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    If this is what the bastard smells like on suppressants, then Ed can't even imagine how good he must smell normally. What would the full force of it do to Ed's body? To his psyche? It would probably feel amazing.

    Ed hopes he smells half this good to other people when he presents, but knowing his luck he'll smell like dear old dad, not that he remembers what that smells like anymore. Probably it'll be some bullshit like... like... a train car when it's way too hot out. Rancid milk. Automail oil, too, even if he gets his limbs back, because there's no way he won't be cursed with this for the rest of his life. To be fair, he fucking deserves it.

    Part of this whole thing has to be about acceptance, though, doesn't it? So, maybe he'll just... be what he is. For once.

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    04 Aug 2026

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    (written for ffxivwrite2024)
    [Day 25 - Perpetuity]

    He carries a dream through the ages.

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    18 Apr 2025

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    In hindsight, Eddie should’ve known he was playing with fire. Throwing Gareth right into the deep end and making his first real sexual experience the time he watched Steve get railed in the back of his van.

    Gareth develops a crush after the Van Incident and Eddie wants to do something about it.

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    06 Sep 2024

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    June 1986
    Steve is lonely.

    He’s always been lonely, honestly. An empty house, absent parents, friends that didn’t really know him. Frankly, he probably doesn’t really know himself, either. It used to be easier to ignore—between sports and parties and searching for the next girl to hang around with.

    Then Nancy Wheeler told him he was bullshit. In the wreckage of the storm, he realized she probably hadn’t been that off base to call his life bullshit.

    [Life in Hawkins, Indiana is boring, ordinary, no supernatural entities. Steve still changes.

    Luckily, he still makes some new friends, too. Certain people are simply meant to be in the same story.]

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    04 Jun 2024

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    Vecna dies. So does Eddie. The world doesn't split open. In the aftermath, Steve goes home to an empty house.

    Well. Almost empty.

    Steve sighs, hanging his head. One more thing. Then he can go to bed.

    The dirty towel can wait until later. He tosses it towards the bathtub without looking and turns to the sink, grabbing his toothbrush and toothpaste. When he looks in the mirror, Eddie’s staring back at him.

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    16 May 2024