arms: a prequel // {phan}
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Summary: ARMS // PREQUEL
Beginnings are always curious; they take you back to a time before you knew someone, back to when they were an entirely different person. Beginnings are dark, and messy, and new.
This is before the smiles, before the grey, before the black black black and ohmygod blue. back to a simpler time, full of innocence and nativity.
Rating/Warnings: Mature Readers (READ AT OWN RISK). This story may contain topics of depression, cutting, anxiety, panic attacks, assault, suicide, minor character death, gay slurs, violence and gore, and minor sexual content. If any of the listed content triggers you, please do not read.
Please do not copy and post my story anywhere else or create an "adaptation" of my work. Thank you.
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