"Please," Etho begged when Joel pulled away for breath. They met gazes once, both of their eyes half-lidded. He felt something burning in his chest, and he couldn't help but say: "I love you." Joel didn't reply; he wasn't a man for kind words. Instead, he grabbed Etho's cheeks with both hands and went back in for a devastating kiss.

After Double Life, a new game begins. Etho and Joel had gone their separate ways. But everything changes when Etho turns red and, instead of turning mad with bloodlust, he turns mad with desire. (Or: A rewrite of the Life Series post-Double Life.)

"Am I better than him?" Corbeau demands. "What?" "Am I better than Augustine Sycamore? Do I make you happier?" He pauses, voice becoming more frantic with his desire to hear the answer. "Am I better in bed? Am I your best?"

L gets a hobby and gains some revelations.

After the events of her PML end in disaster, a female version of Lear arrives in Pasio in the hopes of learning how her other self succeeded. Jealousy sparks a flame neither can put out.

Lear gets into art. Or rather, art gets into him.

Lear is sent back in time to his childhood—but trapped within the confines of his child body. He cannot leave to find Hoopa, he cannot escape to Unova to meet Cheren early. All he can do is sit in his tutoring classes, and remember the kind future he will someday have.

As the tutor’s droning speech about macroeconomics continues, Lear finds himself losing his mind. The images of his friends linger, but they’re beginning to blur.

Rachel and Sawyer are still here by his side, of course, but they’re not the same. Their meekness had been beaten out of them by adulthood… but they aren’t adults yet. Far from it. He’d had to beg his father to let Rachel be his retainer; he hadn’t had to do that in his real childhood.

He’s starting to forget what Cheren’s face looks like.

Lear’s arm cross over his chest and linger there until his tutor glares at him. “Master Lear, sit at attention. This is very unbecoming of a prince,” they sigh before smiling. “I should tell your father about this.”

Lear bows his head like a terrified kid. “I’m sorry, sir.”

After Staraptor begins to spend time with others instead of him, Lear gets jealous. He decides to prove his worth to his pokémon in a way Cheren taught him. With his… augh… words.

After a chance encounter with a Whimsicott, Lear has to find a way to connect with it. With no deep childhood bonds to connect him with it, is it possible for Lear to form a second sync pair?