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    The first thing Chuuya registered was the sound of a gunshot. He didn't know where he was or how he’d gotten there, all he knew was that he couldn’t have let that bullet hit its target.

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    An exploration of what could have happened if Chuuya hadn't been pretending to be a vampire and only cameback to his senses when he shot Dazai.

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    29 Mar 2026

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    Most people his age had already given up their mermaid dreams, but Chanyeol had always been different. He had been claimed and branded by the ocean when he was barely a child, and had known since then that all the sailor tales were real. He survived the storm, and he grew stronger, and he knew the chance would come sooner or later to capture his own mermaid and make it cry its pearly tears for him. Little did he know that his chance would present itself in the shape of a silver haired boy, with eyes as black as the starless sky and the spirit of the tempest in his heart.

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    07 Mar 2026

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    After the world turns against Ability users, the government finds the perfect weapon to add to their arsenal: Dazai.

    Like hell Chuuya's going to stand by and let that happen.

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    25 Feb 2026

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    When Chuuya coughs the first delicate flower petals into his palm, Dazai knows immediately what it is. Overheard some conversations around town about lovers sprouting inexplicable flowers in their chests. Dazai thinks back to his heart-stopping moment of clarity, weeks ago now: Oh, no. I really do love him. His mind races in place, rutted in a quagmire of unknowns. Chuuya fell ill after that night, but Dazai never told him—a blatant departure from all he’s heard whispered about the mechanism of the flowers—so how did it come to this?

    Dots connected, patterns and speculation converging on a chilling conclusion: an Ability. A contagion. A vile thing that's made a vector of him.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    “You are still a kid too, you know.”

    Dazai narrows his eyes. “I’m nearly twenty three.”

    “Compared to me, twenty three is nothing.” Fukuzawa chuckles at his own joke. “I still feel like a child sometimes, even at my age. We never really grow out of it.”

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    In learning how to feel happiness, Dazai gets the chance to finally live the childhood he never got to have. Maybe there is no greater meaning to life, but that’s something he has to figure out for himself. This is a story of healing, learning to love, and acceptance, in every sense of the words.

    Inspired by all the “de-aging” fics out there that use time travel to deal with the trauma these kids went through (which I absolutely adore!) Time moves forward, and they can’t change the past, but it’s never too late to start to heal.

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    29 Jan 2026