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    In this world, the first words your soulmate speaks to you are tattooed on your skin from birth.

    Wriothesley hears his on the day he stands - a ragged, scrawny teenager, his hands still feeling the sticky warmth of another’s blood - in the middle of a world he’d only ever seen in newspapers. And looking down on him was a divinity... dressed in elegant robes, with hair the color of moonlight on water.

    In that moment, Wriothesley swore an oath to himself that he would not utter a single word in reply. After all, what right did he have to taint this divinity with his own filth?

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    14 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    Every day, without fail, the man with the moonlight hair came to sit in the same corner booth at the cafe where Wriothesley worked.

    Wriothesley swore he was handling that completely normally.

    Written for the Sovereign's Lair 2026 Valentine's Exchange.

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    06 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 22

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    Wriothesley notices draconic eyes the size of his head looking down at him.

    Instantly, his heart is jump-started into a beating frenzy, pounding in overtime even as he does his best to keep as still as possible. Part of him wants to say something—a witty greeting, perhaps?—just to catch the dragon off guard, but the muzzle certainly isn't helping with his attempts.

    Then he hears the rumble of ancient grounds, sees the rising of a majestic set of claws, and thinks,

    What an honor it is, at least, to die from such a magnificent beast.

    Wriothesley is offered to the Dragon of Water as a sacrifice.

    Spoiler: he does not actually get sacrificed.

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    06 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 95

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    A soft sound brings Genji's attention back to the recording. “No,” Hanzo whispers, so quietly Athena has to boost the sound, creating small crackles of feedback in the speaker. Genji’s heart thumps loudly in his chest. “No,” Hanzo repeats, a little more strongly, “Father, please.”

    Sojiro scoffs, curling his lip. The item he’d been reaching for comes into view of the camera – a bow, not too dissimilar to Stormbow, but stained in the reds and blacks their father was known to be fond of. “You’ve been warned, Hanzo.” Sojiro produces an arrow from a quiver stashed somewhere behind him, nocking it on the bowstring. “This tendency of yours is detrimental to the clan and will not be tolerated.”

    Hanzo makes a more concentrated effort of struggling against the guards. “I promise it won’t happen again, Father. Never again. Just please, don’t do this!”

    OR: When Overwatch confiscates old files from Shimada Castle, Genji asks Athena to sort through them and show him anything she thinks he should see, which leads Genji to the realization that he's managed to completely miss the fact that his brother's gay... and that their father wasn't who Genji thought he was. So, he decides to take matters into his own hands.

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  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    Was it all just wasted? Or of a different kind.
    A different time, where we all knew the end came swift-
    -as mountain winds blew.
    And I knew you. In every shade as you grew.
    For all you struggled to do.
    And I knew you. Stars above, I knew you.
    And I loved you, for all I forgot to survive, for all that I tore to arrive-
    -at this place, scarred and twisted and cracked, with a new cast of names all here at my back.
    And I loved you, my dear, in all of your shapes.
    For all that you ached to fly.
    And you that I knew, though I’ll curse and I’ll lie.
    It’s all what I don’t know.
    Who the hell am I?

    {In which it's been a long time since I last saw you.}

    (Whumptober Day 11/16/22 - “Can you get through all the pain inside you?”/Repressed Trauma/“All the battles I want to win, nothing matters but giving in.”/Collars)

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