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the warmth of being seen rather than simply looked at by himekoluv
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
27 May 2026
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Kafka has never been easy to know. She is aware of this. She has, in fact, spent considerable effort ensuring it — the careful warmth, the well-timed deflection, the doors kept mostly shut. It is not loneliness. It is simply a life with appropriate margins, and she has long since stopped wishing it were otherwise.
And then Himeko, who researches restaurants before she boards the plane and remembers throwaway things said months ago and shows up without pressure and stays without being asked, looks at all of it — every guarded corner of her, every door kept mostly shut — and stays anyway.
Of all the people there are in the world — She chose her.
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14 Jun 2026
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“Looks like you caught me again,” Astra teased as Evelyn led her out of the store and to the car parked out front, one hand against the small of the singer’s back. “How’d you know where to find me this time?”
Or the story of a bodyguard and singer coming together, falling apart, and reuniting over the years. (COMPLETED)
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05 Mar 2025
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fast tracks and broken hearts by himekoluv
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
13 Dec 2024
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Himeko, a skilled mechanic, spends a late night in her garage working on a restored muscle car when the calm is interrupted by Kafka, a notorious underground racer, who arrives in a battered, smoke-spewing wreck. Despite her disdain for Kafka's reckless reputation, Himeko reluctantly agrees to repair the car after Kafka offers cash and a tantalizing promise of information. As Himeko works through the night, the two engage in a tense but revealing exchange, highlighting their contrasting philosophies on cars and racing. By dawn, the car is fixed, but the encounter leaves Himeko unsettled, sensing that this meeting marks the beginning of something she can't quite define—or control.
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13 Dec 2024
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Xilonen’s eyes widened, and her jaw went slack for a moment before she managed to speak. “You wore them into an explosion?” The question escaped her, half incredulous, half exhausted.
“Well, yeah! They’re supposed to be tough, right?” Mavuika’s signature grin returned, though there was an unmistakable tinge of awkwardness behind it. She gave a small shrug, as if that somehow justified everything. “I figured they could handle it.”
Xilonen closed her eyes for a long moment, pressing her fingers to her temples as if trying to physically push away the rising tide of exasperation. This woman… She inhaled deeply, holding onto her last thread of patience. Every encounter with Mavuika stretched it a little thinner, and today was no exception.The Pyro Archon has a knack for breaking things—especially her sunglasses. And every time they shatter, she finds herself back at Xilonen’s workshop.
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13 Oct 2024
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Where the Hearth Burns Brightest by whitemindredblood
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
26 Jun 2026
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Clervie never really dies at Peruere's hand. Instead, her soul ends up trapped by the Scarlet Moon, and thanks to the grace of a kind god, she comes back to Teyvat... eleven years later.
Suddenly, when Arlecchino is faced with a grown-up version of her supposedly dead childhood best friend, she also finds herself facing a series of feelings she thought she'd long left buried.
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21 Sep 2024