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KHUX Modern AU where skulmerayer has a group chat with just the three of them with a criminally cringe outrageous brainrotted name. 🙏

And their contact names for each other would be just as bad. 😭💀

Like who is this 'Rizzlerman123' who keeps calling you? Oh, it's just Ephemer...

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papa me want more brayler brainrot NOW 🙏

he's wondering if he's just been poisoned

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everyday I feel closer and closer to Baldr's mental state. and lemme tell you that's not a fun mental state to be in

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Union Leader Ephemer- a true bacon of light

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lauriam doodle? 🥺👉👈

whoops strelitzia came along for the ride

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player-centric cowboyposting

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I…

I don’t know how to explain myself…

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No, but like I don't think we give enough credit to Brain as a lover boy. 😞

Like if you think abt it Ephemer & Lauriam are both definitions of the phrace 'lover boy', but I think Brain has some potential too.

He would just try to be more non-chalant version of that and then fangirl over their love interest internally.

I feel like he would compliment you rather casually, and then the compliments would be like 'I didn't even know this could be a compliment, but thanks, I guess??'

Like just imagine this:

You: *changes your perfume just for the funs and gigles*

Brain: Ah, I see you have changed your perfume. Nice, suits you.

You: HOW TF YOU SMELLED THAT?! NOBODY ELSE NOTICED AND THE PERFUME ISN'T EVEN THAT STRONG???

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So I'm thinking of Ventus being on his own for so long that he doesn't remember his own birthday and thus never had his celebrated.

Thinking about Ven having difficulty keeping track of how old he is and isn't even 100% if the age he thinks he is is right.

Thinking about Ven not ever having a birthday party, never eating cake or getting presents (or if he did with his parents he doesn't remember due to being too young), never being invited to a party either.

Thinking about Ven trying to not let the other union leaders know because he doesn't want to worry the others and make them feel bad. But Lauriam finds out and is aghast anyway.

Immediately everyone starts planning a surprise party whipping up a cake and treats, getting him his own presents, a breakfast in bed, special training dedicated to him, and making the whole day a celebration about the wonderfulness of Ven being born.

This also ties in nicely with MoM being his uncle AU because he would know Ven's birthday and age but purposefully does not let him know as a way to further demoralize and isolate him into becoming Darkness' puppet when the time is right.

And then after getting sent to the future he forgets ever celebrating his birthday, his exact age, and when his birthday possibly could be all over again. Even when he does celebrate at the LoD it feels strangely familiar but he can't place where or why.

GOOOODDDDD

Ventus is such a sad character, this kid never gets to have anything nice for more than like a year consecutively. It always gets ripped away from him unceremoniously. He is simultaneously 10 and 16 and 200 and on and on and he has no way of knowing for sure due to 1.) Time travel shenanigans and 2.) Just straight up not knowing what his birthday is.

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there was never any other way this could've gone

( EPHEMERWEEK 6: prophecy )

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the fountain at dawn

( EPHEMERWEEK 4: promise )

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EphemerWeek 2024

Day 4: A relationship/dynamic you enjoy

Had to participate somehow and use this chance to spread my Laurphemer/Ephelauri agenda. 🙏

Enjoy~ 🫶

About the fic:

- Kinda angst? So, be prepared.(not a lot but still)

- Colorcoded so easier to read:

(Red - Ephemer's kinda subconscious thinking?? basically his own thoughts from his own pov)

(Blue - Ephemer's kinda conscious thinking??? his sanity calling him out on stuff)

(White - Narrator)

- Inspiration from the scene Shift Pride. (might wanna check out after this?)

- More comments in the end.

A Lonely Leader

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Hey, pssst...

You are staring..

Sooooo snap out of it, Ephemer!

Like, RIGHT KNOW!

Ah, there we go again. At this very moment we can see the utmost intellectual level of conversation that happens inside of Ephemer's head.

Nowadays it really is a normal occurence and Ephemer has gotten used to it.

Nothing new, really. Just Ephemer's voice of reason keeping him in check. You know, so he doesn't make a fool of himself right in front of his fellow Union leaders. Not that it really mattered anyway, they wouldn't laugh at him, atleast not of an ill intend. Ephemer knows that very well.

Hey! You are slipping away again!

Stay focused!

The room is dead silent. Everybody else is focusing rather well, except for Ephemer, of course.

Ephemer gulps as he adjusts his position in his chair. Eyes wandering around the room.

Just, focus on your book!

Right, the book.. The book...

Ephemer is really just happy for his conscious side of brain keeping him in line. And with his unconscious side that keeps wandering around.. He was not-so-happy with.

But you know when someone you know makes a nice gesture towards you and then you just can't stop thinking about it?

Like, no matter how hard you try, you just see them in a different light than before.

Like that time when Lauriam checked in on me on the Foreteller's Chamber!

It was just the two of us and he made this absurdly bad joke that still managed to cheer me up for some reason?

How does that have to do anything with the book you are reading? Concentrate.

R-Right, my bad, I know..

But isn't he just a beautiful person? With his flowery perfume and soft hair and everything..

Oh, and I wonder if others have noticed how nice his handwriting is? He writes in cursive!

Concentrate on the book Ephemer.

Also he's surprisingly strong, isn't he? I'll wonder if he could let me, prehaps..

I don't know..

Would it be too embarassing to ask? I mean, if I ask nicely maybe he would agree..

OH LUX HEAVENS, JUST READ THE DAMN BOOK!

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...

...

Fine, finish the sentence then!

...Would it be too weird to ask him to carry me in bridal style? Only to test it of course!

Juuusttt out of curiosity?

Heh, you know??

Y.o.u a.r.e t.h.e l.e.a.d.e.r a.m.o.n.g.s.t a.l.l o.f t.h.e U.n.i.o.n l.e.a.d.e.r.s!

Right..

Right!

..right

SO, STOP ACTING THIS WAY FOR THE FORETELLER'S SAKE! The responsibility lies within YOU!

I- I know..

It's YOU who have make sure that everything doesn't fall apart!

It's YOU who have to keep everyone together! We have NO TIME FOR THIS!

I need you to C.O.N.C.E.N.T.R.A.T.E!

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Finally, the shame started to creep in. Oh, the shame, that old insufferable friend Ephemer couldn't quite shake off.

Because Ephemer knows better.

He knows better than to crush over his fellow Union leader friend, and he knows his responsibility within the group.

Still, he has just let it happen.

And that makes him feel quilty. He shouldn't be feeling this way, not towards someone who he considers to be his friend. And he shouldn't be even considering these kind of thoughts because he was the leader.

If something is to go wrong, he should be able to act fast and accordingly! As a leader should!

And PLEASE, stop staring at Lauriam! He might just notice!

Ephemer's gaze finally dropped from the hypnotizingly pretty friend of his, that is sitting across the table with no clue in his mind about all the sorrows and burdens of Ephemer's heart, to the book that is sitting in his lap.

To were it originally should have been.

It really is moments like this that makes his heart ache.

But there really isn't anything that he could do to get rid of these feelings. He couldn't tell Lauriam or confess his feelings to others for support.

As sad it was to realize at first, being a leader of the group comes with a shattering amount of expectations, responsibilities and worries.

And sometimes being a leader is a lonelier task that Ephemer would like to admit.

But he would manage, because he doesn't want anyone else to go through this. That alone makes him puss through all the hardships.

But maybe that is what being a leader is about, to endure what others can't and to suffer so others don't have to.

Even though it might be lonely at times.

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No, but seriously do you guys ever wonder if Ephemer felt guilty over how things went?

Because I'm sure that he damn well did feel that way. 🥲

Also about the ship:

Ephemer & Lauriam would be such a cute couple. Like, there's so much potential in these two and it's a shame that the ship isn't very popular. 🙏😭

On the other hand, maybe I should do it my own mission to spread this ship over to others 'cause I'm literally brainrotting here over them alone lmaoo. 🧍

Anyway if there's any other fellow Laurphemer shippers out there WOULD LOVE to be mutuals/friends or smth. 😔🫶

(Also, have a doodle, you're welcome 🙏)

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a safe place to rest

( EPHEMERWEEK 3: home )

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pursuing the unknown

( EPHEMERWEEK 2: curiosity )

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we'll go together!

( EPHEMERWEEK 1: light )

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It's just occurred with me like what if in khml the player spends the whole game befriending Brain and working with him. And its all fun and games until suddenly their goals no longer align and it's either make one choice and keep your friendship you've spent so long cultivating, but there's catastrophic consequences, or the other choice to loose your friendship but save the world. What if player taking baby nort isn't just to do with protecting him from darkness as the potential child of destiny, but also an act of desperation to get him away from Scala (Where Player believes darkness is possibly brewing to a dire degree)?