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i do and I would be so honored!!! i've plugged it here a few times, but it does get lost under the... honestly maybe excessive amount.. that i post

so! here it is: Ao3: ✨fallenStar_cygnus✨ Insta: ✨fallen.star_cygnus✨ TikTok: ✨falling.star_cygnus✨ i know, i'm sooo original

These are the fandoms I've written for✨ -> Dead Boy Detectives -> Link Click -> Dispatch -> TADC -> Gachiakuta -> Etoile -> WBK -> CRK -> KoG -> Genshin -> Hollow Knight [and by extension Silksong] -> KPDH -> Blue Period -> HTTYD -> Danny Phantom -> Haunted Hotel -> Miraculous Ladybug -> TBHX -> ZZZ -> WHA

mousy... you're a GENIUS -> the way i literally flew out of bed to answer this, i'm literally SOOO sleepy rn but this is SO. GOOD. and boom, i was inspired to touch this au again. apologies if it's a little... incoherant. i'm just.. SO EXCITED to ramble

Astral Projection: ✨part 5✨ part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | Malachite the way this au is even named in star theme..

so- what's REALLY cool about this: Borealis is an actual jewelry making term for glass rhinestones or beads coated in an iridescent and shimmery coating [in other words: synthetic gems or costume jewelry] -> And yk what both Toxic and Robert are in this au? Synthetic, man-made, gems. Toxic moreso than Robert, but neither of them are natural.

They don't talk when they first make Borealis, and they don't talk after- when Robert is unconscious and Toxic is flighty- so the name doesn't actually come up until Toxic finally drags himself out of the ocean some months later

[-and, you know... of course, breaks into his house. Or, breaks into Flambae's house- because Robert still lives with him, despite no longer being in danger of keeling over and impaling himself] [His algae spotted hand reaches down to tap at Robert's forehead, nails carefully curled in as to not scratch his gem, but-] Toxic, whispering: Hey, lose- ack! [...Robert grabs his wrist before he can make contact, and aggressively switches their positions. Toxic ends up sprawled on the bed, the half-gem straddling his hips, with a fist geared up to break his fucking nose] Robert, barely managing to pull back before it makes contact: What the fu- Toxic? Toxic: Hey [His eyes flick down] Toxic: Cute pjs Robert: Shut up. Toxic, grinning and reclining into the mattress: Pf- why? Are you embarrass-hmpfg! Robert, with his hand clamped over his mouth: No, I mean actually, shut the fuck up. Do you know how late it is right now?

all in all, it's very reminescent of their first meeting -> except, this time, Robert doesn't toss him off the balcony. Toxic just goads him into 'sneaking out'. They're grown men- things- that can go where they want to whenever. This is unnecessary. But...

"You're saying you never snuck out of as a kid? Seriously?" *Robert scoffs, mouth full of a spoon of frozen yogurt or some other typical late night sneak-out treat, and points to his forehead- his Azurite gem foreign in the way it sits so pretty* "...oh. Even as a kid-? That's fucked up, man."

His own hand comes up to brush the shards embedded in his neck, before he forces himself to relax again -> On some level, from what they did not.. really all that long ago, he knew that. He knew Robert was just as much a lab rat as he was, even if he never asked for it. It's just another thing to hear it out loud.

So they don't talk about it- they don't really talk about what they saw from each other's eyes. They just.. sorta sit, in the night-dead quiet of Beach City with their treats, and they look up their respective gems under the stars until they show each other their phones for the final time- and come to nearly the same result

Borealis, the hiding greenish-blue sky phenomena Borealis, painted on a glass bead "Why are you looking at stars." "I got bored looking at rocks." "..you're a rock!"

An actual Malachite and Azurite might not make what they did- might not even come close- an actual trio of gems might make something real

"You have been by my apprentice's side since you were mere children, there is no one else in the world he trusts more than you as his closest friend and confidante."

"...yes..?"

"To my knowledge, that trust stems largely from your indulgence in his nearly every whim. Whims of which, I'll inform you, that most often resulted in several upon several of the Great Hall's regulations being violated more than once."

"Okay, well--"

"Olruggio, why on Zozah would I permit you to be my child's Watchful Eye. I should've intervened when you taught him how to lie!"

She just wanted to live, even as she dragged herself to the edge, even as she tried one more time to call her parents on a broken phone, she wanted to live. -> "If that's true.. then can you help me return to the beginning... and start all over?"

she survives so much, and she endures much more than anyone should have to, but right as she's about to take Cheng Xiaoshi's hand and let him pull her to safety, it's yanked away

Her body, again and again and again, is violated throughout her story, and she's sent crashing down to her death -> she was always going to die, there was no escaping it, but even the choice to do it on her own terms was not her's to make

so, with trembling hands, he takes little Qifrey's face and tenderly brushes his hair away from the torn scar just barely healed over. His thumb delicately brushes overly that next

Olly being a recluse//genius inventor living in a waterside town [pond//lake//ocean//what have you] and on his way home from delivering a commission, he finds this gorgeous man slumped in the road

He's so very out of it, soaked in blood that the rain hasn't washed away, yet conscious enough to keep a wavery grasp on his human form ↓ Which is a necessity, when he's sustained injuries that his equine form-- no matter how arcane-- would surely perish from. He needs to purge whatever thing he's eaten that's made him so weak, then he'll be able to heal. Surely.

Only, he never gets the chance. Because of course he doesn't. [Notoriously unlucky, you see, especially given his albinism and missing eye- Qifrey is a far cry from the usual perfection of the fair folk]

Olruggio takes him back to his house, after a quick assessment of his surface injuries [nothing too egregious, thank the stars] and nurses him back to health in his own bed ↓ When he asks for his name, when Qifrey finally seems lucid enough to give it, it's purely because he doesn't want to keep calling this pale gorgeous man 'stranger' in his head. But of course, being fair, Qifrey immediately takes it the wrong way-- thinking he's been found out somehow and Olruggio was using his current weakness to take control of him

Thankfully, it's mostly dismissed as fevered hysteria, and Olly doesn't pry too deeply into it- he'd probably react negatively to waking up in a stranger's bed too [It's written off as memory loss, in the duration of Qifrey's stay. He did hit his head pretty hard, after all, it's normal. Explainable.]

It's only after weeks of acclimating to each other, and brushes in the forest [and town, every blue moon] that their relationship tips into friendship, and then barely a handful of days more before Qifrey falls entirely -> The little house Qifrey had maintained by his lake crumbles, and he finds himself once more in Olruggio's abode- soaked in rain and blood. He moves in, and he surrenders entirely to the force that is the sky's kindest, most radiant star

why would you say that 😭 out of everything, why THAT ↓ opted to give up Kinosaki UNDER NO PRESSURE, rather than say or imply that he's not interested in her. like. DUDE. literally an assassin and TIMING is his biggest enemy

THIS IS THE FUCKING RENGA SCENE ALL OVER AGAIN </3 -> "reki, my love... of skateboarding" and i'm supposed to assume these two are casual??? okay. OKAY. sure

this is a really cute texting quirk actually: Gero not correcting the entire word, but rather just tacking on the letters and punctuation that he missed in a new message [while also being a rather dry texter, but that's expected]