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Vinnie Dakota is dead. Has been dead.
You, of course, know this vividly. Knew it as he bled out in your arms, knew it as you reported it to Block. Knew it as you met with his sobbing mother and her hands banged against your chest, as if she hit you hard enough her boy would come back.
But love never saved anyone. You knew this as you held the love of your life in your arms and felt the death rattle shake his voice and chest like it did your babcia years ago.
Just another fic where Dakota is the one that dies and Cavendish goes back. Eventually. And the time in-between those two events.
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28 Sep 2025
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OH MY GODDDDDD . OH MY GOD... fucking wow i have no words... i'm a sucker for second person fics first of all so 8 gajillion points for that but everything about this is so???beautiful??? heartshattering??? the families written for cav and dakota the .conversation with vin's mom about how she Knew he was from another timeline how she'd lost him twice. the way every single sentence is so deeply intertwined with so much love and care and implies So much about the lives they've lived outside of canon & outside of this fic.... i don't even know what to do with myself op i'm on my knees sobbing and wailing are you aware you wrote a fucking masterpiece. oh my gos
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After years of friendship, it finally dawns on Cavendish that he feels something more. At the same time, he realizes everyone knew this before him.
He does the smart thing, of course, and run himself ragged trying to prove to himself wrong and stop any of these assumptions from making their way back to Dakota.
“I have been informed that some individuals –” He coughed. Milo brought out a handkerchief and Cavendish waved it away. “–have some assumptions about my feelings towards Dakota."
“Your feelings towards Dakota?” Milo tilted his head.
“Yes.”
“You mean love?” Cavendish sputtered.
“Well–”
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27 Sep 2025
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phenomenal characterization!! i love and adore cav povs like this he is such a criminally underexplored character, especially seeing him bounce of all the rest of the cast!!! also sorry for spoilers but thjs line is making me scream and hurl
He feels like brittle bone and perhaps one breathy moan could shatter him into pieces, leaving him as the haunting presence of a man dead not through a broken heart but a heart so full he could have dropped to his knees and thanked a God long abandoned.
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An impulse like so many of Dakota's others somehow turns into a lifetime commitment. He can't explain it. It's Cavendish. Whaddya gonna do?
Edit: rating upped for one illustration.
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02 Sep 2025
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absolute masterwork in characterization they are both so obnoxious and annoying and truly i understand why they get along so well.... i particularly loved how dakota island was handled & how dakota confessed So early which explains a whole lot of why they are Like That in the show!!!
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The origin of Cannibal Dakota.
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01 Sep 2025
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holy jesus fuck this fic is so disturbing and disgusting and appalling and wow. i cannot understate how horrific a read this is but it's SO well done. the way the author captures the initial shock & subsequent delusions and drags you along through dakota's complete and utter breakdown because truly who could even begin to comprehend having to eat the rotting dead corpse of your coworker/best friend. insane, top tier i am so grossed out & stunned and impressed and thinking to myself in horror how they got away with the cannibal dakota joke in the original show that spawned this
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Cavendish has a brief chat with Greg the aerobics instructor. Dakota misunderstands.
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21 Aug 2025
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this is so silly excellent read. i particularly love how fluid the bounces between dialogue & prose are, it adds so much to the pacing and comedic timing it is wonderful
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Let's Go Home and Get Us A Real Sandwich. Cavendish and Dakota go out for sandwiches upon their return to Earth. A guilty Cavendish prompts an accidental confession.
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11 Aug 2025
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adorable fic i love cavendish's characterization in particular!! he's very silly but still blunt in the same way he is in-show and i am sooo impressed by op's ability to capture voice
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You are Mochizuki Ryoji and once, you believed you were human.
This is your story. It is also his.
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02 Apr 2025
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absolutely stunning character study of ryoji and the Incorrectness of his existence holy smokes. everything about this makes my heart ache in the best way possible Please read this fic. Please
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“You guys are a weird combo,” Junpei tells them. “You know that, right?”
“What!!" Ryoji gasps. "No way!! Minato and I are made for each other!! We’re like rice and curry! Peanut butter and jelly! We even finish each other’s…”
“Homework,” Minato mumbles, swapping the papers in front of them.
“Minato is better at math! But I’m better at classic literature!”
“He’s not. I just think it’s boring.”
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(A study on Ryoji, Minato, and the people they love. Spoilers abound.)
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30 Mar 2025
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ryoji is so annoying and overbearing and it's perfection. i especially loved how much care was put into writing the rest of the cast! i feel like ryoji's character shines best when he's able to bounce off of not Just minato or even junpei ... the range of voices for each pov was perfection too & how weird and not right/consistent ryoji/thanatos's pov gets ... i am ecstatic to read the last chapter
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“People change as long as they live.” Ryoji sighs and Makoto feels the warm breath hit the back of his neck. “I think I’m afraid too. What if he’ll never hear me? What if I can only stay by his side and watch, like a lighthouse over the tides?”
Ryoji’s voice is so mournful. Makoto turns to him, slow and careful, scared to brush his face with the tip of his nose. Ryoji’s keen, patient eyes meet his own in the darkness.
“Is staying by his side not enough?”
Ryoji’s lips tighten. He shakes his head gently and says, voice straining with effort: “It is. But I wish he’d make that choice himself.”
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The story of how Ryoji Mochizuki tries again and again to repay a miracle with a miracle.
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21 Mar 2025
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this fic is so beautiful & so overwhelmingly bittersweet.... the way makoto is written to be so loving & kind in such a quiet way needs to be studied i think because oh my god . wow. literally a painting done with words i'm in awe
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Five years ago, Makoto Yuki faced Nyx with his friends and performed the Great Seal, and even escaped with his life. But his happy ending came at a price – Ryoji Mochizuki's life. Despite this sacrifice, Death still exists, performing its duty in the natural order, and when they meet again and forge a new contract, Makoto swears he'll find a way to get his friend back.
After all, Ryoji was more than just a stolen piece of his soul...right?
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21 Mar 2025
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god fuckign dammit i'd never considered the impact death would have left on makoto . absolutely phenomenal i loved how eldritch the tone gets a little over halfway through too ... i need to scale a skyscraper idk i'm feeling so much
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Aigis and Ryoji go on a not-date, on not-Christmas, as a not-couple.
Another good-natured chuckle. “We’re all half-baked, aren’t we?”
Aigis does not really understand the need to adhere to human customs. Human customs, human rituals, human feelings. She was made in the image of man for combat, but there is nothing else as far as she is concerned. But Ryoji, on the other hand, smiles and flirts and gossips. He laughs and cries and wears a bright yellow scarf even though it’s against uniform regulation. She does not understand the way he revels in the act of being human.
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10 Mar 2025
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every bit of this fic is so tightly woven with this feeling of isolation and it's so . the only other person there who even remotely understands what it's like being so Other from the people dear to you (those same people even), are and will always be fundamentally incompatable with each other because they were both Created to destroy the other. i'm sick I'm ill
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A very short series of drabbles regarding the month Ryoji spent alone with his thoughts.
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06 Mar 2025
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wailing punching my pillows.... i have nothing coherent to say about this except that it's shattering my heart into millions of little pieces
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Exercises in Trust and Workplace Relations by douwata for hyaesia
Fandoms: Metal Gear (Video Games)
14 Feb 2024
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"Snake, welcome to your first day at Bioronix. You’re a brand new employee specializing in analytical chemistry.”
A puff of smoke. “And, for the purposes of full infiltration, Otacon will be your partner.”
There has to be another way, another option. Some way for him to teach Snake what he needs to know instead of putting himself in danger–no, rather, putting Snake in more danger. He’d mess something up, say something wrong, get caught on a camera, mess up a password. He’d leave a trace, a fingerprint, he knows it.
Deep down, he knows he’d sink the yacht, and they’d both drown like they were supposed to.
But then he thinks, I need to be able to trust you, Otacon.
“Sure,” Otacon answers at last, “I’ll do it.”
(For once, Otacon has to be on-site for a mission, playing partner to a man he thinks might never trust him again.)
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15 Feb 2024
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OTASUNE FICS ABOUT SNAKE'S BROKEN TRUST POST-TANKER & THE SLOW PROCESS OF HEALING THEREAFTER ... absolutely amazing worldbuilding & such a fun idea for a mission fic ... and i just love how mei ling & nastasha are characterized here such an incredible read thank u for the lovely gift 😢😢
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When Solid Snake dies, maybe the thing Hal misses most – quite apart from kisses and touching and smiles - is having someone to talk to. So he starts writing to him.
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11 Jan 2024
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oh my goddd oh my god oh ky god okay if u need to cry your eyes out please read this fic. second of all THE PICTURES OF ALL THE LITTLE MEMENTOES OTACON TALKS ABT :-( my thoughts abt this fic are incoherent at best but i cannot understate how beautifully the author handled grief ... seeing the dates fluctuate as the fic went on too was particularly powerful... god i'm devastated
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Hal has spent his entire life losing everyone he's loved, but there are some losses he can't accept.
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09 Jan 2024
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I'M A MESS . I'M IN TATTERED PIECES OH MY GOSH i've been thinking so much lately abt the parallels between otacon & strangelove . would he do mammal pod sort of thing after mgs4? as insane as the thought made me i couldn't reconcile his character w/ something i guess.obsessive like that? all that to say i think this fic is the absolute perfect explanation for why he Would end up doing it while still maintaining all the lessons he's learned abt letting go & moving on... absolutely impeccable piece
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Like a genetic memory etched into his being, he felt dread. A field of flowers and a weapon in his hand. A place like this could break him, like it had broken another man. The cosmetic differences meant nothing if the basic shape was the same. A carpet of flowers, some petals swept up into the air as if gravity had reversed. A lone figure standing across from him. His entire world could come apart just like this.
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18 Dec 2023
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this is genuinely one of the coolest interpretations i've ever seen for an AI/robot character oh my.gosh... the way it goes back & forth between the simulation & reality and how snake Feels something missing but doesn't know what... i'm incoherent & nonsensical but holy hell the last scene is going to haunt me for a Long time
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A collection of snapshots from a budding partnership. Rating will go up.
On permanent hiatus. Thank you for reading! <3Bookmarked by hyaesia
15 Dec 2023
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oh my godddd oh my god oh my god this fic totally blindsided me in SUCH a good way... i love how it addresses snake's mental health, i don't wanna spoil it but it's a hc i'm never gonna let go of now holy shit... i just love otasune fics where they Do have issues and they Have arguments and butt heads because what else can you do with the awful hands life has dealt them . such good food
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David had always been plagued by nightmares, alone in the dead of quiet Alaskan nights, until he discovered how loudly Otacon lived.
(A Philanthropy fic exploring Hal and David’s relationship in different shades.)
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14 Dec 2023
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wuauuauauauh ueuuueueue. ... sobbing my eyes out over the last chapter. the whole thing really this fic is just so sweet and lovely and i especially love how the tanker incident was handled :-( !!!
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A mission gone wrong throws Snake into a temporal distortion that gives him another shot at getting it right, but there are more dangers lurking around every corner than he'd initially thought. With Otacon on the outside of the distortion and thus unaware that it's happening, Snake finds himself on his own when it comes to solving it and putting things back to normal—unless he can convince Otacon of what's happening and, more importantly, to help him through every iteration even when it means sending him into the same perilous mission over and over again.
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11 Dec 2023
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RUNNING AROUND MY ROOM LIKE A MADDENED ANIMAL THIS FIC !!!! i am ECSTATIC to see where it goes omfg all the tantalizing little details about the timelines merging & the slow burn beneath it all .i feel SO regular rn
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50 drabbles as Philanthropy visits the 50 states, most reflecting on the nature of the partnership. Covers most genres.
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08 Dec 2023
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THIS IS SUCH A COOL IDEA FOR A FIC i love how there's different plotlines strung through each of the drabbles!! it's a blast trying to connect which ones go where!! that said tw for animal death