From The Aqueous Star With Love

This blog's a random fandom collection of 80's anime, mechs, writing, turn-based RPGs, + whatever else catches my interest. Pardon the clutter but if you see any shared interests feel free to msg me, always down to chat! I don't like sharing too much personal info online, but I am an adult.

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“Hey. What’s the first thing you wanna do when we get out?” Steve chatters excitedly from next to her.

The question catches her off-guard. “Let’s figure out the ‘getting out’ bit first,” she says back, continuing to scavenge through her stored belongings. Thankfully he doesn’t notice the weight each word carries on her conscience.

“You’re so boring,” Steve drawls, leaning against the wall. He pushes his bangs aside with a hand still firmly gripping onto an SMG – she really needs to remind him about gun safety.

“Well then, you start us off,” she replies, turning to him. Their eyes lock onto each other briefly, before Steve looks away in surprise. “What’s your plan once you’re out?”

He seems unprepared for the question, brow knitting in deep thought. “I… I want to find a big patch of grass and lie down.”

She can’t stop her snort in time. “Big dreams for a big guy.”

Steve’s cheeks burn scarlet. “Shut up,” he whines, “I didn’t have enough time to think of an answer.”

She softens her gaze. “Sorry. That’s really sweet – it just threw me off guard. I thought you’d be thinking about crazier things, that’s all.”

“I’m not that deranged,” he grumbles, tucking his chin even further.

She turns to him fully now. “Tell me about that big patch of grass. Are you going to take a nap? Have a picnic?”

He scoffs, though it’s mostly in embarrassment. “I just… wanna get out of here. Be free. No more zombies, no more wardens telling me what to do, no nothing. I can figure out everything else after that.”

He jumps in surprise when she sidles up next to him on the wall. “Well then, would you mind if I joined you? Once we got out?”

“You’re awfully invested for someone who just teased me about this.” His face twitches in moody confusion. It transforms into something much warmer when she slips her fingers in between his.

“I know a place,” she says, thinking back to the rolling hills of her childhood, “It’s a big hill overlooking a lake. There’s no one else for miles, and if you time it just right, you can see the sunset creep over the water with colors you can’t find anywhere else.”

“That sounds nice. Real nice.” His voice is quiet now, with none of the bravado or petulance heard before.

“Promise that you’ll come see it with me?” she asks, realizing she’s nearly choked up too. Steve turns to her, a quick flicker of fear dancing in his eyes. The concept of ‘promises’ was always touchy for him – haunted by betrayed pledges from those he loved, guilty about ones that he himself couldn’t fulfill. She wouldn’t bring that word up for a shallow reason.

But damn it, they’re going to see that sunset together.

Chapters: 17/? Fandom: Code Geass Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Kururugi Suzaku & Lelouch Lamperouge | Lelouch vi Britannia, Kururugi Suzaku/Lelouch Lamperouge | Lelouch vi Britannia Characters: Kururugi Suzaku, Lelouch Lamperouge | Lelouch vi Britannia, C.C. (Code Geass) Additional Tags: Immortality, Post-Canon, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Memory Loss, Slow Burn, Diverges Canon After R2, Temporary Character Death, Body Horror, Buried Alive, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Very loosely inspired by Re;surrection Summary:

Those with finite lives speak of "forever" with loose lips. Their minds and bodies cannot understand an existence with no end. The man known as Zero lingers in an unfathomable eternity, with centuries blending into a consciousness that holds so little.

I have roughly 1k of the chapter down. The skeleton of the chapter is there too, so it'll probably end up a shorter-ish chapter around 2k words. I have the week off and I know I've not been able to match my promises before but I'm gonna give it another good shot to get it finished this week 😤

Problem is (or good news? if you read my resi fics), is that I'm also juggling that old Darkside Steve writeup I've also probably drafted for about 3 years lmao, plus another chapter of Weary Knight's Respite. I know the Steve brainworms will escalate come Gamescom in August, so trying to keep that tapped down on the side for now.

Life has been kinda hectic for lots of reasons (good and bad), but hey, the aftermath of times like this always seems to give me the final push, so here's to hoping! I played thru a bit of srw y recently and it was a great source of inspo ^^