#(💝) ramshackle taiyaki

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Anddd happy birthday🫂💙

I told you I would make something for your birthday hehe🤭 anyways!!! I hope you like these🫂

EUGGDJHDJSJ HI HELLO THANK YOU MAH IM CRYING AT THESE HELPP

your art with yuusha and jamil just makes my heart go wee — just. the way theyre looking at each other 🥺 theyre so silly <3333

AND omg yuuna with grim??? so so cute my precious babies ever 😭😭💖💕 and the way you drew yuuna’s hair so fluffy agghh

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AHH THIS IS SO CUTE??? i havent thought about it but now i'm making it real

so i havent talked about yuuna much but i started them with the idea that theyd be based off alice from the animated (1951) + the one from tim burton’s alice in wonderland (2010)

so then i imagine they’d be singing this from the animated movie to grim sometimes 🥺🥺🥺

Hey…

Please reblog this if you can btw I’m very curious and I’d like as many votes as I can get teehee

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What is the hardest thing to adjust to at NRC? The magic? Being away from their family? Ect.

hi hi! thank you so much for the ask!!

I love this question because it led to me thinking about yuusha and yuuna's mindsets while in NRC. and this helped me flesh out their motives and personalities more so again thank you very much!!

i went a lil bit angsty for both of them 😭

━━━━✦ Yuusha

The hardest thing to adjust to for Yuusha is generally having to fend for herself. Everything feels significantly harder to handle compared to her homeworld. She is fairly adaptable though, it's more of the emotional toll that is affecting her.

And it doesn’t really help that she tends to say what’s on her mind without thinking twice about it which sometimes lands her into trouble.

While Yuusha is a person who earned her own accomplishments, especially back in her homeworld, she was also privileged enough to have been provided a leg up when it comes to her pursuits. Which means that Yuusha had it somewhat easy.

Now she has to adjust her expectations and she has to figure out everything by herself in order to survive. And Yuusha is the type of person who refuses to ask for help. This is *her* problem and her problem alone.

She's just in a constant state of stress.

━━━━✦ Yuuna

Yuuna has zero memories of their home world. It is hard for them to adjust to the fact that (1) they can’t remember shit and (2) they can’t use magic in a place meant for magic.

They feel incapable and useless whenever they’re reminded that they are out of place in NRC—that they don’t belong there. Yuuna hates that others have to protect them because they don't have magic.

So to compensate, Yuuna attempts to “fake it till they make it”, and tries to prove their capabilities to others.

At first, they try to get in everyone’s good graces while also trying to prove themself to others that they’re not weak. Eventually though, Yuuna trying to befriend everyone turned genuine and real to the point that they just care about everyone.

And that motivated them more to become more capable for the ones they care about.

asks still open for anything :D (twst oc questionnaire)

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Ian hi!!! Ahhh I'm here as I said I would ✨

💬 for Yuuna and Grim and/or (bc it can take a while and I don't wanna overwhelm you) Yuusha and Jamil💙

HIHIII MAH thank you for the ask!!! 🥺💕 (ask game here!)

I still ended up doing both AHHH i really need to write more about yuuna so this was a good opportunity to show more of them 🤧

Yuuna & Grim ━━━━━━✦

Yuuna stared blankly out the window next to their bed. Their eyelids felt heavy and it was taking everything for them to not fall asleep.

Grim woke up and noticed that he was alone on the bed. Usually somehow Yuuna would be sprawled across the sheets that it would barely even make space for him.

It did not take long for him to find Yuuna though as one quick glance at the window he saw the back of their head.

🐈‍⬛: Yuu?

Yuuna seemed to break out of their trance and looked back at Grim.

🩷: Hm? Oh, hey. Did I wake you?

🐈‍⬛: Of course you did. Every time you wake up, I wake up which is getting annoying.

🩷: Sorry.

🐈‍⬛: Is it the dreams again?

🩷: Yeah.

🐈‍⬛: You should learn to toughen up. My hench-human can't be weak. They should be strong enough against these stupid dreams! For now, I'll join ya while you mope. Clearly even sleeping you don't know how to do well so I'll wait until you're ready to do so.

🩷: Hehe. You're right... Thanks, boss. I'll try harder.

Grim then joined Yuuna by the window, sitting down on their lap. The prefect and their dorm member stared out the window in comforting silence.

Yuusha & Jamil ━━━━━━✦

💜: Please?

🐍: No.

💜: I'll do all your work for the entire weekend. No, the entire week.

🐍: No. That's my job and I don't trust you.

💜: Oh, come on. What will it take for me to convince you?

🐍: Nothing. Why don't you get Ace and Deuce to do it?

💜: Because they're too obvious.

🐍: "Too obvious"?

💜: Yeah. And like I already told you, I'll be wearing a similar maid outfit.

🐍: ..... No. Because that implies you're only recruiting me so you could humiliate me too.

💜: Ugh, fine. I'll ask Kalim instead.

🐍: Don't— *heavy defeated sigh* Never mind, I'll do it. Happy now?

💜: More than happy ~♡

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(for legal reasons they're joking)

i really like how canonically yuu is genuinely supportive of grim wanting to be a great mage. if i recall correctly, even character voice lines point this out. and it seems like yuu dotes on grim a lot and defends him too??? yuu even encourages grim's ambitions whenever he declares wanting to be a great mage. and also when he does that boss-henchhuman dynamic. i mean yeah you can interpret it as yuu saying that being condescending and sarcastic as if they're talking to a child saying "when i grow up i want to be famous!" but like. i really think they're genuine when mc loves grim in their own way.

even if grim is usually a menace, he's become like family to yuu.

and i'm pretty sure grim feels the same way.

think about it this way. despite all the mess, all the unpredictability, the danger, and all the drama being in nrc. what's always the constant? yuu goes home at the end of the day to the ramshackle dorm (basically their home at this point considering they slowly but surely fix it up over time) and with who? “the great mage” grim. as the sole outcasts in that academy, they both sleep soundly knowing they will always have each other at the end of the day.