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rainydaydream-gal18 · 3 years

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Bucky Barnes x Reader: Shall We Dance?

(Author’s Note: Hey all, I’m back but this time with a Bucky fic! I just thought this was an adorable idea, and I even found a soundtrack for it. You could play some 1940′s instrumental jazz in the background while reading this fic to enhance the experience, or not. Up to you!

Also, this is sort of an AU that takes place after Civil War, but where the Avengers don’t separate yet. So yeah I’m jumping on the bandwagon of Avengers still living in the tower with Bucky joining them XD)

“Are you sure about this?” you asked, poking your head around the corner. Taking note of what the guests were wearing, you immediately felt out of place. Despite the party having a 1940’s theme, most of the ladies were wearing rather modern dresses that were long and elegant and touched the floor. Some did go as far as pinning their hair in updos that were fitting for the time period, but even so, you glanced down at your old-fashioned evening gown and perfectly matched shoes with doubt. It was a beautiful deep blue dress that went almost to your ankles. The sleeves were a tad puffy at the shoulders before tightening into long sleeves the rest of the way to your wrists. The outfit was very lovely, but it was most definitely out-dated compared to what the guests were wearing.

It was a birthday celebration for Steve Rogers- a surprise one at that. Stark had volunteered a floor of the Avengers tower for the venue, and Natasha and you had the neat idea of making it an old-fashioned party complete with music from the 1940’s to make things feel more like home. You and Nat had fun researching the sort of clothes worn back then, but apparently not everyone had taken the theme so literally.

“You kidding me?” Natasha responded in a low voice, brows furrowing slightly. “You look great. Now, let’s get out there and own it.” A smile crept on your face, and you were glad to have a friend go into the party with, especially someone as confident as Romanoff. She was dressed in a 1940’s gown too, though hers was a pretty dark green which complemented the red lipstick she wore. “We were pretty specific about the theme of the party,” she continued. “Technically, most of these people are the ones out of place, not us.”

“Good point.”

“This is for Steve anyway. I’m sure he’ll appreciate the gesture.”

It wasn’t necessarily the guests that concerned you. Or Steve. A certain someone would be in attendance, and you strived to be cool as a cucumber.

“Alright, here goes nothing.” You stepped out from the hallway and couldn’t help but smile. The music was jazzy, and the lights made the scene even more charming as couples danced on the floor while others conversed at little tables or the bar. Natasha walked beside you, eyes scanning the room. They rested on Bruce, who was talking to Tony with a drink in his hand.

“You going to say ‘hi’?” you asked, giving her a playful nudge. She played it off as if she couldn’t care less, but you knew there was something going on between her and the scientist.

“Maybe later.”

A waiter approached with a tray, and Natasha gratefully accepted a shrimp cocktail while you decided to take a chance on a pastry. As you bit into your snack, you looked to your friend.

“You look beautiful,” you complimented.

She flashed a warm smile, a rare but lovely sight from the secret agent. “You look beautiful too,” she said. Then, her eyes seemed to dart to something behind you. “It looks like someone else thinks so.”

Your mouth fell open. “What?” You snuck a glance over your shoulder in the most subtle way you could before quickly turning away when a pair of dark blue eyes gazed in your direction. Your heartbeat quickened as Natasha raised a brow. “It’s Bucky.”

“Yes, it is,” she nodded, though her probing gaze didn’t leave your face as she took in your expression. “Something wrong?”

“No,” you said quickly. A little too quickly.

Her eyes traveled to the former Winter Soldier before a hint of a smirk appeared on her lips. “Oh, so you still have a thing for him?”

“What? I never told you that.”

“Didn’t need to.” Her smirk grew. “I sort of read people for a living, and it’s written all over your face whenever he walks in the room.”

“Well, glad I was being subtle,” you remarked with an eye roll. “I just get so nervous. He’s a good friend, and…”

“And he’s coming over here.”

“He’s- what?”

“He’s walking this way,” she mumbled under her breath.

You followed her eyes to see those eyes fixed on you as he approached. Though his dark hair was still somewhat long and unkempt, he wore a nice suit and shoes. His lips pressed together in an awkward smile as he entered the space where you and Natasha stood.

“Hey,” he greeted with a small wave.

“Hi,” you said, smiling. Natasha didn’t speak. She only observed the interaction as your eyes wandered the room in desperate search for something else to talk about. “This turned out to be a nice party,” you commented. “You think Steve is having a good time?”

“Yeah,” Bucky agreed, looking over to see the Captain having a dance with Sharon. “It is nice. I think he’s having fun. Sure looked happy to see everyone when he walked in.”

You laughed as you remembered his reaction- your friend and teammate’s look of pleasant surprise and then a big smile as everyone shouted “surprise!” You even asked that Tony get a picture from the security footage.

“Definitely loved the look on his face,” you said. The conversation between the two of you quieted for a minute as both of you looked at your surroundings until Bucky spoke up again.

“You like the music?” he asked, gesturing with a metal hand to your feet. You hadn’t even noticed yourself swaying in place to the tune. The realization caused you to give a sheepish smile and shrug.

“I think I do.”

Bucky’s little awkward smile widened, and his eyes held warmth as he asked, “do you wanna’ dance with me?” Your eyes travelled to that inviting gaze of his, and it was like your heart was doing flips. You nodded, and he extended his other hand to take yours. Then, he looked to Natasha. “Mind if I steal her for a dance or two?”

Natasha smirked again. “Not at all. Have fun, you two.”

Bucky glanced your way again before leading you toward the dance floor. You shot a look at Natasha over your shoulder, mouth falling open in shock that this was happening. She gave a nod of approval.

Bucky stopped before going too far into the crowded space, turning to put the metal hand at your waist while you put your arm around the back of his neck. He exhaled sharply in a silent chuckle, glancing down at his feet. “Sorry,” he said, eyes darting back up to yours. “It’s been a while. I haven’t danced with a woman in….well, about seventy years.”

“Oh,” you said quietly. An ache grew in your heart at the thought. He’d spent a lot of time brainwashed and forced to do awful things for Hydra. Before you could dwell on it much further, you remembered where you were and tried to keep the conversation light-hearted. “Well I hope I don’t disappoint you. I haven’t had much experience dancing to this kind of music.”

“_________,” he said, starting to sway to the music. You let him lead you in the beginnings of the dance. “You are far from disappointing me.” He stepped back to give you a twirl, and you followed through with a smile on your face. “And since I’m out of practice, we won’t do anything fancy.”

“Sounds good to me.”

A warm feeling gathered in your chest, and you were absolutely elated as you and Bucky let the tune carry you both. The grin never left your expression. He seemed to be smiling even wider as he got more comfortable. Hearing this kind of music on the radio used to feel so strange to you. You’d breeze past it to the next station in search of something more to your taste, something more modern. But being there in that moment, dancing with Bucky, it felt so real. So alive. You could see why people enjoyed it. From then on, you’d never think of it the same way.

“You look gorgeous, doll,” Bucky said over the music, drawing your attention from the live band and back to his gaze. The lights reflected as a splash of glowing color amongst the beautiful blue of his eyes. “Where’d you find a dress like that?”

You ducked your head slightly from the compliment. “Oh, I got it online. It was Natasha’s idea. We were hoping everyone would dress up, but turns out it was just us.”

“Well, I like it. Love it, actually.”

“Thank you.” He gave you another twirl just as the song ended, and both of you pulled away to applaud the band along with the other couples. Then, the band took a short pause to turn pages and take a breather before playing a slower song. As the other couples drew closer to dance slowly, you stole a glance at your dance partner, wondering if he’d want to dance this song with you or take a break. Before you could ask, he offered his hand. You smiled, uncertainty vanishing, as he gently pulled you forward and put an arm around you. Your face was inches from his shoulder, and you decided to just go along with it by wrapping your arms around him. You took your first few steps of the dance carefully, adjusting to the slower tune. Despite the hair raised on the back of your neck and the way your breath caught in your throat at the sweet moment you had dreamed of many times, it felt so safe there. So secure. You didn’t want to leave anytime soon.

“So I’m impressed,” you said. “No feet have been stepped on yet.”

He pulled away ever so slightly to give you a humorous look. “It’s been some time, but I have danced before, _________.”

You laughed. “Actually I was talking more about myself.”

“Ah. See, that makes more sense.”

“Oh, please,” you joked. “I’m not that bad.”

He chuckled softly and rested his cheek against yours, like you’d seen in old-timey movies, as he swayed with you. “No, no that bad indeed.”

You were stunned into silence again at the contact. Your steps weren’t a concern anymore because it felt like you were floating across the dancefloor.

“Is this okay?” he asked. The question was so quiet considering how close his voice was.

It felt wrong to nod and break the contact, so you just uttered a hushed, “yeah. It’s more than okay actually.”

How long had you been dancing? You weren’t sure. All you knew was eventually the band announced that they’d be taking a break, a well-earned one in your mind. Everyone at the party applauded, and you and Bucky hesitantly pulled away.

“Hey, Buck,” a new voice greeted. “Hey there, _________.”

“Happy birthday, Steve,” Bucky said, clapping a hand on his shoulder. “You’re in pretty good shape for being, what, ninety-eight? What’s your secret?”

Steve gave a chuckle. “I already heard that one a few times today. But thanks, my secret is that I go for a run every day.”

“Happy birthday,” you chimed in with a grin, giving him a hug. “Do you like the party?”

“Yeah, I really do. I heard you had something to do with the theme?”

“Me and Nat both did.”

That Steve Rogers smile appeared on his face, softening his features even more. It was the kind of smile that made anyone feel like a million bucks because it was always so genuine. “Well, thank you. It was very sweet of you both.”

“There he is!” Thor called, and the three of you looked over to see him holding up a glass. “The birthday boy! Come hither and tell us one of your tales of victory!”

Steve hesitated, looking at you and Bucky. “Ah, guess I’ll be right back, then?”

“Go see your other guests,” Bucky told him, giving him a nudge. “We’ll catch up with you later.” Steve gave one last wave and approached the group, causing them to erupt in cheers. You and Bucky exchanged looks, laughing.

“How long do you think they’ll keep him?” Bucky asked.

“A while, for sure.” Out of the corner of your eye, you spotted Natasha and Bruce conversing casually. Wanda and Vision walked past, both glancing your way and waving. They looked so cute together. With the music gone, all you could hear was quiet chatter and the clinking of glasses and silverware. It was such a peaceful atmosphere.

“Want something to eat?”

You nodded. “Yeah, I do.” He stopped a waiter so that the two of you could grab a few appetizers and go find a seat. You found a few lounge chairs near the window where you could look out at the city lights in the dark. There was some playful banter, as usual, and some brief talk of superhero work before you settled on a game of truth or dare. So far, Bucky had dared you to try a new food that you weren’t so sure about, and you had dared him to throw a straw wrapper at Sam just to get his attention. It was your turn to pick again, and you chose “dare.”

“I dare you,” Bucky began, narrowing his eyes as he leaned back in the chair in thought. “I dare you to save me the next dance, and the one after that.”

Your smile faded at his words while you played with the hem of your dress. “Hm, okay.” You paused. “Truth or dare?”

“Truth,” he said.

“Alright, here’s my question: Is there a reason you want all these dances with me?”

His gaze was fixed on you sincerely as he opened his mouth to reply. Unfortunately, this happened to be the moment that Steve returned.

“I’m back,” he announced. “Sorry about that.” He halted to observe the way you and Bucky looked at each other so intently. “Oh, am I interrupting?”

“Um, no, we were just…”

“Playing a game.” Bucky said quickly. “Truth or dare.”

Steve nodded. “Gotcha’. Hey, was that why you threw straw wrappers at Sam?”

“It was only one straw wrapper,” Bucky corrected. “And yes, it was the reason. If you talk to him again, you should tell him that it was ___________ who put me up to it. I was just following the rules of the game.” He feigned innocence with the casual shrug of his shoulders.

“I bet,” Steve chuckled.

Just then, you noticed the band heading back to their instruments. It appeared that their break was over and they were beginning to play again. Immediately, Bucky looked at you and then his friend.

“Speaking of rules of the game,” he said. “__________ here owes me a dance. Are you up for it?”

You smiled, rising from the lounge chair. “Sure. It was a dare, after all.” In reality, you both knew that it was a joke and you didn’t have to comply with the dare if you didn’t want to, but the thing was, you did want to. You wanted to save all your dances for him. As he led you to the dance floor again, you didn’t see Natasha walk over to Steve with her arms folded.

“You think they’re going to get together?” she asked.

“It’s their business,” Steve pointed out. “Not our place to get involved”. Natasha glanced his way with a raised brow, and he sighed in defeat. “Okay yeah, I think it’s going to happen soon. Back home, Bucky was never this hesitant when it came to dates. He’s really taking his time with her. I think it’s because he really cares about her.”

“That’s sweet, but how do you know he feels that way?”

“He told me. We’re best buds, remember?”

“I thought you and I were best friends,” she deadpanned. They shared a humorous look as they watched the two of you moving to the rhythm of the jazzy music, big smiles across your faces. “I just hope it happens soon.”

“I hear that.”

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fullsunalicia · 4 years

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Hi i have been having this idea in my mind for awhile now but since you are taking requests uhm could you maybe try a 5+1 with Haechan? 🥺👉🏽👈🏽 For instance, 5 times Hyuck flustered y/n without knowing, plus one time y/n flustering Hyuck for the first time 🥺🥺 pls and thank you🤧

cherry red - LDH

donghyuck is a heartthrob. it’s no wonder he’s easily able to make your cheeks heat up with flirty words and cheeky actions. at least once, you’re determined to give him a taste of his own medicine.

highschool au

that’s such a cute idea anon!! thank you for your request <3

You don’t like the mischievous glint in Donghyuck’s eyes, not one bit. It’s the same look he grazes his best friends with before he tackles them in the middle of class because he “needs attention”. It’s also the same one for when he sets sight on a new victim.

“Oh, my god, Heejin, he’s coming over here,” you mumble, panicked. The bleachers are packed with people and plenty of his friends, so why’d he have to single you out? You, so easy to fluster?

You’re not shy - not extremely, atleast. You handle the affection you get from friends and you can strike up conversation. The second Lee Donghyuck’s attention is fixed on you, though, your brain short-circuits. You don’t know what’s worse - the fact that he doesn’t know, or how he’d be if he knew. Either way, he’s making his way over to you right now.

Somehow, Donghyuck is the playboy of the school, even though he’s not a heartbreaker. Him and his best friend Na Jaemin are notorious for their endless affection, and the harmless flirting they participate in. Never ever do they do it to play with someone’s feelings, or to hurt them, which is why their reputation is spot-clean. Still, they manage to charm quite a few girls, which ends up in soft-spoken apologies and the bitter taste of rejection.

Heejin doesn’t help you. In fact, she starts snickering and turns away from your helpless figure. If the teachers weren’t looking at you right now, you’d beat her ass. Actually, scratch that. If you weren’t so concentrated on the heavenly looks that were Lee Donghyuck, you’d be able to do atleast something.

But how do you concentrate when God’s favorite angel walks towards you? He’s so pretty. Would he tell you where he got that lip balm from if you asked?

“Hey, (y/n)ie!”

Oh no.

You wave at Donghyuck, who’s finally made it to you. His brown hair is disheveled, probably messed up by the one and only Jaemin. You want to know if it’s as soft as it looks. Saying something back would be good, but you don’t trust your brain right now, and the last thing you want to do is embarrass yourself infront of the school’s pretty boy.

Donghyuck, ever so attentive, picks up on that. “Cat got your tongue?” He grins, and when he leans forward, you can smell his cologne. Expensive. And really nice. Donghyuck searches your eyes, probably waiting for permission. Permission to let him tackle you and cling to you like he does with his friends, because he lives off attention. Despite being perceptive, Donghyuck doesn’t know what he does to your poor heart when he takes your hands and pouts, desperate for any kind of skinship. “You’ve got such a nice voice, though. Please talk to me, (y/n)ie!”

That’s the one big reason why Donghyuck is labeled a player. He knows how to rile someone up, but is still oblivious to the fact that his attention on someone can make them so nervous. His stunning features, the honest compliments he gives when he really likes something. He’s affectionate, but he’s not a liar. That’s why he tips his head in wonder when your cheeks heat up, not aware that he’s the one who did that to you. You almost jump on the spot when his fingers trace your cheekbones. “So pretty,” he mumbles. God, you wish he wouldn’t be so charming. “Pretty enough to make me forgive you for not talking. Let’s chat later, yeah?”

You watch him retreat back to his friends to watch the game. It’s no wonder he launches himself into Renjun’s lap after he didn’t get what he wanted from you, and his friend promptly tries to shove him off. Maybe you should ask Renjun for advice.

“You’re such a klutz,” Heejin finally speaks up behind you. “Freezing up infront of him? What, is it so hard to say a simple hey?”

You swiftly turn around and deliver a kick to the back of her knees. She doesn’t buckle, neither does she get annoyed; Heejin laughs loudly, enjoying this as much as Donghyuck does.

Is this bullying?

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Embarrassing you becomes a hobby Donghyuck doesn’t know he’s picked up.

You and him are on normal talking terms, because you share classes and you often let him copy the homework. What you both do not do is share lunch together.

That’s why the second he slides into the seat next to you and rests his head on your shoulder, you already feel like burning up.

Heejin quietly giggles into the palm of her hand, but it gets stuck in her throat when Donghyuck’s entourage sits down next to her. Well, maybe not his entire entourage. It’s only Jaemin and Renjun who follow his guide, but it’s still enough to shut a Jeon Heejin up.

You shouldn’t lean back just yet. Donghyuck didn’t come to help you with Heejin.

“(y/n),” he complains loudly, bratty as always. He has a very melodious voice, one you love listening to. That’s why you don’t mind being the quiet one when it comes to him. It bothers Donghyuck, though. “You didn’t even come talk to me after the game. Do you not like me?”

“What?” you sputter out, blood already rushing into your face. How was this so easy to Donghyuck? You shake your head, sitting up so the boy slides off your shoulder, but all it does is make him drop his head on your lap as he looks up to you. That’s worse. You cover your face, embarrassed. “I didn’t know you’d want me to come talk to you! I’m not a mind-reader!”

You like listening to him so much more than speaking yourself. Whenever you roam the halls during free periods, Donghyuck’s mellow voice is heard even through the thick doors of the auditorium. It’s so tender and pleasant, you end up sitting infront of it every time so you can listen to him sing to his heart’s content. Once, he’d been in the school choir. He dropped it, though, because he claimed he wasn’t getting along with the people in it.

You like Donghyuck, full stop. Whether this is a crush or just a passing fancy, you’re already aware that Lee Donghyuck is able to make your heart flutter in more than one way.

For example now, as he pulls away your hands to look at your cherry cheeks. “Don’t,” Donghyuck says, voice void of mockery. He speaks in such a caring way that you can’t find yourself to stop him, and you let him imprint the sight of your face into his mind. After all, you do the same with his. “Don’t hide your face. I like you in red.”

Oh, Christ.

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The third time Lee Donghyuck embarrasses you is on a school hiking trip. The classes had drawn lots on who’d go where, and the class representative had been unlucky enough to draw hiking. Everyone else gets to go swimming or sailing, while your class is hiking. Amazing.

The sun burns down on your skin. Maybe it hadn’t been such a good idea to wear jeans while you’re climbing a mountain, but it’s too late now. Heejin lets herself be pulled up the hiking trail by you, fingers tightly intertwined, even though both of your palms are turning sweaty. Very romantic. Somewhere above you, your teacher is basically running up the path.

Going to Jeju for this isn’t worth it. You miss your bed right now.

But the landscape is so pretty. Very often, you come to a halt to look and take pictures, no matter how much Heejin complains. While she empties her drink, you take some snaps to remember the occasion, awe evident in your eyes.

It’s beautiful here. The nature, the ocean, you adore it all. Unbeknownst to you, someone’s enjoying the view, too, but he’s not looking at the horizon. He’s looking at you.

You don’t even notice Donghyuck creeping closer until he nudges your shoulder with his. He smiles softly when you meet his eyes, unusually innocent, heartwrenching. This boy is filled with so much love and wit, you sometimes forget he’s even real.

“Do you like it?” he asks, head tipping to indicate the nature infront of you. You nod. “It’s gorgeous,” you tell him as you return to your phone to continue filling up your camera roll. “I don’t really like hiking, but this view kind of makes it worth it. It’s so different from watching the sunsets at home.”

So focussed on your device, you don’t even notice when Donghyuck links pinkies with yours. He almost cheers, but he’s able to hold himself back. He doesn’t want to ruin this moment with you. “Yeah, you’re right. I loved living here. Every day was like waking up in a painting.”

“You lived here?”

“Not long, but yeah.” He likes the awe in your eyes whenever something suprises you pleasantly. You’re so cute, he wants to kiss you. “Haven’t you been here before? Or are you just taking pictures to commemorate your visit?”

Heejin quietly sneaks off. Donghyuck makes a mental note to thank her for that.

Your eyes finally trail to your locked pinkies, but you don’t let go of him, thank god. “No,” you mumble, flustered from the simple interaction. Are you that unused to physical affection? “I’d love to come back someday, but I don’t know if that will happen... So, better more pictures than none.”

“I’ll take you.”

For the first time, Donghyuck misses the way he makes the heat blossom in your cheeks because he turns his head to look at the red and pink clouds. Thanks to you, his favorite color has become red now, like cherries. He didn’t even mean to fluster you - he meant it with his whole heart. He’d love to take you here. Introduce you to his grandparents. Show you all his favorite places. Go swimming together...

You’re both pulled out of your world when the teacher blows into his whistle and starts scolding you for taking so long.

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“(y/n),” Donghyuck says, leaning over your desk to look you in the eyes. It’s last period, and you can’t wait to get out of this hellish chair and escape into the weekend. Donghyuck’s doe eyes though make you wanna sit here a little longer. “(y/n), you’re not allowed to blush for anyone else.”

“I- what now?”

He doesn’t even mind the stares your classmates are giving you when he takes your hands into his own and starts leaving kisses all over them, his lips plush, the pecks loving. Your heart nearly jumps out of your chest at the adoration you feel for this boy. “Don’t blush for anyone else,” Donghyuck pouts, and he moves to press your hands against his cheeks. Like this, he looks like a pudu. You wonder if that would offend him if you’d say it out loud. “If someone else sees it, they might fall in love and I’d have to duel them for your hand in marriage.”

“Take me on a date first at least.” Your hands move to cover his eyes and push him back into his chair, because you’d rather die than show him your face right now. With ease, Lee Donghyuck meddles with your feelings like no one else can. If he’d ask, you’d gladly give your heart away to him. But you can’t do that if he doesn’t mean it.

Perplexed over your words, Donghyuck quiets down and doesn’t speak for the rest of the lesson again.

A date?

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Heejin, like Donghyuck, is obnoxiously perceptive.

For the second time during this study date, she closes her book and throws it at you. This time, you already know what she’s going to do, but you’re still too late at moving out of the way, and the heavy object hits your shoulder. “Will you stop throwing your work at me?”

“Stop pouting then,” Heejin groans. The girl folds her arms on top of the table so she can rest her head on it, her hair framing around her head like a halo. She’s really pretty. Even in middle school, she was already donning the features that made everyone swoon. Despite that, she’s never gotten into a relationship, because she claims all she needs in life is you and food. Very cute, when she’s currently not pestering you about your crush on a certain Jeju boy.

“It’s not my fault? This is my resting crybaby face. You chose to be my friend. Bear the consequences, coward.”

“Shut up.” Heejin blindly reaches for her pencil case, but you quickly take it away before she can assault you with it. “If you’re so upset about it, you should’ve asked him on a date yourself. He’s clearly wrapped around your little finger, (y/n). You’re just being a dumbass.”

You love Heejin. You’d even go as far as trusting her with your life. She’s kind and loving, and she’s the first one to jump in the car to comfort you after a fight with someone. Heejin’s the kind of friend who braids your hair for fun and falls asleep on your lap after watching your favorite movies, and she laughs at you everytime you fall behind in Mario Kart. In a way, she even babies you.

But whenever you get insecure, Heejin stops the sugarcoating to deal with it seriously. Both of you are aware of what you’re thinking and why you didn’t ask Donghyuck out(“not good enough”, “maybe I read too much into it”, etc.), she’s only waiting for you to say it so she can strangle you. Jokingly, of course. She loves you. The only thing Heejin doesn’t tolerate is putting yourself down.

So you respond, “I’m scared he doesn’t feel the same.”

The girl looks up, onyx eyes meeting yours. No amused glint in them, only honesty. You love that about her. “(y/n), he’s just waiting for you to do something,” Heejin states. It’s like she can hear your pulse quickening, because she laughs and pinches your cheek. “Seriously. I’m telling you to go for it. That dude may be really flirty, but you should see the way he looks at you. He’s basically worshipping the ground you’re walking on. Do the man a favor and give him the slither of attention he’s begging for.”

“He is not begging.”

Heejin raises an eyebrow. “So you’re not denying that he’s basically at your feet? Interesting.”

“Heejin!”

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It’s kinda ironic that Donghyuck pulls you aside at another game to talk. You wonder what he’s going to do now to set your face on fire.

This time though, Donghyuck is in no joking mood. His fingers are tightly intertwined with yours, the air he’s breathing out mingling with yours because you’re standing so close to each other. It makes you lightheaded, but it also makes you want him to stand closer. “(y/n),” he mumbles.

Is he... is he nervous?

The people on the bleachers cheer, and Donghyuck briefly looks up. Maybe he’s thinking about whether his friends made the point or not. Nonetheless, his attention is on you, and he’s not shy about touching. Warm, soft hands cradle your face and angle your face up, because he wants you to look him right in the eyes. It works like magic; you can’t look away, can’t break eye contact. Under his touch, your heart starts racing.

“You’re not talking again.” The corner of his mouth twitch, barely holding himself back from smirking. His thumbs trace your cheekbones, wandering over your skin and meeting your lower lip. He tugs at it, and relishes in the heavy blush settling on your cheeks. It’s his favorite view. “Say something, baby?”

“You make me nervous.”

The confession is honest, refreshingly so. Donghyuck giggles and steps closer. The nearer he gets, the faster your heart pounds. Does he do this on purpose? You’d bet money on it.

“You make me nervous, too.” He lightly presses his thumb against your lips and you deliver a kiss to it. That seems to satisfy him. His hands abandon your face to hold your waist, and your own fly up to bunch up his shirt in your fists. “Embarassingly so.”

“You’re not acting very nervous, Lee Donghyuck.” You watch as he leans down, the tip of his nose touching yours. Your breath hitches. What is going on? Did he pull you behind the bleachers just for a quick make-out?

Your heart sinks.

“(y/n),” Donghyuck says. “I really, really want to kiss you right now. But I want to take you out on a date first. I want to be called yours and seal the deal with a kiss afterwards. So will you let me?”

“You’re so cheesy,” you deadpan, and for the first time in weeks, you’re not the one who’s cheeks are turning into cherries. You basically gape at the sight of Lee Donghyuck blushing heavily under the dim lights of the soccer field. He screws his eyes shut, embarrassed. “Are you blushing, Lee? Oh my god, that’s so cute.”

“Shut up before I kiss you senseless.” With that, Donghyuck pushes you further into the shadows so no one can see him cling to your lips like the neediest brat ever. The plan had been to kiss you as your boyfriend, but surely, getting a taste won’t be so bad. After all, he’s been dying to find out the many ways he can make the blood rush to your cheeks...

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K: Kingdom of Red Interview with GoRA Pink

Rairaku Rei-san, one of the members of the novelist group that handles the script of “K”, has been in charge of “K: Kingdom of Red”, the novel about the past of the Homura trio (Suou Mikoto, Totsuka Tatara and Kusanagi Izumo). This work, which had been much anticipated by the fans, expanded the worldview of the “K” universe even more by exploring a story through interchanging the light novel’s original characters, while simultaneously gathering the essence of this trio’s tale as imagined by Rairaku-san in their depictions from various forms of media up until now. It could be considered the epitome of the Red Clan and a must-read for the fans. Today, we will have Rairaku-san discuss about this publication. The subjects will vary from her impressions when writing to the contents of the light novel in which she portrayed her feelings for the trio in detail, so we believe this interview should be enjoyed by the ones interested after reading the work in question.

(Raw Version || Kingdom of Red Novel translation)

“The story of ‘Kingdom of Red’ was both about the beginning and the end of Homura.”

——This was truly a work much anticipated by the fans, but is the long period it took to be written related to the fact that there was some sort of special sentiment put into it?

Pink: I’m terribly sorry for the long wait. I thought at first that I should write about how those three met, but if it were only about their meeting, it would end up being a lighthearted story with no mentions of supernatural abilities or the Slate. Since it was going to be published by Kodansha BOX, I believed it would be better if the story were a tad more serious, so I decided to make it go up to the point where the three ultimately formed the Red Clan. The first part of the plot, in which I only wrote about the three meeting one another, felt more like a collection of short stories, but then it was decided that I should go on until the awakening of the Red King happened, so it turned out to be the most massive book I’ve ever written. Also, there was an interlude in “K SIDE:RED” about the past of the three, but it was very choppy, so I felt like I had wanted to reveal what that scene had really been by adding it to a separate story.

——The movie was released during the time you were writing the novel and the story moved forward along with the second season, but did they influence this work in any way? After all, the prologue and epilogue scenes with Kusanagi and Anna also appeared in season 2.

Pink: Indeed, the prologue and epilogue changed significantly from what was initially planned. They connect with season 2, and though “Kingdom of Red” is the story of Homura’s conception, it is also about how they rose up again after everything had been lost, so there was a sense of it being a story about both the beginning and the end as well.

——Then, shall we talk once again about the circumstances in which this time’s main characters – Suou, Kusanagi and Totsuka – were born?

Pink: Suou’s character prototype had a brighter side to him and wasn’t that much of a downer. When his comrades were doing stupid things, he would join them to his heart’s contentment and make a fuss, but in the times he was supposed to be serious, he would have a gloomy atmosphere, so he was truly the kind of multifaceted character whom no one could tell when would snap. However, when creating the story, while season 1 was still under production, Suou turned out as that character who was always angry, so we logically could not show his bright side, and we thought we should give more emphasis to his wrath and internal pressure as they increased, thus they became natural. Nevertheless, everyone from Homura messing around and having fun together was necessary no matter what, and it felt like the character we designed to become the center of that was Totsuka.

——Totsuka’s character was primarily conceived by Rairaku-san, right?

Pink: He’s a character that was dead from the start of the main story, so I was told to come up with what kind of piece he would be that would make Suou and Homura crumble at his absence and what kind of position this person, who was no longer around, used to be at, and that is how I was put in charge of him.

——Was Suou a character created to be set with Kusanagi and Totsuka?

Pink: It was decided from early stages that there would be an intel yakuza-like strategist as the Red King’s right arm. Kusanagi would become someone with charisma that would, as a planner, substantially manage “Homura” from amidst his, let’s say, foolish (laugh), guileless comrades along with Suou, who is a symbol of violence; from the beginning, I believe this position of his was not at all unclear. While Suou is a “King”, he’s not one to think about what would make the organization move forward, so Kusanagi’s existence was essential. Suou and Totsuka were then divided into two entities: one was a strong and frightening human being, and the other stood in the center of their gleeful companions; I think that Kusanagi, the one who monitored them as their planner, being added there was the origin of this trio’s conceival.

——Please tell us the impressions that you pictured the three of them with in “Kingdom of Red”.

Pink: Suou went through quite a few hardships in this novel. In the anime’s first season, there was an episode that showed his young days for a bit, but as Suou before becoming the “Red King” was not the Suou we knew, until I was able to step into the mentality of the Suou of those times and properly write about him, my work turned into a lot of digging. Since this was the part that took most time, I wrote on while often asking other GoRA members for advice. In the anime’s first season, Suou and Munakata were completely exceptional and grandiose existences, so there was some pondering on whether it was okay or not to show their humane sides. Still, we pictured the Munakata of season 2 in a human-like light, and so we wondered if it wouldn’t be all right to expose Suou too.

——Indeed, this time, you wrote about Suou with a relatively normal human side. His grades were not bad, and he was punished accordingly whenever he skipped tests (laugh).

Pink: He’s not stupid, right? The parts about him being scolded by Honami-sensei were really just Suou as a boy, but there was a point where I was on doubt on whether it was fine for him to not fully be the “cool Suou”.

Except, I somewhat think it’s because Suou has this part of him that does things right that he’s the kind of character who ends up suffering. If he had shaken everything off and broken into a run like Kagutsu Genji (the one who was the “Red King” before Suou), he might have had a pleasant life in its own sense, but there’s a side of Suou that would not do this.

——In “SIDE:RED”, you also introduced Honami-sensei as an existence that made Suou show new facets of his.

There were mostly people who were afraid of Suou in his surroundings, but she was not like that, and instead was someone fairly able to tell what kind of person other people were. The reason was that, since she was Anna’s aunt, there might have been a similar point between them in the fact they end up somewhat seeing through others. Back in “SIDE:RED”, I only wrote about Honami being Suou’s former teacher, but I’d also wanted to write here about how she was actually like this in their school days.

——Then, regarding Kusanagi, how was it?

Pink: In here, we are introducing Kusanagi’s uncle, who was the original owner of bar HOMRA, for the first time, and it was fun to write about the interactions between said uncle and Kusanagi. Although I felt the difficulties of writing about Suou’s boyhood from before he became a “King”, for Kusanagi, I already had many images of his young days, so it was easy to go along with and write it.

——In the anime, Kusanagi was written as a mature adult, so there weren’t many opportunities to see his impish side, and therefore, this was very refreshing.

Pink: Certainly, an inexperient Kusanagi felt a bit refreshing. From his uncle’s viewpoint, he was truly still a young boy, and there were enjoyable moments in writing about Kusanagi as such (laugh). Also, I think I’m glad that I was able to write again about bar HOMRA, which was a place of fond memories for Kusanagi since the past. Regarding Totsuka, it links to the scene of him in the hospital during season 1.

——The episode in which Totsuka had a one-word encounter with them long ago was also very good.

Pink: There’s the fact that he is someone with a strong influence (laugh), so he blithely comes in contact with many sorts of characters. I had wanted to write about the reason behind the story of Totsuka saying, “I’ll become the King’s underling”. Totsuka is a character with an airheaded and mysterious side, but I believed I should write this time about what lies behind that, and about the conflicts he didn’t let show much.

——Then, with what kind of image do you, Rairaku-san, write about what Kusanagi and Totsuka are to Suou?

Pink: When Suou was alone, he was really like a wild beast, but he started to hang out with Kusanagi and Totsuka and became able to have moments that he thought of as fun, which changed him little by little, so to speak. While his essence was not altered, I think the ones who were able to change Suou’s ways were Kusanagi and Totsuka. If the two weren’t there, Homura probably wouldn’t have been formed, and I feel it might have been the main factor that made Suou into the “Red King” that he is.

——What about the way that Kusanagi saw Totsuka and Suou?

Pink: Kusanagi is a person with a lot of common sense, the one who has a decent way of thinking. While Suou and Totsuka have different courses of action, they are extremely reckless, so I often imagine Kusanagi as taking the role of anchoring these two onto society. But Kusanagi himself had his own discords, like, “Is this really the best for this guy?”, and I inserted them into this work.

——Kusanagi himself also being at loss leaves an impression.

Pink: This part still feels like the “young Kusanagi”, right (laugh)? Most likely, together with the feeling of wanting to anchor them, Kusanagi had something akin to a feeling of being prepared to watch over them while letting them do as they pleased, and I believe this sense of transition is included in “Kingdom of Red”. During the intial moments of “Kingdom of Red”, Kusanagi’s face was very well-known and he had connections with several people, but before meeting Totsuka and Suou, he didn’t get himself involved too intimately with anyone. That’s why, when he was angry that the comrades of an acquaintance he hung out with were wounded, his feelings were understandable, but it seemed there wasn’t that much real emotion to the fervor of this anger, yet I feel that Kusanagi changed quite a bit on the way towards the main story.

——Then, what about what Suou and Kusanagi are to Totsuka?

Pink: For Totsuka, Suou is an incredibly special existence, and within his motivations, there’s the thought that he “wants to see where this person will go”.

Kusanagi is like a sibling to him, and I think he feels like Totsuka’s number one partner. There was also a sense similar to brotherhood back when they first met, and that they might be bad friends, but I believe those two have come to share many things once Suou became a “King”.

——When Totsuka met Suou, he had something to become attached to for the first time, right?

Pink: That’s right. I think that, from the feelings Totsuka and Suou obtained in meeting each other, a part of them went through a change. Suou and Totsuka are both free spirits, and I think their first ties of obligation were formed along with the relationship of this trio. Ties of obligation were a pain to the two of them, but they became able to know happiness and joys that they would only be able to because these ties existed, so to say. In the main story of the anime, since Totsuka was dead, we were unable to depict this trio no matter what, so I’m glad I was able to properly write about the three of them this time.

“The one named Kurayama Mitsuha made his appearance, and I described him with an image of something like Suou’s mirror, as a potential other life that Suou could have led.”

——Suou doesn’t really seek anything by his own initiative, and was always written as a person who didn’t get too attached to anything or anyone, so the scene of the time when he awakened and stretched his hand out to Kusanagi and Totsuka for a handshake without hesitation left an impression.

Pink: It’s not as if Suou had thought that deeply about it; I honestly think it was an action he took on automatic. Even you ask him, “Back then, why did you make the two of them into your clansmen again?”, I feel that he himself would probably be at loss for an answer (laugh). Upon becoming the “Red King”, the first decision of that person, who seemed like he could disappear off somewhere regardless of where he was if left on his own, was to make those two his comrades, and were it not for that action, Homura would likely not have been founded.

——Back in a previous interview, it was said that “Suou would have died even if he had not become the ‘Red King’”, which had remained in my recollections, but after reading “Kingdom of Red”, I thought, “I see”.

Pink: That’s right. Back then, I think it would have been dangerous if Suou hadn’t awakened as “King”. This time, Kurayama Mitsuha – the one in the role of bad guy – made his appearance, and I described him with an image of something like Suou’s mirror, as a potential other life that Suou could have led. I believe he’s someone who lives the way that Suou might have if he had not met Kusanagi or Totsuka and if he had come to a point where he would end up thinking that he did not care about others. He’s also a character that had a role similar to being a substitute for Kagutsu, his illusion. Kagutsu is a character that had died many years prior and doesn’t meet directly with Suou, so it’s hard to say what Suou himself thought about him, but I thought that if Kurayama were a character who carried on his back the illusion of Kagutsu, Suou could confront him.

——Was there anything you wanted to reference regarding Kagutsu?

Pink: Suou having a Damocles Down was a parallel to Kagutsu, and Kagutsu in turn becomes the main origin of it all, but I had wanted to write about their contrast; about what Suou and Kagutsu have and don’t have in common. Also, from what I heard about the plot of the novel regarding the Kagutsu incident, which Furuhashi-san is in charge of, it will provide background for this, to make clear how “it’s because this occurrence happened that the whole story exists”.

——Kagutsu’s installation was revealed as well, right?

Pink: Indeed, this time was the first that Kagutsu’s installation was written about, but Furuhashi-san had already created its concept long ago.

——Seeing the fragmentary informations here depicted, it seems Kagutsu will turn out to be a marvelous character, so I have become even more anxious for “Ground Zero”! I felt that this work in particular was able to fully demonstrate an entretainment inherent of the “K” series, but there are several characters interconnected with the story.

Pink: It’s a story about before other characters had become involved, but they all have a little bit of a connection with many points, so I was self-conscious of the fact that this would eventually become the world of “K”.

——As an addition to Totsuka’s one-word encounter mentioned earlier, the “JUNGLE” handlename “HN-san” is also introduced with a broad grin, right?

Pink: That’s right (laugh). HN will supposedly be very active in the upcoming “SIDE:GREEN”.

——I’m looking forward to it (laugh). Seeing it this way, Hisui had really been watching everything.

Pink: Hisui’s stance up until his appearance in the movie is that he had been observing and becoming interested in many things, and attempted to prod them a little, so I had wanted to display how he was the one that “had been seeing everything” since the past.

——The strain that appeared in the manga “Memory of Red” also showed up for a bit.

Pink: I wrote about this in a way that there would be no problem if no one remembered it, but I’m glad you noticed (laugh).

——Rereading what you wrote before that is related to this work, was there any work in particular that you made a common point with?

Pink: The burdens that Suou bears were included in it, so I referred to “R:B” a lot. This was also a story that overlaps with the middle of the timeline of “Lost Small World”, so I had to think about its consistency. I had wanted to use as many other characters as I could, so as the times of the stories flowed simultaneously, I thought that maybe I could have made Fushimi, Yata and Aya pass by them when chasing after the airship and running around Shizume City, but I was unable to do this as I had to timeskip that part. Also, although it is something that I wrote myself, I’ve inserted bits of the intervals of “SIDE:RED” into the story, so I reread them often. “Kingdom of Red” is a story of fairly long timespan, so I had wanted to comprise and write about many things.

——I believe that Rairaku-san in particular was put in charge of writing about the “Red Clan” in the novels, comics and short stories amongst other things, but putting all of that together in a single work makes it sort of a culminative one, right?

Pink: Indeed, it might be that this is a book in which several things I’d been writing have been bundled up together.

——Is there any work amongst the ones you’ve written up until now that you are emotionally attached to?

Pink: I had been writing “Kingdom of Red” until recently, so my emotional attachment towards it is deep. I also wrote a short story titled “Kingdom” before (included in the official guidebook “A MEMORY OF KINGS”), and it was the starting point of “Kingdom of Red”.

The story written there is briefly implied in the novel, and the story that comes immediately before and after is inserted in “Kingdom of Red”. In that sense, it might be that it’s because “Kingdom” existed that we have “Kingdom of Red”.

——It’s the story about Suou thinking of getting a haircut after awakening, right?

Pink: That’s right. It becomes Suou’s anime hairstyle (laugh).

“Writing about things like ‘delightful times that have been lost’ and ‘fun times everyone had while knowing that the end was near’ was one of my main themes regarding ‘K’.”

——The fact that Kusanagi’s words of “let’s make this a good country” were sorrowful left an impression. From this scene, the combination of happy and sad stories was rather exquisite, as if it pierced the heart, and I think this aspect of it connects with the bittersweet atmosphere of “K”, but was it remarkable to you?

Pink: Yes. Writing about things like “delightful times that have been lost” and “the fun times everyone had while knowing that the end was near” was one of my main themes regarding “K”. The main story of the anime is one in which several things had already been lost, and I was often in charge of writing about what exactly the things that have been lost were, so I think I put a lot of my power into that.

——By the way, was there any episode in this novel that you had to leave out no matter what?

Pink: This work is pretty packed, so overall, I did include in it everything I had wanted to write. I thought this might be the last time that I would dig up and write about the story of these three, so I crammed it up with all kinds of episodes, to the point I was even told by an editor, “it’s the first time that such a fervent book is being published on BOX” (laugh).

There was a total of 700 pages for the manuscript, after all. Even when I sent it to the proofreader, he was like, “but this is two volumes” (laugh).

——(Laugh) When you write your next novel, which story of what character are you interested in pursuing?

Pink: For now, we plan to turn the first season, movie and second season into novels, and while I think I’ll be put in charge of season 1, I believe I hadn’t had so many chances to get to the core of Shiro, Kuro and Neko’s emotions, so I want to try stepping into Shiro’s inner troubles. Shiro is also a person who has been losing many things, so I think it’d be good to write about the depths of that. The reason why these feelings weren’t so explored in the anime and comics is that we think it’s important to show things through the art, so I’m looking forward to showing them through other means. Many backgrounds that no one knew of back when season 1 was being aired have been piling up, and I want to take over the story that consolides them.

——I’m looking forward to it! Then, lastly, let us hear about your current feelings towards “Kingdom of Red”, now that you just finished writing it.

Pink: This ended up becoming something lengthy, but at the same time that I wrote the story about the origin of the “Red Clan”, I had wanted to write the one about its end, and now I feel I was able to accomplish this. Ever since I started working on the manga “Memory of Red”, which was serialized before the anime had aired, and “SIDE:RED”, which was published during the broadcasting, I had always been involved with “Homura”, so I do have deep emotions towards it. My heart is racing at how people will react to it, but I’ll be happy if they enjoy it.

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Kanato Sakamaki

Permissions

Shipping? Yes, but shipping with him increases the risk on everyone’s lives. Singleship per verse with limited verses. Please note - as stated on the rules page, orientation is typically listed as what the muses think they are.

Duplicates? Multiple ‘Yuis’? What about character that aren’t on the dedicated castmates list? Yes. You can thrust Kanato at Kanato. There’s also no issue with duplicates of canon, crossover, etc. characters that Kanato is already interacting with. You want it, you got it. To prevent destroying the validity of duplicate muses, I will sometimes think of things as ‘A Laito did this’ instead of ‘Laito did this’, which is a very subtle difference but prevents another muse from having to deal with the blame of an event they were not responsible for. This will only be differentiated as necessary within writing. I repeat: all duplicate muses will be treated with respect, not as ‘fakes’. Any Sakamaki brother is a brother of his, regardless of how many Laitos there are (for example). We’re just going to, uh, slide past that as often as possible (and occasionally make jokes).

Multiple Kanatos will be treated as though they’d somehow wandered into one’s world or the other via some enchanted, strange object or doorway in the Sakamaki household. This allows them to interact, but prevents the concept that one is a ‘true’ Kanato over the other. You have been warned.

Fighting? A-Okay. I’ve done a lot of fighting roleplay but it was in the past and I’m way more interested in the storytelling of it. It’s better that we discuss the end result beforehand for smoother sailing, but we can improv it as well. I do this from a storytelling perspective.

Harming? A-Okay! Just be aware that this muse may harm or kill yours in turn!

Killing? A-Okay! Please be aware, however, that should the need or desire to continue the verse arise, the death scene will be considered a what-if. In addition, it is very difficult to kill this muse due to the pureblood resurrection abilities. ...Based on the abilities he demonstrates that appear to be unique to him, he’s probably the hardest of the Sakamaki brothers to kill before any of them touch Yui’s blood. After... Well, let’s just hope he isn’t the one drinking Yui’s blood, shall we?

Can we send shippy memes / etc.? Sure, we can still explore what-ifs, drabbles and oneshot threads, but the main focus will be on the storyline here!

Can we know Yui has Cordelia’s heart, is possibly turning into a vampire, is surrounded by vampires, etc. and reference this to Kanato? On a case-by-case basis. It should be discovered organically if it’s not something your character would be able to know already. There’s plenty of situations where this would make sense.

Can we know about Kanato’s past before interacting? No, not unless you have genuine reasons for it like being one of his brothers.

Can we have characters comment on the events of the timeline? Yes, if they “catch sight of”, “overhear a rumor”, “a familiar saw X”, or any other sensible reason, then characters can be aware of and comment on events. I wholly encourage characters participate in Kanato’s life! Please tell the story with me!

Can we rescue Yui Komori from the Sakamaki household? Unlikely. At best, if you succeed in the first place, it’s entirely likely that they will find you, they will take Yui back, and they will kill one or both of you for this. Or the Mukamis might take advantage of the situation! Obviously, the exception here is the Mukamis, who are entirely expected to attempt this from time to time.

Can we reference interactions we’ve had with your Subaru, etc. to Kanato? I mean...sure? If you want? I’m fine with using my muses for plot and timeline advancements for myself and those I interact with (within limits) but I’d also prefer to not be my Ayato’s Kanato and vice versa, so this would probably be limited. You can still act like what’s happened has happened, though.

Biography / Stats

FULL NAME. Kanato Sakamaki ALIAS. Hysteric (Ayato), Kanato-kun (Yui), Little Songbird (Cordelia) AGE. Appears 17-18 || Actually significantly older BIRTHDAY. March 21 GENDER & PRONOUNS. Male, he/him ORIENTATION. Demisexual SPECIES. Vampire OCCUPATION. High school student of the night school known as Ryoutei Academy. 2nd year in HDB, 3rd year if assuming time has passed. RESIDENCE. Sakamaki residence, Japan

HAIR. Purple EYES. Purple BUILD. Slim HEIGHT. 5'5'' (165cm) TATTOOS. None PIERCINGS. None. ADDITIONAL MARKINGS. Discoloration beneath his eyes, likely due to lack of sleep. OTHER. Right-handed

ZODIAC. Aries (Aries/Pisces cusp) ALIGNMENT. Chaotic Neutral POSITIVE TRAITS. polite, attentive, clever NEGATIVE TRAITS. temperamental, childish, possessive

BIRTH PLACE. Japan NATIONALITY. Japanese PARENTS. Karlheinz (Alive?), Cordelia (Deceased / Haunting) SIBLINGS. Full Siblings - Ayato, Laito. Half-siblings (shared father): Shuu, Reiji, and Subaru EXTENDED FAMILY. Karlheinz's other wives, Beatrix and Christa. Richter (Uncle). EDUCATION. High school (likely several times over) SPECIES. Vampire NOTABLE SKILLS. Singing, the ability to hold teddy for absurd periods of time, wax doll creation. LANGUAGES. Japanese, English, Russian FAVORITE FOOD. Anything sweet, raspberry pudding

PUREBLOOD. Inhuman strength, increased speed, vision, hearing, and smell. Fast healing & healing saliva. TELEPORTATION. Can teleport instantaneously. FLYING. He can fly. OTHER. Can control and summon familiars. Can animate nonliving objects and control them as familiars. Can transfer soul(s) from one vessel/body to another. Has nightmare-inducing levels of pyrokinesis - is able to set bodies (and nothing else) on fire, control how it spreads, as well as set entire towns on fire at once. WEAKNESSES. Truly holy objects weaken him, but not by much. DISLIKES. Spicy food, loud noises, not being understood, SHARING

Appearance

[*Credit: Appearance section pulled directly from the Dialovers Wiki.]

Kanato appears to have a similar resemblance in appearance to his mother Cordelia, having the same colored light purple hair, though he has large matching eyes with visibly dark undertones beneath them (most likely due to lack of sleep). Kanato also has a rather short, thin figure with a noticeably younger look about him than his brothers, thus causing him to stand out as more childlike in appearance. He began wearing glasses in MORE, BLOOD.

Kanato is almost never seen without his beloved Teddy wrapped safely in his arms.

In HAUNTED DARK BRIDAL, he usually wears a black hoodie vest with a long-sleeved white shirt and red ribbon underneath. The vest’s straps extend to his upper arms. He wears this attire with black shorts and red pants bearing a checkered pattern that reach above his knees.

In MORE, BLOOD, he wears a beige sweater with a black, polka-dotted dress shirt beneath and an un-clipped red bow tie. He will occasionally don glasses.

His school uniform consists of the black school jacket over a maroon-colored vest with a red string tie and a white undershirt with a ruffled Victorian collar, which are worn with black pants. He also wears short black knee-socks and brown dress shoes.

Personality

By himself, Kanato tends to be easily amused by his own entertainments. He talks often to Teddy, spends time with or creating wax dolls, and singing. He seems to prefer spending time by himself and the simplicity of the neglect he’s used to.

Outside of some of the disturbing and potentially threatening comments he may make, initial conversation with him reveals that he speaks in an extremely polite (often to the point of condescending sarcasm) manner and has an extremely pleasant, soft voice.

Unfortunately, Kanato is a spoiled brat, often extremely demanding and quick to emotional blackmail or tempter tantrums to get what he wants. He’s incredibly cruel and violent when angered, yelling easily. He’s quick to use tears to get what he wants, having no shame in being considered a crybaby - these tears are sometimes real, but are often forced and fake. He’s so difficult to deal with that his brothers often leave him be, especially when he starts one of his violent tantrums.

Kanato was severely neglected as a child except when it came to his voice. He doesn’t think he’s attractive (or at least doesn’t find himself attractive) but his similarity to Cordelia pleases him, so sometimes he’ll enjoy staring into mirrors.

His brothers matter to him, but at the same time, this doesn’t mean he wouldn’t enjoy killing them. Precisely because they matter, he would enjoy it. However, he genuinely exhibits attentiveness from time to time towards Laito. He’s resentful of Ayato’s lack of attention but would have a difficult time with receiving it in the first place: a common issue with most of his social desires.

History

CHILDHOOD. The middle child of a set of triplets born by Cordelia, Kanato was raised alongside his brothers, Ayato and Laito. Cordelia wanted to make Ayato the Sakamaki heir, so she largely neglected her other two sons except when it suited her. Kanato was prized by Cordelia only when it came to his voice (which sexually aroused her). She ignored him to the extent that he deliberately acted out and hurt himself to get her attention, but it never worked. His craving for his mother’s attention was never satisfied as a child.

Much of Kanato’s poor behavior stems from clinging to the few things Cordelia encouraged in him. At one point, she gave him a teddy bear that one of her lovers had given her - this became Teddy, the doll he prefers to bond with over his brothers. She encouraged him to kill people she was bored of, finding amusement in and praising his dolls - Kanato continues to kill people (often sacrificial brides) and turn them into wax dolls.

Eventually, Cordelia was attacked by Ayato and came to Laito for help. Laito pushed her off a balcony. When Kanato found her among the roses, he burned her remains and stored them in a bottle he keeps inside Teddy.

NEAR CURRENT. Karlheinz manipulated circumstances to keep tossing experimental sacrificial brides at his children. None could endure the blood loss, physical and emotional torment. The sacrificial brides were too fragile and the Sakamakis broke their toys.

CURRENT. A single sacrificial bride is surviving and enduring: Yui Komori. Whichever brother obtains her will become the Sakamaki heir. Without directly entering into a “relationship” with any of the Sakamakis, she endures her stay there.

Verses

Brief summaries of the verses for Kanato along with potential links for those less familiar with Diabolik Lovers but still want to interact with him. For the sake of keeping things clean, encouraging community-wide and cooperative storytelling in roleplay, and not letting things get too crazy, verses will be limited. More may be made over time as needed.

Summaries:

VERSE - HAUNTED DARK BRIDAL

*This verse will be typically be the default, 'main verse'. In this, it is assumed that Yui Komori is staying at the Sakamaki household with some version of the first game having taken place. If the second game is included, it's with the idea that Yui stayed with the Sakamakis. Whether Kanato or one of his brothers winds up obtaining the Sacrificial Bride, Kanato’s life continues.

Verse Details | Tag: #V; KANATO; HAUNTED DARK BRIDAL

VERSE - MORE BLOOD

If for some reason it's absolutely necessary to differentiate between the verse above and a verse where More Blood has certainly occured, but Yui did not (at least initially) stay with the Sakamakis and instead is currently living with the Mukamis or was, until recently, still living with the Mukamis. Rivalry abounds and attempts to procure Yui are likely.

Verse Details | Tag: #V; KANATO; MORE BLOOD

VERSE - MISC.

Posts that could take place in the Sakamaki or Mukami verses but involve duplicates (whether Yui or others) in the same scene in a manner that would be hard to pass off as typical flow for those verses. Also includes nearly ANY time fellow characters are staying at the mansion, otherwise we’d end up with verses of 20+ additional characters hanging out in the Sakamaki villa.

Verse Details | Tag:#V; KANATO; MISC

SITUATIONAL VERSE TAGS

#V; KANATO; UNIVERSAL

Posts that can easily be assumed to have occured in either the Sakamaki or Mukami verses, typically answering asks, etc. that aren’t directly related to events unique to their timelines.

#V; KANATO; WHAT IFS & #V; KANATO; ONESHOTS

Likely reserved for one-off threads exploring a “what if”, a romantic meme that would otherwise be inappropriate, etc. If a meme doesn’t quite fit with one of the existing timelines, it’ll get one of these.

Tags

THREAD / WRITING TAG: #echoes in the halls; kanato

HEADCANONS: #hc; dialovers; kanato

IMAGES: #itt // kanato sakamaki

MUSIC: #music; dialovers; kanato

#blog; stuff #blog; muses

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David Duchovny’s HOHW Seattle Concert Review (Fourth in a series)

David Duchovny's HOHW Seattle Concert Review (Fourth in a series)

I attended David Duchovny's book discussion and concert in Seattle and have written a series of blogs about the events. This blog is strictly about the concert experience with some opinions in general about his music.

David opened with the high energy "3000." Truthfully it was hard to concentrate at first on the music. Even though I had met and interacted with the man earlier (see other blogs for more information), the first few minutes of the concert I was overwhelmed with the knowledge of how close I was to this man in what was clearly going to be a physical performance. He was sweating immediately and I noticed a sweat bead fall from his forehead to the ground. I noticed the way his arms flexed and the soft brown hair on the arms. I have been in the front row for many of my favorite song writers / performers, but David is the only musician/ song writer with whom I am, also, so attracted to his physical appearance. So at first I simply had to allow myself the pleasure of watching him.

By the end of "3000" I could begin to enjoy his voice and his awesome band. I am especially fond of Pat McCusker (guitarist) and Sebastian Modak (drummer) and will refer to them as Pat and Seb going forward. HOHW is a break up album. "3000" is a song David wrote about the distance "so short, so far" from his children when he lived across Central Park from them. "3000" is a song that can transcend love to anytime people are seperated more from differences than distances. Did I just describe America? "If we survive this civil war, we will discover what's worth fighting for."

David proceeded with a slower second song which is one of the most beloved off the album "Let It Rain." People who know me know that during concerts I will often close my eyes and let myself be completely absorb into the sound; lost to the moment. I wondered if I would do that with David given how much I enjoy the sensation of looking at the man. Sure enough I quickly found myself grooving and about to close my eyes when something happened that changed that moment for me and for the rest of the concert I never thought about closing my eyes to focus completely on the music. A young woman who I had been conversing with earlier asked me if I would trade my front row place for her for her favorite song. I have been a deadhead and have seen a crowd split like the red sea when a woman with a week old baby said "I want to be able to tell her she was in the front row for this song during her first concert experience." Part of the allure for me of the "Duchovniac" experience is a similar feeling of community among David's fans. Of course, I was going to let this young woman, who was trying to decide what lyrics to get tattooed on her body, into the front row for her favorite song. She then proceeded to take off her bra, threw it on stage and stood for an extended period of time with her breasts exposed. While I was annoyed in the moment, David had said that the reason he enjoys touring is the unique experience between artist and audience that is specific to the place and time. This event so early in the concert experience clearly relayed the mood of the crowd. We were 500 packed in like sardines who were all in for the experience- all there for love of the man- and willing to bare it all for tonight.

David introduced "Stay on the Train". David had said he does not write political music and then said that he could see how these lyrics could be about politics of today. Later I will write about a song I believe has more overtly political lyrics. I find "Stay on the Train" a hard song to hear. David has said his music is his most true expression of himself, that he likes trying to make his own experiences more universal and that this song was written for his daughter. I believe David's music "bleeds" his pain. The line "wave daddy goodbye" just is too much for me. It makes me want to wrap my arms around both father and daughter. I am curioius about the imagery which is used both in this song and in his novel, "Bucking Fucking Dent" with Ted saying he often thought about walking off the train and finding another family. Marty thanks him for staying in one of the more moving scenes in the book.

David then sang two new songs: "Roman Coin" and "Stranger in the Sacred Heart". My criticism of the concert is that the band sometimes drowned out David's voice and, unfortunately, they did so in these songs whose lyrics were unfamiliar. For me this was the part of the concert which somewhat failed. The same thing was true about the song: "Rain Song" but since everyone knew the lyrics it was still an enjoyable part of the concert. These were the only three songs in which this occurred.

My friend, Cathy, and I in discussing the album prior to the concert had agreed that "Passenger" is our least favorite song. If you judge an album by its worst song, then the album is a masterpiece because the song is beautiful. For me it is a fine stand alone song, but it incongruous on the album. It seems to be about a different lost love. The pain is not as strong and at times the song is celebratory of always carrying a lost love with you. Someone yelled out "Gillian." I am almost always annoyed when in the moments of David's music people can only think of X-Files, but I had told Cathy earlier that I like "Passenger" more when I think of it as a Mulder singing it about Scully song. Then the line "I stand witness to a crazy costume ball. Lonely witness to the beauty of it all" resonates more completely. Of course, there is also a lot of imagery in Californication of Hank looking over at the passenger seat of the car and "seeing" Karen or Becca. The song was truly beautiful live and while I would trade it in a moment for one of the tours later renditions (three nights in a damn row) of a song I had asked about in the QA "Lately Its Always December", I have a new fondness for "Passenger" having heard it live.

David coughed a little through "Things". While his voice struggles, his dance movements, grinding pelvis, was beautiful. He said at one point during the song when he was struggling "I will get there" and he did, but I loved the audience response. I am a firm believer that when you go to see a band or an artist you love and they struggle with a song, you love them through it. If you choose not to, you deserve whatever type of bad performance you get for the remainder of the show. An artist who has been "loved" through a bad performance of a song is going to deliver the rest of t"he night and I actually consider this song a turn-around song in terms of taking the next few songs to a transcendant level.

"Unsaid, Unsung" is my favorite song off the album. It is the angry song and there is plenty of anger to go around. Yes, anger at the woman he is leaving behind. Anger certainly at himself; his demons and his monsters. Anger at years of therapy which had in some respect did more harm than good. "Killing off forests to save the trees." I love it because it stands in perfect counterpoint to the title track of the album. The title track speaks of "I will stand here forever, I will outwait your disdain, I said I love you forever, Come Hell or Hell Water." It is a beautiful romantic notion which is not sustainable or healthy over time. "I'll just eat my words and move on." might not be as beautifully romantic, but for those of us who have been through a divorce where you were not the person who wanted the divorce, it is the sentiment you must arrive to at some point to survive.

The version of "Unsaid, Unsung" in Seattle was of a different energy and different level than any I have seen before. Luckily there is a part of it "phoned" and I have compared it with the later version in the tour; including the version at Stone Pony which some has argued was David's best over-all performance of the tour. I am not sure why the version in Seattle was so different, but the audience response was strong and immediate. For some reason David ended this version with singing/ yelling the line "I said I'm done" and then he was done. He was bending down inches from my face when he yelled/ sung this line. He then made his face and eyes go eerily cold. He made intentional and deliberate eye contact with several women in back of us while the music continued. I am very short and remember his body looming over me. I looked up at his face begging with my head movements to get some of the eye contact he was so willingly granting women in back of me. He bent down to Cathy and I then. He made eye contact with us. He put his hands in front of his face as if walling himself off- putting up a barrier to keep emotion or love from reentering his heart and then backed away while maintaining eye contact. I have scoured videos of this song since then to see this move. I cannot find it. I am glad Cathy experienced it too or I would think I had imagined it. The single best concert moment I have had in forty years of attending concerts and the fact that it is not a "routine" move for him is someting I hold dear. I believe that 500 people that night believed they had a moment with David. He reached several times over my head to touch hands with women in back of me, engaged in conversations with people in the back, stretched his body against the wall to touch the hands of people on the upper levels, did heart symbols to those people. He is a master at this. My "moment" was the moment in "Unsaid, Unsung". I am haunted by it in the most pleasant of ways.

When I saw the bongos on stage I knew we were going to get a "When the time comes" and while David sang this song with emotion and feeling I was going to watch Seb for this song. I had promised myself I would not let my overwhelming physical attraction to David keep me from focusing some attention on his terrific band. The live version of this song is better than the album version. This is largely due to the percussion piece. Seb did not disappoint. Because of my focus on him I was able to see a moment when he was done with a bongo piece where he looked specifically pleased with himself and he deserved to be. He looked up and we made eye contact. I hope he knows how appreciative I was. I had intentionally, by the way, selected a point a little off center so I could see Pat wail on that guitar through-out the night. We were fortunate that he stepped directly in front of us several times a night to play. When I clapped I tried to clap around, to show the appreciation. David is not a natural singer. He is not a great musician. He is a great lyricist and song writer. His musical expression is only possible because of the great band in back of him. We are a fanatic bunch of David fans- those of us who love his music. I hope the band knows we love them for their part in his expression.

"Half-Life" is currently my favorite song on the yet to be released second album. It is a song about what happens when you lived half of your life with a spouse, a soulmate, a true love and then you seperate. I love the line "I am closer to you, then who I used to be." That line does exactly what poetry is supposed to- it expresses emotions and sentiments beyond the actual words. It says - I have loved you as much as I love myself, I don't know who I am without you, you have changed me for ever and I can never go back to who I was. But unconditional love dies and fossilizes. "I was lost..." I had the fortune to hear it once during sound check and the second time during the concert. So amazingly beautiful.

"Every Third Thought" is another beautiful song about lost love. It is a refrain taken from Shakespeare, but instead of being about death it is about love in David Duchovny's universe.

I have a love/ hate relationship with "Positively Madison Avenue." I am a Dylan fanatic and this is a song which laments Dylan doing a car commercial. It was the first Duchovny song I heard. When I first heard it I was like "Fuck you, Duchovny". The man deserves to make some money. Then I heard an interview where David said "I'm not trying to be one of the Dylan goes electric folks." I heard the rest of the album and realized that David is a true Dylan fan as I am myself. There are multiple Dylan references through out the album. In this song Dylan is an image for the world turned commerical. It is not an attack on Dylan. What I love about this song is the Dylan worthy social commentary lyrics.

LAWYERS, CRITICS, BLOGGERS, VULTURES, PICK THEIR PERCENTAGE OFF THE CARCASS OF THE CULTURE IN ROME WE FIDDLE, AS CORPORATIONS PULL OUT TO OTHER NATIONS, GIVE MOTHER EARTH A FACIAL ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL (MORE OR LESS) FREE TO NEGOTIATE A SEQUEL (GOD BLESS)

David says he doesn't want to write politicial songs and I want the man to write what ever he is inspired to write, but I am convinced that he could write some lyrics we need right now if he wanted to. I hold my breathe in contemplation of such a thing, but much as I love whatever Dylan wants to do (two albums of Sinatra covers, really?), I will love David's non-political music. (Thank God we still have Neil Young)

What I hate about "Positively Madison Avenue" is that David disses Mulder in it. "Chasing Spooks on Fox I made my bones." Don't compare David's greatest acting accomplishment to Dylan's car commercial. Compare Mulder to "Blood on the Tracks" or "Blonde on Blonde". This blog is already too long for me to digress on why portraying the character of Mulder must have been so difficult or why I think it is David's greatest work (and I can wax poetic about a lot of David's acting), but it pains me to think David might not appreciate the accomplishment as much as he should. Besides, David has plenty of pure commercial endeavors- why not talk about the Saks Fifth Avenue catalog or the London Fog Campaign. So i prefer a rewrite "Save me a place on the boat, Double D is selling coats."

In any case, the rendition of this song I love more than hate was phenomenal and David was once again by me and bending down when he sang "a beleagured Pete Seger got to hitch his way to heaven." I heard in a later QA during the tour David had an extended conversation with a fan about this song and marketing in artistic endeavors. I wish I had heard that. (sigh)

Then he was gone for a moment. He came back for the encore "Hell or HighWater" which I had trouble concentrating on. The show seemed over so quickly and I wanted to simply watch him for a minute while I could. I saw the pink pussy hat in his pocket. I knew "The Weight" was on the encore list and while I know it was the title track he was singing, I just could not be as in the moment as I might have wanted in terms of the music. I took the moment to completely lose myself in his multiple physical attributes.

"The Weight" was a show highlight. First of all- its "The Weight." Arguably one of the top ten rock and roll songs ever written. Secondly, David talks about the kind of love within the song and then puts on, with his band, the pink pussy hats. Third, David had told a story about baby sitting Keaton Simons, the opening act, and Keaton came on stage to sing with him. During the song when center stage the love between them is a think of exceptional beauty. In fact, this song could very easily be the "loving the band" song. David is well aware that no one is going to look at anyone but him when he is on stage. So in this song, he goes to each band member while they sing and "loves them." He grinds his pelvis into Pat - don't know how Pat feels about it, but women have told me they have imagined being Pat at this moment, so...yeah, there's that. He lays his head on band members shoulders. He dances, skips, makes goofy movement. There is nothing remotely rock star or cool about this performance. Yet the love floats around the stage, jumps off to the audience, back on stage and it all flows from the artist himself who has inspired so many that night already, David Duchovny.

"Sweet Jane" is the "loving the audience" song. He jumps off to dance with the audience. I can feel the air displacement around me as women rush to be able to dance with him. I do not move. Having heard so much now about the experience of individual pictures and hugs at other VIP experiences and from women who were part of the audience dances with him, I regret slightly not feeling his back muscles or his biceps. Ok I regret it a lot. I want a Duchovny hug, but watching this dance was so enjoyable. After decades of excessive fandom, he is an expert at keeping the most private of his body parts protected, but his ass is stuck out, the arms and back are fair game. I have a picture framed in my head of his butt stuck out in a particular way, his hands by his face, his eyes closed, mid-wiggle down with women all reaching in with one hand to touch him in mid -wiggle down, and this delightful and beautiful look of joy on his face. Such an adorable puppy. I hope he never gets his audience sizes too big, he never gets afraid to jump in the audience, he is never injured, he always has and can give his fans this contact. Maybe someday I will get a hug.

It is a couple of weeks as I write this since the concert. Life has been kind of tough in the last two weeks. I thought I would write this quicker, but real life took precedence. (I have one more blog in this series yet to write). I can safely say though that with all the stark realism of my daily life, the escapism of this week-end in Seattle sustains me. (along with the love of a great friend). Life is strange and currently I feel like one of life's losers, but, you've got to love the losers. God Bless David Fucking Duchovny!

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Essay for Love: Ancient Approach

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Life Lessons from the Movie Elf

It was a cold and cloud-covered Saturday morning in November 2003, and my boyfriend had just tearfully confessed his betrayal while lying next to me in bed. He was regretful and apologetic, swearing it would never happen again, professing his love in such a desperate way that I immediately demanded he leave. After his departure, I paced and wrote pathetically dark poetry (most have faded from memory now, but I recall one that revolved around the concept of using my blood as ink to write out a list of his flaws — ah, how morbid and dramatic I was!).

Somewhere in between bouts of crying and typing, my best friend showed up with a six pack and an idea. "You need to get out," she said. "Let's go see Elf." I was despondent and angry, and the thought of a joy-filled holiday movie wasn't what I'd envisioned for my Saturday afternoon — more goth-themed poetry and perhaps some angry splattering of paint on canvas seemed more appropriate — but I begrudgingly let her drive me to to the theater.

Looking back on it now, all these years later, I'm not sure if it was the tone of the film (such a stark and silly contrast to what I'd been feeling alone in my room), the few beers I'd drunk beforehand, or the comedic brilliance of Will Ferrell, but I'd never laughed as hard, nor felt as uplifted, during a film as I did when watching Elf that afternoon. That period of my life was challenging — it's now a muddled memory of the betrayal and break-up, the reconciliation and the months of angst and mistrust and the love that grew weirdly stronger than it had been before — but I'll never forget how I felt in the theater that day, laughing so hard and giving into the silliness of that make-believe world when my heart was so heavy.

Anyway, long story short: Elf holds a special place in my heart, as far as films go. Years ago (in 2010!) I wrote about the life lessons I'd picked up from watching the film (which I've probably done at least a few dozen times since 2003), and I thought I'd revisit them again this year. Whether or not you're into the film, you're bound to gain some good insights from Buddy below:

Lesson #1: Spread cheer (Christmas and otherwise). "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." Spreading cheer sounds like an easy enough thing to do — but not when the people around you aren't into it. That's one of the great things about Buddy the Elf. He doesn't care if other people are cheerful or not. He continues to look for the positive in the things around him and point them out to others. And, in addition, he tries to encourage others to be cheerful as well (as he was doing when he said the above quote to love interest, Jovie). It's not always easy to be cheerful, but Buddy serves as an motivating inspiration for the benefits of having a cheerful attitude.

Lesson #2: Make smiling your favorite. "I just like to smile! Smiling's my favorite." Smiling's a small thing that's actually a big thing. The small act of smiling can change not only someone else's day, but your own as well. Try it. Next time you see someone you know — or even someone you don't — remember Buddy's quote above and make smiling your favorite thing to do. Greeting someone with a smile can transform an interaction and set a pleasant tone for that person — and for you as well. Don't think you'll be running into anyone today? Try looking in the mirror and smiling at yourself. Sounds crazy but it's actually a mood-booster!

Lesson #3: Be yourself, even when it's hard to know who you are. "Actually, I'm a human, but I was raised by elves." From the beginning of the film, Buddy struggles with his identity. Having been raised by elves, rather than humans, he struggles to figure out where he fits in in the world. He might look like a human but he certainly acts like an elf. Nevertheless, throughout the film, Buddy strives to be himself — even when that self makes him stick out dramatically in the human world. It would be much easier for him to learn and conform to the standards around him, but Buddy chooses to stay true to himself — a trait I admire in anyone (human or elf!).

Lesson #4: Give out compliments freely. "Deb, you have such a pretty face. You should be on a Christmas card!" One thing Buddy does incredibly well is dole out compliments. As the movie progresses, the number of positive things Buddy says about other people is actually pretty amazing. The quote above references only one of the times he compliments his father's assistant and, from her reaction, you know his words made her day. I find that I often have complimentary thoughts, but I don't always say them aloud. Making the effort not only to see the positive in others, but to tell them about it as well, can have a very powerful impact on your social interactions.

Lesson #5: Take risks. "Papa says my real father lives in a magical place far away... but the thing is, I've never left the North Pole." Want good things to happen to you? Like Buddy, you have to take risks. At the beginning of the film, Buddy finds out that he's not actually an elf and, though he's never before left the North Pole, he decides to bravely venture to NYC to meet his human father. This is the kind of risk a lot of people would be hesitant to take, but it's just the kind of risk that can have great rewards. Doing something different — breaking out of your comfort zone — is a great way to find new and exciting outlets for positivity in your life.

Lesson #6: Don't give up. "I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel." The quote above is just one example of Buddy's perseverance demonstrated in the film. On more than one occasion, Buddy is faced with challenges, but instead of complaining or stressing about them as many of us do, Buddy takes his challenges head-on and does what he needs to do to achieve whatever goal he's working towards. With the amount of times Buddy is put down in the film, it would have been much easier for him to give up and return the life he'd been living. But, as the positively inspiring elf that he is, Buddy doesn't give up but instead keeps working harder and harder — all while maintaining a positive attitude!

Lesson #7: Speak your mind. "If you can sing alone, you can sing in front of other people. There's no difference." In a conversation with his love interest, Jovie, Buddy explains to her that there's no difference between singing in front of others and singing alone (a fact he then goes on to demonstrate). Though she strongly disagrees with his point, Buddy doesn't seem to mind and continues to do what he can to convince her. This is only one example of how, in the film, Buddy is never afraid to say what's on his mind. He'll tell someone he loves him. He'll tell a fake Santa he's a fraud. He'll speak the truth — and his mind — without hesitation, something most are afraid to do. We could all learn a thing or two from Buddy's ability to be open and honest with those around him.

Lesson #8: Let life excite you. "Good news! I saw a dog today!" One of the things I love most about Buddy the Elf is his ability to be truly excited by life. In the scene from which the quote above was taken, Buddy greets his half-brother after school and exclaims with utter joy how he's spent his day. The most mundane things excite Buddy and there's not a bit of him that holds back his excitement for life. Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone was as happy to be alive as Buddy is? If everyone looked at the world around him/her with utter excitement? Buddy's inspired me to take another look around and see the wonder that really is all around me. Too often I get caught up on what I have to get done and I forget to stop and really be present and enjoy the moment — something Buddy seems to do very well.

Lesson #9: Show affection. "Does somebody need a hug?" How often do you show affection to the ones you love? I do what I can to be affectionate, but I can honestly say I'm no match for the ever-affectionate Buddy, who is always giving hugs and spouting words of love. Now, I wouldn't recommend hugging everyone (as Buddy demonstrates in the quote above, said right before he attempts to hug an angry-looking raccoon), but I do think there's a lesson to be learned from Buddy's ability to openly and consistently show affection. Showing affection is a great way to connect with others and make their lives — and yours! — more positive.

Lesson #10: Do what you love. "First we'll make snow angels for a two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse cookie dough as fast as we can, and then we'll snuggle." If there's one lesson to be taken away from the film, it's this: do what you love. Buddy, being the positive elf that he is, loves doing a lot of things and they aren't the "normal" things most adult men love to do, but you know what? He does them anyway. He doesn't let the human culture constrain him, forcing him to do what he "should" do. No, Buddy makes his own path and finds ways to spend time doing the things he loves to do. We should all follow Buddy's lead and be honest with ourselves about what we truly love to do. Once we've identified our favorite things, it's time to put that love into action because doing what you love to do is one of the best ways to be positive and present.

Did I miss any of the life lessons from Elf? I bet if I watched it again right now (which, let's be honest, I might actually do), I could find even more wisdom from Buddy. Let me know if you have any additional lessons in the comments below — or let me know what your favorite holiday (or anytime) film and what you've learned from it!

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