Captainpheonix



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    [His coffee steams beside him. Then doesn’t. Then does again. He drinks it. It’s saltwater. It burns the cuts on his tongue, the blade in his hand, his feet at the edge of a—

    Overhead, a light flickers in a pattern he can almost match to the sixth signal. He counts the pulses on his fingers, mouthing something as he stares up—“Two long. One short. Then the gap.”—The thrum is almost overwhelming: A heartbeat? No. A gate.

    The board resets when he turns away.

    The spiral becomes a waveform. Expands into a topograph: a mouth.

    He thinks: The mouth is trying to say something. It’s saying it backward.

    He tries to repeat it back. His voice plays back to him in reverse, magnetic tape spooled wrong. The room trembles. The floor tilts, just slightly, toward—

    The Wound.

    But they didn’t call it that yet. Not then.]

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    Given the choice between rotting in prison or being launched into the black, disgraced astrophysicist Dr. Jayce Talis opts for the jump to Sector E3-R212—The Wound—a puzzling region at the edge of the Boötes Void that should be empty, but isn’t—chasing the echoes that destroyed his life in the first place.

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    03 Sep 2025

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    Instead of dissolving with Viktor like Jayce expected, he gets sent a decade into the past when Viktor didn’t even know him yet. Of course the logical action to take is to kidnap him. Meanwhile Viktor, twenty-two years old, figures that hey, as long as he can research magic, this isn’t too bad of a predicament.

    Or: Post-Season 2 Jayce and Season 1 Viktor, the grief of having lost your soulmate while having to look at his younger version who doesn’t even know you, the endless exhaustion of being a second-hand love and also science.

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    Jayce shuts his eyes. Slams a proverbial door on Viktor's quiet, gentle plea. He feels his body make the decision for him before his mind can talk him out of it, feels himself shakily rising to his feet, gathering Viktor up into his arms.

    His muscles tense in preparation for a sudden, unpleasant exertion.

    Viktor will understand.

    He has to.

     

    Or,

     

    Promises are made, and promises are broken. Again, and again.

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    30 Jul 2025

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    “Is that… you, Viktor?”

    It was barely more than a whisper, but he almost couldn’t bring himself to ask in the first place. The question scared him, the coming answer he feared even more. He knew the question was callous and loaded, but he had to know.

    Those warm eyes faltered and became reproachful, they averted with a look of guilt, his eyebrows scrunching together. Viktor hugged his good knee tighter to his chest, his short and shallow breathing and his tightened lips betraying the hurt he felt at the question. The creases at the side of his nose deepened in dismay in the way only Viktor's face suited. All of these things told Jayce everything he needed desperately to know; this wasn’t the serene herald, or even the maniacal machine herald.

    This was Viktor.

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    Jayce being the lovesick man he is, and ever so hesitant he tries to explore his every single fantasy with something just close enough to the real thing.

    With the assistance of some shimmer he is able to ease himself into the vision of his partner. Consuming every moment to its fullest.

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    15 May 2025