aiko's otter den - hub

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The tower is not a kind place but there are kind creatures in it, gentle moments in it. Or, a slightly tilted look at those seven years between floor 2 and floor 30, a bit colder than usual.

But don't worry, the lightfish will guide your way.

1. a heap of shattered crystal flowers - Jue Viole Grace is born from pieces of a person who drowned and broke and all of those pieces are sharp. (FFN)
2. heaven feels like a price for being dead - Hwa Ryun is somewhat of a mystery. But she calls him hers and sings to the lightfish too. Viole thinks that's the taste of love. The strange relationship between Jue Viole Grace and his guide. (FFN)
3. together through the rustling trees - On one test, the group meets a mute fellow examiner. They let him stick around. (FFN)

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Khun's goal is to free himself from a curse. It doesn't really go according to plan.

1. a steady chill - In which Khun meets a demon boy and Viole meets a magical human.
2. a bonfire in the early morning
3. the wind against your face

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A true mate is hard to come by, and Khun has to live with the consequences of avoiding the conversation. Bam has to live with the consequences of not pushing it. Oh, and there's a marriage tournament involved.

1. the mortifying ordeal of being known - "if we want the rewards of being loved" . Or Khun tries to avoid one problem using another and Bam keeps trying anyway until he simply can't. S3 canon-adjacent
2. the war of being accepted - TBA
3. the rewards of being loved - TBA

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The firefish decides to take the situation into its own hands - whatever that means.

1. douse the fire you put in me - The firefish is either the worst matchmaker ever, or puberty for Khuns is a new level of hell. Either way, Khun is having a horrible time. Featuring Bam wearing skirts, Hatz being tired of Khun, Khun suffering, and more.
2. ignite with the love you kept safe with me - In which Khun still has lessons to learn and favors to repay and Bam loves him very much. He needs a break from all this. Everyone else? Well, they're just here to suffer, mostly.
3. warmed from head to toe - In their escape from Traumerei's forces, they wind up at floor 60 during blizzard season. Khun and Bam end up separated from the others and snowed in. No help is coming until morning, at the earliest. But well, they're used to each other's company. Everything will be fine. Right?
4. by the power of the red string - In true Urek Mazino fashion, the floor 77 test requires you to face forward and break the ceiling. Khun's childhood decisions come back to roost with the strange new friendship between Bam and Maria, of all people, and his own feelings on the matter get wonderfully called into question. He knows himself fine, it's Bam who has gotten further away. And now they have to survive in Baek Ryun's forest for three days. No pressure, yeah?

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This is a tower where the monsters used to roam, and now they're waking up.

1. crave - The void hungers and it hungers deep in its bones. There isn't enough light to fill it, only to match it. Or Bam is the kindest monster, but he is still a monster, and Khun is also a monster, his humanity aflame.
2. a hunt as far as the sea - A gentle hunting day for a cat and his monsters.

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Six years was just enough time for the Workshop to twist Twenty-Fifth Bam into obedient weapon Jue Viole Grace. Eight only cemented it. The Hand of Arlene doesn't burst, and the world marches on to certain fates.

In one world, Viole returns to the people he'd sworn to himself to protect.

In another, he dies in the final molding of his body and his soul flees to start anew.

In both, he hungers as only monsters can.

1. from an ancient wellspring - spinoff from someone out there loves you. Jue Viole Grace dies with Reflejo at the workshop and wakes up staring at the roof of the cave, years before. This is not just a story of time travel and second chances. There is much more at stake. (FFN)
2. someone out there loves you - Khun, instead of going to the Hand of Arlene, goes to help Shibisu alone at the workshop battle. They win. The prize? Jue Viole Grace. They are not prepared. (FFN)
3. grasp the scalpel in your thin fingers - For the first time, Viole wants something. It's a very strange something but Khun, Rak, and Sweet and Sour are willing to grant it. Even if it means shaking up the team dynamic. Set before "someday you will love yourself".
4. you must pick up a dagger - Sidestories from the forge.
5. someday you will love yourself - Train City/Hell Train
6. sometime you will understand - NHS
7. somewhere you will feel at home - FOD
8. somewhere in a shadow of love - Hidden Floor
9. somehow we will make it out - Last Station

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You ever just want a series that's pure relationship communication with a side of plot? I do.

1. beams of light - Bam makes a discovery. Or even two.
2. a fingertip apart - It’s late, Bam wants to sleep, but there’s only one bed. This is much more of a problem for Khun at first. Then it’s not.
3. firelight - Bam's eyes are warm and well-lit, and Khun is a moth. Or, in helping with Bam's fake date, Khun fucks up.
4. the way you blaze like a sun - On floor 67, Khun hits a button of Bam’s.
5. windfall

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With help from a dragon, Khun Aguero Agnis sets off on a strange and fun adventure!

1. from a little meteorite - Young Aguero finds a rock. The rock hatches. His family’s life changes forever.
2. The Maria meeting them and going sideways because of everything.
3. In which khunbam end up on floor one
4. test floor but khun is not an exile.
5. Also FUG is really interested in his dragon. Who he might have a crush on.
6. Something weird is up with the Agnis branch of the Khun Family.
7. giving your dragon a bath (and how they know a fish hook)

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Jahad's efforts dwindled omegas down to the bone. Bam and co end up accidentally breaking that curse. It's a lot of work.

1. love always returns, with interest - Rachel said that coming to the tower would end the imprisonment placed on Bam for his designation. She’s not exactly wrong, but being the only unmated omega left in the tower leaves Bam to deal with entirely different issues. Novickkhunbam
2. to have a heart is not to bind one - A chance encounter between two children, an inescapable reunion, and a mark that turns away a gaze. Ehwa’s childhood fears come back to roost and Hwaryun, who has never run from fate, considers the weight of her own path. Set before and during “love always returns, with interest”.
3. the way you learn forgiveness is thus - One shared heat does not solve every problem. Khun and Novick have to make decisions, Bam just wants answers and the kids? Well they want a vacation. Sequel to love always returns, with interest.
4. from mine and yours, with love

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Khun wakes up in a game he'd played on livestream on a dare. Now, together with his real world friends and supposed characters in the game, he's set to unravel the secrets of the world, and change the storyline for the better.

1. in the dark, in the deep - V wishes he wasn't human. Arlene wishes she was.
2. to make a blood oath - Khun wakes up in the fantasy world of one of his favorite games, a child coming face-to-face with the childhood form of the last boss. And he's the loathed villainess character! He knows how these things go. If he doesn't beat the game or win over the last boss, he's dead. No pressure.

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Time passes and things hurt less, and if you let it, love grows and grows.

1. Snow Falls on Rose Point Inn - Khun is buried under the weight of his father's hotel chain. Bam is a struggling widower owner of his family's bed and breakfast. An accident brings them both together. Now with art by jo!
2. a quiet night alone - Bam's bandages come off. Rose Point sidestory.
3. Spring Leaves and Apple Trees - About a year after that fateful Christmas at Rose Point Inn, Isu and Hatz bring up having the wedding at the inn. Chaos ensues at this proclamation.
4. Flower Petals Over the Orchard - In which Khun and Bam's long engagement comes to an end.

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-In which idiots in love are still, idiots.

1. blink and you miss it - It's a nice sound. Or, the accidental emotions of a Slayer candidate and the argument for a movie.
2. fortune favors the bold - Four (five) times Wangnan tried to flirt with Viole to mixed results, and one time it's in reverse.
3. sunlit stones by the lake - Bam, keen towards the light, develops a taste for shiny things. Urek makes use of it. Khun… feels things about it. For hermes.
4. brick by brick - Wangnan thought that getting Viole’s affections was hard mode. No, Khun Aguero Agnis was definitely merciless mode. But he was going to make this work if it killed him. Viole liked both of them. This HAD to go well.
5. from one disaster to another - Khun and Wangnan have been getting closer on the Hell Train. Bam is trying not to feel some kind of way about it.

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- A rut has interesting consequences.

1. mark your territory, cut your teeth - Khun's suppressants stop working at the worst time ever and Bam finds out more than intended. He kinda likes it though. NHS AU.
2. with teeth and claws, we're bound
3. the way blood boils

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The AU where Luslec decides to interfere despite his own misgivings, and FUG begins its hard work at a true revolution.

1. snowflakes on an empty palm - The times Khun tried to hold something in his hands and the times someone tried to hold his.
2. vestiges and plums - Bam opens his eyes four days later not to Hansung Yu, but someone much more terrifying. Or, the ramifications of a god genuinely taking in a monster without knowing how to love them. They're doing their best.
3. moon tea - On the fifth floor, Rachel sees a ghost. Alternatively, your childhood heroes can be wrong.
4. marigolds burn with hope - Everything unspools and everything is weaved back together again. Or, a child is free.
5. More TBA

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Presentation is everything. Khun is an exiled alpha of a powerful family, Wangnan is the alpha holding the king's greatest secret in his skin, and Bam? Bam is the irregular omega who they've both connected with. The only problem is real life trying to get in the way, not to mention undoing everything taught to them in the process.

No one comes out unscathed, but they do come out healing.

1. the harmony that calls us - In which Khun chases deeper and further into the sea after a strange omega. Totally not in his life plans by the way. But Bam interests him, and soon starts diverting every plan. AU
2. this cadenza built on love
3. The rhythm that holds us - wangnan
4. The melody that guides us - Bam
5. The duet we taught ourselves - ehwaryun
6. The song in our hearts - Isuhatz
7. The echoes to our shores - yurrachel, endorsi
8. Music like a prayer -ensemble cast

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“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.” Audre Lorde

AU. To be a person is very hard, especially in the dark where no one looks at you. Or Khun Aguero Agnes is born a familiar and Twenty-Fifth Bam is born from death, and the navigation of what they create.

1. a knot in red string - Khun used anything to his advantage, even the way he was born. He was not prepared for that to put him in FUG alongside his best friend. Or what that would lead to for both of them. (FFN)
2. More TBA

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By happenstance, Khun and Bam reunite in a heat hotel area, and in doing so, they end up ruining multiple plots by accident. But Gustang is much better at chess than it appears.

1. a wish cradled in the shadows - In which Khun meets Jue Viole Grace, the slayer candidate, at literally the most inconvenient time. But he makes it work. He always does.
2. purple shadows at the edge of dusk - This time, Oriole will not let go. Or, a time Oriole had nothing, four times she was given something, and one time she finally could give back. (Plus a time it was all returned to her)
3. when shadows warm with light - Khun wakes up, in the aftermath. He's all right.
4. light at the edge of sunrise - Viole makes a promise he cannot break.
5. the shadows will try to steal you away - Khun begins the courting process for his best friend. Bam dives deeper in his goal of changing FUG, the ten families and the tower itself. But the tower is stubborn and some have a story they want to tell. It will not be easy. And no one is prepared for who is lurking in the shadows.
6. a path lit by moonlight - TBA

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Khun and Bam meet again, themselves, but not. Things happen.

1. windswept night - Viole did not expect him needing to shop would get him into a bonding moment with his team. He didn't expect to meet Khun either. semi-AU (FFN)
2. summer rain soft and warm - Viole has his first period, and an entire crisis in the process. Slight prequel to windswept night, but can stand alone.
3. a port in a storm - The fallout of an accident. A long distance relationship. And Bam, very busy and tired, does his best like always. Sequel to windswept night.

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It took a bit of effort, but the Khun family will change forever. And some magic, of course.

1. let the fresh air in - To be happy, someone else must be unhappy. This is something Khun knows very well. Then he meets a strange cat, twisted by the stars and in so much pain indeed.
2. a scattered sky -Khun Aguero Agnis has taken over the Kingdom of Storms and needs a neutral advisor. For a second time, he goes to where the monsters live and once again meets a cat with stars in his fur. Meeting him unravels the secrets of his kingdom, and may even save his life. Twice.

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Accomplished Thief Khun makes his way up the tower with his friends. Then he steals the precious gem of the King. Shenanigans ensue.

1. impulse of a crimson puppet - Rumors reach Khun and his crew's ears of a renown gem from Jahad's jewelry box. He's not interested in it. The king has plenty of jewels. Then, Khun finds it and he just can't resist. Meanwhile, Viole's days go on with no end in sight, laced with pain and fool's gold. Until her vision is filled with blue and she's whisked away into the open sky.
2. More TBA

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A lot can happen in seven years, but you must keep moving forward, no matter how much it hurts.

1. softness as an act of god - During a floor transfer, Wangnan and Viole are separated from the rest of Sweet and Sour into a snowy mountain. They handle it… interestingly. For ros.
2. not enough gold and heat to hold you - The void yawns wider in the hours after the workshop battle ends, stark darkness against the light he lost. Bam tries to fill it in every way he can. Khun has to decide if he accepts that or not, when he finds out. They really should talk about this. It... takes them a while to talk about this.
3. More TBA