Rubber Ducks and Sad Songs
Though when they had said they were aromantic, it broke some hope that he had in dating them. nikolas sat in the training room moving around some miniatures left behind from don's late-night painting.
Dead To Me
Fran's roommate may have been ace, but she hadn't been aromantic. "on any level, yeah." the jackal may have been aromantic herself, but she could still relate to the concept, in a wider sense.
Caught on a Line - Thursday Prompt Story [#17, 27/4/23]
Perhaps this is how jiraen came to fall helplessly in love with ellard, even if he was (selectively) aware that ellard was aromantic, but more importantly, it's why ellard chose him as his desired conductor, preferring to wait out those four years jiraen had
The Dragons of Alexandrite
Before meeting duncan he thought himself as aromantic asexual, but after meeting with him, he would still consider himself as ace but adding demisexual into the mix while not stated up front the reason why steven is smaller than his two older brothers, is
And I Must Scream
"You go to hell for the company, and to heaven for the peace and quiet." "Sometimes it's more gradual than people talk about," Fran's roommate had tried to explain. "Like, on TV you'll see oh, this person's reacting to this specific crisis, she's...
The Hand You're Dealt
"Forgetting someone is killing them twice." Fran had kept having a harder and harder time dealing with her best friend's coma alone, while her roommate had kept having a harder and harder time dealing with living in a graveyard full of dead...
The Hand That Feeds You
"Darling when the morning comes And I see the morning sun I wanna be the one with you..." (Grover Washington Jr, Just The Two Of Us) "Do you think..." It'd been hard for them to talk about, but they hadn't had anyone else to talk to. "Do you...
Tears In Rain
'If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it'll spend its whole life believing it's stupid.' (Albert Einstein) "Ugh, really?" It'd already taken Fran half an hour to get to the bridge. It'd been raining that day, fittingly, she...
Scorched Earth
"À la claire fontaine m'en allai promener (I went for a walk to the clear blue fountain today) J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle que je m'y suis baignée (The water was so pretty I had to take a dip) Tu as le coeur à rire, moi, je l'ai à pleurer (Your heart...
Out Of Mind
"Where is my mind? Way out in the water See it swimmin'..." (The Pixies, Where Is My Mind?) It'd been one of those mornings on which Fran just hadn't felt like getting up at all. What good could come from it? She hadn't been able to picture...
The Master's Tools
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." (Terry Pratchett) "So these robot masters," Fran's roommate had asked her as she'd been playing Mega Man, "they're supposed to have been built to do just this one job, right?" The jackal had...
Water Flowing Underground
"After everything, it's still you." (Undertale, Genocide Run) "It was you, wasn't it?" The humanoid ant queen had stared Fran down severely from her earthen throne. "You killed the ants, didn't you?" The queen had brandished a bloodied ant skull in...