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    Chloe's throat closed up as she looked at Brooke walking down the hallway, talking a mile a minute with Michael and Jeremy about the Avengers and any possibility of a comic-accurate, or even somewhat good, X-Men movie in the future. Her eyes were bright with excitement, and she was talking more than she ever had in conversation with Chloe.

    Chloe had never known that Brooke was a superhero fan.

    Then Brooke's eyes landed on Chloe and the shift was immediate. Brooke clammed up, before smiling a practiced smile and telling Jeremy and Michael, "See you at lunch!" before jogging up to Chloe.

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    13 Feb 2026

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    Toya Aoyagi has never been one to seek a break in routine.

    Well, normally. There are exceptions to every rule, including this one. He breaks routine when he has a particularly nasty argument with his father or when he can't see the bigger picture while creating music.

    On days like this, Toya takes a walk.

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    02 May 2025

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    "Looking back on it, the disgusted faces he made whenever Laois had tried to follow him and Falin were clear. The needlessly irritated tone and the back-handed comments… It must have been so obvious to everyone else, yet Laois hadn’t even had the thought that Shuro felt anything but kindness towards him.

    He clenched his hands into fists and dug his fingernails into his palms in despair.

    But… These people actually do like him, don’t they?"

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    After his confrontation with Shuro, Laios is feeling self-conscious about his monster obsession, and wonders if his friends even like him or if they're faking and giving him signals that everyone but him can see, like Shuro was.

    His friends have some things to say about that.

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    08 Apr 2025

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    Kabru makes the strangest face (and Kabru makes so many strange faces to things Laios says these days), before saying, “Not—well. Maybe a little bit. Not that I—just be careful of anyone who propositions you at the wedding, okay? They might want you just for your crown, not for you.”

    “Why don’t they just say that, then,” Laios can’t help but mutter sulkily.

    Kabru rolls his eyes. “Because that’s not how politics works.”

    Laios sighs. “I really hate politics…”

    “I know, that’s what you have me for,” Kabru replies, a small smile on his lips.

    Or in the midst of helping plan his sister's wedding, Laios realizes that his feelings towards Kabru might be more complicated than he had thought.

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    08 Apr 2025

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    Toya has always thought his own hands were nothing short of brutish, knobby in all the wrong places, bruised all over with the strain of playing the piano for so many hours of so many days of so many years, and the worst part, the part that makes Toya want to hide his hands so badly, is the way his pinkies sort of twist the wrong way, stuck from a lifetime of stretching his fingers to reach far-away keys. There isn’t a single thing Toya has ever liked about his own hands, not when their only purpose is to remind Toya of how much of his life he’s already wasted and how much he’ll continue to waste.

    Well, there wasn’t a single thing he liked about them until now.

     

    (or, Toya thinks his hands are awful and Akito gives him a Pokémon band-aid. Everything spirals from there.)

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    21 Mar 2025