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Roxas abuses drugs to escape his pathetic middle-class existence and childhood trauma. Axel obsesses over his dead fiancé to escape bitter truths and crushing guilt. A fateful meeting at a drug dealer's apartment brings the two of them together and they form an unsteady relationship comprised of debts, relapses, road trips, concussions, and grocery store shopping cart rides. As they both try to escape their pasts by any means necessary, they realize letting go isn’t easy when the root of the problem is settled deep into their veins.
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10 Feb 2024
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Two weeks after Diluc's ninth birthday, his father, an ill-tempered man whom he has always been afraid of, arrives home with a strange, quiet boy, perhaps a year or two older than him. His skin is a warm, beautiful brown, his hair so black that it appears almost blue in the daylight, and he does not smile. “This is Kaeya,” his father tells him, brimming with adoration. "He will be staying with us from now on. Come and say hello."
As they grow up, Diluc wonders why his father dotes on Kaeya, what it is about him that pacifies his rage, and how he can redeem himself to become worthy of such compassion. One night, after weathering two decades of his father's unrelenting wrath, Diluc returns home to find him dead in his living room, and embarks upon a journey of discovering the truth about his father, Kaeya, and himself, and how the two of them do not differ so much, after all.
A story of dark secrets, trauma, and learning how to love.
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03 Feb 2024