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POSTED ON Jul 30, 2023 22:44:30 GMT

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Ashley Shepard

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Kepler cannot believe this is actually happening. For real. For fucking really real. The boy who’d never had a relationship before-- never had a friend-- was about to have-- to be-- a husband.
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What? What the actual fuck?!
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He reached over and sharply pinched his upper arm, hard enough to bruise.
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“Just wanted to make sure I’m not dreaming,” he murmured into the skin at Ash’s throat.
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They’re still kissing so much that it’s hard to believe they are also talking. The words come out mumbled and warm, more breath than vocals.
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“I love you too. So much. More than anything.”
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Movement out of the corner of his eye makes him turn his head and Maple and Cloudstrike have gathered up his small army of Pokemon and herded them up to their feet. Everyone is cheering-- Lysithea holds Euanthe above her head like a boombox in an 80’s movie-- and they’re all cooing with delight and happiness.
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Then Ash picks him up and Kepler squeaks in protest, only to be cradled comfortably, bridal-style. He leans his cheek on Ash’s shoulder and curls into the safety and warmth of his neck.
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“What’s twenty years to forever?”
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Because that was how long they were going to be together.

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↳ ohhhh my god

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“I’m sorry.”

If only he’d been stronger. He was a genius. He should’ve been able to figure out a way to-- to--

Ash’s words carve him apart at his seams. He warbles a little, arms coming up to wrap around his fiancee’s neck, fingers of one hand slipping into the downy silver/black hair he knows and loves.

“Thank you. I’m sorry. Thank you.”

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POSTED ON Jul 30, 2023 22:36:19 GMT

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Hey, friends! This thread goes pretty in depth with identities, body dysmorphia, and the intersection of biology and gender. If these aren’t your thing, look away!

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“Welllllll,” Kepler says, dragging out the final consonant as his own hands come to rest over Ash’s where they’re warm on his body, “when a man and an individual with ovaries, fallopian tubes, and a uterus love each other very much…” he lets it drop off, there, because Ash can definitely make the educated guess. His tone is light and his smile, while small, is at least stable, now.
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The look in Ash’s eyes is just sort of worshipful and Kepler shakes his head. “It’s not a miracle,” he says, almost like he’s reading Ash’s mind-- he isn’t, his husband’s face is just easy to read, and deciphering his expressions has become a third language to Kepler-- “it’s just biology.”
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Cutting it down to the roots: the science. Where Kepler is comfortable. Where the ground is stable.
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“I…” his voice cuts off, and he swallows, exhaling measuredly. “I’m not sure… oh, god, this is hard to explain.” It was hard to put into words to begin with but even harder in the face of Ash’s undying devotion. “I never thought in a million, trillion years something like this would happen. And now that it has… I don’t know.” He steps away from Ash for a moment, forcing his fingers to release, and walks to the bed, suddenly dizzy. His palm presses against the comforter, cool cotton. “I’m so scared. I don’t think I’m ready… I don’t think I’ll ever be ready… and I’m… I’m so small as is, and I don’t know if the HRT has fucked me up for that-- that purpose, and I’ve got congenital birth defects, and holy fuck, Ashley, I’m scared.”

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POSTED ON Jul 26, 2023 21:15:05 GMT

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The Spoink… well, it spoinks across the grass, springy step making a cute boinging noise. Borealis uses hypnosis to send it to sleep and Kepler throws a Pokeball to contain it before it can die of inactivity.
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“I think I know you,” he says, tone flat as he parrots her words back at her. She doesn’t look like she remembers.
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But he does.

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↳ catch attempt spoink [break]

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[attr="class","thadmain"]He can tell she’s becoming more irritated with him by the minute and he can’t bring himself to care. He doesn’t, he finds, give a fuck about the prickling of strangers. Not when they’ve already limited themselves in his esteem enough by confessing their church trappings.

“Meteorology is my side hustle,” he said, by means of explanation, the request for which was unspoken in the gaps of her silences, “and anomalies-- like winter in the tropics-- are my area of expertise.”

Borealis casts hypnosis over a Cyogonal and Kepler tosses a Pokeball at the living snowflake.

“It didn’t do this to eat,” Kepler says, though he tries to summon more venom and fails, because it’s an apt observation-- perhaps the first intelligent thing she’s said through this entire interaction. Logically, the adhering laws of nature state that cruelty is a very human concept, and killing for killing’s sake is rather limited to their species. “I don’t know what it wanted. But if I had to wager a guess, it was just… pissed off. Wanted to be here, to claim here, terraforming it into this wasteland to make it more comfortable.”

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POSTED ON Jul 26, 2023 21:03:12 GMT

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Hey, friends! This thread goes pretty in depth with identities, body dysmorphia, and the intersection of biology and gender. If these aren’t your thing, look away!

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Ash freezes and there’s a tremor of recognition that shifts his face, moving just beneath the surface.
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Slowly, ever so slowly, Ash’s hands slip from his shoulders, over his collarbones, over his chest (the surgery he’d never needed, because he’d gotten on hormones early enough) over the cage of his ribs, spinning so his palms press against Kepler’s lower abdomen, fingers splayed down over his hipbones.
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To the crux of the issue.
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Kepler’s electrified; Ash’s touch sends shards of crystal through his skin. He smiles, it falters, then picks up again.
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“...oops?”

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+ The first 2/3rds of this is Kepler coming to terms with the situation. A Big Think (TM) [break]
+ Asks if Ash can walk with him a bit :3c

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POSTED ON Jul 26, 2023 20:59:47 GMT

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[attr="class","sam-banner-up-blurb"]Ash’s arms close him in and a sob wrenches free of Kepler’s chest, painful like a bunch through his ribcage. He buries his face deeper into the crook of Ash’s neck, shoulders heaving with roll after roll of tears, like a dam that’s been burst. They’re crying together, that has to count for something.

He’s crying like a child, great gasping sobs of it wracking through him, loud and shuddery and fast and hard enough to make him cough, almost make him retc. And he knows he’s being a baby, knows he’s being dramatic, but he doesn’t care, as its all working its way out like a splinter festering to the surface.

Ash’s tears fall on his hair and his tears dribble down Ash’s collarbones and Kepler can’t talk through the crying.

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POSTED ON Jul 26, 2023 20:54:10 GMT

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It just goes to show that Kepler’s life is such a grievous collection of comedic errors that I don’t want to die a virgin has turned into this. A random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. And this beautiful, wonderful, magical, infinitely fuckable, perfect man.
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His pulse is thundering in his ears and he thinks his soul leaves his body, which, considering he’s seen it happen before, should be fairly terrifying. The roar of it mixes in with the roar of the waves and the magic that Ash’s team is pulling off around them.
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Kepler’s heart does funny things in his chest and it isn’t, for a change, his cardiac condition.
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“...oh, my god.” His hand turns into a claw and he grabs Ash’s arm and pulls, chest to chest, arms coming to wrap around Ash’s neck and pulls their mouths together.
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“Yes, yes, yes, a thousand-million times yes.”

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“Aw, that’s no fun,” Kepler says, disappointment wringing itself through his tone. He had less than fond memories of Sinnoh; it didn’t seem fair that Hoenn was ripping itself out by the roots, but Sinnoh was normal. “Por que no los dos. Jealous and disappointed.”

Kepler’s ears perked up at the mention of a partner.

“My boyfriend’s been talking about going on a vacation for a while… is that why you went to Sinnoh?” He couldn’t think of any other reason why anyone would go there, and he had family there.

“Alola. Nice. Definitely on our list of places to visit. If only the sun didn’t hate me so much.”

Acrius knocks down a Magneton with fire lash and Kepler throws a Pokeball. This place seemed to be crawling with the things.

“Is Slateport anyone’s cup of tea, really.”

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Kepler huffs a laugh and shrugs his shoulders, finally releasing Isaac’s wrist and stepping away. “Aw, you’re no fun.”

The tree begins to writhe and warp, almost like something is trying to burst from its center, branches knocking against each other like dry bones. The Pokemon at its base crack and rise, sending cascading, flint-like pieces of stone crumbling to the ground.

The newly-freed Pokemon turn to Isaac in thanks. Kepler shrinks further back into the shadows, not wanting to steal the limelight.

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Kepler swallows a noise of disgust and looks around them at the sterile gray light and soft particulates floating in the air.

Isaac doesn’t pull his wrist away and Kepler doesn’t let go. He’s come so far from the strung-out skeleton Isaac’d dug out of the mud. Back then, Kepler hadn’t known what a positive touch was.

“I’ve been to the Tree of Life,” Kepler says, looking up at the trunk, “but it was being twisted by a Florges. Into a fairytale hellscape.”

Still. Kind of poetic that everything Hoenn ever was or would be, summed up and crunched into a tree? Like the reverse of making paper.

Yeah. Poetic.

Kepler was not hearing, evidently, the same voices Isaac was. To him, the tree was just a tree.

“You could pee on it,” he says, flat and blank-faced, half a joke (ha ha funny meme, I’m a thirsty flower) and half a joke (just piss all over Hoenn’s Final Form, if that’s what this is.)

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“Who won?” Kepler found himself asking, all of a sudden and out of the silence in a way that almost made himself jump. “In your… simulation.” The word is detached, cold. “Who won?”

A beat and a flash and the whole world zips down to a single line, like an old TV turning on. The line wavers, an EKG kicking up, and then it’s so bright Kepler has to squint and turn away.

When his eyes have adjusted-- he’s still gripping Isaac by the wrist, probably tight enough to leave red marks-- he looks back.

“Huh.”

He’d expected… he didn’t know. But it certainly wasn’t this quiet, almost angelic scene.

“This reminds me…” he waved at the tree, the space in front of them, making a big circle to indicate he meant this whole situation “...there’s as scene at the end of Constantine where Tilda Swinton’s, like, look at how far you’ve come, John. That’s what this feels like.”

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[attr="class","itemcoltexttit"]TREE OF LIFE 1

[attr="class","itemcoltext"]You enter a resplendent glade with a large white tree growing in its center. Although it is devoid of leaves or fruits, it is a sacred and splendid scene seemingly untouched for one thousand years. Around its base, Pokemon kneel though they do not seem alive. They've been petrified into absolute stone.[break][break]

Coming close, you sense the tree "speaking" to you. It beckons for you to water it.[break][break]

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