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Saruhiko gets charcoal for Christmas when he's little.

Oh you know this happened at least once, Niki wouldn’t be able to resist. The first time Fushimi’s all excited for Christmas, when he’s still young enough to think that maybe Santa exists and maybe he’ll get presents. Niki sees his kid looking all cute and tentatively hopeful for Christmas and warns him that he needs to be good because Santa is watching. Fushimi looks at him wide-eyed as Niki explains that Santa is actually a creepy man who will turn into a scary monster and eat bad kids, then chew up the bones and spit the coal into the stockings of other bad kids as a warning. Fushimi just freezes and Niki laughs, it really is fun to see his little monkey make such an expression. He laughs even more on Christmas day, when he shows up first thing in the morning because he wants to see Fushimi waking up and getting his presents (Niki’s bought him a bunch of gag gifts, which will explode or melt or break in two the moment his kid touches them). Fushimi looks in his stocking nervously and there it is, a stocking full of coal. Niki’s like uh oh you better hide from Santa, look he’s coming for you, and has a good laugh as his poor son runs upstairs to hide.

After this Fushimi is pretty jaded, every year he gets coal and honestly he doesn’t even mind it so much anymore because that’s his least problematic gift. It’s not like Kisa gives him anything and Niki will never stop giving dangerous gifts, Fushimi doesn’t even bother to open those anymore. The coal really becomes less of a bad present and more something that he can try and launch at Niki’s head once he gets it. Sometimes he thinks about using it to set the whole house on fire but he thinks Niki would enjoy that too much, instead he just tosses the coal on the carpet and wonders if Kisa will even notice the mess. (When he spends his first holiday with Misaki he doesn’t even look in his stocking until Yata prods him and it’s full of little trinkets that Yata spent all his pocket money to buy and Fushimi just stares at it wide-eyed, because his stocking has never had anything but coal in it before.)

#Fushimi Saruhiko #Talking K #Everybody hates Niki #you know he did this #he absolutely gave Fushimi coal every year #to the point Fushimi is just jaded by it he doesn't expect anything else #and then Yata gives him actual gifts and he's just stunned

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can you show off your K collection?

The whole collection, you say :D I have a lot, so under the cut so as not to clutter up everyone’s dash.

First: figures. The large military figures are from Alter and the slightly smaller Fushimi one is from Union Creative. The Alter ones are better quality but honestly I like the more dynamic pose of the UC figure better, there’s a matching Yata that I don’t own largely due to lack of space that’s very cool (however the UC Fushimi also has a truly terrifying alternate face…). The larger chibi figures are lottery prizes, I bought them separately in order to be sure I got what I wanted. I like the winter ones best, someday I need to get the Munakata from that set. The smaller figures are a Niitengo Deluxe set, I actually have a couple duplicates from this because I bought two sets. The ‘regular’ set had Mikoto and then there was a special set — I think it was an Animate exclusive? — that had Munakata along with alternate Fushimi and Yata figures. Then I have the teeny Shiro, Fushimi and Hisui which are keychains, I picked those up at a con (they didn’t have Yata which is why I ended up with Shiro and Hisui in there). 

Also on the figure end I have these little guys: K nendoroids! Wait, you may be wondering, I don’t remember any K nendoroids. That’s because we have no official ones (still mad about that!) so I had no choice but to make my own by modifying parts of existing nendoroids. The clothes were purchased from various places online.

Next is my full set of K nuis. It took a while to get all these, because when they released the ‘clansmen’ sets I only bought the Blue clan and then regretted it. And no, they didn’t make an official Niki nui, since I had extras I modified them. Hidaka, Benzai, Niki and Douhan are my own customs.

More plushies. I believe the larger ones were Sega prizes? I found Munakata and Fushimi being sold as a set online and then hunted down Yata later. The chubby birds are from the Chun Colle line, and of course I had to buy them their own (love) nest. The Saru cat had the clothes sold separately, I think the original listing showed them with a white cat but the black was all AmiAmi had at the time so I have black cat Saru. The Sarumi nuis are from the second release around ROK airing, they’re a bit different than the first release — a little less chubby with more scruffy hair. I have Munakata too, as you can see he’s…busy on top of my desk. 

Standees, because everyone needs a little anime boy on their desk. As you may notice, one of these things is not like the other. That’s right: Yata’s wearing bunny ears! Also Kuroh is there. At the time I bought the little Fushimi with the drink the cheapest one on sale had both Fushimi and Kuroh being sold as a set, so he’s here too. 

Speaking of standees, here’s a few more along with other lotto prizes. These were all from the specific Fan Clan lotteries, you had to be a member to draw. The big Fushimi picture and the water bottle were both grand prizes that I managed to win, so I got to choose my character for those (…don’t  ask how much I spent….). The Fushimi picture has hardware in the back that you can use to stand it up but it’s mostly hanging out hidden by my drawers because I don’t have space to display it right now. 

A few miscellaneous things. The Sarumi plate is official goods, the Akiben cup is a fan made product. The glass has Fushimi on one side and Munakata on the other though it’s hard to see, this was I believe also a lotto prize but I got it as a free gift from a shopping service. The pillows are also both official, the one on the left is the Kotobukiya dream cushion and yes I did buy the whole pillow just to use the Fushimi cover. The incredibly gay pillow featuring Fushimi touching himself while looking at a photo of Yata he’s pinned to his pillow is also, amazingly, 100% official merchandise.

Jumping around to some more official stuff, these are all my physical media. Missing Kings is actually the Japanese release, which has subtitles but no dub. It released before the US version even had a release date on the books so I bought the Japanese version instead (I don’t dislike the dub but dubs are also not something that’s a dealbreaker for me). I also have three stage plays — fun fact, the US and Japan are in the same region for blu ray — these are not subtitled. 

Novels (and a couple CDs). From the top left, we have the All Memories book, Case Files vol 2, Lost Small World, Idol K, the little short story booklet that came with the pre-MK S4 drama CD (with the glasses drama on it), the three anime adaptation books, the aforementioned drama CD and the Idol K CD. 

Next, manga. The top left corner is the K Poe Backs book, which has a bunch of mini first person comics of the cast seducing ‘you’ the reader. The top right is the K Maniacs book which is an official doujinshi book, it has no pairings but a lot of older Sarumi doujinshi artists are involved and Fushimi and Yata definitely dominate the book. I have the special Animate of editions of Gakuen K volume 3 and Missing Kings, because I liked the covers. The LSW books are all the special editions as well, the little booklet on the bottom right came with the final volume. The booklet between the two volumes of Days of Blue also came with that second volume and has the special Cherry Blossom Viewing chapter. (Meanwhile I just realized I don’t have Return of Kings….I need to buy that, I like the art.)

Some more random goods. The purse, hat and watch are all from Super Groupies collabs. I have the Super Groupies S4 wallet as well but it felt weird to take a picture of my own wallet (incidentally, if anyone sees the Super Groupies S4 earrings let me know, I didn’t have my ears pierced when they came out so I didn’t buy them and I want them now). The necklace was for Fushimi’s birthday, there’s a couple Yata ones that were made as well and another Fushimi one that’s blue but this is the only one I bought, it has a tiny S4 logo. The two tins are official teas that were made, the Homra one is my favorite of the two and is a pretty red. 

Some more clothes. I skipped most of the Super Groupies collab clothes for sizing reasons but these all fit and again, all are official. The shirts are from a collab with the brand Avail, they did shirts based off Shiro, Kuroh, Mikoto, Yata, Munakata and Fushimi. I have the Yata, Munakata and Fushimi ones, the puzzle piece S4 logo that’s Munakata’s is my favorite.

My wall o’ keychains. I actually have a lot of keychains on various purses so this is not all of them (I may have mentioned before that I’m also into lolita fashion so I have lots of purses, forgive me for not digging up all of them for keychain pics). The wall is missing a lot of Fushimi keychains though because they’re on my Fushimi ita bag. 

I’ll probably redo this at some point (I don’t really like backpacks so this doesn’t get worn much) but here’s a lot of my Fushimis that aren’t on other purses. I also have some new Sarumi ones I just bought, these are for the Sarumi ita bag I have in progress. This covers most of my collection, I also have a lot of posters and some magazines that aren’t convenient to get pictures of. This doesn’t count my, uh, extensive doujinshi collection either, just know that the bottom shelf and a half of my bookshelves is 90% Fushimi-centric doujinshi. I may be ever so slightly obsessed. 

#k project #Talking K #thank you anon for making me clean XD #I ended up dusting my whole figure shelf getting these pictures #and my desk #I did just finish my Sarumi ita bag pictures are on twitter #I wanted a penguin ita bag for Fushimi but all the ones I can find are sold out .3.

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NagaShiro where:

Person A: "Why are you here again?"

Person B: "To make sure you don't accidentally blow up half the city."

Person A: "Oh come on, that was one time!"

Person B: "..."

Person A: "...Two times."

Person B: "...."

Person A: "...Ok maybe it happens a little more often than any of us would like... and I usually just so happen to be ever so slightly involved... But it's not like I meant to do it!"

Reference: https://www.tumblr.com/write-it-motherfuckers/725136225956249600/person-a-why-are-you-here-again-person-b-to?source=share

I kinda like this as being post-ROK Everybody Lives where Hisui is a lovable scamp who just every so often tries to take over the world or whatever and Shiro has to go into jungle’s headquarters and scold him over it XD Like it’s not as if Hisui is still trying to be a bad guy and trying to make everyone Kings again — there’s no Slate anyway so he can’t, say in this AU the Slate used the last of its powers to keep Hisui alive — it’s just that he had a lot of Ideas on how to make the world better and he would like to attempt to make them a reality. And anyway the Silver King should appreciate this, shouldn’t he, after all when he discovered the Slate Shiro wanted to bring happiness to everyone. Sure sometimes this leads to large explosions or unfortunate mysterious fog that covers half the city and once Hisui may have been almost responsible for a tsunami but he had the best of intentions.

Munakata probably thinks that it would be best to imprison Hisui for the safety of everyone but Shiro’s begged him to have some leniency and let Shiro handle this. Munakata’s not pleased but he supposes that Shiro is the best person for this job, being closest to Hisui, and sighs as he says if Shiro could please be sure that no harm comes to the city (well, not like Munakata can talk about property damage, considering what happens every time he and Mikoto fight). Shiro laughs sheepishly and says he’ll handle it, and heads down into jungle’s not-so-secret base to tell Hisui to knock it off. Hisui is eager to show Shiro his new plan and Shiro reminds him that he promised not to destroy the city, Hisui is confused because he’s certainly not intending to destroy the city, it’s just a thing that could happen. Shiro says if it could happen maybe Hisui shouldn’t do it this time. Shiro does know that Hisui has the best of intentions and Hisui appreciates that, he decides very well if Shiro stays for dinner then he won’t attempt to make the city better by potentially destroying half of it.

#NagaShiro #Talking K #Hisui the lovable antagonist who doesn't mean to destroy things really #he's just trying to help #that Shiro keeps taking him on dates to stop him may have something to do with it

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post betrayal/pre s1 yata won a overseas vacation and leaves for a couple of weeks and fushimi looses his mind for a day cuz every single thing reminds him of yata

Fushimi walking by the house of someone who owns a chihuahua and it starts barking at him as Fushimi’s all ‘sometimes I can still hear his voice….’. Imagine Fushimi only even knows that Yata’s on vacation because like Anna or Totsuka decides to tell him, they figure Fushimi might be upset if he notices that Yata’s missing and decide they should make sure he doesn’t worry. Fushimi of course just clicks his tongue and is all ‘don’t care, don’t talk to me’, but really he has absolutely noticed that Misaki hasn’t been around lately. He was probably coincidentally walking by some of the places Yata’s been known to work, like not that he was actually looking for Misaki or anything, it just happened to be on his patrol and if he was looking inside well maybe there were some Strains or something around there. When Fushimi says he doesn’t care Totsuka just smiles and says well, I hope you don’t feel too lonely Fushimi. Fushimi clicks his tongue again, like what a stupid thing to say to the person who broke things off with Yata to begin with.

Except then as the days go by Fushimi is absolutely getting increasingly on edge and more snappish than usual, wondering how long Yata’s vacation is anyway and when will that idiot come back. Fushimi refuses to entertain such thoughts for long though, like why does he even need Misaki and anyway isn’t his work easier without anything to distract him. He goes out on patrol and hears a skateboard and immediately he’s turning with one hand in his coat going for a knife, only to realize that it’s just some random kid going by. Fushimi gets this disgusted look and mutters ‘stupid’ under his breath, like what is he even getting excited for. As he continues to patrol he happens to look up while passing a store and suddenly finds himself standing in the window staring at this black beanie set up for sale. He finds his hand reaching up to scratch his scar and quickly turns away, hands in his pockets and back hunched as he goes back to patrol.

Soon a couple weeks have passed and it’s not like Fushimi misses Yata or anything but every time he spots Doumyouji’s red hair out of the corner of his eye he does a double take. Whenever S4 runs into Homra he’s all tense and smiling for a moment before he realizes that Yata isn’t there and now he just doesn’t care at all, playing on his PDA and looking dissatisfied (and imagine Totsuka just waking over wondering how Fushimi is holding up while Fushimi’s blandly like I have no idea what you’re talking about). Seeing cars makes him think of the wheels of Yata’s skateboard, seeing vegetables makes him think about how stupid Misaki always tried to make him eat them, he’s started looking for pineapple flavored Caloriemate. Fushimi absolutely doesn’t care that Yata’s gone but also he almost threw a knife while passing a group of kids playing baseball. Some poor innocent mother named her daughter Misaki and feels a chill out of nowhere while calling the girl’s name in public near Tsubakimon. Fushimi is absolutely fine and he doesn’t feel any knot of tension easing the day Yata finally comes back (Yata has no idea why Saruhiko is more energetic than usual when they fight, good thing he had such a relaxing vacation).

#sarumi #Talking K #imagine him just slowly unraveling #it's not like he misses Yata or anything #he just needs someone to fight that's all #he's not getting twitchy and attacking kids playing with skateboards

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Saruhiko gets a fat boyfriend so now he has a very comfortable pillow at night.

Today's theme is ‘Fushimi gets a good night’s sleep on top of other people’ XD Imagine Fushimi feeling so comfy though, he didn’t realize what a good pillow his boyfriend’s stomach is. I could see him being a little fussy about having a fat boyfriend at first, like Fushimi wants to steal all the covers before his boyfriend can, or getting huffy if there isn’t significant room on the couch. His boyfriend takes this in stride, presumably you don’t get up to dating Fushimi without knowing the kind of guy he is, and tries to make sure Fushimi has plenty of room at all times. I could  see his boyfriend enjoying being so much bigger than Fushimi though, like imagine Fushimi’s boyfriend just randomly picking Fushimi up whenever he feels like it or carrying him around their apartment, Fushimi’s so skinny he’s super easy to drag around. 

Fushimi grumbles about being carried so much but he also secretly kinda likes it, there’s a feeling of being spoiled that he actually enjoys. And of course when Fushimi’s complaining about not having enough room in the bed what he actually means is that he wants to sleep on his boyfriend, who has a nice comfy stomach. It would probably be a little weird for Fushimi at first, who’s always been so adamant about sleeping alone, and initially I imagine him and his boyfriend sleeping in separate beds because the closeness is too much for Fushimi. But at the same time Fushimi can’t stop the urge to keep checking and making sure his boyfriend is still there, which is how it eventually happens that his boyfriend wakes up to find Fushimi fast asleep on his stomach. Naturally when seeing Fushimi so innocent and sleeping his boyfriend absolutely can’t move and so just watches him, all while Fushimi enjoys the softest pillow.

#Fushimi Saruhiko #Talking K #can I pretend this is the very rare Kamamoto/Fushimi pairing XD #Fushimi needs a nice soft bf to sleep on #so he can finally get a good night's sleep give this child some sleep

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Fushimi likes to sleep/lay on his boyfriend's chest and listen to his heartbeat. Yata loves this position because he can kiss the top of Fushimi's head.

This being the only time Yata can reach to kiss the top of Fushimi’s head, of course >:D I imagine Fushimi being kind of clingy anyway, like he won’t admit that he wants to be close to Yata but I can totally imagine him just flopping on top of Yata without a word. Like Fushimi will get home from work and Yata’s laying on the couch or sitting on the bed and Fushimi just climbs right on him. Yata gives a small protest like geez Saruhiko it’s a good thing you’re not very heavy you know, I need to breathe here. Fushimi just grumbles that he’s cold and Yata smiles all right I better warm you up then. If Yata tries to move Fushimi will get all fussy so he has to resign himself to sitting there with his boyfriend resting on him, Yata figures well there are worse things than getting to be Fushimi’s pillow. Fushimi always falls asleep with his head on Yata’s chest too, like the sound of Yata’s heartbeat is soothing to him (he won’t say it, but Yata knows that Fushimi likes it because as long as he can hear Yata’s heartbeat he knows that Yata is there, that Yata won’t leave). When he starts to get drowsy Yata will tell him it’s okay to just sleep if he’s tired, Fushimi says he’s fine but of course he doesn’t move. Yata kisses the top of his head gently and Fushimi just relaxes on top of him and that’s the best part for Yata, seeing how Fushimi, who so rarely relaxes around anyone, just completely drops his guard for Yata.

#sarumi #Talking K #I like the idea of Fushimi being very spoiled but not admitting to his desire to be spoiled #he won't ask Yata for cuddles but he'll just climb on Misaki all 'mine' #and ofc Yata has to cuddle and kiss him like he can't resist #this is the only time he can kiss the top of Fushimi's head after all XD

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What if someone attacked a member of HOMRA with the intention of carving off their mark? Providing someone can reach it?

Why did that ‘if they can reach it’ immediately make me think of someone trying to pin down Kamamoto so they can get at the mark on his butt XD I imagine the hardest part of this would be the actually properly catching a member of Homra and trying to get the mark off, especially since outside of Yata (who always shows his off) I’m not sure how well known it is where each member has their mark. To carve it off someone would have to basically pin down the member in such a way that they couldn’t fight back and that they would be docile enough for the attacker to strip them down and find the mark. I suppose this would be doable for a Strain or a big group of attackers against a single Homra person, and especially if someone managed to get the jump on Totsuka, but it certainly wouldn’t be easy. 

As to if they could actually get the Homra mark off, there’s really nothing in canon to say whether that would be feasible or not. Fushimi got rid of his obviously but that was him doing it to his own mark, which is different than someone else trying to. I kinda like the idea of the mark being something that’s so connected to the Red King himself that if someone tried to carve it off against the owner’s will there would be like a sudden huge burst of fire to protect it, even if the owner is unconscious, simply because the Red power protects its own. On the other hand if it's just a symbol and has no extra protection I assume it would be possible to carve it off the same as any mark. Doing so would probably make whoever did it Homra’s public enemy number one though, I feel like this is a great way to get yourself no blood, no bone no ash-ed by the Red King himself.

#k project #Talking K #I assume that it could be carved off? #though I really like the idea that it kinda 'protects' the owner #if disturbed the mark will suddenly spit fire Red King-style #unless the owner is removing the tattoo themselves a la Fushimi bc that's their own decision

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Transfem Fushimi has a girlfriend and also wants to get in touch with feminine things like her. She teaches her how to use make up and style her hair, that's how Saruhiko learned to braid her own.

I imagine this as a post-ROK thing, not even thinking about Fushimi’s girlfriend as being a specific member of the cast but this is the point where Fushimi is in enough of a headspace to actually want to care about her appearance. Like prior to this I could see her presenting in a more androgynous way even though she identifies as female, she’s just not interested in trying to make herself look cute at all. I could see this being kind of a self loathing thing too, like somewhere in the back of her mind she still thinks that she’s not ‘really’ a girl, the way Niki would always taunt her and call her a boy, and part of her was unwilling to fully make herself seem feminine because she thought it wouldn’t look right on her, or that people would assume she was weak and a target. 

But then post-ROK when she’s in a slightly better mental state imagine her with her girlfriend and idly wondering if makeup is as big of a pain as it looks. Fushimi’s never shown any interest in this kind of thing before but imagine her girlfriend is super excited about this, because let’s face it she’s probably been dying to give Fushimi a makeover (honestly I could see this even in a platonic scenario, like Fushimi says something to Awashima and now all the ladies of S4 have pounced and are going to make Fushimi pretty). Fushimi has no idea how to use makeup and honestly even her hair routine is fairly simple, it’s not like anyone ever taught her to do this, Kisa certainly wouldn’t have. The first day Fushimi shows up in the office with a bit of makeup and braided hair half the squad are falling over themselves to compliment her, Fushimi clicks her tongue and says it’s just some stupid makeup. I imagine she might not do makeup super often, just because I could see Fushimi finding it a pain to deal with every day, but she’ll do it for dates or special occasions. She does braid her hair a little more often though, because it’s easier to fight with her hair in a braid, and her girlfriend is probably pretty happy to see how cute Fushimi looks like this.

#Fushimi Saruhiko #Talking K #imagine transfem Fushimi learns to be girly #like normally this is too much work for her #but post-ROK she's kinda more secure in her identity and wants to maybe try a little #honestly even without the romantic angle I like this #imagine Awashima and the S4 ladies just descending upon Fushimi #ready to braid her hair and do her nails and make her pretty

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Did you ever go to that butterfly show? What if Munakata turned into a butterfly but Fushimi ended up as a moth? Wouldn't he also have some complex that he's not beautiful and of course he'd get stuck as an ugly bug? Munakata would still want to flutter and fly around with him though and show him how beautiful Fushimi really is.

Idid go to the butterfly show, it was really nice! I even got abutterfly to land on my hand for a bit. I also saw the perfectScepter4!butterfly but unfortunately it was really hard to get apicture because only the outside of their wings were blue so youcould only get a picture of the blue part when they were flying (Iposted a quick video of them on Twitter though). So imagine Fushimiand Munakata both get hit by the butterfly Strain – who is maybeeven an actual butterfly – and Munakata turns into fabulous bluebutterfly while poor Fushimi is a moth, one of those big ones thatlands on the outside of your bedroom window overnight and freaks youout when you see it there in the morning. Everyone is immediatelyconcerned because while Munakata is hovering daintily around a flowervase Fushimi keeps heading straight for the chandelier. Awashima hasto order an immediate shutdown of all the lights just in case, it’sthe only way to make sure Fushimi doesn’t go set himself on fire.Whether he’s trying to do it on purpose or it’s just the moth parttaking over no one knows but it’s best not to get too complacent justin case.

MeanwhileFushimi is a very gloomy moth, like he can see that here Munakata’sbecome a lovely butterfly and poor Fushimi is some gross bug again.It’s bad enough that he’s a bug at all, Fushimi can just feel thegerms all over his body and he’s disgusted by himself. Munakatadoesn’t want Fushimi to just sit and sulk on his desk though andkeeps trying to encourage him to come enjoy all the lovely flowers.Munakata does this by just fluttering around him in a circle andFushimi gets more and more annoyed, unable to express his irritationin any other way but flying off. Maybe though Munakata tries to showFushimi that he’s just as interesting a bug as Munakata is, likeFushimi’s moth wings have their own interesting pattern and they’reactually not that different from Munakata’s – while his wings areopen they’re sparkly and lovely but when he lands and closes them theother side of his wing are brown and dull, much like Fushimi’s look.When they sit side by side on the desk they don’t even look thatdifferent – in fact Fushimi’s a little cuter because he’s kindafuzzy and people would probably want to pet him if they could whereasMunakata’s body is more delicate and can’t be touched, Fushimi isactually the more cuddly and cute of the two. Fushimi is not exactlypleased at being called cute but on the other hand it is better thanbeing disgusting, though it doesn’t stop him from finding theunderside of a leaf to cling to in order to avoid everyone for therest of the day.

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Title: somewhere between the surface and the sea bed

Fandom: K Project

External: AO3 / ff.net

Summary: Fushimi supposed that being marooned was bad enough, being marooned with an idiot pirate like Misaki was worse.

Notes: Sarumi Pirate AU. Because I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean a while back and it just occurred to me that this fandom needs more pirate AUs.

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Building on the AU of Blue king mikoto with awashima & co as clansmen and Red king munakata with kusanagi and others as clansmen, what would season 1 have been like? Especially in terms of Totsuka still getting shot & the colourless king in adolfs body, what sort of path or roles do you see Munakata and Mikoto playing here?

I can definitely see things being different in this AU scenario. One of the big things that comes to mind is the likelihood that Munakata would be more stable as Red King than Mikoto is in canon, Munakata's personality just strikes me that he would be closer to Anna in terms of control than Mikoto was. So already now in Munakata's case he knows that losing Totsuka isn't necessarily something that's going to send him over the edge, like I think part of the reason Mikoto was so willing to go after Colorless in canon is he knows that without Totsuka it's just a matter of time before his Sword falls anyway so he might as well get revenge while he still can. In Munakata's case, while Totsuka's death is a blow it isn't the kind of thing that will destabilize his Sword so I think he would be more cautious in how he approaches apprehending Colorless. I think he would definitely still want to find Colorless and help Homra get their revenge, there's no question that this person who killed one of their own needs to be taken care of, but there are other methods of doing so beyond simply rushing in headlong to attack.

Actually what could be interesting is Munakata, being a devious kind of guy, decides to use Scepter 4 to hunt down Colorless instead, like Homra's still doing their own investigation like in canon but he's being deliberately destructive because Munakata knows that Scepter 4 will at some point be required to intervene. Mikoto's not thrilled about this and I think he'd be well aware of what Munakata's doing and he thinks it's a pain, that guy using whatever pawns he can and not caring what else happens. Mikoto makes it clear that he's not going to get caught up in whatever frilly little game Munakata's playing and Munakata just grins and lights up a flame in his hands as he says Mikoto will have no choice, as Blue King he's forced into the role of Scepter 4's leader and he has to keep the peace. Mikoto figures he can keep the peace just fine by kicking Munakata's ass and Munakata is pretty much waiting for that, he wants to be taken into custody so that his people can move more freely and he can gather intel from inside Scepter 4.

What would be interesting is then imagine here Munakata has all these plans but what he doesn't realize is that Totsuka's death has destabilized his Sword, Scepter 4 having access to machines that can record a person's Weismann level they can see that the Red King is losing his control and this makes Awashima and Fushimi in particular pretty concerned. Mikoto just sighs and says that guy's always a headache, and then goes straight down to the cells to let Munakata know what kind of a dangerous game he's playing. Munakata is surprised to hear that but he doesn't intend to stop either and they're basically on different sides of the same conflict as in canon. In this scenario though I wonder which one would end up killing Colorless, like imagine them still fighting at the school island when Shiro appears with Colorless trapped in his body, Munakata prepares to slay him and then Mikoto just steps in the way and does it instead. Which now puts them in this interesting position when MK and ROK come about, because Mikoto's Sword is now crumbling and Munakata is greatly displeased that he owes the Blue King a favor (Mikoto isn't too thrilled about it either).

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ok hear me out -- Fushimi giving Munakata a flower crown .

Moving this one up in the line a little because I wanted to write some Reisaru for Munakata’s birthday and this seemed like a good prompt for it :)

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So uh, how about Scepter 4 red light district AU (because I can't resist Prostitute!Fushimi).

Munakata would run like the most well-oiled machine of a brothelever, he’s not letting this place just be a seedy den of sin it isgoing to be a very efficient and high-end den of sin thank you verymuch. Fushimi would be somewhat of a specialized taste as far ascustomers are concerned, everyone’s attracted to his face but hisattitude can put people off. Maybe at first especially some customersgot pissed at Fushimi for being short with them or talking back, likeone guy even attempted to slap him and discovered that Fushimi has anice knife holster under his clothes and he knows how to use it.Anyone who dares complain to Munakata about how he needs todiscipline his whores better is informed that if they do not know theproper way to deal with one of his employees then perhaps thatcustomer’s money is better spent elsewhere, as they clearly are notneeded or wanted at this establishment. Fushimi’s a bit amazed thatMunakata gives him so much freedom, considering this is businesswe’re talking about, but Munakata always just smiles and notes thathe is well aware of the way Fushimi is and he hired Fushimi with thisawareness in mind, so why would he expect Fushimi to change simplybecause some customers are unable to deal with a prostitute whorefuses to fake affection towards them.

I imagine in this AU Fushimi probably has less touch issues, sincehe’d be letting customers put their hands all over him, though at thebeginning especially he probably doesn’t put a lot of value on hisbody anyway. Maybe Munakata lures him away from Homra, which is likea seedy gambling den that hires guys out for protection purposes andof course Fushimi doesn’t fit in there because he’s this skinny palenerd and who would expect that he could handle himself or protectanyone from anything (maybe he’s even had a couple customers in thepast assume he’s like Homra’s whore and Fushimi got scolded forpulling knives on them in response). Munakata is of course entrancedby Fushimi’s looks and all his potential, he feels that with theright training Fushimi could be incredibly popular despite hisless-than-ideal attitude. That he finds Fushimi quite visuallyappealing is, of course, also a plus.

He doesn’t allow Fushimi to work as an actual entertainer in thebrothel for a while though initially, as he observes Fushimi’sbehavior with customers and doesn’t like what he sees – maybeFushimi does get to take a few customers to start with and Munakatawatches how Fushimi deals with them before taking them up to aprivate room and then how he acts afterward bringing them back down.Munakata can tell that Fushimi’s not really placing any value on hisbody whatsoever, like he sees sex as not even a business transactionbut like something he has to endure and not even be ‘present’ for andeven lets people bruise him a little as long as he gets paid in theend. Munakata doesn’t care for that as he wants Fushimi to enjoyhis work. Maybe a little Reisaru situation where Munakata gets toplay teacher and shows Fushimi all these tricks on how to makesomeone come undone without even touching them and how to really feelhis encounters, to be more than just an empty body and to instead bethe one in charge making the customers bow to his pleasure andto enjoy letting him do it. Naturally this requires properdemonstration, Fushimi finds he unexpectedly likes that too.Fushimi’s also a quick study and soon he’s pretty much the mostasked-for prostitute in the brothel, like people pay to have him sitthere teasing them for ages before even allowing them to lay a handon him because he’s just so good at it.

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Sarumi the morning after their first time?

I imagine on Yata’s end there’s a lot of pleased and slightly disbelieving ‘I can’t believe we just did that.’ I think he’d be pretty thrilled about it and maybe a little nervous, like thinking about the whole thing still makes him blush but at the same time it’s like he and Fushimi just took this huge step and Fushimi let him take this huge step and Yata’s just a little overwhelmed but in a good way. If Fushimi’s still asleep I could see Yata just lying there staring at him for a while with this big goofy grin on his face because he’s so totally in love and basking in the afterglow, pretty much. (Also there’s at least a little twinge of ‘try and call me a virgin now stupid monkey’).

Fushimi I think would probably have more conflicted feelings and might need a little reassurance. Where Yata’s all pleased and still trying to process the whole enormity of what 'we just had sex’ entails, Fushimi is well aware of how big a step they just took and would probably be having a quiet freakout because fuck I’m having emotions what do I do. I could see Fushimi being the one who ends up feeling a little more overwhelmed in the aftermath, like he’s having all these feelings and he’s happy but he’s nervous that now everything will come crashing down somehow and he doesn’t really know how to handle his own happiness without wanting to do something to sabotage it all. Like I imagine maybe Yata finally manages to drag himself away from staring at Fushimi’s sleeping face to go make them both breakfast and he comes back to find Fushimi pretty much having an existential crisis over the fact that he loves Yata too much and doesn’t know what the hell to do with all these feelings. Yata sees him and immediately freaks out a little because he’s worried that maybe he did something wrong or hurt Fushimi somehow and wants to know what the problem is, eventually Fushimi mumbles 'the problem is I love you’ and Yata’s like wait what when was that a problem. They probably have a bit of a talk after that with Yata assuring Fushimi that it’s okay to feel positive emotions (and then he starts bringing up the sex thing and stutters a bit, Fushimi smirks and calls him a virgin and Yata’s like ’we just had sex’ 'Yes and turns out you were halfway decent for a virgin’).

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the explanation for the niki hallucinations kind of feels like a cop out to me, so AU where fushimi actually just has schizophrenia and that's what isolates him while in HOMRA which is why he eventually goes to s4 where they can provide actual support for him and then post ROK fushimi talking to yata about his mental illness

I was a little sad that the hallucinations turned out to just beentirely due to the Greens and not rooted in Fushimi’s clear mentalissues (though in the manga we do have some precedent forhallucinations outside of the Green clan’s virus, the part whereFushimi sees Niki’s dead body and hallucinates Niki laughing at him).I could see this being something that would really mess withFushimi’s head too, like imagine the whole thing with the Greensstill happens but it’s actually all the more effective preciselybecause this isn’t the first time Fushimi’s had hallucinations andthey don’t stop even after he’s defeated Aya so Fushimi knows thatthere’s something wrong about him that can’t be fixed just bydefeating someone in jcube. Like imagine even as early as when he andYata meet Fushimi’s been having hallucinations, seeing things thataren’t there and not even realizing it. After Yata saves him from thebullies Fushimi thinks he sees Niki over Yata’s shoulder and tries topush him away, Yata just thinks Fushimi is a weird kid and Fushimiblows it off when he realizes he was looking at something that Yatacan’t see. The whole thing makes Fushimi more paranoid though,because he hallucinates Niki a lot and half the time he’s never sureif it’s a hallucination or the real thing (and say Niki knows too,like his family has a history of schizophrenia and he can guess fromthe symptoms Fushimi’s showing what exactly is going on. Of coursebecause Niki’s a dick instead of getting Fushimi help he just takesadvantage of it to mock Fushimi more, pretending to be ahallucination just to tease him and making poor Fushimi think he’sall crazy and broken because he keeps seeing things that aren’tthere).

So then when Fushimi joins Homra this is part of what makes thingsworse for him, like maybe Totsuka notices that there’s something offwith Fushimi right away and kinda similar to what happens in LSW incanon one day Fushimi sees a hallucination and suddenly Totsuka’sthere wondering what he’s looking at. Fushimi realizes that it’s alot harder to hide his issues now, because there are so many peoplearound and so many eyes on him, and besides he’s probably havingother symptoms show up too that make it hard for him to really talkto anyone in Homra or be around all these people. His mind probablystarts preying on the existing insecurities too, like he keepsthinking that Yata’s tossed him away for Mikoto and has these wildthoughts sometimes that Misaki is at Homra right now laughing abouthow stupid Fushimi is and how weak and how much better everyone atHomra is than Fushimi. When the jungle-influenced Niki hallucinationsstart Fushimi wonders if maybe Niki faked his death and even startshiding traps around the apartment because he wants to ‘catch’ Niki inthe act of sneaking in. When Yata trips one and maybe even gets a bitbruised Fushimi just blows it off that it’s security againstintruders because he can’t tell Yata that he’s afraid of a dead mancoming after him.

When Fushimi defeats Aya and talks to Hisui at first he’s relievedthat the hallucinations really were an outside thing but then evenafter he starts working at Scepter 4 he’s still seeingNiki. It’s clearly wearing on him and that’s when Munakatanotices and steps in. Fushimi ends up getting actual proper help froma doctor (he probably has to be dragged in and is all recalcitrantand not wanting to admit his issues but eventually with Munakata’shelp the psychologist is able to get him to open up). Fushimi gets anactual diagnosis and meds and suddenly so many things improve forhim, like he feels as if for the first time he’s not always on theedge of something, that he can look around a corner without having toworry about what he might see.

Post-ROK Fushimi and Yata eventually have their ‘explain things soeven an idiot can understand’ talk and that’s when Fushimi admits toYata what was really going on. I think he’d be really reluctant totell Yata at first, part of him still believing that having thismental illness means he’s 'broken’ somehow and Misaki will surelyreject him. Maybe Yata comes to see him at Scepter in the dorms andsees Fushimi’s medication on the desk, immediately worrying that he’ssick and that’s what gets Fushimi to grudgingly admit that he’s been'sick’ all this time. I think Yata would be really upset with himselffor not noticing this, especially if it had been happening all thetime they knew each other. Like he always knew Fushimi had thishaunted look on his face a lot, like someone who was always on edge,but he never realized properly that Fushimi was dealing with all thisstuff on his own. He’s also a little sad that Fushimi never told him,because Yata wanted to be someone Fushimi could lean on and trust, hewants to be Fushimi’s support and he can’t do that if Fushimi won’tbe honest with him. Fushimi tries to act like this is no big deal butYata just grabs him by the shoulders and makes Fushimi look at him,voice determined as he says that he wants to be someone Fushimi cancount on and that he’s never letting go of Fushimi again so hedoesn’t want Fushimi giving up on him either, telling him not toassume that Yata won’t be there for him without even trying to reachout a hand first.

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I saw some art on Pixiv, where Akiyama's hidden eye is kinda like Ciel Phantomhive's eye(minus the pentagram), and he shared his body with a ice demon/powerful entity that takes over when he, or the people he cares for, are in danger. I imagine it's super attached to its cute host and likes to remind Akiyama to take care of himself, and is most of the time content to allow Akiyama to have control of their body. What do you think the squad's reactions would be to it, the first time they saw it?

This would be cool, like imagine his hidden eye is this really paleicy blue and slitted like a demon’s and that’s why he doesn’t letanyone see it. The only one who’s aware of his secret is Benzai, likemaybe when they were in the Defense Force they got into some troubleand almost died somewhere, like they got sent after this terroristcult that was trying to summon a demon and Akiyama ended up making acontract with it in order to save Benzai’s life. The demon has nointerest in taking over Akiyama’s body permanently, like it’s notjust a demon but some kind of old forgotten god (one day Gotou bringsan interesting statue back to Scepter 4 and Akiyama just coughs andlooks the other way) and it was so impressed by Akiyama’s resolve tosave his friend that it decided to lend him a hand whenever he’s inneed. That’s how the rumors get started that Akiyama is the realsecret weapon of Scepter 4, like usually he’s all sweet and politeand then in battle he’s very focused and disciplined but if anyonethreatens his friends Akiyama will just tear the offender apart.Benzai helps keep things under wraps so that all stays a rumor, likeno one’s ever actually seen Akiyama-san tear anybody apart butstill doesn’t he look like someone who would snap in the rightsituation. Meanwhile the demon thinks that Akiyama is super cute andfluffy and basically likes to make sure he’s doing well, the demonand Benzai totally team up to make sure Akiyama’s eating well andfeeling all right and not overdoing things at all.

So then say the squad gets into a dangerous spot at some point, likea Strain who has the power to create barriers separates them all fromMunakata, Awashima and Fushimi and that means Akiyama is in chargefor the time being. The Strain leads the alphabet boys into some kindof trap and only Akiyama remains free, the Strain just laughs as hisown comrades arrive because he figures the alphabet squad will beeasy pickings and then the Strains can go after Scepter 4’s top threeand bring the whole organization down. Akiyama sighs and decidesthey’ll have to do this the hard way, flipping his bangs up and allthe alphabet boys are just staring as they finally see Akiyama’sglowing blue eye. The Strains are super confused and suddenly a coldmist settles over the area, Akiyama’s smile gets wider and wider andmaybe when the demon takes over he even gets little horns and clawsor a tail or something. With the demon’s help Akiyama makes quickwork of the Strains before coming back to himself and somewhatnervously freeing his trapped companions. Everyone’s very quiet andBenzai maybe tries to explain, before Hidaka cuts in to ask ifAkiyama’s all right. Akiyama’s all confused and Hidaka repeats it,like does the demon hurt Akiyama or is he like possessed and it’sgoing to take his soul or anything. Akiyama quietly says no, Hidakasmiles and says that he’s relieved then. Doumyouji is all excitedbecause he knew Akiyama-san had a demon eye and now he won thebetting pool they had going. Gotou is so chill it’s like he seespeople possessed by demons every day and just lets Akiyama know thatif he ever needs an exorcism amulet Gotou is here for him. Enomoto’sa little jealous because it’s like Akiyama is an anime protagonistnow, Akiyama protests weakly that he’s too boring and plain to be aprotagonist of anything. Benzai meanwhile just smiles, pleased thateveryone’s taking it so well after Akiyama’s been worried all thistime that they would find out and be afraid of him.

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[ridiasfangirlings]

Homra Dance Studio AU. Kusanagi has his own dance studio and he's jazz/modern style teacher by his own. Yata's breaking dance/hip hop teacher, Chitose Latino/Erotic dance and Anna has some kind of rhythmics classes for kids. One day Homra Dance Studio is visited by Special Unit of Tokyo police S4. Yata fall in love with some asshole oficer who's name he doesn't know, but he has fight with him about how dance is useless or not. So Yata asked Chitose to teach him how to do erotic dance for officer

So Kusanagi’s the owner of Homra Dance Studio, they’re fairly wellknown in the area and tend to take in even kids who can’t pay forlessons. The mortgage for the studio is actually paid by Kusanagi’sbest friend Mikoto, who’s all idly rich and mostly sleeps all day buthe was dragged into the whole thing by Kusanagi and their otherfriend Totsuka, Totsuka once got into dance as a hobby and maybe gotbeat up by some local thugs who thought it was girly of him to bedancing all the time. Kusanagi was the one teaching Totsuka dance atthe time, since Kusanagi’s uncle owned this little loft in an olddance studio that he used to use to give out private lessons.Kusanagi had always wanted to own the whole building though andMikoto ends up fronting the money so that Kusanagi could live out hisdream. Totsuka is basically the studio mascot, he doesn’t reallyspecialize in one kind of dance but likes to try anything andeverything. Mikoto is the one who tends to get people into the studioeven though he’s not much for dancing himself (though he’s secretlyclassically trained in ballet), he tends to bring in troubled kidsoff the street and Homra teaches them dancing as a way to work outtheir aggression and channel their energy. Yata’s one of those kids,he was doing some part time work for some shady local gangs becausehe had nowhere else to get money but as it happens he’s alsofascinated by hip hop dancing and taught himself a lot of moves.Mikoto brings him to Homra and Kusanagi gives him a job as a teacher,allowing Yata to get away from the thugs who were forcing him to workand giving him a way of supporting his mom and younger siblings.

So then one day maybe there’s like a murder outside Homra’s studioand the special police unit Scepter  4 is dispatched in solving it.They require access to Homra’s outside cameras and come into thestudio to request it, everyone’s on edge when they enter because alot of Homra’s people have criminal records. Yata in particular issuper belligerent about these guys daring to just walk into Homra’sstudio like they own the place, especially when the head of the unit,Munakata, walks right over to Mikoto and starts lecturing him onbeing as lazy as ever (turns out the two of them went to schooltogether and Munakata is also secretly classically trained in balletand they totally had a dance rivalry thing going on before Munakatadropped out of dance class in order to join the police and Mikotodropped out in order to get a few extra hours of sleeping in). Yata’son a rant about how the police think they’re so great when Munakata’sthird in command clicks his tongue and asks why some dance instructorthinks he has a right to yell at the police. Yata’s like what’s yourproblem asshole and Fushimi mocks him for being a burden on society,like Scepter 4 does a lot of useful work but what good does Homra doat all, this neighborhood is still shitty despite their best effortsand dance is just useless. Yata gets really pissed at that because tohim dance is what saved his life and Fushimi bad-mouthing it is atotal affront to him.

Yata thinks he’ll never see that asshole again after that but as ithappens due to the investigation Fushimi returns a few times, needingaccess to Homra’s security systems. Totsuka assigns Yata to showFushimi around ‘since you two are such good friends,’ Yata’s likewhat the fuck since when but agrees anyway. He ends up as Fushimi’sshadow for a couple days and in that time they argue a lot but alsoend up talking quite a bit too, maybe one day Yata catches Fushimidoing some kind of fancy jump to avoid a falling pipe in Homra’s backroom and is amazed that some stupid pencil pusher officer is thatagile, Fushimi acts like it’s no big deal but eventually is badgeredinto admitting that he used to dance when he was young but stoppeddue to pressure from his mom, who told him there was no future indance. Yata’s offended on Fushimi’s behalf but Fushimi doesn’t seewhy, as far as he’s concerned Kisa was right and dancing is useless.

Yata’s determined to show Fushimi how amazing dance can be anddecides he needs to learn some new tricks in order to really wowFushimi. Chitose’s a new teacher at Homra and Yata’s seen that he hassome neat moves Yata’s never seen before so he asks for some tips.Yata’s initially figuring he’ll just work the moves into his hip hoproutine but Chitose convinces him to do a whole new genre, the firsttime he does the full dance for Yata Yata is adamant that there’s noway he’s doing a dance like that, it’s fucking indecent.Chitose just raises an eyebrow like ‘but don’t you want to show thatguy up?’ Of course all of Homra at this point is well aware that forall Yata complains about Fushimi all the time he has a total crushand this is all part of the plan. Eventually Yata agrees to learn thedance from Chitose, except maybe they’re working on it one day whenFushimi walks in just in time to see Yata in Chitose’s arms lookingall sensual. Fushimi just turns and leaves without a word and Yatachases after him, Fushimi’s like I have work to do and I wouldn’thave expected a virgin to be so bold. Yata’s immediately like 'I waslearning that dance for you, idiot!’ Fushimi’s momentarilysurprised and then covers it up with indifference, Yata’s just likeokay sit for a sec I’m going to show you the power of dance and shit.Cue Yata doing this whole amazing sensual dance and maybe halfwaythrough Fushimi ends up trying to leave, not able to handle thissudden surge of feelings for Yata, but he ends up being drawn intothe dance instead and the two of them start dancing close together,Fushimi keeping in perfect step with Yata, just the two of themdancing together to music only they can hear.

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