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saiakv · 2 months

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[ TOP OF THE WORLD ]

SETTINGS WITH POTENTIAL : accepting

[ TOP OF THE WORLD ]: one of the muses finds the other on the roof-top in the middle of the night. neither of them want to sleep, and so they sit together for the remainder of the night until the sun comes up, content to sit and talk and exist with each other.

♪ ₊˚♬. If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do... ˚♬

The dormitory had sunk in quietude after sunset. As violet eyes traverse the empty schoolyard, Suguru reminisces on the times him and Shoko would sneak out for a smoke around this hour, or he'd be kicking cans with Satoru in the field track in a makeshift game of football. Now, there's no one outside. The rise in missions means most students are either off on a hunt or treasuring their little leisure time in their rooms. And those memories of good times seem so distant, as if it was forever ago — but in reality it was only last summer.

What a horrible thought; the volatility of sorcerer life. And then another one comes and Suguru feels his own heart clench in bracing for it — is this what it's always going to be like? Losing life from one summer to the next?

The cigarette's heat brushes against Suguru's cheek when he reaches up to push the earbud deeper in. If only the music could wash over his own thoughts -- the ones that keep slipping. Violet eyes browse over the cement below. He doesn't dwell on the process, on the hows and whys and what would follow. It's only a flash of an image — his own limbs shattered on the floor, looking up into the nightsky with the same vacant expression as the stars shine and the clouds keep moving. And the world moves on.

But that's the easy way out, isn't it.

♪ ༘⋆ ...is to save everyday, 'til eternity passes away ♬

♬ just to spend them with you... ₊˚♪

Thoughts interrupted by the familiar buzz that is his best friend's aura chirping around his own. Satoru's presence is never subtle, but he can still sneak up on him in the same way a noise can be so loud that you can't tell if it's coming from a mile away or ten. Suguru's fingers clench around the mp3 player, eyes not yet daring to meet his cerulean counterparts, lest his friend witnesses the darkness that pools within them.

They have been working Satoru to the bone. He shouldn't be burdening him with more concerns. And yet every fiber in his being finds relief in that overpowering presence that falls over him like a weighted blanket. A weighted blanket who's departing for an overseas mission tomorrow. Satoru is going to America, like he'd always wanted. To investigate a potential special grade, of course, but knowing him it still counts as a vacation, doesn't it?

Suguru would be found sat hunched on the parapet, one knee folded and the other leg dangling over the ledge. The cigarette was burning out between his fingers, expression nonchalant as he turns to greet his friend with a nod. He takes out the earphones, letting them dangle around his neck, and scoots over to make space for Satoru beside him.

❝ I thought your plane leaves at five. Shouldn't you be in bed? ❞ Suguru speaks the words softly, with futile hope his friend might overlook the yearning in his voice. Prudently, he advises him to rest; but those other, selfish parts of him have grown hungrier as of late. And so selfishly, he wants him to stay.

#ANSWERED.#fallesto \ satoru gojo #suicide ideation tw #(( me constantly putting you through the dark times for revenge ))#(( THIS IS FOR ALL THE THINGS you've done to me fall! ))#꧕ 🇹‌🇭‌🇪‌ 🇫‌🇴‌🇺‌🇷‌ 🇯‌🇴‌🇺‌🇷‌🇳‌🇪‌🇾‌🇸‌ ꒰ ᴠᴇʀꜱᴇ 002 ꒱

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sparklecryptid · 10 months

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Broken Ice Luche: Libertus

Libertus: yes?

Luche: *bundled up in various hand knit items Libertus and Titus gave her* this is getting out of hand

Libertus: are you still cold

Luche: I am always going to be cold

Libertus: then it’s not enough

#a darkness born in youth verse #libs: I will break the curse through the power of gift knits #Titus: and I will help you

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radialarch · 1 year

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mctna soundtrack team putting this part of wild road over this moment specifically -- i just wanna talk

#kim jae hee like here's this mournful ballad about how the world is painful and dark and yet to survive you must learn to walk through it #and smack in the middle the second verse starts with a wistful recognition that companionship was a possibility; once #if only a difference choice could have been made; if only the world had room for patience #but the circumstances have pushed you past that point. there aren't second chances for you #so you walk on-- because you have to #who HURT this production team. why are they now taking it out on ME.#love like a knife

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rosh1d · 16 days

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❛❛ And pray tell, what business would Waloed wish to have with the outlaws ? ❜❜ he would delve into the root of this meeting with the quickness of a hardly concealed state of impatience, he finds the man's claim as nothing short of absurd. He and Gav were present to bear witness to king Barnabas' sacrifice of his people, there was none left unturned but the woman unknowingly saved by her unborn child now another resident in the hideaway where she stayed since. Barnabas was in no need of soldiers as the strength lended to him by ultima seemed to suffice to create his own, so who might this stranger be ? And more importantly, where does his allegiance lie ? It is for Joshua's sake that he entertains the possibility of a civil conversation, but if he were to be an enemy, there would be no hesitation on his part to do what's necessary.

@sephaeroth // starter !

#sephaeroth #◇.⠀⠀⠀in character⠀⠀⠀⎯⎯⎯⠀⠀⠀⠀(⠀ic !⠀)#◇.⠀⠀⠀all as one⠀⠀⠀⎯⎯⎯⠀⠀⠀⠀(⠀vii !⠀)#// hey hey ! hope this works !#// I read through your xvi verse and I'm thinking maybe seph is trying to find more about his origin?#// in which I pretend the quest for the dark crystals happened before because hojo would most likely be basing off his research from that #// or maybe unlikely allies ? idk idk #// let me know !

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waugh-bao · 6 months

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“Tell Me Straight” Lyrics (KR, 2023)

#I have to admit. I shut this off after about 30 seconds when I first heard it #because the reverb/auto tune on Keith’s voice and the generic beat track are both terrible #they still are #but I went back after hearing that reviewer say it was the 2nd best song on the album/best lyrically #and realized…this is the Charlie song #I mean just look at the first verse #‘do we have something or nothing at all/just tell me straight’#after everything they went through with Charlie keeping Keith in the dark about how sick he was #‘you got me high and it’s quite a long fall’ when he used to say Charlie gave him the ability to fly #‘how do we finish? how do we start? … how do we meet? how do we part?’#because now he knows their ending and their beginning despite insisting for years that Charlie would never die on him or fail him #‘everyone is asking questions/I’ve got one or two’ when the question he’s asked most frequently is about Charlie #‘just need a little time to clear the mind’ after he said he could only mourn Charlie ‘in increments’ because otherwise it was ‘too much’#and ‘play me a song/life’s moving too fast’ is depressingly self evident #the rolling stones #charlie watts #keith richards #old married band #lyrics

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universestreasures · 1 month

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That Haunting Emptiness (Drabble)

Prequel Drabble To This Thread With @shacchou

Looking back, he should have said more. Mokuba was well aware of how important this entire endeavor, this entire search for Atem, was his to Seto. He...He needed to find him; to have that final duel and resolve the rivalry they had developed over the years. It was just something his brother wouldn't just 'get over'. When his brother was obsessed with something, he was obsessed with it till it was seen through. This Mokuba knew well by now.

But...he still can't help but feel regret deep down in his soul for not trying harder to stop this. The chance of success with an untested prototype, no matter how brilliant the design, was not certain. Mokuba knew that. Seto knew that, and yet...his brother still went and did it anyway, left this realm for the world of the afterlife to see his rival again.

This left Mokuba on his own truly for the first time since his brother's coma. Sure, they had times they were separated, such as when they had that confrontation regarding their past where he sought aid from his friends, but...Seto was always there. He was always in the same realm as him. That wasn't the case here, for the two brothers were whole realms apart, separated by the barrier between life and death.

And despite his best efforts to run Kaiba Corporation in his brother's absence on top of his work at school, he...he wasn't handling it well. As the days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months, Mokuba's condition physically and mentally worsened. He was barely eating, barely able to sleep, barely able to live. How could he...when his brother, his other half in many ways, his major reason for living, was not with him right now with no guarantee of a return?

Regardless of the circumstances, however, the young boy remained hopeful. His faith in his brother was unmatched, stronger now than it had been years before. His brother would come back. He had to. He couldn't...

He couldn't abandon him...not again...

Mokuba found himself in Seto's office, having taken residence there in his temporary role as acting president. Mochi was in his lap as he stared aimlessly at the computer screen, sitting comfortably there as he petted the soft fur of her back. Normally he wouldn't bring his therapy cat to work daily, but it had become a necessity. Having her around gave him a sense of company when his friends, such as his Buddyfighter crew or the Blue-Eyed Maiden herself Kisara Utahara, could not be present. It was company he desperately needed during these times.

In addition to his feline companion, Mokuba had other items with him. On top of his and Seto's pendents that he wore hidden one of Seto's old blue ties, he also had been given the responsibility of holding onto Seto's physical deck, considering his new Duel Disk system used virtual cards. This included his three trusted Blue Eyes White Dragons, cards Mokuba had always loved. Having those mementos, along with bringing his scrapbooks to work, made things both easier and harder for him. He missed his big brother so much, more than he ever has in his entire life.

Why wasn't he back yet?!

Mokuba's purple hues are then widened as he hears the sound of panicked footsteps from outside the office door, soon enough glancing upon Isano who appeared to look distressed. His face was pale, sweat dripping down his face. Something was wrong, very wrong.

"Master Mokuba! You're needed at the Space Station! Mr. Kaiba...Mr. Kaiba is...!"

The vice president doesn't even let him finish. He's out the door as soon as he hears his brother's name, leaving Mochi in his care. He is pushing through every person in his way, not caring about anything more than being quick. He had one goal in mind: seeing his brother.

"Where is he?! Where is my big brother?!" Mokuba demands as he arrived at the control center for the station, his voice not sounding too unlike the CEO's.

"H-He's up there still, M-Master Mokuba, b-but you should-"

"Then send me up there right away!" He says as he makes his way to the elevator, slipping through the coated scientists who were attempting to block the entrance.

"B-But sir! There is something-"

"I said send me up there, now!!!"

His voice, one akin to a dragon's roar, silenced the workers, all of them moving silently as Mokuba sits down and prepares himself for the ascension into space. Truth be told, he's never actually been up here himself. The elevator only had a single seat, after all. Not only that, he had been wanting to wait for a special occasion to see it for the first time, like his fourteenth birthday that wasn't too far away from now. Seems like that plan would have to be thrown away, for the current situation was more pressing.

As he is locked in and the chair starts moving up towards the stars, his heart raced out of his chest. He isn't sure what he's feeling right now other than the adrenaline. He should be joyful, happy that his brother was back, but Isano and the staff's expressions made him doubt. The boy shakes his head, suppressing all of those thoughts as he approaches the top, the top of the elevator his brother had created.

Upon reaching the station, he jumps out to head to the room where his brother's prototype should be. Despite never having step foot in here, Mokuba had been present during the entire design process. He knew the entire layout by heart. It's why it doesn't take him long to find the room, the doors slowly opening with no sound in the room other than the sounds of the computers humming.

And that's when he sees it, before his very eyes, his brother's prototype...and the person that was inside of it.

"Seto!!!!" The name escapes his lips easily as breathing as soon as the sight of his brother reaches his now watery eyes. Mokuba wastes no time running to his side, pressing the buttons on the side to open the pod. "Thank goodness you're back! I knew you'd come back, Seto! After all, we promised that we would always stay to-"

It is at that moment when the boy's blood runs cold, the euphoria he felt due to his relief all but drying up in an instant. For before him was indeed his brother, but...not in the way the younger brother had hoped. Seto's body was in a rough shape, his clothes torn and covered in a red liquid that Mokuba soon saw coming from the corner of his brother's mouth. The smell of the iron from the blood hit his nose, confirming that what he was seeing was...

"No, no, no! Big Brother? Big Brother!?" On instinct he holds his brother's hands, feeling their coldness immediately upon contact. The tears from his eyes flow into streams, flowing down his cheeks like a river. This...This wasn't...

"HQ? HQ?!" He calls out to the monitor in the room, praying that someone can hear him. "Someone...Someone send a doctor! A doctor up here, now! Seto...Seto needs help! The transport must have been too intense for his body! Hurry, or else he...!"

"Master Mokuba. There is something...we've been trying to tell you."

It is then that Isano, holding Mochi in his arms, appears on the screen, his signature sunglasses having been removed as the other Kaiba Corp employees behind him hung their heads low. Never had Mokuba seen his brother's right hand man without those glasses on, an unpredicted sight that made the pit in his stomach grow larger by the second.

"Master Seto...His..."

"Don't...Don't..." His grip on his brother's hands tightens as his gaze shift's to Seto, his eyes shut and unable to look back at him.

"His heart rate was... non-existent the second we saw him re-enter the station. I...I am sorry, sir. There is...nothing we can-"

"Shut up..."

"But Master Mokuba-"

"Just shut up!!!! My brother isn't...My brother isn't dead!!! He...He can't!!!! He promised!!!! He promised me we would always stay together! Always!!! That he'd come back to me after his stupid duel with a dead man!!! He'll...He'll prove you all wrong!!! Just watch!!!"

His arms then move to hug his brother, not caring that his off-white suit was to be stained with the color of red roses. Tears fall from his eyes and onto his brother's face, his breathing heavy and his body shakes. This...This couldn't be...

"Seto...Come on...Wake...Wake up...Show them that you're gonna be okay...Wake up...Wake up!!!"

But...his pleas went unanswered, no matter how much or how long he cried next to his brother's empty husk. Nothing he nor Kaiba Corporation's resources could do could change the situation. Nothing could change the reality...that Seto Kaiba was...was...

"Seto!!!!!!!!!"

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Mokuba screams awake, scaring his feline companion who had been attempting to wake him up the moment he started talking and yelling in his sleep. He was not up in the space station, not next to his brother's corpse, but instead back at home...in Seto's bedroom. He had taken to sleeping in there since his brother left, a way to feel closer to the person he wished was at his side.

Mochi finds her way closer to Mokuba, performing her usual repertoire of soothing behaviors to try and help him calm such as kneading his palm. His breath was heavy, his body was shaking, and he felt like sick to his stomach. A hand was over his mouth, as if trying to prevent himself from throwing up as the flashes of what he witnessed replayed in his mind over and over.

He couldn't get the image of his brother, cold and covered in blood, out of his head...

The ever-resourceful kid moves to his phone, checking if any correspondence or updates about his brother's status had been made. Thankfully, or unthankfully depending on how one might see it, there was nothing. His brother...was still missing, but he wasn't...

He drops the phone then to instead open the pair of lockets around his neck, staring at the pictures of himself and his brother intensely, the pictures he clung to during desperate times like this. Seeing Seto's smile, the smile he cherishes, does a bit to help quell his panic. Though, that sight nor Mochi's assistance could do little to fix the fear that had surged through him, the fear for the future that had manifested in the form of this night's nightmare.

A future where Seto...broke his promise. A future where he...died and left him all alone...just like his mother and father did so many years ago...That's what he feared more than anything, and the current situation only made that fear he's had for years...worse...for it seemed more probable now than ever before.

But...Mokuba, despite his struggles and traumatic experiences, was a strong kid, a strong kid because his brother had allowed him to become one through his guidance and selfless protection. It was because of Seto that Mokuba was still able to have hope, still able to believe in the impossible. And it was that feeling, one that slowly was coming to the surface, that guided him to stand up from the bed with Mochi in his arms. He goes to open the curtain in Seto's room, purple hues staring at the stars he could see through the city's skyline.

"Big Brother...I believe...I believe that you're still alive...I don't know when but...we will be together again...I...I just know it..." Despite the shakiness of his words, his conviction is clear. "And I'll wait for you Seto...I'll wait for you...forever if I have to...Just...Just please come home...someday. I...I need you here, just like...I know you need me, too."

It is at that moment, without the boy's knowledge, that a supernatural phenomenon occurred. The boy's strong feelings for his brother, ones of familial love and hope, seemed to have awakened someone. Or more accurately, the parts of the soul of someone who cared for Seto as much as he did.

For inside his brother's deck, sealed protectively in the suitcase on the other side of the room, his three dragons began...to faintly glow, a glow that would soon...light the way for these two brothers to....be reunited.

#💎 Crystalized Hidden Gems (Drabble)#💎 Vice Treasure (Mokuba Kaiba)#💎 President With A Blue-Eyed Lighting (Shacchou)#💎 Vice's Dark Side Story (Mokuba DSOD Verse)#tw long post #tw character death #tw nightmares #tw ptsd #tw blood #(THIS WAS...A DOOZY TO WRITE NGL #(BUT OH I HOPE I PROTRAYED IT WELL CAUSE IM ACTUALLY HAPPY WITH HOW THIS TURNED OUT #(AND HOW I CONNECTED IT TO ME AND ANI'S PRIEST SETO THREAD #(THIS IS A SCENARIO THAT...I NEVER WANT MOKUBA TO EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE OF A DREAM BECAUSE...GOD #(LETS LET THIS KID BE HAPPY #(But him having nightmares about this fear of his makes total sense #(considering what the kids gone through and knowing seto almost died in transcended game as well ;;;;#(anyway y'all send mokuba some hugs and love he needs it after i put him through this ;;;;;;

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notbecauseofvictories · 2 years

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my favorite thing from this last episode of the silt verses is the implication (fleeting, but there) that whatever god Hayward and Paige grew in the cursed soil of her father’s farm won’t be constrained by them, and they’re hurtling very quickly towards some undeniable, unintended consequences.

#also I love that hayward continues to be an avoidance-seeking coward regardless of circumstances #he's there with friends! paige has clasped him to her liberal and slightly dysfunctional familial bosom!#and yet the idea that he'd have an honest conversation with her about something he's observed #that's probably important to them and their overall project simply does not occur to him #just don't talk about it. hope that the stink finds someone else to infect.#.....ngl at this point I need paige to suffer for her hubris a little.#carpenter is taking a lifetime of religious angst and abuse out on the countryside; faulkner is gritting his teeth #in order to get through being a pawn in a larger chess game #hayward has basically fallen so far he's groping around in the dark theology of his once-sworn enemies #while the politicians wheel and deal (only to trigger carnage) and at least one of the god-killers falters in their faith #I just also need her to be a little tainted. as a treat for me.#the silt verses #silt verses spoilers

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bluest-planet · 11 months

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Gonna watch spiderverse for like. The 3rd time this week. Peace and love on planet earth. 💙✌️🤟👏🤞

(Mayhaps even a 4th time if we have nothing else to do and need a pick me up)

#blue speaks #across the spiderverse #listen #the amount of sheer absolutely joy and adoration me and my sister have for this film?#also in the darkness of poverty and stress spider verse really be pulling through being me n my fam's life line like damn okay.#if nothing else we've got spider verse to enjoy and instantly make our day better #this by a person who very much enjoys going to the theators as irs one of the few things we can do to have fun #its just!!! a great movie experience yknow? missed out on watch Nope again so i gotta rep for spider verse #might write out my thoughts and analysis at some point but dknt quote me im busy and job searching

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mystical-strawberry-sheep · 1 year

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🍓 Starter for @fangedstories 🍓 🍓 To Riku🍓

🍓~🐑~🍓

Aku stood on the shore thinking about taking off. There was some sense of normalcy in Destiny Islands now, save... Someone. Either way, she wasn't connected to the world anymore. Or perhaps it was better to say she had never belonged at all...

Aku had grown on the Islands with everyone else, but she never interacted with them. Afraid of everyone and disenchanted with the life she knew, Aku tended to keep to herself, hiding in the dark corners of the island away from the other kids. It hadn't been as if she hated them. On the contrary, it would have been nice to make friends. But she just didn't see where she fit in with any of them, and so she had stayed as out of their lives as she could manage.

When the world had fallen apart, she had disappeared into the darkness, and she had learned to fight. She had gotten separated for so long from the islands, completely lost in darkness until she'd found an open field, what she now knew to be the world between worlds. After that, nothing was the same. When the worlds were restored she'd felt like a stranger in her own home, and she'd longed for freedom. She'd left at the first available opportunity and her heart had been eaten away, turning her into a nobody. The shell left behind had played servant to the Organization, no better than her lesser counterparts, until she'd lost all of it and was cast away again. She'd narrowly missed being drug into the new Organization, but now that she'd seen everything come to pass, she wasn't sure what to do with herself.

She'd come home, but it was no use. She truly didn't belong here. And so she was going to set out. Using the doors to darkness like she always had, and letting that darkness feed into the scar on her forehead. Wherever she ended up, maybe it would be better than this.

Taking a deep breath, she held up her hand and prepared to let the darkness flow through her, unaware that there was anyone else on the play island.

#ic: speak through dreams #closed starter: whispers from the dark #fandom aku: where the gates lead #kh aku: door to darkness #wandering heart: kh3 verse #fangedstories

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mantleoflight · 5 months

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Lots of Dark Timeline AU thoughts! - Pt 1

//Hhhhh catch me thinking about the Dark Timeline!AU/LightBringer!AU where Echo-17 is present for the departure of the Traveler - how desolated everyone and everything would be. Witnessing the fall of the tower, the corruption of her friends and heroes; her firm trust and belief in the Traveler's Light, despite its departure. Echo just forcing away her anxieties so she can find and help survivors, friends, and New Lights that haven't been corrupted yet. But she's too small. She's only a little light against a pantheon of Darkness and it's serving Deities. She wants to be more.

//While on her quest to save and bring together what little she could, she encountered Elsie and Ana Bray, becoming reluctant compatriates with Elsie while being very warm with Ana. Later, she ended up bringing her survivors into the throng of Mara Sov's army. With the survivors safe and now part of the Leviathan's populace, Echo talked with Elsie asking her to teach her what she knows about stasis - not so she can use it but so she can defend against it. "If I don't know what I'm being tempted by, what it feels like, I'll never know what I need to say 'no' to. Please."

//Elsie refuses at first until Echo finally tells her why she wants and needs to learn stasis: She swears Elsie to secrecy, telling her that if she or anyone else found out, word could get back to Eris and ruin the whole plan.

//Her plan?

//To use Stasis to hide her light while she finds out how Eris Morn became a hive god and undo it.

//her only request is that if she gets corrupted or found out, for Elsie to take care of Whisper, and if not, then for her to take care of the people she rescued. They've been through enough. Elsie doubtfully agrees and the two embrace before Echo heads out on her adventure in tracking down what made Eris a Hive God and how to break it.

#ooc || outoflight #ooc || out of light #dark future timeline #exo stranger #elsie bray #echo 17 #timeline thoughts #verse thoughts #//Yo if there's an Elsie somewhere that wants to do anything with this I would LOVE to see how these two would react to each other #//and if they'd be up to befriending each other while Echo's looking for City Survivors and Elsie's trying to lay low #//Could be one of those Alt!Dark future timelines too! Where Elsie went through the first time #//but the second time she didn't stay hidden as long and ended up finding and being befriended by Echo #//Idk I'm having a lot of thoughts #rp

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