#I don’t know why but I do

[autumnleaf1111]

Aged Down

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Mori Ougai. The Port Mafia Boss. Is now……7?!

Following an encounter with an ability user, Mori was transformed into a 7-year-old child. The remaining members of the Port Mafia were at a loss for how to proceed, so they panicked and fled to the agency out of desperation.

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“What. The. Actual. Fuck.” Tachihara mumbled. Chuuya, Kouyou, Tachihara, Gin, Akutagawa, and Higuchi heard a loud crash coming from Mori’s office. They ran and opened the door to see and very confused, very young, Mori. He was sitting on the desk, his clothes were way too big on him and were falling off.

“No fucking way….” Akutagawa muttered in disbelief. “Uh— And-San? What do we do?” Chuuya looked over to her. Kouyou approached the now, younger Mori slowly, but stopped in her tracks with a surprised and concerned look when she noticed him flinch with fear in his eyes.

“Did— did he just flinch…?” Higuchi exclaimed in disbelief. “Ok…that’s…..concerning…” Gin mumbled. Chuuya and Akutagawa nodded in agreement. “Um….What should we do now?” Higuchi asked.

They all looked at Mori and he looked terrified. Far more terrified than they’d imagine anyone could be. He was looking them, his eyes wide and brimming with tears, his knees to his chest, tight. He was shaking with fear.

“Huh….that’s….weird….” Kouyou muttered. “He looks….terrified?” Higuchi said. “I’m still wondering why he looks 7.” Gin said. “You’re right. How the hell did an ability user manage to get into his office….?” Akutagawa said. “Not sure…..” Kouyou mumbled.

“We could ask Atsushi and the rest of the ADA for help?” Gin suggested. “Atsushi? Since when did you call him by his first name?” Her brother eyed her. “Because I’m kind and don’t try and kill him every five seconds.” She grinned. He just rolled his eyes.

“No. No way am I asking that mackerel for help! He’ll never let it go!” Chuuya protested. Kouyou sighed. “Chuuya. We don’t have time to listen to your dumb feelings for Dazai—” “What?!” “—we have bigger issues to worry about.” She shook her head.

“Chuuya, call Dazai. Tell him we are gonna be at the agency soon and we will explain everything when we get there.” She told him. “Fine….” Chuuya walked out and dialed Dazai’s number, which no one dared to question why he still had it even after Dazai left.

Kouyou walks towards a terrified Mori, speaking softly. “Mori…I’m not sure if you remember but I’m Kouyou…this is Higuchi, Tachihara, Akutagawa, and Gin.” Despite her soft voice, the boy's face remained filled with terror. He hugged himself tighter.

“P…please…I didn’t— I didn’t mean to leave— I just— I don’t know how I got here— please, you have to believe me— I wouldn’t try and escape on purpose— please don’t tell Mr. Thorne! I’ll do anything— just don’t tell him I’m out of the cage, I didn’t mean to! I woke up here! Please— please believe me!—” tears were now rolling down his face, his fear worse than before.

They all looked at each other in shock and confusion.

“Did he say cage….?” Chuuya asked as he walked back in the room, hearing everything. “Yeah….” Him muttered. “The hell does that even mean….?” Tachihara asked. “I don’t know….but I know it’s not a good thing…” Kouyou said. “Chuuya, what did Dazai say?” Chuuya crossed his arms. “To shorten it, he said ok.” Kouyou just hummed in acknowledgment.

Gin slowly walked up to him and held out her hands. “It’s alright, we won’t tell anyone. It’s not your fault…..” she lightly grabbed his hands, so much smaller than hers. He calmed down a bit more.

The closer she was now the easier it was to see all the bruises, cuts, and dried blood on his collar bone. Along with some marks on his legs. She gasped at the sight. Still holding his hands, she turned her head to the others.

“There are many cuts and bruises on his collarbone. A lot of dried blood as well.” She muttered and looked back at him. “I’m gonna pick you up, ok?” His eyes widened. “Don’t worry, you’re not going back in….in the cage. We are taking you to a safer place, ok?” Her heart broke when she saw the relief in his face. She slowly picked him up, his arms immediately wrapping around her neck.

“Higuchi, Kouyou, can I borrow your hair ties? I wanna tighten his clothes so they’re not fall off him at much.” They both nodded and gave her their hair ties. She sat Mori back down on the table and tied his shirt and pants, making them tight enough to say on him.

“Alright. I guess we head to the Agency?” Higuchi said. Gun picked Mori back up. “Yup”

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“Dazai, do your work. It’s not that hard.” “But Kunikidaaaa!!! The work is boring!” Dazai whined. Kunikida just sighed. “Dazai, I swear—” he was cut off my Dazai’s phone ringing. Dazai picked up his phone to see who it was. He was actually shocked to see the Chibi calling him. “Chibi…?” Dazai picked up the phone.

“Hello there Chibi! What caused this surprising call?” Dazai grinned. “I don’t have time to explain now but me, Ane- San, Akutagawa, Gin, Higuchi, and Tachihara are coming over to the agency because we need your help with something. I’ll explain everything when we get there, bye!” He hung up.

“What the actual hell—” Dazai blinked in confusion. “What was that about?” Tanizaki asked. “Chuuya and a few people from the mafia are coming here abuse they need our help. He didn’t tell me what he needed though, only that he’ll explain when he gets here.”

They all just looked at him, unamused. “I’ll go let the president know. Although, I am quite curious about what they could need?” Yosano said as she walked out to the presidents office.

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Mori hand his arms tight around Gin, holding on for dear life as the entered the building. “So, what do we exactly do?” Tachihara asked. “I don’t know, we’ll figure something out. That annoying guy who is always with the guy with the raccoon will probably figure something out.” Chuuya said, rolling his eyes.

They make it to the door of the office and Kouyou knocks. They wait for a moment before Yosano opened the door. “Welcome! Dazai told us you’d all be coming— what the hell—” her eyes widened at the sight of a young Mori in Gin’s arms. “Do I even wanna know—” she let them walk in. All eyes turned to them. All in shock. Yes. Dazai and Ranpo, also.

“What is that—” Dazai erupted into laughter. “Dazai, shut your damn mouth!” Dazai laughed even more. “Why— why did you guys bring a child in here?!” He laughed louder. Mori had so much fear in his eyes as he stared at Dazai— well…Dazai’s jacket. “Mr. Thorne…you…you said you wouldn’t take me back—”

Mori started to panic. That coat. It looks exactly like Mr. Thorne’s….

They looked at him. Confused. All of them were staring at him. He was scared. They were gonna hurt him again. Why’d he trust them. He knew shouldn’t have. He should’ve seen it was a trick. He kicked his way out of Gin’s arms, running out of the office.

“Shit!” Chuuya yelled. “Okay, seriously— what’s going on?” Kunikida asked. “And who was that child?” Kenji asked. The mafiosos looked at each other. “That was Mori.” Kouyou said. Everyone looked shocked. Well— everyone but Ranpo.

“Well, duh. That was obvious.” He said, rolling his eyes and popping a sour gummy worm in his mouth. “Shut up” Yosano said, rolling her eyes and hitting the back of his head. Kouyou explained everything to them.

“Um….are we gonna go look for him or just let him wander around the building?” Tanizaki asked. “He couldn’t have gone that far. Let’s all split up.” Kouyou said.

“Atsushi, Akutagawa, Kyoka and Kenji, You all go on the top floor, Tanizaki, Tachihara, Ranpo and Kunikida will search this floor, Yosano, Higuchi, Gin, you’re with me. Dazai and Chuuya will search the bottom floor.” Kouyou said. “I don’t wanna be paired with this mackerel!” Chuuya yelled. “Yeah, I don’t wanna be near the Chibi any longer than needed!” Dazai yelled.

“Who you calling Chibi?!” Chuuya yelled in his face. “What? You couldn’t hear me down there?” Dazai grinned.

“Is this normal….?” Atsushi asked Akutagawa. “You have no idea.” He sighed.

“Boys, be quiet!” Kouyou yelled and they froze, shutting their mouths. She sighed. “Thank you. Now, let’s go find Mori. Who the hell knows how scared he is.” Dazai raised an eyebrow. “Scared? Why the hell would he be scared?”

They Mafioso’s look at each other. “We aren’t too sure but he looked terrified every time we tried to get near him. I managed to get close enough to where he let me pick him up but uh….he had many….many bruises and cuts on him…” Gin explained.

“He also said something about not wanting to go back into a cage. Whatever that means…” Chuuya added. “Um….I saw him look at Dazai’s coat and he muttered something about a man named Mr. Thorne?” Kenji said.

“No fucking way…..” Ranpo muttered, his eyes going wide. “What?” Kunikida turned to him. “Holy shit, there’s no way.” Ranpo turned to his computer and searched something. His eyes widened. “Fuck….”

“What? What is it?” Kunikida walked over to Ranpo’s computer and looked at the screen.

“Kenji, you said he said something about Mr. Thorne?” Ranpo asked. “Yeah?” Ranpo sighed and started reading “Hareji Thorne.”

“Hareji Thorne was arrested and executed 28 years ago for child experimentation. He would use methods such as subjecting the children to dangerous chemicals, performing invasive surgeries, and conducting cruel psychological experiments.”

“Still no clue how long this had been going on, we’d only found around 25 of the children he’s experimented on. We’ve estimated that he’s experimented on at least more than 60 kids, most ages 5-13, but one 4 year old. We’ve only gotten six of the children’s names.”

“Anya Marishina, 7 years old, female. Ashoka Fiolani, 11 years old, female. Shota Katsu, 8 years old, male. Katshi Fathra, 6 years old, male. Altoah Fushimiro, 11 years old, male…..” he be paused.

“Who is the sixth…?” Kenji asked.

“….Mori Ōgai, 4 years old, male….” They all froze. Now that— that was not what they expected.

“Let’s go find him now…..” Kouyou said. They all split up in their groups and started looking for him.

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Terrified, Mori frantically kicked his legs to get out of Gin’s arms. He managed to get out and ran out the door, down the hall.

He should’ve known. He should’ve known they would lie. He should’ve known that there was no hope. It was foolish of him to believe he could get away from that lab.

He ran down the hallway, to the last door and opened it, running inside, slamming the door shut behind him and he slammed his back against a desk. He let tears roll down his face and he slid down and sat against the desk, pulling his knees to him.

“Um…” He heard a voice and frantically crawled away from the desk turning around to see a confused man sitting behind it. He sobbed and crawled backwards, his back hitting the door.

“Uh— who are you?” Fukuzawa asked, standing up. He walked towards Mori but stopped when he saw him trying to grab the handle to open the door. Mori sobbed and lost his grip.

“Woah— calm down.” He crouched down in front of him. ��Calm down, it’s ok.” He didn’t move any farther. He stayed there, waiting for Mori to calm down. Around 6 minutes later Mori was halfway calm. He still had tears down his face but he wasn’t freaking out.

“Are you all right now?” Fukuzawa asked with a calm voice. Mori stared at him for a moment before nodding his head. “Now, can you tell me your name?I’m Fukuzawa Yukichi.” He waited for the other to speak. “Mori Ōgai….” He said in a whisper, his voice breaking a little.

Fukuzawa’s eyes widened. Mori? How?

“Okay Mori. How old are you?” “S…seven.” Fukuzawa sighed. Do you wanna tell me what you’re doing here?” Mori just shook his head. “Ok. That’s ok.” He sat criss crossed. “Are you ok?” Mori shrugged.

Mori’s eyes started to close but he snapped them back open. Fukuzawa reached his arms out slowly. “You tired…?” Mori just stared at his open arms. After a moment of hesitation, he slowly moved his way to Fukuzawa. Fukuzawa picked him up slowly and pulled him on his left leg. Mori leaned his head on Fukuzawa collarbone, hands gripping his shirt. He closed his eyes.

Fukuzawa noticed all the bruises and cuts on him. He sighed, remembering when he found out about Mr. Thorne and what he’d done.

Eventually Mori fell asleep. He looked more peaceful than he’d been in a long time. Fukuzawa can’t remember the last time he saw Mori sleep this peacefully. Fukuzawa slowly scooted himself back until his back hit his desk.

It had been about an hour later and suddenly Mori started glowing and then was back to being an adult again and Fukuzawa wrapped his arms around him, Mori still sleeping in his lap and pulled him closer and Mori buried his head in Fukuzawa’s neck. He slowly ran his fingers through his hair, waiting for him to wake up.

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“Ok— so— he’s gone!” Kouyou said with a sarcastic smile. They had all went searching but couldn’t find him so they went back to the office room.

“There’s on place we haven’t looked.” Tanizaki said. “Where?” Chuuya asked. “Fukuzawa’s office!” Ranpo said. “Wouldn’t Fukuzawa come in here though?” Tanizaki said. “Let’s just check anyway.” Gin said.

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Fukuzawa heard a knock on the door. “Come in” he said quietly. “President, have you seen—” Kunikida froze when he walked in. Everyone looked at him confused.

Fukuzawa was sitting crisscrossed with Mori sitting sideways in his lap. Mori’s head was buried between Fukuzawa’s neck and Fukuzawa had his arms around Mori’s waist.

“What—” Kunikidas jaw dropped. “At least he’s back to normal?” Higuchi said. Ranpo just laughed.

“Do we even wanna know?” Chuuya cringed. “No, I don’t think we do.” Dazai said.

“Fukuzawa, we found something earlier that we think you should know. It has to do with why Mori had a bunch of bruises and cuts on him—” Fukuzawa cut Yosano off. “I know. I know about Mr. Thorne. And Mori.” They all looked surprised. “You do? How?” Dazai asked.

“I just do. Now, since you guys found him, you can leave.” He sarcastically waved his hand. They all looked at each other and walked out the room.

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It had been about 20 minutes later when Fukuzawa felt Mori stir awake, his arms tightening around Fukuzawa a bit. “Hm…” Mori slowly opened his eyes. “What…Where am I—” Mori lifted his head up, looking at Fukuzawa.

“Hi.” Fukuzawa said. “Why am I sitting in your lap?” Mori asked. “Well, you turned into a child. I’m not too sure how you got to the agency but some of your subordinates were here so I think they brought you here.” Fukuzawa wrapped his arms around Mori’s waist.

“Fuck….how old was I?” Mori had asked. “You said you were 7. They also know about Mr. Thorne. I’m guessing you said something about him and they looked it up. I’m not sure. But you had ran in here hiding from them.” Mori just hummed in response.

“Never thought I’d hear his name again” Mori muttered. “you never have to see him again.” Fukuzawa said. Mori leaned against him, wrapping his arms around his neck and smiled. “Yeah, you’re right.”

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[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[lemonsandsadness]

I hope all my mutuals know that I love them and I hope they live happy lives

[gatoburr0]

I HATE how this turned out WITH A PASSION.

[puppyeared]

who is your favorite AA character? 👁️👁️

ziska… I hope capcom brings her back someday

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[morganbritton132]

Eddie tells Wayne everything. They’re very open and honest with each other. Always have been.

Steve, on the other hand, does not talk to his parents unless he absolutely has to. If they asked him what his favorite song was, he’d lie.

So, it’s a bit of a shock when they’re back in Eddie’s bedroom, making out. Things are getting heated and Steve can hear Eddie fumbling one-handed in the drawer of his nightstand right before he mutters, “Shit.”

Steve asks, “What?”

“Nothing,” Eddie says, pulling back a bit. “Just give me a second.”

Steve watches him slide off the bed, throw open the door, and practically shout, “Hey Wayne, do you got any condoms?”

Steve is so mortified that he dissociates for a second and then leaves out the window so he doesn’t have to pass Wayne on the way out.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[danggerine]

going insane thinking about the harrow and palamedes friendship. harrow, who has never met another necromancer her age forming a bizarro 3D chess rivalry while pal worries about her safety at every possible turn. harrow, who is up to her eyebrows in paranoia and secrecy, trusting the sixth house with gideon unconscious and hurt, letting them into the ninth house quarters unsupervised. if “i cannot conceive of a universe without you in it” is goth for i love you, “death first to vultures and scavengers” has got to be goth for i love you (platonic). pal’s first reaction when harrow comes into his bubble in the river is to scoop her up in a hug, and at this point she doesn’t remember anything about him because cutting out all her memories of gideon is impossible without cutting out memories of the sixth, but she still makes him a skelehand to inhabit anyway. when harrow’s memories are finally whole, she tells dulcinea she couldn’t face pal knowing that his pen pal girlfriend died on her account, but the next time she “faces” him, palamades’s soul is in someone else’s body and harrow’s body is full of nona’s soul. he spends six months protecting and caring for harrow’s body (and nona obv), believing in the possibility of bringing her back to it the same way cam believed in him. “god, do you know i miss harrow terribly.” and by the time harrow comes back to her body at the very end of ntn, pal is gone forever, fully pauled. the last time harrow and palamades see each other as their complete selves is in canaan house, alive and unlyctored. two of the smartest and loneliest people in the solar system meet each other in the worst of circumstances and spend the rest of the story dancing around each other as fragments of themselves, trying to care about each other in the interim but never fully meeting like they did the first time. a friendship made almost entirely of missing the other person. “do you know i miss harrow terribly.” god. i need to lie down

[apollos-boyfriend]

i may be a toxic gatekeeper but unless they were there all these sad quote/imagine accounts will NEVER understand the intricacies of “what am i without you?” / “yourself?” because they NEVER put a question mark on tubbo’s response. yeah the quote hits hard on its own whatever but the context is SO necessary and adds SO much. tubbo’s response isn’t really. as driven as “yourself.” with that period (.) would be. and, again, adding the period spins the meaning and narrative into something completely different (in a bad way!!! to me!!!! boooo booo tomato tomato etc!!!!)

because tubbo responds in a way that makes it seem like tommy asked him if the sky is blue. like, yeah, obviously yourself, what do you mean, boss man? because tubbo doesn’t value himself in the same way tommy values him. and tommy doesn’t value himself in the same way tubbo values him. there’s a clash of ideals on both sides. that’s what makes it so interesting!!!

but by removing the question mark you create this call and response of “i can’t imagine myself without you / your personhood is important and i am here to remind you to value yourself” instead of the much stronger call and response of “i can’t imagine myself without you / i can’t imagine myself mattering (that much) to you” and it drives me insane

[apostaterevolutionary]

Okay can I be a bitter Anders fan for like. Just 2 minutes here lmao

Cause bioware released some game stats for veilguard and apparently 72% of players redeemed Solas which is like. Okay yeah the game kinda pushes you towards that. But when I think of all the shit I used to have to put up with just for enjoying Anders like at all and…

(This is not me being anti-Solas, I do not care if you love or hate him, but I am gonna say what he’s done is like. Objectively worse than literally every other companion so lmao. And that’s fine! You can still enjoy him! I’m not saying you can’t and it’s important to me that people understand that! I’m just saying he did in fact do objectively morally worse things in game than Anders did and I don’t think that’s really debatable. And I can’t really make my point here without saying that but I do want to make it clear this is not some moral condemnation of Solas enjoyers cause it’s not)

Getting anon hate on the regular, being told “oh you’re allowed to like Anders as long as you regularly talk about how much he sucks”, people gleefully describing how much fun they have killing him ON your posts about the fact that you like him, the devs making jokes about shitty fates for him when fans asked innocent questions about him, the absolute audacity of his writer to say half the shit she did in interviews (about bisexuality and mental illness, most critically), and then being beaten over the head again in inquisition about how Anders is the worst character to ever exist and there’s no redemption for terrorists who lie to you one time in the entire game and he deserves death or worse and that’s it

And now… 72% of people are down to redeem the guy who lies to you for 2 games straight and who did a lot of questionable things that includes creating the fucking blight and. Like. I guess I’m glad that Solas fans can live in a world where they aren’t constantly harassed and can give their ship like. A pretty damn good ending all things considered. And that the devs love Solas and actually give the option for that happy ending and have characters go to bat for Solas throughout the game and the most annoying thing they have to see are people making scrambled egg memes. I would not wish anyone to have to deal with the shit Anders fans had to put up with back then cause it sucked. It really sucked. And I’m glad it’s not being repeated with a different character, if nothing else

But like. Man there really is a difference when the writers actually like the character who does the thing, huh

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

after joking around with @revenyance we had the idea of the gnarpians in regretevator being able to converse by illuminating their whiskers in different patterns for when they’re out of earshot or in he prescence of ‘lesser’ species and I couldn’t help myself from making it with some basic examples

[boomposhpow]

stanley pines the man you are

a better son/daughter by Rilo Kiley

[iheartbookbran]

My favorite part about the Debling plot was Penelope and Cressida doing the most over there top cat-fighting in order to win him over, not because they genuinely liked the guy, but because they wanted to escape their families and also lowkey just hate each other.

[crowskullls]

I couldn’t be a minecraft creator because if I was doing freaky gay roleplay with my friends and then got called siblings I would just end it all