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a recovery, a quick comeback from this imposter’s mouth, hushed but so hasty that it stopped Katsuki in his tracks for a moment at least. the boy in front of him moves with the same erratic and nervous motion, same voice and intonation, an almost perfect copy — but what other less intense images can conjure in the mind when confronted with a walking memory / a living corpse ? Katsuki felt his tongue run dry, he thinks of using his teeth to make the skin bleed in order to swallow something; the pain can be a pinch, remind him that he’s awake. no, he knows he’s awake. are they fucking with him? but how would they… how could they know?
red gaze is wide, follow without blinking, until he couldn’t bear to witness anymore. ( flashes of a thick and dark substance, restraining and drowning him, flashes of light that did nothing to prevail, and the aftermath of a body too frail, too quiet, too still… ) there it is again, the rise of bile, and he closes his eyes tight shut and faces down. shit, his breathing is more agitated, panicked. he grits his teeth. “ stop messing with me. ” an empty threat, there’s nothing he can do as he is now. he opens his eyes, still looking down, and convinces himself that he’s only shaking ( as slight as it is, the metal clinks undeniably in his tremble ) from trying not to puke without having a way to wipe his own mouth. Katsuki starts to breathe in deeply, voice gruff but lower in volume to not bring any more witness to this. “ whatever bullshit you’re trying to pull… i don’t buy it. ”
izuku can’t help the frown that pulls down on his cheeks, brows that furrow with worry as he sheepishly examines his old best friend. he remembers the day he died, he recalls the tense moments leading up to it. the fear he felt for kacchan, the fear he felt from him. after everything he’s done to izuku, nothing changed, izuku still tried and failed to save his life - quirkless and all. maybe he should be more compassionate — resurrection is horrific, it sickened him the first time he woke and the mirror no longer remembers the boy that used to look into it.
“ kacchan . . . i’m sorry. ” he approaches with caution once again, given that bakugo has quieted down. “ i know - they’ll come rescue you, it’s only a matter of time. so it’s okay, right? it’s gonna be over soon and you can forget about all of this and move on. ” become a top hero like we always planned, save the world, and never look back. “ until then, you should really drink this … you’ve got to be dehydrated by now. ”
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so i read dead apple ....
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the heart of darkness quotes that strike me down;
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❝ you of all people should understand…we don’t owe him anything. ❞ // for akuuu !
the grey morning topples for grey mourning, replacing a tincture of loneliness with a plethora of longing. nothing was better when dazai was an executive. if anything akutagawa is far less beaten down than he was before, even if he still trains himself until he can’t breathe. it’s never like it was. not in the darkest seconds when he feels dazai’s reign over him like a hand gripped around his throat, not since he trained kyouka in the same manner that he was brought up in. nothing could replicate the leash that dazai had akuatagawa on. something was severed when he left, something that couldn’t be healed. so when chuuya pleads with him, when chuuya says that nothing is owed to dazai: it feels as hollow as akutagawa does.
everything is owed to dazai osamu. he wouldn’t be alive, his sister wouldn’t be alive. and if by some miracle they had survived, they’d still be scrapping by for a chance in the depths from which they had risen. some people are born with everything. akutagawa was born with nothing and dazai was the first person to hand him something. to trust him with the honor of belonging. how should he understand anything else? “ you don’t, ” he affirms, “ don’t speak for me like you’d understand. ” they’re two different stories. “ i owe him the rest of my life. ”
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❝ i want so badly to be mad at you that i could do that, but i CAN’T, so i’m mad at myself instead. do you even understand how unfair that is? ❞ // for dazaai
enter, the tragedy of the sycophant, his pulse drifting the further he strays from his heart. it outstretches like the petals of the lotus, a familiar ache inside that ruins from within. dazai is no stranger to the facets of chuuya’s anger, despite the mysteries that still surround them. there’s a wicked impulse to be the center of it all, to become the stem of each and every emotion that grows within that small body. perhaps it’s a method of possession, to consume and concur all that dazai desires. this is what loves feels like, he thinks. to reach inside another and claw out whatever he needs, to burrow himself inside and create a summer home there. oh, how he longs to be arahabaki.
so here they are again, age having changed nothing in chuuya while dazai wears different skin, the same meaty flaws beneath. dazai sits in chuuya’s armchair, his finger mindlessly stroking a circle in the purple velvet while he patiently listens. he still harbors the air of an executive, though his status is leagues less glamorous than when they were younger. “ so the world’s unfair, ” he chews on his words like an infant playing with his food, “ and chuuya’s angry with me … what’s new exactly? ” a cheeky smile cracks on his face but it’s absent of any joy. dazai leans forward until his elbows sit on his knees and his hands hold up his chin. “ what’s stopping you, chibikko ? you want to take your anger out on me, so why don’t you? if you really want fairness, then take it for yourself. ” he lays the bait like always. pretending he doesn’t know what chuuya will choose, like he always chooses. typical. the good ones are never really that surprising.
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if we were villains ❧ sentence starters
feel free to change pronouns as needed! taken from the absolutely recommended book ‘if we were villains’ by m.l. rio.
❝ seems like just yesterday my dad was shouting at me for throwing my life away. ❞
❝ last time we went skinny-dipping i fell on the dock buck naked and spent the rest of the night facedown on the couch with ______ pulling splinters out of my ass. ❞
❝ i know what you’re capable of, and i’ll be damned if i don’t drag it out of you by the time you leave this place. ❞
❝ everyone has a weakness. even you. the strongest thing you can do is admit it. ❞
❝ get drunk, get loud, get lucky. ❞
❝ okay. let’s kill them. ❞
❝ i’m not playing. don’t fucking do that again. ❞
❝ i’m bleeding. you son of a bitch. ❞
❝ you’re lovely, but you’re not worth it. ❞
❝ be careful, ______. you’re much too trusting. ❞
❝ you’ve got puke on your face. ❞
❝ we need to decide what to tell the police about what happened. ❞
❝ you of all people should understand…we don’t owe him anything. ❞
❝ i’m going to bed unless you’ve got something to say. ❞
❝ i’ve had enough sexual misadventures for one year, thanks. ❞
❝ if it makes you feel any better, i’d have done exactly the same thing. ❞
❝ c’mon. it’s fucking freezing and i’m not leaving you out here alone. ❞
❝ when did we become such terrible people? ❞
❝ i’ll be the first one to admit i don’t know what we’re doing here. but i want to figure it out. ❞
❝ are you going to cold-shoulder me all night? ❞
❝ what’s gotten into you? you don’t sound like yourself. ❞
❝ i guess my other option is an existential crisis. ❞
❝ you can’t quantify humanity. you can’t measure it. people are passionate and flawed and infallible. ❞
❝ you know, ______, i like you. mostly in spite of myself. ❞
❝ i want so badly to be mad at you that i could do that, but i CAN’T, so i’m mad at myself instead. do you even understand how unfair that is? ❞
❝ fuck! fuck this, fuck me, fuck YOU. ❞
❝ don’t do that, please –––– right now can we just be ourselves? ❞
❝ i don’t know what’s wrong with me. i want to hurt the whole world. ❞
❝ ever heard of hate sex? ❞
❝ don’t follow me. ❞
❝ no! don’t come too close. keep your distance. tell me what happened. ❞
❝ why don’t you fight back? why won’t you get your hands dirty? ❞
❝ i’d have killed him myself if i thought it would keep the rest of you safe. ❞
❝ will you marry him? it’s been long enough. ❞
❝ the future is wide and wild and full of promise, but it is precarious, too. ❞
❝ you know, the bare-chested, covered-in-blood look, it’s working for you. ❞
❝ would you change the ending, if you could? ❞
❝ we’ll never forget it. that’s the worst part. ❞
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Herakles, Euripides (tr. Tom Sleigh)
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no i havent finished the new season but im sorry have you SEEN UZUI ?? ? ?? ? !!?
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there’s something to be said about the setting of the sun on autumn afternoons at the todoroki estate. cicadas whistling their sweet songs and the empty thresholds of a broken home feel taller still. it’s his first time coming back to this place since the touya incident. shōto’s still wrapped in bandages where his burns are taking longer to heal. recovery girl promises one more appointment should take care of it but shōto doesn’t mind the pain so much. it’s made a good distraction. he’s not sure he’s even ready to do without it. soon there’ll be nothing left between him and another betrayal but the space where he has to feel it all.
he’s supposed to meet fuyumi and natsuo to visit mom together but fuyumi had cancelled last minute. now he waits for his brother, who shōto’d hardly shared words with since everything exploded in their faces. the dead rose and walked all over them. how are they supposed to move on when they’re drawn back to a graveyard time and time again? shōto sighs, hands sinking deep into his pockets while he kicks at a rock with his foot. when natsuo arrives, he croaks out, “ hey. ”
@beastincidents / for natsuo.
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the veins in his arms twitch and pulse, red eyes glued to the strong metal encasing his hands. it’s the anticipation, not nerves, he tells himself. it’s adrenaline that pumps his blood faster, widens his senses, and has the sweat drip off his fingertips as he waits. and waits and waits, and he has no choice but to sit, stir in the heat of his skin, without knowing what the hell is going to happen next. his mind can conjure up a couple of things but he refuses to let creativity fly so vividly. stay focused. the weight of these cuffs slump his shoulders forward, the nitroglycerin gathered up can be enough to break through iron but it will also damage his hands and he has to be smarter than that, he is better than this, he is above fear. there has to be an opening…
with another presence felt so near, Katsuki snaps his head back up, muscles tense and grown taut like an arrow ready to spring. but the cord snaps. where his eyebrows furrowed with grit, he finds now his entire face become slack, even pale. that voice, and… no. no. that can’t— “ you sick… ” the moment rises back, all hair and hell raised, his jaw clenches as voice halts to a grit, a growl that surfaces in his throat like bile. Katsuki fights against the restraints again, despite knowing how futile that is but he doesn’t fucking care. he leans and glares up, any calm of the storm he has tried to maintain for his own sake getting dangerously close to breaking. “ you sick, ballsy bastards— ! ”
bakugo’s reaction spawns a recollection of fear, izuku’s eyes peeling wide and his shoulders tightening. in his hand, he crushes the paper cup unintentionally and the water spills over causing him to drop it all together. “ sh-shit — shut up! ” he whispers hastily, “ stop yelling! i’m not supposed to be in here so shut the hell up! ” he waves his hands urgently, he thinks he’d try and cover bakugo’s mouth if he weren’t sure to be bitten. izuku quickly whips his head towards the two entrances to assure that no one’s heard and come to check in. maybe they’ll assume bakugo is making a ruckus by himself - that wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibilities but izuku hates to gamble.
it dawns on him again that midoriya izuku is dead to the world, including old friends and family. only the league knows he’s still alive — something new sprouting from that first mangled corpse. he tries not to think about it too much, can’t accept the state he must have left his mother in. the guilt would eat him alive if he let it. izuku frantically picks up the fallen cup which had emptied all over the floor. luckily they’re in a barroom and izuku can rush over to the sink to refill it then swiftly return to bakugo’s side. “ if you don’t stay quiet, things will get much worse for both of us, okay? ”
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there’s luck in izuku’s lack of size, he can slither in unnoticed by everyone but kurogiri who seems to purposefully turn the other way from the interloper. they make eye contact for a strained second, a cup of water trapped between izuku’s teeth so he can crawl on his hands and knees. kurogiri promptly leaves the room as if nothing happened and izuku lets out a relieved sigh, continuing on. the seat bakugo is strapped to comes into view and izuku can feel his pulse race with conditioned fear. he takes a quick look around the bar room to make completely sure the coast is clear before standing and removing the cup from his mouth. he clears his throat and swallows back the bile.
“ he-hey, ” izuku stutters, unable to handle as little as eye contact with his old friend / tormentor. it would only be a matter of time anyways, someone would save him, wouldn’t they? a hero student matters in this society. they’ll know he’s missing and they’ll come get him. at least that’s what izuku believes. he just has to play the part until then. he pulls out a paper towel wrapped bread roll that had been stuffed in his pocket since dinner. it wasn’t much but it’s better than starving for the night.
@madestars / bakugo.
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private multimuse. selective. headcanon based & para-centric & iconless. by mars. carrd.
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