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    “Three sessions.” Khaslana says at least, with his empty doll eyes under the shadow of the trees, he looks more like a ghost than ever. “I give you three sessions. If you don’t get to paint something I like, I leave.”

    “Hm, you really think I can’t.”

    “I know you can’t.”

    How terribly arrogant. Mydei grins, wild and prideful, heart thumping with what might be either adrenaline or anger. “Three sessions.” He agrees.

    They say whoever attempts to make a muse out of Khaslana goes mad. Mydei thinks that’s fine. He wants less of a muse than he likes a challenge. Somewhere along the way, he falls in love.

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    04 Apr 2026

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    There were lots of other things that made it difficult to imagine living anywhere else. Precious photos and memorabilia. His favourite snacks stocking the pantry and fridge. The plants he had affectionately named and nurtured.

    The locking mechanism on the front doors.

    He had permission to leave today, so the exterior door scanned the microchip in his choker and the red light flashed green with the whir of the locking system. It opened now and would open when he returned but if he attempted to leave again afterwards then the doors would remain locked.

    When Mydeimos is a shining rockstar upon the stage, capturing the hearts of millions, someone has to protect him from the depraved ingrates that flock to him just the same.

    It’s a role Phainon claims for himself, and Mydei always rewards him for a job well done.

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    09 Mar 2026

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    Phainon has to get a victory in order to receive his reward.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    “Tell me honestly. Do you think I’ve gotten… fatter?” Phainon asked.

    Mydei thought for a while before speaking. “Hmph. Perhaps.”

    Phainon’s heart plummeted—then immediately shot upward again when Mydei leaned in, lips brushing the corner of his mouth.

    “Although,” Mydei added softly, breath warm against Phainon’s cheek, “I might need a closer look.”

    Phainon swallowed. Hard. “A—A closer…?”

    Mydei smirked. “At home,” he murmured, letting the shirt fall. “In our bed.”

    Phainon has a crisis.

    And honestly? It might be Mydei’s fault.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    “Holy shit,” a voice says from behind him, tired and rough. “Looks like a blizzard came through!”

    The world outside is a crisp white, flurries swirling around the air rapidly as the wind roars outside the window. Snow covers a good part of the window, cars outside are covered completely as the snowstorm rages on.

    Mydei wasn’t an idiot. Going out in a blizzard-like that was asking to be killed, either from hypothermia or being swept up in the raging wind. He definitely wasn’t dressed for any sort of trek through the inches of snow either, not without a shirt and proper boots.

    Long story short, he was stuck here.

    or, after a one night stand, Mydei finds himself stranded at the guy's apartment. Perhaps a day together will prove that this isn't such a bad thing.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    "You're drunk," he croaked. "You're talking nonsense. I'm not an omega, Mydei, I can't..."

    "You're not an omega," Mydei agreed, suddenly spinning him around and pushing him towards the massive black marble kitchen island. "You're better. You're strong. Your muscles are hard as stone. You won't break. But at the same time..."

    Mydei, with a single motion, sat him on the edge of the table. The cold stone burned his buttocks, making Phainon instinctively lean forward, right into his friend's arms.

    "...At the same time, you have a configuration made for pleasure. My pleasure."

    "Mydei, stop," panic mingled with something thick and hot in his lower abdomen. "We're friends. We're, damn it, brothers in arms! You'll regret this in the morning."

    "The only thing I'll regret," Mydei wedged himself between Phainon's spread knees, pushing them wider with authority, "is not doing this six months ago, when I first caught myself wondering how you'd look on my table."

    A drunken bet leads to a situation where Phainon can't walk, Mydei is a thousand dollars poorer, and the penthouse has run out of lube.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    Phainon may have started panicking. At the bare minimum, he felt blindsided— Mydei was purposefully being combative, despite Phainon having been nothing but amicable, and now he was making it sound like Phainon was the one in the wrong.

    So he did the most logical thing he could think of in response, of course— acting before really thinking about it— and demonstrated his willingness to participate in what he'd perceived to be a provocation from the Crown Prince—

    He undid the knot holding the tiny modesty towel in place—the pristine white fabric fell, and with it, so did Mydeimos's gaze. 

    “Oh,” Mydei answered eloquently, an odd expression crossing his face as he stared unabashedly, while Phainon, much more abashedly, allowed him to. 

    Be it through ignorance or wishful thinking, Phainon interprets Mydei's shamelessness as a direct provocation to settle the score between them, following the event of their ten-day, ten-night battle resulting in a draw.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    Phainon stands still and silent in the locker room, all thoughts stopped to a halt, while Mydei, unaware, finishes tying up his shoelaces. Phainon’s eyes grow wide and stupid, his mouth agape, all words forgotten, unable to look away. He must be seeing things… Except he’s not. There’s a string of black cloth hugging his best friend’s hip— lingerie, he thinks, his vocabulary reduced to the bare minimum. Mydei is wearing lingerie. Mydei is-

     

    Or: Phainon Is Very Straight

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    23 Nov 2025

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    Khaslana had long slain Phainon. This time he did so earlier, letting his body rot in the burning wheat fields. He planned to do the same to the other Heirs, as he had countless times before. Including Mydei, a reminder of love from that very first cycle.

    But when this Mydei saw the golden cuts on his skin and asked for his name, Khaslana suddenly desired to lie. Even when his mind was already crumbling.

    So he only said, "Phainon."

    (Set in one of the earliest cycles before "Khaslana" becomes "Flame Reaver". Slow burn tragedy.)

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    17 Nov 2025

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    "How can you call it gambling when the outcome is already pre-determined? I will take my chances with a losing bet than settle for a fate that doesn't agree with my principles."

    "That does sound like something you would do," Phainon says. "But I'm not quite the gambling type."

    "Aren't you?" Aventurine raises an eyebrow, issuing a challenge that Phainon does not see coming. "Thirty-three million, five-hundred and fifty thousand, three hundred and thirty-six."

    The IPC takes the most pivotal step in extending a hand of friendship to Amphoreus. Even through the pitfalls of such a volatile alliance, Aventurine and Phainon end up turning that overture of friendship into something more.

    [ A canon-divergent scenario, written post-3.4. This fic contain spoilers for that version.

    Written before 3.5 release. ]

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    10 Nov 2025

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    It was supposed to be an ordinary walk home — a rare evening when Anaxagoras left his lecture hall early enough to catch Phainon closing the café. But when a stranger steps from the shadows and a gun glints under the streetlight, everything fractures in an instant.

    Phainon moves without thinking, stepping between the muzzle and the man he loves.

    When the shot rings out, Anaxagoras’ world becomes nothing but sound and blood and a body in his arms.

    He’s spent his life believing every problem could be solved — but there’s no formula for the way a pulse fades beneath your hands.

    (Aka Phainon and Anaxa get mugged, Phainon gets shot and almost dies)

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    08 Nov 2025

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    Amphoreus is saved, everything turned out ok, the Trailblazer and Cyrene used their book to bring all the people they have met and the whole world back to life and into the star system. Everything is great.

    Ok, so some people were brought back from different time frames and are a little behind modern times. That's ok, everything is ok, they are all back and everything can be worked through.

    Audata is just glad her son is alive, sure she is grappling with the fact that he was just thirteen the last time she saw him. That's ok. What is not ok is the letter she received from her son mentioning he was bringing a guest to visit. This would be something she would be ok with, too. Except for Cyrene dropping the Dark Tide bomb of her son being married, something he conveniently forgot to mention in his letter. Oh and that his husband happens to be the Crown Prince of Castrum Kremnos. That is also something she would have liked to know too.

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    06 Nov 2025

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    "Hold on, please," Phainon says, grabbing hold of Mydei's arm in desperation, trying to keep him on the bed.

    Mydei doesn't listen. He pulls himself free, striding across the room to tear open the curtains obscuring the only window. Outside the window, he can see the source of the light that had blinded him:

    There is no newborn sun of the new dawn. Instead, Kephale's Dawn Device still towers over Okhema. Below them, the city is eerily quiet.

    This is Okhema frozen in time, its citizens gone. Even the birds have been silenced. An afterimage of the past, of time together they'd sacrificed in search of the new sunrise. None of this can be real—a beautiful dream crafted to deceive him, only one that is now fraying at its edges, showing the rot underneath.

    "If this is the Era Nova, then where is the sun we were promised?" Mydei whispers under his breath.

    ---
    When Mydei gasps back to life after Amphoreus' last cycle, the world he returns to is no longer the one he remembers—and neither is Phainon waiting at his bedside.

    Or Mydei wakes up on the Herta Space Station.

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    06 Nov 2025

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    Role swap AU

    Shen Qingqiu is the Rabid Wolf of Bai Zhan. Liu Qingge is the Peerless Beauty of Qing Jing. It somehow makes everything better.

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    14 Aug 2025

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    Shen Qingqiu dies in the Ling Xi Caves instead of Liu Qingge.

    Liu Qingge must then deal with the aftermath while trying to understand the man he killed.

    Shen Qingqiu died with a breathless, wheezing laugh.

    There was blood on his lips and his teeth as he bared them in a painful imitation of a smile. A smile full of helpless anger and spite and an odd sense of resignation. And he laughed. Deep and guttural. He laughed until he choked. He laughed until the color fled from his cheeks and his eyes dulled. He laughed until there was no air left.

    Shen Qingqiu was silent after that.

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    06 Aug 2025

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    04 Aug 2025

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    Shen Jiu dies alone in the water prison, broken and discarded—his final thought a wish to be happy, just once. When he opens his eyes again, it’s as a child on the cusp of being sold to the Qiu family. But he remembers everything.

    This time, he runs. Not to fight, not to conquer, but to survive. To be free.

    With memories of cultivation, broken trust, and impossible grief still fresh in his soul, Shen Jiu becomes Shen Yuhei. From brothel kitchens to snowy mountaintops, he stitches a new life from thread and qi, voice and silence. Along the way, he finds kindness where he never expected it, and strength where he once had none.

    But the past doesn’t vanish so easily, and the world is slow to forget a man like Shen Jiu. Beneath the snow, something stirs—and not all ghosts are content to be left behind.

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    04 Aug 2025

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    Shen Yuan is not able to harden his heart and push his white lotus Binghe into the Abyss resulting in his death. Devastated by the loss of his beloved Shizun, Binghe takes off with his body and is constantly on the run. He is young but he is determined to bring Shizun back to life.

    And then, despite all the adversities Binghe faces, he does succeed! He does get Shizun’s body back to life! There is only one minor problem though. The soul that now occupies Shen Qingqiu's body is not Shen Yuan’s but Shen Jiu’s.

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    24 Jun 2025

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    “... you’ve gone mad, haven’t you,” the man said with narrowed eyes, voice hardening as he straightened up and wrapped his robes tight around himself, posture coiled and tight and unfriendly in a way Liu Qingge had never seen on him before. “Fine. I’ll say it only once, so do not forget from now on: I am Shen Qingqiu, Lord of Qing Jing Peak and your martial shixiong. Understand, brute?”

    “I… yes, shixiong,” Liu Qingge rasped as they stared at each other from across the abyss. “I understand.”

    But he didn't. Not at all.

    Long after they earned their happily ever after, Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge decide to enter seclusion in the Lingxi Caves and break through into the next stage of cultivation together. But when Liu Qingge prematurely ascends and the heavens send him back to avoid his fury, he ends up in a version of his world that's all too familiar and yet painfully alien.

    The other Liu Qingge, having taken his place back home, feels exactly the same way.

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    19 Jun 2025

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    People would find out immediately, he realised. And oh, if they found out what he did, how Liu Qingge lived only because of him, they would laud him for it - then they would keep him in a cocoon for the rest of his short life. He wouldn’t be able to ascend with the others anymore, wouldn’t be able to go on missions or use Xiu Ya any better than a mortal could.

    He could no longer practice inedia, or hell, even keep up with his disciples who already had half-formed golden cores. Who would listen to him now, who would respect him now? What good was a strategist who couldn’t keep up with the men he ordered around? What good was a teacher who couldn’t demonstrate anything he taught to his students?

    What good was a cultivator who couldn’t fucking cultivate?

    Shen Qingqiu manages to save Liu Qingge's life in the Lingxi Caves at the expense of his own cultivation and immortality. Now condemned to a short, brutish life as a mortal again, Shen Jiu chooses to leave it all behind and eke out a small living while he can, aware that death could be at his door any day now.

    After all, what else does he have to live for?

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    17 Jun 2025

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