The world changed when the barrier broke. Monsters now walk the surface, and with them came an influx of new diseases that defy human biology and are barely understood. You, a brilliant young scientist, have been called upon to work with monsterkind to help treat these strange new conditions.
Unfortunately, your new supervisor just so happens to be a deeply cynical skeleton whose apathy clashes violently with your desperate need for some semblance of control. Your professional partnership dissolves into a heated academic rivalry where lingering eye contact is definitely—definitely—just anger.
Featuring: excessive caffeine intake, attempts at professionalism (and cooking), desperate hunts to understand magic, and two people so smart they circle right back to dumbassery.
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You're studying SOULs. Ironically, you don't seem to have one. Sans is the only one who can help. Shame you can't be in the same room without wanting to kill each other.
ACT I: germination (these walks are mine): 1—?
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“You must begone”, said Death, “these walks are mine.”
Love wept and spread his sheeny vans for flight;
Yet ere he parted said, “This hour is thine:
Thou art the shadow of life, and as the tree
Stands in the sun and shadows all beneath,
So in the light of great eternity
Life eminent creates the shade of death;
The shadow passeth when the tree shall fall,
But I shall reign for ever over all.”
- Love And Death
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Smut chapter count (for the sinners and saints, alike): 0
Chapters: Currently under maintenance
Note: Smut is skippable, if you're purely interested in the plot. I promise if you have a couple spare brain cells to rub together, you will be able to piece the story together, no problem.This fic has a playlist! Because I like to listen to songs while I'm maladaptive dreaming. Right now, I'm adding one song per chapter <3
Or, just listen to the Chase Atlantic discography. That works, too.
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