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Greet the dawn with eyes wide open by Lilliae
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
14 Aug 2025
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There was only one person who could cook such a delicious meal. The very same only person who could enter and exit his home undetected when he refused to open it for anyone—because he had personally handed over the spare key.
Mydei.
The man who would spite him with terrible food when his jokes grew as stale as the bread he must have left uncovered just for him, or his methods in their latest spar was as slimy as the fish gutted but raw and unscaled. Who could now recall the whole truth but still prepared such a thing with care for the person responsible for his every death.
Amphoreus has become a real planet forged from the memories accumulated over millions of years.
Every citizen is bestowed all the memories that are rightfully their own, so there’s no escaping the actions Phainon took to prolong the cycles until a true hero could arrive with the new dawn.
But when Phainon is unable to see his own worth and face the tomorrow everyone had longed for, there are plenty of people at his side willing to help open his eyes to the truth.
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- Part 1 of After the pale dawn breaks
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16 Feb 2026
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“Just give me… some time and—and I can… change back. You don’t have to…”
Nothing more escaped him. Even that was too much for Phainon, lips pressed into a thin line mired with regret that he had spoken at all.
“I don’t have to what?”
Phainon didn’t answer.
“I don’t have to what, Phainon?” Mydei demanded, sharp and rough, but that was always when Phainon met him head on.
The truth spilled out in a cracked whisper. “Try and love me. When I—when I’m like this.”
Amphoreus’ first solar eclipse was meant to be a time for celebration. But the sight of daylight devoured by darkness dredges Phainon’s old memories and transformations with them in a frenzied haze.
Mydei proves to Phainon that his appearances, and the past entangled within them, has never mattered to him.
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- Part 3 of After the pale dawn breaks
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16 Feb 2026
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give me the bones of what you believe by Dawn_Blossom
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening
04 Nov 2018
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It doesn't take a sword and a shield to end a god.
Grima is Robin, and he is Chrom's tactician.
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06 Dec 2025
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“Khaslana,” Mydei responds, his voice hesitant as his finger finally dips down to press over the injury Khaslana had previously been hiding.
Over the startling crack in his skin.
Oh.
Khaslana’s eyes widen, his arm shooting out to grip Mydei’s wrist. Mydei offers no protest, simply staring, frozen in shock.
“You’re…breaking,” Mydei mutters, so quietly.
Khaslana screws his eyes shut.
“You weren’t supposed to see.”
Or: Khaslana trudges through millions of cycles, stealing Coreflames and losing himself all while he clings to the memories from his original Flame-Chase Journey, and of his original Mydeimos.
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29 Nov 2025
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‘You should be more gentle with me, Mydei,’ Phainon complains. ‘I’m sick, you know.’
I’ll show you gentle, Mydei thinks to himself. And then, more grimly, if only you’d let me.
In which; Phainon falls ill, and Mydei frets.
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09 Nov 2025
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"That's not an answer."
"It's the only answer I have to give," Anaxa replies, his voice suddenly weary. "We are what we are, Phainon. The sum of our choices, our sacrifices. I chose knowledge at every crossroads, and I would choose it again."
"Even knowing where it led? What it cost you?"
“It led me to you, didn’t it?”
Anaxa goes off on his own to the Grove of Epiphany in the middle of the night. Phainon follows. But the clock winds ever downward, and the collapse of all that is good draws near.
or: A professor and his prodigy take their last lesson, hand in hand.
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- Part 1 of the chrysalis a herald to new beginnings
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05 Aug 2025
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Khaslana wakes up in Phainon’s body. Mydei decides it’s time for a day off.
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18 Jul 2025
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fall down into my arms by Matchaloving
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
26 Dec 2025
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“Truly, is it done? Am I finished?”
The trial of suffering was over.
He can finally breathe."Welcome to tomorrow"
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AU with The iron tomb has failed, Phainon can finally rest- or so he wants to, but eternal rest was out of the question when a warm hand grazes over his face.
The Chrysos Heirs have to pick up the pieces of the new world, and of each other.
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- Part 7 of First Dawn in Amphoreous
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17 Jul 2025
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How to Get Together (With Half The World Our Witness) by earlgreyingtea
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
06 Jun 2025
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"Can you all stop thirsting over my roommate? That's my job, thank you very much."
In which Phainon is very bad at games, surprisingly good at streaming, and somewhere between both at falling in love.
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01 Jul 2025
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In his early days as a slave, Aventurine was subjected to neuro-reprogramming that, when activated, makes him mindlessly obedient. Thankfully, the program was scrapped, and it’s been over a decade since he’s even seen someone who knows the key phrase – but Aventurine’s luck runs out while he’s crashing Ratio’s vacation.
Naturally, Ratio is not content to let some bottom feeding slaver make off with one of his few friends. Offering further assistance, however, leads to unforeseen consequences - because as Ratio begins researching Aventurine’s condition and searching for a way to free him from it, their feelings for one another begin to change. But Ratio is all too aware of the ethical issues of being involved with a patient, especially one who has given him so much power over their mind . . . and as for Aventurine, Ratio is the one person he can't risk losing.
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09 Jun 2025
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They kissed maybe the third or fourth time they met. Slept together the time after that. That was the first time. The second came soon after that, then the third, fourth, fifth.
Their formula was quick and rough. They weren’t kind to each other. They weren’t gentle. Aventurine liked it that way. He was content with it, he was, but now Ratio is soft with him, and Aventurine likes that so much more. It’s terrifying.
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Ratio is in love. Aventurine is so, so scared of that.Series
- Part 2 of medians
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08 Jun 2025
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Phainon walks right up to him with full confidence. “Mydeimos,” he says. “I want a divorce.”
Mydei blinks. “You want WHAT?”
Phainon loses his memory. He wakes up convinced that he and Mydei are married. And that they should get divorced.
(Russian | русский translation thanks to the lovely Zhena_kyubi_no_yuko!)
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17 May 2025
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Calling by vulpes_cantus
Fandoms: Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games)
28 Sep 2021
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Joshua says something Neku can't quite hear - everything else is loud, suddenly, things he never thought of as loud. Things that he hardly noticed - the undeniable hums and rhythms of the UG, the voices of the people even in the relative quiet of Udagawa - it's an undeniable call, a once more - would he ever be back to - his chest hurts, but this is a good thing, it’s time to go -
[neku tries to adjust to living in the RG once more, despite a three year absence. post NEO.]
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- Part 1 of calling
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20 Apr 2025
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how you get me goin', might just blow it by kdj_225 for Onion_lord
Fandoms: Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game)
03 Apr 2025
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Lighter is so indulgent, Wise began considering the possibility of the man being into him. Even if it seemed like such a funny idea at first, considering how Lighter didn’t have a dearth of dating options, it was difficult not to look too deeply when Wise was often on the receiving end of such sweetness.
But those thoughts had only been intended to be a silly bit of entertainment for himself. Nothing to take seriously, and certainly nothing to presume as true in any way whatsoever.
Then Lighter starts doing things.
Lighter is doing his very best to court Wise. Wise is very gradually figuring this out.
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03 Apr 2025
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“Glad to see you back among the living,” Phainon says through a yawn, clearly having spent the night in the uncomfortable chair in the infirmary by Mydei’s side. Like he often does.
Mydei’s head hurts. Just the regular kind of pain, easily managed by ignoring it until it goes away. But what makes it worse, is the confusion at his predicament. The memories returning to him in death used to vary in time and people who appeared in them. Why is it always Phainon nowadays?
“Fuck you,” Mydei says, hoarsely. He feels like he is losing his mind.
Phainon’s mouth locks mid-yawn and he blinks down at him stupidly, tilting his head with confusion. It’s probably fair, he hasn’t even done anything to earn Mydei’s ire as of late.
or; Human brain lives for a few more minutes after dying, replaying the most cherished memories. Mydei starts seeing Phainon after each of his deaths.
Translation into Russian (Русский) available: here
Translation into Chinese (中文-普通话 國語) available: hereSeries
- Part 4 of bound by the stars
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22 Mar 2025
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from admiration to love, from love to matrimony by moongallery
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
16 Jun 2025
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"Forgive me, Lord Phainon, I can't help but be curious. How could you possibly not know that Lord Mydei has been your spouse for... four months?"
"To be honest, Miss Castorice, I haven't the slightest idea."
Through a series of events that may or may not have involved a Kremnoan courting ritual, Phainon had somehow managed to ask for Mydei's hand in marriage.
For some reason, Mydei said yes.
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07 Mar 2025
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Tea is for Teacher by Recipe
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
08 Apr 2021
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Her father never approved of her skills at the card table - said it wasn't honest work. Not like killing people for money, she supposed.
(Byleth has to hustle on the side to fund the Golden Deer's tea addiction; Claude finds the class checkbook and realizes that the math doesn't add up. A retelling of the GD route that slowly diverges from canon, starting with a game of poker.)
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02 Mar 2025
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Dragons are immortal, but they can still be killed.
When the unthinkable happens, Wriothesley is left behind. His grief threatens to overwhelm him until strange happenings conspire to drag him back from the brink.
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- Part 4 of loving you in every lifetime
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18 Feb 2025
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Mystery Work
Part of In hiding cause I'm scared of ai and bots
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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07 Feb 2025
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And maybe he was too exhausted to think properly. Or his brain was too hazy from being rudely roused awake from a half-sleeping state. Or maybe he’s just so damn tired of Lighter running away that he didn’t waste any time to swing his leg over and straddle the man.
Below him, Lighter went deathly still.
Took every escape route out of the man, and they would have no choice but to stay.
“Now, Lighter,” Wise began with a smile. “Do you think I haven’t noticed all those occasions you hugged me was only when I’m synced with Eous?”
Lighter’s hands on his waist twitched. Wise hoped he’s not going to throw him on reflex and dash away despite the locked door.
He didn't want to resort to the ropes he hid underneath his bed.
“So, why do you refuse to hug me directly?”
[Or: Lighter keeps hugging (read: be as physically close as possible) Wise when he’s in Eous form but can’t seem to do so in person.]
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- Part 1 of credit card declines at therapy
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03 Feb 2025