Aug 1, 2025
RAAAAH, HACHIBARA SHIPS ARE SO PEAK.
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RAAAAH, HACHIBARA SHIPS ARE SO PEAK.
I do want more fluffy romantic content with Iker because yes, he's a horrible man and completely irredeemable (not to the extent his father is), but he was also designed to be like that. BESIDES, Iker and Sting bonding over the fact that they are synthetic sons who weren't meant to be treated as family but weapons. The only difference is that Amato's family came to love him, Iker's family doesn't know the meaning of the damn word. So at first they were fooling around (the whips are hot and would get Iker going SO BADLY) only for Sting to be getting dressed and he sees blood test results and sees the fact that Iker has literal nanobots in his body that will kill him internally and Iker just taking them away and he's all: "You weren't supposed to see that."
Sting: "You...You're going to die."
Iker: "Oh, please. As if I'd let a perfect specimen such as myself die."
Sting: "I can help you."
Iker: "I don't need your pity."
Sting: "It's not pity, it's called basic human empathy."
And Iker's eyes look him up and down. SO STING BRINGING A SAMPLE OF IKER'S BLOOD TO HEXEL, under the guide of using the killer nanobot technology for the Hive but he's all: "Of course, if we want to develop our own, we should also reverse egineer a cure just in case-"
Hexel: "Indeed, this is impressive work...But how did you manage to get this blood sample from Apex?' and Sting smiles: "I asked him nicely~"
and when Sting is crying because Kanami is being manipulated again by SAKIYAKU and Iker is all: "I don't see why you don't just tell her."
Sting: "Kanami is delicate, still, okay? She has a lot of pain and...I don't want to scare her...not until we're all together again."
Iker: "Who cares how she feels?"
Sting: "I DO! I'm her big brother. I love her...I know you don't have the best relationship with your brother, but even you have to know what I'm feeling right now...right?" and Iker is all: "...Feelings were never my strong suit..." but he sits next to Sting and hugs him: "But...I suppose I understand your pain."