The morning comes too soon. Erich gives up on sleeping when he hears the watch change, crawling out of his bedroll and swiftly changing clothes before Degurechaff can stir. He slips outside and nods a greeting to Serebryakov, then leaves her behind in favor of finding breakfast. (It’s still strange, to eat and not have …
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Erich wakes to a hand in his hair and ripples of warmth coursing through his body. He wakes to lethargy and contentment and safety, to the urge to close his eyes and rest, to trust, and it’s all he can do to fight past the unnatural desire and lift a hand to grab— A hand …
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Kisuke snuck another glance at Griffin as the man concentrated on eating; he looked younger, softer, without his uniform or mask to draw the eye and add a hunter’s sharpness to his features. Not that his golden eyes and narrow eyebrows weren’t enough, but… Griffin had down feathers on his chest, visible through the gap …
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(For the trope mashup ask meme, prompted by anonymous: Kisuke/Erich/Alexis — 24: Soulmate AU, 67: Character in Peril) Erich is born with a thin band of indistinct leaves around his right wrist, a sign that his soulmate is older than him, though no one knows by how much. It causes a stir – he’s the …
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65 and 66 ichigo/uryuu? :3c anonymous “I really don’t think this is going to work out,” Uryuu said with as much dignity as he could muster while crouching behind a steel crate and trying to fumble an arrow in place with numb fingers. Kurosaki shot him the look that statement honestly deserved. “What gave you …
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Chocolate of romance + not a date Orihime/Nelliel (adult form like end of canon obv) loveasunnyday Orihime sighed and scrubbed furiously at her eyes, trying to erase the evidence of tears before anyone could see. She felt so ridiculous, crying because she’d been turned down by someone she liked, and… and– Warm lips pressed against …
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“And here’s Karakura!” Kisuke came to a stop next to Mami and stared across the bridge at Karakura, relief coiling through him at the sight of it; he’d never quite known how much the town had come to mean to him over the decades until he’d not been able to return immediately. For somewhere that …
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Erich followed his father into the man’s office, mouth dry and stomach a knot of tension; this was the moment where everything could go wrong, where he could be found out as a liar and— He honestly didn’t know how his father would react, either to discovering the lie as a lie or believing it; …
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“Right then, first thing’s first,” Ranzal declared as he picked up the quill he’d found and double checked the tip before dipping it into the ink, already building a mental map of what Urahara would need to know to get to the Capital. “We’re here, in the Mistholt.” he said as he scrawled a quick …
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Erich fluffed and ruffled his feathers, shaking free the clinging damp from the long bath he’d indulged in. It had been a long time since he’d had the opportunity to bathe in Griffin’s form and it felt… good. Cleansing. His apartment didn’t have a bathroom large enough to accommodate his wings and his job kept …
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Kisuke drifted awake, mind fuzzy but body more rested than he expected it to be, given that the sun was already beginning to rise by the time he crawled into bed; the previous night had been more of a delight than he’d expected it to be, the simple ‘walk around the lake’ that Erich had …
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Kisuke gazed up at the tall palisade surrounding the Quincy compound, mind oddly blank in the face of Erich’s old guild; thoughts-worries-plans buzzed away in the back of his mind where Benihime’s presence lingered, but… nothing concrete, nothing he could put into words. (Just like those first, crushing months after he’d been banished.) (So much …
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Kaito popped another piece of dragonfruit in his mouth and chewed thoughtfully, tracing the influx of pure power through his system and considering the ramifications of it; already he could sense himself becoming a bit more attuned to this world’s native power, despite how settled his soul had become over the years. (Settled or not, …
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Kisuke woke abruptly, body held carefully still as his mind scrambled to catch up. He wasn’t in his own bedroom but he was in a bed, so he hadn’t fallen asleep in the lab— Someone yawned against his neck and Kisuke’s breath caught in his throat as his mind finally produced an answer. Griffin mumbled …
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“Dinner, loves!” Alexis announced as she ducked into her tent, holding a bowl of soup in one hand and using the other to keep the flap up so that Briar could follow her in with the other two bowls. “Put the research aside for five minutes and get some food into you,” she said in …
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