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Harry calls Kim late at night. Neither of them can sleep. It’s the heat wave, really.
YOU: “What are you wearing right now?”
KIM KITSURAGI: “What am I wearing right now…?” The end of his sentence shifts and changes.
YOU: You hold your breath. It is unbearably hot in this small and stuffy room. Nothing moves.
KIM KITSURAGI: “Nothing, detective. I am wearing nothing. It’s too hot for that.” A small sound. He stretches under the covers. You can hear them shift over his skin.
SUGGESTION: All of his skin.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY: All of his bare skin.
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- Part 1 of a loaded little call
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Radios, recovery, and romance.
Or, Harry starts listening to the radio. It gives him something to hold onto. (And maybe discovers the lost island of Atlantide while he’s at it.)
Featuring: WEATHER FM, SAD FM, MIRRORBALL FM, and SPEEDFREAKS FM
KIM KITSURAGI: “You know, when I was a child, I used to pretend I was flying an aerostatic through the pale and had discovered Atlantide. Mostly when I was trying to fall asleep.”
ESPRIT DE CORPS: He still does. Nights he really can’t sleep, he soars low, skimming the city: its tall clear buildings sparkling in the sun, the river snaking through the plain. Far below, a man looks up at him, shading his eyes. A child waves at him. A dog chases his shadow, snapping at it, never catching it.
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From a Revacholian One-Bathroom Apartment by mayhawk
Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
16 Mar 2025
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Harry loves Kim's apartment. It's perfect.
Except there's only one shower.
Kim’s showers are efficient, usually five minutes or less, except -
VISUAL CALCULUS: Except sometimes they’re not.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY: You know what he’s doing in there!
INLAND EMPIRE: You do.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT: You’re both men, are you not? Men in your early forties, but that’s nothing - and twice a week, Kim takes longer than usual in the shower.
CONCEPTUALIZATION: Fifteen minutes. Usually in the mornings, before you drag yourself off your couch.
DRAMA: He likes the plausible deniability. You’re not up yet, he doesn’t have to feel guilty.
INLAND EMPIRE: Sometimes, though, he does it at night. One night - the dog days of summer, he can’t sleep, no one in the entire city is sleeping, if the irritability of the precinct, the circles under everyone’s eyes, and the crime rate is to be believed - he gets up and goes into the bathroom. You’re almost asleep, drifting, but wake to Kim’s bare feet padding through from bedroom to bathroom.
PERCEPTION: You hear the groan of pipes, the sound of water hitting the tub. The pull of the shower curtain.
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- Part 2 of From a Revacholian Apartment
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After the loss of the station’s Coupris 40, the Captain tells all of you you’ve got to fundraise some money to replace it. Bake sale, motor carriage wash, increase in taking bribes - ha ha, he says, just kidding, don’t do that one - he doesn’t care. Just do it.
You get a brilliant idea:
YOU: “We should do one of those calendars, you know, the ones with firefighters, and the Moralintern, and the Coast Guard-”
JEAN VICQUEMARE: “They make ones with women, too, Harry."
YOU: “Do they really? Kim, is that true?”
KIM KITSURAGI: Kim shrugs a shoulder, as if to say, don’t ask me.
(Or, they do the damn calendar).
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You come down the next morning to the fishing shack in the village to find the detective bathing in the sea.
“Detective,” you say. “I’m pleased to note you availing yourself of the facilities.”
“Kim, it’s fucking freezing,” he says, seriously. His hair hangs wet and limp, darker like this, and his chops draggle down his face. He looks like a half-drowned dog you had once seen Eyes pull out of L’Esperance.
You’ve got to let him use your shower, you decide.Set in Martinaise.
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22 Aug 2025