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    Jayce blames everything – the unhelpful interest, the obsessive observation, the scribbling in his notebook; the memorizing and cataloguing and compartmentalizing – on Viktor being… Viktor. An enigma. A game of chess against someone so much smarter. A whole universe of unknown stars hidden behind an accented voice, eccentricities and unexplained habits. Because that’s what Viktor is, in the end – silently challenging and unperceived and an unresolved force of nature. As a scientist, Jayce cannot sit by and let a seemingly unsolvable conundrum with countless unknown variables be.

    or: the inherent homoromanticism of getting to know your lab partner.

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    01 Jun 2025

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    At eleven at night, a messenger arrives at Jayce’s door with a note from Viktor:

     

    There’s a cat in our lab.

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    27 May 2025

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    "The first thing Jayce noticed was his freckles. One sat below his right eye, just a smidge above his cheekbone, and the other sat in the crinkle of his smile. The second thing Jayce noticed was this boy, his fellow classmate, and his slightly shaky hand as he reached for the chair sitting next to Jayce."

    Where Jayce and Viktor meet as kids and have been inseparable since. Over the years, they fall in love.

    Semi-Modern AU

    Russian translation available here by Qiqiqoqo !!

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    22 May 2025

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    It is a familiar feeling in his lungs, yet one he never thought he’d ever feel again after replacing everything with machinery. Viktor almost wants to laugh at the irony of it all, even as petals and thorns threaten to choke him into silence. For all his efforts to get rid of these measly feelings, it seems fate, in a cruel twisted sense of humour, wanted to remind him that no matter how hard he tries, no matter how much of himself he butchers and sacrifices along the way, he cannot escape them. But he will keep trying anyhow.

    Or. Hanahaki Disease AU, in which the Machine Herald faces uncomfortable reminders.

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    15 May 2025

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    Viktor ponders before he snorts and says, “Before I became Heimerdinger’s assistant and they were still figuring out what to do with a rogue Zaunite infiltrating the academy, Councillor Salo very, eh, strongly suggested that I become his escort.”

    Jayce almost chokes on nothing.

    Or. Late night conversations are not uncommon between them, surprising revelations are still shared.

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    15 May 2025