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with vash gone after the julai explosion, meryl's keeping a tenuous grip on hope. but when wolfwood shows up outside the news agency, injured and out of serum, there's finally someone else in her life who hasn't given up on vash, either.
someone who misses vash—who loves him—the same way meryl still does.
and who, when they finally get a lead on vash’s whereabouts, is just as willing to go tearing after him as she is.
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05 Nov 2024
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As Ainosuke fixes the watch on his wrist, his nose catches an unexpected scent. Curious, he brings it closer to his face and breathes deep. There’s a cologne lingering on the leather, faint but unmistakable: it smells like a garden after the rain. Only there's something else underneath, a hidden depth that dances on the edges of his senses, just out of reach. Ainosuke has never smelled anything like it. It could have only come from the watchmaker’s wrist. Ainosuke closes his eyes and tries to reconcile the image. Their correspondence together had been bland, almost colourless. It seems at odds with the watch sitting against his wrist, beautifully warm and cared for.
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After having his antique watch repaired, Ainosuke finds himself drawn to the alluring scent left behind by the watchmaker.
An Omegaverse AU.
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“I’ll fix it. Tell me how.”
“Take them off.”
“Excuse me?”
“You heard me! Take them off. Take them off right now!”
Tadashi raises his hands in defense, hoping Ainosuke will lower his voice. It isn’t like him to throw his tantrums in public, so he’s clearly upset, but it is precisely the public nature of it all that makes him hesitate. At best, he might only be cited for indecent exposure. At worst, he could rock the Shindo campaign with a scandal, and then everything really will be ruined.
A wardrobe mishap on the way to a meeting with campaign investors prompts an unexpected shopping trip. Indulging in the chance to spoil Tadashi, Ainosuke inadvertently exposes his true feelings.
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horticulture blues by dweeblet
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
08 Aug 2023
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In her observations thus far, Vash has two moods.
His first and most-preferred front is one of purely joyous whimsy—an unflappable simplicity that makes him easy to like and even easier to dismiss. His second, rarer temper is of the kind that only comes out once the party's over.
It’s when his gaze drifts to the stars or the smoggy wormglow above and he just seems ancient, mellow and deliberate in his pathos. That’s where the intrigue lies for Meryl, this hidden dimension of slow commiseration. The other side of the coin, she’d probably say, for a deeply sensitive soul with too much compassion to give.
Often, when he thinks no one is looking, he seems like a man in mourning. She just can’t figure out what he thinks he’s losing this time.
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- Part 1 of Phytosociology 101
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15 Sep 2024
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"The sun is inching its way towards the horizon from below, bringing the darkness of the sky to a deep, soft blue. A few stars remain, twinkling in the vast vacuum of space. How far the light must have traveled, for how many millions of years, for it to reach this place, so far from home. How alone it must be, how isolated, how terribly lonely.
Ainosuke was like that, once. Lonely by design, craving the company of the only person who was always by his side."
Ainosuke wakes up early, and spends the extra time outside. Tadashi joins him.
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11 Sep 2024
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in the murmurs of the rain (and dew drops on flowers) by lechatnoir
Fandoms: SK8 the Infinity (Anime)
21 Feb 2022
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in which, it's both familiar and new to them, these quiet moments, finding the start of silver streaks in their hair, old faded scars that still hum when it rains, and slow dancing in the library as the radio crackles softly in the corner.
it's in the quiet moments when they can get away, piece together whatever it is that they have between them, a love that is quietly brewed and set upon the table, like Turkish coffee served hot during the summer rain.
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“What if I…lose control?”
“What if I want you to?”
Or: Tadashi is lonely and overworked. After an impulsive decision to call a phone sex line, a chance meeting with a man with an enthralling demeanor and an even more enthralling voice changes the course of Tadashi's future in ways he never thought possible.
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06 Mar 2024
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Embedding tutorial
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19 Feb 2024
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It’s been a long time since Tadashi has been able to just be anything, to anyone, Ainosuke-sama most of all.
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For the TadaAi Halloween Flash: Breaking Taboo, "Indulge Me" -
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Tadashi is born in the fall, when the last leaves are barely hanging on to trees and a harsh chill begins to descend on his hometown. Yet it’s the flowering white chrysanthemums his father notices instead: brilliant, buttery-soft petals unfurling with an earthy fragrance in the backyard of their modest rented home. Tadashi’s name comes easily to him – radiant in its simplicity, a name grounded in loyalty and devotion.
Snapshots of Tadashi in the fall. A season associated with dying can come to signify new beginnings too.
Written for the Sk8 Through The Seasons Fanzine.
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17 Sep 2023
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“I liked it,” Tadashi admits softly, squeezing his eyes shut. “I like skating with you.”
It’s the only way he knows how to describe what the last few weeks have been like – the only way to describe what they’ve just done in the rain – and even all these years, chasing this feeling with Ainosuke is as easy as breathing.
It’s also marginal, the way that Ainosuke’s next inhale stutters, but Tadashi hears it anyway, the sound as loud as his heartbeat in his ears.
Post ep-12, Ainosuke and Tadashi learn what it means to desire, to skate, to heal, and to try again. Their story starts here, by the empty pool, where it always has.
(Tags updated with chapter updates.)
Bookmarked by elianthos
17 Jul 2023
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and by inkpot__gods
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
15 Jul 2023
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I’ll never forget his eyes.
I’ll never forget her smile.
I’ll never forget dark hair.
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17 Jul 2023
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we don't know what's out there by inkpot__gods
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
18 Mar 2023
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“I’m not sharing a room with a man that smells like cheap booze again.”
The Humanoid Typhoon slung Nick over his shoulder, tucking Punisher against his other side. The man’s head thumped against the case and it brought Meryl a slight amount of schadenfreude.
“If you want, we could share.”
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Roberto and Nick are trashed, so Vash and Meryl have a sleepover.Series
- Part 1 of blended in measure
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30 May 2023
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heart on ripped sleeves by inkpot__gods
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
19 Jun 2023
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“What’s going on between you and blondie?”
She could go back to her room, she could walk away from whatever the three of them had been dancing around.
"Are you jealous?” She shot back, crossing her arms.
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Meryl had expected things to change, after that night...she just didn't expect them to change like this. Didn't expect to like it so much, to thrive and grow.
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- Part 2 of blended in measure
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30 May 2023
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Tadashi and Ainosuke's relationship has survived many storms, but that hasn't convinced Tadashi that their love is unconditional. Maybe it's his own insecurities. Maybe it's the pressure of being with someone he loves so deeply. Either way, Tadashi has to face some unexpected truths.
Prompt: Tadashi has to deal with his insecurities with some help from a friend
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- Part 2 of Prompts
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we are not traitors, but the lights go out (sweetheart, is that you?) by broogann
Fandoms: SK8 the Infinity (Anime)
24 May 2022
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"I've been thinking about when we were teenagers," Ainosuke says.
The moonlight coming in from the window does very little to illuminate the room, it only makes it that much harder for Tadashi to make out the features on Ainosuke’s face. The light wraps around his head like a faint halo, but Tadashi knows if he wants to talk about their teenage years the conversation will be far from holy.
“Sir, is everything okay?”Bookmarked by elianthos
24 May 2023
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The voices haunted his dreams.
The harsh, malicious mutterings of his aunts…
The rushed, gossiping whispers of the staff…
And the first familiar voice, embedded in his heart always, upon returning to Japan to attend his father’s funeral:
“Welcome home, Ainosuke-sama.”
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10 May 2023
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A New Scar by AyyanaJay
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
12 Apr 2023
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Meryl shouldn’t have been surprised that even out in the middle of this podunk town she’d been assigned to, trouble would follow Vash the Stampede. Even something as mundane as a grocery trip would inevitably end in a gunfight with that man. Facing down the barrel of a gun was nothing new for Vash. He would be fine, Meryl knew this. He’d survived more attempts on his life than she could likely ever know. If she walked away now, he'd be laughing the whole thing off by tomorrow. But what if, this one time, someone decided to take a stand for him? What if she decided that one more scar was just one too many?
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10 May 2023
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I will drown for you, Hold your heart like waves (Far too soon for this, but I am all in) by ImberReader
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
26 Apr 2023
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The gash doesn’t look too bad, Vash decides as he inspects it in the soft light from lanterns hung about the saloon’s exterior. He is just sorry to have worried his travelling companions, a stinging reminder that he is trouble to be near even when he does well, and the spiraling thoughts that come with that.
But when Meryl comes to treat the injury, a different kind of unraveling begins.
Bookmarked by elianthos
10 May 2023
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Bookmarked by elianthos
10 May 2023