#✂️ ~ yui ( asks. )

[musesofthesun]

⏰ for yui, about haru :3c

SEND A ⏰ TO SEE INTO ONE OF MY MUSES' MEMORIES. = always accepting!

yui hasn't seen haru often at school today, which is weird. haru usually sticks by her at every opportunity, and yui does likewise. once the end of the last class rolls around, yui waits by the entrance. the line of kids disperses, and it's a few moments before haru trails out. yui visibly brightens, hopping over with a skip in her step.

"ruru! i haven't really seen you all day, what gives?"

haru pauses as if considering something, then responds. "i can tell you over shaved ice?"

yui is curious, but doesn't argue with that. she happily grabs haru's hands, then leads her downtown. she talks about things on the way: how kuro and chaco are doing, what gossip she's heard around school, how many bees she's seen, and the like. haru usually doesn't say much as they walk, but she usually says at least something. yet... she hasn't so far.

it's not long before they've reached the storefront and have gotten some prized summer treats. yui sits on the bench, and haru climbs next to her. yui swings her feet back and forth as she digs into her dessert. her gaze flickers over to haru. haru's simply prodding at her shaved ice. yui puffs up her cheek.

"okay, what gives?" yui huffs, "you're being more of a boxturtle than normal."

haru takes a deep breath. yui frowns.

"yui, um... i won't be here after this summer." haru gingerly says.

"where are you going? are you going on vacation?" yui immediately prods, bright-eyed and curious. "is it to a ski resort?"

haru smiles weakly, shaking her head. "no, uh... for good. my family wants to move out of town."

yui blinks. "like... to a prefecture over?"

"try... another country. across the world."

oh. the air suddenly feels a bit cold. yui's chest tightens, but she still smiles. even if it wavers a bit. she forces cheer into her voice. "that sounds super cool! i bet you'll find all sorts of neat stuff."

"yui..." haru's face scrunches up weirdly. it's the patented expression of "be real with me right now or else".

yui can't do that, though. she can't just stare in gaping shock for fifteen minutes and then burst out in tears. that's stupid. it would ruin everything. so, yui exhales through her nose and lowers her tone.

"i mean it. i'm gonna miss you a bunch, but you should look forward to all the cool adventures you're gonna have."

haru still looks dubious.

"i'll write you every day!" yui prompts with a grin, "and you better write back! or i'll get sad. i... ruru?"

haru's lip is quivering. before yui knows it, haru's wrapping her arms around herself and hiccuping. yui moves closer and haru starts to sob.

"i... 'm going to miss your smile..." haru wobbily states, "i'm going to miss you. i'm going to miss you a lot..."

it makes yui want to break down crying too. instead, yui does her best to wrap her arms around haru, tucking her head between haru's head and shoulder. she lets haru cry softly and mutter for a few minutes before talking again.

"hey, i just said i'd write you every day. i promise i will," yui hums, "plus, it's not like summer's over. it's hardly just starting!" she pulls back, holding haru's hands in her own. yui's eyes curve to match her smile. she's getting a hint teary as she puts on her best show of encouragement. haru needs reassurance right now. "we'll just have to make it the best summer ever, mhm?"

haru slowly nods. her bright blue eyes are watery, but she has that scrutinizing look as if she's trying to pick apart yui's reaction. yui doesn't really pay attention to that. haru can think what she wants as long as the focus stays on her. yui... will unpack everything later.

"we can go to all the festivals this year. we can see all the fireworks, we can head to the sunflower festivals, we could even sneak into the grape one."

haru snorts. "we'd be noticed right away. plus, dad would be so mad if he found out we sipped even a little bit of wine."

yui moves her hands, pressing her palms against the benchwood as she stares with a joking intensity. "the challenge would be part of the fun!"

haru laughs. yui's heart swells. that's what she wants. she wants to make haru smile. her smile is everything. yui won't survive without it.

"minus the wine festival, all of that does sound fun... and we can play together every day, too." haru sniffs, wiping her nose with the back of her hand. "it'll be the best summer ever."

"yeah!" yui grins, pulling her shaved ice back up again. "it'll be awesome. now, you gonna eat that or do i have to?"

"noooo, i'll eat it," haru giggles, picking up her own cup and flicking at yui's nose with her free hand. "you'd freeze your brain with how fast you eat."

"nuh uh." "yuh uh." "nuh uh." "yuh uh. you would."

"not a chance." yui sticks out her tongue. haru makes a face at her, and they both laugh. yui feels something twists in her chest. she wants to hear haru's laugh every day. she wants to see her every day. she doesn't want haru to go. ... don't be ungrateful. haru's here right now, yui's here right now. she can deal with everything when it comes. in this moment, she's going to enjoy the company of someone she would do anything for.

[shock-micro]

Hi, I'm Mirai, host of the Team Berry system! I didn't put this front and center previously, but I feel it's somewhat necessary now. So, in light of new information, I'm making a new pinned post!

I'll keep it short and sweet this time. No philosophical musings, I've already made my thoughts clear, just the information you need.

If you would like a link to the old pinned post with said musings, click here: It's outdated, but still holds up at least a bit.

Since the last pinned post, I've kinda fractured in three. Turns out the robot identity was not me, not entirely, but just a shard of me. I think I was still the one to write the original pinned, for the most part?

...Anyway, that's besides the point.

First thing's first, our body is an adult. We do try to stay away from 18+ accounts whenever possible, but that feels like an important thing to mention.

Second thing's second, we're accepting of a lot of things, but the one thing we don't accept is intolerance. Please keep discourse out of our posts, thanks! Be lucky this is the short version and not the long one.

Feel free to send asks to any of us, even if you aren't a mutual!

Finally, here's a short list of who's who based on emoji.

|💡- Mirai [she/her] |->💙- Miraberri [it/she] |->🌊- Riv [it/its] |->💎- Brightgem [they/it] |-> ✂️- Stardust [they/them] 🌙- Moon [she/her] 🪄- Zoey [she/they] 🍯- Aspen [she/her] 🧊- Yui [they/them] ✨- Wis [she/it] 🍃- Maple [she/it]

Our old way of posting used colors to delineate who's who, but there are simply not enough colors for everyone now, so we'll either put our emoji in the tags or in the post. We use the same ones on Discord!

I suppose I'll end this with one bit of musing. As a treat.

Please, don't be afraid of change. It may be hard to accept that things are changing, it may be hard to push yourself to change, no matter how good that change will be, but please, do not be afraid. Yes, sometimes change means leaving something behind, but that's okay! Oftentimes, it leaves something better in its wake.

Don't let yourself stay stagnant forever.

Utilize the gift of life you were given.

[moisette]

I didn't much care for getting bled out for 4 minutes.

I don't know how to play against this Killer, honestly... I know you destroy the pods but he can just keep replacing them. I also know pallets aren't super safe so I didn't want to waste any...

I...don't know what Ash and Yui were doing... I should have done a better job with taking a hook. I trusted that these guys were better in chase than me and stayed out of their way.

I...didn't expect this outcome. It's been so long since I booped a Pig and lived xD; No hate to Pig players - they just seem super serious when I play against them. I stopped booping a long time ago... My sister asked me why I never boop so she'll like this xD

[summercreolefanfictioner]

✂️ for Maya please! <333

A/N: Hello, Sam! I'm sorry for the late response. This post got really long, plus I wanted this to show a dark side as much as possible so yeah haha. YOU ARE ALL WARNED!

TW: CHILD ABUSE, S*XPLOITATION

✂️ SCISSORS - what is the "last straw" for them to cut someone out of their life? how easily do they let go of people?

Actually, Maya doesn't have a lot of close friends to begin with (except for precious Yui) since she doesn't get attached that much, so she has no qualms ignoring ppl who dislike her. However, the only people she knows she had really cut off from her life would be her own family.

If you have read Maya's background post (link here) and the fourth chapter of the vampire doll series (link here), you would know that Maya came from a family of five and that they were poor. Like literally poor.

I didn't elaborate that much on what kind of family she had or who her parents and siblings were since first, Maya is a type of person who makes herself forget people, especially those who had something to do with her pain. And the only people who had inflicted her pain aside from the people from the brothel was her own family.

Plus I didn't know the importance of writing her background in detail until this ask was sent hahaha so my bad!

(I never wrote exactly why she hated her family in the fics or prompts, so Imma write this as well.)

So as mentioned Maya's family is so poor and her parents suddenly thought "our daughter is so pretty maybe we should make sacrifices this time." Like seriously the only train of thought they had is to sell Maya to the brothel bcos her mother will not be a best-seller there since she's kind of old and had 3 children already.

So when Maya was brought there, she was freakin clueless because she's only a child, probably around 6 or 7 years old, and she was fearing for her life cause lecherous men would be like "hmm that's a beautiful face, it turns me on" 😭💀

And so Maya lived her days in the brothel, internally cursing her parents and also trying to survive in that shithole. You know what's worse? Half of the money the brothel receives for selling Maya goes to her family. Like can you imagine making your daughter suffer while you survive from her pain? That's one shtty parenting right there.

And even tho Maya knows her siblings are hurt by their parents' decision, they benefitted from the money. Hence Maya decided to forget abt them and wait for the day when someone finally buys her, w/c doesn't come bcos the brothel owners would not sell her off. After all, she's their best-selling product.

When Karlheinz was making his vampire doll plan, he instantly knew Maya would fit the role. So when Maya tried to damage her face (cause the brothel owners said her face is the reason the customers keep coming back), Karlheinz stopped her and said he would take her far away from that town.

But since Maya wasn't for sale, Karlheinz just decided to screw it all and burn the whole town into ashes to make sure no one would stand in the way of his plans. Maya knew he was behind the arson and she begged for her life like "Please don't kill me. I'll do anything!"

And that's how Maya got his offer of being the first human doll to exist that would ensure no creatures from the demon world would wreak havoc in the human world.

Afterward, Maya decided to abandon a bit of her humanity. Like she doesn't go by her given birth name anymore. Everyone just calls her by her pseudonym "Maya." Like plain Maya with no surname. After all, dolls have no family so why would she have one?

She still remembers her real name, and Kanato even makes sure to remind her at times who she really is, so she won't forget the human girl who "died" because of betrayal.

[musesofthesun]

Examine! + Yui + Human-faced Bird

examine an item/person... = accepting!

yui calls out for a familiar name, hoping for some company on this rainy day while haru's at school; yui hasn't been re-enrolled yet and isn't sure how that's going to happen considering her deceased status. movement on the dreary street catches her eye. a crow flutters off a power line. something breathes.

her heart starts hammering in its ribcage, and her legs move in accordance. she takes off down the street, only to skid to a stop. a massive spiral of feathers lurks in her path, singular eye fixated on yui. the spirit is hauntingly gorgeous. yui slowly calls out again for her friend, worrying that something's happened. the spirit's feathers swirl and it snaps its beak. this isn't her, it's a different one... and it is not happy.

"LORD ITSUMADE DESIRES NOT YOUR KIND HERE."

yui scrambles backward as the spirit advances. she has to run. yui squeaks as she moves, trying to explain, but the spirit is on her in an instant; it splits into three heads, multitudes of feathers, each of them lunging in succession. avoid, how, how, a-

SPLURCH. it hurts it hurts it hurts

[musesofthesun]

⭐️ (One for PV + Yui, one for White Lily + Yui and one for Chamomile + Yui )

For each “⭐️” I get, I’ll write a headcanon about our muses = accepting.

⭐️ - Pure Vanilla & Yui: yui would absolutely keep pure vanilla cookie company if he's been having night terrors. she knows how it feels and would do her best to make sure he's comfortable.

⭐️ - White Lily & Yui: yui thinks white lily is smart and pretty. she would love to sit down and learn stuff from white lily, even if it's things from the cookie world that she may not understand.

⭐️ - Chamomile & Yui: yui gets an adventurous vibe from cham, so she would love to show cham around her town. she's also curious about cham's healing powers, so she’d probably talk to cham about those a lot.

[musesofthesun]

Examine! + Yui + Wonderland (ik it is a place but. I am curious how she sees it) 👀

examine an item/person... = accepting! / @kazeofthemagun

the landscape is foreign. it doesn't make sense. splices of things here and there, mish-mashed... it's like minecraft biomes. it can be pretty. it can be ugly. there's people. as long as there's people... she won't wither away. not with all this toil. there's monsters, if she had to hazard a guess.

it's a weird world. it makes her homesick. yui's here to find her counterpart, though,

and nothing this world can throw at her short of death will stop her.

[musesofthesun]

he is having an 'in his feelings' type day so, if she allows it, he's just gonna...scoop up Yui and give her a quick hug, or...well it was gonna be quick, but he just lingers for a moment.

yui had been sufficiently distracted by legos, building up a small skyscraper with all the greys and blues she could find. she had finished up one portion of it and was going to move on to other activities when she was snatched. if he had not been a family member or a close friend, she likely would have reacted less than favorably -- but this time it's a simple half-second ragdoll.

she doesn't flinch despite some of her scars hurting as fabric brushes on them; they've been more tender lately, especially her neck. still, she doesn't react in a bad way. instead, she snuggles into the hug, resting her head on his shoulder.

he can hug her for as long as he wants.

[musesofthesun]

It's like listening to a squeaky toy speak ngl

yui buries her face into her bag, flushing with embarrassment,

[musesofthesun]

“When’s the last time you slept?”

@twosurvivors from Jacob to Yui!

@twosurvivors = that was an excellent question. however, it's peculiar coming from a stranger. yui blinks a few times, adjusting her bag. she scrutinizes the stranger. looking at him... oh, he sure seems like he's run ragged, too.

"maybe you should answer that question first and then i'll think about answering it."

[musesofthesun]

Maybe you should put that bead down

HISSSSSSSSS

[musesofthesun]

Examine: Jade bead charm, Yui

examine an item/person... = accepting!

her first reaction is to sniff at it. old, musty... but nicely taken care of, like all of haru's trinkets. it's a charm, right? a wretched soul such as herself should steer clear of any of those, no matter the form... but the bead is so shiny. she looks over to the room's door. haru's still not back yet. yui peeks up at the bead on the shelf, eyes practically glittering. it's so shiny and polished... she wants to hold it so badly!

nobody's here to stop her, so yui reaches up and grabs it. her skin crawls at the touch and her throat feels like it's beginning to get irregularly warm, but she has the bead! yui takes it and sits down, cupping it in her hands and simply staring at its shiny surface.

[musesofthesun]

Examine! Salem (for Yui :3)

examine an item/person... = accepting!

it's her big brother salem! he's standing nearby, leaning against a wall and looking at his phone. her umber eyes are wide as she stares. he's effortlessly aloof and somehow so epic about it. he's strong. he steals stuff from people, which is so cool; she only snatches trinkets off the streets at night, salem robs the rich. so awesome... she's been thieving a little more frequently, exposing her neck to nightly dangers because she wants to find neat things to show him. ( and, of course, as gifts for haru. )

yui lowers her gaze. to stare is rude. salem's so cool... she can't really remember the last time she'd wanted to make anyone other than haru, kotori and the amanos proud—yet here she is, a warmth churning in her chest as she thinks about whenever he ruffles her hair.

[musesofthesun]

Yui Examine: Kotowari's Shrine

examine an item/person... = accepting!

she had passed through here a few times over the years, not thinking too much of it. ruins were common, and this spot was simply one of them. now, this place holds a different meaning. it's cleaner and being maintained regularly. yui can hazard a guess as to who does so. she approaches the edge of the stone platforms, sliding off her shoes before proceeding onward. it's quiet, save for the chirping of birds and rustling of plants in the wind.

yui sits in the center of the stone paths, staring at the pillar. mr. kotowari, the guardian spirit of the town. her heart hammers in her chest when she remembers nearly being severed in half and the time his blades did dig into her sides. yui swallows, steadying her trembling hands. she must have caused so much trouble. not only for the amanos and her mother, but for this spirit too. guilt wells up in her chest. as much as she's afraid of him, she feels bad.

but... she also has questions.

"you're... the one who rejects things." she's so quiet that the gentle wind nearly drowns her out. "or helps people reject things. you - you snipped away my bond with haru... to save her."

she swallows thickly.

"why couldn't you have done that with my dad? you could've - you could've helped him say no to the mountain spirit. you could have saved him."

you could have saved me.

"you killed all those crows and people. did you even care about anyone? the tablets say you were supposed to help... was my family not worth the effort to you?"

angry tears dribble down her cheeks, her hands curled into fists and nails digging into her skirt. something bubbles in her chest, some kind of rage and pain that isn't wholly hers.

"where were you when we needed you?"

she wants to scream and claw the ground. she wants to rage and tear down the shrine. she wants to climb out of her cave, destroy the place with every single limb, and watch it burn with every single eye-

CLANK. CLANK.

yui gasps for air. she trembles at the sound of gnashing metal, but her mind has become sharply clear again. she looks around. nobody else is here. yui inhales and exhales. she looks at her legs.

"i don't... understand. but haru said your place was messed up before she fixed it a bit. you... were left all alone. i know how that feels." she mumbles, fiddling with the ribbon on her shirt. "you still scare me a lot. i'm mad and sad, too. but... i wanted to say i'm sorry i caused you so much trouble."

she rises to her feet and bows apologetically. i'm sorry that i'm a wretched spirit. i'm sorry that i'm not good for anything. i'm sorry that he has a way out through me. i'm sorry. i'm sorry.

yui straightens her posture, once agakn taking a deep breath. her chest feels tighter yet lighter at the same time. she doesn't trust kotowari. not yet. maybe if he can answer her questions someday, she'll start trying. she turns and walks back to the edge of the shrine. yui slides her shoes back on and heads down the mountain path.

[musesofthesun]

yui, Examine: Salt

examine an item/person... = accepting!

it's... a shaker of salt. a simple little item that her mother said to always keep on her. there was a point when mother would make her charms, too, lacing them around her daughter's bedroom door to make sure she was safe. that stopped after a while. yui fiddles with her hands, reaching to grab the shaker.

yui can't touch salt now. even simply holding the shaker in her hand makes her gut churn and her skin crawl. it's for purifying spirits, warding the evil ones away. she's dead. she's a monster. it'll kill her again. still... yui doesn't mind if she has to ingest some. it's something her body needs, right? she can probably consume some - small amounts of it, she's not as stupid as most people would think.

[musesofthesun]

Examine! + Yui + Malice

examine an item/person... = accepting!

it's her. no - no, it's not. it breathes black mist, just like she does when she's frustrated. does she? malice is massive, built of eyes and limbs, and she is oh-so-small. it doesn't attack her. it watches. it feels like it's looking at her from the back of her head in addition to sitting there in front of her. yui can't move. her legs won't budge. ascend, child. malice is horrid. its voice weaves in between her thoughts. she can't tell what's hers and what's not. her throat feels tight; she doesn't have a throat anymore. she's bait. she's bait, and she knows it. the yokai has her all strung up where it wants her, and it's simply waiting.

you are part of us.

yui trembles. she can't do anything but sit here. she's helpless.

all she can do is hope haru will run.