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Take What Little We Deserve by candiedillusions
Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
24 Jan 2024
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**Like a Dragon: Gaiden Spoilers**
Majima had never claimed it was easy to love Kiryu.
It wasn't easy to love a dead man walking who refused to acknowledge who he was to protect the people he loved. How could it be, when he was a man very much torn by his desires, whose jagged edges ripped Majima’s heart out when he said he would’ve loved to build a home with Majima in another life, then turned around and walked away from him because he had others to protect?
Majima had had enough of watching Kiryu walk away from him time and time again.
This time, Majima won't let anything stop him from winning Kiryu's freedom.
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Or, the sequel to Like Sand in the Wind.
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- Part 2 of No More than Halfway Real
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Like Sand in the Wind by candiedillusions
Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
02 Dec 2023
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**LIKE A DRAGON: GAIDEN SPOILERS**
As Kiryu prepares to aid Watase in his ambitious plans to dismantle the two largest Yakuza clans in Japan, he's well aware he'll come face to face his ex-Tojo allies again. He steels himself, knowing it won't be easy. He'll remain as Joryu - do his job, lend his fists, and walk away once the mission was complete.
Nothing could have prepared him for seeing Majima again.
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Or, little vignettes of Kiryu and Majima through the ages, and what would happen if Kiryu had just a bit more time post-dissolution.
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- Part 1 of No More than Halfway Real
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Yet The Heart Remembers by candiedillusions
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Nov 2022
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Hua Cheng has worked so hard to get where he is today - Patriarch of the Hua family, the lord of the infamous hedonistic underground playground for the rich and depraved aptly named Ghost City, and a reputation alone that kept most rival clans at bay.
Rumours on the ground speak of changing times and tides, and a rival clan threatens Hua Cheng's monopoly and control of the city. An all-out war seemingly inevitable, Hua Cheng gets caught in a fight that has him bleeding out all alone in a dark alley. Hua Cheng is prepared to die, but what he doesn't expect is to finally come face to face with someone he had been desperately searching for for a long, long time...
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Or a Yakuza boss Hua Cheng and Florist Xie Lian AU, where they finally find each other again after a ten-year separation, and must fight more than their inner demons to stay together.
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At Dusk, I'll Think of You by candiedillusions for wen_q
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
27 Oct 2021
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“What about Gege? Has Gege ever been in love?” Hua Cheng asked in turn, and Xie Lian found himself floundering.
Love. Xie Lian had carefully scooped out all thoughts of love for centuries, keeping them locked deep in his heart.
Like the small, white flower that he tucked into his robe next to his heart years and years ago, long crumbled into dust, leaving nothing but a smudge on white robes that were long decayed.
Don’t think about it, Xie Lian thought, blinking back tears that threatened to spill. Unconsciously, his hand drifted to the cursed shackle around his ankle and brushed it gently.
“Gege?” Hua Cheng asked.
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Or, in the aftermath of the events in Nether Water Manor, Xie Lian ponders about times long past, about grief, and about love.
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A Sticky Situation by candiedillusions
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Mar 2021
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Tian Ci ascended at the age of 22 while he was asleep at his desk, mouth wide open and drooling on his scrolls. Amidst the trying task of getting acquainted with the ins and outs of the heavenly realm, Tian Ci found himself in a beautiful wildflower garden when he noticed something was very, very wrong.
Lying idly under a maple tree was a teenage boy in a red tunic, an arm under his head as he held another outstretched to the sky, a small silver butterfly perched on his fingertip.
A teenage boy that was definitely, undeniably, a hundred and ten percent a certified ghost.
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Or, a post-canon AU written for the prompt, “New god ascending post-canon confused about why there’s a ghost king in the middle of heaven & no one seems to care.”
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No More than Halfway Real by candiedillusions
Fandom 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
24 Jan 2024
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A series of drabbles and one-shots to celebrate birthdays, prompts, and everything else in between.
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sing it to the world by driedupwishes
Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
25 Nov 2025
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Most people meet their parents in standard, almost traditional ways. They’re born to them and meet them before their memory even develops, they’re adopted or fostered by them through an agency, or they meet one half of them as a process of them becoming a parent, like when Hiro-kun’s dad started dating the woman he’d later call mom in fourth grade.
Haruka isn’t like any of the other kids she knows, though. She meets her parents in terrifying, messed up situations, when they’re just strangers struggling to stay alive, before they have any idea that they’ll one day be a family. Sometimes Haruka still sees those moments as set dressing for her nightmares like backdrops in a theater. Her mom she especially sees in her nightmares and dreams, since she can’t see her anywhere else except when they visit her grave.
Still, though, she wouldn’t change anything about it. She meets her dad, Kiryu Kazuma, in that blood soaked bar and he’s quiet but kind from the get go.
Her father, however… Well, meeting him might be the most unconventional meeting of any parent-figure on the planet.
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27 Mar 2026
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mystified by how this city screams your name by akosmia
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
11 Jul 2024
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“When I told you this city is my home–” Lestat starts. “I was being truthful. There’s no other place I could ever live but here.” The crooked smile on his lips turns a bit sadder. “This is where I met you.” He pauses, then says, “Where I lost you.”
“You didn’t–”
“I did.” There’s tenderness in the back of his gaze, so much of it Louis almost feels out of breath. “Do not soften the blow for me, Louis. We both know I don’t deserve it.”
Louis says nothing for a moment. The weight of the years they’ve shared presses against his chest, as if Lestat had stretched out his arm and his hand had come to rest right where his heart is furiously beating like a hummingbird. He wonders if they’ll ever make peace with it, or if the work of living is just this – to accept the burden of it, and carry it as best as they can.
Then, he sighs. “I’m here now.”
or: four times Louis comes back to New Orleans, and how he finds his way back to Lestat.
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07 Jan 2026
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You are Mochizuki Ryoji and once, you believed you were human.
This is your story. It is also his.
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24 Jul 2024
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Ryoji's time with Makoto was something he'd forever cherish.
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Bookmarked by candiedillusions
24 Jul 2024
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“Is summer nice?” Ryoji asked after a beat, and it made Minato blink at him. Ryoji wondered if his question had been too abrupt, but Minato seemed to consider it anyway, brow furrowing in consideration.
“It depends,” Minato said eventually, slowly, and Ryoji hung on to each syllable with care, “on whether you like it warm.”
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21 Jul 2024