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Zenos's stare is like two molten ingots; yet despite that intensity, he looks half-awake, almost drugged, his hair hanging lank and his white shirt slipping from one shoulder. It's the first time Fordola has ever seen the unobfuscated lines of his body, and it gives her a strange feeling, like seeing a lion skinned of its pelt.
[Fordola is beckoned to Zenos's quarters for an unusual request.]
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"I think you’re the only person I can stand looking in the eye," Hermes had told her once with a watery smile. Then he had laughed at himself for calling her a Person, and Meteion had laughed because he was laughing, and Hermes never made that mistake again. Now she is just Meteion, or Entelechy, or the lost little sounds he makes in his sleep when the dreams come.
[In a fit of rage, Meteion mirrors Hermes's self-destruction in the worst possible way.]
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The silent moments are always the most illuminating—and Zenos is silent often these days, curled like a lioness on a dead man’s throne, his eyes glazed over with some daydream Fandaniel isn’t privy to. And Fandaniel doesn’t think he particularly wants to be; he has borne witness to the inner workings of other beasts, felt their desires roil up within their machinery until they turned to steam. Zenos is no different from any other animal under his study. This one just walks on two legs.
[Fandaniel and Zenos discuss love and desire. It goes poorly.]
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The hero’s body, exhumed from soil and stone and bitter memory, is as plain as any other. His brow is furrowed in death, which you find a little charming in a piteous way. He must have raged until the very end, howling like a wild animal until the darkness came. Many such cases; some things never change.
[Elidibus exhumes Ardbert's body and hallucinates an old friend.]
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the scent of your skin and some foreign flower by sylphlands
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
30 Apr 2023
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It’s the little things that Vash, forever taking snapshots of everyone around him, can’t lose count of or forget. The shitty truck fan drinks in Wolfwood’s scent and recycles it back into candied fruit and hot smoke, linens warmed by his skin and the endless sun, and Vash knows what’s happening.
[Vash and Wolfwood's first hookup is more than either ever bargained for.]
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- Part 1 of liminalities
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liminalities by sylphlands
Fandom Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
30 Apr 2023
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meditations by sylphlands
Fandom The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
29 Sep 2022
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Upon his magnanimous throne, his royal highness’s face remains impassive. Placid as a frozen lake with a dozen corpses sunk to the bottom of its muddy bank; oh, but, one little crack is all it takes to test how solid.
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01 Dec 2024
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nowhere left for us to go but heaven by everythingeverything (yiqie)
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
18 May 2023
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“I won’t lie to you, Spikey. I’m curious about it too. But I’d never ask. Not until you do.”
“You?”
“Yeah. Why wouldn’t I be? Ain’t never seen one of those…tall brown things.”
Vash goggled at him. Then, “Trees?”
// A brochure comes in the mail advertising the hiking trails of Blue Ember Valley, a strange, haunted forest that has grown in the crater of July.
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19 May 2023
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Vash pauses at the door when they reach it, but Wolfwood blows past him, catching him by the elbow to pull him over the threshold. Vash’s yelp of surprise is covered by the thump of Wolfwood kicking the door shut behind them, and whatever noise he was going to make next is swallowed by the click of the lock.
“I’m gonna kiss you,” Wolfwood announces.
"Oh.” Vash recognizes the tone beneath the words—the way Wolfwood will sometimes say something out loud to gauge whether it should happen or not. It’s usually along the lines of “I’m gonna knock your teeth in.” It’s never been kissing before.
But now the moment’s here, and Vash is woefully unprepared. He should have realized when he caught Wolfwood giving him that look as he picked himself up off the ground—a look that Vash wouldn’t dare call “smitten” out loud, even if it was the only word that came to mind. Wishful thinking, right?
Wrong.
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14 May 2023
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name your courage by axumun
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
25 Apr 2023
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It's not really a decision that Wolfwood makes, to sit on his own bed beside Vash's. It's like some cosmic pieces are clicking into place, the way breath enters and leaves his lungs without much conscious thought.
"This is a no smoking room," Vash says. He's looking out the window, up at the radiance of the moons. He still wears his jacket.
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14 May 2023
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Nicolas D. Wolfwood is about to get a crash course in Xenobotany.
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27 Apr 2023