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    Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”

    “Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”

    “Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”

    “Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”

    Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.

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    But I know, if the world turned upside down / Baby, I know you'd always be around

    “Mike?”

    It’s a whisper, but it’s filled with something so earnest, so true, that it strikes through Mike’s very core. Rips apart at his chest, with the familiarity of it. The way his name sounds in this younger Will’s throat, soft and gentle and so, so relieved.

    “Will,” Mike says back, matching his whisper. “Hey, Will, it’s me. Mike.”

    “But—” Will frowns. He’s so unsure, Mike wants to cry for him. “You’re so tall.”

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    Or, when Will is possessed by Vecna and trapped in his own mind, Mike is the only one who can save him.

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    The Yorozuya's latest job involves old gods, marriage issues, a sun that decides to stop setting, and way too much collateral damage.

    Sometimes Toushirou wondered what the point of surviving a homicidal immortal human-turned-demigod was if he was just going to end up slaughtering every Edo citizen himself out of pure frustration.

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    22 Nov 2024

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    Sometimes Hijikata wonders why he bothers trying to salvage the Shinsengumi’s reputation if the Shinsengumi itself is just going to destroy what’s left of it anyway. It’s not the kind of question anyone should be asking themselves on a Wednesday night on an overtime shift, without coffee or nicotine, but his life hasn’t been normal in a very long time and now there’s nothing he can do about it except suffer and wonder what he did in a previous life to deserve this.

     

    Or: there are murders happening all over Edo, the ocean is a dangerous place, Gintoki becomes a side character, and Hijikata can't catch a fucking break

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    Hijikata’s day (and life) gets derailed when he crashes into a wedding. It honestly doesn’t surprise him any more.

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