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footprints underneath a pulse storm by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
09 Mar 2025
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“I know how to clean a gun too,” you say mischievously.
Caleb’s voice is low. “Do you now?”
You twirl the gun around your fingers—a trick he’d taught you once upon a time, after way too much pleading, if it’s so dangerous, why do you know how to do it, teach me okay, gege, gege, geeeeeee—then aim it at him with both hands wrapped around it. The first pose he’d taught you, when he’d taken you to the shooting range. Gentle hands around yours as he spoke softly in your ears on the best position to take, how to best read the target with your eyes. Your hands pantomime an exaggerated shooting gesture, gun jerking upward as you pretend to pull the trigger.
“Bam,” you say playfully, before blowing at the end of the gun like those old Western movies you used to watch together.
“Oh, and there she goes, a perfect shot.” Caleb puts a hand to his chest as though in pain, but his mouth is curled upward in an indulgent smile. “Wounded,” he sighs, “right in the heart.”
“Man down, man down,” you say in a sing-song voice as you circle him, and he puts his hands up in surrender.
or: there's more than one way to clean a gun.
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03 Jul 2026
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annihilation: the consequence of collision by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
26 Mar 2025
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“You know what my class is,” you say. “A! And do you know what A stands for, X-02?”
“Definitely not for Execūten,” he says, a strange wryness to his voice. “That’s for X.”
“Anhausen! Assist!” You throw up your hands. “A for Assist, you dummy! But how is this A class supposed to assist the X class like she should if a certain stupid, idiotic X-02 model won’t let her!”
or: caleb finds a way to appease your anger (through completely unfair means).
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21 Jun 2026
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“You look so hungry. What am I supposed to do to sate you?” Caleb says. “What do you want?”
“I don’t know,” you say, a lump in your throat.
“Say it,” he says. “Tell me what you want. Give me your orders and I’ll follow them to the letter, no more, no less.”
You bury your face in his shoulder, tongue twisting in loops and riddles. Nothing comes out except strained half-sentences, “I just, I…”
Caleb gives a long-suffering sigh. He settles his hands on your hips, hovering and not yet touching, but somehow it’s still palpable. The possibility of it a sunburn. “It’s just like you,” he says, “to make me do everything.”
or: what happens in the cave, stays in the cave.
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- Part 11 of origin: sine qua non
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18 Jun 2026
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The wedding night goes well.
By the time they make it to the bedchambers, her mind is buzzing with a pleasant, warm drowsiness. Her body feels incorporeal, as though her flesh has evaporated into a light, misty fog. She is not treading these earthly grounds, she is dissipating into thin air, she is anywhere but here.
A hand lands upon her shoulder, stitching her back together, grounding her. She blinks blearily at its owner.
“You must not fall asleep, Hinako,” Kotoyuki says. He sounds amused. “Not now. The night has yet to end.”
or: the aftermath of the wedding.
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11 Jun 2026
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this lone flight, forever homebound by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
30 Jan 2025
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You hate him. You miss him. Despite every cell in your body blaring a red alarm, you plaster your lips to his and kiss him full on the mouth. A heavy exhale is expelled as his hands flex to remain still, to keep himself for reaching for you, and that perfect, plastic veneer cracks like desiccated earth splitting open in apocalypse.
He surges against you, cold fingers threading through your hair as he kisses you back.
Tears prick the corner of your eyes. Whatever damage you meant to inflict on him is returned tenfold, because even though the fabric softener used to launder his uniform is different from the one he used to share with you, he still smells like Caleb.
the destination is always her.
(or: what if canon but slightly worse.)
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11 Jun 2026