I'm sorry I'm such a slacker for updates on my fics. This month has been a tough one and I swear my creative energy has like died. But I'm hoping since the next few days I don't have to be up early and don't have much going on in serious due dates that I'll be able to get something out
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shima says all this stuff that at face value can seem like good advice ("don't get too hung up on decisions" etc) or does things that make it seem like he doesn't really care (him bunking off school, not interfering when mitsumi is being mocked in front of him). and it means he gives off this chill vibe on a surface level.
but when you understand the underlying reason why he thinks this way it becomes incredibly obvious that these words and actions are more an expression of how unhealthy his mental state is?
he's actively telling himself that stuff doesn't matter because when he *has* let them matter in his head, that's what led to the whole acting-mum-ririka scenarios. so, school doesn't really matter. theatre? he's done with that. it doesn't matter that he once "loved" acting when all he has now is a broken relationship with his mum and bad associations. much easier to not care.
it's a mix of what he tells himself and what he genuinely believes at this point. he's so conflict-avoidant that he pre-empts any possible tensions by being deliberately passive and prioritising (his perception of) others' feelings above himself. his very choice to agree to date mitsumi was a mix of his own unrecognised feelings towards her (which is why he jumped the gun when mitsumi hadn't even properly *asked*) and the idea that mitsumi liked him so he could do this for her and maybe it wouldn't be so bad. he's trying to pacify his idea of mitsumi's feelings without actually examining his own.
and at the same time, for someone so image-conscious, he has zero idea of the red flags he gives off sometimes. his perspective of love being that between a 'person' and a 'lover' it would be the 'person' you 'like' more being the most extreme example. he plain doesn't realise that his approach is atypical and so he doesn't realise he needs to 'counter' it in his image management. when people make fun of mitsumi in front of him he chooses the route he believes will lead to the least tension and is genuinely surprised when mitsumi *doesn't* want to prioritise group harmony above herself.
he's pushed his own feelings down until he no longer understands himself and it actively affects how he reads other people too. generally speaking, he *is* good at reading the social mood, but more specifically, he's good at figuring out *how to placate people*. there's a reason he's so popular. but he keeps individuals at a distance deliberately. most of the people he's closer to and/or more honest with are those who have known him from his acting days, before he started pushing people away. and when he's interacting one-to-one with people who actually know him like mukai? that's when the cracks start to show and the whole illusion breaks down.
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2014 -> 2024 Redraw of one of my oldest ocs and his cat I almost forgot about over the years :')
[pretty little psycho nightcore playing in the distance]
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i did it yall. i made a squirebot oc.
this is TAB-i, aka just tabi. they're izzy and fletch's robotics class final project that at first just didn't turn on because they did such a shitty job, so in an act of desperation fletch used magic to give it a conscience so ava (their teacher) wouldn't fail them. and since fletch is shit at magic instead of giving it a normal squirebot-like conscience he gave it a cat conscience by accident! initially, they were given a good grade for giving their squirebot such a responsive and lovable personality, once they were done being graded they found that they just. couldn't turn them off. ava quickly found out that they cheated with magic and gave them a D-. she was very impressed with how they combined tech and magic, but unfortunately it still counts as. Cheating. anyways! since they couldn't just turn off tabi they kept them around the academy (originally to hunt mice but they quickly found out they only hunt computer mice) as like a class pet. they don't speak, but they do meow and purr like an overheating ps4!
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