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    Dorothy Campbell doesn't know who she is. She never got the chance to properly grieve her best friend and only family before being shipped away to an island and constantly trying to survive 'til morning, so how the fuck does she figure out how to live now? When she drops off the face of the earth after returning to Texas, intent on figuring that the fuck out, she doesn't think she'll be missed. She's very wrong.

    Fatin Jamandi is fucked up enough. Her parents are still fighting, maybe worse than ever. She was stranded on an island for a while, almost dying SEVERAL times. She can't sleep, and yet never wants to get out of bed. And now the girl she's in love with has disappeared, whether by choice or not unclear. How could her life possibly get worse?

    Leah Rilke is there to pick up the pieces for her best friend as she pines and falls apart. And maybe she's in love with said friend. But it isn't about her, it's about Fatin, and so she shoves it down and survives. Except maybe she's really angry.
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    Or, 3 different intertwining character studies as they figure out friendship, mental health, trauma, grief, and--most pivotally--how to navigate being in love, maybe with more than one person at once.

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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    18 Feb 2026

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    Robert has always known he was different - that there was something fundamentally wrong with him. He often felt like there was too much of him stuffed into the confines of his meat and bones - like some weird fleshy prison. He would stare at his hand sometimes and see T̶̟̅͑Ḫ̵͖̋̎Ì̸̼N̴̪̈́Ǧ̵͚̕S̶͎͐ moving underneath. He swore he could taste what people around him were feeling more than he could observe with his eyes. 

    Maybe that's why his father never loved him. Maybe that's why Uncle Elliot went mad. Maybe that's why he became addicted to the taste of a certain pyrokinetic villain. Maybe that's why, after the explosion, he stopped trying to pretend to be human - he's not.

    He's Mecha Man Eldritch.

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    17 Feb 2026

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    One of the main characters - the only surviving witness to a murder - has just woken from a coma. Not only is she entirely cognizant, but the first thing that the subtitles say she asks for is a lawyer.

    “What are you fucking giggling about?”

    The other person that’s been paying attention is Flambae. He’s right next to Robert on the couch, his arm slung over the top behind his head. One foot is propped up on the other knee, also pointing towards Robert, which has him caged in the corner by the arm rest. It’s probably some fucked-up power move. Robert has been ignoring it just to spite him.

    “It’s just not how comas work,” Robert shrugs.

    “Right, and you know because you’re a fucking doctor,” Flambae quips back.

    “I know because I was in one, asshole.”

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    During a quiet night in, Robert realizes that his coma and injuries aren't common knowledge among Z-Team.

    Most of them take the information in stride with jokes aplenty.

    Flambae does not.

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    16 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 96

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    Robert managed to get his team into a pretty exclusive hero bar, expecting nothing more than a nice relaxing night. It's all thrown down the drain like cheap tequila when Robert's ex shows up.

    Robert said no fights, but the Z-Team don't take lightly to their dispatcher getting harassed.

    Or: The Z-Team makes up for Robert's lack of self-preservation, whether he likes it or not.

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    16 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 38

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    Chim scoffs. "Eddie, he was just cutting your meatballs for you."

    "He likes them cut," Buck says with a frown.

    "But," Ravi starts, looking around the room like this is some elaborate prank being pulled on him. "He could cut them himself."

    "But he was giving me the crust of my garlic bread."

    "Again, something you could've done yourself."

    "But he was giving me my ice," Eddie says with a frown to match Buck's. "What's the issue?"

    or, Eddie doesn't like lasagna

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    15 Feb 2026