"Ominous. What's up?"

"Incredibly bad RPF about us - uh, 'us'," airquotes, "has gone viral."

"Huh?"

"There's this really bad fanfic with our names and some small percentage of publicly discoverable facts about us assigned to the main characters. I cannot overstate how awful it is. And it's for some reason getting passed around all over the internet, the people in my comments section were astounded that today was the first I was hearing of it."

"Wh... Is it at least hot?"

"I didn't get very far in it, it was about me barely enough that I could read it at all while backlashed but it's a very unrewarding reading experience if you ask me. So I didn't get to any of the sex scenes but I'm going to guess no based on the profound incompetence of the writing in general?"

"Well I'm dreadfully curious, now," he says, summoning his commscreen to go look for it. "Do you know why it went viral?"

"I haven't an inkling. People were quoting it in chat, too, I mentioned it there."

Chat detour—oh that's a lot of mentions— "Wo Do-in is in the fic??"

"And Sparkler and Yamanaka and Arctic and I didn't check if they got as far out as Pyramid or any of your other ex-partners."

Jaeha's eyebrow twitches at the mention of Sparkler. "I... see..."

"I emailed Yamanaka's brother so he can do damage control with her, no reply thus far."

"Damage control?"

"Her backlash is the opposite of mine, remember? I don't know the details but she's not going to be cool with it if she runs into any mention of a viral fic with her name in it, however badly characterized she might be, which I don't know because those parts weren't about me and I couldn't read them and also because I don't know her as a person."

"Right. I suppose that'd make sense. Damn."

"Yeah, not thrilling. - if you want to see the charity pictures without having to give AMF a separate donation through the website I have them, incidentally."

"—charity pictures? Was that in chat, I'm not caught up yet I just saw the notifications—"

"Yes, it came up in chat, there's a guy back in Tokyo who takes and paywalls-for-charity pictures of espers."

"And you... had some taken?" he guesses. "Well I feel like I have enough boyfriendly privileges in getting to be with you in real life so I can donate to the AMF for the pictures like everyone else." He's gonna go look.

The minimum donation is just the amount that satisfies the payment processor; he can give a handful of yen up to arbitrary amounts to see the pictures of Haru posing without a shirt on.

W-without a shirt on? Hold on, pause, time out, huhh???? He hits that donate button so fast his hand goes through the holographic screen the first time he tries.

"I knew you would want to see them once I thought about it but also I am literally right here and still completely naked."

"Okay but you have to admit that there's a certain je ne sais quoi about pictures, even if I am having to fight down some jealousy." So what do the pictures even look like?

They look like Haru lounging around in jeans and nothing else, in a photography studio. There's a few of them - reclining on a sofa, sipping coffee, in this one he's petting Cricket.

"It was a couple years ago," Haru says.

"Haru-ya I am only a couple of inches away from a BL protagonist in terms of how much I want to keep you entirely to myself, I cannot claim to be rational about this. And anyway separate question I don't suppose you'd like to pose for some pictures for me, I'm starting to have ideas and they could keep me company while you're away." Jaeha is also naked so Haru will probably easily be able to guess what kind of company he means.