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“Patroclus, look at me.” The king commanded, and I would be a fool not to obey. I tilted my chin to gaze up at him, the picture of a weak and humble servant. It would have been convincing if we were not both aware of the boy I killed, and the boy I had beaten. Accident or not, reputation persevered. “There are rumours that on the northern coast of Boeotia, a boy was born with golden eyes.”
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A rewrite of the Song of Achilles, in which Patroclus is a demigod.
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“Do you believe in soulmates, Haitham?” Asked the architect, who got oddly thoughtful while drunk. The scholar’s stomach twinged slightly at the nickname- a new one, certainly. He had never had a nickname, mind the few his grandmother gave him when he was young.
“Of course I don't.” Said Alhaitham, watching Kaveh. In the dim light, the blonde’s red eyes looked almost as deep and rich as the wine in his hand.
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Alhaitham and Kaveh, before, after, and again.
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half/return by tangledorangeweb
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
02 Oct 2024
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Yuji didn't bother looking away, and couldn’t hide the gasp that parted his lips. Gojo was alive, curled in on himself where he sat crossed legged, his face in his hands. It should have been a relief. Around the white-haired sorcerer's waist, a jagged crimson line broke him in half, like a barbed whip snaked around his lower stomach. It looked inexplicably wrong, like stitching together two sides of reality with nothing but a needle and thread.
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They bring Gojo Satoru back. He wishes they didn't.
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I’ll peel your oranges for you (you may as well have my heart) by tangledorangeweb
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 May 2023
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“You can’t come rushing to me every time you need an orange peeled, senior. Besides, I’m not exactly thrilled about doing it either. The juice makes my hands sticky, and then it smears on my books.”
“Then why do you do it?” Kaveh asks, raising an eyebrow and accepting the now-peeled segments from Alhaitham’s larger writer's hands.
‘I do it because you are Kaveh.’ Thinks Alhaitham. ‘And I would do whatever you ask.’
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Alhaitham and Kaveh as portrayed by the strange intimacy of peeling and sharing an orange together.
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Lungs full of marigolds, heart full of you. by tangledorangeweb
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
02 May 2023
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It starts after a long work day, in a burst of golden petals.Hunched over his desk, forehead pressed to the cool mahogany wood, Alhaitham feels something pushing at the back of his throat. Hacking, bent double with a hand clapped over his mouth, more blood and lumps of something silky are dislodged by his violent convulsing.
When it had finally passed, he uncurls his fingers to reveal what exactly was lodged in his throat. Three bright yellow and slightly rumpled petals are nestled amongst a considerable amount of blood, staining his hand red.
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Alhaitham is coughing up flowers, and he doesn't know why until Tighnari tells him that he has a disease called hanahaki, and he will die if he does not confess and have his love returned. The flowers in his lungs are marigolds- the flowers of creativity and passion, sometimes called 'the flowers of the sun.' It is obvious to all of them who those flowers are for, yet the stoic ex-scribe refuses to confess to his artistic roomate, Kaveh.
But many samsaras have passed since Kaveh and Alhaitham last met, and their past selves refuse to let their current selves befall a tradgedy, just as they did so many centuries ago.