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m1na394 · 7 months

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Fallen angels...together? - Shiki Natsumezaka x Reader

Warnings: Mentions of murder

Word count: 1664

Summary: After getting cast out of Heaven, the reader does the only thing she can do...search for her best friend, who was cast out many years ago.

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You were finally starting to understand why so many humans ended up being late on their first day of school or at a new job. You had asked close to twenty people where you could find at least one of the Student Council members, but not a single one of them stopped to give you the time of day. A part of you understood this, as they all had somewhere to be, but you had hoped that at least one of them would notice just how desperate you were.

After searching for what felt like hours and knocking on random doors, you finally came face to face with a staircase leading to two large doors, and you prayed with everything you had that you were in the right place.

Your legs suddenly started to feel like jelly as you made your way up the stairs, and you unexpectedly became more nervous than before. How was he going to react?

You took a deep breath to calm yourself before knocking on the door a few times. You were very relieved when you immediately heard footsteps on the other side. A few seconds later, one of the doors was pulled open to reveal a very handsome young man with orange-brown hair, and upon seeing you, his lips curled into a smirk.

'Well, well, well... What do we have here?' he asked as his golden eyes studied you from top to bottom, but you couldn't care less about the lustful way he was looking at you. You were there for one person and one person only, and everyone else was irrelevant until you could find him. 'I'm Sogami Urie. What's your name, beautiful?'

'L/n Y/n. I'm very sorry to bother you, but I must find someone with the name of Natsumezaka Shiki. Is he here?' you asked, completely snapping the flirty male out of his daze. You could tell that he was very taken aback by your question, but he quickly plastered a smile back onto his face, as if it didn't bother him that you wanted to give your attention to another male.

'Let me get this straight... You're here to see Shiki?' he asked, and you vigorously nodded your head, becoming more and more hopeful that you would finally see him again. 'That's a first... Wouldn't you much rather spend some time with me? I know of a great carnival we can go to together...'

'No, I really need to see Shiki. Please, it's urgent,' you said, eventually earning a sigh from the golden-eyed devil. He pulled on the door's handle so you could finally see the third library in all its glory, and he turned to look at the only other Student Council member in the room.

'Shiki, there's someone here to see you,' he said, sounding almost bored, and you took a few steps into the room, once again feeling butterflies in your stomach from both nervousness and excitement.

The purple-haired male in question was busy trimming some roses when his blood-orange eyes looked up to see who had entered, and once his eyes met yours, it was like the world had stopped moving. The shock of seeing you again after so many years kept the fallen angel's feet rooted in place, and for a moment, he thought he was hallucinating.

'Do you know this girl by any chance? I won't have any problem throwing her out if you don't,' Urie said as he closed the door once more, finally causing his fellow Student Council member to take action.

'You will not touch her!' Shiki said sternly as he dashed towards you, almost knocking you to the ground with the tight hug he tackled you with. You couldn't stop your tears from falling as you relished the feeling of being in your best friend's arms again, only then realising just how much you had missed him. Just how much you had needed him. 'I... I can't believe it's you... We haven't seen each other in so long...'

'I know. I missed you so much, Shiki,' you said, burying your face in his shoulder as you swayed from side to side together.

'I missed you too. So, so, so, so, so much.'

'Umm, I don't mean to interrupt, but what the heck is going on?' Urie asked with crossed arms, and you both reluctantly pulled out of the hug to look at him. 'Am I just supposed to accept the fact that Shiki knows someone this beautiful and has never mentioned her?'

'There's a reason why I never mentioned her,' Shiki mumbled as he interlocked your fingers, pulling you even closer to him. 'Urie, this is Y/n. She's my best friend and the only person who has always been on my side. She's the only real friend I had in Heaven.'

'Whoa... She's an angel?' the orange-brown-haired male asked, and you could feel all your joy dissipating at his words. You were so excited to be reunited with your best friend that you had completely forgotten what you were doing there in the first place, and Shiki immediately felt the change in your behaviour.

'Well, not exactly...' you said, and as expected, both of the Student Council members looked at you with confused expressions, although Shiki's eyes held concern as well as bewilderment.

'Y/n, what are you talking about?' he asked, worried when you left his grip to take a few steps back, your eyes once again starting to glisten with tears.

'I... I think it's better if I just show you,' you said as you bit your lip, before letting your wings protrude from your back, closing your eyes so as to not catch a glimpse of the dark purple colour you had yet to grow accustomed to. Shiki immediately realised what you meant at the sight of what was once your pride and joy, and he hated to see the disgust you now held for your wings and for yourself.

'Y/n, were you-'

'Please don't be disappointed in me...' you sobbed quietly as you retracted your wings, stopping Shiki before he could finish his question. 'I know you warned me to stay out of trouble, and you told me not to follow in your footsteps, and you probably think less of me now, and-'

'I could never think less of you,' Shiki said quickly before you could continue with your rambling, pulling you back into his arms so he could rub soothing circles on your back. 'I'm not angry, I'm not disappointed, and I do not think less of you, okay? I just don't understand... How could they cast you out? You were by far the most good-hearted angel in Heaven. What happened?'

'I... I... I killed another angel because they wouldn't stop speaking ill of you... I killed them, Shiki!' you admitted shakily, your entire body starting to tremble with your sobs. You felt your best friend's arms tighten around you as your breathing became ragged and uneven, and you were certain that if it weren't for his comfort, you would have succumbed to a full-blown panic attack.

'Shh, it's okay. Everything is going to be okay,' he whispered as he placed a loving kiss on the top of your head, which immediately succeeded in calming you down a bit. 'Y/n, despite everything that happened, you are still the kind, caring, and beautiful angel who gave her entire heart to helping others, and that will never change. You were provoked this time, and I have no idea what that angel said, but it must have been horrible if it caused you of all people to act, so you have nothing to feel ashamed about. Nor should you feel disgusted with yourself. Yes, your wings are no longer pearly white in colour, but your heart still is, and that's something that they can never take away from you. So, instead of feeling disgusted with yourself, embrace your circumstances and use them to your advantage. You can help more humans now that you're here on Earth, and I want you to love your new wings. I know I do.'

'You do?' you asked as you pulled away slightly to look up at your best friend, and he nodded with a soft smile while wiping the remainder of your tears.

'I think the purple wings suit you a lot. And, if you look on the bright side, we can be fallen angels together now,' he said, finally causing the smile to return to your face. 'Y/n, you have no idea just how much I missed you. I've thought about you every single day since I was cast out, and even though it was selfish, some part of me kept wishing that you would return to my side.'

'I thought about you every day too, Shiki. And...that day you were kicked out of Heaven...' you said, feeling your cheeks heat up at the vivid memory. 'I don't know if you remember, but...'

'Of course I do. You confessed your feelings for me, but I was forced out of Heaven before I could do anything. Before I could tell you that I returned your feelings. Before I could ask you to be mine...' he said as his hand slowly moved up to rest against your cheek, causing your breath to hitch. 'I think it's about time we make things right, don't you?'

All you could do was nod your head as the purple-haired devil slowly started leaning in, and as soon as his lips touched yours, you closed your eyes. The butterflies in your stomach started going berserk when Shiki pulled you even closer by your waist, and you wrapped your arms around his neck, immediately granting him access when his tongue swept across your lower lip.

All Urie could do was stand back and watch with fascination, both surprised that you and Shiki had found each other again after so long, and that someone as beautiful as you had fallen for the purple-haired sadist. Literally.

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acquiredmen · 2 years

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Could Shiki's story have been better if dandebi wasn't an otome game? Absolutely. It could've been a great explanation of dark feelings, what it means to "think good" vs be good, about agency and choice and autonomy

Is it really Shiki's fault, as a literal creation of god, that he's like this? Is it his fault if he was never given an outlet, let alone an explanation for his feelings? Is he in the wrong to cling to Ritsuka out of loneliness and drag her down with him, when that's all he's ever known? Is it wrong to punish people for aspects of themselves that they can't control?

Is Ritsuka to be blamed for her "bad choices" when her hand is forced? Is she to be blamed for developing feelings, when Shiki forces his way into her life at a low point? Is she really at fault for wanting to know the truth that's been kept from her since she was a child?

Personally, I'm much more fond of Blight. It was a really interesting choice to have Shiki barely hurt her himself, yet he still takes enjoyment in her suffering and they get a happy ending

But all that goes out the window when you have to balance out (Shiki x Player) fanservice sadism with ShikiRitsu development

And I get it. It's absolutely wonderhoy for the players. But what about afterwards? What happens to Ritsuka when the attraction is over?

I don't mean when her attraction fades, I mean when the players have gotten their fix and inevitably move on?

I guess it's silly to care about "what happens to Ritsuka" as if she's a real person, but fleeting stories are not my type. I like it when the characters can live on and continue their story, long after I, the player/watcher, have moved on

But that doesn't happen, does it?

It's brought up in both EverSweet and Charming Book, in his unit single with Mage, in his marketing long after the other boys have changed

Unit singles: Roen asks Maxxis to marry her. Rem and Urie both echo Destinare and Kimi wa Estella. Mage wants to to go on a journey with her. Lindo wants to protect her (in his own "padlocks around the windows" way, but by the end of the audio drama, he begins to understand that she is her own person). Shiki *still* wants them to die together

EverSweet: "god cursed me to die in agony if I don't feel loved. Oh? Why don't I feel loved? Because I still want to hurt you. Haha! I feel loved now, I don't want to hurt you anymore! :)"

Charming Book: "I most definitely don't want to hurt you anymore. It's just that this magical pipe, that draws out people's desires and amplifies them until they become distorted, yes this magical pipe corrupted me! The pipe is destroyed, I don't want to hurt you anymore :)"

And the only conclusion I can draw from that is that his selling point is the sadism, the attraction it creates for the player. Shiki's story is about the journey

And that's great. But what about afterwards? Can you really call it a "story", an ending, if it requires you to strip everything from a character and leave him a hollow shell of his former self?

Sure, sure, Shiki is still S (say that three times fast lol), technically. If you take "sadistic" to mean forward and dominant in personality. But that's not what they presented him as, and they know it. In both ES and CB, they have to bring the pain obsession back to make him Shiki again. There's nothing to Shiki once he "gets better"

Which sucks, because we could've had a great story exploring him

#rants #(again)#dance with devils #shiki natsumezaka

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