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    It was a Thursday afternoon at the end of March, and Bruce Wayne met Clark Kent in the way enterprising billionaires tended to meet investigative reporters: Through an interview.
    Kent had posture like cooked spaghetti and wore his plaid like the strangest camouflage in history.

    Bruce was less than impressed.

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    27 Jan 2026

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    The game shifts. Bruce learns the Riddler's true identity. Instead of handing him over the police, he decides to break his own rules and deal with the man himself.

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    27 Jan 2026

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    “Math?” And a published academic journal, at that?

    “Yes.” Ratio returns the book to his bag, carrying on, but Aventurine’s stuck on the fact that this is apparently what he does in his free time outside of composing music.

    “…I thought you were a pianist.”

    “I am a pianist.”

    “But– math?” Even Aventurine doesn’t spend that much time thinking about math, and he spends twelve hours a day staring at financial models.

    “Does it not occur to you that it's possible to have more than one interest?”

    Aventurine lives the same week on repeat: eighty hours of his soul-sucking high finance job, then two nights of dancing off the stress to the beat of his favorite anonymous DJ. His move into a luxury apartment building brings him next door to Ratio, an esteemed classical composer with a love for piano. Eager to make a good impression, Aventurine keeps his clubbing habit under wraps — but he’s not the only one hiding secrets under strobe lights.

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    22 Jan 2026

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    And then, the unimaginable happens.

    Aventurine, his roommate, the man he only occasionally speaks to for more than minutes at a time, leans over in their shared bed, and kisses him. A brief peck, leaving Veritas no time to react and his world spinning.

    "Wait." He says firmly, giving his roommate pause. "Why did you do that?"

    Aventurine snorts, and his lips twitch like he's trying not to smile. "You told me you love me. You don't remember?"

    The air knocks itself out of Veritas' lungs. "I…I what?"

    The countdown to one Veritas Ratio telling his roommate that he loves him, and the days after.

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    22 Jan 2026

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    Edward and Bruce share an Aesthetics class. It’s safe to say they don’t get along.

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    19 Jan 2026