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it has never left you.
you know Strife.
you know Nikador.
you know polemos600.
you know—
Mydeimos.
it was all you have ever known.
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31 May 2026
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you've set on me, but you are not the sun by Ciasquare
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
29 Apr 2026
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An exploration of Mydei and Hephaestion's relationship.
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29 Apr 2026
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The Prince and the Dromas by Maleficar
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
17 Apr 2026
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When Mydei wakes up at entry hour, it’s to thirty texts and ten missed calls, all from Phainon.
“Mydei,” Phainon’s voice says, somehow managing to slur the consonants. “Mydei you… you wouldn’t—woah. Woah. Everything is—is—” A raucous round of laughter drowns out Phainon’s voice. “Mydei,” Phainon says again. “You wouldn’t be… belieeeve—” He stretches the word out like it’s some kind of competition. “Cipher just—Cipher just told me the craziest—it’s so—it’s really, um. It’s crazy. I’m—I’m—” The message stops.
Mydei pulls his teleslate from his ear to stare at it. This isn’t the first time Cipher has dragged Phainon to an ouzeri to get him blackout drunk.
Phainon disappears after a night of drinking with Cipher. Mydei, in search of their usual morning spar, goes looking for him only to find a strange dromas instead.
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18 Apr 2026
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Skopas died in his cot a little before dawn, on the morning of the eleventh day after the Council of Elders had voted by a margin of three votes to permit Kremnoans to draw water from the eastern cisterns of Okhema. His death was a quiet one in linen sheets that smelled faintly of herbs, with the morning bells of a foreign land ringing over the makeshift camp.
It was a most inglorious death. His brother, who had sat with him through the long night, did not weep. He set his palm flat upon the corpse’s forehead, traced the sigil of Nikador above his eyes, and rose to leave the tent.
Mydei knelt by the cot, setting the back of his hand to Skopas's cheek. The flesh was already cold. He'd thought about it a dozen times over the past months, known from the first that they would have a death in the camp before long, and he had known that when it came, he would have to do this. He had simply hoped that he would have a little more time to prepare.
Funerary marches are no easy thing, not when your people are much diminished in a foreign land and every action is suspect---especially when a white-haired nuisance with bright eyes and a charming smile insists on tagging along.
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08 Apr 2026
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NEEEEEEED to peek inside this author's brain because everything they write is ABSOLUTE PEAK FICTION
also pre-relationship phaidei my beloved<3
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18 Mar 2026
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A Study on the Revival of Kremnoan Roses: Botany, Symbolism, and Best Practices by lumeenary
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
15 Feb 2026
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“You’re distracted, Deliverer,” Mydei mutters. Despite saying this, he isn’t pulling any punches today.
The silence between them becomes stiff, and Phainon needs to occupy his hands with something, anything. “I’m in the middle of… researching something,” he says.
Mydei hums. “With the Grove?”
Phainon feels sort-of-bad-sort-of-not for obfuscating the truth: one because it’s Mydei, and the other because the matter is about him confessing to Mydei, you see. He pulls a face. “You could say that.”
Kremnoan Roses aren't real. Probably. Phainon is about ninety-nine percent sure. But after coming across an antique Kremnoan vase, Phainon swears that if he, by some miracle, manages to recreates them, he will confess to Mydei with a bouquet of mythical roses.
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13 Mar 2026
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so this is what love truly is... shaking and speechless and gutted after reading this masterpiece
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“You,” he states, and swallows. “You can… you can become him, right? You could… you could be Mydei. Just so I can practice. I’ll get it out, the whole thing, and you can, I don’t know, tell me if I sound like half the idiot that I feel like? Maybe?”
Cipher watches him for a long moment. The alleyway is very quiet, an owl hooting somewhere overhead. “You want me,” she repeats slowly, “to become the man you love… so you can confess to me.”
(cipher does not, in fact, transform into mydei. she just goes and gets the real one.)
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12 Mar 2026
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ubi tu Gaius, ego Gaia
(phr.) a traditional Roman wedding vow meaning "Wherever you are, Gaius, I will be Gaia" (or "Where you are, I am"). It signifies a binding, lifelong commitment of equality and partnership, where the bride promises to share in the husband's life, fortune, and home.
Four times Phainon cries over Mydei’s death, and all the times Mydei isn’t there to comfort him.
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09 Mar 2026
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Phainon’s soulmark appeared when he was a young boy in Aedes Elysiae. It was supposed to tell him the name of his soulmate, but it was written in an alphabet he had never seen before. He delighted in the idea of a soulmate from a faraway land.
Of course, life didn’t turn out as he’d planned. By the time he arrived in Okhema, love was the last thing on his mind. He'd never learned how to read the mark, and at this point, he'd resolved he never would. He'd dedicated his life to the Flame Chase.
Once he met Mydei, he felt a connection he had never experienced with anyone. Surely, if he had a soulmate, it had to be him. They started spending more time together, growing closer, until Mydei informed him - he had a soulmate, but it wasn't Phainon.
(Or was it?)
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09 Mar 2026
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Phainon looks at him for a moment. He takes a slow sip of his coffee, no longer steaming and fogging his glasses, then offers him a timid smile afterwards. “You can trust me, Mydei.”
“I do,” Mydei ends up saying.
His roommate sits back and laughs, not quite believing it yet. “Did you at least miss me?” he asks suddenly, tilting his head. Just like that, the strange tension dissipates.
My hole was pulsing to the thought of your name. Mydei takes a long, pointed bite of his toast to avoid replying.
Phainon’s grin sharpens into a boyish smirk. “Yeah. Thought so.”
On paper and in his daily life, Mydei pretends to be a beta. It wouldn’t have been any trouble, if only he isn’t attracted to his alpha roommate.
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08 Mar 2026
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How to Verify Important Gossip by Orasmyn
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
14 Dec 2025
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Phainon had never imagined Mydei having - well, a vagina and all the other internal stuff that usually goes with it. Maybe he’s a bad person. Maybe he should have.
Not that it’s a problem! Mydei can have any combination of genitals he wants. Or got given when he was busy forming in the womb. He could be totally smooth down there like a Kimon doll, and that totally would be fine.
Phainon hears of a rumor considering Mydei, and because he can't possibly be normal about Mydei, he has to find out if it's true or not.
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08 Mar 2026
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whether you come as a lover or an executioner, i am ready to receive you. by succubused
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
02 Mar 2026
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Hundreds of times over, he reaches for this mask, a million times over, he reaches for this mask. Sometimes he sees the face behind it. Sometimes he touches the face behind it. Sometimes, he dies before he can do either of those things. The world goes black a hundred times, the world goes black a million times. His back torn open, his body twisted into a god’s. It happened here. It happened here. It happened here.
He jerks away with a hiss. The reverberations linger, shards of a million lifetimes hanging in the air like an executioner’s blade. And at last, the swordmaster says, hoarse voice no more than a sigh:
“My…deimos.”
Mydei stares at him for a moment, then reaches out for the third time, and this time he slides the mask gently off the swordmaster’s face.
“...Phainon,” he breathes.
in the ruins of castrum kremnos, mydei finds a dying swordmaster in black and a million cycles of lost memories; the flame reaver receives one last memory of how it felt to be loved.
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08 Mar 2026
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The Shriven Light by cinxin (inkysabre)
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
24 Dec 2025
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The poems say they fought for ten days and ten nights. That they were close. That they were unable to part.
Only Phainon knew the truth. In the early days, distance and frustration had marked their friendship, a pattern broken only in moments of life and death or in the perilous theatre of battle. Having veiled his mind and heart, Mydei did not make it easy for others to know him.
But the gods are merciful, and the hero is far more persistent.
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27 Feb 2026
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is it wrong of me to go to a parallel universe to borrow my wife from myself? by Lushaka
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
13 Apr 2026
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Lord Ravager Irontomb, the Original Sin, the Source of Cognicide, the Anti-Creator, the death knell of all technologically advanced civilizations has a problem—he is utterly, completely wifeless.
The solution? 'Borrow' a wife from himself in another universe!
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10 Feb 2026
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sincerely for thе thousandth time by Anonymous for Catiacchi
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
31 Jan 2026
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Nearly a decade after an incident that pulled them into separate directions, Phainon appears in Mydei’s doorstep with a confession.
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01 Feb 2026
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The Aftermath by mjustaghost
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Oct 2024
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Recovery sometimes made him want to sleep for three days straight.
But he was glad he was alive too.
Or: Bakugou's days and weeks following the end of the war and his relationship with the people who were worried for him.
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14 Jan 2026
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kacchan number 1 by fluffymoon23
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
08 Apr 2024
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To both no one’s and absolutely everyone’s surprise, Bakugo Katsuki was voted as the most popular pro-hero newcomer.
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- Part 4 of can you tell bakugo is my favorite ?
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07 Jan 2026
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“I found their supply room,” he lets the comm lines know. More bullet spray forces him behind a hard brick wall.
“You got it handled?” Icyhot says, out of breath. “It’s messy out here, we’re a little short-handed, can’t send backup.”
“Yeah.” Another click. Another empty cartridge. “I got it.”
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He does not have it. Or he does until the building decides to fucking collapse. While he’s inside. In a massive crash of concrete and steel and broken tile, the basement’s ceiling (and the first floor’s floor) gives and takes Katsuki with it.OR
The one where Katsuki neglects to mention just how bad he's hurt while on a mission. Set post series end and heavily inspired by "Fitting In (Tiny Spaces)" by aloneinthetrain
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31 Dec 2025
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love, reimagined (us, redefined) by PurelySelfIndulgent
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
23 Dec 2023
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'katsuki wonders if he hasn’t gone deaf because of all the explosions he’s been in the vicinity of, because his childhood friend didn’t just say what he thinks he did. “how the fuck is that not bad?!!”
“um, it is?” izuku asks, as if he’s got any right to be the confused one here.
“of course, it is! why the fuck would i want people to think that we’re dating, let alone approve of it?!!”
“kacchan,” izuku says, slowly. “you know it was bound to get out at one point, right? i mean, heroes don’t exactly have much of private lives, except for the really paranoid or underground ones-”
“deku,” he interrupts, a horrific sense of dread overtaking his entire body. “todoroki and i- we’re not dating. we’re just friends.”'
(or, nothing makes a great love story quite like denial. this is the story of how bakugou katsuki is dragged, kicking and screaming, into his own.)
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18 Dec 2025
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give me compliments (i said give me compliments) by Anonymous for ace_up_my_sleeve
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
02 Aug 2020
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“It’s just cute,” Ashido is telling them as she walks into the classroom. “Like, when you compliment someone and they get flustered so easily, don’t you think it’s endearing?”
Kaminari blinks.
“Like Bakugou?” he asks slowly.-
1-a realises that katsuki is really, really bad at receiving compliments. exposure therapy ensues.
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- Part 1 of coffee!
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Bookmarked by crystalzero
15 Dec 2025