#🌻 IC: Neri

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boundcd asked: picks neri up and steals her

"Whaa--?!"

"I beg your pardon--?!

#🌻 ic: neri #Neri: i CAN WALK PERFECTLY FINE #boundcd

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Neri has been spending too much time on the internet again.

"For goodness sake! Combat medics do not run around in skimpy tactical gear! What on earth would we be showing our stomach off for?!"

#🌻 ic: neri #Neri: WHY IS THIS A THING #{open}

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Anonymous asked: So how would you treat someone like Vox?

"I have pondered on that myself from time to time. Not that I would expect the situation to ever really come up, at least not with Vox personally."

"If an X-Ray would work, or some sort of internal imagining equivalent, I'd first need to get a solid idea of what his structure looks like. Then I would imagine that any repairs would be a combination of fine tools and electricity. Cables, perhaps? It depends on the limitations and the ratio of flesh versus metal. After all, I don't want to be working with liquids if it's going to make him short-circuit."

#🌻 ic: neri

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Anonymous asked: Are demon bodies different than humans?

"Well, it depends on the kind of demon you're talking about."

"From the research that I've already been able to gather - typically, the more of a human bipedal shape demons have, the closer their biological makeup tends to match. Once you start straying into territories of extra limbs, components made out of wires and other materials, you're looking at much more complex strands of DNA and the like."

"Thankfully, the most complications I've had in treating non-humans is usually to do with their skin being far tougher when I'm required to cut or stitch it, or that their blood might run at higher temperatures. Self-regeneration is a whole other story. There's just so many fascinating differences to keep up with!"

#🌻 ic: neri

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Anonymous asked: People sure are talking about you being dead a lot.

"It is a tad morbid."

"Honestly, who has time to be dead? There's too much to do!"

#🌻 ic: neri

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{Where would I be without you?} [Drabble]

Synopsis: Because sometimes, you just need a little more warm-hearted fluff in your life. Neri x Squalo: A brief little piece about life, loyalty, and dancing around feelings for one another. Teeth-rotting affection content.

"Oi. You’ve been staring out that window for fucking hours.”

Blinking as if she’d been dragged from a very deep dream, Neri glanced over at Squalo with a small smile. “Hmn? I’ve just been thinking, that’s all.”

“About what?”

“About what our lives would have been like if we weren’t here.” Her fingers reached out to touch the cold glass of the window. “I think about it sometimes. The choices I’ve made, roads that I’ve walked down. Whether anything could have been done differently. Whether I would have wanted to.”

“That’s getting pretty deep for an afternoon.” Squalo snorted, leaning against the wall next to her, his arm-sword resting against his hip. “You sayin’ that you got some regrets, bein’ here?”

“No, no. Nothing like that. I’m proud to be a part of my father’s work, and I’m happy for the people that I’ve met, the memories I have – what I’ve been able to accomplish.” Even as she’d given him a reassuring smile, her eyes lowered. “But still.. sometimes..”  

Squalo regarded her silently, almost as if he could hear her unspoken thoughts. He tilted his head back to stare at the ceiling, long silver hair draping over his shoulders.

“..No point looking back at the what ifs and what could have been. We’re in the here and now. Can’t go back and change the path – you can only tear through a path for your future.”

“What if I—” Neri hesitated, looking unsure of herself. Then in a rare surge of bravery, she burst out with, “What if I want you to be a part of my future?”

The assassin’s head snapped back around, comically blinking and looking completely thrown. Neri could have almost laughed at the dumbfounded expression, if it wouldn’t have been interpreted as a jab at his pride. “You—what?!”

“I’m just being silly!” Neri said quickly, waving her hand and trying to rush through her words and insist the whole thing had been some joke or lapse in judgement. However, she never got that far, considering a black gloved hand gripped her head and yanked it close enough to all but smash their lips together in a very sudden, fierce kiss.

It was Neri’s turn to be absolutely gobsmacked by his actions. Like a splash of icy cold water in her face, her breath caught – but by the time she realized what was happening, he had already pulled away to chastise her.

“You’re a fucking idiot, you know that?! The hell are you even talking about?!”   

“I—” Neri stammered, her face ridiculously red as she struggled to keep up with what had just happened and what had even caused such a response, “Well, I—I’m sorry--?”

“You’re spouting nonsense! It’s not like I’m going anywhere, and you sure as shit better not be either!” He growled, a deep grating noise in his throat that only served to worsen her skin condition. “So we’re already a part of each other’s futures, right?! Get your fucking head out of the clouds, Salvai! I’m not going to watch your back if you can’t even keep your eyes on mine!”  

It was only after a few tense seconds that he’d given her that familiar shark grin – cocky, smug, practically rubbing it in that he’d managed to get a fast one over her, that Neri’s lips pulled into a small smile, then a bark of laughter.

“..Right. Of course. The famiglia always comes together in times of crisis, after all, no matter what the crisis might be—”

“I wasn’t talking about the famiglia, brat. I was talking about you.”  

Neri fell silent, going still as the gloved hand returned to cup her cheek. As he’d held it there, he held her gaze along with it with an expression she couldn’t quite place. Fiercely serious, certainly – but, something about it also made her heart ache. Oh, she’d want nothing more than to do the same – to hold him, to embrace him – but she knew the man well enough that the moment she moved a muscle would be the moment he’d pulled away.

Such were the feelings tied together by such a frail string of vulnerability between them – that it might break if either of them pulled or pushed a little too hard.

“..You deserve to be here. I wouldn’t have you anywhere else but here.” He muttered gruffly under his breath, before swiftly pulling back as if he’d never made such bold moves in the first place. “Now, if you’ve finished with your philosophical bullcrap, we have work to do. The less time I have to listen to drunken bitching in my ear, the better. Are you coming or not?!”

Neri tilted her head with an affectionate smile; her heart feeling warm and her lips still tingling with the ghost sensation of a lover’s promise. Hopping down from the windowsill, she nodded as she fell into line beside him, bumping his shoulder with hers.

“Anywhere you lead, I’ll follow, captain.”

Now. Forever. Always.

#🌻 ic: neri #🦈 ic: prideful shark #katekyo hitman reborn #okay to reblog #✍️ writings

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{Hellverse - Open Starter}

"Not this again.."

Neri muttered quietly under her breath, already well aware that she was being tailed by two larger demons following behind her. Every so often, some of Hell's brightest individuals got the idea that anyone looking like some small human would should be an easy mark for mugging or who knows what. Preferably, she'd like to never find out.

Which is why the medic's own footsteps began to slow, moving to the tool-belt around her waist. Mentally counting in her head, she ducked at the precise moment one of them attempted to lunge at her, driving a syringe into the back of his neck and emptying the contents.

The second one was a little luckier, getting a quick swipe in on the side of her hip. Fresh blood stained the air as the woman furiously pushed down the urge to tear his own skin off, punching him in his big cat-like nose, before the second syringe of sedative was empties as well.

"Bruti del cazzo!" Neri spat between grinding teeth as she made sure she was in a relatively secluded location, pressing fingers against her stinging hip. Every single day felt like the same routines, over and over again. It really wasn't any wonder why they would call this place purgatory; it wouldn't be for the first time that incidents such as this would make her want to claw her own face off. Sure, she could walk around in a demon shape instead - but that wasn't the point.

"A human face in an afterlife of demons.. absolutely hilarious joke, Lucifer. Would it kill me just to catch a break..?!"

#🌻 ic: neri #{{hell!verse}} #{open starter} #{open} #needles tw #tw needles #syringes tw #tw syringes #Ask To Tag #Gonna try to pull myself out of hibernation and do other replies from Yonks Ago #But wanted to take a stab tee hee at how Neri fights. So to speak.

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"I love you." "How do you know?" "Because what else could make the heart hurt in such a way at the mere thought of your absence, if not love?"

#🌻 ic: neri #🌻 musing #wee late hours of the night and the muse gets ducky

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"Squalo!"

The silver haired man jerked his head up at hearing his name, noticing Neri walking towards him with that stupid sunny smile of hers. "Oi, what's got you lookin' like wars just got cancelled?"

"Buon compleanno!" Pushing the package of a selection of tuna meat and a bottle of his favourite alcohol into his hands, she stretched up on her tip toes she could press a quick kiss to his cheek. "It's your birthday, right?"

"This is exactly the reason why nobody should tell you anything ever." Squalo grumbled as he tried to look pissed off, but the flustered features just couldn't pull it off all the way. "You know I don't like makin' a fuss about these things."

"I know. I promise, I haven't told anyone else - and it's just one present." Neri chuckled in amusement, stepping forward to wrap her arms around his midsection, feeling the swordsman jerk at the contact. "It's just.. it wouldn't feel right, if I couldn't tell you how much it means to me that you're here now."

"Vooiii.. alright, I get it-- now get off, too much sap!" Groaning in defeat, he pushed her face back away from him, grinning that sharky smirk as he returned her gesture by a kiss to the forehead, proceeding to pat her head like a dog.

"Grazie, girasole. Appreciate that you always remember. Now get your ass back to work, before you're going to need some medical attention yourself."

#🌻 ic: neri #🦈 ic: prideful shark #quick little cutes for Squals birthday #Drags myself online because IT'S A NATIONAL HOLIDAY

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"How about we all just discuss this instead?"

#🌻 ic: neri #too tired for proper character tag #{Open}

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Neri's name means:

1) Doesn't actually exist.

2) To have a secret power.

"..That all checks out, really."

#🌻 ic: neri #Mobile Posts

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...Heck.

#🌻 ic: neri #Neri: trying not to get distracted because good lord are those muscles real??

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Anonymous asked: what do you actually do tho

"You know, I feel like I've answered this before, but.."

"In a general sense - combat medic. Where people are injured in combat, I go to provide medical assistance. That can either be locally, or require some travel distance - which they usually do. Either in their home, a hospital setting - sometimes, still in the middle of combat, which requires a bit more strategic planning."

"As for the Varia, well.. to my knowledge, it was suggested that I might be a good influence on maintaining the Varia's exemplary record of mission success, whilst lowering the amount of staff causalities. If you're not one of the ring carriers, turnover is.. extremely high."

..Not too sure she's been able to influence that at all, really. Maybe in the form of being a good distraction?

#🌻 ic: neri

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Anonymous asked: show us your bullet holes

"How about I don't?"

#🌻 ic: neri #r u d e anon #{{Hell!Verse}}

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boundcd asked: "I did not start it,"

"I know. I wouldn't have thought you had." Neri assured him with a sympathetic smile.

"Sometimes, it's better just to let him think he's won the argument so he'll go away." Sometimes, it works. Sometimes.

#🌻 ic: neri #boundcd

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Anonymous asked: neri...no blood but there is fire

"That's more Squalo's department, really."

"What do you expect me to do?! Of course I'd like them to stop fighting, especially over ridiculous notions of ownership over anyone - but do you really think either of them are going to listen to me?!"

#🌻 ic: neri