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this lone flight, forever homebound by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
30 Jan 2025
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You hate him. You miss him. Despite every cell in your body blaring a red alarm, you plaster your lips to his and kiss him full on the mouth. A heavy exhale is expelled as his hands flex to remain still, to keep himself for reaching for you, and that perfect, plastic veneer cracks like desiccated earth splitting open in apocalypse.
He surges against you, cold fingers threading through your hair as he kisses you back.
Tears prick the corner of your eyes. Whatever damage you meant to inflict on him is returned tenfold, because even though the fabric softener used to launder his uniform is different from the one he used to share with you, he still smells like Caleb.
the destination is always her.
(or: what if canon but slightly worse.)
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- Part 1 of origin: sine qua non
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Caleb’s rough fingers dance along your naked thigh, the holster there, the strapped gun. “Didn’t I teach you better, pipsqueak? If someone threatens you, you shoot first, talk later. Should have put a bullet through me when you first walked into this room,” he rasps. “Then we wouldn’t be here.”
But how could he be dangerous? That warm, summer heat when you’d been nine, and the slip of that cold apple juice that made your tongue tingle from the tart sweetness. Caleb, your sunlight.
alternative bad end: in which the activator malfunctions.
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- Part 2 of origin: sine qua non
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“Yeah,” Caleb murmurs. He raises his head and drops a kiss on your forehead, before saying lowly, “You don’t know? You have that look in your eyes, pretty girl. Like you want something.”
You squirm again, stomach roiling at his words that resound inside you like a pinging signal in space, pretty girl, pretty girl, but his Evol doesn’t give. You breathe, “I don’t think I do?”
“It’s okay. It’s gege’s duty to know why his meimei is acting out. To give her what she needs.” Then he drops to his knees, movement so smooth your eyes have trouble following until his head is already between your legs.
or: you're acting restless. caleb knows why—and fixes it.
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- Part 3 of origin: sine qua non
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footprints underneath a pulse storm by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
09 Mar 2025
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“I know how to clean a gun too,” you say mischievously.
Caleb’s voice is low. “Do you now?”
You twirl the gun around your fingers—a trick he’d taught you once upon a time, after way too much pleading, if it’s so dangerous, why do you know how to do it, teach me okay, gege, gege, geeeeeee—then aim it at him with both hands wrapped around it. The first pose he’d taught you, when he’d taken you to the shooting range. Gentle hands around yours as he spoke softly in your ears on the best position to take, how to best read the target with your eyes. Your hands pantomime an exaggerated shooting gesture, gun jerking upward as you pretend to pull the trigger.
“Bam,” you say playfully, before blowing at the end of the gun like those old Western movies you used to watch together.
“Oh, and there she goes, a perfect shot.” Caleb puts a hand to his chest as though in pain, but his mouth is curled upward in an indulgent smile. “Wounded,” he sighs, “right in the heart.”
“Man down, man down,” you say in a sing-song voice as you circle him, and he puts his hands up in surrender.
or: there's more than one way to clean a gun.
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- Part 4 of origin: sine qua non
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annihilation: the consequence of collision by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
26 Mar 2025
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“You know what my class is,” you say. “A! And do you know what A stands for, X-02?”
“Definitely not for Execūten,” he says, a strange wryness to his voice. “That’s for X.”
“Anhausen! Assist!” You throw up your hands. “A for Assist, you dummy! But how is this A class supposed to assist the X class like she should if a certain stupid, idiotic X-02 model won’t let her!”
or: caleb finds a way to appease your anger (through completely unfair means).
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- Part 5 of origin: sine qua non
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sun fractures over the empire by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
07 Apr 2025
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He strokes your cheek. Wondering. “...Who are you?”
“...Caleb?”
You rear back, as though struck.
He should be… needs to. Crawl at your feet. Beg for apology with his head resting in your lap. Please forgive me. But he doesn’t. Too struck by the hurt in your tells, furrowed brow, biting lips, wounded eyes.
“Caleb…” You grip onto his arm. “You don’t remember me?”
“I’m sorry,” he says. “I wish I did.”
or: the in-betweens of lucid dreaming.
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- Part 6 of origin: sine qua non
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inscribed in ligature by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
16 Jun 2025
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“You took it,” you say, but you’re not sure what exactly you mean. My candy. My first kiss. “My gift.”
“No, I didn’t,” Caleb says. “Not yet.”
“But you already ate it.”
“I’m not stupid enough to think of that as my gift,” Caleb whispers. He traces the line of your mouth, thumb stroking your lips as you’d done to him. “The candy is just an excuse, isn’t it?”
when the birthday present is more than just candy.
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- Part 7 of origin: sine qua non
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You close your wrists together, and offer it to him in a gesture that makes it look like you’re a criminal asking to be cuffed.
“You can,” you say.
Caleb looks at you, waiting.
“Do what you want with me,” you declare. “Whatever it is.”
an equation of give and take.
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- Part 8 of origin: sine qua non
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“What a great plan,” you say. “An unmarked omega in heat in the same house as an unmarked alpha.”
Caleb stiffens. “I would never harm you.”
“Then are you hoping I’d ask you for help instead, Colonel?” Your voice turns saccharine. “Oh, won’t you see me through my heat? It hurts so much. I need you so badly, alpha.”
Caleb takes a step back as you advance on him. His throat bobs. Everything has been made explicit with your words. One: you’re an omega. Two: you’re about to go into heat. And three: if you go any closer to him, if the scent of him gets any stronger, you may just collapse on the spot and weep at his feet.
“Stop it,” he says hoarsely. “Don’t kid around.”
the mere acts of biology.
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- Part 9 of origin: sine qua non
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“Even if you’re taller, I’m still older. You have to listen to me.”
“You’re so quick to remind me, every day,” he flings back. “How can I forget?”
“Caleb,” you say, an edge to your voice. “Am I your older sister, or am I not?”
or: a role reversal au.
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- Part 10 of origin: sine qua non
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“You look so hungry. What am I supposed to do to sate you?” Caleb says. “What do you want?”
“I don’t know,” you say, a lump in your throat.
“Say it,” he says. “Tell me what you want. Give me your orders and I’ll follow them to the letter, no more, no less.”
You bury your face in his shoulder, tongue twisting in loops and riddles. Nothing comes out except strained half-sentences, “I just, I…”
Caleb gives a long-suffering sigh. He settles his hands on your hips, hovering and not yet touching, but somehow it’s still palpable. The possibility of it a sunburn. “It’s just like you,” he says, “to make me do everything.”
or: what happens in the cave, stays in the cave.
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- Part 11 of origin: sine qua non
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Because other boys wouldn’t have just gotten aroused and then beaten themselves off to a finish with a fantasy of their younger sister. Other boys wouldn’t hope to be the first and last to lie with their sister in bed. Other boys wouldn’t want to kneel to lick between their sister’s legs and bring her to an orgasm in the kitchen, the living room, the closet, the garden, any place that could fit two, him and her.
No, other boys wouldn’t want these things at all.
It is just him. Caleb.
restless nights prove a trial in patience.
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- Part 12 of origin: sine qua non