gregariousProtagonist
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Kurapika shouldn’t answer his phone. It’s too late, for one thing, already half past two in the morning. “Nothing good happens after midnight” is an adage with which Kurapika is so familiar that they drink from the same water bottle and don’t mind sharing a hotel bed. For another, he’s accompanying Light Nostrade to a breakfast meeting tomorrow and should at least try to get some sleep. And third, it’s Leorio’s name that blinks up at him.
On the first ring, Kurapika tears himself away from the profile he’s putting together on a flesh collector confirmed to have one of the scarlet eyes. On the second, he watches his phone convulse on the desk in his hotel room and considers rejecting the call to put it out of its misery. The third ring reminds him of the way Leorio sounds right after waking, with a sandpaper voice and a laugh like a jackhammer, gravel stuck in the back of his throat until he drinks enough coffee. He answers on the fourth.
“Oh shit,” says Leorio. “I didn’t think you’d pick up.”
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Humans are persistence hunters. They’re designed to stalk their prey until it collapses. Until it succumbs to its mortality, relinquishing its salted blood and tender flesh to creatures of superior endurance.
Hisoka has been the hunter. Has crept along behind his target until they couldn’t take it anymore. Has seen the look in another man’s eyes when he realized his own will to live wasn’t stronger than Hisoka’s desire. How terrific and new to be the prey! How exciting! An almost seasick feeling, the dread of capture mixing with his longing to face his predator and making him queasy.
He doesn’t hear the pin until it whizzes past his ear and lodges into the wall.
“Oops,” says Illumi, “bad aim.”
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On The Black Whale, Hisoka is hoping for a little attention, and Illumi wants to have a honeymoon.
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You Can Look and You Will Find Me by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
24 Jul 2025
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“In my experience, when someone won’t answer your texts, they don’t want to see you,” Zepile says in a sympathetic, self-satisfied voice that means “you’ll understand when you’re older.” Which is ridiculous because thirty is not so far from twenty-one, and Zepile doesn’t understand anything about Kurapika.
Irritation scrambles up Leorio’s throat on wooly legs. He glugs down his beer in an attempt to drown it. The beer is lukewarm and watery, but he can’t complain. It’s on a two-for-one special.
“Yeah, well, I don’t give a shit what Kurapika wants,” Leorio says. It comes out louder than he meant, and the bartender glances over at them with a raised eyebrow. Leorio’s face is warm in the faux-sunburn way it gets when he’s toeing the line between sober and tipsy. His tongue feels heavy in his mouth. “If he’s ghosting me, he’ll have to tell me so to my face.”
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A fic in which Leorio goes looking for Kurapika.
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Illumi Zoldyck is one of the best assassins in the world. Hisoka Morow is a confidence man whose charm knows no equal. With such complementary skills, it’s only natural that they’ve collaborated on hit jobs for years. Only natural that they became friends. Only natural that they ended up in bed together more than a few times.
Their latest contract, a request to kill elusive tech CEO Chrollo Lucilfer, will stretch the limits of both their professional and personal relationships. They’ll do whatever it takes to finish the job. But when Hisoka’s strategy to win Chrollo’s trust crosses the line, Illumi finds himself overwhelmed with jealousy. Will he be able to put his feelings aside and focus on the job at hand?
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This is an AU without nen where Hisoka is a con artist, Illumi is an assassin, Kurapika is their client, and Chrollo is their mark. When everyone has something to gain and so much to lose, who can you trust?
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- Part 1 of The Show of Confidence Universe
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A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
30 Dec 2024
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“I was thinking about the last time I saw you.” Kurapika grabs Hisoka’s wrist to hold his hand in place and grinds down with full force. He swallows a moan. “And how you’re a better kisser than you look.”
Leorio’s breath hitches. “Are you drunk or something?”
“No, I’m…” Hisoka holds a finger to his lips and winks. Kurapika closes his eyes. “I’m in bed.”
Leorio doesn’t say anything for a long moment. The phone screen is still lit up, the call time ticking higher second by reliable second. Kurapika holds his breath and waits.
Finally, Leorio says, voice strained, “Kurapika… are you…”
“Yes,” Kurapika says. “Should I hang up?”
__A fic in which Kurapika needs help from Hisoka and Leorio to handle a lust-based nen curse.
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The Show of Confidence Universe by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandom Hunter X Hunter
08 May 2025
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I once read that some people's beauty can't be captured. And he'll be sorry. Happy ever after by bisexualbluesargent
Fandoms: Homestuck
15 Jan 2026
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So, like, your thing is that you go into public spaces, like elevators, or airport gates, and film yourself telling people how much you love them.
Bookmarked by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
03 Feb 2026
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a must read for any homestuck enjoyer
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Azumane Asahi's Big Gay Romance by jibrailis for dfabnoya (chopstickkind)
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
09 Jun 2015
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The air-con gets cranky, Asahi gets a job, and Nishinoya gets his man.
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20 Jan 2026
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This was definitely, somehow, Bokuto's fault.
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07 Jan 2026
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If being horny were a crime, you would’ve been thrown into the slammer eons ago. You’re trapped in the middle of the ocean, chock full of teenage hormones, wired enough to supply a server room, and in a wild, rapturous love that you tell yourself is simply a brief, passing sexual interest.
It is neither brief nor passing.
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Bookmarked by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
02 Dec 2025
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“No, I get it,” says Terezi amiably. “You want to get the band back together and then you want the band to play a song of forgiveness for you, with a bass line of love and a piccolo solo of tenderness and then the tiniest violin in the world will play a song of complete, utter pity for your-”
Bookmarked by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
03 Nov 2025
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going insane over vriska/dave