Ao3_Axolotl
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Itoshi Rin had been drowning; To anyone searching, it would be a painfully obvious fact. Abandonment, betrayal, isolation… the multi-layered suffering he had endured on the average had manifested into that of merciless, ever-raging waves that tore-away at his already-battered, weary heart… and, in the end, the storm had been too relentless to weather.
Itoshi Sae had an unfaltering resolve and philosophy comparable to an eternal-winter; both heart and mind alike were an impenetrable fortress of cool-detachment and utter-apathy, the polar opposite of his little-brother… but, after a silent, frigid night of regret, grief, and irreversible-loss, the realization that the isolation and icy-facade he’d been working so meticulously to uphold had been but a far cry of what it meant to be truly isolated within the confines of a barren, frozen wasteland… but, by the time he’d become aware of this fact, it had been far too late.
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Victim to the apathetic, detached cruelties of his older-brother, Rin couldn’t help but succumb to the desire for eternal-escape… And, being forced to confront the aftermath, Sae, in a bitter turn of fate, irony, and karma, discovers that the price paid for ‘not caring’… is grief.
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Rin is drowning; Sae, his parents, the expectations and desperation he imposed on himself to be the very best and finally prove himself to be worth something, anything, were really starting to take its toll… and the U-20 match had been the final crack in Rin’s already sinking boat, in the only thing keeping him afloat and safe from the tumulus waves of emotions crashing around in his mind like a never-ending storm. Day by day, each cold, dismissive glance, each sharp, biting word from what-used-to-be his older brother’s unloving, uncaring mouth continued to chip and crack away at Rin’s mind… and, at some point, the prospect of simply being swept away and forever-submerged by the tides stopped seeming so daunting.
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How will Itoshi Sae, with a deeply-internalized, effortlessly-cold, and emotionally-detached heart confront his darkness-shrouded past, sense-of-self, and relationship with his little-brother when, after a eye-opening, grief-filled night of regret and terror, he realized that the consequences of his actions and the price paid for the perfectly-crafted mask of utter uncaring that he prided himself on were much steeper than he originally realized?
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Viktor had been seconds away from his death. He had seen it coming from a mile away, it really wasn’t a surprise.
He resigned himself to his depressing fate, letting his eyelids fall shut as he braced himself for the killing blow.
However, moments before he was finally released from his miserable life, a man stepped forwards to intervene and, from that moment on, had intertwined his and Viktor’s fates together in a way neither of them could begin to imagine.
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Jayce buys an injured slave!Viktor in order to save his life.