#midnightlucky

[nari-writes]

Trick or treeeeaaaat darling~

ahH but how am I supposed to put anything here when you've read/know so much of my stuff!!! okay, okay; I think this was an opbb/fic&art project I was gonna do with @babblebuzz aaaaaages ago: a mishmash of fairytales and a curse to go along with.

“Hey! Hey, you! Squirt with the scar!” 

Luffy made a confused noise in the back of his throat before looking around, eyes scanning the horizon for where the voice might have come from. “Me?” he asked the empty sky, wondering if someone was stuck in the clouds, and heard a grumbled,

“Yes you, dumbass! Up here!”

Luffy made a confused noise, looking around and then taking a cautious step forwards. “Up...where?”

“Here you idiot! In the huge fucking tower right in front of you!”

Luffy took another step forwards, jolting to a sudden stop as he banged into something. As though his touch was the catalyst, bricks began to form under his hands, and Luffy could see a tower begin to form in front of him, reaching high into the sky. “Cooooool,” he said, craning his head back so that he could try and find the top, and saw in the distance what looked like a man hanging out of the side of the tower.

“Fucking finally,” he heard the man say, and then watched as the man wriggled further out of what appeared to be a window, basically hanging out of it. “Hey!” he called down to Luffy, and Luffy gave a questioning noise in the back of his throat, holding his hand to his head. Surprisingly his hand met fluffy hair instead of-

A something. What something? he wondered, but found himself quickly distracted by the man in the tower yelling, “You better catch me!”

“Catch you!?” Luffy yelped, backing up frantically and looking around for what he could use to break this man’s apparent fall. “I can't catch you, you're like twenty feet in the air!”

“It's better than thirty,” the man said, and then jumped out the window. Luffy quickly scrambled underneath the tower with a yelp, holding his arms out in a vain attempt to catch this strange, tower-bound man.

He seemed to glitch half-way down the tower, vanishing from Luffy’s sight, and then suddenly he was back up at the window again and Luffy frowned, staring up at him in confusion.

“I thought you were jumping!” he called out, and received an incoherent yell of fury in return. 

Hopping backwards, Luffy scurried around the tower, trying to find a door, but even doing a full lap revealed nothing. He contemplated going around again, but the man called out with a heavy sigh,

“There's no way to get in.”

“The window’s a way to get in!” he called back and heard a bark of laughter. 

“You said it yourself, it's like twenty feet in the air!”

Luffy hummed under his breath, taking a step closer to the tower and peering at the bricks. They looked old and crumbly, with tiny flowers growing in the cracks, but if they were strong enough to hold up a tower than surely they'd be strong enough to hold up him. He stepped back and stripped off his armour, rotating his shoulder back with a small grin of relief as the weight on his lithe body vanished, and then cracked his knuckles before approaching the tower again.

“Hey, what are you doing?” the man demanded, and Luffy grinned at him before hooking his hands into the rocks.

“It's not thirty feet!” he said, and then began to climb up, muscles bunching and shifting easily beneath his skin as he climbed. 

“You dumbass, get off!” the man called. “What if you fall?”

“Eh, I'll probably be fine,” Luffy called back, sweat dripping down his back and focusing on what to grab next. His muscles had started to ache faintly with the strain, but he was half-way up, and was starting to pick out the man’s sharp features. “Oh yeah, I'm Luffy by the way!”

“You're a dumbass, that's who you are,” the man shot back, and Luffy gave a huff of a laugh, sweat dripping into his eye and making him blink, wishing he could wipe his forehead. 

“Who’re you?” Luffy asked, and heard a grumbling sigh.

“Zoro.”

He's the demon bounty hunter - Roronoa Zoro!

Luffy shook his head, pausing in his climb to try and chase the faint memory ringing in his ears.

“Hey, are you okay?” Zoro asked worriedly, and Luffy shook his head again, dismissing it. He must've heard it while travelling! 

He ignored the fact that he couldn't truly remember when he'd first started travelling. It must've been quite a long time ago.

“You have a cool name!” he said as he started climbing again, ignoring the pain growing in his fingertips as he clawed in the bricks for a grip, and Zoro snorted.

“You have a brain the size of a pea.”

“Hey!” Luffy cried indignantly, pouting up at Zoro and surprised to find how close he was, “You're the one stuck in a magic tower!”

Zoro glared at him, face sucked in fouly, “It wasn't my fault! I finished my part of the deal, to stay up here for a month with nothing, but they just decided to keep me up here for their stupid princess to rescue.”

“Well I'm not a princess, so I dunno if I should be saving you then,” Luffy muttered, reaching up and then finding that his arm went straight through the window. Zoro’s calloused hands gripped his arm, and Luffy squirmed over the edge of the window with Zoro’s help. 

With a heave, he made it over the top, but Zoro yanked his arm to hard and Luffy found himself pulled straight into Zoro’s chest, sending both of them to the ground. He landed with an oof, and then laughed, peeling himself up and taking in Zoro’s glare.

-----

“Nice scar!” he chirped, his fingertips going to graze the long edge of torn skin he could see at Zoro’s shoulder, but Zoro’s hand clamped around his wrist, moving him away. 

“Don’t touch that,” he said, and then paused, staring at Luffy’s hand for a moment before he shook his head. “Look, thanks for comin’ to keep me company, or whatever, but this isn’t helpful. I’m trying to get out, not get other people trapped with me.”

“We’ll figure something out!” Luffy replied, and then rolled off Zoro’s chest, bouncing to his feet and going to peer around the room. “Woooow, you have a lot of stuff!”

Zoro sat up with a grunt, massaging his back with a wince and then rotating his shoulder back, easing stiff muscles. “Most of it was here already,” he said, before heaving himself to his feet. “Probably from the last ‘princess’ they kept locked up here.”

“Wooah, that’s weird.” Luffy said, then shrugged and pouted. “I guess my kingdom isn’t any better. People there keep turning mean and getting grumpy because of the cold, and so did my best friend, so I came out to save him. I think.” He hummed under his breath thoughtfully, a faint headache growing as he tried to think about why that story felt somehow wrong, but the sight of the mirror behind Zoro made him nod decisively. His fluffy vest and long sleeves were proof that he’d come from somewhere cold, even if his sandaled feet seemed to disprove that. 

Plus, if he’d planned on travelling, where were all his supplies?

Maybe he’d eaten them all. That was a possibility.  

---

His armour glinted bright in the sunlight, catching his eye as he carefully polished the front plate, and Luffy hummed under his breath as he moved the small red cloth in slow circles, distracted by the gleam and tracing the curvy engravings with his fingertip.

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and the plot notes!

Land on an island that has fairy tales that constantly loop thanks to the grand line being fucky. Usopp tells some stories abt their adventures and the island falls in love w/ them and wants to keep them

Erases their memories and puts them in fairy tales

Lu gets put as a knight to defend people but he doesnt want to, so instead he makes friends with the dragon and goes off to explore starts fucking up fairy tales

Rescues zoro from his tower before zoro’s princess can do it so the princess decides to use her skills to create an army and “save” zoro (this is the army vivi later ends up fighting)

They camp out a nice rich lady’s house, bc the master of the house is paranoid abt her safety. Find out she's been talking to this strange fluffy creature & a long-nosed boy

She flies away with the dragon and the fluffer and the boy and zoro and luffy have to chase after them. Luffy hitches a sling-shot lift and then is like hey woah what? I'm. Super stretchy?

Talk to chopper and usopp and decide to go for adventures. Fight off kuro/hook and take Kaya home.

The owner of the house thought they were kidnapping kaya tho and so they get chased off. Kaya laughs and promises to help visualise chopper’s dream and make a book of cures

Shadow!Brook gives them a bit of help escaping

They bolt for it!!! Cute travel stories and also some dejavu. Zoro and luffy sleeping cuddled together and fluffy chopper and cute!!!!

They get lost bc someone lets zoro lead and they complain like “why do we let him do this EVERY time???” and someone else is like dude this is the first time. And then they pause and they're like huh, why’d i say that. Oh well!

They stumble across a castle! 

Sanji was cursed to be a beast bc he stole some magic bears’ porridge. They're pretty cool tho and have been teaching him how to cook. The crew gets invited in and fed. Zeff and the cooks are the bears!

Gin shows up and confesses that they're going to attack the place bc they're so hungry and also afraid of the monster they heard lives there. 

Sanji wants to prove he's not a monster and also he hates the thought of them hungry and so feeds them. Turns back into a human but the army still attacks and says there's treasure inside. Gin helps them defend the place. 

They chill at the palace for a while and luffy keeps getting Weird Feelings whenever he eats sanji’s food. Sanji runs into a mermaid and falls in love with her!

Said mermaid turns out to be nami and tries to rob the place but Brook alerts everyone before they vanish / scares nami a bit bc skeleton!

They fight arlong the magical fishdick who’d uspured the other ruler and killed bellemere and blackmailed nami, and nojiko becomes queen of atlantis and gives nami some killer magic powers + the ability to shapeshift between human & mer

They go travelling again bc nami’s like I'm bored here and i want more to steal. They run into what looks like an abandoned workshop and find a huge robot that luffy bangs into. Nami recharges it w/ her lightning powers and he splutters to life. Brook’s with them at that point bc it's dark and he's chillin out bc he misses his crew. 

THE ISLAND IS UPSET BC THEY KEEP FUCKING WITH THE STORIES

Sends a tornado to whisk them apart and the guys end up getting forcibly/accidentally enlisted in the vivi vs tashigi war. ZORO AND LU THINK THE OTHER IS DEAD ;3 👍

Nami lands near vivi as she's practicing to be a boy (mulan style) and there's lots of yelling but then nami agrees to help her and we get some na/vi interactions and then they basically all run into each other again and become this super effective task force.

Vivi defeats the evil army and saves her dad and lu&co help out. Lu and zoro don't run into each other until they have to save vivi’s dad from croc, who'd partnered with tashigi and has been lying to her about the state of vivi’s country bc he wants to take it over

There's a lot more almost near death experiences and croco is not like normal, he's a hell of a lot more powerful. 

Brook leaves them messages on tashigi’s army’s plan.

ZORO ACCIDENTALLY ENLISTED FOR TASHIGI’S WAR AND DOESN'T REALISE UNTIL HE RUNS INTO LU AND SO THEY DEFECT

They keep crocodile’s ass and tashigi and vivi make a peace treaty. Tashigi realises zoro’s the prince she was meant to rescue and wants to marry him (bc of the island) so she can become queen. Luffy is NOT HAPPY.

Brook nudges off a book that reveals some things about the royalty of the island, but also some things about the island being sentient and liking to put people in stories, and that it chooses who’s royalty.

Zoro suggests holding a ball to find tashigi and bride/groom and brook facepalms bc the book ALSO said if tashigi rescued zoro from something he'd be king but all zoro took was that it had to be part of a story and the only story he could remember was cinderella.

Robin’s stepmother has magic that makes robin do whatever she says and orders robin to clean and she isn't allowed to read. She forbids robin from going to the dance but brook breaks the spell and helps her go ;u;

Franky and robin get to dance together and be Huge Dorks

Robin runs away at midnight but the whole crew ends up following after bc franky’s like i know that woman! 

Stepmother reveals she got home from the ball before robin and orders Robin to stay in her room and never leave. Sanji says keeping such a beautiful woman locked away is a crime

Stepmother starts to morph into a monster and everyone’s like akfgofng what ?????

But it's gonna hurt robin so they fight it. The monster orders robin to fight them. Luffy bear hugs her and usopp covers her eyes and the monster appears to be losing so it orders robin to jump off her tower window. The island wants a prince to rescue her and so forcibly throws her up there. But chopper’s the one who saves her bc he can fly.

Everyone questions how that happened and the island morphs with the monster so it can talk to them and reveals everything.

The island confesses that it thought they would be happy with their friends there and so brought their friends to them, and that it wants to keep them because they're interesting and they're bored of the real characters. Luffy says that everyone should be allowed to choose their own path and make their own adventures, and then the island won't get bored.

The island is kind of like a little kid!!! And agrees and the stepmother goes back to normal and the island turns into a little kid and starts mumbling that they'll try to be better and let people have their own adventures. Very The Collector from The Owl House vibes

And then they leave the island! ♡

Brook keeps his memories but can't say anything about it. The island was a little scared of the skellington )): it doesn't like horror stories and so it just kinda banished him. too bad for the island that brook still has his df powers and can shadow poof everywhere

#ask aussie #midnightlucky #zolu #trick or treat #opfanfic #nari is writing #another unfinished fic from the graveyard jhsjsh #ILY THO THANK YOU FOR THE ASK <3

[graveyard-tales]

As long as requests are open, and since it's the holidays, can you tell us the story of the worst present Gohan ever got?

It was in trying to find his old comic books that he found the worst present he’s ever gotten. Gohan was searching for a little hand-me-down gift for Goten this holiday. A little secret between them just as these comics were a little secret between him and his father. Though he suspected that his mother had always suspected. Gohan couldn’t help but smile as he dusted it off. It wasn’t the first time he got something like this but this particular one had been special. 

It was the end of the first year in their preparations for the androids. And Gohan had begged, bargained and then begged some more until his mother finally relented to his request. For Piccolo to be invited into their little quiet holiday night.They already had a party at the Briefs but this was just a small gathering between Gohan, his parents and his grandfather and now Piccolo. And after begging, bargaining and then more begging Piccolo had finally agreed to come.

As much as he tired, interaction between Piccolo and Chichi were inevitable. In the spirit of the holiday his mother played it civil with glares promising maiming instead of death. Piccolo politely returned them. Awkward when it happened but Gohan and Goku both agreed it was going better than they thought it would. Piccolo had even indulged in a full glass of water at dinner. 

Finally it had been time for gifts. Never was it anything extravagant.Yet that was always perfect for his little family. His grandfather gave him books and and old action hero movie. His mother have him more books and had make him, like his father, a thick sweater. Gohan was particularly excited about the book about beetles. Later his father would give him a comic about a silly little heroic dog. And Gohan gave them each a drawing made specifically for them. He was quite proud of each one. 

No one had really expected Piccolo to hand out anything. Gohan even told him that it wasn’t expected of him. So it came as a surprise to Gohan when he was handed a long parcel, wrapped with a rough fabric. He started at it in wonder before digging into it, nearly ripping the fabric like paper. It was a sword, long and beautifully crafted with a simple but elegant sheath. Piccolo had said with fondness that he would teach him how to properly use it so he doesn’t swing it wildly in deserted wastelands. Gohan laughed, remembering how foreign the sword felt in his small, well, smaller hands. Back when he was fending for himself in the wilds.

Gohan chucked at the memory, his voice much had gotten much deeper, or so he had been told. He smiled as he slid the sword back in place. He’d outgrown the length, and it was dull with dents and bends. But Gohan still treasured it. His mother on the other hand, not so much. Chichi had never stopped complaining how it was the worst gift Gohan had ever gotten. 

#Gohan #Son Gohan #Piccolo #Dragon Ball #I was going to make this angst #I really was #but I restrain myself just for you Lucky #winkyfaaace #midnightlucky #Ask

[ohshanksno]

Okay but my favorite thing about Koby is that in most any other series, he'd be the main character. He's a perfect shonen protagonist, really; starts from nothing, works his way up to catch up with a rival, has big dreams, saves people and does good because he can, etc. But instead of being the protagonist, he shows up like every 500 chapters to say hey and dips again. He's a Good Boy.

you come in here with your galaxy brain as always, lucky,

#HE REALLY IS AND I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THAT #vin answers #midnightlucky

[authenticaussie]

Popular Fic Meme, tagged by @marcoacesabo

Rules: Create a list of five of your favourite fics you’ve written and have followers vote on the best one, then write a small dabble of the winner. Set your own time limit for voting and tag five other writers.

Kiss, Kiss, Fall (aka: Marco, an idiot, misjudges what Ace and Sabo want when they approach him with a preposition. Ace and Sabo proceed to misjudge everything else.)

Ghosts (aka: Sabo, amnesiac. Ace, guilty. Marco, suspicious. A second-person-pov of Suffering and Sadness.)

Never Be (aka: In which Sabo is in love with Ace, Ace is married to Marco, and Marco needs to not work while sleep-deprived. Everybody needs to work on their communication skills.)

The Slow and Inevitable Corruption of an Exemplary Police Inspector (aka: a 20′s detective au, where Marco is a police officer and Ace and Sabo are private detectives that play around with dangerous things: flirting, and murder.)

And then I suppose, my most popular au pft: House of Cards (aka: the mob!au from hell)

Tagging: @rockingthegraveyard  @12freddofrogs @touchmycoat @pingo1387

feel free to vote in replies or through anon messages if you’d prefer to stay private!! I’ll keep this up fooor...idk three days? Three days sounds Fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#bip bop nari drops #text #cough cough lowkey wanna tag #midnightlucky #'cause i know which one she'll vote for ;3c #anyway lmao #let's play a game bc it's almost my birthday and in march i #DO WHAT I WANT!!!! #scheduled like a sandwhich bc f uuuck being awake this early omfg

[wordsdrippinginink]

Ah, something with Shanks and Dante Vale? Because this is the special hell that pops up when least expected and also I'm sorry I love you don't kill me

just when you think you can forget something, someone has to bring it back.

“You know,” Shanks says slowly, leaning back in his chair to watch the four people that had been caught on his ship, resting his chin on the palm of his hand, and knowing hat his men would insure that nothing happened. “When my men went to check about mice, you weren’t the kind that we were expecting to find. Which begs the question, how long have you been on my ship?”

They look at each other, but he can’t help but notice that they look at the man who Benn had spent twenty minutes laughing over, because apparently he looks similar to Shanks. Shanks doesn’t see it.

“Where are we exactly?” the man asks. “Last we knew, we were in Sophia’s family library looking for something.”

Benn, who is the one who insists on a number of things, smiles like he’s won a prize, “I think introductions are in order, since you did sneak aboard our ship, wouldn’t you say, Captain?”

“I would say,” Shanks agrees smirking. “I believe that you, little mice, should go first.”

“Dante, Dante Vale. These are my associates Sophia Casterwill, Lok Lambart and Zhalia Moon,” the man in charge of the small group answers, his hair falling into his face. “Who are you?”

Lucky Roo raises an eyebrow, “Pretty hard to miss who you are, Captain. With your title and all,” he chews on the meat he’s ripped a chunk from. “Sounds suspicious.”

“Marines wouldn’t try something like this,” Yassop says shaking his head, “Too easy to get called out. We’re a well known crew and we’re not dumb.”

“Crew? Marines?” the younger of the two women says with an accent that Shanks doesn’t know. “What did you get us into this time Lok?”

“Why are you blaming me? I didn’t do anything! Caliban opened the book!”

Shanks doesn’t have to move, Benn’s gun is pointed at the thing that is moving, it’s voice at a pitch that makes Shanks’ ears feel like they’re suppose to be aching.

“Lok picked it up!”

“What the fuck,” Shanks says slowly, watching them because Benn will kill the creepy flying thing if need be. “Is that?”

“I think you’re suppose to answer our questions,” the other woman, with far more green in her clothing than the other. “To be fair.”

Shanks smirks, dangerous and deadly, “I’m a pirate, what do I need to know about fairness. I’m also a very good pirate, well respected and one of the most deadly on these oceans, I think that I can do what I please.”

“He’s magic,” Dante answers carelessly, like that’s suppose to mean something. “He helps us find Huntik. May we have your name?”

“Shanks, Captain of the Red Hair Pirates and one of four emperors. I think you have more explaining to do before we have another conversation about your ‘magic’.”

#akagami no shanks #benn beckman #dante vale #crossover #op fanfic #oh man do i hate caliban's voice #also dante and shanks look similar #and if i kept writing #shanks would be super weirded out about sophie's awkward crush thing on dante #because she keeps trying to get his attention #if you watch huntik #you will see what i mean #lucky knows what i mean #it's creepy #wordword #midnightlucky

[whirlybirdwhat]

What do you think of Ace lives fics?

Love them!!!! It's not something I want in canon, but sometimes u just need to read an Ace lives fic to feel some joy in ur life

#best recs i got for ace lives is all of soccersarah01's works #midnightlucky's wish by spirit and amazaria's cascade #wait i have another one what is it. i cant remember goddamn #anyway yeah!!! read ace lives fics #theyre fun. i just keep killing ace in my fics lmao #op #one piece #whirlywhat #whirlyanswers

[seitosokusha]

Can you tell us about the time Philip and Shoutarou ended up in tenkuu shinpan??? Or maybe why Sniper Mask decided to wear that particular hat style?

No one is gonna understand this but us lmao. Nonexistent fandom meet rare fandom. xDDD

It had been a windy day in Fuuto. Another case solved and completed. The number of Dopants was slowly beginning to decline now that the primary source of Gaia Memories had dried up. But with Philip back, they were slowly clearing out the remainder.

Shoutarou tipped his hat, turning to look at Fuuto Tower.

“Ehh~” Shoutarou squinted, peering in the distance. A large tower, taller than Fuuto Tower, began to appear, like a hazy mirage. He rubbed his eyes, trying to dispel what was clearly on a trick. Instead, the image grew clearly and Shoutarou blinked.

Gone was the wide open outdoors, a window now stood in front of Shoutarou. The image of the tower sharpened, crystal clear through the glass. Surrounding it, skyscrapers reached upward, smaller but still looming like giants. “What’s going on?” he yelped.

Where had Fuuto’s skyline gone? It looked as if he had wandered into Tokyo with all the tall buildings.

The sounds of something heavy being dragged drew his attention away. Shoutarou cautiously stuck his head out the door, looking down the hall. Lumbering down the hallway was a bulky man with smiley face mask. He was dragging along the floor a large hammer behind him.

“Hey!” Shoutarou called out to him. “Can you tell me where I am?”

The masked man looked up at him. Then in a startling burst of speed, lunged at Shoutarou, swinging his hammer down. Shoutarou jumped out of the way, landing further down the hall.

“What are you doing!” Shoutarou said. “What kind of man goes and attacks people!”

The masked man rushed forward, bringing his hammer down again. Shoutarou ran up the stairs. ‘Philip?” he thought, trying to sense his partner through their driver connection.

There was no answer.

A cold sweat ran down Shoutarou’s head. The silence was far too eerie. It reminded him of the year where Philip was gone. ‘PHILIP!’

Shoutarou burst out the door, heading the edge of the building. He peered down, dizzily staring up at the height. If he fell from this height…

The masked man came lumbering out of doorway, hammer raised high. Shoutarou grit his teeth. Without Philip, he couldn’t transform into W. He wasn’t so foolish to think he could stop this masked man without W either.

The speed at which the masked man moved at. The way he swung that hammer and the power behind it. It was as if he was Dopant, but Shoutarou had never encountered a Dopant like this.

He took a step back, looking down at the looming edge. ‘Philip!’ he called out in his mind again, desperately hoping that his partner could hear him.

‘Shoutarou!’

Philip’s cyclone memory dropped into the driver. Shoutarou didn’t hesitate, slamming down on as he dodged another lunge from the masked man. He let the transformation wash over him, feeling the comfort of Philip’s mind sit right next to him.

‘Shoutarou!’ Philip shouted. ‘Where are we?’

‘First, where are you? Was there any masked men around?’ Philip’s body was defenseless and Shoutarou didn’t know where Extreme Memory was. And unless it was proven otherwise, Shoutarou wasn’t going to be trusting any more masked men. Not when this one just attacked him on the spot.

‘No, I didn’t see any, but Shoutarou did you see that tower? Who is this?’

W danced out of another attack.

‘I have no idea,’ Shoutarou responded. ‘But if we can, we need to perform a Memory Break as soon as possible. I don’t want your body unattended. Did Xtreme Memory come with you?’

‘Yes, it did.’

‘Good. Next time we’ll use Xtreme until we know more.’

W slide into a ready stance, hand transferring the memory to his belt. “Maximum Drive, Joker Extreme!”  

They kicked the masked man, shattering his mask. He fell over, groaning. Shoutarou quickly undid his own transformation, not wanting to keep Philip separated from his body for long.

“Hey!” Shoutarou ran over. He didn’t see any broken pieces of a Gaia Memory on the ground, but the mask had been shattered. The man groaned, sitting up. With the mask gone, it revealed a chubby face and thick mustache.

The man clutched his head. “It-it’s gone!” he said. “The programming!”

Shoutarou frowned. Programming? “What are you talking about?”

“The Mask programming!” the man shouted, grabbing Shoutarou’s vest. “Don’t look behind the mask. It forces you to it put oh -”

He got no further, before a bullet pierced his head. Shoutarou’s eyes widened as he scrambled for cover. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught the glint of a rifle. A sniper!

Bat Shot flew out of his hand, as Shoutarou took cover behind the stairway entrance He pulled out his Stag Phone, pulling up the live video feed. He zoomed in the sniper’s direction. There in a black suit and armed was the sniper. His black fedora shadowed a white smiley face mask.

“To be so hardboiled but a Mask,” Shoutarou tsked, shaking his head. This was an enemy he wanted to engage with. Bat Shot darted out of it vantage point, narrowing missing a bullet from the sniper and back to Shoutarou’s hand.

The soft pitch cry of Xtreme Memory soaring towards him lifted Shoutarou’s spirit. Smart thing, he was flying in a way that Sniper couldn’t it out of the sky. He grabbed the memory, letting the transformation wash over him once more. W’s body was practically bulletproof.

“Who is that Shoutarou?”

“No clue, but he’s dangerous,” Shoutarou answered back. “Let’s get out of here.”

“There should be a suspension bridge that will lead to another building,” Philip said. “If we can make it to the stairs, the other suspension building out is further down. The sniper won’t have a chance to hit us.”

“Let’s do it.”

W sprinted for the suspension bridge, darting straight across to the next building’s roof. They skid down the stairs, trying to put as much distance between them and the sniper.

Once they were reasonably far away enough, the transformation dropped, revealing Shoutarou and Philip. They glanced around the room and the tall buildings skyline.

“What now, Shoutarou?” Philip asked.

Shoutarou took off his hat to run a hand through his hair. “I don’t know,” he said, frustrated. “But -” he looked at the tall tower in the distance, “-we should head to that tower. I bet we’ll find our answers there.”

There were plenty of questions left to answer. Who were the Masks, what was the programming the hammer masked man was walking about, and why were they here, how did they get here?

Hopefully that tower held the answer. All Shotarou wanted was to go back to Fuuto with Philip.

He placed his hat back on his head. “Well the job of a Kamen Rider is never done.”

Philip nodded in agreement. “Shall we go, partner?”

Shoutarou grinned. “Yes, let’s.”

#kamen rider w #tenkuu shinpan #hidari shoutarou #philip #sonozaki raito #midnightlucky

[mtcolubo]

Got tagged by @ohshanksno !!

Rules: write down 10 facts about yourself and tag 10 followers you want to know better

1. I’m 5’10” (maybe 11”? i haven’t measured since hs orz) and u will have to pry my heels away from my cold dead hands

2. I started reading One Piece back in 2006 :DDD

3. I am trying to learn to be a fluent trilingualist now bc my parents aren’t fluent in english and i didn’t work very hard to learn when i was little ㅠㅠ

4. I work as a sushi chef :D

5. I recently got back into mma kickboxing again and i’m hoping to stick it out and get stronk™

6. I have an internship (apprenticeship?) with a graphic designer

7. I used to do magic tricks in high school, and i still collect decorated playing cards cause of that ✨

8. I’m taking a break from school to work and raise money rn $$

9. I want to go into the medical field and am trained in first aid and cpr!

10. I’m rly picky with my food, have been since i was a baby, and the top three things I absolutely cannot stand to eat are: oranges(tangerines, clementines, etc. also fall into this), coffee, cilantro (c" ತ,_ತ)

Next step: Tagging ten other people!

I tag: @itsmikness @tsume-yuki @skypiea @midnightlucky @alieiu @portgas-d-eisu oh god 10 ppl is a lot,, i tag anyone else who wants to do thisーsorry im taking the cheap way out ( ；´Д｀)

#ahhh its my first time doing one of these on here #thanks for tagging me!!!!!! :’DDD #not art #me

[rboooks]

Rules: Bold the statements that apply to you, italicize your aspirations, and tag nine people!

I got tagged a million years ago by @authenticaussie and @seehowtheywrite

I tag (sorry if you’ve already been tag): @fanfiction-by-abalisk @pinkfluffycookie-chi @simplymoemega @restlesstsukiriver @justm3h @princess-of-the-revolutionaries @midnightlucky @paox @shockandlock and anyone who wants to do this!

AIR: I have small hands • I love the night sky • I watch small animals and birds when I pass them by • I drink herbal tea • I wake to see dawn • The smell of dust is comforting • I’m valued for being wise • I prefer books to music • I meditate • I find joy in learning new truths from the world around me

FIRE: I don’t have straight hair • I like to wear ripped jeans and overalls • I play an organized sport • I love dogs • I am not afraid of adventure • I love to talk to strangers • I always try new foods • I enjoy road trips • Summer is my favorite season • My radio is always playing

WATER: I wear bracelets on my wrists • I love the bustle of the city • I have more than one set of piercings • I read poetry • I love the sound of a thunderstorm • I want to travel the world • I go to sleep past midnight most days • I love dimly lit diners and fluorescent signs • I rewatch kids’ shows • I see emotions in colors, not words

EARTH: I wear glasses • I enjoy doing the laundry • I am a vegetarian or vegan • I have an excellent sense of time • My humor is very cheerful • I am a valued advisor to my friends • I believe in true love • I love the chill of mountain air • I’m always listening to music • I am highly trusted by the people in my life

AETHER: I go without makeup in my daily life • I make my own artwork • I keep on track of my tasks and time • I always know true north • I see beauty in everything • I always smell flowers • I smile at everyone I pass by • I always fear history repeating itself • I have recovered from a mental disorder • I can love unconditionally

[nari-writes]

Hey it's ya boy back at it again with the MAS dating sim au thoughts??? Do you have them?????

For you, always.

Okay so two ideas:

1. Sorta inspired by this post where Sabo’s a coder and Ace is an artist and they make a dating sim game that goes through their dumb attempts to date him and Marco laughs when he remembers some of the things that happened (Ace getting stuck on a roof for three hours because the door auto-locked behind him as he was trying to organise a star-gazing picnic, Marco and Sabo being really confused bc Ace said he was gonna meet him and where is he???), OR LIKE also just dumb things throughout their friendship but in the guise of a dating game and he’s like “….wait. these are being portrayed at attempts at romance. wait. uh-” and the ending is a festival that’s like “hey here’s a ring, wanna marry us?” / ”hey go out with us?”

And he calls them up and he’s like “hey you two are together aren’t you” and Ace is like “uhhHHH” and Marco’s like “uh, wait, no, I meant, you’re in the same room-? this is on speaker-” and Sabo laughs at him and that’s enough of an answer for Marco to blurt out a yes. And then they’re dumb awkward idiots not talking on the phone until Sabo is like “look fuck this I’m coming over, that game took forever to code and I want my reward”

“Oh? and what’s your reward??”

“A boyfriend, flame-brain.”

SECOND IDEA:

2. Where Ace/Sabo are cursed (devil fruit, magic, take your pick) to be forgotten, and Marco plays the game because someone dares him to/it’s the only way the Villian can get the curse to stick (or perhaps, someone realises something is Wrong and this was the only way they could get around what the curse has done), and yeah, samesies, it goes through their first meetings/dates etc. And the Villain is trying to make him lose/pick other characters but he’s stubbornly chasing Ace n’ Sabo because? He likes them? Why would he want to spend time with the other characters, they don’t make him laugh, they don’t feel as fleshed out, maybe it’s dumb to be chasing after someone with as many issues as Ace, or Sabo, Sabo’s mean insults, but like, it works and it’s dumb.

But then he starts getting bits of his memory back and begins to notice how weird it is that the protagonists look like Ace and Sabo, but then as he notices that they get less like Ace and Sabo, until the end when Ace and Sabo come home because Marco ‘picked them’ and broke the curse. Very “was there even a curse??? how odd” vibes, where they don’t directly beat the villain but it happens anyway. Shrugs.

Also just for you, lucks:

Bonus where Marco does let’s plays (his siblings got him into gaming and people Like that he’s so chill about all the games. Like, horror games don’t get a rise out of him, he goes shopping and does taxes in shoot-out games, people think he’s funny). EXCEPT he gets conned into playing Hatoful Boyfriend and as the game goes on he gets more and more yell-y and frazzled until he reaches the demon-summoned end when he just storms off. (He manages to get, the head-in-a-bag and the cafe ending).

Everyone thinks it’s very funny that this is the game that got a reaction from him. The (mischievous) paetrons (it’s Ace + Haruta) who suggested it are VERY proud of themselves.

#opfanfic #marcoacesabo #maracebo #marcosaboace #nari is writing #midnightlucky #ask aussie

[graveyard-tales]

Oh, well, if it's all about Gohan angst, have you considered Icarus as a baby kaiju?

Lucky!! You’re literally the best and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. 

Okay, okay, so, like. After all the Trauma(TM) has happened and Gohan is a part of the science team, they manage to snag a rare find. Something that probably shouldn’t have been there, an underdeveloped Kaiju. Bulma, the ever brilliant mind she is, figure out a way to contain it in an environment that keeps it alive to research but keeps it contained.

Despite the front he puts up, Gohan is terrified of it. How can he not be after what he went through? But Gohan has always had a compassionate nature, always been too gentle for the life he was born into. Despite how well he excelled at it, he wasn’t made out to be a pilot. So he talks to it, spends hours keeping it company even after the others have retired for the day. 

It’s Mr. Briefs who notices it first, the bond that begins to develop between Gohan and what is now dubbed as Icarus.  Named as joke that studying this Kaiju, even though it’s a baby, is the sun and all this containment are their wax wings. It’s not only more active when Gohan is around, but active in a much less threatening manner than it is around the other scientists. 

He keeps it to himself, he don't know what to make of it. But he can see the change isn’t just in the Kaiju. Gohan is has become attached to it. Even acting affectionately towards it and being more vocal about his displeasure when they hurt it. Mr. Briefs can’t decide if this will become an asset in the future or the downfall of one young, kind hearted, scientist. 

#Dragon Ball Z #Gohan #Pacific Dragon #Pacific Rim AU #Blessed is Lucky #who has the best ideas #istg #midnightlucky #Ask

[rockingthegraveyard]

TEN FACT GAME

Tagged by @hannycho

Rules: write down 10 facts about yourself and tag 10 followers you want to know better

I currently have three cats and three dogs. (Socks, Zelda and Bood are the cats, Zuu and her pups Dozer and Feisty.)

I’ve probably played Ocarina of Time over a dozen times. 

I live with a pretty view of the Sutter Buttes.

I am hoping to open up commissions soon. 

I hope to some day open a little shop like in storenvy to sell charms and keychains  or rebubble to sell shirts. (I have several drawings and designs I’ve never uploaded because of this.)

I love the ocean and it would be a dream to live closer to one.

Bi af (also buried deep in the closest among all these old clothes I can’t bring myself to get rid of.)

Dragons and Werewolves are my favorite monsters/mythical creatures.

I haven’t been to the doctors in literal years (not to say that like I’m proud, I’m just running out of facts.)

I’m boring and have been told the way I talk makes it easier to ignore me, lol.

Tag 10 ppl - @midnightlucky @wordsdrippinginink @justm3h @nornatta @literally anyone who is bored and wants something to do. (Of course you can just ignore this too if you’re not interested.)

#Tagged #Meme #?? #what are my tags for these again #lol

[authenticaussie]

Tagged by @midnightluck​!! This is a Cool meme honestly haha

Rules: List the first lines of your last 15 stories. See if there are any patterns. Then tag 10 of your favourite authors! (??? I have too many favourites!!!!! I’ll just tag OP ones I know I guess? IT’S HARD TO TAG FAVOURITES BC IM LIKE NAH IM. TOO SMALL FOR THIS)

Tagging @wordsdrippinginink, @pingo1387 @polysonsismovingrn @rockingthegraveyard @marcoacesabo @lunarshores @12freddofrogs @leafyxthiefy 

Ahhh man, haha, they’re all really??? Random non sequitors, just! let’s just jump right in!! It’s probably ‘cause I think it’s easier to read/hook a reader if the first line is a sense of “wait what the fuck??”” Either that or just. So pretentious/poetic omfg. 

“Look out!” Marco heard yelled from above, and barely stepped backward in time to avoid being knocked in the head by a falling boot. 

“Shit, you’re amazing.”

“I actually really like cats.”

“They’re dating.”

The book is shoved to the very back of the shelf, hidden behind Time and Thought, and has no title of its own. 

It wasn’t just rage that made his hands shake while he packed.

Your name is Portgas D. Ace and you have just seen the ghost of a boy long dead.

“This is unfortunate,” Sabo says, and Marco groans low and loud, pointedly insulting Sabo’s obvious statement.

\“I’m not drunk,” Marco said, with the blithe confidence only the absolutely hammered could pull off, and Ace watched as he smirked at the both of them. 

The door bangs open so hard that it falls off one hinge and gets embedded in his bedroom wall, and Sabo doesn’t have second to frown or even demand what’s going on before Ace snaps, “What the fuck did you do?”

“Sir Outlook.” Marco says, and his lips are happy and his hands are gentle, but his eyes are gleaming sickly green instead of beautiful blue. 

“Hey. Why do you- like me?”

This is not his worst plan.

“-ase.”

Marco woke up with an inability to breathe. 

#bip bop nari drops #ask meme #midnightlucky

[wordsdrippinginink]

Oooo I've never seen heterchromia soulmate au! Can you do that one with Roger/Rouge?

Rouge is tired, the crowd in the bar is loud and the music is pounding loud enough that she can feel it vibrating up through the soles of her shoes. If she hadn’t promised to be there for the contact, Rouge would have sent her second to get the information that Dragon was demanding.

“You like a little over dressed for this bar, darling.”

“And you look like you’re ready to loose that hand of yours if it doesn’t get the fuck off of my shoulders,” Rouge says smiling dangerously, glancing up from the drink that she had been nursing for the last hour. “Darling.”

She can hear a burst of laughter from the less obnoxious group in the corner. They aren’t silent but they’re quiet and Rouge has been thankful for the lack of additional noise, but if they’re going to encourage this idiot-

“You might wanna leave the nice lady alone, son,” A man in the group states. “It’s not polite to be in her business like that. Besides, I don’t think your soulmate would be to happy about you cheating on them like that. Get back to the ship.”

“Captain-”

“To the ship,” There’s silence for a moment before a hand touches the bartop that Rouge is still leaning over. “I’m sorry to bother you ma’am, I wanted to apologize for that member of my crew.”

“It’s fine, captain,” Rouge smiles, avoiding his eyes, a habit that she uses when she’s undercover. While her left eye, brown and bright, might not be memorable but her right eye is almost silver. A shade of gray that sticks out and catches attention no matter where she goes. “I’m sure you have all your men under control.”

The captain laughs, “If I did, then you wouldn’t have been disturbed in the first place. I don’t suppose there’s a way to make it up to you?”

“Helping me out is enough. Thank you for the offer however, it’s kind of you.”

The niceties and insisting that ‘no, really, it’s fine’ takes far more time then Rouge wants to admit. Which means that she misses the appearance of her contact until the other woman is slipping into the seat beside her.

Bell-mere looks as tired as Rouge feels as she orders herself a drink before finally looking over at her, her eyes matching for the first time in Rouge’s memory, “It’s been a long week.”

“I can tell.”

There isn’t much to be given, not when Bell-mere has been stationed further away from what they want, but there’s still more then nothing and that’s what Rouge wants. She can at least get enough to make the starts of a plan about who and where to start getting more.

“I’m going to sleep unless you have more for me,” Bell-mere yawns into her glass, almost empty. “Sleep is the only thing that I want right now.”

“I would like to hear about your soulmate at some point,” Rouge says tipping her glass to the side. “Sounds like it was an adventure.”

Bell-mere snorts, “That is going to wait a long time, sleep well.”

“Sleep well,” Rouge agrees waiting another twenty minutes before stepping out herself and stumbling right into the Captain. “I apolo-”

The Captain stares back at her, his right eye brown and bright and his left the same shade of almost silver as her right. The color in the right slowly shifting until they matched.

“Oh.”

The Captain huffs a laugh, looking almost sad as he helps her back up onto her feet, “I’m Roger.”

“Rouge.”

“Are you,” He looks askance. “Busy tomorrow? We could talk?”

“I’d like that,” Rouge agrees slowly. “Where at?” 

#pre rougeroger #soulmate au #hetechromia soulmate au #where it's all canon #except Rouge knows Bellmere #and they are friends #Roger is already sick at this point btw #he knows he's dying #i'm so sorry. #midnightlucky #word's writing #wordword

[ammo-never-runs-out-of-knives]

For @ariririsu  over on the MAS discord! There might be more to come~ 

Also thank you to @midnightlucky for being an amazing beta!!

#sunshinepunksvalentines #One Piece #Sabo #Marco #Whitebeards #Ace

[midnightluck]

So okay, the thing is, though, I’m bad at tumblr. I just realized I was maybe confusing people and ought to explain.

I signed up, oh, a decade ago as mayhemnmadness and didn’t do much and then disappeared off the internet for a while, as you do, and anyway, long story short, when I decided to start this up, I made it a side blog.

I started this as an archive and wasn’t expecting to, like, interact with people? Or anything? So I didn’t think about how the name thing worked for likes or asks, etc.

But it’s hard to tell on the internet and tumblr and stuff so I changed my main blog (which is basically just cats and shitposts) to midnightlucky so y'all’d know it was me.

Tl;dr: previously mayhemnmadness on tumblr and in the LJ Young Justice fandom, but I just changed tumblr to midnightlucky for consistency but it’s all still me. Sorry for any confusion.

#i'm bad at tumblr #thought i'd better get stuff to match before i got too involved tho #really should've thought this through #sorry guys