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Zuko goes into exile with a scar, a mission, and a wife.
The girl wears ill fitted ceremonial silks. She is too thin, with jutting bones and hollowed eyes. Dirt smudges her cheek. Her lower lip has a healing split in it. Gaudy as her finery is, she wears it like prisoner’s rags.
All of this Zuko registers in the time it takes him to reach the dais and bow. Every muscle aches with the remembrance of what happened the last time he knelt before Father. This time there is no begging, no roar of the crowd, no burning. Still—Zuko’s grateful to stand once more.
Slipping into soldier’s parade rest, he waits for what will come next, all too aware of the girl’s defiant body next to his.
“I am told that this is Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” Father says, cruel amusement oiling his words. The phrasing makes the girl sound like a thing. “The last waterbender of their pathetic tribe.” Flames conceal all but his shadow, yet Zuko knows from long experience the exacting blade of his father’s smirk. The smirk he must surely wear now. Because he has built up his insult and now he lets it fall. “Your bride.”
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19 May 2025
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There is a Bible in the gloves compartment of the car. Angel has picked it up at a budget hotel run by an American couple, and has been reading it ever since while Aki drives.
Today, Angel sticks a receipt between the pages to mark his spot, and then dumps the book back in the compartment. "Do you think I should have more eyes?"
"I think you're fine as you are," Aki replies.
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19 Apr 2023
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Dazai coughs up blood and flowers. Atsushi remains by his side, and Dazai's heart soars and plummets at the same time.
Of all the ways to go, of course it has to be because of him.
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07 Jun 2019
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Leorio is a doctor who does his absolute best, and Kurapika is the reaper who visits his hospital.
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- Part 6 of Leopika Week 2018
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20 Mar 2019
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Eventually one reaches a point in one’s life, Katsura muses as his foot plunges through a particularly rotten plank of floorboard, where all one wants is a home.
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06 Feb 2019