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  1. Public Bookmark 99

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    The bassbeat drowned out conscious thought, and it took language with it. Grian couldn’t tell what people were saying. He could watch them, watch the colors play across cheeks and irises and the curves of strangers’ ears, their earrings, their weapons, but he couldn’t understand them. He was getting overwhelmed, and that was a bad thing. He’d worked too hard to get overwhelmed at concerts anymore.

    The Watcher was up in the rafters, huddled in a corner above the sweeping lights. Grian could see him if he squinted, a darker speck of shadow in the dazzled-out gray of the venue’s high roof, but no one else would be looking. They’d go about their concert and the rest of their nights like nothing had happened, the side effects safely dispersed over a crowd of three thousand, and the Watcher would come out healthier. His cheeks would fill out a little.

    He’d look more like Grian, and Grian--

    Grian would look more like him.

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    19 Nov 2024

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    "Grian, what are these?"

    Weakness, he tries to rasp; it comes out garbled, so he sucks in a long, slow breath and tries again, lungs trembling with the effort. "Weak– weakness."

    Scar drops the bottle like it's burned him. "You took three weakness potions?" he chokes out, and that seems to break whatever trance Xisuma, Pearl, and Tango have been in this entire time. They rush forward, eating the distance between them in rapid strides, until they're all crouched around Grian.

    Grian shuts his eyes again, before remembering he isn't supposed to do that. He wants to say sorry. What he says instead, is: "It was– safer. Like this. For you."

    It amounts to about the same thing.

    Or, I finally buckle down and post the rough draft of hunger au, where I give Grian every mental illness known to man and also a few new ones. Please heed the tags.

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  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    So much for the rule of three.

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    25 Aug 2024

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    The text comes from an unknown number. It contains an address, and a time roughly three hours from now. The instant he reads it, the sucker in his mouth cracks.

    That’s him. 

    (Gojo, and the chat log on his phone with an unknown number, which just contains a long exchange of love hotel addresses.)

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    25 Aug 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    There is purpose in that, too. Motionless or breathing; wounded or dead or laughing; dead and motionless and with a purpose, because all of it had a purpose. Gojo Satoru existed the way bodies painted shadows on the ground — needed because, and forgotten until the sun burned. If there wasn’t — 

    If there isn’t, Gojo had said, once, offhandedly — as if he hadn’t cared, uninvited from the day they had sat and decided his technique deserved a museum glass, and his soul only their very best attempts, then use me to make one. 

    or: the honored one.

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