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    Roy could power a tank with the frantic pounding in his chest. “Edward asked me to teach him to dance. Formally. For his wedding.”

    “Oh,” says Riza. It sinks in, realization dawning like the sun cresting the mountainside. “Oh, that is a problem.”

    Or: the one where Roy asks Riza to teach him to dance so that he can teach Edward, and it’s all hopeless from there.

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    03 Feb 2026

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    Mustang being parental and Ed being filial, but it's through gritted teeth

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    “So they must know you pretty well, to get you so many gifts you like,” Tensei prompts. “They must be paying a lot of attention.”

    Impossibly, Hizashi turns an even darker shade of red. “That doesn’t mean that they like me. They could just be friendly and shy.”

    Kayama grins. “Do you want them to like you?”

    Shouta would like to know that, too.

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    12 Oct 2025

  3. Rec 50

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    Arms crossed and body unsettled, Nico asked, “Did we reach the end of feelings time?”
    Percy let out a puff of air. “Almost. I just need you to know… I had someone I looked up to, too, you know? He went on a quest, which was unheard of back then. He was an unreal fighter and made me feel welcome and safe more than anyone else had. He was my friend and he made camp feel like home. And at the end of the summer he tried to kill me and spent the next few years trying to do it again, over and over. Not to mention the whole raising Kronos thing.”
    Luke. Nico had heard whisperings about who the traitor demigod had been before he’d left camp, but the stories tended to focus on Annabeth’s relationship with him, Percy caught in the middle of some fucked up triangle. Nico hadn’t really thought about Percy’s relationship to Luke independent of Annabeth. “Why are you telling me this?”
    “Because a lot of times the people we look up to are fucked up,” Percy said, hands up. “They let us down.”
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    Nico thinks he's too damaged to be the next Camp leader. To help his friend, Percy decides to stop hiding his own damage. The two finally hash out their feelings and bond via trauma dumping.

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    11 Sep 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Nico and Percy talking about trauma is beautiful and so freaking sad.

  4. Rec 89

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    Something had changed, this spring, and Nico found himself losing his grip to the material world, shifting into the shadows without meaning to, dropping objects and slipping through floors.

    And that had been the bit Nico was less hung up on, too. What had been haunting him for the past few weeks is the discovery, made though exhausting trial and error, that the only things that helped keep him from disappearing completely were either direct sunlight, or, of course, Will Solace's ridiculous glow-in-the-dark healing powers.

    (Was he the only one? Who feels like this when Will's skin glows against his? Like every hug, every kiss and every warm touch in the world is being gathered into one place, pressed against Nico's cheek and spreading into his body, drawing him breathless, weightless. Intoxicating, golden.)

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    26 Aug 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Nico having to face his feelings is always great, but the writing in this was exquisite.

  5. Rec 45

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    “The thing is, Nico is pretty sure Will knows.”

    It’s Nico and Will’s last summer together as campers, and they’re both afraid to shake up their friendship with the truth of their feelings. As usual, when there’s demigod problems, gods intervene. Or: Nico wakes up after a storm with an itch in his throat.

    A Hanahaki disease AU taken to its logical conclusion.

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    25 Aug 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Hanahaki and mutual pining