Fanfic Recs / Slow Damage

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General Fics

daydreaming in black and white (color is too bold and bright) by rhamnetines

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Kaga manages to survive and decides to give Towa a better life, away from Shinkoumi and the worst the city can offer - it changes some things, but others stay the same in the end.

i'll meet you on another planet if the plans change by rhamnetines

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Her name is Inoue Lisa, she is in her early-to-mid twenties, and she has no family to speak of; those are hard truths she knows about herself, even if they might be technically imprecise.

('Lisa is Mei' AU.)

it starts with a meal by raseimon

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "Ugh! I can't believe you of all people got a shoujo romance. I want a prince charming, too."

Towa and Rei cook together, and also discuss Fujieda.

Takuma Murase x Towa

simple things by Danganphobia

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: At last, Taku had returned home. As the months pass on, Taku and Towa navigate the trials and tribulations of family, and what it means to be one; their meddling friends to assist them every step of the way. Marriage was one thing, but parenting especially was never going to be an easy task.

Abrasions by illicio

• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: This began as speculation to answer my own question of: "Why didn't Taku express outright hatred for Maya?" but has thoroughly become a Taku/Towa.

Look at Me by R2T (NotSoHotsuin)

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Curiosity tempts the cat. Pages fan over the cover like butterfly wings, and a paw print puts a dot to an unfinished journey. Towa finds Taku's old journal.

Homelight by R2T (NotSoHotsuin)

• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Takuma Murase finds himself with no reason to live after the passing of his mother. One phone call is all it takes to change that. He is now a proud step-dad to two very traumatized kids in a cesspool known as Shinkomi. Only good things from here on out!
• Notes: Written as a prequel or pre-story to Slow Damage, following Taku from the moment he first encounters Towa, and the story unfolds from there.

arelequin by Danganphobia

• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Two lovers connected by a red thread reunite in every universe.
• Notes: A TakuTowa drabble collection to be updated sporadically.

All the Colors of your Smile by R2T (NotSoHotsuin)

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Towa teaches Taku how to paint.

Rei Izumi x Towa

Wounds by SewerBusiness

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "With widened eyes, his fingertips traced over the paleness of Towa’s neck and across the edge of his largest scar, the raised skin proving to be more textured than he would have imagined. Rei sighed quietly and wondered if it was okay to ask where such a scar had come from."
• Notes: This is a one-shot where Towa and Rei attempt to comfort each other as they attempt to begin navigating whatever relationship they have.

drop of eternity by ikkiru

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Rei is excited about Valentine's Day, which means the whole Murase clinic must join in his celebration! Towa spends some time with Rei for the holiday.

model behavior by sonodaumi

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "Your body is such a work of art." The words left Rei’s lips with such little effort, he hadn’t even realized he’d said it aloud.

Ryou Fujieda x Towa

my one and only (if only) by raseimon

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Because gentleness and care are what their first times could have been if they were normal people, allowed to explore romance and sexuality like a duo who hadn't seen the horrors of the world. A normal life where Towa had sex with someone he loved for the first time — that would have been a nice first.

Relapse by mediumgrave

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Towa is reminded that recovery isn't as easy as one would hope.

Iridescent by moonlights0nata

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Warmth spread over his chest and ribs, fluttering like wings in his stomach. He scratched at the spot over his shirt. It tingled, ached; a feeling that persisted and grew the more time he spent around Fujieda. There wasn’t a name to this feeling yet.

Knowing Love by AkatsukiShin

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: For Towa, "love" is a foreign word. He was not raised with love, he was not acquainted with it as a youth, and he certainly did not know it even after becoming an adult. What does it mean to love someone? How does it feel to be loved by someone else? For as long as he lives, he has never known these feelings. That is, until he meets Fujieda.

start new when your heart is an empty room by rhamnetines

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Roughly a year into their relationship, Towa finds himself unable to want sex. It's the strangest thing in the world.

Or, Towa has a complicated relationship with sex, intimacy, the past and the future.

Your love, gentle and unyeilding by corvidfics nsfw (corvidfics)

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Towa’s eye opened, vision black for a moment as he adjusted to the reality around him. His hand clenched at the sheets beneath him, digging into the fabric as a grounding force.

Right. There’s no pain anymore. It’s just that same dream again.Towa was unequivocally safe. So why did his heart race with fear as he thought about that night? Why was that blinding pleasure- and it was pleasure- intruding upon his dreams?Or, Towa can’t seem to forget that night in the park. With his past now uncovered and Fujieda by his side, how will he move forward?

like sunset on my childhood curtains by rhamnetines

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: It's a wonder what a little word can do, isn't it?

(Towa goes to therapy, fosters a kid with Fujieda, and maybe discovers a new kink. Not necessarily in that order.)

Fine Lines by UltimateParadox

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Sometimes he hears sounds that aren't there—live jazz, jeering crowds, simpering laughter—and forgets to keep a grip.

the blood under our skin by raseimon

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: As much as Rei hates to say it, he never expected to see scars that match up to Towa's— and Fujieda's might be even worse.

"I'd like to feel something other than shame when looking down at my body, and a work of art via your expertise would probably help me appreciate it more."

Fujieda gets a tattoo.

Moving On by AnnaKozyreva

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: A short story about Towa reflecting on his process after remembering his past.

Office Drama by raseimon

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Or, Fujieda's new employee nurses a crush on him — as they all do, at first. But those dreams are quickly shattered when they see who his partner is.

Enduring with you, Changing with you by corvidfics

• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Most of their trips started the same way, a blend of past and present. Nostalgic, childish impulses could be joined by something new.

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