Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: ζζ₯ζΉθ | Arknights (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Czerny/Ebenholz (Arknights), Ebenholz & Lessing (Arknights)
Characters: Ebenholz (Arknights), Czerny (Arknights), Lessing (Arknights)
Additional Tags: Reunions, Making Up, canon-typical dwellings on death and terminal illness, self-sacrificial idiots coping with surviving
Series: Part 11 of (Your Songs) Send Love Through
Summary:
Letters are poor farewells, roses cannot replace apologies, and running away can destroy as much as it tries to preserve. Ebenholz stands in the path of the sun and awaits his judgement in the light of the one he left behind.
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(Ebenholz and Czerny reunite, post-ZiH / ch15, and feelings ensue. Feat special guest Lessing, who has no idea what's going on.)
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Coincidentally, I have seen so many posts about Ingo on this subject in the past 24 hours, soooooo...enjoy.
(Spoilers for PLA, protag referred to with gender neutral pronouns)
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Ingo is used to the stares that dart away whenever he meets them, the way people flinch when he moves too quickly or speaks too loud. Some days, it bothers him. Don't they know that he only wants to help people, and Pokemon too, so they'll all stop being so afraid of each other? There's nothing left in him to fear, not that he remembers. He never tries to be scary.
Except today, the sky is red, his clenched fists are shaking, and the villagers flee from his approach like pedestrians scrambling away from a runaway freight train. He utters not a sound, and perhaps that is the most terrifying part of it all.
He storms up the steps of the Galaxy Team headquarters. His eyes briefly catch Cyllene behind her desk (conspicuously absent one Abra), and she is the only one thus far who can meet his gaze. She nods and does not move to stop him. She understands the anger that has stilled his tongue the way it does her hands, both of them aware that it is only a razor-thin line of self-control that turns their warmest feature into their greatest weapon.
The stairs echo with heavy footfalls. Kamado is already waiting.
"I knew you would show up sooner or later," The Galaxy Team leader says. He stands sturdy and his arms are loose at his sides, anticipating an impassioned charge to be thrown aside. "I can ensure you that you are not currently under suspicion. Lady Irida has clearly stated the case for your innocence, and on this I am willing to see eye-to-eye with her. I only ask that, while we deal with the threat beyond the rift, that you extend your skills to help keep our village safe from threats. Am I clear?"
Ingo's answer is not spoken. It is the popping of bone as he straightens to full height and rolls his wrists to shove his fists into his ragged pockets. It is the faint glow of his eyes in that dark room. It is the deep breath he sucks in through his teeth, a desperate attempt to keep the coals stoked without causing a blaze.
Kamado continues, "I know what this is about. How close you two were. But Warden, this is beyond your feelings or mine. This is for the safety of all in this land! The frenzies began the same night that stranger fell from the sky. There has to be a connection."
"That stranger gave everything to save you. Followed every guideline, aided every passenger, completed the impossible for little more than a bed and a warm meal each night, only to be cast aside by groundless superstitions." Ingo's voice cuts instead of bellows. The room shakes even as he stands oh so still. "You have failed your safety inspection. You threw your passenger over the yellow line and in front of an oncoming train. What are you going to do if that results in blood on your hands?"
"Is that what you want from me? Blood?" Kamado shifts into a fighting stance. "If battle is the only language you speak, then I am willing to fight so you will see reason."
Ingo's nails dig deep into his palms, but he does not move them. Tempting as it sounds.
"Fighting you would only derail me, and I have a schedule to keep. I am going to uphold the precautions you have cast aside, and I am going to bring them home. And if you hinder me from these tracks..."
Kamado is not a man who scares easily. Ingo knows this. But even he takes the smallest step back at a threat Ingo need not voice. For a man so loud, it is the words unspoken that ring clearest of all. "Permission granted," he says.
"You should stop granting permissions, and start deciding how you will ask forgiveness." Ingo turns on his heels and lets his feet carry him along the tracks down the stairs and out to the village gates. His job is to make sure everyone's travels are safe, and he will not rest until everyone is at their home station. That is what a Subway Master does. And a Subway Master, whatever that may be, is what a certain castaway needs right now.
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: ζζ₯ζΉθ | Arknights (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Czerny/Ebenholz (Arknights)
Characters: Ebenholz (Arknights), Czerny (Arknights)
Additional Tags: Moving In Together, Sharing a Bed, Banter, Mental Health Issues, "what if our bad brains fit perfectly together and we can be functioning people together?", Ebenholz is allowed one (1) meme for enrichment
Series: Part 9 of (Your Songs) Send Love Through
Summary:
"You need to change the bedsheets. You've had these ones on for almost two weeks now."
"Es tut mir leid, mein Herr. My deepest apologies for forgetting that amongst the rest of my cleaning today." Czerny adds a put-upon sigh as he gestures to the rest of the room. "I even dusted in here. Dusted! I was sneezing for hours."
"Means you need to dust more often."
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On cohabitation, chasing away nightmares, and how brilliant the dawn can be if the night is shared with someone you love.
The first "I love you" between them is an accident.
They're heading back from a mission, in the back of the carrier where it is darkest and easiest on Ebenholz's migraines. There is a bench back here where he can lie down with his head in Czerny's lap, eyes shut and face nuzzled into the elafia's stomach so those caprinae horns don't risk stabbing anything. Here, they are close to the engine, but its rhythmic sounds are almost soothing, even with the occasional jostle of the carrier.
Czerny's hands stroke his hair, fingers trailing through the waves like a dark river, dipping down to his neck here and there to massage at tight muscles. Warmth that lingers even when those fingers move on. The composer is humming a lullaby that fills his whole body, so Ebenholz can feel it buzzing through him as he hears it.
For a moment, even with the ravages of his headache, this is his favorite place in the world.
"I love you."
The words slip unbidden from his lips, mumbled into cloth and skin. The hand in his hair pauses, palm resting light against his neck. Is it close enough to feel Ebenholz's pulse quicken as the weight of his own admission settles in? Is it about to pull away, these three words being one intimacy too far even in this darkness?
No. "I love you too." Low and whispered, tender with a note of surprise. Like discovering a seed has finally sprouted. Fingers trace from neck to jawline, down to his chin, up to his lips. Two fingers press close, a kiss without displacing either of them. "And I have no plans to go anywhere. Rest easy, my heart."
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: ζζ₯ζΉθ | Arknights (Video Game)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Czerny/Ebenholz (Arknights)
Characters: Ebenholz (Arknights), Czerny (Arknights)
Additional Tags: Getting Together, Whump, Blood and Injury, field medicine, Infected Discrimination, caught behind enemy lines, Bodily Fluids, Thriller, Concussions, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Seizures, Panic Attacks
Series: Part 6 of (Your Songs) Send Love Through
Summary:
Ebenholz has a concussion. Czerny's list of injuries is growing. They're stuck behind enemy lines without the rest of their squad, hunted and hiding in the dark, and supplies are running low.
All they have is each other and a spark of hope.
Atom and Ozymandias (aka Oz) are twins. Technically. Really, they are both clones who ran away from the lab and technognostic demigod - known as a Numen - that made them, before their souls could get devoured.
The twins experienced a series of misadventures in a cyberpunk dystopia crawling with corporate cults, making friends and enemies alike in a flooded city that didn't consider them Legally Human. On top of that, Atom was changing in ways neither of them understood, and Oz...
Well. Oz doesn't know what happened. One moment, he's nodding off while waiting for his morning coffee. Next, he wakes up in a new world, his twin is a full-fledged God of Artifice, and his memories don't fit together quite right. Like something important has been carefully edited out, but the gap it's left is too big to ignore.
Maybe things could have been fine here. Maybe not. But when Ozymandias awakens to a glitch-laden godhood himself as the God of Wishes...and something about this development causes Atom to panic in unexpected ways...it seems the twins are hurtling toward confrontations and revelations that neither of them wished for.
Anywho, I'm going to post scattered art and lore about them (plus answering questions, should y'all want to send Asks), so I hope y'all are readyyyyy~ (I'm still settling on a tag for them, but if you see me mention the Disaster Twins or TechnoGnosis, that'll be for these two).
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 5/?
Fandom: ζζ₯ζΉθ | Arknights (Video Game)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Czerny/Ebenholz (Arknights)
Characters: Ebenholz (Arknights), Czerny (Arknights)
Additional Tags: Getting Together, Whump, Blood and Injury, field medicine, Infected Discrimination, caught behind enemy lines, Bodily Fluids, Thriller, Concussions, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Seizures, Panic Attacks
Series: Part 6 of (Your Songs) Send Love Through
Summary:
Ebenholz has a concussion. Czerny's list of injuries is growing. They're stuck behind enemy lines without the rest of their squad, hunted and hiding in the dark, and supplies are running low.
All they have is each other and a spark of hope.
