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Cheng Xiaoshi listens to the silence, watches as dust mites float across an apartment devoid of colour, impersonal and cold.
There are worse fates in the world for those who live. But this on its own, for people like Cheng Jiawei, for people like Cheng Xiaoshi—this sort of loneliness is enough to be excruciating.
"Lu Guang," Cheng Xiaoshi asks. "What does home mean to you?"
He thinks of sandalled feet, the warm hands that had held him that quiet September night, and wishes he'd been brave enough to ask what exactly Lu Guang had meant by his words that day.
If I left and the world went on, would anyone even notice me gone?
In which a client's request forces Cheng Xiaoshi to confront the terrifying ordeal of what it means to love, grieve, and find your way home.
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parable of the world's end by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
15 Dec 2024
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In Mizuki's kindest dreams, they dreamt of a sunlit world where everything was quiet and warm. Cozy afternoons sat at the corner booth of a family restaurant. Laughter, electric and bubbly, easier than anything else they could think to do.
In those dreams, they asked Ena, "Do you think it's okay for me to deserve this?"
If it could've been real, if it were possible to imagine, then it would've been nice to live in a reality where Akiyama Mizuki's wish of a perfect world was that of being seen and understood, of being able to stand by everyone's side without any more secrets to hide. A world where living wasn't so agonisingly painful, where they could wish to never wake up.
And— Ah. Mizuki thought. So it's like that, in the end.
("Do you think you deserve mercy, after everything you've done?")
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leave me by the spring flowers (kindness is all i can give) by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: Alien Stage (Web Series)
08 Apr 2024
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He lifts Till's head off the couch, reaching out a hand to gently cup Till's cheek. The skin beneath his touch is soft and warm, and the steady pulse that thrums beneath his fingertips is soothing, despite everything.
I could kiss him like this, Ivan thinks. I could kiss him, and he'd be none the wiser. It can't hurt him any more than what has already happened.
He wants. He wants, wants, wants so badly, greedy monster that he is. The kind of want that makes him ache from the proof of his fallibility, a reminder of his humanity.
Spring flowers, like the wreath of red he once crushed beneath his feet, like the boy he holds in his hands now.
Fragile, fleeting, never once belonging to him.
or: during those fleeting moments before the end, ivan thinks of a boy with stars in his eyes, the spring flowers that had bloomed so beautifully in that monochrome prison, and just what he would do to protect what will never belong to him.
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homeward bound by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
25 Mar 2024
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There are cobwebs in his mind. Sludge and tar and molasses. A graveyard of teethbones and ash, sand on his tongue, bittersweet saltiness on his lips.
"Tsukasa-kun." Rui's voice resurfaces him from the shade, and he blinks at the sun in his eyes, the faint creases in his uniform from where it looked like he had clutched at his chest and squeezed. "Slow steps. Follow me."
"Follow me," he echoes tonelessly. The words comes out flat, if a little lost. Rui squeezes their hands together as an unspoken reminder, a message, a promise: I'm here.
There is safety in that, a quiet sort of assurance he isn't sure when he grew used to trusting. He falls then, but he falls with the knowledge that the people he loves will be there to catch him at the bottom of the gaping chasm.
or: for tenma tsukasa, there are both good days and bad days. on the bad days, his friends are there to help him through the worst of it.
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cellphone love story but awesome by Cesadeg, escapingtheunseen, KiSA120, minaahye, mintgreyashes, mzengf
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
09 Jan 2024
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Mizuki, we're getting a divorce." Ena nods gravely with so much seriousness.
The peaceful, copyright-free picnicy music cuts off and the soft display is replaced by a cold pause menu.
"say wjaht???!" Mizuki spins around on their blinged out gaming chair with actual paintbrushes jutting out of their nostrils (added to enhance the roleplay) and eyes wide. "But i thought our relationship was forbidden?? We'll be exposed as e-daters! Ex edaters! Dont you raelise what that could do.. to us?"
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nevermore, evermore by mintgreyashes for tinkonka
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
06 Jan 2024
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The reality of growing up was such: sitting at the dining table, waiting. An empty home, a heaviness that weighs on him, a friend who smiles and asks, "Are you happy, Tsukasa-kun?"
He thinks of a quiet grey room, of the world he had once loved and chosen to give up. At eight years old, then ten, and now, seventeen. He's faced with a choice.
Just forget.
He smiles.
I've never once been lonely.
(It's the only way to make them happy.)
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rainy day interlude by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
23 Nov 2023
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“It’s just…” Mizuki starts to speak, and their words are quiet, deliberately light and nonchalant. “Some days, it just seems too good to be true, doesn’t it?”
The silence lingers. All the words left unsaid. What is? Ena wants to ask, but she’s almost afraid of the answer.
“Don’t go anywhere.” She reaches out to grab their hand instead. “We’ll figure it out together, so don’t go.”
Slowly, very carefully, Mizuki squeezes her hand back.
“Yeah,” they say. “I’m staying right here.”
or, ena's perspective on just what change might mean for mizuki, and what it means for her to wait for mizuki forever.
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blooming in spring by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
13 Jul 2023
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The smell of petrichor, the earth beneath her fingertips; sun rays dancing across a canopy of trees, reminding her of absence. There is someone missing, a larger-than-life presence that has her reaching out for answers she just can't find.
Who are you?
Just who exactly is Ena forgetting?
She awakens to a name on her lips, unutterable and lost to the recesses of her mind; the quiet grief that blooms in the wake of the gaping void, the words that she never managed to say. A stranger with pink hair, holding a bouquet in their hands.
And Ena is searching, she thinks, for all the things she left behind. She wonders when she forgot how to be brave.
(For every wish, you lose something of equivalent exchange.)
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winter bird by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
20 Jun 2023
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You wake up today.
That's how it begins. You wake up and get out of bed and you do not recognise the face that stares back at you from the mirror.
You are a stranger in your own body today. You are the start of the spiral; the beginning of a cold spell, of an encroaching snow storm.
You are the winter storm that waits for spring.
You wait for a promise.
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through the looking glass by mintgreyashes for mizukisolos
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
10 Jun 2023
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It starts with an idea. A simple, innocuous bet.
Ena says, "Go to school for three days. No skipping a single lesson."
And just like that — they choke on their next inhale. The blanketing warmth in their chest fizzles into uncertainty.
Mizuki laughs weakly. "Um. What?"
"Go to school without skipping. And I'm even being generous. Three days in exchange for my one week of social media inactivity."
In hindsight, it's almost funny just what three days at school can reveal; the fear that comes with being seen, the shame of having to pretend — and just what it means for Mizuki to stare at the face of kindness and have to believe in its sincerity.
But for Ena, they want to try, at least. For her, they want to stop running.
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featherlight by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
26 Apr 2023
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What does it mean to love, and to be loved in return?
Sometimes, it means getting up in the middle of the night, standing by your sister's door to watch the rise and fall of her steady breathing, to make sure she's safe.
Sometimes, it means pressing your face into tucked knees; waiting for something, for someone. The lingering taste of chocolate on your lips, cold hands clutched around your own, entangled limbs and unspoken promises.
Sometimes, Tsukasa thinks, loving and being loved aren't too different after all. To be seen, to be understood, despite everything.
Loving Rui just makes it easy.
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Kusanagi Nene's Guide to Matchmaking: for Dummies by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
09 Apr 2023
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Sunset spills over the concrete tiles of the school rooftop. It’s a beautiful day, complete with the faint chirp of birdsong and the rustling of leaves in the distance.
“Is this a joke?” Rui’s words, sharp and clipped, echo in the empty space. He says nothing else, but his hands begin to clench. There is a tension in the air that gradually sets in.
Tsukasa's eyes widen.
"I would never be with someone as selfish as you."
In which Tsukasa confesses to Rui and gets rejected. Feeling are had, misunderstandings ensue, and Nene saves the day.
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once more, with feeling by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
05 Jan 2023
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It's a rooftop and a sunset. The moment always written about in tragic ballads and sordid love stories; words that ignite a spark.
Ena says, "I'll wait for you forever!"
—and the colours bleed away, leaving behind only a monochrome landscape, a gulf of flames. The memories return, a shadow whispers, 'do you remember now?'
(Because Enanan is waiting; you promised to come back. And all you ever wanted was for her to be happy.)
—but the words once spoken can no longer come to pass. Enanan is gone, and so is Amia; haunted by grief and duty, love and sacrifice. It always ends, and it always falls apart. There is no running.
Mizuki lies.
("I'll come back, I promise.")
That is how it begins.
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the way the world ends by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
26 Oct 2022
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The way it ends, like how all things must end one day, is with a whimper, not a bang.
Their face is seen on Enanan's latest photo. A single text message, a single conversation, and it all falls apart.
Mizuki is tired of the whispers, the secrets; of being hurt and hurting those that they love, time and time again. But this time, this very last time, they'll choose how to say goodbye. This time, they'll choose the ending.
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here comes the sun (someday, you'll be alright) by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
12 Sep 2022
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They've known for a while now. Well, perhaps they'd always known, just kept it tucked away like a dirty little secret, in order to keep some semblance of control, to simply breathe—
It couldn't have lasted. Friends, a normal life, a normal self. Icarus fell after flying too close to the sun. Maybe it was the same for Mizuki too. Everything falls apart and everyone always leaves.
"Oi, wanna tell them? Akiyama's dirty little secret is so disgusting no one would still want to be friends after hearing it!"
And like a coward, they run. It's all they ever do, really. But it was over, wasn't it? This was always how their story would end.
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metanoia by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
22 Jan 2021
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It starts like this.
A hand clutching at his own, warm and loving, as someone ruffles his hair.
"Be good, A-Ying." His mother presses a kiss to his forehead, giving him a smile that seemed to light up the world. "We'll be back soon."
And those words morph into the hurt that comes with being a forgotten one, with only broken promises as his company.
It is like the chill that comes from losing a golden core, that is almost reminiscent to the coldest of winters in the streets of Yiling, and it is like the hunger in his gut, insaitable, feral, a wild fire that cannot be curbed.
He can only watch, time after again, as he loses those he loves.
And he wonders if this is the price for going down a heretic path, for his arrogance and naivety.
("you bring ruin to everyone you love.")
In the end, he is always left behind.
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In which Wei Wuxian, after getting injured on a night hunt, is cursed to relive the most painful memories of his life.
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once, you breathe (oblivion, it follows) by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
19 Jun 2020
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From across the battlefield, his eyes meet Tony's. And Peter realises, shaking, that he cannot let Tony die.
He breathes.
Ash fills his lungs, suffocating him as he raises an arm, a single gauntlet forming. The world watches with bated breaths, as for a moment, Peter Parker wields the power of the gods.
Then, he curls his fingers in.
And snaps.
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It's four past three.
Tsuna wakes up with something prickling at his skin, his heart working in overdrive and sweat-soaked sheets.
Four past three, when he decides to head down to the kitchen to get a glass of water, before going back to bed.
He never makes it back.
Nana is the one that finds him.
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"Once upon a time, a lonely boy wished..."
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Tsuna is kind. Even he knows that much.
Maybe that's why he is able to find it in himself to continue fighting on for his precious people-- even with a heart as jaded as his.
Even if they never listen.
Even when Tsuna knows that they will eventually ruin him.
But even the kindest people have their limits.
And it wasn't Tsuna's fault that they just never listened to him.
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he is siLent because they never Listen.
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• Empath! Tsuna
• Trigger Warnings: Character Death, Angst, Suicide -
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「hyacinths he once held tight, he now lets go. and amidst it all, a single daffodil blooms.」
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a screeching of tires.
vermillion seeping into concrete grounds.
tsuna wakes up to fluroscent lights and white walls of a hospital, the feeling of sin painting his hands an ugly black.
and he is alone.
but even if he's dame-tsuna, even if he's useless and friendless and being alone should be normal--it still feels inherrently wrong.
something still feels missing.
and it's obvious in the way his head feels like it's been stuffed with cotton, or the way he can only recall the echoes of screams, tears, pain and before-
tsuna finds that he can't remember.
so instead, he chooses to forget.
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and sometimes, farewells do not mean the end.
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in which tsuna wakes up after a car accident and finds his memories lost, along with a feeling of wrong and sin, and that he's forgetting the people that are precious to him.