#noxroy

[tbgkaru]

Two different lifestyles

[raywolfaran]

Happy Valentine's Day <3

[Reposting from the Bird App] (Feb. 14 '24)

[discodiscodemon]

wake up silly!

[divinesknowdev]

“Not exactly the ‘warm and fuzzy’ type are yah?”

[kariblookas]

Rest of the fusenox drawings I did last year

[notxon]

dad nap

[spell666ound]

Fuse distracts Caustic from his research part 423

[glitcheddead]

It’s them. It was always them.

[soulheartthewolf]

Fuse x caustic?

Love them care them also wasn't sure if their a rare pair or not I don't think they are but idk

[pgfamilyfriendly]

Fuse: oh so we’re flirting now?

Caustic: IM LITERALLY STABBING YOU

fuse: that doesn’t answer my question

[iamtheprezzieforfusey]

*Playing Apex, talking about knuckle clusters and "explosive entrances".*

Explosive Entrance sounds like a good Fuse fic title.

Sounds like diarrhoea.

Sounds like diarrhoea but backwards.

Oh, so a Fuse X Caustic fic then.

Haha, guess that works.

Do people even ship them?

Hohoho, YES they do, AND IT'S HOT.

(I'm green)

[nevaryadl]

Day 13 of the 31 Days of Apex: Loss cw:  Caustic/Fuse, mlm fluff, mentioned limb loss and loss of an eye, phantom limb syndrome, pain associated with injuries and bodily trauma

"Fuse will not be participating in the next game."

Not much would cause Caustic to take pause. However, hearing that the hearty, loud Fuse would not be participating and no one knew why did give him pause. Fuse was an open book, if you got him talking you could get him to willingly spill his guts with a smile. And he would make no secret if his body was bothering him, often groaning about his shoulder hurting or his eye giving him problems, or if the incoming weather was causing his joints to ache tenderly like a few of the other Apex Legends. But none of those things ever stopped him from showing up. Fuse had very much seemed like a 'Fine, I'll do it, but I'll complain the whole time' sort of man when it came to doing this blood sport when his body was ailing him, and it was an attitude that Caustic had admired of him, especially when Caustic himself came to the games despite his lungs felt like they were filled with sulfur and hellfire and each breath was a new form of torture.

So for Fuse to suddenly drop out...

There was still time before the next game. Most of the Legends were not even in their gear, so he had decent enough time to track down Fuse's lodgings between games. Fuse, like several Legends, remained in a games built apartment complex. Rent was, apparently, dirt cheap if you lived at least two games and most anything anyone could need was within walking distance and made life easier on those Legends without other more 'solid' lodgings. Caustic had a room here too, if only in case of emergency such as catastrophic failure with his experiments and he needed a place to lay his head while his lab was vented and cleaned. But right now he was more focused on Fuse's room, not far from his on the same floor, walking up to the door and knocking briskly.

"Said I'm not going!"

Fuse's normally loud and sure voice... warbled with obvious pain. The heavy warble actually made Caustic think of the times that he was sent to his knees in the safety of his lab, furiously administering painkillers and any number of potent things to calm his lungs down as he wheezed and coughed hard and long enough to make his ribcage scream in pain for several days after. Someone like Fuse who, if he was to be believed, got his arm blown off and merely walked away nonchalantly well... if he was so unsettled by his own pain then something was terribly wrong.

"Fitzroy," He called.

"Fuckin'... what, Alex?" Fuse called.

"Let me in."

Caustic almost did not expect to be let in. Fuse could have easily rejected and told him to leave and he would have headed the man's wishes. He honestly had no idea why he was trying to see the man now, if he was being honest. True, he would begrudgingly admit that he liked the man, there was something almost fun about being on a team with him and having Fuse use explosives to heard frightened soon to be dead players towards his gas traps to be finished off. And after the... forward... show of attraction on Fuse's part, Caustic would admit that he was a handsome man and about that age that Caustic would look for potential partners. But this...

"... It's unlocked."

Caustic opened the door and locked it behind him, turning to look and seeing Fuse bereft of his upper clothing, sitting at the little standard table that came with all apartments. He was also red in the face and sweating in a telling fashion that told of a great strain on his body.

"Arm... fucking... eye too..." Fuse wheezed, shaking and shivering in pain.

Ghost pains. Caustic sometimes would get them in the two fingers that he had lost. The prickle of nerves that were no longer there, stabbing deep in invisible tissue that the brain knew was not there but kept feeling regardless. Two fingers could hurt a bit, but Caustic could only think of how much a whole arm and eyeball could ache.

"So you have a mirror, longer than wide?"

Fuse gestured vaguely. If Caustic was right and most of the rooms were the same layout, he was pointed toward where he figured and turned out to be the facilities. There was a basic mirror hanging on the bathroom door that he took, taking out to Fuse. He gently encouraged the man to sit up before having him lay his flesh arm on the table. Fuse just looked as Caustic set the mirror on the table and aimed it so that it reflected Fuse's flesh arm.

"Ball up both of your fists."

"Alex--"

"Trust me," Caustic said, hoping to make his voice softer. "It helps."

Fuse sighed, still dripping sweat, before balling up his fist. The mirror reflected Fuse's fist balling up tight.

Caustic ran him through a few basic instructions, implying him to do it with 'both fists'. The form of therapy was something so almost insulting simply but it was proven to work wonders. The brain wanted to trick itself into thinking that it still had a limb that was lost? Trick it back by using the easy to fool eyes into thinking that the limb was still there. Caustic hated how simple it was, hated even more that it worked like it did. The human mind so easily undone and then redone by its own faulty wiring, bah!

But it worked, because after a few moments, Fuse seemed to be in considerably less pain than before. If nothing else, the overexerted redness to his face and most of the sweating had stopped. At the very least he could stand again and retrieve an ice pack to press against the empty hole in his head to soothe that, gingerly limping over to the couch to relax into a much more comfortable spot as Caustic replaced the mirror.

"... Thanks, Alex. You call tell them suits that I'll come--"

"No," Caustic said, raiding the man's poorly stocked medicine cabinet and making a mental note to later reprehend the man over it, but later. Fuse had some generic painkillers that he brought the man, snatching the open beer from the table before he got any bright ideas, replacing it with a glass of water instead. "Rest."

"Fuck... I owe ya one, Alex," Fuse breathed, pausing to take the painkillers and drain the glass of water. "Buy you a stubbie after the game?"

"Is this an attempt to ask me on a date?" Caustic asked, tone light and playful.

"... shit, no. Just wanna... ya helped me out is all..."

"Hmm, shame. I will accept none the less," Caustic said, checking himself over while Fuse blinked owlishly. He was glad that his smirk was hidden behind his gear, because he felt slightly silly for taking so much joy in throwing Fuse off kilter. "Do rest up. If the pain comes back, do the same as we did a moment ago."

"S-sure," Fuse breathed.

"I will see you later. Eight o'clock sharp," Caustic said as he left.

"S-sure thing, Alex," Fuse said, waiting until the door closed before taking a moment to collect himself and just giggling excitedly.

[divinesknowdev]

I wonder what tags I’m gonna see

[notxon]

⛓ UNSHACKLED

Love this event aesthetic! I designed a Caustic skin for it <3 Big inspiration + Fuse's design by @thedaltonsfour !!

[ohthatsviolet]

Posted some Fuse/Caustic based on my friend's Western AU.

Link to their fic in the summary.

[spell666ound]

Happy Valentine's Day! 💘