😭!!
😭 Has a fic ever left you inconsolable?
Saudade by Xyriath (@disastergayshirogane) left me in TEARS. It’s absolutely devastating and so, so beautiful.
Hanahaki: the disease of unrequited love. When feelings manifest into the physical, one afflicted grows flowers in their lungs, coughing up flower petals. Though rarely fatal, left long enough, it will eventually claim the victim’s life. As surgical removal strips all emotion along with affection, many consider it a fate worse than death.
In a twisted way, Keith was granted a stay of execution: you can’t have hanahaki for someone who’s dead. It’s been a year since he’s coughed up petals, a year since “Pilot Error” flashed across his television screen.
But Shiro returns. Shiro isn’t dead. And Keith had decided, months and months ago, that if he were ever given the chance, he wouldn’t let his feelings go unspoken. They have another chance—he thinks.
Hanahaki takes years to kill, yes. But the Galra didn’t care; they saw it as only weakness. And any weakness within the Champion was to be removed immediately.
The man named Shirogane Takashi is alive. But the Shiro that Keith had known, and laughed with, and loved, is gone. Logical, practical, and efficient: a perfect commander. Incapable of any emotion.
And Keith is about to remember the taste of wisteria petals tickling at the back of his throat.
Sunset in Reverse by Demenior (@demenior) and the Post-Series ficlets by valkyriered (@queenvallkyrie) are also wonderful if you want to cry yourself to sleep. :)
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