#Hidden Things universe

[peachssodapop]

some LU doodles based on lately the HW Link and Young Link relationship has been taking up all my brain functions, Jojo's Wild design, and I was thinking about the mermaid tail from Oracle of Ages I think it's really cute he's like a fish

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu time #lu warriors #lu wild #lu legend #my art #sometimes I read the Love Duty and Potatoes series from Estajay on ao3 again and it creates a total monopoly on my brain for a few days #I'm working on Oracle of Seasons rn and that thing appeals to me greatly #i adore the first game so the first dungeon of that game being similar to level 1 of the original #And bringing back Aquamentus made it immediately capture my heart #along with the old men hidden behind bushes you need to burn who give you rupees and tell you it's a secret #RIP theyre not moblins though

[screwpinecaprice]

Just dipping in real quick to reupload this submission for @glowweek day 1 because I finally looked at it through my phone and holy cow it's way too dark. I just made few quick adjustments on the tone curve and passed a few strokes of color dodge lens flare through Connie to make her face and arms a bit more visible.

#connverse #Connie Maheswaran #Steven Quartz Universe #glowweek #connverse week #my shiz #There were still some parts I could've brighten up a little more but I wanted mistakes less noticeable. 😬 #Ah my mistakes can no longer be hidden in the dark. 😔 #Okay I'm out. Got things to do!

[quicktimeeventfull]

my toxic trait is i think death note is an actually for real unironically good manga which is better than even a lot of its fans give it credit for. like it has the subtlety of meat cleaver but also you have to pay attention to what that cleaver is cutting u know. it’s not an ironic or tongue & cheek work so if you look at it from that lens you’re going to miss a lot of what’s good about it i think.

#its funny and there are lots of tongue and cheek moments but the work as a whole is meant to be taken seriously #not like in a fancy literary way but just a ‘engage unironically’ way #my fear is this is going to sound like im vaguing someone or other but i promise this is just somthing im thinking about in relation to #like 15 years of discourse #ive noticed that as time passes people seem to take death note less seriously & more as something kind of bad which has some hidden gold #but i honeslty think that’s flatly untrue #i don’t think its the literal best thing in the universe or anything but i think its Very Good #also tbc ‘as time passes’ may just be a function of Me Personally aging fdgkjgdf i don’t mean this as a statement of the fandom #does this make sense. i hope this makes sense

[muninnhuginn]

thought I'd compile a list of some of the current dangling threads we have in link click. specifically, going to ignore the ones that others have gone into detail exploring and just bring up the ones that haven't gotten as much attention but will almost certainly be relevant.

the missing files on the seventh victim of the serial murders from season one. emma was noted as 'victim one' in the files and there were eight in total. if these killings were done by red eyes then all we know of the victim profiles is that they're not seen to be 'innocent' in the culprit's eyes (ofc, we can only speculate what that means, but I'm currently gunning on it being some form of bystander to crime just going by themes*/what we know of emma/the fact the police struggled to find a uniting motive) and there's no set age/gender being specifically targeted. the killer's methods are said to be 'meticulous' (big qian jin vibes there ngl even if the motive part of it doesn't seem to obviously align). anyway, missing files implies an inside job and timing-wise it's unclear if that means qian jin or if chen bin was somehow involved. chen bin apparently was the last to handle the files before passing them to xiao li, but at the same time he doesn't react in a particularly guilty manner when xiao li asks of the missing file. meanwhile, qian jin would have left the force before these killings started but I'm sure he still had plenty of connections left in the force. either way, the seventh victim has been hidden for a reason. knowing what was in that file should lead to a breakthrough of some sort.

liu min's younger brother mentioned in the first two episodes of season two. said to be the more favoured of the two siblings and hasn't yet officially entered the game, but just from law of conservation of detail I think he is going to be a player because why even bring him up when liu min is already dead.

li tianxi's mutism and subsequent abilities of speech as a teenager. the mutism and later explanation are both such deliberate details to include. I don't know for sure what the answer is, but I do think the idea of tianchen or someone else possessing tianxi is a possibility given we know that possession overrides certain physical traits. cxs even explicitly confirmed that this would include mutism when he spoke as tianxi in his dive. it could also be that tianchen is literally dressed as tianxi and is using the mask to help disguise this fact. or tianxi could be tianxi. but whatever the case, I do think the mutism is a relevant point to return to. (also, in s2e4 it looks like the sibling with the messy fringe (tianchen?) doesn't speak. unsure if this is to hide that there were multiples and we just didn't hear the speech but ig it does add to the option that tianchen and tianxi have swapped bodies entirely)

fountain boy. I know I said I'd avoid the stuff that's already been explored but this is such an obvious thing that *will* come back. my intuition says that the fact they picked such an adult sounding voice actor means the character hasn't yet been formally introduced and will appear later (and so opens up the possibilities of hat guy/liu min's brother etc) but that's purely on a meta level. within the story itself it could be almost any male character sans cheng xiaoshi.

Liu Min's phone, taken by Li Tianchen(? - going by the fringe but not confident of this) without Qian Jin's oversight. Does this mean Tianxi is working with Qian Jin whilst Tianchen is double-crossing? Either way, these three are not all in it together. They have some shared motives but ultimately their own agendas.

*themes here meaning qiao ling's big regret re: doudou was that she saw someone leave with him and said nothing. emma's only 'crime' was that she knew of the financial irregularities but didn't speak up. li tianchen saying about people pretending to be nice but secretly are jerks are the worst. my other idea is 'people the law won't punish' because qian jin's backstory (vigilante justice type deal also kinda fitting the themes) especially as the murderer who killed his wife later 'committed suicide' and it was mentioned that several of the meticulous killings were initially mistaken for suicides. anyway, I'll fully admit I'm running on vibes for this as speculation and am fully open to there being another theme tying together the victims.

#link click #link click spoilers #shiguang daili ren spoilers #obvious things I've missed off include: lu guang's age (ql thinks it's younger than cxs in ep 1 and they know his birthday day #but his actual age is hidden in out-of-universe sources and there are multiple refs to him 'being mature for his age'); #who's hat guy (if he's not fountain boy and/or liu min's bro); lu guang's entire deal (tied in to age probably but); #li tianxi/tianchen's motives as well as how/why liu lan was stabbed; who was the initial client for the emma case. #probably missing some stuff but will leave it at that. #wow the capitalisation situation makes it so obvious I didn't type this one on my phone

[kindheartedgummybears]

I have awoken from the depths of slumber(and the void) to come and say my dreams have yet again placed another werewolf au in my mind.

The only problem?

I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THE CHARACTERS ARE😭😭😭😭

#JAVNNAWWAAFWNWAAAAAAAA #leave it to my dreams to plant another au in my head to spin around #its the classic “weird oddly giant aggressive dog that just got taken into the shelter” trope lmao💀💀 #not my FAV trope for werewolves but u wanna know what? #i will let it slide for this au. #except instead of being “adopted” by a random gay couple you get adopted by a serial killer. #THATS LEGIT THE ONLY THING I KNOW ABOUT ALL 3 OF THE CHARACTERS INVOLVED AND THAT IS ONE OF THEM IS A SERIAL KILLER😭😭 #Hidden Agenda #TAHTS THE ONLY HINT YOU GET #its a sign really #the universe is telling me to finish tdim and get on lh/play ha with my siblings

[janamensch]

I lost the thread of what I actually wanted to depict with this halfway through the drawing but it’s okay, here’s Veselvena and her prince

#high rollers #rollonsunday #aerois #Veselvena #At the end of the final episode Mark said that Veselvena’s prince was actually Graz’zt in disguise to try to take over Aerois #And of course I immediately latched onto that new information #There was supposed to be some symbolism or something in this drawing? But even I can’t find it now and I can’t remember what it was either #But you can see that on the one hand on her shoulder there are actually six fingers (the thumb is hidden) so you can see it’s Graz’zt #And he has the ring of three wishes on his finger #I don’t know if it makes sense for him to have that at this point? Since this is at least 500 years in the past of Aerois #and even more in the past for the rest of the universe? Because of the weird time thing #Also Graz’zt has like six horns on his head so this elf has a crown also with six horns #Oh! I think I also wanted there to be a parallel between Veselvena and Mesmera #Mesmera had her nice little mind-control cloak from Graz’zt and Veselvena got a cute little necklace :) You know in case she decides she #doesn’t want to build a portal to bring her beloved elven prince to Aerois anymore

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I don’t know if you already said this elsewhere, but did the Zenin ever hurt Megumi in a way it simply wasn’t possible for them to explain? Like being poisoned or bitten by one of the dozens curses? Did Gojo catch them red handed (the red is literally megumi’s blood💀)?

The first time that they hurt him in a way that they couldn’t explain away was the last time they hurt him, because Gojo immediately cut them off and refused to ever let them ever get near Megumi again. The Zenin didn't fully realize this at the time they had custody, but legitimately the only reason why it got as far as it did was because Gojo didn't know.

They weren’t exactly advertising “yeah we beat him when we have him” to him, but it wasn’t exactly because they thought gojo would put a stop to it, per se. They didn’t tell Gojo anything they did to Megumi because they felt absolutely entitled to him. They didn’t want Gojo’s input or interference, and they didn’t like feeling like they had to ask for permission around this with Megumi. But they didn’t think he actually would cut them off from him.

In the Zenin’s mind, Gojo doesn’t love Megumi. He’s never loved Megumi. Megumi’s just a political pawn to him, a way to insult the Zenin and steal their most valuable technique for his own. And he got way more value from letting them see him. He got to have his influence on someone who was very likely to be clan head one day—if Megumi’s cut off from them entirely, he’s not moving towards being clan head. He got a bargaining chip with the Zenin—he could further his own goals by offering them more time with him. Megumi’s a powerful piece of leverage but only if Gojo actually uses him. Him intervening to protect Megumi by severing all contact doesn’t further his own goals, so when it all came to a head, they pretty blindly assumed that he wouldn’t give a shit about what they had just done to Megumi, because at the end of the day, they thought he was going to keep using Megumi for his own ends, which meant giving them access.

Instead, Gojo immediately pulled the plug on the entire situation. They never touched or saw him again. The first time that Megumi saw them after the incident that made them go no contact was when Naoya came to pick him up at his school.

#sea glass gardens #in my mind jujutsu sorcerer kids are sturdier #like Sukuna punted Megumi through multiple buildings in their fight #so it must be /hard/ to do something that causes a bruise #a lot of the Zenin’s abuse was hidden because while it still hurt it wasn’t leaving marks #or it was abuse that wouldn’t leave marks anyway like how they’d work him to the point of collapse or control his every action #but if they hit him hard enough to leave marks then they had the built in excuse that megumi was fighting with other kids #or had just had one of those normal little kid bumps. like I have a baby nieces and nephews and those kids will just hurl their bodies #around. kids collect bruises. they’re figuring out what their limits are and even if you watch them carefully a few bumps is normal. #they hurt him badly but they always had a way to hide it until they went too far and didn’t anymore. and the second gojo realized that #the adults on the compound had been beating megumi he never let them so much as look at him again. he legitimately put his foot down and #refused to budge an inch no matter how much hell he caught for it #I’ve definitively decided that the incident that made them go no contact is not going to be revealed in sea glass gardens #it just isn’t something that would come out through yuutas pov #if I wrote other works in the series it would probably come out through one of them but it’s a big big if #I make no promises as to other works in the universe (though I have started writing some of them. completion is another thing entirely). #if you guys want to know the incident that made them go no contact I wouldn’t be opposed to revealing it over ask but it’s y’all’s #preference. usually the stuff I talk about in ask is stuff I’ll know isn’t going to be revealed in sea glass gardens itself. this is kind of #in purgatory because I know it’s coming out in sea glass gardens but there’s a smaller chance of it being revealed in a different work #so it’s up to y’all. if you want to know I’ll answer it behind a cut or something but if you want to gamble on it actually being written out #one day that’s fine too

[mechahero]

//I said I was going to talk about this so here.

Lambda can't really wildly teleport all over the place (although he sure can look like it), he has to have a place to teleport to. And even then, he has to clearly visualize the place he wants to teleport to in his mind. Anything he can deem as a landmark to use as a grounding point does help a lot. Or having a picture of the place and focusing on that. However, even with that, it can be a struggle for him to go place to place.

Doesn't stop him from being a very effective killer though.

Places may be a bit hard for him to remember but people are not. Especially if it's someone he's chasing down. And since it's thought based (for the most part) teleportation, all he needs to do is think of the person he's going after and he'll be back on their trail in no time.

#//this info has always been bookmarked in my mind as 'in universe reason to justify slashers' offscreen teleporting' #//but also kind of using that and the fear of thinking you got away only for the guy chasing you to be RIGHT. THERE. #//it's a bit more complicated than that but i'm still kind of tired and don't feel like doing that rn #//the building visualization thing also applies when he wants to tp to another dimension #//just with a bit of reality manipulation tossed into the mix for it #//will i pretty up/rewrite this post later? probably not #//posting it anyways #hidden depths: {info} #//yeah i'll toss it there

[fluffypotatey]

.......does that mean that the cave where Balinor was living used to be his dragon's nest?

oh...oh shit it might be

these nests where dragons and dragonlords lived were probably considered as safe and secluded places that could only be found by them. it is very likely that Balinor's cave was the one he shared with Kilgharrah.

do you think that the dragon's old treasures were still there when Balinor met Merlin? or did the treasures give Balinor grief every time he saw them, so he removed them from the cave? maybe he buried those treasures near the cave like one buries a casket? or did Balinor keep them as a reminder of his guilt or as a reminder of what he lost and why he should remember?

were these treasures still there after Kilgharrah found the cave when Balinor was long gone? did Kilgharrah still hold some love for the treasures that have laid in the cave abandoned and untouched for over 20 years?

did Merlin get time to actually explore his father's cave? did he find the treasures left by both Balinor and his dragon? would he have recognized what treasures were what? had Merlin snuck off one night when he and arthur were hunting close to the cave to look inside, to find glimpses or ghosts of who his father was?

#tbh the thing about dragons and dragonlords' caves being hidden for both safety and privacy is a headcanon that i now hold as truth #we went from silly lotr crossover to angsty spiraling of balinor's guilt and merlin's regret of not being able to spend more time w/ his da #pretty sure merlin always tried to map out that cave because that was his father's home and he left so many things and maybe they could #give him a clue and the life his father lived and who he was because 3ish days were not enough for him to know balinor #funny how regret works for people #balinor regrets ever trusting uther so he punishes himself by hiding in the one cave he always viewed as safe and home #merlin regrets never trying to learn how his father was and he learns that balinor was a good man (jaded yes but still good); #he learns that balinor is willing to BE there for him and HELP him understand his powers and his life....but then all of that ends #because balinor is dying in his arms and he's apologizing & merlin regrets that they've only met now & hates how the universe #continues to play with him and take away the people he deems as people he could trust and rely on and maybe feel safe with #merlin regrets ever meeting balinor because maybe...maybe death wouldn't have balinor so soon but death follows merlin like a loyal hound #so merlin cannot escape such hauntings #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #balinor #dragonlords #headcanons #uh.....did not mean to say that much but um oh well

[tin-can-iron-man]

Foaming at the mouth thinking of the potential analysis and parallel of Victor going through with his college experiment despite being told to wait because he was irrationally emotional and passionate about his project and it went wrong vs. Reed Richards stealing his own rocket despite being told to wait because he was irrationally emotional and passionate about his project and it went wrong

#one day I'm going to spout out a college level essay on the subject of reed & doom and when that happens it's over for all of you #reed richards #victor von doom #doctor doom #mr fantastic #marvel #it's!! IT'S JUST. Once again Victor having immense cursed by the narrative vibes my beloved #REED gets powers. Reed gets a found family and superhero team and fame and public adoration (like 95% of the time) #Victor gets his face mauled by fire and glass shards and shrapnel and possibly well hidden demonic clawing #I'm not HATING on Reed I'm just saying that for doing the exact same thing Victor did in college it really did work out for you huh #favored by the narrative vs cursed by the narrative #no wonder Victor is so crazy when it comes to everything FF #I'M JUST SAYING— #just...is having a grudge against a guy who is just like you and does all the same things you do #except HIS stuff always works out for him and YOUR stuff always bites you in the ass. REALLY that far fetched and unrealistic #is Victor petty? oh absolutely. Does he often fail because of his OWN undoing? OH ABSOLUTELY. #is it Reeds fault things work out for him? NO. is it Victors fault things never do? Comics will tell you yes. #listen what I'm saying it a lot more analytical and philosophical #but also imagine being gaslight by your own universe that everything bad that's ever happened to you is your fault PFPFPFPFPFPFLF

[tardis--dreams]

Embarrassing being an adult and crying over not understanding your homework. I'm 28 years old. This is so fucking stupid

#why do i even care #it's not even like knowing old English grammar is going to help me at all in my life outside of this class #i don't get credit for this class at my home university #i don't even have to do well #i have literally 1000 other things i could worry or cry about #and yet #i feel like an 8 year old having to turn in a half empty answer sheet for homework #who's gonna get scolded and penalized for not having applied enough effort #(or you know a 13 year old or 16 year old or 18 year old #whatever. I'm not in school anymore and i don't have to care about what my professor thinks about me when i don't even #care about the topic/have other things to concentrate on) #also every fucking week i make the same mistake and wait until the day before class to prepare #and find out he's hidden some extra homework at the very end of his lecture #i should just not worry about it so much #who the hell cares #goddammit #void screams

[hihopelessromantics]

BOOM. FANFICTION

We have a dead OC haunting the narrative, we have absolutely soul crushing whump, we have hurt/comfort and a little sprinkle of hurt again at the end! What's not to love!

HELL YEAH! Another entry to the 7-rats-in-a-trenchcoat holy war cinematic universe!!!! Today is a gooood day

when I saw the mail icon I was like I HAVE BEEN CONTACTED YEAAAAAAA

today... is an even better day because we got more Saorise... I'm gonna cry.

You know, I didn't recognize that the "dead oc" was her until I saw her actual name, because in my mind she's still alive and running around as a vital part of the ten commandments. I haven't done anything but gently put her in the background of the daydreams with a cookie of her choice yet, because knowing she was Zeldris's only friend on top of being her own lovable self and now learning that she was a like sister to them both- my HEART 😭

i cannot touch that yet. it is holy. but one day, if I have your approval, I swear I'll make her a happy ending. bc that's what I've been doing since I was little for tragic narratives (Cough, cough, Darkstalker Legends, if you know you know) and now's as good a time as any to step up my game. just the prospect gives my heart the zoomies

me when a writer I love makes an oc and gives them the good angst: 👀 is mine to love? to cherish? to make fictional happy endings for? fictional happy endings that don't exist for the characters that don't exist, that are wonderful and die a horrible undeserved death that fits the themes and story so well my heart is screaming?

oh... so THIS is where that sketch is from...

can you tell I can't write tragedies but enjoy the themes and execution of them so much that I religiously read and corrupt them anyway? yeah 😍

#7 rats holy war melizabeth cinematic universe #idk I'm calling it that now #holy war #melizabeth #not zeldris losing his only friend and brother in a matter of MONTHS. he... he refused to come with... i just remembered he KNOWS... #oh that's hitting me hard. can you blame me for throwing your angst-ridden versions of characters into a timeline where things go better #the angst makes the non-canon compliant daydreams sweeter #so glad the people on Tumblr know exactly what I mean when I say you guys please devour this fanfic Experience 10/10 #i do NOT regret spending 3 months coming up with a very complicated intricately plotted holy war au. that was very difficult. #now when I'm free I'll go back and give them more bloody angst I guess. then more sweetness. thus is the life of me #you. you melted his eye. #not Elizabeth getting beat up by her mother #thus proving herself right to have hidden things. she would have been beaten either way because abusers don't make sense #they only care about control #also did I mention the name you used for the demon palace ROCKS and KICKS ASS #Mel is so traumatized he hates his own home omg #I mean of course he does... but you made it feel REAL #and Elizabeth's obliviousness .... ohhhh you did that good. the demons she could have saved ... #what's not to love!

[razumdars]

in other news i tried to trigger the god!gale ending just so i could see it for myself but evidently aurel did too good a job of convincing gale to Not take the crown of karsus for himself bcs even when aurel suggested it at the end, gale was like "oh no i've learned my lesson actually" 😔 sad

#sophie plays bg3 #oc: aurel #maybe i want to imagine a universe where gale becomes a god #denying everything aurel told him #all so he can change aurel back from illithid to drow #bcs i've been thinking about that. a Lot. actually. #like yes ending where everyone betrays their morals out of love!!! yippee!!!!! #wyll keeps aurel hidden like a selfish love all for himself and gale ascends just to fix him!!!! #the love was there and it made things WORSE!!!!

[universestreasures]

Extension / Spinoff Of This Thread With @shacchou

🎶"Looking up at the sky with you, two bright shining stars call to us. Here we are, standing strong. Shining with our Buddy Lights..."🎶

The gentle and soothing singing voice of his friend was pleasant on the young boy's ears. Never in a million years did he think Tasuku had such a hidden talent, and yet here he is listening to him sing a song from the heart just to try and help him feel better. Then again, the Buddy Police Boy Wonder was good at a lot of things: Buddyfighting, school, investigating; just to name a few. So, him being good at yet another thing shouldn't be too surprising by this point to Mokuba.

He really was just like...Seto, wasn't he?

Drawing those comparisons between Tasuku and his brother was what the young boy had begun to do unconsciously since their initial meeting, but such things slowly became more and more common as he spent more time here. In fact, even now as he sits there listening to the other sing his tune, he can't help but visualize a younger Seto there soothing him instead, despite the fact Mokuba's never heard his brother ever sing before in his life.

Yes, the pre-teen seemed to embody the positive qualities that Mokuba associated with his elder brother from the past: warmth, gentleness, selflessness, compassion, happiness, protectiveness, honesty; all of those things he saw in Tasuku. Perhaps it was those qualities in him that had drawn the younger boy to seek out his help specifically during this time. After all, this entire situation came about because of his own feelings regarding the past, a past he can't seem to stop trying to chase despite promises of a prosperous future.

Such feelings did not change ever since being here. In truth, being around the blue-haired boy just made them stronger, the younger Kaiba feeling a semblance of what was lost the day he and his older brother were adopted. That just spoke though to a simple fact, a fact the boy knew deep down but did not want to admit to himself: that Mokuba had not yet fully accepted in his heart who his brother was today, in spite of their improved relations after Duelist Kingdom.

Mokuba wasn't so naive as to think that neither him or Seto wouldn't change over time. That would be nonsensical, especially considering the circumstances of their lives since becoming Kaiba's. No, what Mokuba couldn't seem to comprehend, and felt frustration and sadness towards, was why his brother was still...well...a stick in the mud, to put it nicely, long after their stepfather was gone.

From his viewpoint, that man was the sole reason for Seto's major shift in demeanor. So why did he have to keep acting so cold and grumpy now? Like he wasn't looking forward to the future he had been preparing for them all this time? The question went unanswered in his mind, no matter how much he tried to come up with an answer.

It had taken Mokuba some time to regain his own true smile after everything that's happened, no part in short thanks to Yugi's crew and his own he managed to make. He wants the same for his brother, to heal past the pain of Gozaboru's tryannny and be able to be as happy as he was prior to it. That selfless desire that seemed so far out of reach was a key part of why he was so hurt. He felt like his brother was just keeping himself miserable needlessly, overworking himself to death and isolating himself from and rejecting anyone who dare try to add some happiness into his life.

He just wanted his brother to be happy again like he was before, to play with games again truly for the fun of it and not in pursuit of revenge or victory. Was that so wrong to wish? To wish his brother could try to start to heal after the suffering they both went through, like Mokuba had?

Clearly, that sentiment was wrong. Otherwise, the elder Kaiba wouldn't have rejected his feelings that night so fiercely. In spite of his good intentions, Mokuba's feelings were burdening his brother, trying to drag him to a place he didn't want to go near for reasons not understood. It's something he's felt since a young age and seen time and time again to the point where he questions whether his inclusion in Seto's life was ever a good thing.

If Mokuba wasn't around, then his brother no doubt would have been adopted quickly and potentially not by a monster like Gozaboru.

If Mokuba wasn't around, his brother wouldn't have had to fight so hard to protect and care for him all the time, to secure a future for them both when securing one for a genius like him alone would have been easier.

If Mokuba wasn't around...perhaps he never would have lost his smile to begin with.

The very thought causes tears to come from his purple eyes, syncing up with the end of Tasuku's sweet song. His breaths came out shaky, unable to stop the floodgates from flowing. Without needing to think, his hands move to clasp the pair of lockets around his neck, as if he would die without doing so.

"Why...? Why?! Why am I such a burden?! Such a bad brother?!"

His voice echoed throughout the small apartment room, his voice portraying the inner pain he felt akin to being kicked in the gutts. Why did he have to follow Gao's advice? Why did he have to speak his mind and say such hurtful things? Why didn't he just let things be as they are despite wanting so much more, like he's done before? Why did he do something that would risk his staying in his brother's life?!

Perhaps taking that risk was why Seto had yet to contact him since he left. Because maybe he felt the same thing Mokuba was starting to think: that he didn't want him to come back. That way, his brother wouldn't have to entertain the younger boy's 'nonsense' anymore, and he could live his life without being reminded of the past he clearly was repulsed by.

Maybe...things were better off this way, after all...

"Mokie Mokuba."

The all-too-familiar voice reaches his ears, and an all-too-familiar touch can be felt on his shoulders. Mokuba opened his teary eyes slowly in response. In front of him, with his vision blurred by the water, he...saw him. He saw his brother, but not the one of the past, but of the present.

Did he come here to see him? Did he come here to take him home? Did he come here because...he still loved him?

"S...eto...?"

"You're not..."

"A burden or a bad brother." The illusion Mokuba's mind had created shattered with Tasuku's next words, as gentle as they were. The young Kaiba was now thrust again into reality, purple hues glancing up at his friend who had been the one speaking the whole time. Seems like his mind and heart were continuing to play tricks on him.

How cruel.

"Listen to me. You've done nothing wrong. It's your brother who has. Don't blame yourself for his mistakes." Mokuba is then pulled into the other's arms, him being comforted by Tasuku's warmth. "Never think you can't express how you're feeling or that it's wrong to feel how you do, no matter who tells you."

The embrace lasted as long as he needed to calm himself. After having cried himself to death, the older kid lets go, gently standing up from his position of sitting next to the boy in order to gently try and guide Mokuba to lie down once again. Once he is set, he watches Tasuku grab the blankets, scattered at the bottom of the bed, and attempts to tuck him back in, not realizing his method of tucking was not to Mokuba's preference (it was too tight). Still, the young Kaiba didn't voice anything to the contrary, for he had lost his voice from all that crying.

"Now, try to get some rest, okay? Gao is coming over tomorrow. He said he wants to have a game of Capsule Monsters with you. I'm sure you two will have a blast." Tasuku then moves to the door's exit, Mokuba glancing over at the soft smile he can see through the light coming from the rest of the apartment. "Sleep well, Mokuba. And if you need anything, don't hesitate to call me or Jack. We're here for you."

The door then closes, leaving Mokuba alone in the room whose only light source was a nightlight Tasuku had gotten for him. He reaches for his Blue-Eyes plush, hugging it tightly for support. It's then he reaches with one of his arms to open his own locket, staring at the picture of Seto inside intensely until he passes out from emotional and physical exhaustion.

#💎 Crystalized Hidden Gems (Drabble) #💎 Vice Treasure (Mokuba Kaiba) #💎 Wonder Treasure (Tasuku Ryuenji) #💎 President With A Blue-Eyed Lighting (Shacchou) #💎 Vice's Monochromic Alternate Path (Mokuba Manga Verse) #💎 Wonder's Game Of Life (Tasuku Yu-Gi-Oh! DM Verse) #tw long post #tw ptsd #(I told Ani a spin off drabble of Mokuba's POV during this angst fest was coming and here it is. ;;;;; #(mokuba's pain just hurts me so much like bby no you're not a burden and your brother loves you ;;;;; #(this takes place the night before gao's visit where he pitches that idea to tasuku further showing why tasuku was not about it #( i also wanted to have a specific thing for Tasuku to reference for the eventual interaction with Seto #(the song tasuku is singing here is actually the ED his va does sing in the show and is a song other chrs have sung IN universe too #(plus Soma Saitou has such a beautiful voice like omg ;;; #(I thought it was fitting and sweet to include it. tasuku doesnt like share his singing talent with others that much unless they are close #(more so because he figured he'd start getting people to want to turn him into an idol if it went public #(its something he learnt how to do from his mother much like seto with his piano playing from what Ani has told me which #(another thing these two have in common icb this LOL #(the song is linked on all the lyrics in the reply if anyone wants to listen to it! soma saitou tasukus va has such a wonderful voice ;;; #(but yeah i hope ani and anyone else who reads this enjoys it despite the angst! it's good to have mokubas headspace written out prior to #(his inveitable talk with seto #(providing context as to where he's at and such #(also getting to dive into mokubas sub concious projecting of seto onto tasuku that just really shows how he needs #(his brother rn despite tasukus best efforts to try and be that sort of figure for him rn

[thierry-ennuii]

Me: *simply lives life and vibes in an autistic manner*

All men, everywhere, always: you’re such an enigma, I will never understand you. I won’t bother to try, or ask, and I’ll also make you feel weird and bad every time you try and open up. But isnt it funny! What an enigma you are!

#personal #autistic things #actually autistic #autism #why is this the universal experience of all autistic women everywhere #I had a conversation with a friend recently who revealed that he has always been into me but finds me very hard to read #my guy #if you simply asked rather than projecting your little fantasies onto me then maybe #just maybe #we could make it work! #he actually called me an enigma as well and I was like #well actually it’s just that every time I try and open up to a romantic partner they call me a lizard and try to poke me with a stick #but i mean if you want to live in your little scott pilgrim dreamworld go off I guess #I promise you I do not have hidden depths I am just traumatised

[taxes-and-laundry]

One thing I really don't like about modern Doctor Who is how so many stories have downgraded the Cybermen from "your entire body is replaced with cybernetics via a horrifying, painful, and brutal surgical process" to something more like "you are permanently sealed inside an iron man suit". Where's the body horror in that?

#i mean to be fair there definitely still is horror in that but it's a very different flavor of horror #the point of the cybermen is you're barely even you anymore and that isnt as true when your real face is merely hidden by some metal #as opposed to completely replaced #doctor who #adding this to the list of things i'd fix in the daydream universe where i am showrunner