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familyvideostevie · 8 months

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ahem omw with a request for you <33

can I request a rainy day with bradley bradshaw pls? likee all their plans get cancelled and he's way more excited than he should just because he can spend the whole day with his gf playing board/card games, watching movies, cuddling, cooking or whatever he wants (aka whatever you, the amazing writer, have in mind)

oh baby you are speaking my language! i love this! he's so on the go i think he'd love a day to relax and he'd be quite good at it if given the space to. this is maybe a bit simpler than you wanted, but hope you enjoy anyway! | fluff, 0.7k

You're having a really nice dream. Bradley's voice is soft, gentle as he says your name, sings it, laughs around it. His lips trail a line of gentle kisses from your ear to your nose, over both eyes and finally down to your lips --

"Baby," he says, thick with sleep. "Wake up. It's raining."

As if on cue, thunder rumbles and Bradley's hold on you tightens. It takes great effort to open your eyes but you manage and twist in his arms until you find his face. He smiles at you and kisses your nose, his mustache tickling your skin.

"Hello," you mumble.

"Hi," he says back. You take a few moments to process what he's said before finding the words.

"Does that mean no hike?" He nods, his hand sliding beneath your sleep shirt to rest on your lower back. He's so warm.

"No hike," he says. You rub your eyes.

"You got a plan B, Lieutenant?"

Today was meant to be a date organized by Bradley. A drive through somewhere beautiful to a hike that would take you somewhere even more beautiful and then lunch. He's been excited about it all week and as your brain catches up with what's happening you're a bit disappointed on his behalf.

"Not as exciting as plan A, but I do."

Your eyes slide closed and you sandwich your knee between his legs. "Tell me more."

Bradley traces the lines of your face with one long finger as he talks. "We can play cards," he murmurs. "I need to reclaim my gin rummy title." You huff a laugh. He's a sore loser. "I'll make you breakfast or we can order from that bagel place."

"And make some poor teenager bike it over in the rain?"

"I'll tip a lot." You can't see him but you can hear his smile. It's a gorgeous smile, a soft one, one that drew you to him the very first time you met. Bradley is loud, he's good at being the center of attention, he's intense, he's magnetic. But there's a softness, a tenderness to him that takes your breath away.

"What else?"

"We can just relax. Nap on the couch, watch a whole season of a TV show. Hey, don't fall asleep again --"

"I'm not," you huff. You open your eyes and twist your body so that you're on top of him. He grunts but allows it as you straddle him lightly. "Are you suggesting we have a relaxing day?"

There's that grin again. "I guess I am." You bury your face in his neck.

"Never thought I'd see the day." He's all go go go, your boyfriend. He's always planning for something, worrying about something, spinning about ten plates in the air. But you know that given the chance he really does enjoy slowing down and letting all of that cease for even just a day.

Thunder rumbles again. He wraps his arms around you and you sink impossibly further into him. "I'm sorry we don't have days like this often," he says softly.

"The day hasn't even started yet." He squeezes your hip. "But don't apologize, Bradley. I'll take you any way I can get you."

"I know," he says. "I do want us to go on that hike sometime, by the way." You groan. "No, listen, it's because I can't die without seeing you see that view for the first time. It's really amazing."

You pull away from him and smooth the hair from his face, trace the lines at the corners of his eyes. So much hardship, so much tragedy, and he's still got smile lines. "This view is pretty amazing, too."

He flushes. Confident as he is, soft words in your bedroom seem to undo him. He's told you that he feels most himself when you're looking at him because you see him. You feel the same.

"Tell me about it." He cups the back of your neck and pulls you down for a proper kiss, slotting his lips with yours and tracing the seam with his tongue. "I love you," he says. "Thank you for dealing with me."

You huff. As if it's a hardship. "I love you back. Let's go order bagels."

He springs out of bed without another word, you in his arms, and laughs as you yelp all the way to the kitchen.

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ryuvnosuke · 7 months

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masterlist of my bsd fics.

shin soukoku.

don't hurt me (i'm tired). 14,455 words, 2/2, complete.

Akutagawa doesn't know how to touch anything without leaving bloodstains on it.

For hunger is to give the body what it knows it cannot keep. 1,957 words, 1/1, complete.

Akutagawa doesn't push him away, even though he knows he's drowning in doubts and regrets, because he hasn't yet learned to comfort him when it comes to things he wouldn't care about. "I wish the tiger wouldn't heal your marks so quickly," he confesses instead, his voice barely more than a whisper, as if afraid to disturb the air around them. "I'd like to leave something on your skin for you to remember me by."

all is fair in love and war (but i can't fight with you anymore). 4,671 words, 1/1, complete.

"Five-letter word for horned animal, for short," Akutagawa says aloud, touching the tip of his nose with his pencil. "I'm trying to work here," Atsushi replies without looking up, reviewing a report. "I do not know if you are aware, but you are the one who insists on keeping me here against my will," he grumbles, turning his attention back to the crossword puzzle he's trying to solve.

or: after everything gets resolved, Atsushi doesn't want Akutagawa to leave his side, and he has to deal with it.

the foundations of decay. 12,096 words, 1/1, complete.

Know the weight of your desire, pup, the demon used to say, with his gun pointed directly to the dog's head. There's no wanting that doesn't come with a price.

Akutagawa dies and then comes back. Here are the consequences.

more under the cut.

fall from grace. 22,681 words, 3/7, ongoing.

The end of the world is near; an angel and a demon resolve to join forces to prevent it.

(or: carrying six thousand years of history, mixed feelings and dubious motivations, atsushi and akutagawa face the coming of the antichrist and all the things they have decided never to talk about).

won't you stay with me, my darling (when my walls start crumbling down). 1,001 words, 1/1, complete.

Atsushi arrives at Akutagawa's door.

Akutagawa has blood in his hands; it's his, this once.

prove to me that i'm not going to die alone.

He lowers his gaze. He digs his nails into his neck and scratches, searching for even the slightest hint of the pain he was used to, that kept the tiger in line. He looks at the knives on the counter. He bites the tip of his tongue. Akutagawa reaches up with one hand to take the other’s and pulls it away from his neck, and with the other he strokes the scar area so gently that Atsushi, despite his reservations, melts under his touch. atsushi knows what his ghosts look like.

don't look back (would you retrieve my soul?). 9,059 words, 1/1, complete.

Looking at Akutagawa's motionless body, pale, not dead but not alive either, Atsushi decides he must bring him back.

(or, following in the footsteps of orpheus, atsushi goes to the place where souls rest to look for the soul of the one he used to call his enemy.)

tachigin.

patron saints. 2,933 words, 1/1, complete.

"Sometimes I feel like I don't know who I am when I'm not with you," he confesses, and makes it sound like words spoken without thinking, when the reality is that that, like everything else he's ever said, is calculated honesty. "Defining your being around mine, while flattering, sounds inconvenient," she says, and her voice is velvety smooth, and he manages to see a scar on her bare shoulder. He doesn't like to see her scars. They remind him that she is as human as he is. "Who will you be, if I am not here?"

Michizou Tachihara doesn't know how to want something without devoting his whole being to it.

blood-soaked gown. 2,789 words, 1/1, complete.

He smiles, hiding behind the façade he wears at work—this is work, too. If only it were something more. If only meeting Gin wasn't a consequence of doing his duty. If only he hadn't gone to his apartment covered in blood just because he had nowhere else to go. If only Gin didn't trust him at all.

Michizou discovers something. He wishes to know nothing at all.

so when you hold my hand, do you want to hold my heart? 5,190 words, 1/1, complete.

Michizou brings a hand to his abdomen on instinct, where the scar from the last time Gin got close enough to touch him rests. He wishes he could resent her for it, but truth be told, he feels he should consider himself grateful that Gin had deemed him worthy of being touched by her at all. Even if the only goal was to make him bleed in a tit-for-tat sort of way that he saw coming the instant he had to hurt her. He knows he deserves the coldness and distance, but he finds Gin existing in the same room as him pretending he’s not there at all, and Michizou has to control himself not to demand that she look at him, at least.

of betray and things left unsaid.

ranpoe.

love, or the lack thereof. 3,582 words, 1/1, complete.

"I think I'm going to miss you." Ranpo turns and tilts his head. Karl is resting on his shoulders, making himself comfortable, and Poe feels as if he's about to throw up. "What are you even talking about now, Ed?" Poe can't find his words, which is quite ironic, and he fears that Ranpo won't take him seriously even if he could tell him what's going on anyway. As much as being around him brings some sense of comfort, Poe still needs to beat him. That's the reason he's here. That's all he's been working for. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

of the mind of a certain edgar allan poe.

soukoku.

famous last words. 2,364 words, 1/1, complete.

“No. No one who's sane enough would accept me shooting them for practice.” Dazai catches his leg as he kicks him again and throws him to the ground. Chuuya grumbles through his teeth, closing his eyes more out of anger than because the blow hurt. Fucker, son of a bitch. Dazai crouches down next to him smiling. His smile is a strange gesture on his face. “It's a good thing you have me, isn't it, Chuuya?” he singsongs, grabbing him by the arm to hurry him to straighten up with one hand while he tucks the other under his own coat, which hangs neatly over his shoulders.

Chuuya was fifteen years old when he shot Dazai for the first time.

kunichuu.

et moi, envountée de ténèbres. 2,080 words, 1/1, complete.

It’s not the first time. He knows how it goes. He never thinks too much about what he will do when he arrives, what he will say to him before he starts with what they both are really interested in, but he always practices in his mind how he’s going to say goodbye. He always thinks about saying Don’t you want to sleep here? but he never dares. He doesn’t know what he would do with himself if he were to receive a rejection, and he prefers not to make a fool of himself in front of the one who, as soon as he leaves this room, will be an enemy again.

doppo embraces what he, before, would've thought was darkness.

what he finds in return leaves him feeling empty.

chuuaku.

futile devices. 1,351 words, 1/1, complete.

There are barriers that cannot be broken down from the outside without hurting the one hiding inside, and Chuuya, surprisingly, has always respected him as a person. Now that all is done, that his loyalties have dragged him to his death and back, Akutagawa wishes he had never decided to hide inside himself. Not from him, at least.

chuuya and akutagawa meet late at night.

gen.

gin-centric.

we die alone, we'll all die young (what you care to die for?). 8,935 words, 1/1, complete.

"Akutagawa saved my life. Before he died," he says. It sounds like there is something else behind it, a turmoil that has been brewing inside him all this time. The why's. It must seem contradictory, that a destructive force to be reckoned with is capable of acts of self-sacrifice and kindness, that it is capable of gentleness. At least the weretiger has no way of knowing how much good Ryuunosuke was capable of. He knew the version of the man who was created in the mafia; she knew her brother for who he was outside of that. "At the time, my brother thought saving you was worth it," Gin mutters, standing up. She holds the coat in both hands. "I hope he was right."

Ryuunosuke Akutagawa dies on the battlefield. Gin is left to collect the pieces.

yosano akiko & kunikida doppo.

we can plant a memory garden. 4,267 words, 1/1, complete.

“We must go to the rest of the patients.”

Yosano grimaces, but nods. As Mori leads her in one direction and the general leads the boy in another, Yosano half-turns and says:

“Akiko Yosano! Don't forget that name!”

at eleven years old, akiko already knows what war looks like.

at eleven years old, she meets a boy.

tachihara michizou & tanizaki junichirou.

and they saw trouble in my eyes. 2,015 words, 1/1, complete.

(Now that everything is done, that he got what he wanted to get, he realizes this doesn’t make him feel better. This doesn’t make him feel any way at all, to be honest—he’s still bored, confused and alone. He feels kind of bad, though. For bringing this up. For trying to use someone else to distract himself from... what? His own faults?)

tanizaki and tachihara's training session—or tachihara pointing and shooting, in more senses than one.

#bsd fics #shin soukoku #chuuaku #kunichuu #tachigin #soukoku #ranpoe #yosano akiko #kunikida doppo #tanizaki junichirou #tachihara michizou #gin akutagawa

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rowretro · 3 months

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𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓

WARNINGS: Hardcore Drug usage, underage drinking/smoking, abuse

✧taglist✧: (Idk if there is anyone who asked, but Im starting to confuse every taglist on each series)

✧CHAPTER 4✧

“Are you seriously high this early in the morning? The first lesson hasn’t even started yet fucksake y/n… Riki can’t race tonight because of your junkie ass.” Heeseung complained as the girl rolled her eyes. “Im sober when i'm high or drunk broski, not my fault he’s weak” y/n added as Heeseung facepalmed. The male had walked in on his high sister, snuggled up with a high Riki who had a race scheduled for this very day, beside them a broken, burnt out guitar that had homework stuffed in. She’s one hell of a bad influence on him.

The male wasn’t racing due to his recent high, he couldn’t take the risk of going on the track, speeding and seeing stars before he even got to the juicy part of his young age. He was too young to die. He hated it. God he’d never even look in the direction of coke ever again… So he called her up to smoke some weed after school. “Why did he even do that shit he’s never even done it before…” Heeseung mumbled as y/n frowned, turning to him “That was his first time?” the girl asked, now feeling bad for even agreeing to do coke with him.

“Yeah, guess he wanted to try and since you're a junkie who knows literally every dealer to even breath in South Korea” Hee added as the girl rolled her eyes “he does weed though right?” She asked as Hee frowned “Yeah, anyone could get weed if you think about it, anyways point is, let him influence you, stop influencing him, if you deal any hardcore drugs with anyone, dad will happily give you his position as a drug lord.” Hee pointed out as the girl turned to him, glaring holes into his head, the poor girl failed to notice the obviously closed door before her as she walked into it, hitting her head pretty hard.

“AHH FUCKING FICKLE HEAD- ” She groaned as she sat on the floor "every goddamn time" Hee snickered. Heeseung sat beside her, the two sitting on the freshly mopped school grounds, by the tall lockers. They had arrived early to school since Heeseung was dropping her off. "You know... Riki used to race illegally... and well some one who had connections to a more legal company saw him and his skills which is how he's so famous now." Heeseung pointed out as he turned to her.

y/n sighed as she took a sip of some cold, refreshing gin out of her flask, as she turned to Heeseung "It's not going to happen Heeseung... racing is just a princess dream." Y/n simply said as Heeseung sighed. If it was anyone other than Heeseung Jungwon or Sunoo who dare to even bring up racing with her, that person oughta go home with a rearranged face. It seems Riki was lucky.

It's funny how something someone loves so dearly and always dreamed of having some day, could turn into something they dread so much, they don't want to even hear anything of it. To y/n racing was her first love, her bittersweet lover who left her with a fresh wound that can never be treated. Maybe she stuff a human in that car shaped hole in her heart.

Heeseung patted her head as he got up "The offers always up if you're down to make your dreams come true." Heeseung said as the girl scoffed "I don't have dreams... dreams are for losers" she remarked. "Well, I know a little 7 year old who always annoys me with her dream plans to be a racer in her flaming pink race car with a nice disco ball inside... I'm sure you wouldn't mind making her dreams come true" Heeseung added with a smile, seeing that she didn't spit any snarky comebacks at him.

"Even if she's being a stubborn, annoying and showing me a little attitude, she's still my baby sister... I'd hate for her dreams to disappear like that" Heeseung simply said before leaving the girl with her own thoughts. It's true, her whole childhood, she always wanted to be a racer. She never actually watched any racing programmes, just the fast and furious movies, her favourite being 2 fast 2 furious. Perhaps why the specific pink colour of car

✧𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓✧

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doonalli · 17 days

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Ranmaru: Doubts in Humanity, and Humanity in Doubts (Ranmaru Character Analysis)

Ranmaru is a character who is already talked about lots in the community so I am not too sure how much I can add to the discussion, but I am sure gonna try.

Ranmaru's character is one that slowly doubts his humanity more and more as the chapter goes on, but even with that he shows an aspect of humanity like all the dummies do. He shows it though his doubts, and his doubt in his own humanity is one major component of that.

His doubts start off small when we first meet him, not being very confident in his first conversations, and during the obstructor fight he is surprised when his plan ends up working out, and this lack of confidence continues throughout the chapter. When first entering the discussion room Ranmaru asks Sara an important question, he asks

and he adds that

however anyone who has played the game can tell you that this mentality doesn't last for long, because by the time the truth of the consent form is revealed, Ranmaru IS willing to kill. He even says as much

So what changed? Why is Ranmaru now willing to kill? I'd argue it's because he has had doubts placed in him, since the scene in the discussion room played out it has been proven to Ranmaru that he IS in fact a doll, and he's become aware of the time limit placed on him through his battery and saw Kurumada get heavily injured, causing him to realise he doesn’t want to die.

Beyond that he also has a reason now, a goal, right before the fight with Maple she tells Sara and Ranmaru about the final round rule and Ranmaru finds out that there is a way he can leave alongside Sara, Ranmaru makes it clear that when he is with Sara, he feels more and more of a strive to live,

This moment shows just how much of Ranmaru’s own self value is tied to Sara. Her power to inspire is now put into a negative context, by inspiring Ranmaru, who at first didn’t even care for life, (shown in his victim video,) to want to live, it pushed him into a corner where there is only one way out. A way marked with murder.

It recontextualises all the previous moments in the game where it was up to Sara to inspire the others like with Kanna or Nao or during the second Main Game by showing how it can just as much affect someone in a much more negative way. In the way Sara can inspire Nao to “overcome any difficulty” she can just as much push someone like Ranmaru into a situation where this want to live can lead to the worst scenario.

and this will to live is shown even before this moment.

When Kurumada is injured and attached to the charger he tells everyone that the charger would be better used to extend the lives of the dummies, Ranmaru ends up being the only one present who doesn't speak up against it no matter what, Anzu does it by default, Hayasaka takes her place if she is dead and if they both ended up dying its Hinako who steps in, but Ranmaru always stays silent, even literally having a dialogue box in the logic route where he just goes

in place of where Kanna spoke against Kurumada in her route, right after he tries to give up the charger. It makes sense considering just how close we are to the scene where he outright tells Sara he is afraid to die.

When he brings up the idea of winning Sara at first refutes the idea, claiming she wants everyone to escape together, and Ranmaru agrees... until his doubts start to set in again, asking

He cites that the more he is with Sara the more and more he wants to live and the more afraid he gets to die. Sara responds by telling him that everyone feels the same, he says that that's exactly why they need to win, claiming that while he can't imagine killing Sara, he is sure he could kill anyone else pleading Sara to win for him. From this point on Ranmaru's actions and arc are defined by Sara's response. Starting with the Emotion route Sara tells Ranmaru that they are all allies and they overcome hardship together she makes it clear that Reko/Alice Qtaro Kanna and Gin would never do anything like that, and Ranmaru simply responds with

to Ranmaru Sara just compared him to all the humans, to her allies, and told him, while he is still struggling with his sense of humanity, that the HUMANS would never do what he tried to do, and Ranmaru takes it that way, claiming that he has no right to be her "friend", or "ally". while it was definitely not her intention as shown by the scene afterwards where she realizes that she was the one who gave him hope, even after he already gave up, and promises that while she can't make a choice like that, she won't abandon anyone, including Ranmaru, nonetheless the damage was already dealt and the effects of that are shown going forward...

We continue to see Ranmaru's doubts when he is faced with the choice to tag Kurumada, in the end however despite getting permission from Kurumada he decides what he is doing is wrong but that he lost the will to fight back against Midori, still unsure and doubting what he should do Hinako walks in to help.

After beating the charge collar game Ranmaru apologizes to everyone, or at least he tries to before Yabusame steps in and tells him that that's not what he says here, he then thanks everyone instead.

Later when interacting with Keiji's coffin and Sara thinks Keiji might have died Ranmaru is the one to step up in this route and tells Sara to not give up hope, while he isn't sure HOW Keiji got out, he is confident in his assertion that Keiji is alive, shutting down the doubts others have now instead of being the one who doubts.

The next major scene is Ranmaru's confrontation with Keiji. By calling Keiji through a fake announcement using his voice he confronts him in the classroom, hearing he killed Kurumada (or so he thought) he calls Keiji out for supposedly being a part of Asu-naro. He tells him Sara trusted him even signing the form for his sake, and in the end, he still brought Sara into the death game. Keiji calls him out for his jealousy claiming that he just wants to be the one to protect Sara, the one closest to her, even if he isn't in the right, but on this route Ranmaru denies it saying he doesn't matter in this and that he just wants to help Sara. Keiji responds that he can't be that person, and on this route only, specifically saying

Ranmaru responds in shocked silence, before saying of course he knows that and asking him to hand over Midori's head. Again, Ranmaru is told to his face that he is a doll and again he is told that he can't be close to Sara because of that, and he just accepts it now, feeding into that lack of humanity he felt and into his doubts from the previous time he was in the classroom, with Sara instead of Keiji.

Having all these doubts pile on him, from Keiji, from Sara, from himself, he shocks both Sara and Keiji and takes Keiji away from there, making sure to take the ID card in the process, he makes his way to the AI-ciever and attempts to upload the Joe AI into him. He claims that he couldn't be anything after all, as if this thing, this inherently inhuman thing, was the only value he could give to Sara at this point as a doll. After all, leading up to this point he already has been useful to Sara through the use of his steam spray upgrade part. Throughout the chapter again and again Ranmaru is told that he can’t be Sara’s ally, that he can’t be the one closest to her, all things that Joe is. Ranmaru, in an effort to provide value to Sara and actually become that person, he literally almost loses himself in that process by giving up his own consciousness and replacing it with Joe’s, someone who was Sara’s friend, someone who can be the closest to her.

During the pre-Banquet Sara can ask Ranmaru 3 things, 2 of them directly being related to him as a doll, being his battery and asking him if he wants to change upgrade parts, even afterwards Ranmaru asks a simple question.

No longer really valuing himself as a human, but talking about himself as though he is a tool.

If all the dummies survived and Yabusame starts singing their song Ranmaru will have a moment of true happiness not stuck to his usefulness, He doesn’t feel the need to take something on himself, but instead he just tries to sit back, listening to the others, and he genuinely enjoys it.

However, if all the dummies survived and Yabusame starts singing their song Ranmaru will have a moment of true happiness not stuck to his usefulness, He doesn’t feel the need to take something on himself, but instead he just tries to sit back, listening to the others, and he genuinely enjoys it.

and if Kurumada dies he claims

Resolving himself, and when entering the coffins he either goes in with no complaints or he is actively the one telling everyone to enter, specifically if Kurumada is the only dummy to die he will say

Before going into the Banquet however, I think it's time to talk about the other route. In this route, when Ranmaru asks about winning, Sara instead of denying him like in the Emotion route, incites him into doing it himself, albeit implicitly. She tells Ranmaru SHE could never kill an ally causing Ranmaru to say he could do it himself, acting as a dark mirror to Sara's claim that they are all allies and that they wouldn't ever kill each other, she continues to tell Ranmaru that she wouldn't want to make Ranmaru do such a thing, but at this point Ranmaru has already decided to do it on his "own" so Sara isn't really fighting his remarks, finally Sara tells Ranmaru that she wouldn't want to hurt him, and that he is her precious friend. From the other route we could tell how much Ranmaru places value on his "friendship" and the same goes here, ultimately Sara breaks out of her mindset after Ranmaru brings up Keiji, but the damage is already done and Ranmaru got enough encouragement to start thinking of his plan.

In the way the Emotion Route shows the negative aspects of Sara inspiring everyone the Logic route shows the negative outcome of placing all this pressure on Sara through the overreliance on her, in a moment of weakness where she wants to be relieved of the pressure of her allies she ends up manipulating Ranmaru into taking that responsibility to have the two of them escape together on himself and relieve her of the pressure from her allies.

Until then though, the next time a big split between the routes happens is when Keiji is thought to be killed in his coffin. Instead of comforting Sara here Ranmaru does the exact opposite, despite Sou telling Sara he can't believe Keiji died Ranmaru doubts it, telling Sou that Keiji must be here since the shutter is still closed, using the same excuse he fought against in the other route, and he tells Sou to not give Sara half-hearted hope, Sou asks Ranmaru is he doesn't want Sara to have hope, which he denies before reluctantly agreeing to search for Keiji.

Finally, during his confrontation with Keiji, once he calls him out for wanting to be the one closest to Sara instead of denying it he asks his

which Keiji responds with by simply saying he can't, this time not even calling him a doll, or himself a murderer, just a

Ranmaru tells him to shut up and the rest of the interaction continues as normal with Sara being stunned alongside Keiji (although now Ranmaru claims he is going to save Keiji for last).

When Sara awakes Ranmaru shows up to reveal Kurumada "died" however this is proven false once Kurumada barges in and punches Ranmaru, he shouts at everyone to hurry to the lower floor locker room, and everyone does... Once entering Sara sees something horrible...

Yabusame dead, hanged by the ceiling trap in the room. Kurumada calls Ranmaru out for being the one who killed them, as he heard him over the transceiver saying something about winning, finally Ranmaru drops his facade and outright tells everyone he did it, much to the dismay of all the dummies, Midori enters and Ranmaru gives him back his ID card, asking him to get rid of the dummies in the process, which he obliges to by bringing Maple 2.0 to fight the survivors. After the fight, when Maple tries to kill Midori, Ranmaru will stun her causing her to fall and explode. Seeing how Ranmaru changes makes so much sense when considering things from his point of view, waking up as a doll the first thing he sees is a video of him dying, and in it all he can say to himself is

something so tired, something so uncaring of whether you lived or died right until the end, having to see something like that coming from yourself would be so horrible to experience, and right after that he is told he can have another chance at life, as long as he can kill Sara. However when he meets Sara she ends up being someone who Ranmaru in his own words, makes him feel more and more like he wants to live, Ranmaru placed and his life's value on Sara but isn't able to live alongside her until Maple gives him an option that lets him escape alongside her and actually live. Sara's answer, whether it's encouragement or rejection, affects Ranmaru so deeply because of how much value he places on Sara.

It sort of plays into his whole speech about "making your own choices'', because despite his words of THAT being what defines a human, when he later takes off his hand, he still takes it as confirmation he isn't human, but even past that he continues to not make his own choices, now the choices are Sara's to make, or when he thinks about tagging Kurumada he never actually makes any choice, he just hesitates and doubts himself. Even going forward his confrontation with Keiji and what he does with the Joe AI is all for Sara's sake, not for his own, and him killing Yabusame, while partially for his own survival as called out by Hinako

is under the notion of protecting Sara and them BOTH escaping together. Even being instigated by Sara in the first place.

This lack of humanity continues into the Banquet where Ranmaru out right states it himself, even reveling in it on the Logic route.

However there is one moment in particular that shows a bit of growth on Ranmaru’s behalf, specifically in the emotion route.

When Anzu’s coffin is about to be picked Ranmaru will ask Midori to change his choice, telling him

and even when the other dummies express their doubts, saying that they could be picked instead, Ranmaru stands firm on his belief, not from a lack of value in himself, but from a belief Keiji’s coffin could be hit instead. Expanding his view from exclusively being about Sara to actually try and protect someone else, making good on his promise to not complain anymore and learning from the determination of the dummies.

Ultimately he still dies, dispelling Sara’s doubts in the emotion route, and asking for someone to save both Sara and Gin, or regretting not being able to get his “happy ending” he believed in during the logic route.

Ranmaru's character ends up so far removed from "humanity", but at the same time so different from where he started. Despite starting off by claiming to not be able to kill anyone, after seeing Kurumada injured, seeing his own battery was running out, and accepting he isn't human, Ranmaru brings up the idea and even possibly goes through with it, all due to his doubts of there being any other way of making it out with Sara.

Despite this however I still think Ranmaru is human, because it's human to doubt your worth to the others around you, it's human to want more from your life, and it's human to doubt in yourself. Even if time and time again Ranmaru is shown to physically be a doll, and even if he thinks that proves his inhumanity, Ranmaru is still human, and his doubts are the very thing that proves it.

In a way I love how Ranmaru’s relationship with Sara evolves into something romantic, from Maple's words to the symbolism of the red string of fate to the very concept of the final round rule. It acts as an opposite to Joe’s platonic relationship with Sara in how he tries to be who Joe was, being the one closest to her, who protects her, despite never being able to, but I also love it because love is commonly portrayed as the most human emotion, the highest form of connection with someone, or else the best thing that could happen to someone, a “happy ending”.

But that isn’t the case with YTTD and following this “happy ending” ends up sending Ranmaru into a downwards spiral, but in a way that also prove his humanity, because YTTD makes it clear again and again through characters like Q-taro, like Sou, and of course, like Ranmaru, since humanity isn’t just about the best aspects of someone, but also the worst.

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Wow I finally finished this lmao, took long enough. HOPEFULLY Mai and Hinako's will come out quicker but no more promises from me lol.

I was worried I wouldn't be able to add too much to the discussion around Ranmaru since he is obviously probably the MOST discussed when it comes to the Dummies or just 3-1 in general ngl (except Midori maybe lol) but I hope I managed to actually do it well in the end. If you did enjoy this though I would recommend checking out my posts on Anzu, Hayasaka, and Kuruamada too! I think I had more to say with them personally.

also you might have noticed a lack of me talking about the whole entire Yabusame death scene and the aftermath of that, I'm planning to make a whole post just about it because ITS SO GOOD ISTG and yet at the same time I see it so slandered, but I want to finish this series of posts first.

I also want to thank Crazy Sunshine for helping me with proof reading!!

and that's all! so thank you for reading!! hope you enjoyed!!!!

#your turn to die #yttd #yttd analysis #yttd dummies #yttd spoilers #ranmaru yttd #ranmaru kageyama #analysis #character analysis #what a loser ngl/aff

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if you're still doing the insta as ... gf series for bsd, can you please write it for either Gin or Kouyou

if not that's totally fine

I hope you have a good day (love the series)

Insta as Gin's GF

a/n : I LOVE Gin with my whole heart and I truly headcanon her being the QUEEN of sarcasm, hope you like it<3

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Yn_theoneandonly : my sweet girl @.Gintonic

Yosanurgirl : she's such a stray cat in need of love

↳ Gintonic : what did you just say 🤨

↳ Yosanurgirl : nothing babe

↳ Ranthebestpo : you're the stray cat

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : cmon children don't start

↳ Yosanurgirl : girls tonight I wanna go to this club that just opened, want to join me ?

↳ Gintonic : don't ask me twice

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : i'm in

↳ Daze_i : me too 🤗

↳ Yosanurgirl : since when are you a girl ?

↳ Daze_i : I can protect you

↳ Chu_uya : coming too

↳ Yosanurgirl : fuck it

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Gintonic : vip table 🥰

Yn_theoneandonly : don't forget the big scary dog privilege

↳ Daze_i : see ? it was a great idea to join

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : was talking about Gin...

↳ Daze_i : well, imma act like I never read that

FukuZAWA : you ate that up

↳ Ranthebestpo : LMFAO WHAT ??????

↳ KunikiDA : Boss ????????????????

↳ Yosanurgirl : I've just spat out ALL MY DAMN WATER

↳ Gintonic : babe @.Yn_theoneandonly your father learned how to use insta

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : went private

↳ Gintonic : healthy reaction

↳ FukuZAWA : ate and left no crumbs

↳ Daze_i : FOR THE LOVE OF ME STOP IT BOSS

↳ Ranthebestpo : it's not him, I refuse to believe it's him, Katai did something

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Yn_theoneandonly : I found love, where it wasn't supposed to be

Akutagawa : that's gay

↳ Gintonic : wow thanks bro for describing my relationship, that's an act of pure intelligence and great reflexion, i'm so proud of you

↳ Akutagawa : no I wasn't talking about the photo, was talking about the quote

↳ Gintonic : just keep that stupid mouth of yours shut and you'll be fine

↳ Akutagawa : I can't tell you anything

↳ Gintonic : next time you wish to speak, think about it. redo the sentence AT LEAST 50 time in your head and if you think it's intelligent, stay quiet

↳ Yosanurgirl : ate that

Gintonic : I love you my little goblin

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : me too sweetgremlins

↳ Yosanurgirl : I LIVE for this type of cringe

↳ Gintonic : imma dismember you

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Daze_i : they lost a bet @.Gintonic @.Yn_theoneandonly

Chu_uya : Gin you look atrocious

↳ Gintonic : run.

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : Dear Chuuya, I'm writing this message to say goodbye. You are indeed going to die. So I'd like to ask you to put me in your will, please. I promise to take care of your hat, not to curse your grave and to empty your bank account. Kiss

↳ Daze_i : HEY NO I'M THE HEIR

↳ Ranthebestpo : In what world are you his heir ?

↳ Daze_i : in every damn one, I'M THE ONE WHO ADOPTED HIM

↳ Yosanurgirl : 🤓☝️ actually this is not true

Gintonic : sweetgoblin @.Yn_theoneandonly, i may be late for our date, wait for me, the bastard runs fast

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : don't worry gremlins, i'll wait, want me to ask Dazai for help ?

↳ Gintonic : Higuchi is already here, i'll be fine

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : the feeling of soon-to-be-rich is exquisite

↳ Gintonic : i know 🥰

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Yn_theoneandonly : my gf is prettier than you

Yosanurgirl : I supposed Chuuya paid for everything ?

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : you're so clever !!!!

↳ Yosanurgirl : what happened ?

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : never underestimate Gin's stamina for a start, then Chuuya made a deal to..... not die, he pays for all our expenses for 1 month

↳ Yosanurgirl : @.Chu_uya can you insult me ?

↳ Chu_uya : I keep my fucking mouth shut now

↳ Gintonic : one time thing, sorry love

↳ Atsushiii : @.Akutagawa I swear Gin is scarier than you

↳ Daze_i : not hard to do

↳ Akutagawa : I stopped trying to understand her a while ago, you know.

FukuZAWA : girlboss

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : Boss if you love me please stop

↳ KunikiDA : KATAI STOP IT

↳ Yosanurgirl : it's Katai ?

↳ KunikiDA : Yes.

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : oh... it makes sense now

↳ Daze_i : I am disappointed

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : why ?

↳ Daze_i : thought the old man had finally loosened up

↳ Ranthebestpo : WELL IM GLAD HE DIDNT

Hey!!! I hope you liked it ? I had SO MUCH fun writing this, it's been a while since the last "insta as" and it feels soooo good to be finally back

with love <3

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my-my-my · 1 year

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Do you have some meta hcs on Aizen?

Ugh yes, I love me some meta HCs!

The way Aizen ruled Las Noches would be similar to how he would rule once he became the Soul King. Beings would be given rankings based on their strengths, but it was still equitable (i.e. The Espada were ranked, but they had their own "kingdom" that were fairly equal in size/capacity between each of them).

I think he did this because he hates the concept of the Great Noble Families that reside in Soul Society. I think he's someone who despises nepotism, and the Great Noble Families are living proof that nepotism rules.

Aizen misses teaching. I saw some people remark that maybe "he likes the sound of his own voice", but I disagree. I'm of the opinion he liked imparting knowledge, and he wanted to get more students to critically think about Soul Society. I don't think he met many students in this regard though, because a lot of them fawned over him for superficial reasons.

I'm putting the rest behind a cut because it'll get too long otherwise!

In a way, the way Aizen wanted to speak to Ichigo, and just Aizen's rebelling/criticisms of Soul Society, remind me a lot of Socrates. There was even this whole thing with Socrates and "corrupting the youth" that he was charged with. Shunsui and Urahara didn't want Aizen to speak to Ichigo at the end, and I like to believe it's because they knew Aizen would tell Ichigo about the corruption Soul Society was built upon. Can't have the hero learn that he was working for a morally corrupt institution, can we? 🙃

Going back to the Trial of Socrates and Aizen's own trajectory, there are some similarities:

They both committed "blasphemy" (Socrates didn't believe in the Greek gods, Aizen disregards the Soul King).

They led their "followers"/"students" to question the basis of their society (corruption of the youth). It's good to note that Aizen wasn't totally successful with this, only Tosen and the Espada were followers, Gin was following Aizen for his own revenge.

Both of their trials were held with majority, if not all, male-led jurors (Aizen and Central 46) who decided their sentencing.

Both condemned to death (in Aizen's case, because he's immortal, 20,000 years but that might as well be death...)

Both could have escaped and dodge their punishments, but opted not to. Socrates was given an out, but took his death penalty. Aizen was temporarily exonerated for wartime service, and willingly went back to serve the remainder of his time.

In one of the novels (I think Spirits are Forever with You), Shinji and Momo talk about how Aizen probably wasn't lying to them as much as he wanted them to believe, and I would agree with them. Yeah, Aizen is a master manipulator, but he probably said a lot of "half truths" rather than full-blown lies. It's easier to manipulate someone when there's some semblance of proof to work from.

I'd like to think that at the end of Bleach, Aizen doesn't have the goal to become the Soul King anymore, but he does want change to happen in Soul Society. It's whole existence is based on a lie, and Aizen wants to see its reform. My own headcanon is that once that happens, I think Aizen would want to die - and since the hogyoku is tied to him, it would take away his immortality.

Again, a lot of people see Aizen as a narcissist, but I don't see it. Aizen wanted to be Soul King because he saw everyone else being unable to take a stand. He literally followed the quote "be the change you want to see in the world". He fully acknowledges that Yamamoto is stronger than him, Urahara is smarter than him, but those two refuse to do anything to fix the system. It's why he can acknowledge them, but can't respect them. Why have all that power and not try to change?

Last one lol: I'm of the opinion Aizen likes bullying Hitsugaya lmao. The way Aizen just reads him so easily and doesn't care to fuck around with him. A part of me thinks it stems from jealousy towards Hitsugaya for having people care for him. Another reason is that Aizen doesn't think Hitsugaya is the prodigy everyone else claims he is. Aizen just cuts him down in true "is this your MAN?!" fashion lol

Thanks for this ask!! I hope this is what you wanted in terms of "meta" lol

#aizen sousuke #sousuke aizen #aizen sosuke #sosuke aizen #bleach #bleach writings #aizen headcanon

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memestockpile · 2 months

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the terror (2018) feel free to change as needed.

of all the hardships, this may be the toughest.

it's three courses tonight, and a dessert.

it'll be over before you know it.

it's worse than anything in the world.

that's a vivid description.

passed clean through my arm.

i don't want to be the first one to say the word, but we're all thinking it.

there is nothing worse than a man who has lost his joy.

what i fail to understand is why you chose not to speak up.

i have been there when souls have passed. a great peace descends.

you have my word.

god lies in all realms.

this place wants us dead.

it's certainly good to see color in your cheeks again.

you know what men are like when they are desperate.

be sure to come back with a story.

thought you could do with a bit of a laugh.

what are you doing down here?

funny to think of this place as home, isn't it?

if only sleep were as simple as closing your eyes.

either you're a clairvoyant or i'm not doing half the job i think i am concealing my thoughts.

those who are quickest to tally your value often do it on your spots alone.

what's it like, to shoot a man?

you've a gift with that.

come over here, darling.

you've made yourself miserable and distant, and hard to love, and you blame the world for it.

there are some things we were never meant to be to one another.

stay down here alone long enough, and you'll hear and see everything.

does that really work on anyone, [name]?

[name] will have your head.

your crisis is an opportunity for you to repair yourself.

nature doesn't give a damn about our plans.

you've got some face. you know that?

oh, go to hell.

i know you, of all people, will understand that.

i never wanted anything as little as i want this now.

it's very wet on your cheeks to be nothing.

the past tense is a very sturdy thing.

keep your pity.

get some sleep and be fed and ready to go at six.

tell me where you found it. exactly where you found it.

you ain't going to die out here, love.

as unkind as it may seem now, it will spare you my resentment later.

there's nowhere in the world i'd rather be than here now.

i will never understand this mania.

there's something i wanna say, but i hardly dare speak the words.

you settle yourself, lad. we need to clean and salt you, then we'll dress these wounds.

it is past my bedtime

you are my loved one.

i like those words very much. i'd like to learn more.

you must wonder what we're doing here.

are you always this cheeky?

your nails are a terror.

you were very ill for a week.

you shouldn't carry heavy things until your wounds mend.

in this cold, no one should be out here for more than half an hour.

put a bullet in my head before i drink gin.

your kindness is unstoppable.

you're frozen through.

i've heard teeth can explode in air this cold. imagine.

i might call you doctor. you're sounding very like one to me just now.

close your eyes. hold your hand out.

you're getting quite expert, i hear.

you don't want to live. look at you.

you know what you have to do and you don't do it.

don't ever call me [name] again.

[name], i'd like you to join us.

not a word of this to anyone.

we always feel worse in the darker months, don't we?

you said you wanted the truth.

i don't need to see it to know it's here.

yours is the only company that i don't completely hate right now.

i feel like christ, but with more nails.

every word i say hurts.

i've got you, [name]. you can count on that.

that sort of thing can change your sense of what the point is.

we've not heard that sound in far too long.

don't wait to choose until all the best ideas are snapped up.

no man is alone here.

every day it's like a trap door. like something's about to open up and pull me into space i won't get back from.

i think what you need to do is keep busy.

why do you want to die?

a little fun is what is needed.

ignorance is a choice.

say what's on your mind. you're among friends.

it might help to say it out loud.

if you don't sleep, you're no good to anyone.

my nose and my stomach, they don't know horrible from supper.

i didn't want to tell you, but i’ve always been queasy around pain and blood.

profoundly unhelpful.

we share a burden, you and i.

i need you to shoot me.

you should have fetched me.

to my knowledge, this has never been done.

it's best if we keep our talk low.

survival is a nasty piece of business.

i'd happily live in a world with a few less foolish people in it.

my father was a ridiculous man.

that's not how i see you.

mine your courage from a different lode, now: friendship.

are we brothers, [name]?

i get bruises where i don't remember knocking into anything.

that will take away the pain.

i want you to mind what i tell you.

it's hard to tell in this fog.

people there are good.

can you read maps and charts?

you'll have the entire rest of your life to think back on how hard this day was.

i thought i was doing right. i'm the worst kind of sorry.

now, be quiet. you'll get a chance to speak.

no one is coming for us.

neptune's balls!

there is no more holy thing in this world than a friend in need.

you all right, lad?

my stomach is starting to hurt.

who could have imagined such grief would come to us?

there's still a place for you here if you want it.

my knees feel like they've got glass in them.

we'll make the best of a bad situation. like we always have.

our journey is still a long one.

god wants you to live.

you're a good man. there will be poems.

i smell like a thousand year old armpit.

no one could have done a better job.

don't indulge your morals over your practicals.

the elderly have that effect on children.

at least love me enough to admit it.

can we sleep?

i felt forgiven of every poor, weak, or selfish thing within my soul.

to this day, i don't know why i did it.

i love the sea.

you can lie there, not feeling well, while i try and cheer you up.

there's no need for any violence.

you did well. you did so well, son.

what in the name of god took you so fucking long?

you mustn't lose heart.

you're clean. even as your hand is forced by swine.

there is wonder here.

you're a good boy, i know.

i've been looking forward to this.

you hold yourself to the standard of a man you are not, nor should ever have tried to be.

you've let shame drive you on and on.

you must be a surpassingly lonely man.

tell me what you eat, and i will tell you what you are.

open yourself to courage.

never met a man with his soul eaten out.

there are holy things before us.

give me your gun.

you must remember where you are and accept this.

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thefuzzzz · 2 months

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Jasico Bingo Challenge #12!!

Prompt: Ancient Greek AU

Nico and Jason had been "friends" for years. Of course, when Hades found out they were more than just that, the two were separated.

"You are children of different realms," Hades had boomed into the echoing halls of his palace, "it can never be."

Nico tried to argue, but his sharp tongue landed him locked in his bedroom for months to come.

"I will find you a rightful suitor. Then, you will be wed," Hades said one night at the dinner table, per Nico's arguing.

"It will be a loveless courtship," Nico had muttered into his plate. What a hypocrite his father was, a man of death married to a woman who sprung up life with every step.

That night, after being locked away in his room again, Nico sat by the window and watched as the night rolled by. Cold wind whipped his hair.

At the sound of whooshing, Nico whipped his head to the side.

There, he found Jason's smiling face held up by his ability to fly. Nico ginned. "My father will kill you if he sees you here," Nico stated, letting their fingers intertwine.

"No matter, I'd die with your face as the last thing I saw."

"You have a death wish."

"You are King Death's son."

Nico laughed lightly. Then, he remembered what his father had said at dinner. Suddenly, nothing felt so funny.

Japan saw the minuscule shift in Nico's face. "What's the matter?"

"My father...he's trying to wed me away," Nico said softly.

Jason raised his eyebrows before thinking. "By what means?"

"I presume the gladiator's arena."

"I'd kill a thousand men for you, Nico.”

Nico tightened the grip on their hands. The wind was impossibly cold. He wished more than anything to drag Jason inside and hold him close in the warmth, but fear kept them at bay.

"Don't...we can find another way. I don't want to watch you be murdered at the hands of some brute over this."

"Over this?" Jason echoed. "Over the loss of my one true love? You know not the lengths I would go for you, my dear."

Nico looked at him, pained. There was no use fighting it, Jason would register as a fighter. All Nico could do was pray he won.

The following days, Nico hardly left his room. Even in the times he was permitted to by his father, he stayed in bed. He preferred to sleep than be awake in a world without Jason. At least in his dreams, he could find joy in his presence.

The first of three days of battles, Nico sat bored in his throne atop the colosseum, right beside his father. He watched as the two opponents of the first battle fought. He listened as they declared their love for him and tried to impress him with flashy moves. Still, he leaned his head on his hand until one man was declared the winner.

The second match was just as boring. Nico caught himself hoping Jason really did enroll. Then, he stopped the thought out. He couldn't bear to see Jason harmed by one of these desperate men.

The third battle of the day dragged on for too long, in everyone's opinion. Nico could've sworn he heard his one father mutter for it to be over already.

The fourth and final battle of the day came soon after, to the whole arena's relief.

Nico, however, was not relieved in the slightest.

Two warriors came out. Neither were Jason. One was a tall man with shaggy dark hair, and the other was as a man in knights armor Nico had never seen before.

He couldn't see either of them well, considering their distance, but he couldn't see the knight at all under the armor. He wished for it to be Jason, but the armor wasn't his own. Deep down, Nico knew it was futile to wish.

The man with dark hair proclaimed undying love for Nico before drawing his sword. The knight stayed silent, which Nico could appreciate.

The fight was at least interesting and quick. The armored man won with ease. His fighting style was unfamiliar, Nico had never seen it before. He wondered what far away land this man was from. He hoped he never found out.

The next day was the second round. This day only had two fights in it, but the first still dragged on for what felt like millennia.

Nico almost fell asleep, but the itchiness of his royal robes kept him well awake.

The second fight included the armored knight yet again. Nico was glad he was a good fighter, at least he'd be able to marry someone who didn't talk. Maybe he wouldn't mind Jason being around.

The armored man won, progressing to the final fight the next day.

Nico hardly slept a wink that night. He wanted more than anything for Jason to come up to his window that second and whisk him away to another work, but that didn’t happen. He just laid there, with nothing but the rattling of the wind on his window and the undying worry in his mind.

The day of the final battle rolled around. Nico thought his jaw would dislocate with how hard it was clenched. He sat in his throne, watching the two fighters take their places.

He wanted so badly for Jason to show up out of nowhere and convince his father they were made to be together. However, his wishing and wanting never got him anything.

When he looked up from his desolate upset, he realized the fight was almost over. His father was gripping the arms of his throne beside him so hard his knuckles were turning white.

Nico looked toward the battle field as the two gladiators fought. The opponent, a man with many scars and cropped brown hair, battled sharply with the knight. It was clear the brunet was tired, and soon enough the battle would have a predicted win.

Nico convinced himself it wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe he could run away? He could always leave the man at the altar, change his name, and abandon his father’s kingdom. The option of poisoning his soon to be husband didn’t look so bad right now.

When he looked up again, he saw the brunet on the ground, and the knight standing above him. The brunet didn’t move, and his father’s booming voice declared the knight the winner. Nico’s veins turned to ice.

The knight looked up at them triumphantly, but didn’t put his sword away. His battle wasn’t yet won.

He tugged off his helmet, giving way to a familiar face and blonde hair. Nico grinned, jumping up and shadow traveling to the ground so fast he hardly registered Jason’s warm embrace.

Jason held him close with one arm and pointed his sword at Hades with the other. “I won.” He said simply. Nico pulled him down and kissed him softly but desperately before he could get out another bitter word at his father.

"See? You knew not the lengths I would go, my dear."

This is also on AO3:

My card:

#jasicobingochallenge2024 #Ancient Greek au #fanfiction #jasico #fluff #gladiator au #no beta we die like Jason #NOT IN THIS FIC THO #🪻fanfics

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prodigal-explorer · 4 months

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speaking of your turn to die i need your turn to die mutuals you don't understand it's a need

so here are some your turn to die opinions and if you agree with them i'd love to be your homie! i promise i have lots of headcanons and goofy jokes and badly constructed essays.

spoilers for your turn to die up to 3-1b!

my top favorite characters of all time are reko, nao, kai, and jou! honorable mentions are kanna, gin, q-taro, sara, and shin!

i'm honestly not a massive fan of any of the floor masters or dolls in 3-1 purely because i feel like i didn't get the chance to know them well. it's a real shame too because i think they're super cool! just not quite fleshed out enough to my liking. i'm hoping we at least learn more about the floor masters in the finale because they have the potential to be so interesting!

i don't really like shipping in your turn to die, i kinda think it's unnecessary (though i don't hate on people who do ship!), but if i had to pick a ship i like, it would be reko x nao! i think it could be cute, and they have a lot of sweet moments in the game!

my favorite part of your turn to die to play is hands down 2-1. those attractions are so much fun! and all the mystery is insane, the part with the fake mishima ai was INSANEE. i also really liked 3-1 because of the part where you use the lantern to uncover people's memories about hiyori and asu-naro. it was so cool to get a glimpse of people's pasts!

to be honest i'm kind of a noob so i can never get it straight which route is logic is which is emotion (even though it's probably really obvious), but my favorite route is the one where kanna and reko live! i watched a playthrough of a route where shin lives but i didn't really like it as much, even though it was interesting to see that side of it!

this isn't really an opinion, just a confession, but i'm really dumb and really bad at the logic stuff so i lowkey thought it was impossible to save reko for the first like three years of playing the game...i figured it out though!

i've never once used a walkthrough to figure out your turn to die, i've always just used my own brain to figure things out. maybe...uh...maybe in hindsight, that's why it took me so long to figure out how to save reko...

the only character in the entire franchise that i genuinely dislike is keiji. i just think he's kinda creepy and off-putting (though that might be in part due to translation errors)? also i'm lesbian so i don't really find him hot i think he just looks like a muscly piece of popcorn.

in terms of my opinion on who the "mastermind" is i actually have literally no idea? the only idea i kind of have is that it's either sara or keiji because they're the only two who we don't get to see how they signed the asu-naro vow. but i also don't really get how it would be either of them because keiji was a victim of hiyori's tricks too, and sara just seems totally clueless. it makes my brain hurt to think about so i kinda choose not to.

i think the "gin is the mastermind" theory is mind-bogglingly stupid. sorry LMAO-

i think the theory of jou being the son of mr. policeman is actually super cool! i don't really know why it exists but i've seen people talking about it and i think that would be a cool connection.

i've read a few things about the referendum theory and i think it's a cool theory! it kinda make sense, though there are a few holes that i can't logic my way through quite yet. it seems very plausible though, and it would make for an interesting plot!

i don't think shin is overrated at all. he's a super interesting character and i love how he contributes to the story, and all the twists about him are so unique and exciting! i do hate when people water him down to like a soggy little man who's super weak and innocent, though. the coolest thing about him is his fortitude!

in case it wasn't obvious, i am on team "q-taro is the goat", especially after 3-1b. even after accidentally getting the ending where q-taro abandoned all of us i was like "okay but that was lowkey cunty af of him..." i've always been on homie q-taro's side and i also think it's hilarious that he's like supposed to be an american stereotype.

anyway that's all i can think of! i hope some of y'all wanna be friends!!

#your turn to die #yttd #yttd fandom #your turn to die fandom

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allcanonisrelative · 5 months

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E: If you wrote a sequel to "Headed for a land that's far away," what would it be about? (cheating because I know you said you thought about it once oop)

For the fanfic ask meme

Ooh SO YEAH Headed for a Land that's Far Away is a coda to BJ Papa-san where it takes BJ being in a state of extreme exhaustion and vulnerability to finally make a move on Hawkeye. Hawkeye says "We can't do this" before doing it anyway, and the story ends on this note:

“We really can’t do this, Beej.” There’s silence from behind him, and like Orpheus he just has to turn and look. BJ is standing there, tall and broad with his hands in his pockets, his eyes fixed on Hawkeye. “I mean it,” Hawkeye presses, like BJ had said anything at all, “this really can’t be a thing that we do.”

OKAY so I'm actually really glad you asked this because I realized I had no idea where I had saved the bit that I'd started and had to go look for it. Found it on my phone and it's way less complete that I remembered so here, you can have all of it since I don't know when I'll come back to it. Also in the course of this little excavation I finally got up the courage to reply to the comment Granspn left on that story almost a year ago so thanks for that too I guess 🙏

“For something that can’t happen this certainly seems to be —” Hawkeye rolls away and BJ’s words, happening a lot, die on his lips. Until BJ went and opened his mouth Hawk had been lying in bed with him, tucked up against his side while BJ drew absent patterns over the bare skin of his shoulder. Now he’s walking towards the bathroom without a look back, the crooked set of his shoulders and slight sway to his back all the more pronounced when he’s stark naked. This is the third time it’s happened but it’s the first time he’s actually seen Hawkeye, really seen him.

They’re in Seoul. Potter had surprised them with a couple of two-day passes the morning after a marathon in the OR, his first time ever signing off on the two of them going on leave at the same time, something about how he could tell the work was getting to them because of how quiet they’d been in surgery the day before. BJ had looked at Hawkeye when he said it because he couldn’t hold eye contact with Potter, but Hawkeye was just looking at his boots up on the desk, and since there wasn’t really any way they could explain to their CO why the terrible twosome would balk at spending time together (Hawkeye’s words, after they’d left the office), off they went. Hours in a jeep side by side, determined to act as though nothing had changed, every corner they turned pressing him into Hawkeye’s side until he didn’t even need to close his eyes to picture the first and second times — hard and fast up against the wall in that bombed-out building, desperate and furtive in the swamp under the cover of darkness and gin two nights after that.

And now this — on an actual bed with actual sheets with an actual locked door between them and the outside world. There are two beds in the hotel room, and one is pristine, untouched.

BJ is deeply at a loss. Hawkeye wants him – there is no way that he could do the things they’ve done together with as much passion and fervor as he does them if this was Hawk just indulging him, if this was just him helping a buddy out, which is what he seems to be trying to pretend every moment that they’re not actually doing anything.

“Hawk,” BJ says as soon as Hawkeye walks back into the room, a towel around his waist.

“Let’s go out,” Hawkeye says, getting dressed with his back to BJ.

So they go out, and BJ can’t believe it but they have a good time. It’s like they become different people as soon as the night air hits their faces — not altogether different, that’s wrong, it’s more like, like they travel back in time to the last time they were happy together before it happened, like they revert to that state of perpetual anticipation, BJ with his eyes stuck on Hawkeye’s face, Hawkeye performing his heart out to make BJ laugh.

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Weird question, but I wanna know what you think about the use of first names and last names in the Gotei 13, well actually specifically, with Hinamori and Kira.

I rarely hear anyone call them by their first names, which is a shame since I find Momo and Izuru to be such cute names. Shinji and Rose call them by their first names. Gin also called Kira, Izuru (and Hisagi too, but only if you count filler).

Momo only ever gets called Momo by Hirako and Hitsugaya but in relation to her nickname when they were younger (and the track cd)(and Tobiume too in the zanpakuto arc).

It jumped out to me because of how Matsumoto addresses them. Kira is uniform and polite so only ever addresses her as Matsumoto (that I'm aware of), however both Hinamori and Renji address her as 'Rangiku-san'. She addresses Hisagi and Nanao by their first names, maybe because Hisagi was an immediate kouhai (I assume) and Nanao is sort of in their same (age? peer?) group, and yet she addresses Renji by his first name, and Kira and Hinamori by their last names despite the latter three being in the same peer group. I'd hate to think it's because she's not as close to Kira and Hinamori. Is it completely random owing to Renji's main character status, or is there something to it? I have my own headcanons about it, but I wanted to know your thoughts. Thanks!

Ooh, this is such a fun question! Thank you! Our guesses are only as good as anyone else's, but who calls whom what is one of our favorite Bleach topics, and one of the first things we got interested in when coming back to Bleach.

To start at the end of this ask, Renji seems like the kind of guy who's very difficult to be normal about, seeing as not even Byakuya calls him Abarai lmaoo. Kuchiki "full names for everyone" Byakuya. Kuchiki "sure I'll address other captains with -taichou sometimes" Byakuya. Kuchiki "I'll use a weird pronoun no one else ever uses" Byakuya. Who knows what goes on in that man's mind.

Some of my thoughts below the cut:

Shinji and Rose are the weird ones

Shinji and Rose are politicking

These are workplace relationships, or began as them

Renji has Big Renji Energy and so does Matsumoto

Matsumoto is more formal with Hinamori, for Feminism

Individual preference factors in

1. Shinji and Rose are the weird ones

Why do Shinji and Rose take to calling their VCs by their given names so quickly? Maybe that's just what happens when you spend 100 years in exile, though iirc the Vizard were already Like That with each other in TBTP and right up until Aizen revealed himself, Shinji was already "Sousuke"-ing him. I feel like their penchant for given name addresses is a reflection of their iconoclasm, and it's an intentional break from the norm on both their parts that's intended to be jarring. Both of them are interested in Western forms--jazz, whatever… European dandy thing Rose has got going on--and Shinji has adopted Osaka speech, which is typed as being more forthright/loud/brash than Tokyo speech, which also goes with the ostentatious flouting of the established "norm."

2. Shinji and Rose are politicking

I also feel like continuing this practice with Hinamori and Kira functions as a way of asserting to the Gotei that in returning to Soul Society, they're not really interested in any long-winded processes of becoming accepted, becoming trusted, becoming known. If they're going to be 5th and 3rd captains again, the rest of the Gotei is going to have to Deal, effective immediately.

3. These are workplace relationships, or largely began as them

I think it's really not uncommon to be incredibly good friends with a classmate or co-worker, be in each other's weddings, etc., and still call them "Satou-san" until the day you die. That is how you've known them, and to change address now might change the relationship; it might not speak to the history that you have; it might simply seem weird after all this time. I don't necessarily feel like naming is a thing where you're meant to "progress" to more familiar forms of address and if you don't it's a reflection of a relationship that hasn't progressed; it's more loosey-goosey than that. I think particularly if, for instance, you've known someone as "Hinamori-kun" for so long, say, and it feels natural and comfortable to continue knowing her that way.

4. Renji has Big Renji Energy and so does Matsumoto

As far as Matsumoto re: Renji, Hinamori, and Kira goes, I think you're right in that it's not necessarily signaling that she's closer to Renji than she is to Hinamori or Kira. Like I said earlier, I do think Renji is a difficult person to be normal about, and given that Renji and Matsumoto are two of Soul Society's rare extroverts, their relationship may just have that energy.

But we also know Matsumoto and Hinamori are plenty friendly with each other--they've attended rooftop fireworks birthdays together; Matsumoto delivers Aizen's letter to Hinamori; Matsumoto goes along with Hitsugaya's lengthy Soul Society Arc plans. (Sure, Hitsugaya is her captain and she's the VC and what else is she going to do. But also, they were super off task as far as Yamamoto's actual orders went, and these plans were just as much about Ichimaru as they were about Hinamori. Between Hitsugaya and Matsumoto, Matsumoto is really the one who knows both Ichimaru AND Hinamori--and inasmuch as Hinamori may be more knowable than Ichimaru, I still think Matsumoto's knowledge of Hinamori as a friend factored in, too.)

5. Matsumoto is more formal with Hinamori, for Feminism

I feel like Matsumoto is probably aware that Hinamori presents as the kind of person it might not occur to people to address more formally, so Matsumoto uses Hinamori's family name to assert that level of respect/remind others not to fall into the trap of being too familiar. Not that Joe Shinigami would ever slip and call Vice Captain Hinamori "Momo" themselves--but I imagine some do need to be reminded from time to time of the respect she should be accorded. I do think Hinamori is overall incredibly well-respected and understood in terms of her rank. But I also think that this didn't necessarily happen organically, and people like Matsumoto (and Hinamori herself) had to do the work upfront to make sure that happened. (I think Hitsugaya had to do similar work.)

6. Individual preference factors in

What you call someone is partially a reflection of your feeling and partially a reflection of what the named party wants. We've seen Matsumoto ask people to call her Rangiku-san--and while not everyone does (and maybe she doesn't extend the invitation to ALL people), I feel like that's definitely a factor in terms of how many people do. I wouldn't be surprised if this was also true of Renji, who's gone by Renji longer than he's gone by Abarai; maybe it feels to him more akin to a family name in that regard. It's the name that roots him, in ways that "Abarai" cannot.

Kira and Hinamori may feel differently about their family names, and find them more core to who they presently are--Kira because that's his literal family name (and given his dead parents, maybe those roots, in danger of being cut off, become even more important), and Hinamori because like you've also talked about, it's something of a locational name and through that maybe also lends her that feeling of rootedness. (And I maintain that Junrinan Grandma gave her that name. Using my own headcanons as further evidence? DON'T MIND IF I DO LOL.)

As for Matsumoto and Hisagi, as drinking buddies I feel like they've known each other at their least elegant and least compelling, so the context of their relationship may feel very far away from the workplace and just…sloppier than what Matsumoto has with either Kira or Hinamori. XD Hisagi strikes me as someone who is deeply, deeply thirsty for intimacy, and it probably moves some deep, earth-shattering stone in his heart to hear someone call him "Shuuhei." I feel like there's a decent chance Hisagi fell in love with Matsumoto because she'll call him that, rather than the other way around--that is, rather than Matsumoto calling him Shuuhei because after they become oh so intimate. Matsumoto strikes me as the kind of person who will call him "Shuuhei" because she knows what it does to him, even if it's not intended as a declaration of any particularly profound intimacy. (I mean, I think Matsumoto obviously cares for Hisagi very much, but I don't think she's a hopeless romantic damned to the trenches of intimacy insanity that Hisagi sometimes falls into.)

We would love to hear your HCs if you'd like to share them!

#once again apologies for the lateness here #we wanted to finish all the 2022 asks in 2022 and instead wrote one (1) ask response from NOVEMBER #we are not good at running this blog even though there are literally two of us #three if you count Mr. Queue (the only reliable one)#bleach headcanons #bleach language #asks #alexiethymia #no brain just bleach #hisagi is extra pathetic in this post for spice

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razieltwelve · 9 months

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It's The End Of The World As We Know... And I Feel Fine (Final Rose x Bleach)

Diana cast aside the body of the fake Yhwach. What a sneaky fellow they were up against. And what a pity that Yamamoto had already expended much of his power fighting against the fake. That had left Ichigo in the awkward position of trying to fight Yhwach alongside the old Soul Reaper who no longer had the raw energy required to face Yhwach on even footing.

It was quite an ingenious plan, all things considered. And all that bankai stealing crap would have been incredibly annoying if Diana hadn't already worked out how to counter it and taught her subordinates. It turns out that Hollow poisoning was good for more than just killing stuff. Who knew? Wait. She did. Because she was awesome.

Harribel appeared beside her, and Diana smiled.

"What a hard-working subordinate I have. Already done?"

"The threats in my sector have been neutralised."

"And by neutralised...?"

Something that might have been a smile crossed the blonde Hollow's lips. "Dead... or wishing they were dead."

"Wonderful." Diana reached out with her senses. "Hmm... Grimmjow is playing with his food again. Would you go remind him that he should finish working before he plays? Also, check in with the others. I want this situation completely under control by the time I'm done here."

"Understood." Harribel was all business at times like this, for all that she was happy to whack Diana over the head with paperwork in private. "Gin is here."

"Of course. Rangikua was in danger. I gave him full authorisation to go to her and see to her safety. That's also where I sent Zommari."

"Was that really wise?" Harribel asked. "He is a bit..."

"He's a weirdo, Harribel, but he's our weirdo. Besides, he knows how to follow orders, and his abilities are perfect for evacuating a VIP to safety. He can deal with hordes of lesser opponents easily and hold off a stronger opponent long enough to get his VIP to safety. With Gin there too, it should be fine."

"Is Rangiku that important?" Harribel asked. She too was watching the battle before them. Ichigo was doing his best, but it was also clear that he and Yamamoto together were not enough to deal with Yhwach, especially now that the Quincy's other bodyguards had decided to enter the fray, separating Yamamoto from Ichigo and targeting the captain commander while their leader dealt with Ichigo personally.

"Gin is incredibly capable. Just consider what he has accomplished for us in Soul Society. We effectively own the outer districts and have made deep inroads in all of the others. However, his loyalty is not yet ironclad. Protecting Rangiku will further cement it. She cannot be allowed to die."

"I see." Harribel's brows furrowed. "When will you step in?"

Diana looked up as Ichigo soared into the sky, a crimson typhoon, only to be met in mid-air by a storm of blue light. He and Yhwach clashed, with Ichigo being sent tumbling into the ground with enough force to crater it and sent chunks of rubble flying hundreds of yards.

"Hmm... right about now, I think. The twerp isn't ready for Yhwach, not yet. And I'd rather not let Squad Zero get their hooks into him too much. After all, I plan to get rid of a certain obnoxious monk." Diana licked her lips. Ichibei would make for quite the meal, and she'd need to get rid of him first before she launched the rest of her plan.

After all, neither Yhwach or Aizen were wrong about the world being broken.

Their mistake was thinking they'd be the ones to run the place after it was remade.

Nope.

Neither of them truly had the power to surpass the Soul King and remake the very foundations of the world.

Diana did.

And she had learned enough to know what she had to do to fix the structural problems in the way the different worlds had been created. The Soul King had done a fantastic job with the information he had and with the power at his disposal, but the very fact that he had to let himself be mutilated and leave the ruling of those worlds to others meant that the situation had never truly been stabilised.

As things were going, it was only a matter of time before everything came crashing down. Diana was going to fix that, and she was going to give the Soul King the peace he deserved after suffering for so long.

"Harribel," Diana said quietly as she stood to her full height. "I suggest you leave now. Tell the others to retreat as well."

"Diana?"

"Did you know that in all my time as a Hollow that I never once revealed my true form. I never needed to. Not against Barragan. Not against Aizen. But I'm feeling nostalgic today. Besides, I want to remind everybody why I rule Hueco Mundo."

X X X

Ichigo spat blood out of his mouth and stumbled back before catching his balance. Damn it! Yhwach was strong. Really strong. Even with all his training, he was getting his ass kicked. And with the captain commander fighting the other Quincy, he wasn't about to get any -

"What?" Yhwach stopped and stared at the sky. Ichigo followed his gaze.

The sky over Soul Society was burning.

It had turned a deep, malevolent orange, and tongues of that same orange energy lashed out, vaporising anything they touched. Below them the ground began to shake, and cracks spread throughout all of Soul Society. With his spiritual senses, he could feel the very fabric of Soul Society being consumed as -

KNEEL.

The instinct surged through him, and he just barely managed to stay on his feet. Not far away, Yhwach himself swayed.

"What is this?" Yhwach growled. "What have you done?"

"I didn't do a damn thing," Ichigo snarled back, lips curling. "But I think I know who might have."

He only knew one person who liked orange that much.

KNEEL.

The thought came again, and Ichigo took a deep breath. It wasn't a command. No. It was his own body, his own mind creating that thought. It was instinct, a desperate measure his very soul had come up with to try to avoid the threat that was about to appear.

And then he felt it.

Spiritual pressure.

Limitless, infinite spiritual power.

It swallowed Soul Society. It dwarfed both himself and Yhwach.

It was easy to forget, sometimes, so easy to forget that the Hollows hadn't originally followed Diana because of her cunning, intelligence, and plans to improve Hueco Mundo. No. They had followed because none of them could even imagine imagine beating her.

And for all that Hollows could take on a more... primal form to release their full strength, he had never really seen Diana look less than human.

Until now...

A pillar of orange light tore through the sky and then exploded outward, instantly pulverising anything in its path and tearing through the clouds, the ground, the very air itself. If Ichigo had been weaker, he would have died then and there. The Quincy fighting Yamamoto did die.

And standing at the centre of a maelstrom was a monster.

It was vaguely humanoid, but it towered over the battlefield, at least nine feet tall. It had a long, muscular tail, and its feet and hands ended in jagged claws. Hair flowed from its head, seemingly made of molten lava and shaped, at the end, into more claws. Its body shifted restlessly, changing form a thousand times in a split second before settling back into its original shape, only now with countless minute changes and adjustments for the coming battle.

"Ragnarok," the word came from Harribel, who was staring at Diana in awe. "So that's what it looks like."

The creature - Diana - raised her hand, and countless beams of orange light began to surge forward.

No. Not beams of light.

Those were ceros, countless ceros compressed to near mono-molecular thinness and enhanced with that orange energy that Diana was emitting. And then the cero began to change direction, twisting, turning, weaving together to form a net that seemed to capture the entire battlefield.

Ichigo did the smart thing.

He leapt back and waited to see how Yhwach would react.

X X X

Author's Notes

This isn't even her final form! In all seriousness, Diana delayed helping just long enough to ensure that Yamamoto was weakened and would not be able to stop what happens next. Namely, she's going to eat Yhwach, storm the Royal Palace, eat some more people (e.g., Ichibei), and then eat the Soul King.

Then she can remake the world without the structural problems it has. Ichigo is going to be super pissed about it, as are a lot of other people, but Diana is going to do it because it results in the best 'ending' because if she isn't the one to do it, eventually someone else will. And she has studied the worlds enough to fix what is wrong with them.

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I'm bored and i said I'd make at least one of these posts and thought about the other. so instead of making 2 separate ones. I'm just gonna combine those completely unrelated topics into one post. bc i can

anyway here are my bsd pronoun hcs. and also that think i mentioned abt what sibling energy they have (as in youngest eldest etc). edit: i decided to add sexuality hcs too. why not. I'm bored 👍 i think i made a post like that in the past too but this is an upgraded version.

atsushi: he/him. bi. middle child

dazai: he/it. bi. YOUNGEST!!!! i will not budge on this 🧐

ranpo: he/him. gay and ace. simultaneously youngest and oldest and also only child. schrödinger's sibling

kunikida: he/him (for now). aroace icon. eldest child

yosano: she/her. bi. middle child

kenji: he/him. idk he's 14. oldest

kyouka: she/her. idk she's 14. youngest but in a valid way

tanizaki: he/him. bi. canonically eldest...?

akutagawa: he/they/it. acespec. canonically older sibling but nothing says he can't be a middle child too

chuuya: he/him. gay. OLDEST i am not budging on this either

kouyou: she/they. lesbian. only child

verlaine: does not give a shit abt pronouns. gay. wishes he was eldest sibling coded but he is so painfully an only child

tachihara: he/him. bi. canonically youngest iirc?

gin: he/she. ace. canonically youngest but like kyouka, in a valid way

higuchi: she/her. bi. middle child

odasaku: he/him. ace. oldest, obviously

ango: he/him. gay ace. possibly controversial take but only child

poe: he/they/it/xe/ze. gay ace. only child for those spending habits alone fr

lucy: she/her. bi but doesn't know it yet. youngest going through a redemption arc

i don't wanna do any more from the guild. except

mark: he/him. pan. YOUNGEST

fyodor: it's a secret. aroace. only child

mushitaro: he/him. gay. middle child

nikolai: any. gay. only child

sigma: he/she/they. idk they're 3. oldest

teruko: she/they. i actually don't have a sexuality hc for her sorry. oldest trying to pretend she's youngest to see if she can get away with it

jouno: he/they. gay. youngest ofc

tecchou: he/they. gay. middle

ok i think that's everyone i have. hope you enjoyed. as usual feel free to disagree i def did not think deeply abt any of this and will not die on any hill here aside from like 3 options fr

#disclaimer: i clown on youngest siblings a lot here. bc i am one. and i know how annoying we can get 🖤#disclaimer 2: when i say 'idk they're [age]' it's in a ''they did not think abt it that much yet'' way. tbc #ok i think that's all i have to say on the matter. thank you for reading. have a nice day #oh wait disclaimer 3: no old men. they're all gay. and exist in a sibling limbo due to being (somewhat) father figures

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ninthfeather · 3 months

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Ho Ho Ho Hello! 🎅🏻

It’s „funny“ that seemingly it was a tumblr wide bug that questions got eaten! I saw other blogs complaining about it as well!

Anyway it’s an interesting thought!

Do you have headcanons if any characters might be badly wounded or even die in the end battle? For the drama?

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Ugh, I thought it was just a me problem; I tried to save a partial answer as a draft and instead of saving it tumblr froze and the ask disappeared into the aether :/

So, I think there will definitely be injuries, but Gosho has not been very interested in having anyone seriously injured in a way that they don't eventually heal completely from. The sole exception is Kansuke (my beloved) who was injured pre-canon and was presumably created as a character with an injury-related disability. Gosho likes to play fast and loose with medical stuff specifically so that his characters can survive injuries with fewer effects than they'd have IRL, and I don't think he's gonna stop doing that for the finale.

As for deaths, I think there's a chance, but Gosho is, once again, much more comfortable killing people off For Real in the backstory than in the present of the story. He has done it, but a lot of the notable incidents were earlier in the series; I think as DC went on he became (understandably!) more nervous about making permanent alterations to the cast.

I think there's a very good chance that at least one of the spies will either get killed or be thought dead for an extended period of time. I think Camel is probably at the highest risk of this; I think Rei would be a narratively resonant and painful choice too but that he's too popular for Gosho to do that with. Hidemi could also be in danger, but it's been a while since she's been a foreground character and killing her off would not be as impactful now as it would have been like a decade ago.

I think probably most or all of the Japanese police will survive; Takagi's gonna have a near death experience for sure and Sato's gonna lose her mind about it for a bit but they'll both pull through. If Gosho lets the Nagano police be involved, they'll also have some close calls probably. Megure might get shot again, but again, I don't think he'll be killed or seriously injured.

Heiji is also gonna be injured, probably in a way that looks very serious, but again, I think he'll recover without issue. If KID is allowed to show up for the DC finale, he will probably seem to be dead at some point but will turn up later completely uninjured. Ran, Kogoro, and Sonoko will all be in serious peril but none of them will actually get hurt except maybe Kogoro.

As far as antagonists are concerned, I don't feel like the series can end with Gin alive. I would bet on Akai being the one to kill him, but I could be wrong. Probably several other major Black Org characters will also die (specifically of falling off something/being buried under debris/something else indirect), and I would be willing to bet that Vermouth will go out in a way that makes the police believe her dead but leaves Shinichi suspecting that she survived.

I'd *love* if Shinichi got injured in some significant way, because I think it would be symbolic of the impact of this whole thing on his life and because it would increase the Shinichi & Kansuke parallels that I live for, but I do not think it'll actually happen. Every single "Shinichi is injured in a disabling way post Black Org showdown" fanwork lives in my heart, though.

On a related note, I really feel it would be more narratively satisfying if Shinichi ended up with some sort of heart issues post-APTX-4869-cure. I know the part where the temporary cures caused heart issues/were super dangerous was just Gosho's way of making it so he could have Shinichi be fullsize occasionally while still keeping him as Conan most of the time, but at this point, with all of Ai's fussing, it'll feel a little narratively cheap to me if he goes back to being a teenager with absolutely no health complications whatsoever.

I hope you're having a wonderful day and thank you so much for the ask!

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zukkaoru · 3 months

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OKAY UMMMM this is hard bc I know most of this. imma give you a couple:

ezekiel jones bc silly guy & uhhhh chuuya or gin, ig you haven’t done them bc i literally CALLED that you’d love them!!!

also did you know that. um. ily~

hi beloved ily 🥰💕 starting with gin bc. fave 💓💓💓

first impression:

"wait 'he'? i didn't think corey said they were a boy??" and then i think i proceeded to actually pause the episode and check bsd wiki to make sure i had the right character and correctly remembered what you told me about them

impression now:

i need to see them again Right Now. please asagiri bring them back i need to see them i need to know they're okay i need them to reunite with akutagawa and i need to see what happens between them and tachi and and adn

favorite moment:

all of them <3 uhh real answer is i really love the omake where they're going around asking for advice about how to help akutagawa deal with his stress in a healthy way now that he can't kill people

idea for a story:

sometimes i think about a tachigin bodyswap au.. post-doa arc so gin has to deal with tachi's limited vision while tachi is suddenly faced with the brunt of gin's body dysphoria. gin hates hearing their voice but tachi doesn't actually mind it and he won't shut up. gin doesn't mind talking either now though bc their voice just sounds like tachihara's. and they don't actually mind being in his body either. but also having to watch their body from the outside is weird and awful. they have to call akutagawa to pick them up and take them to the agency so dazai can switch them back. akutagawa seems to hate the switch even more than gin and tachihara do.

unpopular opinion:

they're the best character in bsd.

favorite relationship:

any flavor of tachigin and also the akutagawa siblings!!! i want to see more of them in canon asagiri please also i'm kind of really intrigued by their dynamic with dazai,, like we don't really see much interaction between them in canon but i like how i picture their dynamic in my mind bc gin has a lot of complicated feelings towards him and i'm not sure dazai really even realizes that, or at least he doesn't realize the full extent of it

favorite headcanon:

transmasc gin!!!

chuuya:

first impression:

"he's the geto of bungou stray dogs"

impression now:

for someone who has literally the most fans out of all the bsd characters, there are surprisingly few people who even remotely understand them😐

favorite moment:

basic but probably when he comes to save the ada in the helicopter. or the scene in dead apple when he goes to fight the dragon and ango is like "dude dazai's probably dead. you're going to die if you use corruption." and chuuya's like LOL dazai??? dead????? trust me i'd know if that waste of bandages finally kicked the bucket. now stop talking i have a dragon to beat up

idea for a story:

i think i told you about this but a kunichuu 5+1 that's just chuuya not being able to shut up about kunikida when talking to literally everyone at the port mafia. they're spending a half hour talking about kuni during an executive meeting and they aren't even dating him yet. how is this somehow worse than teenage dazai and chuuya, mori wonders. at least it isn't dazai, kouyou argues, blissfully unaware that dazai will end up being part of the relationship too.

unpopular opinion:

i don't like transmasc chuuya. it won't turn me off a fic completely but chuuya is one of those characters like cherry and zuko who gets softened and uwu-ified and oftentimes, this is just made even worse when they're written as trans. which is. a problem across fandoms in general obviously since cherry and zuko get the same treatment. also this shouldn't be unpopular but chuuya didn't spend like eight months crying himself to sleep after dazai left. hello??? do you even hear yourself??? i'm not a big fan of femchuuya either and in fact like that less than femdazai. nor am i particularly into ada chuuya, mostly because people soften their character way too much when they write ada chuuya. i want my chuuya still recognizable as chuuya!!! alas most people can't even get chuuya's characterization right regardless of any au or gender headcanons. anyway i'm sure i have a bunch more but i'll stop here

favorite relationship:

have you heard of kunichuu. or kunichuuzai even. it's not as if we have spoken about this at length multiple times or anything

favorite headcanon:

nonbinary chuuya!!!!!

ezekiel:

first impression:

i first watched the librarians in 2015 i do NOT remember that

impression now:

i miss him :(

favorite moment:

in the apple of discord episode where he snatches the apple but nothing happens bc he's "already the worst version of himself". i don't think we talk enough about the implications of that!!! the others immediately went for murder but ezekiel's "worst version" of himself is?? a thief who's kinda lazy but still clearly cares about everyone around him?? do you understand how insane that is!!!!!!

idea for a story:

once a very long time ago (in high school) i started writing an arospec ezekiel fic. i didn't get very far and i'm sure whatever i had written was bad but it was such a good idea

unpopular opinion:

i don't think there were any popular ezekiel opinions i heavily disagreed with?? best i can think of is that i like caszekiel better than jassandra

favorite relationship:

jazekiel realness..... and i do enjoy caszekiel too

favorite headcanon:

demiromantic/demisexual ezekiel!! it's canon TO ME

#do not ask a woman her age. a man his salary. or zukkaoru what they think of the bsd fandom's interpretation of chuuya #anyway ty for the ask corey ilyyyyyyyy <333 #ask game #corey tag

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