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Heliotrope by Waiting_for_a_sunny_day
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
28 Nov 2025
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“Sorry, Yoshiki,” Hikaru groans as tears come out of one eye and more of him comes out of the other. “Ughh, I don’t – ”
Yoshiki can see how hard he’s trying to calm himself down, but it just isn’t working.
“It’s ok,” Yoshiki says, quiet. “It’s ok. Instead of shovin’ it back inside completely, can you try just...lettin’ it out? Just a little bit?”
He has no clue how any of this works, but maybe a half-measure is better than trying to force it all at once.
“Okay,” Hikaru says, but it sounds like a sob. More of the unknowable, incomprehensible swirl leaks out into the dark room.
“Yoshiki – shit – ‘m sorry but can I…” Hikaru’s face – what’s visible behind the bloom of him – twists in a small kind of agony. “Can I touch you? Not much. Just – ”
It's been years since Hikaru first took the body of Yoshiki's dead best friend. Despite everything - every horror and hurt - they managed to find a home in each other. Not quite friends or family. More and not. What they have is complicated, but precious.
But when Yoshiki escapes their small town – to college, to Tokyo – Hikaru follows. And things start to change for them both.
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- Part 1 of Heliotrope AU
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15 Feb 2026
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Even at the alter, General Ren does not smile. His expressionless gaze is cast on their joined hands instead as if it offends him. He does not lift his gaze until they rise from a deep bow, deeper than Dan Heng has ever had to in his life and it is for a man who has slain thousands of his people.
His smile slips when their eyes meet, a clash of green and red so vivid the world comes to a standstill to this single point in time.
After six years on the battlefield, Dan Heng meets defeat in the face of his consort.
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In the aftermath of a bloody war, the way to a lasting peace treaty comes in the form of marriage; generals of their respective armies would be offered as consorts for the heirs of their nations. In the name of peace, Dan Heng reluctantly accepts the show of goodwill but seeing an enemy as a friend is no easy task.
It quickly becomes clear that his own people would sooner seek vengeance for their losses than to accept this political power play, even at the cost of their prince's life.
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28 Apr 2025
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March drags Dan Heng out and, much to his horror, it's to see what was most definitely illegal races.
And what can be worse than that?
Sleeping with the winner.
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15 Feb 2025
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“Do you think of me as a monster, Dan Heng?” he asks, if only somewhat offhandedly, as he continues working on the small wound. Avoiding the Vidyadhara’s prying gaze.
The prisoner can see right through the General’s forced aloofness, taking in the subtle downturn of Ren’s lips, the crease between his furrowed eyebrows. Fully invested in hearing the captive’s response, he anxiously awaits the final verdict.
Dan Heng firmly ignores his wounded Vidyadhara pride, the dragon inside of him roaring with indignation—yes, yes yes yes, a thousand times yes, a million excruciating deaths would not be enough to redeem your pitch-black soul—in favour of answering truthfully. As a fellow soldier and a fellow man, dealt an extraordinarily terrible hand in life. “No.“
Blade the Immortal finally captures the Vidyadhara prince.
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15 Feb 2025
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