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room for every girl’s locket 1/1

work: room for every girl’s locket fandom: kagurabachi rating: T character(s): samura iori, ro, samura seiichi, rokuhira chihiro tags: samura iori-centric | character study | ch66-70 coda | general manga spoilers through ch71

work summary:

Samura Iori, daughter of a hero, soldier, sinner, murderer—opens her eyes to find herself, the world around her, the past behind and the future ahead of her, viscerally and irrevocably changed.

work preview:

The core image wobbles, a mirage on the horizon clearing up, a cloud bank fading to reveal the clear lines of the skyline— Dad, finally— She remembers. She knows. As sure as she is of anything, has ever been of anything, she knows this: A swordsman’s hands. The anatomy of the swordsman’s hands: the knob of his wrist, the solid length of his forearm, the stretch of his upper arm. She knows his face. His voice.

room for every girl’s locket | here

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aspiring to become a tenth of the hakuhiro writer takeru hokazono is bc what in the yaoibachi is this chapter

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still not over suit Hakuri

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antimatter 1-2/?

work: antimatter fandom: kagurabachi rating: M relationship(s): rokuhira chihiro/sazanami hakuri character(s): sazanami soya, sazanami tenri, sazanami family ensemble, yura, shiba tōgo, azami, sojo genichi, hinao, kyonagi char, hishaku ensemble (further cast tba) tags: alternate universe | toukuri AU | canon-typical violence | enemies to lovers | implied/referenced child abuse | slow burn | minor mixed media (more tags tba)

work summary:

A STATEMENT FROM THE FAMILY AND THE OFFICE OF THE RAKUZAICHI AT THE TIME OF SAZANAMI KYORA’S DEATH Sazanami Kyora, eleventh patriarch of the Sazanami and Head of the Rakuzaichi, passed away yesterday morning, Monday 7th December, following a longer period of illness. He died in his home at the Sazanami Estate surrounded by his immediate family and closest confidants. In all matters of the family and the Office of the Rakuzaichi, it has been decided that Sazanami Hakuri will succeed his late father, effective immediately.

The ascenion, reign and downfall of Sazanami Hakuri, twelfth patriarch of the Sazanami and Head of the Rakuzaichi—alternatively: how to topple an Empire in eleven months.

chapter preview(s):

ch01 | ascension pt I

Tenri shrugs, a jerk of a thing. “We’re the Tō,” he says. What he means is, it’s our job to do this, not yours. “We’ll see you on the other side.” He slaps the roof of the car, two perfunctory snaps of his rigid palm. “It’ll be okay, big brother. We’ll protect you.” Hakuri fingers the sluice of his seatbelt, still lax and tucked away on his left. “We’ll be okay,” he says to himself, then repeats it out the window to his siblings. “The Rakuzaichi above all else.” “The Rakuzaichi above all else,” chorus Tenri, Soya, Enji and Tamaki.

ch02 | ascension pt II

Hakuri’s father is dead, and the dead don’t talk, but Hakuri knows how little Kyora would have thought of any son of his thinking any of it. Sometimes he imagines that he can feel his father’s voice on the inside of his frontal lobe—the thrum and cadence of Kyora’s disappointment hammering bloodless, blithe reprimands into the marrow and bone of him. Encouraging Hakuri to be nothing he is, to always strive for everything he isn’t.

antimatter | ch01 ch02

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the faces crafted by Samura Seiichi

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everything u need to know about me can actually be explained by the fact that i read that poem about the serving girl wearing the pearls so they're warm for her mistress when i was like 11 and it rewrote my brain chemistry forever

like this Changed Me

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fish song

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school days (flashback.? au..? gakuparo...?)

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the enchanted blade wielders

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My wide collection of Kagurabachi text post memes i made in the last 12 hours to prevent myself from having a mental breakdown

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kagurabachi ch58 prediction worst timeline

yes the uruha copium dried up & I can’t see anything but The Worst Timeline occurring from here

cut 2 spare anyone who still retains some measure of hope for plot advancements more positive than samura murdering uruha in cold blood in front of hakuhiro

hakuri uses the last wisps of strength & power to transport chihiro, then collapses. chihiro materializes on site just as samura cuts uruha down, dangerously fatigued & increasingly unstable, can’t believe wtf he’s seeing—hakuri passed out in a pool of his own blood, uruha cut down like a dog, senkutsuji razed to the ground—

and just snaps

chihiro vs samura as a brutal battle of ideologies, sojo 2.0 except this isn’t a vicious arms dealer nursing a parasocial obsession w his dad, this is a man he trusts: chosen by kunishige to wield an enchanted blade, a lauded hero of the war—the first man to teach him how to properly swing a katana—and one of few bastions of hope vs the hishaku

chihiro (at this point already increasingly aware his crusade may rest on a very biased, shaky foundation) is abt to take on the strongest enemy he’s ever faced, whilst that same enemy likely barrages him with his experiences as a wielder & the reasons for his betrayal, bruised exhausted betrayed, and cut him down

peak doom theorizing but I guarantee hokazono is cooking the biggest & most important battle of the series thus far, a seismic shift, and whatever happens in ch58 & onwards—based on the end of ch57—I only see chihiro coming out the other end fundamentally altered, his person & outlook on the blades, the war, his father, his role as an avenger—everything radically altered

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waking up to sakadays trailer not only looking fucking great but ALSO

2 cours confirmed? vaundy doing the OP?? hayashi yuki composing???

chat we have never been so fucking back I’m 😭

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FLAME BONE

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nobody speak to me right now what do you mean SAMURA WAS THE TRAITOR??? YOGHURT MIGHT BE DEAD????

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New chapter is so?!!?!?!?!

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kagurabachi ch57