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  1. Rec 23

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    Hal meets Pliskin for the very first time.

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    11 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    Hal Emmerich is a mobility aid engineer struggling with a balancing act of committing to his job and his adopted daughter, Sunny Emmerich. In between leading important projects and raising a young girl, little time remains for Hal to put himself out there and find a partner. He's abandoned the idea entirely; tall walls have been built around his heart, the key only gifted to his daughter. But... that man he can't stop seeing around town keeps managing to get involved in his life, whether Hal wants it or not. And those walls are tall, but quite thin.

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    25 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    When the infamous outlaw Solid Snake, now ten years past his prime and hardly keeping on, comes to the rescue of a new face out in the west, aeronautics engineer and entrepreneurial pioneer Hal Emmerich, the two form an unlikely partnership at the whim of a convenient business opportunity. After an unforeseen homicide leaves them cuffed together with targets painted on their backs, pulling new and old foes out of the woodwork, the pair must learn how to survive alongside each other during the final, dangerous closing years of the wild west.

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    29 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Extreme canon divergence/ AU: What if Eiji never injured himself and therefore never came to the US? The events of Banana Fish still happened, but differently, as Eiji wasn't there to influence them.

    Without the injury to slow him down, Eiji Okumura continued to pole vault and eventually won the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (which actually took place in 2021). Two and a half years later, he finally arrives in New York City. Haunted by feelings of inadequacy, he's ready to give up pole vaulting and create a new life for himself as a photographer. However, the immigration process in the US is long and complicated, and there's no guarantee he'll even be accepted.

    Eiji wants a shortcut, and Max Lobo suggests one in the form of a fake marriage to Ash Lynx.

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    24 May 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 63

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    There is a moment, every show, where Eiji watches Ash prepare to perform. He assumed that he'd have to relax to go out on stage, but Ash does the opposite: lifts his shoulders, hardens his gaze, sets his jaw. When the crowd roars, and Ash Lynx walks out, a grin on his face, he is not the same Ash Lynx that Shorter teases about eating undercooked cup noodles in the bus because he's not patient enough to wait for them to cook. He is not the boy that asked Eiji quietly to turn his camera flash off, or the boy that pulls Skip onto his shoulders to walk from the bus to soundcheck.

    On stage, he becomes someone unrecognisable. Someone untouchable. Despite what the audience thinks, throwing themselves at the barriers and screaming that they love him.

    Eiji stands behind Ash in the wings, watching the last few moments that he stands, still, before slipping out of himself and into someone else. He looks to the floor, and cradles the back of his neck with his own hands, fingers wrapped in the ends of his hair.

    Raising his camera, Eiji looks through the lens and takes a photo.

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    or, the banana fish band au :3

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    title from Sex Drugs Etc by Beach Weather

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    27 Jun 2023