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I would love to hear everything about your dukeceit au - or just any idea you have at all pls I love them so much

:0!!!!!!!!! Oh fuck yeah okay okay so

Remus and Janus meet on Tumblr dot com, because of course they do. 

Remus’ blog is a bunch of cursed and unsettling shit and stuff like that. And he also writes on their a lot, his stories often portraying disturbing situations people would rather not think about and distorting cliches until they're near unrecognizable. He puts lots and lots of effort into his work, contrary to popular belief, and puts a lot of himself in them. 

Janus is an ✨artist✨ and his blog is vv nice, it's really organized, he has a tagging system in place, and all that jazz. (He reblogs a bunch of snake pictures and gushes about them in the tags akdjshsh not a relevant detail, but it's important).

So anyways, the two meet when they're both in high school. Janus is a big fan of Remus’ work, he reblogs all of his stuff and leaves nice stuff in the tags, and one day at the wonderful hour of 3am (or. it's that time for Remus anyways ajdhshs idk) he decides to shoot him a message saying he really admired his writing. 

And Remus, who is awake for night terror reasons, sees the message and goes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because what the fuck?? Someone likes his writing???? Someone is praising him for his writing?????????????

So yeah, Remus is v not used to receiving compliments akdjshdh. 

And he voices the surprise before he could even think about it, and Janus is just like bro your writing is literally amazing??????????? I could go on and on about it for hours????

And Remus is like. Well I wouldn't stop you if you did, not thinking Janus would actually do it, but then Janus actually sends him a few lengthy paragraphs pointing out metaphors and word choice and foreshadowing. And then he ends it with “and that's all I can think of off the top of my head” and Remus is absolutely floored by the implications behind that message. 

So Remus wasn't like yes I like this person almost immediately and continues to message him after that. It takes him a few days to realize that he hadn't asked for a nickname. Or pronouns. And he was at a point where it would be weird to ask so he calls him Eden, after his url slithering-into-eden (not a big detail but it's important god dammit).

And then one day Remus goes into Janus’ blog where he gains that information, and he's like oh duh i should've just checked his blog sooner. But anyways, he scrolls and oh my fucking god. This dude is so fucking talented?? What the fuck?? Someone with talent was following him?? And talking to him??

So yeah he scrolled for a long time when he came across a picture of him, and Remus was like. WHAT THE F U C K A PRETTY TALENTED BOY IS FOLLOWING AND TALKING TO ME??????

And he has a small gay panic right then and there because holy shit this guy has seen me reblog some stupid ass shit oh no. 

And anyways, they keep talking and eventually they fall ✨in love✨ and start dating. 

The distance wasn’s generally a challenge, it's the only thing they've ever known and neither of them were afraid of the other being unfaithful. And with how much they spoke it felt like they were always actively a part of each other’s lives. But it did get really rough sometimes because well. They wanted to be there for each other. Because on some nights Remus would just call Janus after a vv bad night terror, and he's crying and panicking, and the only thing Janus could do is talk to him when what he wants to do is hug him and hold him close and assure him that it's safe. 

But he can't and that stings. 

After a while the topic of meeting up did come up, and Janus insisted he go to Remus because there is no way in hell he was making Remus waste money on a plane ticket just to get to his shitty apartment, no sir, he was a gentleman. 

So Janus started his “go visit Remus fund”  where he deposited as much money as he could from his job and basically any and all commission money he got. 

And then. He buys a plane ticket. And Remus freaking squeals so loud because HEA FINALLY GOING TO SEE HIS BOYFRIEND!!! And he's so damn excited and so is Janus and absolutely zero happy tears were shed thank you very much. 

But despite the excitement it doesn't really hit until the day Janus arrives. 

Remus is just. So nervous. Because this was the first time he was going to see Janus right in front of him for real, not on a computer screen in shitty quality. And oh fuck he wasn't ready, he was gonna fuck this up, he was gonna do something wrong and ruin Janus’ trip and—

And then he saw Janus and Janus saw him and time seemed to stop as they both just freeze because did he just get prettier what the f u c k. 

Remus is like sprinting full speed at him before he even knows it, and Janus puts down his bags and opens his arms, and Remus nearly tackles him to ground. They both hug each other tightly, and just being like “I can't believe you're actually here,” and NO there was absolutely 100% no crying in each others arms. 

When they pull back from the hug they make sure to hold each other's hand as they walk out of the airport, just cherishing the touch while it lasts. And that's how it is during Janus’ entire stay. They stay close together, and hold each other in any ways possible, and. And they have their first kiss. And it's magical. 

Janus does eventually leave, and they're both really sad because now that they've experienced benign so close how could they go back to being satisfied with video calls????? But they're both hopeful for the future, and know that's one day the distance between them would be gone and they'd be able to hold and kiss and see each other as much as they want.