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Riddle has always hated the dark.
He tells himself it’s irrational, something he should’ve grown out of years ago, but his body remembers what he tries to forget. The click of a lock, the way the lights snapped off without warning. His mother’s clipped voice on the other side of the door: Stop crying. Calm down.
Whether it was nightmares or a fever or just the overwhelmed sobs of a lonely child who needed comfort, the answer never changed: silence, darkness, isolation.
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Change takes time.
Or; Four rules that Riddle needs help breaking, and one rule he decides to break himself.
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Funhouse Mirror by Calculatrice
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
01 Oct 2023
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Reflected in the mirror is a boy who must be around her age. Average height, athlete's build, and now that Mafuyu's looking more closely, the blonde she noticed before edges orange-pink towards the ends. She blinks, and flat amber blinks back at her.
There's writing hand-stitched into the chest pocket of her— his shirt. She traces it, mouths the reversed kanji she can read through the mirror.
Tenma Tsukasa.
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“Vox,” Alastor says, with saintlike patience. He may as well practice, given how much he’s obviously going to need it imminently. “I really do think that you should, at a minimum, bring flowers.”
“She’s a high-powered businesswoman,” Vox dismisses. “I know you’re old-fashioned, Al, but Velvette’s right. Powerful women don’t actually like being treated like a hot date you can bribe with flowers and chocolates.”
God help them all. No, really. Is it too late to start praying?
“This is a terrible time for your feminist awakening,” Alastor snaps. “You said it yourself—Rosie is my dearest friend. And as bribes go, she likes roses.”
Vox narrows his eyes at Alastor with actual hurt in them. Oh, what now.
“I can’t believe you’re actually admitting it,” he says.
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(In his grand campaign to win the favor of every major Overlord, Vox may have met his match with Rosie. Good thing he has his old pal Alastor to help!)
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- Part 5 of They Could Have Been Worse
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Vox held still as Angel ripped a section of tape, pinched it, and then carefully smoothed it over a crack at the corner of his mouth, skimming his thumb over hot, prickly glass as best he could without accidentally cutting himself. It occurred to him that the eye Val had targeted was Vox’s hypnotic eye, the seat of his power; Val had done something similar to Angel in the past—taking the things that made Angel powerful and destroying them, just because he could. The gold tooth in his mouth, in the place of one of his venomous fangs, twinged uncomfortably at the reminder.
Or: When Val hits Vox for the first time, Angel is pretty sure he knows how this will play out. He's lived it, after all. Unfortunately for him, things aren't as simple as they seem this time.