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    It’s Inej, Kaz, and Jesper’s final summer break together before they graduate and, of course, they’re keeping tradition alive at Ketterdam Summer Camp.

    This year, however, tradition is altered, and it’s not just through the bold new camp musical choice of ‘Spring Awakening’. Jesper’s feelings are thrown upside down and inside out by a little redhead, and Matthias is grappling with many inner conflicts at playing Melchior, especially when his Wendla is a sassy girl he can’t help but adore.
    Kaz? He continues to run the camp’s tech crew like a tight ship, but his heart softens for the lighting girl who he wishes he had more time with.

    This fic will largely focus on Wesper because I love them but explores Helnik and Kanej as well I promise.

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    A Six of Crows Summer Camp/Theatre Kids AU

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    07 Nov 2025

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    “Honestly, you’re kinda a fake Optimus Prime fan for that. Don’t bring Jazz into this, that doesn’t count, 2007 Jazz is not the same as 1984 Jazz.” Jesper grumbled, fingertips softly massaging Wylan’s head as Wylan tried to steady his breathing. “You okay? Baby?”

    If Wylan was not completely limp against Jesper’s ribcage right now, he would’ve been able to see Jesper looking down at him softly. Every couple words he’d stop paying attention to his father on his phone and stare at the unmoving, lumpy Wylan.

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    29 Oct 2025

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    It’s good for circulation, Jesper would usually tease, but now he only turned and added: “Pay up, Kaz.”

    “You cheated,” Kaz accused.

    Wylan shrugged. “We can play again.”

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    Or, the one in which Wylan proves a point with chess, Jesper finds a blindfold, and Kaz visits a canal.

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    12 Oct 2025

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    “Hey, so why was your stuff here in the first place?”

    At an instant, Wylan’s bright smile turns precarious. It’s not so much anything to do with his expression as it is the sudden tense in posture, the way he so obviously tries to look unbothered.

    Jesper grimaces, just as instantly. “You don’t have to–”

    “It’s nothing. It was part of a treatment this ‘doctor’ my father called had, for my reading…” Wylan makes a small, unspecific gesture with an awkward smile. The silence that hangs is thick.

    A discovery of a locked-away box of Wylan’s childhood belongings stirs up an argument between Jesper and Wylan, and then a conversation—but not before bringing up a few memories too.

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    12 Oct 2025

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    “You look really well,” Jesper says then, unable to help himself.

    “I know,” Wylan says plainly, with a small shrug. “It’s classic me. Came to college and got pretty.”

    Jesper laughs, although he’s not fully sure why. It just feels like such a Wylan response to give, whatever that could mean; a little self-deprecating, and also gesturing to the understanding—the knowledge—that they have of each other. Is it classic Wylan, to do this? Only Jesper would be able to tell. Only they could understand each other like this, even now.

    Jesper and Wylan aren’t friends in school, but they certainly aren’t strangers, no matter how much they try to act like it. In university, their lives continue to weave in and out of one another’s, pushing and pulling each other through their insecurities, pasts, and other relationships. But they always seem to come back to this fact—they can never be strangers.

    (or, a Wesper Normal People AU)

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    15 Sep 2025