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Writeblr Introduction

— sunhunger

Hello Writeblr!!! I go by Eleanor (my middle name), my pronouns are she/her, and I’m from the UK. I’ve been on Writeblr before under different URLs, but I took a longgg break during which I hardly wrote at all, so I thought this could be a fresh start!

Aside from writing, I enjoy chocolate, panel shows, and getting out of bed after noon. I also love learning foreign languages – sometimes I try and translate bits of my work for fun :)

— WHAT I WRITE

Fantasy, historical fiction, magical realism, dark academia, the occasional short story

Poetry!! Most of which is currently gathering dust in my notes app lol

Idk why but I have this big fear of writing contemporary fiction?? Maybe because it more closely resembles my life and I feel vulnerable 😭

I guess my goal is to speak to people the way long-dead authors speak to me. I want to hone the craft of putting things into words.

— THIS BLOG

Stuff relating to my WIPs! Many are still in the notes-app-idea-dump stage, but I’m focusing on one in particular at the moment and there’s a WIP intro coming soon!!!

Something I really want to focus on is reading and reblogging other people’s work, there’s so much brilliant stuff out there. (Please interact with this post so I can find more amazing blogs!)

There will also be the occasional random reblog that isn’t Writeblr-themed, I’ll tag these with ‘#not technically writing related’ so you can block them from your dash easily if you want :)

Full disclosure – I have exams coming up fairly soon, so I won’t be active 24/7. Though I am a procrastinator so you never know…

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Guess who invented that movie...

This top one is where I created it for the first time, and the second one has chaos ensue because Touma and Mei are too busy working on said movie to feed the baby dragon. Cue the puns.

I can imagine that in the future, Kento Kun the Magic Hedgehog becomes super famous and Ise’s siblings also are fans of it. Kento is now haunted by this forever but he can’t stop it out of his kids’ happiness

Kento-kun the Magic Hedgehog becomes famous enough to have spinoffs (all written by Touma of course, based on himself and the other swordsmen), its own line of toys and other merch, and maybe even a tv show or a movie lol. 

Ise is the one with the most Kento-kun merch, and he still has the original Kento-kun plushie well into adulthood. The other sibs have other characters as favorites, but they all have something with the hedgehog on it too. 

Of course eventually they learn that Kento-kun is based on their Papa, but that just makes them adore Kento-kun even more because “Papa is so cute 💛” 

Kento never lives it down but he puts on a brave face whenever his kids beg him to read it, or watch the show/movie, or buy merch for them. He may be constantly reminded of the greatest humiliation of his life, but at least his kids are happy... 

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Hey @narashikari, remember that time when Rintaro made everyone wince with his dad puns? Well, get ready for something even worse.

In hindsight, he should never have let Rintaro feed Ise again. But Kento was off training with Ren, because he simply couldn't refuse the ninja gremlin (and probably because he hadn't wanted to hear him and Mei arguing about the hedgehog), and he and Mei had been panicking over the first draft of the Kento-kun script, leaving Rintaro the only one available to feed the baby dragon.

It started out alright, Rintaro and Ise eating together and discussing the stories that Touma was considering for the Kento-kun spin-off, Tortoise-tou-san. Rintaro was eating a meat sandwich with salad- because he knew how to balance his meals- and Ise was scarfing down a plate of meat and rice. It was actually quite the cute picture, Touma thought as he looked up at them from his desk.

"Berry!" Ise yelled as soon as he finished his plate.

Rintaro laughed and patted his son's head. "Don't worry, Ise, you'll get your berries." He got up and went to the kitchen, and a minute later he returned with a small plate of assorted berries- strawberries, blueberries, mulberries and blackberries. "Ready?"

"Yes!" Ise nodded vigorously, his tuft of whitish hair bouncing with the motion. "Berries!" He tried to reach for one, but Rintaro pushed his hand away.

"Here, allow me." He picked up a strawberry and held it out to Ise. "Ichigou no ichigo*!"

Ise took it and devoured it happily, but a crash of ceramic and Touma's cursing interrupted them before Ise could get another berry.

"Rintaro... You didn't just say that, right?" Touma blurted out, having just dropped his coffee mug on the floor and gotten ink all over his manuscript thanks to dropping his dip pen.

"Umm... Do you want me to lie?" Rintaro shrugged in confusion. That kind of statement always seemed questionable to him.

"Goddamnit Rintaro, how many times do we need to tell you? No puns around Ise!"

Rintaro winced, handing Ise a blueberry. It was going to be a rough night when Kento found out that he'd punned again in front of Ise. He'd probably message Fuwa-senpai later for support, but for right now he had to deal with it on his own.

*the pun translates to "strawberry in one go", and it also references a joke made all the way back in Gaim, when Ichigou's lockseed pronounced his title in the weirdest way possible. This was because Gaim already had the ichigo/strawberry lockseed, pronounced approximately the same way as the title, and they had to separate the two in some way.

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Hello! You asked for a pride prompt, so... What about a fic for Riders showing up at a pride parade in suit waving pride flags pissing off conservatives trying to argue that they’re the paragon of straightness and wouldn’t approve of such activities 😊

Oh boy, this is going to get crazy. Be prepared for ranting. Oh yeah, and some of the Riders are out of suit.

Just to clarify, I headcanon Parado and Poppy as being demigender, which means that they only partially identify with the gender they express.

"What the fuck did you just say?" Shinnosuke's expression was pure fury, his hand shaking as he leveled his ally flag at Ichika Suzuki as though it were the Handle-ken. The only reason he hadn't run her through yet was that Kiriko, Gou and Chase were all restraining him.

Ichika looked up at Shinnosuke with a glare of disdain. "This... pride-" She pronounced the English word as though disgusted by it, gesturing at their surroundings- "is an unnatural abomination against the true love of a man and a woman. Officer Tomari, of all people, you should know this- is it not your wife who is holding you back?"

"Urgh!" Shinnosuke writhed in Kiriko's grip, attempting to free himself. "Gerroffme, Kiriko!"

"Hey, what's going on here?" Shotaro and Philip walked over, dressed in purple and green with rainbow baseball caps. "Everything alright, Shinnosuke?"

Philip analyzed the scene, his eyes widening as he realized what was going on: Shinnosuke was trying to attack a woman, Kiriko, Gou and Chase were trying to hold him back, and... Was that Parado pummeling the woman?

"God damnit Parado!" Emu yelled exasperatedly as he stuffed his miniature aroace flag into his pocket and ran over, throwing a disapproving glance at Poppy and Naki, with whom Parado had been hanging out. "I told you that this would happen!"

"I don't care!" Parado had switched to strangling Ichika with his demiboy flag and was screaming at the top of his lungs. When Emu tried to drag him away, he simply phased through his arms and ignored him. "This bitch was implying that we're abominations! She needs to die!"

"Who does?" Sento and Ryuga showed up next to them, followed by Fuyuki and Fuyumi who were climbing all over Takeru- who had transformed as soon as he'd seen the goings-on.

Emu rolled his eyes as Shotaro yelled something over his shoulder at someone. "She's being homophobic, and Shinnosuke is trying his damnedest to murder her. As is Parado, it seems." As he spoke, Shinnosuke finally freed himself from Kiriko and was only barely stopped by Philip.

"Ooh, she's dead!" Ryuga snarled and was about to tackle her when Sento grabbed his arm and went on a rant, trying to keep his husband from actually becoming a murderer.

Meanwhile, Aruto, Isamu, Gentaro and Kengo were yelling at a guy who'd been harassing them, while Tsukasa and Daiki- while transformed- were shooting at another guy who was waving a black-and-white striped flag and yelling slurs at them. Kiriya had somehow attached pride flags to their suits like capes, but they hadn't noticed.

The two polycules were basically creating barriers around the pride event while Mai used Helheim plants to fling a car full of people yelling insults over the nearest building and Mei- who had borrowed Kaenken Rekka and Dragonic Knight from Touma- nearly set fire to someone. Maybe now had not been the best time to give supplies to a new Rider.

Emu smiled a bit. There was no way that the homophobes were getting out of this alive and unharmed.

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Write something about the Zenkaiger ot3 please?

Sure!

"Tickle attack!" Kaito pounced on Zox from behind, knocking the blond pirate to the floor and causing a wave of laughter from Flint, Cutanner, Ricky and even Stacey, who were leaning against the counter and eating ice cream. "Stace! Come over here and help me tickle this maniac!"

Stacey put his ice cream down and folded his arms. "What did he do to you this time?"

"He replaced all my soap with glitter glue!"

Stacey's eyes widened with surprise, and he dove into the fray. "Zox, you are insane. Why would you even do that???"

"Because I'm weird?" Zox suggested mid-laughter, trying not to let Kaito know that he was way too ticklish for his own good.

Meanwhile, the other Zenkaigers watched from a good distance away. Life was better without getting involved with those three lovers' and their spat.

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I've just had a very strange thought, and I felt compelled to ask you a prompt about it.

See, Desast from Saber and Yurio from Yuri on Ice have the same VA (Uchiyama Kouki). He also voiced Philip/Kamen Rider W in the Memory of Heroez video game. So what would happen if, by some strange twist of destiny, these three happen to cross paths?

Oh my God... Are you for real? Okay, now I want to write this!!!

"Hey, Shotaro, did you know that the reigning champion of men's singles figure skating was fifteen when he won his first gold medal in seniors?" Philip asked, holding out his phone to his husband.

"I have no idea what half of that means, but..." Shotaro's voice trailed off as his eyes found the phone screen. Pictured there was a young blond man, shoulder-length hair tied back in a ponytail, who was staring arrogantly at the camera. He was leaning on a dark-haired guy who was half a head taller and was, at the moment of the photo being taken, kissing the side of the blond's head. "Okay, who is that?"

Philip smiled as he took his phone back. "Kentaro found this compilation of the top ice skaters in the world, and wouldn't you guess, but two of them live just ten kilometers from Fuuto!"

"These two?"

"No. Surely you've heard of Yuuri Katsuki and Victor Nikiforov?"

"The names do ring a bell." Shotaro frowned, trying to remember where he'd heard them. "Hang on, aren't they the first two officially married gay ice skaters?"

"Exactly!" Philip snapped his fingers. "Now, they'll be making an appearance at the NHK competition, because they're friends with the skater I just showed you and because they're training a junior skater competing there. I was thinking that maybe we could go and see them."

"What???" Shotaro's mouth dropped open. Then he thought better of himself. "Okay, but how do you expect to pay for it?"

Philip smirked, an expression that rarely showed up on his face and thus unnerved Shotaro every time. "You'll see."

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Against all odds, Philip had managed to procure two two-day tickets for the NHK Trophy, so Shotaro had no choice but to admit defeat. They dropped Kentaro off at Shinnosuke's, apologizing for the inconvenience, and then drove off to Nagoya, where the competition was being held. They definitely were not expecting to be recognized.

"Hidari Shotaro-san?" A man in his thirties approached them cautiously, the expression in his eyes approaching awe.

"Yes?" Shotaro didn't mean to sound curt, but his surprise had overtaken him. "Yes, that's me."

"I live in Hasetsu. When I was fourteen, my poodle, Vicchan, disappeared, and you helped me find him. I remember you clearly." The man smiled a bit. "I never got the opportunity to say thank you."

"You're welcome-" Shotaro paused, not knowing the man's name.

"You can call me Yuuri. May I introduce my husband, Victor?" Yuuri patted the shoulder of the silver-blond man next to him before rising up to kiss his cheek, only to be startled away by Philip squealing.

"Yuuri Katsuki and Victor Nikiforov??? I can't believe it! It's you two!" Philip grinned, trying to contain his excitement.

"That would be us." Victor smiled, then glanced at his watch. "Oh, Yuuri, we're supposed to head in. Didn't Yurio want to meet us before he had to warm up?"

"Damn, that's right! I'm sorry, we have to go find our friends." Yuuri dragged Victor off before anybody could say a word.

Shotaro and Philip were left there, speechless. Then they both started talking at once.

"You know Yuuri Katsuki?"

"I know Japan's former leading ice skater?"

"When did that happen?"

"I don't know!"

This continued until they had to go in to get their seats. Then they shut up, watching as the skaters warmed up on the rink.

"Isn't that the guy you showed me?" Shotaro pointed out a blond on the ice, his sleek hair combed into an elaborate hairdo. He had left a red, white and blue striped jacket on the wall of the rink, and was now skating around in a red-orange outfit.

"I think so. I forgot his name, though, so I guess we'll have to find that out later."

All the skaters left the ice except the blond, who skated over to the wall to grab a drink. "First on the ice: Yuri Plisetsky, of Russia."

"I bet you ten thousand yen that that's the Yurio Victor Nikiforov mentioned," Shotaro whispered as Yuri skated out to the middle of the rink and struck a pose. The music started up just as Philip answered, a rushing, rising piece that reminded both of them of flames, so Shotaro couldn't hear him, though he had a feeling that the bet had not been taken.

Both of them were entranced by the skating, so when the music ended, they both felt like it had been far too short. But, as Philip pointed out, "Today is the day of the short programs. The free skates are tomorrow."

Just as Yuri stepped off the ice, screams erupted from the rinkside as a black figure jumped down from somewhere. It was not human by any means.

"Crap!" Shotaro cursed his bad luck as he and Philip scrambled through the screaming crowds to get to an aisle, any aisle, where they'd have a chance to transform.

"Henshin!"

Kamen Rider W, now transformed, floated down in front of the monster. Its features were twisted, red and black, and it was holding a sword to Yuri Plisetsky's throat. "Leave. Him. Alone."

"Oh? And who's going to stop me? You?" The monster's voice was eerily calm and snarky, and apparently Yuri didn't like it, as he started screaming obscenities in Russian. Just a few meters away, Victor was apparently translating for Yuuri, because both of them looked about as freaked out as the dark-haired guy next to them.

"Yes, I am. Now, count up your sins!"

"Desast!" someone yelled from behind W, and they whirled around to see a very familiar dragon-themed Rider. "Hang on, you guys are also here?"

"Yeah, we were watching the ice skating," Philip replied in Shotaro's place, wondering how Touma Kamiyama had known to come here. "Now, we should probably get that guy away from Desast."

"On it!" Touma tackled Desast away, and W held out a hand to Yuri.

"Are you okay there?" Philip asked in slow, careful English.

"No, not okay, why would you think that?" Yuri snapped in Russian-accented English that was still clearly legible. That voice made Shotaro freeze up.

"Uh, that's weird... You sound like him," Shotaro blurted out before he could think about what he was saying.

Yuri rolled his eyes. "Yeah, duh, that's why he targeted me. He said that he was looking for a human disguise, and that because I had a similar voice to his, nobody would suspect him. Not that that would work, given that that mudak attacked me in the middle of the khrenoten' competition."

"Well, you should go find out your score. We'll deal with the monster." W ran off, leaving a very confused Yuri Plisetsky behind. One of the figure's voices also sounded remarkably similar to his.

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After chasing away Desast and watching what they hadn't missed of the rest of the short programs, Shotaro and Philip met up with Victor, Yuuri, Yuri and the dark-haired guy, a retired skater himself, and Yuri's boyfriend, by the name Otabek Altyn. The moment he spotted them, Yuuri bombarded Shotaro with questions.

"What the hell was that? Who were those? Why did that monster attack Yurio? Is it going to attack again?" Yuuri paused, breathless, and Philip took the opportunity to answer the questions.

"That was a monster attack. The two figures in suits were Kamen Riders, defenders of justice. As for why the monster attacked Plisetsky-san, and whether it will attack again, I simply don't know."

Yuri raised an eyebrow, but didn't question it. The young man's voice also sounded similar to his own, but the idea that he was one of the voices of the Kamen Rider who'd saved him? No way. He said something to Victor and Otabek in Russian, smiling slightly at the three Japanese men, who shrugged in confusion.

"Well, we'll be here tomorrow to watch the free skate. Which place did Plisetsky-san get?" Philip asked Yuuri, smiling to learn that the blond Russian skater was in first place.

"You flatter me." Yuri slapped Yuuri's hand away as the latter tried to give him a slap on the back, his dry, acidic tone reminding all those present of the monster.

"See you tomorrow!" Victor called as Philip and Shotaro walked off to their car, wide-eyed with joy. Victor Nikiforov, who still held several records around the globe and was currently one of the most elite skating coaches in the world, was looking forward to see them again. How awesome was that?

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After getting permission from @asknarashikari for doing the Den-O nicknames, here's part two of Ise's nicknames for the Den-Liner crew! It's becoming Imagin town over here.

Momotaros: Sanjou. No, seriously. Ise has heard him do the "Ore sanjou" thing so many times that he's started to think that maybe it's his actual name. Momo, being the rough-and-tumble one of the group, tries to put up a facade of being upset about it, but he's still an absolute softie at heart and would honestly die for Ise. (Not that Ryotaro would let him, of course, and besides, Ise's a dragon. He can protect himself.)

Urataros: Kame-san. This one Ise stole from Momo, and it's honestly accurate. In turn, Ura dotes on him, always swooping in to make sure he's okay- Ura has become a fourth dad to Ise and Touma, Rintaro and Kento are fucking jealous.

Kintaros: Kin-kin. The duplication returns, and with it the puns. Technically Kin-chan's name is supposed to resemble that of the legend, but Ise noticed that it happened to contain his color, as well as the word for metal, and Kin-chan had had a pot thrown on his head courtesy of Ryuta the day he and Ise met. Kin-chan, being the loyal, adorable bear that he is, absolutely loves Ise, and Ise loves him back. That's why whenever he gets tired while at the Milk Dipper, he always heads off to cuddle with Kin-chan.

Ryutaros: Ru-ru. Again, Ise can't pronounce "ryu"- ironically enough, given his species- so the duplication ended up dropping the y just like he did for Ryotaro. Aside from that, though, Ryuta and Ise have way too much fun together. Ryuta gave him a bubble gun, and is teaching him how to breakdance (to everyone's horror). Ise actually likes it, though, and when he's not calling him Ru-ru, he's calling him Ru-nii, because they're both dragons.

Deneb: Mido-nii. Ise hasn't the faintest idea what Deneb is supposed to be, but the amount of green on his body makes Ise think of good things- like his Uncle Ren-ren- so he named him for that. And dang if Deneb doesn't love it. Seriously, the whole Den-Liner crew just pampers the little dragon, and he loves it.

Sieg: Get this asshole away from the precious baby dragon- now for real, it's Tori-ji. Ise doesn't quite know what a swan is, nor what ballet is, but he does know that Sieg has a rather large obsession with feathers. Feathers are from birds, so therefore Sieg is a bird. Sieg takes it rather well, honestly, and Ise is kind of one of the only people he respects (aside from Hana, who kicked his ass, and Ryotaro, whom he's sworn to aid.)

Teddy: Ao-chan. When Kotaro told Ise what Teddy translates as- i.e. a bear- Ise kept cracking up whenever Kin-chan and Teddy were in the same room. But again, he had to create a nickname, so he went with Teddy's color, sort of like he did with Kin-chan. Teddy is a literal overprotective mama bear for Kotaro (and sometimes Ryotaro), and now for Ise as well. Ise loves the dude.

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So... @asknarashikari actually gave me the go-ahead to come up with Ise's nicknames for the Den-Liner crew! Woot woot!

Okay, after writing about all the human characters, I realized that this is getting way too long, so this will be part one. Part two with the Imagin will be coming soon.

Ryotaro: Ro-ji. Given that Ryotaro is well into his thirties at this point, he's too old for Ise to call nii-san, despite how much both Ryotaro and Ise would love for that to happen. That's why Ise went with the next-best thing, referring to him as Uncle. And, of course, the double consonant in Ryotaro's name is basically impossible for him to pronounce.

Hana: Hana-neesan. Hana, at this point in time, probably wouldn't be stuck on the Den-Liner anymore and would be growing normally, making her about eight years older than Ise. Ise respects her and loves her, and Hana responds in kind. He's actually only zapped her once, and she kicked his scaly butt hard for that one.

Airi: A-basan. Of course, if Ryotaro is Ise's uncle, Airi is his aunt, and again, Ise's difficulty with diphthongs comes to the forefront. Airi pampers the kid to death, and he actually willingly eats her food. Ryotaro is so confused. (The joke here is that I refer to my dad as Abba, so I couldn't resist.)

Naomi: Cohee-chan. Ise can't pronounce her actual name, nor can he pronounce the 'f' in 'coffee' properly (let alone that Japanese doesn't even have the 'f' phoneme and pronounces it as an f-h hybrid), but coffee is ninety percent of what he hears her talking about, so that's what he went with. Naomi also pampers Ise like mad, to the point where Touma is starting to get jealous.

Yuuto: Yu-yu. Ise's duplication strikes again! Yuuto is particularly embarrassed because of the events of the Onigashima Warship movie, which involved his childhood self, whom the rest of the Den-Liner team called Yuu. Nevertheless, he's kind of flattered that Ise likes him enough to give him a nickname at all, let alone one that to any other person wouldn't be embarrassing.

Kotaro: Lucky. The sheer irony of this nickname hit everyone about five seconds after Ise used it for the first time, along with a fit of the giggles. First of all, because Nana Emu was there, and he recalled the red ranger with that name (who's basically the polar opposite of Kotaro, mind you.) Second of all, because it's the meaning of Kotaro's name- it means "lucky child". Third of all, because Kotaro inherited Ryotaro's bad luck- so much so that most of what Teddy does is protecting Kotaro. Aside from that, Kotaro kind of dotes on the kid, and if he knows that Ise will be at the Milk Dipper, he'll make a detour with the Den-Liner to see him.

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This blog is for writing prompts!

Guys. Please. Send me art and writing prompts. I'm bored out of my mind.

Fandoms:

The holy trinity of books (HP, RRV and HG)

The Shadowhunter Chronicles

The Magisterium

Divergent

Keeper of the Lost Cities

Sebastien De Castell's Spellslinger

Power Rangers, Super Sentai and Kamen Rider

Miraculous

Yuri!!! On Ice

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Please write something about the Saber ot4 because we’re going in hiatus soon 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Okay. I guess it's time to get sad about some swordboys... (and a swordgirl)

This is turning out way more sappy and heartwarming than I thought. Damn it, I really am sad about this! 😭

"Touma!" Mei pounced on Touma from behind as soon as he walked through the door. She pecked his cheek and then slid to the ground to allow Rintaro and Kento their turn. "How'd the reading go?"

Touma grinned. "Really well, actually. Apparently they think I have potential as a screenwriter?"

Kento smiled and ruffled Touma's hair, the same way Hayato had done with his hair. Maybe it was because he'd been with the Sword of Logos for so long, or because Touma had never seemed to grow up, but aside from the romantic love that had been there since the beginning of their friendship, he felt almost a fatherly responsibility for his boyfriend. "Good on you, Tou-tou."

Rintaro walked out of the kitchen, an éclair in his mouth and Ise wrapped around his leg in toddler form. "Touma, that's amazing! Hey, Ise, Tou-chan just got a big success!"

"Huh?" Ise tilted his head quizzically, then dropped from Rintaro's leg so he could wander over to Touma and jump up into his arms, meaning that Touma had to quickly adjust to the added weight. "Tou-chan did what?"

"I got the go-ahead to write a movie script! And guess what, Ise?" Touma tickled Ise's face, making the kid giggle. "The movie is is going to be about Kento-kun the magic hedgehog!"

Ise, Mei and Rintaro started laughing with delight, and the actual Kento swore under his breath. Somehow, Kento-kun had become Touma's best-selling series of all time, and nobody understood what it was about a magical hedgehog, lion and dragon that so enchanted toddlers.

"I can't wait for you to start!" Mei bounced up and down excitedly, her twin buns coming looser and looser with every jump. "You know I'm editing, right?"

"Yeah, I know. Okay, I've got the ideas floating, so let's put them down on the paper." Touma tapped his head and headed to his desk, handing Ise off to Kento. He then grabbed his fountain pen from the locked closet, having recently learned that Ise, if given access to a liquid-ink pen, would get ink everywhere. The ink splatters all over the couch were evidence to that.

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Fic of Yamato being called “mom” please

Oh my God, I can't believe I never thought of that!

This basically became a Misao and Yamato ship fic. #sorrynotsorry

"What did you call me?" Yamato turned around from the table that held all of his medical supplies. He'd passed the examination to become a vet the month before, having decided that zoology would be his retirement, and he was currently working with his dad. He was hoping to open his own clinic by the end of the year.

Amu was standing behind him, grinning from ear to ear as she winked. "I said, when are you going to propose to Misao, Mom?"

Yamato spluttered and attempted to keep a straight face, but utterly failed. "Shush! It's a secret! Also, did you just call me 'mom'?" He set the stethoscope back on the table and turned to Amu, whose smile had turned into pure lazy mischief. Altogether, too much like a cat's to make him feel comfortable.

"Yup. You're the mom friend, don't try to deny it," Tusk announced from the doorway, almost smiling at Yamato's sheer confusion.

"I thought that was Sela?"

"No, she's the big sister. Look, you literally helped us hide our secret from your uncle for a year. It's not like you aren't already a mom." Leo shoved past Tusk, waving a pansexual flag-patterned fan. He closed the fan and bopped Yamato on the head.

"Ouch!" Yamato protested, rubbing his head ruefully. "Stoppit!"

"We'll stop when you propose to him," Sela said, popping out from the kennel area and scaring Yamato half to death.

"How did you even get in here?"

"Mario let us in. He's just as impatient as us, if not moreso," Amu explained, winking again.

"Look, I was going to propose to Misao at the picnic tonight, but that might just have been wrecked by you four and your racket." Yamato peeled off a glove, pulled a small box out of his pocket, and opened it to reveal the ring he'd bought. It was three-stranded, twined in a triple helix shape that was almost like meta-DNA, and each strand was a different color. The three colors, black, silver and gold, revealed that the ring must have been custom-made, because those were Misao's ranger colors.

"Ohhhh... It's so pretty..." Sela sighed in admiration, running her finger along the ring. "I think he'll love it."

"He definitely will," Tusk confirmed. He glanced behind him before continuing. "Now, we should probably get out of here before one of your customers starts complaining that you're not attending to their cat."

The four Zyumans vanished through the door before Yamato could blink, and he snapped the ring box shut before stowing it back in his pocket. Hopefully the surprise hadn't been ruined and he'd be able to propose that night. But that would be a different story entirely.

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I have a question, Spring. Who do you ship in Kamen Rider?

Ooh, this is a tough one...

Sento and Ryuga, obviously. You can't not ship them.

Shotaro and Philip- I was picking it up on my gaydar for a while before Kari convinced me on it.

Hiiro and Taiga- goodness gracious, these two have the best enemies-to-lovers dynamic ever.

Yuuto and Airi, because dammit, it's so amazing and the references to Eastern mythology and their dynamic is so... *cri*

Tsukasa and Daiki, because dammit, literally every time they show up in a movie they're either flirting or fighting or both.

Kari convinced me to hop on the Kouta-Mai-Micchy shipping train, but before that I shipped Kouta-Kaito-Mai and I'm not ashamed to admit that.

Sougo-Geiz-Tsukuyomi, because I was picking up the Sougo-Geiz dynamic on my gaydar for a long while and Keito in the new world is crushing on Tsukuyomi, so who am I to stop him? (If I didn't ship this so hard, I'd probably ship Heure and Sougo, honestly.)

I've only just started watching Zero-One, but Kari convinced me a long time ago that Aruto and Isamu should be a thing, and what I've seen is only confirming that.

Other ships that I'm not as familiar with, but let's face it, Kari is very convincing: Chase and Gou, Shinnosuke and Kiriko...

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Because you said you were running out of ideas, @asknarashikari, I'm going to do Ise's nicknames for Team Gaim. You decide if it's canon or not.

Kouta: Fruit Jesus. We all know why. Kouta is not happy because he's been trying to live that nickname down for eight years now, but everyone seems to use it now. He blames Emu and Takeru, because they were the ones who was there when Shinnosuke called him a god. Where Ise got it from, nobody knows.

Mai: Mai-neesan. She is thrilled about it. Apparently she's always wanted a little brother. Kouta is jealous because she got a normal nickname.

Mitsuzane: Micchy. Everyone calls him that, so so does Ise. Sometimes, if Ise is trying to be particularly cute, he'll call him Micchan, stealing a nickname from a friend of Takeru's. Micchy is kind of confused by this, but the little dragon's love is sort of telling him that he's not a bad person, so...

Kaito: Banana. Zack got Ise doing it, and the two of them split their sides laughing when Kaito gets mad. "Baron da!" has become a meme and Ise will take any chance he can get to get Kaito to say it. (Kaito actually doesn't mind it, but he's got to put up a show.)

Zack: Odoriko-nii (dancer brother). Ise has noticed that Zack is the only one (aside from maybe Mai) who dances because he actually likes dancing, so Ise went with a nickname to symbolize that. Zack loves it and considers Ise to be the ototo he never had.

Peko: Peko-peko. Ise's habit of doubling up short names returns. Ise doesn't really know Peko, but he's a friend of Zack's and a friend of odoriko-nii is a friend of Ise's. For his part, Peko takes it patiently, which is more than can be said for some of the others.

Takatora: Zan-zan. The first Ise heard about Takatora involved his Rider name, Zangetsu, and because Ise is just a kid and can't pronounce it fully, he shortened it to Zan. One Ise-style duplication later, and Takatora is now Zan-zan. Takatora takes it well, and likes spending time with the little dragon. Micchy suspects it's Takatora's attempt to try and be a better brother than he was to Micchy himself.

Oren: Suku (from tsuku, to poke). Oren's armor is ridiculously spiky, and Ise thought that he was poking him on purpose. Again, he can't pronounce "tsu", so it became "su". Oren is that guy who gives Ise all the cake despite his parents' objections (except Rintaro's, but that's only because Oren always has an éclair waiting for him when he comes to pick Ise up.)

Hideyasu: Jojo. Hideyasu Jonouchi's surname plus Ise's duplication apparently turns Hideyasu into JoJo Siwa... And Hideyasu likes it. By this point, he's become as much of a showoff as Oren, and he identifies way too much with the campy lesbian teen idol. Whenever he drops by and Ise is there, he usually ends up spending an hour just rolling on the floor and having fun with the baby dragon.

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