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POSTED ON May 6, 2023 23:49:50 GMT

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Ashley Shepard

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Kepler clings to Ash just as much as Ash clings to Kepler, fingers clawing into the fabric of his shirt, two halves of a particularly volatile whole. Like gravity, and the way it pulls this proportionate to distance and mass-- the two of them had planetary fields that were always meant to intersect.
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He lets Ashley cry without interruption, because Kepler knows he needs this. He’ll go too long putting on a brave face until everything cracks and shatters and he stabs someone else’s eye out. A gross oversimplification of the traumas and conditions that went into that specific event, but still. They were working with evidence, precedent.
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“Always,” Kepler says, muffled into Ash’s neck, his own cheeks wet with tears. “Always.”
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Ash kisses his hands and wipes his tears and Kepler presses his palms to Ash’s cheeks, the bandages rasping against his skin. He needs to hold him here, here in this moment, in this heart, so that he can find his footing and begin to heal.
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“Absolutely,” Kepler says, and his watery, half-crying voice is something reverent. “Whatever you want to do. Within reason, of course, because I am putting you on a strict emotional recovery period. You’re not leaving my sight for at least a week.”
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He hugs him again, nuzzling into the space beneath Ash’s chin. They fit so well together.
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“I’m so glad you’re home.”

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everything works out in the end [trade]

POSTED ON May 6, 2023 21:35:29 GMT

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kepler brueshaber is sending gacha ducklett to lam logan and gacha nidorina to blue murtagh in exchange for beheeyem going to kepler brueshaber, and starmie going to ana fell

ana fell is gifting wild runerigus (f, wandering spirit ; curse, destiny bond, mean look, guard split) to Kaname Fujihara :3c

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all these dragons call me crow [trade]

POSTED ON May 6, 2023 21:03:39 GMT

gifting gacha dragonite to Navy

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POSTED ON May 6, 2023 19:27:04 GMT

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POSTED ON May 6, 2023 19:24:28 GMT

trading gacha hisuian zorua from kepler brueshaber to nikkari hect in exchange for bisharp to onyx straub

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kepler's gacha

POSTED ON May 6, 2023 18:38:49 GMT

deerling (keeping)
eiscue (keeping)
nidorina --> blue murtagh
toxel (keeping)
scatterbug (keeping)
arbok (keeping)
maractus (keeping)
flareon (keeping)
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klang --> genesect
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charizard (keeping)
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jolteon (keeping)
typhlosion (hisuian) (keeping)
cinccino (keeping)
chinchou (keeping)
seadra (keeping)
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pachirisu (keeping)
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lairon --> genesect
dragonite --> Navy
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POSTED ON May 6, 2023 2:40:39 GMT

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Ashley Shepard

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It starts slow, at first, the way Ash trembles like a sapling in a thunder storm. Just at his fringes: his hands, the muscles in his cheeks. Kepler feels him tighten his hold and grips onto his forearms for dear life.
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“He doesn’t mean anything,” Kepler says, staring up at Ashley with big, blue eyes. His voice is quiet in the sound of the wind. “He doesn’t mean anything, Ashley. What he thought-- it doesn't matter.” Kepler couldn’t quite relate to the feeling of putting stock in your parents-- his own, while certainly never doing anything as awful as trying to murder him in utero, certainly never seemed to appreciate him. But this-- this was an atrocity. This went beyond just not caring about your kids, this horrible urge to destroy them before they were born, ruining, at minimum, two lives in the process.
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“You didn’t know,” he whispers, pressing his hand against the back of Ash’s and lacing their fingers together. “You didn’t know he was the-- the reason your mom… did what she did. That’s not your fault.”
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As Ashley falls to pieces-- quite poetic, like ash in the wind-- Kepler twists in his arms and threads his arms around his neck, pulling him down so Ash was hunched into him and Kepler was taking up most of his line of vision, Ash’s forehead to his shoulder, hugging him close.
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“I’m sorry,” he says, for the grief Ash must be feeling over the loss of his good friends. “I’m so sorry,” over the fact that he can’t take the pain away. He can’t tell him that it isn’t his fault because… well, Kepler’s always been logical, even when it hurts.
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There are som nay things he wants to say. It’s a war. These things happen. They knew what they were signing up for. But none of them takes away the sting and the pain and, quite honestly, Kepler thinks the best thing for Ash right now is to feel-- to burn away and propagate anew, like a forest after a fire.
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So he just holds him, tight enough to hurt.

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POSTED ON May 5, 2023 0:32:41 GMT

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Ashley Shepard

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They stand, and Ash pulls him further up the beach, away from where the cold water has been lapping at his leggings for the last five minutes. Kepler shivers and follows, their fingers laced together, squeezing as though his life depended on it-- like he could convince Ash he wasn’t alone by the strength of his grip.
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Eventually, Ash plops down and Kepler follows, fitting into the space his boyfriend makes for him and leaning backward, back pressed to Ash’s chest, head falling against his collarbones.
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He lets him talk without interruption, never takes his eyes off of him for a moment; processing everything in rapid succession as only Kepler is capable of doing. And, in typical Kepler fashion, he finds himself asking--
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“Why?” and then realizing his question was too broad, he reconfigures: “Why did he want to-- do that to her? To you?” His stomach curdles at the concept of it, a sort of heinous, foul thing that the average person shouldn’t be capable of.
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“Oh, Ash.” He takes his boyfriend’s hands and pulls them tighter around himself, like he’s a coat he can wear against the world. He won’t say he’s sorry because, to him, it seems like Ash had the right of it. The guy sounded like scum and Kepler’d never put much stock in the strength of biological connections in the first place. He was a physicist, after all.
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But he had the feeling there was more to it. And it pained him to see Ash so… numb. He was cracking jokes and trying to smile but there was a switch in him that wasn’t being thrown, a circuit incomplete. Ash wasn’t shivering at all despite the steady drop in temperature, the cold water that had been on his feet.
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Kepler swallowed, scared-- not of what Ash would tell him but of what Ash was becoming, turning into. A shell, a stone. Kepler didn’t know if he could find his way back.

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POSTED ON May 4, 2023 1:58:18 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]The sub had a way of playing with your mind, either from the exposure to the odd pressure, the smell of canned air, the gentle but constant up and down motion of an object submerged in water.

“If I spend any time on it I come off feeling like the ground is moving for a week, at least.”

He’s just making small talk, piercing the strawberries on the skewers and licking the juice off his fingers, when Ash takes his hand. Kepler floats a little, leaning back into him; he’s always loved the way it felt to have Ash’s arms around him, to be subsumed in the shape of his body.

“Wuh-oh. Why do I smell trouble.” His head lolls back and he looks up, grinning. “What kinda plan?”

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our old nights [social]

POSTED ON May 4, 2023 1:54:53 GMT

[attr="class","mitchel"]Kepler swallows and he feels like he might cry. Not out of sadness but out of--

“I love you,” he says, rushed and breathy and blinking away tears.

Ash believed in him enough to give him another chance-- believed in him enough, trusted him enough, to make his own decisions, to go back.

For weeks after his heart episode Kepler’d been wracked with fear that maybe Ash saw him differently. Thought he was weak.

“I’ve-- I’ve been training, too.” Not as rigorously in the weight department, of course, but. “Researching. Studying. I-- think I’m ready. I’m scared, but I’m ready.”

He doesn’t know how to put into words the way that Ash has freed him. All of the worlds Ash has opened up for him just by virtue of his trust, his presence, his love.

“I--. Feel a lot stronger, because of you.”

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POSTED ON May 3, 2023 23:42:11 GMT

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Ash trembles a bit underneath Kepler’s arms and he wants to-- grab him by the face and shake him. Cry, you fool! he wants to scream in his face. Feel! Exist!
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But he doesn’t. He just holds him, and is held in return.
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“Ashley,” Kepler cups the side of his boyfriend’s jaw in his hands and forces his head to the side to lock eyes with him. “You can’t-- can’t hide everything behind a joke. You’re here, baby. And I’m here. You’re safe. Do you want to talk about it?”
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He brushes the bandages with his thumb, brows knit, frowning.
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“I love you, okay?”

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processed shop

POSTED ON May 3, 2023 20:05:19 GMT

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PURCHASING/REDEEMING

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POSTED ON May 3, 2023 17:31:29 GMT

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[attr="class","samknoxw"]Kepler makes a noise in the back of his throat, something between a laugh and a scoff. “You got me there,” he allows, listening as Jayden continues his tirade about the League.

And Kepler didn’t not agree but he also wasn’t, like, the type to crawl out from under Dahlia’s bed and murder her in the night. Rocket was a means to an end, and if he had to learn the gang signs and secret club passwords along the way, so be it.

Phobos hums a note and bumps along beside them, as innocent as ever. Kepler’d hoped bringing her along might make the other ghosts more willing to appear. From his research, the Drif line of Pokemon didn’t do so much in the way of thinking.

As if by magic, a few purple orbs began to materialize out of the dark, floating amongst the trees.

Kepler snaked a hand up to wrap his fingers comfortingly around Hagakure’s hilt.

“So I’m gonna use myself as bait. If they start stealing my soul, please intervene.”

And he stepped forward.

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POSTED ON May 3, 2023 2:46:55 GMT

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[attr="class","samknoxw"]Kepler was an academic but even more than that he was a scientist. There were so many weird fucking things that happened in the world that had bizarre but entirely plausible explanations-- there was no room in the world for fucking ghosts.

“Like, yes, they exist,” he said, voice taking on a slightly manic tone as he sank into his rant, “they are real. But they’re not-- kidnapping people or stealing souls or whatever the fuck else back-country mumbo-jumbo likes to say about them.”

He didn’t realize that Jayden had agreed with him and already moved the fuck on so he wisely shut the fuck up and tried to hide his blush by staring hard at the ground.

The sunset was turning the sky purple around them.

"Why would the League care about the dregs of society?" he asked, eventually, when the silence got to be too much.

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