -

    And those … those couples were denoted by the characters' names, separated by an “x”.

    “Oh my god,” she whispered.

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    To Kabru, sex had always been first and foremost just another means of learning more about his fellow human beings. One could learn a lot from mere observation, or a casual conversation, of course, but there were certain things that only the intimate atmosphere of the bedroom could reveal. He never intended to do anything with the information gathered this way, of course. It wouldn't have been right. He only wanted to learn, to observe, to study, with a kind of scientific curiosity. How people reacted to stimuli, what turned them on and off, what they desired most – it was all so very, very interesting! Of course, his experience wasn't nearly as vast as his reputation would suggest. Contrary to what even his closest friends believed about him, he'd only hooked up with a handful of women before he met Laios. Those experiences still taught him a lot, though.

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    Marcille finds herself caught between a rock and a soft place and both want to keep her there.

    Come find out why people are getting addicted to this flaming dumpster fire and lose your sanity along the way!!

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    "It’s very Laios-like-- a part of her brain thinks belatedly, to casually say something so unexpected and sombre just as they’re getting ready for bed. It is in the same sort of way that he would supply little tidbits of gossip when their old party walked for long stretches of road in the upper floors...... Only, one of these is definitely more sobering and personal, and Marcille cannot fathom how and why he would choose to divulge this information now of all times."

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    It's a gradually developing bond between Laios and Marcille, throughout their journey. Or a friendship, or a romance, or a camaraderie-- whatever you might choose to call it. Because Marcille doesn't have the guts to choose and Laios has already chosen. Narrated in a non-chronological order.

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    When Izutsumi learns she's having a sibling, she reconsiders what she knows about what having a family means.

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    Twenty years after the earthquake that buried Kabru’s mother and his entire first grade class with nothing but a rescue rat for company, Kabru is close to finishing his dissertation on the connection between survivor’s guilt and imposter syndrome.

    Five years after the IED that killed his squadmates, left Mithrun deaf in his torn right ear, took his right eye, and saw him honorably discharged from the Canaries, Mithrun is finally convinced by his case manager, Pattadol, to join a research study on survivor’s guilt.

    (Or: A mostly upbeat modern day AU kabumisu meet cute featuring broke sociology grad student Kabru and disabled veteran Mithrun… and Mithrun’s pet rats.)

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    Galdra Ferick only wants one thing: treasure. Treasure enough to pay off the debt her brother left behind and finally escape a past that haunts her every step. The last thing she needs is to get tangled up with a strange band of adventurers—and even less with their eccentric leader: a tall, clumsy man obsessed with monsters.

    But the dungeon shows no mercy. Among maps, impossible creatures, and monstrous banquets, Galdra begins to realize that sometimes the true danger isn’t the jaws of a dragon… but learning to trust someone again.

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    “The Touden siblings opened the Lion’s Den Bakery in the fall of Marcille’s first year of grad school. She remembered Falin talking about her brother’s dream to open a pastry story all through undergrad—nothing more than a flight of fancy from a career soldier. That was, until Falin abruptly dropped out of university in her final year to go into business with Laios, who showed up freshly discharged from the military with his entire life’s savings in hand.

    Out of concern for her crush best friend, Marcille found herself increasingly spending her precious free time at the bakery. Just to keep an eye on things. That’s all.”

    A Farcille Bakery!AU told in snippets.

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    Kabru and Mithrun come across what might be a cursed mirror. Mithrun decides to inspect it.

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    There’s an inherent vulnerability in being loved. It's a quiet terror of knowing that if you open yourself up, if you let that someone see the raw parts you’ve hidden even from yourself, that you are disgusted by, they will understand you; however, once you are known, there is no retreat into shadows.

    The fic where Mithrun has a talk with Kabru.

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    Kabru sat up, eyes blurry, but he was able to make out Mithrun staring down his nose at him. “You called off. You aren’t sick.”

    “Can’t I take a day off every once and a while?” He was smacked with the pillow once more. Kabru batted it away, tossing the blanket back on the couch as he got up. “I would use a personal day, but I figured that’d look bad given my position currently.”

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    Laios pondered the matter for a moment, and finally shook his head. “Yeah, I can't imagine it either. I like it when you tell me what to do. It's much easier this way.” Laios spent most of his life trying and failing to do what was expected to do. Most of the time, people didn't tell him anything, and just expected him to know what he was supposed to do. It never seemed particularly fair to him. In contrast, he appreciated direct instructions, orders, commands, even if they often led him to places he didn't want to go. It was always better to know what people wanted from him. Especially when it came to people he cared about, like Kabru. “I mean, obviously if I don't like something, I'm gonna tell you,” he said, furrowing his brow, “but I can't see you going too far... unless,” he added, suspiciously narrowing his eyes at Kabru, “you were trying to push me on purpose...”

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    What begins as a clash of tempers in the dungeon turns into confessions neither Kabru nor Mithrun can take back.

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    Kabru sighed, nodding his head. “You're right. There's no point in putting it off any longer. Let's get this over with.” He bit his tongue. Ah, shoot. That wasn't really the right way to frame this conversation, was it? Like a chore that he wanted to get out of the way as soon as possible. Sweating profusely, Kabru cleared his throat “As I said,” he tried again, tapping his fingers on the table as he spoke, “when I talked to my friends earlier, the topic of our relationship came up. To be specific,” he gulped, “I told them that I was considering moving in with you.”

    Laios' eyes twinkled as he leaned a little closer. “Yeah?” he prompted breathlessly.

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