#MINATO AND THE FUCKING SEA!!!!
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crescentfool · 2 years ago
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as u can see i found out about the p3 remake 👍 i am. how do you expect me to be normal about this. i was supposed to play salmon run in like 30 minutes. im. on the fucking floor like actually
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xinghai · 7 months ago
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My AU RP boy is back from his villain arc! Silly little guy with galaxy scars
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soujux · 8 days ago
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24 for 2024 — BL Series Wrapped
Despite my lack of posting and writing last year, I still spent so much time watching series. Honestly, more time than the time I spent working on several final paper. So, here's a semi-comprehensive summary of what I watched and enjoyed.
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I watched 24 shows in 2024. Not including Your Sky, because it's on-going.
3 from South Korea. 4 from Thailand. 17 from Japan.
Released in 2024
Show titles and the little notes I wrote while being half asleep.
I Hear the Sunspot
Kouhei fell first for hungry boy Taichi.
Friends-to-lovers in my Japanese BL? Fork found in kitchen!
Kouhei has an auditory impairment, so Taichi (tries) to help him with his studies.
Taichi ultimately fails, but wins Kouhei's heart anyway.
Cosmetic Playlover
Mamiya works hard (serious) but Sahashi works harder (romantic).
Domestic fluff.
Men in a women dominated workplace.
Is this considered an office romance?
Perfect Propose
Burnt out office worker (Hiro) stumbles upon a younger man (Kai) who claims to be his fiancé.
Forced proximity if you squint.
Flirty aaah Kai.
Takara's Treasure
Grumpy Takara/Sunshine Taishin/Mountains
"Is it true that gay people exist?" - Taishin probably.
Asexual characters (Source: Me)
Japan presents its favorite "senior/junior" trope.
It's 25:00, In Akasaka
Yuki wants to be a star, so he acts in a BL show with super star Asami.
Oh, they also know each other from college.
Sensual melodrama with a fake-dating trope.
Love is Like a Poison
Lawyer Ryoma thinks he's in a legal drama when he's actually in a BL.
Sexy Lawyer x Sexy Scammer = Fluffy Downbad Boyfriends!
Haruto is Ryo's husband, but is also my wife (crime of the century).
Well-written characters for a well-written story.
Happy of the End
"Fuck it. Guess we both ain't shit." - Haoren and Chihiro
They were, in fact, not happy at all.
Unethical use of sex toys.
Read warnings before watching.
My Love Mix-Up (Thai)
A Japanese culture incorporated in Thailand made possible by making Mudmee half Japanese.
Just confused boys (Atom and Kongthap) falling in love.
Century of Love
Grandpa san waits a hundred years for his wife to be reborn only to find out that her reincarnation is a boy (Wee).
Grandpa learns what "gay" is and fell deeply in love with his husband.
Love Sea
Rich novelist Tongrak buys flirty island boy Mahasamut and brings him to Bangkok.
Good sound design in my Me Mind drama? A treat!
Would not recommend to everybody, but if you're into a sexy romance show, then this one is for you.
It has enemies-to-lovers, pet play, master-servant dynamic, rich boy x poor boy fantasy, falling in love, age-gap, and FortPeat.
My Stand-In
Joe gets transmigrated to the body of another Joe and fatefully bumped into his crazy ex-boyfriend Ming.
A BL with the plot of a telenovela.
Let go of your morals for this.
Joji's "Glimpse of Us" plays in the background.
A Time of Fever
Donghee's actor portrayed his role as someone who wishes that Hotae isn't gay to protect him from what he went through.
A coming-of-age story of self-discovery told through beautiful mis-en-scene.
Love for Love's Sake
Isekai in my BL?! Sign me up!
Myungha is given another chance to live in a game created by god himself.
Fictional character Yeowoo suddenly finds himself a protective clingy senior.
Gay, mental illness, and actors who looks like Soobin.
Released in Previous Years
More shows and more notes written from dreamland.
A Man Who Defies the World of BL (2021)
Straight man (Mobu) gets isekaied to a BL world.
The title is the story.
A world where homosexuality is the norm, and heterosexuality is unconventional.
Minato's Laundromat S1 (2022)
Age-gap nobody asked for.
High school boy (Shintaro) falls insanely in love with laundromat owner (Akira).
This is textbook BL live-adaptation.
Takara-kun to Amagi-kun (2022)
Sweet boys Takara and Amagi navigate their relationship in high school.
Grumpy x Sunshine trope and Popular x Nobody trope
They want each other so baaaad!
God's Favor (2022)
Yashiro dies after confessing to his childhood friend Kenta, but transmigrated as Kagura by choice.
Iconic line: "Why would you come back to me as a woman?"
Kagura and Rin yuri.
Everyone is bisexual.
My Beautiful Man S1 (2021)
Me (Hira) and the bad bitch (Kiyoi) I pulled by being autistic.
Whipping boy trope.
How not to start a relationship: see your partner as a god.
Finger sucking in my BL again.
My Beautiful Man S2 (2023)
"There is no way that my boyfriend who makes love to me every night actually loves me!" - Hira about Kiyoi
They match each other's freak.
Established relationship and domestic fluff.
My Beautiful Man: Eternal (2023)
Hira finds other (healthy) interests besides Kiyoi.
Celebrity x Photographer
Life changing franchise with an actor who looks like Beomgyu.
Became the Main Role of a BL Drama (2023)
Celebrity Yuichiro and former child-actor Hajime cohabitate for a BL series.
Freak x Anxious Boy
My Personal Weatherman (2023)
Weatherman Segasaki successfully pavloving his stay-at-home boyfriend Yoh into getting horny when the sun comes out.
Yoh being too blind to see just how much Segasaki is in love with him.
The exploration of Japanese couple dynamics and "amae."
I Cannot Reach You (2023)
Yamato is in love with his childhood friend Kakeru.
Low stake problems presented as high stake problems.
Yearning and eager kisses in my BL? Aaah childhood friends-to-lovers.
Yamato has the prettiest eyes!
Sing My Crush (2023)
Everyone knows that Baram and Hantae are married except them.
Best friends to soulmates to housemates to lovers (finally)
Hantae realizes that he's gay after acting upon it.
Singing in my BL as usual.
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To wrap-up this comprehensive summary, I'm rewarding certain shows with special awards, because it's so much fun that way.
Best Writing
Love is Like a Poison (2024) - Ryoma's narration gave the show so much personality, but the most commendable about this show was how it kept getting better and better. The ending was perfect, because it provided the audience with continuity while simultaneously tying all the loose ends. It was not greedy! It understood what the show needed, especially for Haruto's character.
Love for Love's Sake (2024) - The concept of isekai is not new, but this show added its own twists to made it one of a kind. There were great choices made in this. It knew the perfect time to reveal information that would greatly benefit the narrative. Not only that, the show also managed to surprise me by being a mental health advocate. A little fact, this had one of they saddest break-up scenes I've seen last year.
Honorable Mention: My Beautiful Man S1 (2021) - The show provided me so much space for thinking, wondering, appreciating, and understanding of Hira and Kiyoi's relationship. The story had conflicts unique to the characters, and it was overall, so literary. The monologues were my favorite part along with the switching of point-of-views.
Most Beautiful Mis-En-Scene
A Time of Fever (2024) - This show bathed in sunlight! The yellows and oranges are so beautiful, so fitting for the coming-of-age theme, and so perfect for a prequel that's supposed to tell a story of the past. Every location is well-lived. They don't feel like sets, but real places. The camera work is perfect! Each frame is deliberate. There is a quality of intruding that makes all the scenes between Hotae and Donghee so raw. It's just an overall eyecandy.
Honorable Mention: Love for Love's Sake (2024) - The show has one of the best camera works on this list, but I did find it repetitive. Everything else is so pretty though.
Best Scene
Hira's Self-Pleasuring Scene in Episode 1 of My Beautiful Man (2021) - Hear me out! This scene surprised me, almost appalled me, so much. However, after rewatching the show 4 times at least, I grew a profound appreciation for the scene in connection to Hedonism. Hira wasn't even touching himself! He's merely looking at Kiyoi's face and thinking about him. I'll be talking more about it in a post one day, but you've got to give me a chance first.
Haoren and Chihiro's "first kiss" on the boat in Happy of the End (2024) - Well, something about them going on a date, kissing for the "first time," and Haoren telling Chihiro he "wants to die," altered something in my brain. The vulnerability was so loud—I swear I can peek into Haoren's soul if I looked into his eyes long enough. I've never experienced a scene like this before.
Best Official Soundtrack
Re-Move On by Gemini and Fourth - The impact of this OST is undeniable. Not only that, this song is so good! I'm glad they kept the streak of good songs since My School President.
geometric by osage - This song genuinely fit the feeling of Love is Like a Poison, and the sound directors perfectly knew when to play the song at the end. I genuinely see the show flash before my eyes whenever I listen to this song. It sounds like the ending of an adventure. Too bad, it's not talked about enough.
Other technical awards will be added in future lists once I get better at my production classes. Best editing, best script, best score, and everything else are way out of my expertise. I'm afraid I'll have to pass on this first. Here are categories created without much logic, just instincts:
Certificate of Appreciation for Better Sound Design
Love Sea (2024) - After the hell my eyes went through in Love in the Air, the company finally improving the audio equipment, and doing a better job at editing the recordings. Listen, it's not perfect, but it's definitely better. Hearing Tongrak and Mahasamut despite the harsh winds, and the lack of actors accidentally touching the microphone again made my ears so happy.
Certificate of Appreciation for Prettiest Kiss
Takara's Treasure (2024) - I've seen better and stronger kisses, but the way Takara kisses Taishin is just so beautiful. They are pretty kissers—visually pleasing lip-lockers. You can almost feel how soft their kiss is through the skin.
Certificate of Appreciation for Cutest Characters
I Hear the Sunspot (2024) - I really love watching Kouhei and Taichi individually the most. They interact with their environment delicately, full of care, understanding, and full of kindness. Both Kouhei and Taichi are very big characters, in my opinion, that's why the show somehow felt underwhelming, because I feel like there were so many unexplored and underexplored areas in their stories. I'm in dire need of a season 2.
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Overall Best Show in 2024
Love for Love's Sake (2024) - I only have feelings about this show, not thoughts. The writing, cinematography, acting, chemistry, editing, and message won me over. It's one of those shows that you think about for so long after watching it. If I loved it any less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Watching in 2025
I literally got a iQIYI subscription for Your Sky. I'm also watching Perfect 10 Liners, because nobody told me it's so funny and cute!
I'm looking forward to Ticket to Heaven and Love You, Teacher this year. I hope they meet my expectations, because they both look so promising.
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joltai-showa · 4 months ago
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ah shit here we go again, let's reread Naruto again
reading it in official English translation for the first time and really have no idea if it's good or not lol (I've been translating MHA for 5 years straight and official English translation from the same company fucking sucks)
chapter 1 is huge as hell, which is normal for Shonen Jump, mangaka needs to introduce the concept and characters and all yada yada
what I find really funny about Naruto is a lot of the stuff is written backwards (meaning, we have some stuff introduced early on, but then more shit is slapped on top) to the point that pre-Shippuden things directly contradict what is going to be stated later. Kishimoto most of the time gave approximately zero shit about things outright not making sense and, y'know, you gotta respect him for that, cause I don't have balls like that
(unfortunately when writing anything canon-compliant in Naruto you have be mindful of things being rewritten and outright not making sense💀)
Anyway enough yapping, very first page is already ripe with shit that is going to be retconneced later
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Firstly, description of Kurama's abilities. Naruto's orange puppy certainly can not start tsunamis and landslides with just his tails, lmao, this is something closer to Ten-Tails. If the terrain allows it, sure, I can see him starting a landslide, but orange puppy isn't starting anything in the seas, he's got siblings with lesser number of tails for that haha.
Secondly, the entire second paragraph feels like a fever dream honestly. "Suffering people gathered the shinobi clans to fight this menace" = Konoha was founded as a way to stop the endless tiny conflicts between the shinobi clans living in the Land of Fire (why have small-scale conflicts between each other when you can have literal world wars with the guys from beyond the border lol, jk, I know Hashirama wanted a peaceful future for the kids, but ultimately hidden villages system solves none of the issues of the previous system besides "7 year olds die on the battlefields" because now we have "15 year olds die on the battlefields"), Kurama literally wanted nothing to do with humans (as far as we know) during the warring states period, he was literally frolicking in some meadows and eating weird twins from to-be Kumogakure, got captured by Uchiha "read some mossy stone that my clan carried for years for some reason and went totally delulu" Madara, was used to attack Konoha, got bitch slapped by Hashirama a few times before Mito stuffed him into her stomach. And people are surprised why is the orange puppy so evil most of the manga lmao. But anyway, the entire sentence also implies that Fourth Hokage had some sort of mega-epic showdown with the evil puppy... while in reality it was something closer to Konoha's nuke being stolen by a delusional angry fourteen year old and Minato had to simply recapture the nuke again.
anyway, that was a long-ass rant lol
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love the early style, it's so goofy, Kakashi is especially wonky in it
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first question: why are we tying up school kids after they are caught for their terrible pranks? what is the educational idea behind this thing? like, i get doing that on the training field, imitating combat and all, but why do the same thing in the classroom? is it supposed to encourage the kids to learn how to run away after being tied down by some ropes?
(if that's the case i guess i know at least one academy student who always failed this task, yeah, looking at you, rin, i'm sorry, i can't hold myself back from bashing that thing, lmao)
anyway, back to the manga, i really love how it mentions that Naruto flunked this exam two times already (and it's not stated how often this exam is, so I guess yearly?), and only graduates at like 13, which is supposed to be a super late age and Naruto is such a lazy bum for that... but then you realize the funny fact that Naruto's classmates aka "genius" Sasuke, "book-smart" Sakura, team Asuma and team Kurenai are all the same age as him. Lmao. This isn't the first time Kishi will forget about this silly thing called "timeline".
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let's... not adress this gag.
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AHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH.
Naruto, allow me to introduce you to this wonderful concept called "nepotism". It's quite common in your village. Second Hokage was First's younger brother, Third Hokage was the student of the Second, Fourth Hokage is the student of a guy who studied under Third, Fifth is literally both the granddaughter of First and a student of Third, Sixth is the student of Fourth and you, Naruto, is the son of Fourth and the student of Sixth.
I absolutely love how early Naruto is trying to be this story about this poor underdog when in reality our MC is the nepobaby to ever napobaby lol. I think only Iwa beats Konoha at having the most absurdly nepotistic system for Kage, because 3 out of 4 Tsuchikage are directly related to each other through blood and the one guy that isn't happens to be the teacher to Third.
(I do remember there was so bullshit about Kazekage clan or something but I think it's pretty much only a title and only Rasa and Gaara are actually related to each other through blood)
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>badge of adulthood
>given to literal 9-13 year olds who can't throw a kunai in a straight line
yeah, you know what, this actually checks out.
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you immediately know that mizuki is fucking evil when he says "nah let him pass iruka, he managed to produce a single shitty clone, he's totally not gonna be killed after 30 seconds on the battlefield" like WHAT IS THIS SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
also another good question to the world building: does Konoha have other schools besides Academy? Like, what do kids do if they don't want to pursue military career? Their parents hopefully teach them how to read and count and that's it? I mean, Konoha is a military settlement at the end of the day, but they can't be teaching only guys who will be throwing knives at each other?
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absolutely nothing, naruto, lmao. you were born a nepobaby, prepare to have an endless supply of chakra for any tricks of yours and the best senseis Konoha has to offer.
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is the Hokage building supposed to be their residence as well? huh.
also let's not talk about this gag.
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comically large kurama jpeg
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asknarashikari · 8 months ago
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Gigist (feel free to promote the "Gigist can go (whatever the fuck should happen)" tag, we need more of this) getting approached by...quite the massive sea of pissed off confronters.
Massive Sea of Extremely Livid Enemies: - Rinne, Renge, Sabimaru, Minato, Kyoka, and hell even Spanner and Lachesis - Every single remaining chemmy, lead by Gotchard's second closest chemmy that is Steamliner himself - Mr. Gorgeous Gold Fuckboy and his Butler - Every Single Main Rider from past seasons - Every Single living Secondary Rider from past seasons - Every Single Tertiary/Extra Rider from past seasons - Every single female companion or supporting ally from past seasons - Every single sentient henshin device/trinket from past seasons - Me, @askrikkaiandhyotei, @i-am-randomtrash00, and every single rider fan ally you know that is devastated by this loss...lead by YOU! (Pretend we're all supplied with not just torches and pitchforks but also gattling guns, munitions, flamethrowers, kerosene, any kind of lethal arsenal that can kill shit) - (Maybe there's more I'm missing)
#for-skebows #for-antrooper #for-hopper-1 #for-ichinose-houtaro
YES. YES TO ALL THIS.
(Well, maybe not the me leading part. I'll gladly defer to the Riders on this, especially Houtaro)
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narrators-journal · 2 months ago
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A new moon rising: Chapter 1
Ngl, I learned the hard way with my other story. Do NOT baby this shit lmao. I love these two, I adore you all greatly, but I’m sorry. I’m not taking damn near a year to post a fic again. We are posting these parts as soon as they’re done basically. Warts and all. I can write more scenarios to answer questions or shore up plot holes if I need. For now? Just enjoy this lil ditty, and humor me besties. With any luck, ya bitch won’t drop this.
First part: Here
Next part: Here
Masterlist: Here “See ya next week, Mochi!~” The girl sang as she jogged off to the train station, with a plush toy tucked beneath one arm and a wave thrown back to the tall brunette that stood outside of the arcade in the crisp evening air with a bright smile. At least, until his date left his view, then that smile dropped into exhaustion. The solid brick of the wall a welcome support when he let himself sag slightly in the dark hour. The same thing said about the soft burble of the decorative fountain and the chaotic mixture of theme songs from the games behind the brunette. “I need to stop letting my dates go so long…” he chuckled up to the heavily round moon that stared down at him from the star-speckled sea of blue. Though, of course, the silver eye didn’t respond. It simply continued to watch him when he broke eye contact and pushed off of the bricks with a pained wince. No comfort, no assurances, just an ever present observer to the dull ache that zipped down the brunette’s spine as he left the mall. Though, Ryoji Mochizuki didn’t head for the boys dormitory to lay down and rest his achey bones. Instead, he took some time to wander the dark, peaceful streets of tatsumi port for some time to think. Something that he often did after dates, even when his pale skin felt as if it was about to slough off of his bones.
But, ever since he’d moved to the port, nightly walks to admire the soothing calm of the dark winter hours were the only moments of alone time that he got. So, even when his body began to ache and burn, he savored the time outside of the crowded boys dormitory. Between school, his part-time job, how crowded and noisy the dormitory could be, the time he spent with Junpei, chasing Minato, or going on dates, the brunette was rarely left alone in a day. And, he wasn’t mad at that fact, Ryoji was an exchange student, and that ‘new toy’ thrill was sustained by the amount of confidence and charm that he had. Paired with the fact that Ryoji was relatively tall, with dark hickory-colored hair that he kept swept back, and vibrant blue eyes, he was well aware that he was popular, and he did enjoy that popularity.
Though, it does nothing with Minato… He thought as he passed one of the zombie-esque people that seemed to be the only ones to wander the shadowy streets with Ryoji beneath the silver light of the inescapable moon. I guess I can’t be too upset though, Minato’s not the type to care about social opinion. Naturally, other girls and guys liking me won’t make HIM like me.He unhappily sighed at that point, but he knew Minato well enough to know it was true. Even if he does fucking like me, and is just a brat about it. An angry voice whispered in his head, which, was equally true.
Granted, if Ryoji had been at Gekkoukan a month, only a week of that had been spent in conversation with the midnight-haired emo beauty, but the brunette could still tell. It was as if he had some psychic sense when it came to the grumpy man, so Ryoji knew that Minato was, at a minimum, attracted to him in a physical sense, even if he wouldn’t admit to it. Which, was what seemed to encourage the tall brunette in his pursuit of him.
Though, there were multiple reasons for that pursuit. The way that Minato never had a consistent scent, as if he’d simply used what was within reach in the shower that morning, his storm-grey eyes, a voice that teetered between exhausted and annoyed, and a sense of humor that was as dark as the mariana trench.
“Mochizuki.”
Ryoji blinked back to reality at the sound of Aigis’ voice in the damp air of the...discolored night. “Aigis? The hell are you doing here?” He asked, though his eyes couldn’t seem to actually look at the blonde woman that stood a bit ahead of him on the moonlight bridge. Though, she seemed unbothered by the tornado green sky, cold, stagnant air, and sudden silence of the night. “Where...even is here?” “I am here to correct my mistake.” The blonde said in a serious voice that seemed to freeze the damp air to the brunette’s skin. The rush of the water beneath the long bridge a deafening roar in the tall man’s ears as the blonde continued. “I have remembered what you are, Mochizuki.” “N-no! Aigis...I’m-” “You are the embodiment of death. I remember that now.” She said, her...well, Ryoji’s vision had begun to swim, so he couldn’t tell what was on her feet, but it heavily clunk against the asphalt as she approached him. So, he stepped back from her as he squeezed his eyes shut and tangled his fingers into his hair. “No. I-I’m Ryoji-” “You are Thanatos.” She corrected, “You are the shadow of the thirteenth arcana.” “No! No, Aigis stop it!” He ordered, tears in his eyes and his words bouncing in his skull like a bunch of wrecking balls. And, when he lifted his head to look back at her, he saw that she had stumbled back. You’re a robot, how can I affect you?
Sadly, he got no time to ponder the question, because the blonde’s fingertips flipped back to force the- god am I even a man?- the brunette into a mad scramble across the asphalt. Which, wasn’t made easier by the pain that throbbed in his skull and through his body, nor by the clouds of dirt and rock that was sent into the air when Aigis’ bullets shredded Ryoji’s sun-colored scarf into rags. Somehow, he managed to avoid being hit by the projectiles directly, though, yet, no matter how he dove, scrambled, and ran across the moonlight bridge, Aigis simply reloaded. Stop it! Stop! Make her stop! Ryoji plead, though to who, he was too panicked to be sure.
He felt pulled in far too many directions. While his body seemed to run on autopilot, his mind was aflurry with a cacophany of thoughts. Dots that he didn’t want to connect, connecting, memories, explanations, all moved too fast for him to get a grip on in the moment. Yet, at the same time, there was something that weighed in his mind like a mountain in the hurricane. A cold hunger that crept in on him like a lioness in the sahara as he threw himself to the bullet-pocked bridge. “Stop it!” Ryoji screamed at the top of his lungs, not caring who it was at anymore. The presence in his head, the thoughts, or Aigis, he didn’t care. He simply wanted everything to stop.
And, it did.
Silence fell back over the discolored night as if the entire world held its breath. Ryoji’s thought, the gunfire, even the water below them seemed to freeze for a second at his command. At least, until the brunette braved a glance back at Aigis. Able to see that she’d been rooted to the spot on the cracked asphalt, her arms still raised with her fingers aimed at the tall man. Yet, as he watched her through the thin curtain of hair that had fallen into his widened eyes, her arms fell to her white-clothed sides, and soon, she fell to her knees. Her own sky blue eyes now dull and lifeless.
Now that she wasn’t on the attack, Ryoji could drink in the gold metal that glinted in the yellow-green light of the engorged full moon, the other shiny metal of the blonde woman’s body as she collapsed onto the bridge. She’s a robot, how is she dead? He thought, his breath slowed with his heart rate, though his head still throbbed with a pain that he ignored, sure that it came from too many thoughts, revelations, and the weight of that presence in the back of his mind. “But you cannot stop at a mere robot, my child.”A female voice barely whispered, as if a woman was whispering at him from a mile away. But, he heard her, and as he looked down at the non-functional blonde. His classmate. Minato’s classmate.
Ryoji’s stomach fell into his shoes.
Oh god, Minato. He thought, an anxious, miserable lump in his throat, If Aigis is in the Dark Hour, he surely is too. If he finds her like this… Tears burned the corners of Ryoji’s eyes at the mental image. He knew this...the truth that sat in his belly like a cinderblock, was too much to explain. To expect that his other half would understand. And it hurt to know. “You know what you must do, my child. Do not falter.” That woman said again, but he ignored her with no real thought towards it.
He scooped Aigis up off of the weakened bridge and bolted to the side of the bridge to look down at the cold, sluggish water beneath his feet that was colored a darker shade of green in the sickly color of the moon.
Surely, as a robot Aigis wouldn’t respond well to water. Not with the gaps that acted as her ball-and-socket joints and exposed her gears and circuitry. So, when Ryoji stepped onto the railing with her limply in his arms, he knew that it was a death sentence for the girl. For one of Minato’s friends. But, he still jumped into the water with her.
He clung to her as the wind swept his disshevelled hair back once more before the dark, icy water swallowed them both. Darkness blinded the man, his scarf suddenly over his mouth and nose as if to further drown him. As if I can die… He thought. Though, at the same time, a robot couldn’t die, yet he could feel her body heat up from all of the wires and circuit boards that seemed to wail as they were awash with the same river water that stirred her straw-colored hair around her lifeless expression.
She was almost beautiful as they sank. Without the snarls and glares that she always showed him, her face was perfectly sculpted like a barbie doll’s, her eyes were a lovely shade of blue, and her hair would frame her face wonderfully. Of course I would find her beautiful like this. When she’s as dead as a robot can be. He thought as he let her go to watch her sink to the muddy trash and plants that occupied the water. Meanwhile, up above, he could sense a familiar soul’s approach.
Naturally, Ryoji couldn’t hear anything above the roar of the water that flowed over him, but he could feel Minato. The same way that he could feel his scarf tug at his throat in the current, he could feel the dark-haired man above him. Could almost track him when he looked around at the many, many bullets embedded into the asphalt and called for Aigis in the discolored hour.
Until, finally, the green sky seemed to recede back into the moon as it shrank. In it’s place, the sky’s normal dark purple-ish blue hue, stars, and silver light, but Ryoji’s senses remained. He could still sense Minato’s chaotic soul above him, then more souls, Mitsuru’s, Yukari’s, the other SEES, all of them seemed to come to talk to Minato. And, while Ryoji couldn’t hear them, he could feel when they eventually left.
Only then, did the brunette surface. The silver light of the now-normal moon the only one to greet him, that and the sounds of cars far off, or too much awareness of the many, many souls that filled Tatsumi port. Which, he swam towards with heavy limbs and an even heavier heavier heart.
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twilightknight17 · 5 months ago
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The Promised Day - Part 3
Man, I left this for a while. God. Too much to do, too little time, and work is fucking exhausting. But let’s talk about the ending, finally.
Where last we stood, the Great Seal was cast, and everything faded to white.
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Probably the closest any of you will ever get to seeing the Sea of Souls.
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It’s crushing, how upset they are that everyone made it but one person. Honestly, I get the sense that any number of casualties would have been too much. This was an all-or-nothing fight. It was supposed to be that everyone goes home, or no one does.
But no, the one person they lost was their leader. In the end, there was nothing they could do.
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…….it’s not the Sea of Souls, it’s the Universe. Oh god. Of course he can hear them.
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Stop talking like you and Nyx are the same. T_T You’re not!
He does sound proud of them, though.
SEES is returned to the front of the school, Tartarus dissolves into light, and Minato walks out of the now-normal building so that everyone can hug him and cry all over him. If I didn’t know how this ends, I’d be really mad about ten minutes from now.
I do like that, after the timeskip, this version of the ending starts the exact same way as the other one, since they still don’t have their memories in this version.
Man oh man am I popular, though. This isn’t even all my social links, and look how many people want to talk to me!
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It’s morbidly hilarious that this game literally started the trend of “walk around and talk to everyone the day before the ending”, but Minato’s the only modern protag who wasn’t going to leave. Not by choice, anyway.
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You and your girlfriend can’t both have amnesia, my guy. Get it together.
We find out that Kenji is excited because apparently there are going to be three new teachers next year, and they’re all hot. So he has learned nothing. Lots of social links sent letters, because the end of their link was literally them leaving town.
(Minato wasn’t going to leave, everyone else was. Inverse Persona ending. X’’’D)
The Gourmet King is gone (no tears here). Maiko’s dad says she’s doing well but also says I’m absolutely not allowed to marry her. We’re able to give Akinari’s mom the notebook with his story in it. Mamoru and Kaz are doing fine. Bebe, tragically, has decided not to come back to Japan right away. He’s gonna stay with his uncle for a while so they can grieve his aunt together.
Ms. Toriumi is taking the accidental revelation that I’m her MMO buddy very well.
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God I laughed so hard.
All the cats I saved from Tartarus are vibing in the back alley!
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I think I saved eight total? I wonder if there’s more. Secret cat ending. Fill the whole alley.
And…
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...can I listen to my music box now? Please. T_T
As Mitsuru makes her graduation speech, SEES starts to remember, and rushes for the roof, where Aigis and Minato are already skipping the ceremony.
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That’s a long time.
I ended up dating Aigis just because I actually maxed her link, and I think the only other girl I maxed was Yuko? Maybe? And Maya, but that wasn’t a romance option, which I still think is weird.
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So, the credits. They, uh, didn’t have to do that. Like, it’s brilliant. Having his silhouette sinking deeper and deeper and gradually fading away to represent him doing the same. He vanishes completely and only then does it end, and we get to see SEES reach the roof just barely too late. Beautifully done, Atlus, I started tearing up, how dare you. X’D
And then the main menu is no longer the Dark Hour.
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So, overall, other than some nitpicks, I think this was a really solid game. But as a modern remake of a preexisting game, I think they could have gone further. Why NOT just make your male teammates possible social links? Why NOT include Hamuko? Why NOT include The Answer with the base game? Why lie and say you want the “core” (read: original base game) P3 experience, but then add new things?
Why make Ryoji tell you he wants to be more than friends and then not give you a third dialogue option?!?!?
(I know the answer is money. It’s always money. I am just salty.)
But I could forgive more of that if they hadn’t nerfed the final boss. I did some googling, and pinpointed some other things about the Nyx Avatar fight that didn’t line up. Before, he could attack twice per turn. This one can’t. They gave the Death Arcana an extra thousand health, but the old version automatically took half-damage from EVERYTHING except almighty. They took away Moonless Gown, and therefore took away his ability to become invulnerable. Apocalypse can reduce your HP to 1%, but if he’s not attacking twice per turn, someone always has time to heal, so who even cares?
(Shoutout to the Fandom wiki for being like, “It is strongly encouraged to heal when it uses this skill”. No shit, guys. Wow.)
And yeah, they buffed his spells up a level, but ultimately, all the things that might have actually made the boss genuinely hard got nerfed.
It kind of sucks. They gave him a cool new color scheme for the final arcana and then weakened him. Why even.
Anyway, gonna do NG+ on hard mode to finish all social links and the compendium, and also probably going to do something really stupid like solo the Avatar with my level 99 Minato and Thanatos just for giggles.
Because hell yeah. :D
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tireddovahkiin · 6 months ago
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Thank you for the ask Lee <3
Link to the game!
1. Gush about your f/o's sense of style/fashion!
OOOOOO it's so beautiful... I know we only saw Sephiroth in his SOLDIER/battle uniform for the entire game, but I personally like to think that he's into dark academia style/elegant/clothing with dark colors and that look plain. He's a simple man. I don't see him as a fan of bright colours, tbh, and Tsizilia HATES colours. So, good thing is, their house is black or grey themed. Tsizilias wardrobe has black and white things, while Sephiroths has a bit more colour to it.
They both like to dress for the occasions, even as simple as going outside for something. Never leaving the house without the style mhm😎
Sephiroth likes to wear plain sweaters and sweatpants, or t-shirts and pants when it's hot. He's a fan of knitted sweaters a lot. As for when going out, he'll choose coats, usually black or dark beige, simple button up white shirts, or again, sweaters, jeans/leather pants and boots. He even adds a scarf sometimes, not because he's cold, but just because he wants to look fabulous. When it's hot, shirts are unbuttoned, and the sleeves are pulled up. Sephiroth also likes do add sunglasses (Tsizilia chose them for him because she wears hers 24/7, she knows what she's doing alr)
For the special occasions, suits with a special silver lining, black cravat with a pin decoration, maybe even gloves... JSHDLUSGDIUSGIUGFYSD~
Just as I said, simple and practical, yet elegant man.
(Bonus: Sephiroth doesn't weak any pyjamas in bed. When it's winter time, he sleeps in boxers, and when it's summer, he sleeps naked. [IDFC HE SEEMS LIKE THE TYPE IF YOU THINK THAT'S NASTY I DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS- FIGHT ME-])
2. Gush about your f/o's voice!
DUDE. DUUUUUUUDE.
DON'T GET ME EVEN STARTED-
THAT MAN HAS THE HOTTEST VOICE I HAVE EVER HEARD. BOTH JAPANESE AND ENGLISH.
Sephiroths japanese lines are voiced by my FAVORITE voice actor, who also voices Minato from Naruto and Ubuyashiki Kagaya from Demon Slayer! That man REALLY knows the way to act with that calm voice of his... It gives me so much comfort and warmth...
The japanese one does sound a little more 'menacing' compared to english, but both of them are soft as COTTON CANDY... So sultry, and velvetty, dripping slowly like sticky, hot honey~ Sephiroth literally PURRS when he talks. His voice is literally hypnotizing to listen to, like of a siren. I would be EASILY swayed if he was to try and talk me in to his will. It's a real voice of a manipulator. And I fucking LOVE it.
The way it never raises, that guy NEVER yells. EVER. He's as calm as the sea at night. Sephiroth is the most suave of the suave-st ever. Even when he's angry, he's CALMLY angry. And it's even more unsettling than the yelling, in my opinion. You don't know what to expect.
Oh, and when he whispers lowly into Clouds ear every time he decides to mess with him, LORD... I BECOME SO JEALOUS- LIKE I WANT SEPHIROTH TO TEASE ME, PLEASE- TELL ME I'VE BEEN A BARD GIRL, OR A GOOD ONE, ANYTHING--
I can only imagine the way he says stuff when we- when whne um uhm whnw- make out or something-🥴
MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT ALL OF IT? His possessiveness. That man is the most pssessive man I have ever seen. Like it's borderline crazy, almost close to yandere-ish. AND I'M ALL HERE FOR THAT FOOD- Like YES I wan't that man to whisper into my ear that I'm HIS, and his only, as he makes me watch slash people with Masamune before my eyes, YES, I want to hear him just how crazy and insane I drive him, yes I wan't him to always keep me close to him and never let go as he rants about how we're meant to be, and blessed by the fates, YES YES YES YESYEYSYESYEYSYEYS-
I wan't him to ramble about his 'planet conquering' goals to oblivion, I'll listen... Half of it. Otherwise, I get distracted by his beautiful voice... I also make him read a lot to me. Best ASMR for fucking FREE- I'm a lucky gal😋
Favorite lines?
"I'll never be a memory." (YES TELL THEM BABY FUCK EM UP WOOOOOOO-)
"Careful now. That which lies ahead... Does not yet exist." (Ahhhh... His philosphy is so fascinating to decode... What he means about 95% of the time he talks... Like he's such a mystery of a man, I absolutely adore it...)
"You're practically panting... Such a puppy." (WOOF WOOF BARK BARK BARK ARF GRRRRRR ARF ARF BARK WOOF WOOF-)
3. Gush about your F/O’s love languages!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOO-
First, and primary one: Acts of service
Sephiroth is the embodiment of 'Actions speak louder than words'. That is his primary love language, when he first even started dating Tsizilia (me).
As I said once before, Sephiroth is definitely touch starved, but greatly touch repulsed at first. He only ever experienced a forceful touch, touches he had to endure when countless of scinetists exprimented on him, treated him, monitored him. They were always rough, without emotions, treating him like an object, another obstacle, a lab rat, and not a human being. So, being afraid of a loving touch is a 'normal' reaction. He's afraid he might be used again, and he wants to avoid it at all costs. But Sephiroth doesn't realise it won't hurt him, that he is loved, and that that touch isn't fake, it is indeed quite real, and full of love and care for him.
So, he shows it through small acts like, preparing food, helping in the house, remembering something Tsizilia mentioned, doing the chores, bying her gifts, and always being there to listen to her, to help her, to enjoy time with her. He's willing to literally sacrifice himself in an instant if she asks. Anything for her. Because Tsizilia has ALWAYS been by his side, and now he wants to return the favor.
Physical Touch
After experiencing a loving, harmless touch for the first time by Tsizilia, and out of the constant fear of ending alone again, of being left on his own, of being pushed away like always before, he holds close like his life depends on it.
Sephiroth becomes hungry for touch: possessive, greedy, like a dragon to its treasure. And Tsizilia understands that, hell, she even loves it herself (Similar shit happened to her, she's a chaser, a people pleaser, and she always thought her touch meant nothing to anyone ever every time she showed affection, because her heart, when she was young, was sensitive and very loving, but due to life treating her that way, she closed off.) In the beginning of the relationship, Tsizilia was always initiating contact, but seeing him reject it every time, she got scared, and eventually gave up... Until Sephiroth reprocicated for the first time. (AND THERE WERE TEARS LET ME TELL YA-)
Sephiroths touch is firm, but gentle. Even though Tsizilia keeps telling him she isn't made of glass, Sephiroth insists he handles her with care, like she was made of porcelain. But the firm grip she has on her is always there, indicating she AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE, even in sleep- and the fact that it's constant, almost becoming clingy... (HELL YEAH YOU GET ME BABE IM HELLA CLINGY TOO) Sephiroth uses any given moment he has to hold her close. To feel her. To keep reminding himself that this isn't a dream, that it's real. Reading a book? Cooking? Sleeping? Watching TV? Even showering together? That man is acting like a sloth.
But the situation slightly changes when in public. Sephiroth isn't a fan of PDA at all (dw me too), but at least hand holding is a must, or an arm over her shoulders. He STILL wants to make sure Tsizilia is close. Rarely, she kissesher cheek, knuckles, forehead, temple, and hug her. But the definite rarest is direct kisses. He initiates it only when he's like DESPARATE. But, sneaky glances, secret touches under the table on hand brushing? YES. YOU BET YOUR FUCKING ASS ON IT, YES.
There's also gift giving!
I just know bro spoils like every day is a celebration day istfg /j
No, but really. Sephiroth is VERY perceptive as a person, and I just KNOW he'll look out and pinpoint on every longing look Tsizilia directs at a jewelry piece she sees on TV, or a game she wants to buy and play, or when some of her favorite bathing salt runs out, or a flower she saw on the way home. Oh, you BET he saw/heard her. And next time you know, he's bringing a big ass boquett of her favorite flowers, the jewelry lying on the table, or a video game bought and installed on her laptop, you NAME it.
AND- AND THE MAN HAS AUDACITY TO ACT DENSE- like what are you talking about, I didn't hear anything, I just thought of you and brought it... SHUT THE FUCK UP AND KISS ME RIGHT ABOUT NOW—
Every once and then, he will even buy something he thinks will fit her pefectly, like a dress, accessory, or a piece of... l1nger1e hehe~😏 That man NEVER fails. He knows what's he doing, alright. Fashion sense is quite literally like his normal sense. I MEAN LOOK AT HIM- HE AIN'T BLESSED WITH THAT BEAUTY FOR NOTHING. And beside that, he'll even try creative gifts, handmade ones. But, having a meticulous perfectionist ass can be quite tiring😔and he often rage quits. (Again, I can relate SO much.)
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genshingorlsrevengeance · 2 years ago
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House Isekai: Subnautica AU Masterpost
House Isekai Masterlist Here
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**This was from my og blog, but this is all the Subnautica crossover posts from the OG House Isekai into one place! Hope you get a good laugh out of this!
The adventures of House Isekai brings them to an utterly alien planet, and  are forced to fight for survival underwater in the horrific and beautiful world of Subnautica!
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Anononymous asked: Laura will probably fare well in Subnautica
(Rean) “Hey, has anyone seen Laura? I haven’t seen her in the lifeboat or the base.”
(Ainz) “I think she said she was going to go swimming as practice.”
(Rean) “What?! We were told to stick together!”
(Ainz) “I doubt she went far. Besides, it’s Laura we’re talking about. She’s not stupid.”
MEANWHILE
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(Laura) 
AGGRESSIVE BUBBLING
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unknownsymbol367 asked: Imagine aqua attracting some of the bigger, scarier, dangerous sea beasts all by accident in subnautica.
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(Kazuma) “WHY THE HELL DIDN’T YOU TELL US THAT YOU ATTRACT FISH YOU USELESS GODDESS?! NO WONDER THESE FUCKING THINGS HAVE BEEN ALL OVER US!”
(Aqua) “B-Because these are ALIEN fish, Kazuma! How was I supposed to know it applies to aliens!?”
(Megumin) “Uh, I think they’re trying to break through the windows-”
(Darkness) “Ooooh, I wonder how sharp those teeth are-”
(Kazuma) “AQUA’S ABOUT TO FIND OUT FIRST!”
(Aqua) “SCREW YOU KAZUMA, I’M SORRY OKAY!? I-I DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM GO AWAY…Wait, that’s it! I CAN CALL IN A REALLY SCARY FISH TO MAKE THEM GO AWAY!”
(Kazuma) “Wha-NO NO NO NO! DON’T YOU-”
“Warning. Leviathan-class lifeform is approaching the base.”
(Minato) “Uh, guys?”
(Minako) “HOLY SHIT!”
(Yu) “I don’t think our swords can go through that.”
(Akira) “Morgana, can you turn into a submarine?”
(Morgana) “YOU IDIOT, I CAN’T BREATHE UNDERWATER!”
- Doomguy looked at his wristblade, then back at the Reaper Leviathan. He repeated this process a few times.
(Yuuri) “Everyone, we need to get our oxygen tanks!”
(Albedo) “Lord Ainz, what do we do?”
(Ainz) “MY GOD THAT’S HUGE-…ahem…WE PREPARE FOR BATTLE!”
(Byleth) “…Why is it when something happens its always you four?”
(Kazuma) “GOD DAMN IT AQUA!”
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Anonymous asked: I bet the Slayer's Cyclops is named "BFSub" while his seamoth is "SFSub"
(Byleth) “You know Slayer, You seem to use the letters “BF” for a lot of your weapons and vehicles. What does that even stand for?”
- Doomguy grabbed his PDA (Handheld PC) and typed on it for a moment before giving it to Byleth.
(Byleth) “Big fucking-OOOH. So your sub is Big Fucking Sub. Okay, got it…Then the little one must be…Small fucking sub?”
- Doomguy nodded.
(Byleth) “…Well, I’ve heard worse names.”
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Anonymous asked: Imagine House Isekai using a submarine.
The Bridge
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(Cocytus) “DO ANY OF US ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO DRIVE THIS…MACHINE?”
(Sara) “Psh, absolutely not. I don’t even know how to use orbal cars.”
(Sharon) “I am afraid my training did not cover controlling submersibles.”
(Cocytus) “…THEN WHY WERE WE PUT IN CHARGE OF DRIVING?”
(Sara) “I mean, all the staff are in charge. Byleth, Megunee, Towa and Angelica too. If we put our heads together, we can think of something.”
(Sharon) “Lady Sara, do you honestly think that we can get the hang of driving before we crash straight into a rock?”
(Sara) “…Probably not.”
Storage/Entrance
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(Akira) “It’s pretty impressive that we all got a Cyclops now.”
(Yu) “Yeah, it took a couple days but it’s really cool seeing this in action. Though, should all of us be packed into it? It’s big, but not that big.”
(Minako) “Well, it’s to get familiar. We’re going to get more submarines for each group. Soon us Persona Users will get our very own sub!”
(Minato) “I’m not exactly sure that’s a good idea. I trust tech savvy people like Futaba, Aigis, and Naoto but…people like Ryuji and Junpei worry me.”
(Yu) “I guess we’ll find out.”
(Akira) “…I think I’m having second thoughts about being a part of a Cyclops.”
Engines
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(Ainz) …How the hell are we supposed to make this thing work?! I’ve never even seen a submarine before when I was still in the real world! More importantly there was never anything like this in Yg-
(Albedo) “Lord Ainz?”
(Ainz) “Hm? Oh, Albedo. What is it?”
(Albedo) “Demiurge and I have finished looking at the engines, and we have confirmed there will be no trouble in maintaining it.”
(Ainz) “HM?!”
(Demiurge) “It was a bit of trouble at first, but combined with our magic and the PDA’s assistance, we can safely traverse whatever the ocean may throw at the Cyclops!”
(Ainz) “Ah…G-Good work. I can always rely on you two no matter the situation.”
(Demiurge) “T-Thank you Lord Ainz!”
(Albedo) “You are too kind!”
(Ainz) No, really. I’m pretty sure we’d explode if I got something wrong, it’s a miracle that you managed to make heads and tails of this thing…Thank god Kazuma’s group isn’t working the engines…
Loading Bay
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(Kazuma) “What, Aqua?”
(Aqua) “A-Are you sure this thing is safe?! I’ve never seen anything like it!”
(Kazuma) “Hell no I’m not sure. None of us here has even been in anything remotely like this. Well except Doomguy, but he’s on bodyguard detail.”
(Aqua) “THEN WHY ARE WE IN THIS DEATH-TRAP?!”
(Kazuma) “You wanna be swimming out there with seaglider where something can eat your sorry ass whole instead of this massive titanium reinforced hull?”
(Aqua) “I…ugh!”
(Yuki) “Hey, hey! Come look at this Megunee!”
(Megumi) “A-Ah! Please don’t run, Yuki!”
(Kurumi) “Even on an alien world, she’s still having fun.”
(Yuuri) “A little TOO much fun. This entire place is terrifying!”
(Miki) “I mean, I find this trip fun as well. I’ve always wondered what it was like to scuba dive.”
(Yuuri) “I’d rather have done so in a coral reef on Earth.”
(Kurumi) “Technically, our first base was in the Shallows where there are coral reefs-”
(Yuuri) “Don’t get technical on me, Kurumi.”
(Miki) “Hah, well I admit it’s scary, but it’s a sense of terror and amazement!”
(Kurumi) “Agreed…Except the Leviathans…I wonder if I can hit them with my shove-”
(Yuuri) “No.”
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Anonymous asked: Megumin is gonna have a blast when the aurora explodes.
- Megumin stood on top of the lifeboat, eyeing longingly at the Aurora in the distance.
- Futaba poked her head out the hatch and raised an eyebrow.
(Futaba) “Oh, hey. What are you doing here? I thought you were with Kazuma and the others.”
(Megumin) “I was but now I’m about to watch some fireworks!”
(Futaba) “Fireworks?”
(Megumin) “Yeah, the Aurora’s about to explode!”
(Futaba) “…W-What? I thought our timeframe was 2 hours!”
(Megumin) “Apparently it reached critical state only a few minutes ago-”
(Futaba) “AND YOU JUST NOW TOLD ME?!”
- Futaba’s clothes changed as she got into her Persona and frantically reached for the screen.
(Futaba) “EVERYONE, GET BEHIND COVER OR TO THE LIFEBOAT RIGHT NOW!”
- Everyone stopped what they were doing in the waters and reached for their PDA’s.
[Radio](Byleth) “Huh?”
[Radio](Akira) “What’s wrong?!”
[Radio](Kazuma) “Wait hang on, why?”
Emergency: A quantum detonation has occurred in the Aurora’s drive core.
[Radio](Rean) “Ooooh crap!”
[Radio](Byleth) “SHIT!”
The reactor will reach a super critical state in T- 10,
[Radio](Ainz) “DIVE, DIVE, DIVE!”
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[Radio](Megumi) “EVERYONE, IN THE CAVE!-”
8
[Radio](Yu) “LIFEBOAT, NOW!”
7
[Radio](Minako) “SHITSHITSHIT-”
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[Radio](Minato) “OVER THERE, GO!”
5
- Doomguy shrugged and continued looking for resources.
4
[Radio](Darkness) “K-Kazuma! You’re so rou-”
3-3-…
[Radio](Kazuma) “SHUT THE FUCK UP, DON’T SAY THAT OVER THE RADIO WHERE EVERYONE CAN HEAR-…WHERE’S MEGUMIN?!”
2-2-
(Futaba) “MEGUMIN, GET DOWN HERE NOW!”
(Megumin) “ARE YOU KIDDING, I GOTTA SEE THIS!”
O-
KAFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
(Megumin) “Explosions are such a beautiful thing! If only I could be so grossly incandescent…-”
(Futaba) “KEEP YOUR HEADS DOWN, SHOCKWAVE INCOMING!”
(Megumin) “…Shockwa-?”
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On Kazuma’s Cyclops: The Wiz…
- Kazuma drove the Cyclops in the open waters, calmly watching his sonar and hearing the hum of the engine.
- Darkness watched the engines alongside Kurumi and Yuuri while Megumin and Yuki were in the vehicle bay.
- Aqua and Miki were in the bridge with Kazuma, watching the status of the ship quietly.
- Until Aqua spoke up.
(Aqua) “OH MY GOD IM SO BOOORED!”
(Miki) “Um, isn’t quiet in a place like this a good thing?”
(Kazuma) “Yeah, having nothing to do in a killer planet means we’re solid! And besides, we said we were going to get copper and stuff, why did you even tag along if you knew nothing would happen?”
(Aqua) “I don’t wanna be left alone at the base!”
(Kazuma) “Then quit bitching.”
(Miki) “That’s a bit harsh, Kazuma.”
(Kazuma) “Oh don’t you start too, Naoki. You’ve been here long enough to know how I am.”
- Miki sighed.
(Miki) “Fair enough. Oh Aqua! Why don’t you read one of my novels?”
(Aqua) “And fall asleep? No thanks. Ugh whatever. At least nothing bad can happen as we’re going back.”
Warning. Entering Ecological Dead Zone.
(Aqua) “HUH?!”
- The waters in front of Kazuma’s bridge went from a clear blue into almost pitch black as he slowly turned to face Aqua.
(Kazuma) “You gotta be fucking kidding me, Aqua.”
(Miki) “M-MULTIPLE TARGETS APPROACHING THE CYCLOPS BRIDGE!”
- Kazuma reached for the mic they installed near the bridge.
(Kazuma) “HEY EVERYONE, STRAP IN, AQUA GOT US INTO SOME DEEP SH…CRAP!”
(Yuki) “Huh? What’s happening?”
(Darkness) “LEVIATHANS?!”
(Kurumi) “Please don’t make that face.”
(Aqua) “HEY WHY IS IT MY FAU-…”
- Aqua’s face suddenly went pale as she looked out the windows.
- Kazuma and Miki turned to the direction Aqua was facing.
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(Kazuma) *a noise that can’t decide whether its a swear or gibberish*
(Aqua) “WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN?!”
Anonymous asked: Everybody gangsta until the warpers speak English.
(Sothis) “Hm? Child, we have a new message from the radio.”
(Byleth) “Oh, we do. Heads up everyone, we got a new message coming in. It could be someone responding to our distress signal.”
(Yuuri) “I hope it is…”
(Ainz) “It could be another lifepod, maybe we could find survivors.”
(Minato) “I sorta doubt it, considering all of them have been torn open.”
(Minako) “That’s optimistic…”
(Yu) “But he’s not wrong for thinking it, is he?”
(Aqua) “Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s going to be friendly!-”
Playing partially translated broadcast.
▀▖┗▛New biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents.
(Everyone) “…”
(Akira) “…I don’t think that was human.”
(Sothis) “What was your first hint?!”
(Kazuma) “What. The. F…Hell, was that?”
(Rean) “You just HAD to open your mouth, huh?”
(Aqua) “OH COME ON, NOW WE’RE BEING HUNTED?!”
(Yuuri) “How do we even know if they’re watching us?”
“…”
(Yuuri) “Put more camera drones everywhere, are we in agreement?”
(Everyone) “Yup.”
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Day 1 with the Konosuba Gang
(Rise) “Okay, so from what we’re able to scan, this shallow reef seems to be safe to explore, so we’ll split into groups, grab whatever you guys think will be useful!”
(Byleth) “We’ll be going into our respective groups that we came in with. House Reps, you will be the leader of your group.”
- Kazuma and his group nodded, and dived into the water.
- The first area they went into was a somewhat small cave.
(Aqua) “Oooh, this weird tube thing looks pretty!”
(Darkness) “Is it edible?”
- Kazuma put a scanner to it and read the name.
“Acid Mushroom”
(Kazuma) “…Nope.”
- Kazuma continued to swim off as Aqua stared at it.
(Aqua) “Hm…We could use it for something. Right?”
(Darkness) “I will go find the most hostile fish in this area and…hehehe, fight it!”
- With an insane look in her eye, she swam away.
(Kazuma) “Megumin? Find anything in there?”
- Megumin was inside the cave and found a small red-plant like creature.
(Megumin) “I think so?”
- The plant revealed an eye, which made Megumin jump.
(Megumin) “K-Kazuma?!”
- A creature with a giant eye made an unholy noise as it bolted towards Megumin.
HUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
- A massive explosion could be heard from across the entire shallows as it jolted Aqua and Kazuma into attention.
(Kazuma) “What the hell!? MEGUMIN!”
- Megumin swam out of the cave with her scuba gear clearly dented as a crazy smile took over her.
(Megumin) “THESE CREATURES! THEY KNOW THE ART OF EXPLOSIONS!”
(Kazuma) “You gotta be- KAMIKAZE FISH?! THAT’S GREAT!”
(Aqua) “Hm…”
- Aqua purified the mushroom and looked at it curiously.
(Kazuma) “DO NOT EAT THAT MUSHROOM! Where’s Darkness?!”
(Darkness) “How disappointing.
- Kazuma and the group saw Darkness getting bitten by some shark-like creature.
(Darkness) “These predators will not provide the stimulation I crave.”
- She punched it so hard it flew into the nearby coral tubes, splitting it apart as if it were paper.
(Kazuma) “OH FOR FUCKS SAKE, DON’T GO PICKING FIGHTS WITH THE PREDATORS-”
(Aqua) “K-Kazuma?!”
- The fish began to swarm Aqua, which eventually led to those same shark creatures headed her direction.
(Kazuma) “RETREAT! RETREAT!”
(Aqua) “Psh, it’s just a buncha fish! THEY’RE NO MATCH FOR THIS GODDESS-”
- The predators began to bite Aqua.
(Aqua) “OWOWOWOWOW-”
- Kazuma began swearing loudly and incoherently as he brought up his knife and tried to save Aqua as Megumin and Darkness took care of the exploding fish being drawn to Aqua.
30 minutes later…
(Sharon) “Welcome back, Master Satou.”
(Kazuma) “Ugh…”
- Kazuma flopped onto the lifeboat’s floor, dragging up Megumin, Aqua and Darkness.
- Sharon helped them up and calmly got a towel while Kazuma continued to groan.
(Sharon) “May I ask what you have found?”
- Kazuma reached into his pocket and put them near Sharon’s feet.
- A fish, several teeth from the shark-like fish, some acid mushrooms, and 1 piece of titanium.
(Sharon) “Would you like some tea?”
(Kazuma) “Please?”
===
New Class VII visit the back of the Aurora
- Altina drove the Seamoth forward while the rest of Class VII tagged along on their seagliders.
- Juna kept looking around left and right until Kurt spoke.
(Juna) “Juna, are you alright?”
(Kurt) “Ugh…No, not really. I don’t like this place is all. It’s so…alien.”
(Ash) “Well yeah, it’s another planet.”
(Juna) “Bah, you know what I mean! We were never trained for this, surviving underwater!”
(Musse) “Neither was the original House Isekai, but they still survived!”
(Altina) “Instructors Rean, Towa, Aigis, and Kazuma seem to have sufficient knowledge of the planet, despite how much time has passed.”
(Juna) “I wonder how the others are doing right now…”
(Kurt) “If I had to guess, like us. Especially the Garreg Mach students, I don’t think they ever anticipated on going on a journey like this.”
(Musse) “Hm…I don’t think the original three houses ever went on this planet, did they?”
(Ash) “Don’t think Rean mentioned it…Er, Altina where are we going?”
- Class VII only now realized where they were. The waters had changed from a blue-green tint to almost brown.
- They couldn’t see very well in front of them.
(Altina) “I was told to search for blueprints. The back of the crash site seemed like the most likely area to find some.”
(Juna) “Wasn’t this the one place all the Instructors told us NOT to go?”
(Ash) “Eh, I’m sure it’s fi-”
GROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR
- Altina looked to her right and almost stopped breathing when she felt her Seamoth shake violently.
- The Reaper Leviathan grabbed her Seamoth and swam towards the sand cliffs, slamming it down.
(Juna) “OH MY GOD, ALTINA!”
(Kurt) “We have to help her!”
(Ash) “GET THAT BASTARD!”
(Musse) “Arcus, activate!”
(Altina) “I REQUIRE ASSISTANCE-”
(Diluc) “…Hm. Class VII still hasn’t returned.”
(Elizabeth) “Oh dear, you’re right. Should we go look for them?”
(Venti) “I’m sure they’re fine. They’d just call us if they were in trouble.”
(Amber) “Still, this place looks pretty dangerous.”
(Helena) “I think we’re underestimating their skills. They’ll be back.”
- All of Class VII was on the Reaper Leviathan, stabbing it with tools and weapons while Altina was still in the seamoth, getting crushed.
(Altina) “CLASS VII, I AM PINNED HERE-”
(Juna) “DIE, DIE DIE DIE!-”
(Kurt) “THE SWORDS WON’T GO THROUGH!”
(Ash) “COME ON YA SON OF A BITCH!”
(Musse) “This rifle is going STRAIGHT INTO YOUR EYE-”
(Diluc) “…You’re probably right.”
===
Garreg Mach Students getting used to the ocean
The Garreg Mach students flew out on their seagliders around the safe shallows, being instructed to grab whatever copper they could find.
Sitri followed them since everyone who had been here before was required to stick with a group.
Not to mention she had been here with Byleth before.
(Elizabeth) “Ugh, this is quite unpleasant…”
(Helena) “What, don’t like the ocean?”
(Elizabeth) “Helena, dear. I enjoy the ocean as much as any girl would-”
(Kairos) “Could’ve fooled me.-”
(Elizabeth) “Shut up, Kairos. And I like walking near the beach, and even swimming. But living inside it and fighting nature? No, I do not like it at all.”
(Stefan) “Y-Yeah this is a bit much for swimming.”
(Astrid) “Least we’re all getting our exercise!”
(Kairos) “…Sure.”
(Helena) “It’ll give us experience in case we ever need to swim underwater.”
(Elizabeth) “Where in Fodlan do we possibly need to swim?!”
(Helena) “With all the places the House keeps dragging us into, it might be handy. Hell, it came in handy for Sitri.”
The group stopped swimming and looked at Sitri, who was gliding right behind them.
(Sitri) “Well, I learned it on the fly like you all are currently. But it is helpful that we’ve been to this world before.”
(Stefan) “Just how many have you been to, Lady Sitri?”
(Sitri) “Let’s see…Here, that one world in the far future, the one where we had to hunt ghosts, the one with the talking animals…”
(Helena) “See? She now has skills that’ll be helpful for surviving in another world.”
(Kairos) “How many times has she been underwater for it?”
Sothis appeared behind Sitri, though the students didn’t seem to notice.
(Sothis) “If only they had met Aqua…”
(Sitri) Yeah, I bet they would’ve been terrified of Leviathans…
(Astrid) “Anyways, this place is seriously freaky. The giant sea monsters trying to eat us, and we can’t even use magic here!”
(Helena) “We could always visit the back of the ship like Class VII did.”
(Kairos) “A-ABSOLUTELY NOT, HELENA!”
(Elizabeth) “Do you have a deathwish, dear?!”
(Stefan) “It’s not so much them I’m worried about, as I am about the dark…”
Everyone shuddered.
(Helena) “That’s true, we can’t really see if something’s coming up from behind, and it might just emerge from the-”
(Astrid) “GAAH, SHUT UP SHUT UUUUP! Ugh, I wanna go back home…”
(Elizabeth) “Sitri, ma'am, how did you survive here last time?”
(Sitri) “Well we all took our own Submarines. I think if you ask Kazuma to ride with him on ‘The Wiz’ he’ll let you.”
(Kairos) “Does Professor Kazuma even know how to drive it?”
(Sitri) “Better than most of us did. The only other ones were the old staff.”
(Stefan) “Then what about you?”
(Sitri) “Um…”
(Helena) “Great confidence there, ma'am.”
(Astrid) “C-Come on, you can be a little nicer.”
(Kairos) “Let’s just go back inside, I’m suddenly feeling a bit queasy…”
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miyos-multiverse-express · 7 months ago
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Minato: WAIT FUCK THE GREAT SEAL-
Tohru: - the fuck-
Miyo: FREEDOM!
Tohru: ... Welcome back. What just happened.
Miyo: We are directly connected to the Sea of Souls now. Or, well, Minato is. Because of the whole... using his body as the Seal thing? He can sort of go back and forth. And he needs to do that at least once a month to make sure the Seal actually. Holds Erebus back.
Tohru: Ere-what the fuck now?
Miyo: Can we do this after I've eaten something, because I've been trapped in our own head for four weeks. Also both of us need like five showers.
Tohru: ... Sure, okay.
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halliescomut · 1 year ago
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Masterpost (Under Construction)
It will likely take quite a while to get this off the ground, so please be patient.
I will also be slowing instituting a new tag for my meta posts (because if I had been using one all along this would be infinitely easier). Said tag will be #HallieSMeta.
Until there's something more interesting to look at here, please enjoy Jeffrey being a little punk:
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Look at this motherfucker!!!! How dare he be so goddamn adorable!!!
Be aware that many of these posts are written months apart and so sometimes information is repeated...it happens.
KinnPorsche MasterPost
KimChay MixTape- This is my post-canon KimChay fic- as of 10/10/23 it's at 88k words and will probably be 100k by the time I wrap things up. The links below are lil preview posts I do when I update. This is the Google Drive link to the first 3 chapters (which is a complete arc in itself. Otherwise it is posted on AO3.
Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 3 Ch 4 Ch 5 Ch 6 Ch 7 Ch 8 Ch 9 Ch 10 Ch 11 Ch 12 Ch 13 Ch 14 Bonus Chapters
Jeff Satur Music
Song Theory part 1
Lucid MV Discussion
Lucid costar-Nene
You can also search the tag 'jeff satur menace' to see many posts of Jeff looking handsome as fuck.
BL Industry Musings
2022 BL opinions
Colorism Fanservice Assumption of Queerness
Faux Incest in BL
BL Botany 1 & 2 Jeff
My Personal Weatherman
Mashiko Atsuki appreciation
No-subtitle watch throughs (eps 3-8): 3 4 5 6 7 8
Ep 2 Ep 5 Yoh's drawings 1 Yoh's drawings 2 Finale thoughts
Minato's Laundromat S2
Midseason check-in I have feelings Amnesia trope
Asuka and Shu
Our Dining Table
Please watch this show: 1 2 3
Costuming Analysis
Kiseki: Dear to Me
Ep 5 Ep 8 Ep 9
Mame/MeMindY BLs
Master post of all Mame-written shows, including Love in the Air, the LITA Japanese remake (Koi no Yokan), Love Sea, Wedding Plan, and The Boy Next World
Naughty Babe
Ep 4
Tadaima, Okaeri
Eps 1-3 kind of intro
Ep 4- Meta discussion, discrimination allegory?
Ep 5- Meta discussion, portrayal of parenting
It's not letting me add the links right now, so I'll try again later.
Stray Kids
Social Path MV Analysis
Hallie is TOO honest on Tumblr:
Broad backs
Discovering my Asexuality
Human Imperfection
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cyberaxolotl · 2 years ago
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vocaloid songs i associate with the grumps because brain do weird thing
Some of these I can’t explain why I associate them because I don’t know why, but others. I sure do
Filbo - Donut Hole (Hachi)
Alright so I only vaguely know the meaning of Donut Hole because the only english cover of it that appetizes my ears is kinda unclear, but half knowing the meaning, it feels. Filbo enough
Beffica - Spinal Fluid Explosion Girl (Rerulili)
Don’t ask
Gramble - Lost Ones Weeping (Neru)
Okay. Okay i. Hi i don’t know with this one. it just felt angsty enough to Gramble
i am absolutely not revealing the song i associate with wiggle herself so instead you’re getting the one i associate with Wigglefunny
Wiggle and Gramble - Magnet (Minato)
Generic love song. relatively generic couple
Wambus and Triffany - On The Rocks (OSTER Project)
Okay so this song, at first i associated it with them without knowing the meaning because I was like “oh, on the rocks is probably about a rocky yet working relationship, because the titles of vocaloid songs are known for reflecting the song” I was wrong it’s about sex. It is still their song
i got nothin for Cromdo
Chandlo - Sweet Magic (Junky)
Happy guy happy song :)
Snorpy - Shinkai Shoujo (Deep Sea Girl) (Yuuyu-P)
Really want to make an AMV of it to him to the Glutamine cover of the song. Also I base the english translation of this song off of MeloDelta’s english cover and not Lizz Robinetts!!
Floofty - S.I.U. (Maretu)
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i have nothing for shelda
Eggabell - Rolling Girl (Wowaka)
You fucking know why
Lizbert - The Disappearance Of Hatsune Miku (coSmo(?))
YOU ALSO KNOW WHY
anyways yeah i have poor taste in songs i associate with characters. explode
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inspirashion · 2 years ago
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INTERGALACTIC
A Naruto (Suisei no Gargantia AU)
Female Kakashi, Female Itachi, No Uchiha Massacre, No Uzumaki Eradication.
Note: [Speech] Machine dialogue, Obito talks in German, Kakashi in French.
Chapter 1: She Who Came From Outer Space
            “This is so boring!” Obito yawned as he slumped over the railings, looking at the beautiful blue sea below him. A few dolphins passed by the boat, a part of him wishing he was born a marine animal. At least then, he wouldn’t be stuck on a fuck rusty boat trying to dig up sunken treasures. If there is any treasure to begin with. “Are we even sure there’s anything valuable in these parts?”
            “I’d like to ask the same fucking thing.” Another hissed out. He was Shisui, Obito’s younger cousin and a pretty boy with curly hair and long lashes. His red Uchiha eyes were unusually striking in the mid-morning sun. “I could be chilling back at the Fleet with Itachi but noooo, here I am, wasting the fuck away.”
Obito nodded in agreement. While both he and Shisui were a part of Konoha’s Salvage Department, there were times when they wished they weren’t. On very good days, their Salvage Team―known as Squad 7― is able to dig up numerous sunken treasures―from as small as a barrel to something as massive as a ship itself. But their bad days were very much like their current situation.
            “Let’s just hope we’ll get a good catch today.” Obito finally relented. “I mean, it’s only been what? An hour?”
            Shisui rolled his eyes and sighed. “An hour too long. We should’ve revisited the area we went to last week! I’m sure there’s far more treasures left undiscovered!”
            “Maybe, maybe n―” Obito broke off when he heard the alarm. The loud, incessant ringing was indicative of the metal detectors discovering something beneath the waters. And judging by the persistent ringing, it was something massive.
            “Yo! Obito! Shisui! Get in your Yunboro, now!” A tall blond male barked at them as he dashed towards the section of the ship where the Yunboro were kept. He was Namikaze Minato and the leader of their team, Salvage Squad 7.  
            Obito followed the blond and climbed into his Yunboro, and headed behind his leader into the water. The three of them headed down into the depths, and Obito suddenly got an ominous feeling. He did this countless times before, but there was something he couldn’t understand. There were no submerged ships, no submerged infrastructure…nothing. So, just what triggered the alarm?
            “I don’t see anything.” Shisui said into the radio. “It’s just water.”
            “Same. And I’m having a bad feeling.” Obito added. “Are they sure the alarm systems aren’t malfunctioning?”
            “Guys…you’re a little too restless today.” Minato sighed into the radio. “And no, the detectors aren’t malfunctioning. There’s definitely something―oh shit!” A shriek escaped Minato’s lips when there was a loud boom and splash. “There’s something over there!”
            Obito turned up the brightness of his lights and turned in Minato’s direction. That’s when he saw it. A massive, metal construct that upon closer inspection, shaped out similarly like their Yunboro or a variant of it. “What the hell is that?!”
            It continued to sink, going deeper and deeper into the ocean’s depths. Obito moved his Yunboro towards it, in hopes of getting a closer look at it, and to hopefully bring it back with them.
            “It’s huge!” Shisui shrieked with delight. His laughter rang out in the radio, and for once, Obito found it calming. “And it fell out of the sky?! We’ve got ourselves a good catch!”
            “I think we may need to request backup. There’s no way we’ll be able to carry that.” Obito said.
            “I agree.” Minato replied. “Namikaze to Rin, we request Salvaging backup. I repeat, we request Salvaging backup.” He said in the radio.
            “Request received. Salvage Squad 7 requesting backup, confirm?” A female’s voice spoke.
            “Confirm.” There was radio silence for a few seconds before Minato started up again. “Until backup arrives, we have to keep it from sinking! However, if you are getting pulled down, leave it.”
            “Understood.” Obito and Shisui replied simultaneously.
            Returning to the Fleet, the entire place was in hysterics.
            After requesting the backup, Squads 8 and 9 were dispatched to help secure the strange metal construct. And once they arrived in Konoha, things were buzzing. Never before had anyone seen a treasure such as this, and what made it worse, it’s pristine condition.
            Obito never told anyone that the Yunboro-like thing dropped out of the sky, because even then who would believe? Obito remembered the folktales of how Humans of ancient times had left the Earth to live in space, but even as a child he never believed it. But…could it actually be true?
            He then refocused as the Engineering Department got to work. They carried it to one of their hangars, and like ants swarming a crumb of food, they tackled the ‘treasure’, sawing and drilling…everything they could to get it to open.
            But, nothing happened.
            Their tools made no scratch, no dent. Even Uzumaki Kushina, one of the Fleet’s best Mechanics could do nothing to get it to budge.
            “Argh!” She howled in frustration, hopping off the chest area of it. “Where did you find this…this…this Yunboro?!” She shrieked at Minato, who had been standing beside Obito. “I can’t get even a dent in it! No one can!”
            Minato only chuckled nervously, placing his hand in front as if trying to placate her. “Honestly, it fell from the sky and we ―”
            Kushina froze instantly. Her eyes widened with disbelief before dragging her husband’s ear down to her lips. “It fell from the sky? What do you mean?” She whispered, but Obito could still hear given his proximity.
            “That’s it. It was falling, Kushi. The metal detectors were going crazy, so we had thought it was from underwater. But then we saw it crash into the water and well…”
            “Holy shit.”
Obito had to agree with her. What if they had carried something dangerous onto the Fleet? They would’ve just endangered all the Clans here and the regular citizens.
            “Tomorrow, we are going to move that thing from the Fleet and dissect it on a detached ship. You don’t know what it is, I can’t get it to open, so in case it’s a bomb at least the entire Fleet won’t be harmed.”
            Minato’s face visibly paled. “But if it’s a bomb then…”
            “Don’t worry, Uzumaki Engineers and Mechanics won’t die so easily.” She winked at him. She left their side and walked back towards the machine. “Wrap it up guys! Tomorrow we’re moving this to the Whirlpool so we can really dig into it!” She bellowed.  
            “Yes Ma’am!” They chorused.
            [Awakening Process Complete. Lieutenant Hatake Kakashi is to wake immediately.]
            Kakashi opened her eyes at the sound of her machine calibre’s voice, the one she called Pakkun. Groggily, she stretched, and adjusted her sight to the surroundings. Relief washed over her when she noticed that she was still within her cockpit, but then a visual appeared on her screen.  
            There were many people, whom Kakashi deemed to be humans, atop her machine calibre with primitive tools trying to get underneath Pakkun’s armour. A chuckle escaped her as she thought their actions were nonsensical.
            [Lieutenant, due to outside stimulus, I deemed it necessary to awaken you from cryogenic sleep to assess the situation].
            “What’s it?” She asked.
            [I am unable to identify a location. Therefore, I had awakened you to devise a plan.]
            “That will be difficult, Pakkun. I can’t even decipher if we are in a Wandering Tribe’s location or not.”
            [The entire area seems fragile. Shall I break it down to escape?]
            “No. Let me scout first. Although they look like Humans, I want to be sure of where we are, and if they are hostile. This might be wishful thinking but, maybe we could use them to help us back to Galactic Alliance.”
            [Understood.]
Kakashi then took out the transmitter through which Pakkun communicate with her and placed it at the back of her ear. The cockpit then opened and the chair in which she was sitting turned to the side allowing her to simply jump out.
            She looked about warily. “Where the hell is this?” she asked herself.
            [There is a lack of sufficient data.] Pakkun said. [However, the air is breathable. Oxygen is the most predominant gas, with nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane and others but not at the lethal level.]
            “I see.” She then took off her helmet and inhaled. But in that, she twisted her face with disgust. “What is that smell?!”
            [I cannot say, Lieutenant.]
            “I didn’t ask you!”
            Kakashi then scanned the area for anything suspicious or dangerous and even prompted Pakkun to do so as well. When they found nothing harmful, Kakashi then headed towards the rusty door on the other side of the room. With her gun firmly in her hand, she placed her back on the wall and then held the knob. It was locked.
            “Tsch!” she then used the gun to melt away the lock and the door swung open. What was before her was a rusty corridor, and slowly, Kakashi began navigating. She took careful steps, still having Pakkun on the look-out. She then rounded a corner and still, nothing out of the ordinary.
            She continued her walk until she saw steps leading upwards. Carefully, she climbed them all the while on high alert. A Hideauze could pop up at any moment, and god knows what other unknown creature lurks about in this dark galaxy. When she completed the staircase, what she stumbled upon left her speechless.
            She was standing on what seemed to be a vast ship, moving on what looked like an ocean. Above, the skies were dark but there were clouds visible. She was awestruck. This was something she’d only seen in her History class back at the training camp in Avalon.
            “Pakkun, where…?”
            [I am currently analysing the area and the coordinates through stellar pinpoint.] The machine responded. [Lieutenant, something is approaching.]
            “What is it?! Hideauze?!”
            [No. A human.]
            “What?!” She shouted in shock. Then a tall, muscular dark-haired man came into her view. His ruby eyes were stunning, and it was the first thing she noticed. However, he took a step towards her and immediately, her guard was up.
            “Ah, hello. Could you tell me where this place is?”
            “Was?”
            She heard the man say. She froze for a moment when realisation sunk in. “Pakkun, is it just me or is it that the man doesn’t seem to speak our language?”
            “Kannst du das wiederholen?” The man said again, his tone indicated that it was a question.
            [He speaks a different language, Lieutenant.]
            “Oh no. How are we going to communicate? Pakkun, can you speak their language? Is it in your database?”
            [Unfortunately, no. But, I will be able to if I get enough data.]
            “Alright. I just have to get him to talk right?”
            [Affirmative.]
            Obito couldn’t sleep. Shisui and Shizuo’s snores were echoing even through the walls, and so he decided to ease his mind by taking a walk. He exited from the house, going down the long staircase going onto the deck. The fresh air and sounds of the ocean always soothed his soul. After what seemed forever, Obito moved off from there, heading to the hangar where the strange Yunboro was being kept.
            However, the moment he reached for the door, he noticed that the handle was burnt off. Deeming it strange, he peeped inside to check on the Yunboro. It was still there. Obito’s hairs stood on end. While they do have flamethrowers, their tools aren’t so powerful to completely melt with such precision.  
            Turning around, Obito ran down the hallway and rounded the corner, hoping to wake someone up to alert them of this. However, passing the stairs that led up onto a deck, he noticed the door was opened. That door was always locked at night, should in case any pirate sneak onboard, they wouldn’t be able to get in here.
            Curiosity got the best of him and he climbed the stairs, heart thumping in his chest. Hopefully, it was probably Kushina, or Kiriya or one of the other mechanics. Pushing the door, his jaws dropped through the floor.
            There, before him and standing on a crane, was a girl dressed in a strange dark-grey bodysuit with the most radiant silver hair he had ever seen. Her long hair glowed in the moonlight looking like tendrils of white silk ribbon, her pale skin reminded Obito of porcelain, smooth. Her bright grey eyes narrowed as she looked at him, and he could tell that she was wary of him. He took a step towards her, cautiously, wanting to pacify her in case she was hostile.
            But, Obito had to admit, she was beautiful.
            « Ah, bonjour. Pourriez-vous dire où cette place est ? »
            “What?” He uttered. There wasn’t a single word that he understood. Then, he saw her mutter something in a low voice, almost as though she was talking to someone else. “Could you repeat that?”
            She tilted her head to the side in what seemed to be confusion.
            « Qui êtes-vous ? La question est simple, non ? »
            “Excuse me, what was that? I don’t understand.”
            « Qui êtes-vous ? Et cette place, où est-il ? »
Obito could tell that the girl was frustrated. But he couldn’t do anything since he couldn’t understand what she was saying. But what still baffled him was that the silverette was constantly asking him questions. Is it that she’s an idiot? It’s clear that neither of them can understand each other, so why was she so persistent? But more importantly, where the hell did she come from?
            But he chose to ignore her. With a spin on his heel, he dashed away from her, wanting to escape. After all, she could be a pirate pretending that she doesn’t understand him to gain sympathy or something. He slammed his hand on the nearby alarm and kept running. While running, he looked back, but much to his horror, the silverette was following close behind him. She wasn’t giving up.
            « Monsieur ! Attendez ! Arrêtez ! Aidez-moi, s’il vous plaît ! » The girl shouted at him. A manly shriek escaped his lips when he found that she was chasing him. « Monsieur ! Je suis perdu ! Aidez-moi ! »
            This caused Obito to stop. He didn’t know what she said, but there was a plea in her voice. He looked at the girl and saw the distress in her face. He was no master at knowing who was genuine from who was not, but there was something telling him that this girl was genuine.
            “I…” He started but he couldn’t bring himself to say anything.
            « Merci. » The girl panted as she placed her hands on her knees. When she recovered, she then addressed him once again.  « Je m’appelle Hatake Kakashi. Et vous ? Comment vous appelez vous ? »
            Yet again Obito was dumbfounded. But given the gesture of the girl, he deduced that she was introducing herself to him.
            “I’m Obito.” He replied albeit timidly. “Uchiha Obito.”
            « Obito ? » the girl he assumed to be ‘Kakashi’ said. He nodded.  « Ensuite, Obito, parlez-moi beaucoup. Parlez-moi tout de chose. » While she was saying this, she gestured to her mouth. Once again, Obito deduced that she wanted him to talk but about what?
            “Sorry, I don’t know what to say.” He responded. But then, an idea flashed into his mind. Since she didn’t seem to be dangerous, as, if she were truly a pirate, she would’ve shown her true colours since the alarm went off. But, she’s totally unaffected by it.
            “Obito! What’s happen…” The words on the man’s lips died when he saw Kakashi. “…ning?”
            “Who’s she?! A pirate?!” Another shrieked. “How the fuck did she get in here?!”
            “No! I mean, I don’t know but she’s not hostile!” Obito shouted back.
            “How do you know that?! Step away from that bitch!”
            “Maybe we can ―!” Obito broke off when he felt himself being lifted upwards and thrown over Kakashi’s shoulder.
            Kakashi couldn’t stay here any longer.
            Due to the alarm, a lot more of the humans were coming and frankly, she wanted to deal with this without so many of them surrounding her. She could always call on Pakkun for help, but she decided against it. She was already trespassing on their domain, she couldn’t make it worse. So, with a quick movement, she grabbed the man named Obito and threw him over her shoulder.
            And ran.
She had no idea where she was going, but she didn’t stop. Obito was twisting and squirming in her grip but she dared not release him. Until he eventually stopped but kept talking. And of course, she couldn’t understand him. But, the more he spoke, the more data Pakkun would receive so she often time replied, just to get a response.
            [There are shouts of reproducing with one’s mother. And of the female genitalia.] Pakkun said, as the angry humans rushed at her. [And of sanctified excrement.]
            “Ugh! Are they a barbaric tribe? That’s disgusting!”
Just then, she heard Obito repeating one word over and over, until Pakkun instructed, [I believe he means to turn to the left.]
            “Understood.”
Running down the hallway of rusty metal, she then heard Obito again, this time, saying a different word repeatedly.
            [Turn right, Lieutenant.]
            “Okay.”
            Soon, the only path she had to take was the stairs, and from prior experience, she knew the stairs would lead some place with the ocean in the background. But, it was better than being trapped and possibly cornered in this place full of rust. Bolting up the staircase, she found that it was a dead-end. It was either she’d jump off the ship or turn back to face those barbarians.
            Had Obito tricked her?
            Now, the raven-haired young man finally escaped her grasp and stood a few steps away from her. Strangely, she didn’t detect any anger in his eyes, only pity and surprise, maybe?
            “Is this what you want? To corner me?” She asked, knowing full well, he wouldn’t understand.
            He didn’t reply, instead, Kakashi saw him put both his hands in front of him, as if showing that he has no weapon. Of course she already knew he had no weapon. What can this primitive place do to her anyway?
            But then, he brought his hands down, slowly, and kept repeating the action. Kakashi was at a loss. What was that supposed to mean? And he wasn’t talking anymore so Pakkun still didn’t collect as much data as he should.
            “ Ich will nicht, dass du in Panik gerätst. Beruhige dich einfach und wir werden etwas ausarbeiten, okay?”
            His voice was soft, and relaxed so Kakashi thought he was telling her something reassuring. Or something that didn’t entail her jumping off. However, that was short lived when a whole host of the humans emerged from the door with various―are those weapons?―in their hands, pointing at her. Additionally, there were about five metal machines coming from both side of the deck. They were made out of metal and was generically humanoid in shape but was much cruder than Pakkun. The armour was heavily plated and from what she could see and from what Pakkun analysed, there were small projectiles stored within the arms of these machines.  
            “This has got to be a joke.” She mumbled to herself. Were those things supposed to be this place’s machine calibres? If so, then, she’s going to show them just what an annihilation machine is. “Pakkun.”
            From that one command, the machine calibre emerged from the hangar to hover behind Kakashi. The look on the humans’ faces would’ve been priceless if the situation was not so dire. Pakkun then stood in between her and the other Humans, as if acting as a shield.
When Obito saw the flying Yunboro hovering behind Kakashi, he was awestruck. Seeing it laying in the hangar and seeing it in action were too different things. This Yunboro was impressive. And this sealed it that Kakashi was truly from outer space.
            « Dis-leur qu’on ne veut pas de mal. » Kakashi said. Obito was about to respond when he heard a deep voice from her Yunboro.
            [Lower your weapons. We mean no harm.]
            “There’s another one of them that can speak our language?! Come out, bastard!” One of the men barked angrily, raising his rifle in the air.
            “ No! Everyone stay calm!" Obito shouted at them, before turning back to face her. “Sorry, but you scared us, can we start over?” He used a calmer tone, trying to negate the outburst from earlier from his Fleetmate. Deep down, Obito prayed that the Hokage came quickly because if Kakashi were to get angry and displeased with everything, things could get ugly. After all, her Yunboro looked dangerous. “Like I said, my name is Obito and yours is Kakashi, right?”
            Obito saw her mumble something before the voice from the Yunboro replied, “Yes, my name is Hatake Kakashi, Lieutenant in the Galactic Alliance army.”
            “Oh. So, where are you from? And how did you get here?” Obito inquired. There was a part of him that knew the answer, but he wanted to hear it from Kakashi herself.
            She didn’t answer, nor did the one inside the Yunboro. Instead, she pointed to the sky.
            Obito’s eyes widened with shock. “From…” he started, throat suddenly tightening as he swallowed the lump in his throat. “…space?”
            « Oui. » She nodded.
Obito had a feeling this was going to be a long day.
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bogbees · 1 year ago
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Fuck it I'm reading this sort of thing rn so! FLORIST AND TATTOO AU NINJA DADS!!
7:53 AM · Jan 22, 2018
Kakashi has a flower shop. It was his mom's, cherished by his father and he just kinda ended up taking it over after they died
Iruka is a tattoo artist. Likes tribal designs, Japanese art and ocean themes. Is a master at inking dark skin tones
Naruto is under Kakashi's care, Minato and Kushina were over seas and died in an accident while he was babysitting and now they're just waiting for Jiraiya to arrive to start godfathering
But Naruto is like 9 and is upset and fights a lot with Kakashi - one day he runs away
Iruka is taking out the trash when he finds this little kid hunched up by the dumpster. He's like "you ok little dude?" Naruto ignores him and starts yelling at him
And Iruka fucks off like and Naruto thinks he's won but Iruka comes back with two bags of ice cream and cookies like "I got comfort food for you, come into the shop and I'll give you some"
Naruto's stomach growels obnoxiously but reluctantly listens to the guy. He's shocked to see the tattoo parlour and goes "I don't think I should trust you Anko pops her head around like "Ruka who's the brat? Are we stealing brats now for practice skin??" "Shut up Anko"
So Iruka sets the kid up on a stool and feeds him some junk food "You know you shouldn't run away from your parents" Iruka says "I don't have any parents" Naruto says Iruka feels like he was punched in the gut
"Same," Iruka says biting into a cookie, "mine died when I was 12, there was a fire." Naruto looks up like the very fact there was someone like him !! But he quickly closes off again
Iruka goes "well surely someones worried about you," and Naruto bristles "No that guy is a jerk face nugget fart" Iruka cracks a grin and Anko barks a laugh. Anko looks at Naruto, "brat, Ruka here was king of running away when he was younger. He knows" and sorta hisses
So anyway they feed Naruto some more food and talk with him a bit more ab running away and that sort of thing and eventually get him to give them Kakashi's phone number
Anko really wants to be the one to talk - but Iruka knows she'll just swear the man's ear off and Iruka would rather be in the man's good graces as they've been sorta watching his kid
So he dials him up like "hello? Hatake-san I've found your kid - Naruto - Yes yes, he's fine would you like me to bring him over - oh we're at the tattoo place on 4th, [ocean pun name here]
Kakashi apparently knows it and hell be there shortly. Iruka ends the call and turns to his friends like "time to clean up this mess" But then the door opens with a jingle of bells and a man is yelling out to Naruto
Iruka blinks. It's the florist from across the road??? He looks at the guy chastising the kid and goes to attempt to lighten the load - tell him a piece of his mind bc children run away for reasons and this isn't helping it at all
And Kakashi starts talking shit ab feeding the kid junk food - gesturing wildly to the counter cluttered with cookies and ice cream wrappers "And you call yourself responsible" he sighs
Naruto kicks Kakashi's knee "shut up and stop being mean to Iruka-nii!" Kakashi blinks. He takes the kids hand and says "we're leaving." They walk across the lobby, across the street, and into the flower shop across the road. Anko starts swearing after Kakashi
Iruka bristles and spends the rest of the day - the week in a crappy mood. One day, the door opens, and he hears Naruto's loud voice coaxing his guardian into the store
"Iruka-nii!!" He calls, "Kakashi-san has something say to you!" Kakashi looks 100% anxious and embarrassed to be there and he's holding a potted plant.
The man Kakashi looks awfully anxious to be here, probably because of Narutoxs nagging. He bows a great degree and apologises for his behaviour the other day, presenting the flower as a gift. Iruka, he asks if it was a bribe.
Kakashi looks close to sputtering or walking away in a huff at the very accusation. Naruto just simply nods, "yes." Iruka starts laughing at that and accepts the plant, "thank you for the bribe then!"
So after that it's sorta smooth sailing between them. A couple times Iruka finds Naruto hiding in the alley and ushering him inside to wait out the negative feelings. It gets so accustomed Naruto starts to walk on in, announcing to the shop that Kakashi is a turd.
Kakashi tends to collect Naruto around closing time and is usually annoyed with Iruka when he feeds him (usually cup ramen or cookies) and one night he catches them just before they start boiling ymtge water "You're coming with me." He says to Iruka, "You're getting a good meal" 10:30 PM · Jan 24, 2018
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sleepy-lazy-loser · 1 year ago
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Shin’s color is obviously blue, and Minato’s color is yellow/orange. This coloring makes me think of the sea and the sun. And I fucking love that.
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bougiebutchbitch · 3 years ago
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Have you ever written anything for MerMay?? 🥺 Because I would fucking OBLITERATE PLANETS to read how you'd describe a human and a mermaid falling for each other orcoughcoughorfuckingeachother, like a mermaid AU (or merformers AU in a transformers case) for any fandom? Even if you only wrote, like, one paragraph, literally anything, I'd eat it up!! I'm such a sucker for that kind of thing and if you ever do some type of writing commissions I'd throw so much money at you dude.
BROOOOO THIS GOT AWAY FROM ME KDFLGHKLJDFHLGKDFHGKJDFG
Thanks for the prompt!
A note: I can't promise to fill every prompt, but this one caught my fancy!
T-rated, 4180 words of merman!Obito/Kakashi. I have no self control. Help.
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Kakashi loves the sea.
To listen to it: the hush of foam over shingle and sand, the curl and slap of waves, the cries of the gulls and the bellow of the wind.
To smell it: the brine and saltspray, the faint mineral odour of wave-tumbled pebbles, the sulfur of rotting weed.
To touch it: paddling in cool pools piled high with colourful stones, watching tiny shrimp dance around his toes. Feeling salt prickle in the grooves on his palms and on his fingertips.
He loves the sea until he doesn't. Until it steals from him.
#
"Take my eye," says the boy, smiling as he dies. The broken mast lies on the deck, crushing half his body, squeezing out his blood. "Then I can see the world with you. It's a gift."
The sea folds over his mangled corpse, once they've pried it free. As the waves gulp him down, Kakashi vows he's done with loving the water forever.
And yet, it seems the water is not done with him.
#
The dreams start in flashes.
Crushing blackness. Eternal dark. Shadows so deep and vast they have weight.
Kakashi wakes floundering, strangled by his sheets, unable to scream and unable to breathe, soaked with sweat and convinced he has the entire ocean pressing down on his chest.
He tastes salt. But it's only tears, leaking from his red left eye.
Kakashi screws his knuckles into his scarred lashline, hunched in his bed. The weight eases slowly. It's no relief. His body feels far too light now, like gravity has given up on him. The walls of his father's big lonely house are so very far away.
He doesn't try to go back to sleep. He gets up instead, wrapping his blanket around him. He pads out of his house and along the shore.
Daylight tames the sea, makes it appear domesticated. Night holds no such illusions. Pebbles growl as they're sucked back in the riptide, the rumbles of a hungering stomach large enough to eat the island Kakashi calls home.
He still sails out on the boats every morning. Of course he does - he has to. Konoha is a bright and beautiful village, built into the chalky cliffs, surrounded by green-blue sprigs of sea-poppy and petrel nests full of tiny white eggs. But Konoha’s prosperity is born of the ocean, and as such, none of its children may live a life without salt in their lungs.
The sea gives, Minato would tell him, as he and Kakashi steered their wasen for the teeming waters around the reef, where the catch was fat and plentiful. And the sea takes, too.
Kakashi understands this. But that doesn't mean he has to like it.
He crouches on a slick grey rock at the edge of the water, bare toes digging into algae. "You take too much," he tells the creeping tideline, as it rises up and up and up the stone. “And you don’t give it back.”
The water swallows his accusation, like it swallows everything, and grants him no reply.
#
Kakashi loses Rin to the water too, loses Minato and Asuma and a hundred more. He dismemebers Minato's wasen, lining up the boards, methodical and neat, rebuilding it into a larger ship of his own. He hires three local children to help him haul in the urchin-pots and the ground-trawling nets - and, when he finds out that two of these children have no families of their own, his father's house becomes a little less empty. As, perhaps, does he.
Anyway - Kakashi grows, and the dreams grow with him. Stretching like the scar through his left eye from where a storm snapped Minato’s mainmast, so long ago, and a splinter tore him open, forehead to chin.
He lost an eye that day. Gained another, yes - but lost so much else, besides.
When he sleeps, those brief flashes of the underwater world combine. Now he sees long stretches of summer-blue shallows, bubbling with coral and miniature fish. The glimmer of the sunset from below, like oil has been poured over the waves and set alight. He doesn't love the sea anymore, but something in him must do, because there's a joy he can't quite quantify in those dreams. More than once, he's caught himself falling asleep with a smile on his face, wondering what he will see.
A shame that smile never lasts to morning.
His mind dives deeper, darker. A white ghost drifts through the black. Kakashi can just make out the tattered frill of a flipper, a tail: the hollowed corpse of a whale, half-eaten by scavengers, sinking slow through the depths.
Hunger twists in his guts. He unhinges his jaw, lunges forwards -
And jerks awake, sprawled over his sheets. Panting. Clutching his chest, lungs burning like he just tried to breathe underwater.
He squeezes his eyes shut. Focuses himself, grounds himself, like he does before he has to sail through a storm. Can't hear the sea. Just the faint snores of Naruto and Sasuke in the room next door.
Salt water dribbles from his red left eye. Kakashi has to touch his teeth to make sure they're blunt and human.
#
Some days, he toys with the idea of desertion. He could walk away from his village. He could march inland with an oar over his shoulder until a farmer mistook it for a shovel, and then he would know it was safe to settle down.
He could take his boys with him, before the sea steals them, too.
Yet those thoughts never manifest in action. Naruto and Sasuke - Sakura too - they all adore life on the water. Kakashi would be depriving them of that, if he bundled them up in the night and fled for the distant hills.
He'd be depriving himself of something too. Of what, he's unsure - until one bright summer day when they take the boat out past the reef.
#
He has sailed far from shore many times before, with or without his kids aboard. Nothing about the day sparks danger. No piling cumuli, no warning hint of ozone on the air. Only endless blue anticyclone skies, a few clouds scudding along the horizon line. Flat seas and gentle breezes. The wind is barely enough to belly their sail as they pass over the drop-off, where shallow blue water turns to bottomless black, like they're sailing into the sky at night.
It's the perfect day. Until it isn't.
Naruto and Sasuke lounge on the deck, arguing about who can swim under the boat fastest, aft to stern. Sakura alternates between taking her turn at the rudder and scolding them. As the competition is hypothetical, and no one seems inclined to hurl anyone else over the side, Kakashi pays the children little mind.
Even if they did jump in, they wouldn't be in much danger. They're all strong swimmers. If anything, Kakashi is weakest of them, as nowadays he only goes in the water in times of necessity. But still, his children know that they're only to go overboard after securing his permission. He's seen too many go down and not come up, and he wants to watch them every moment they’re immersed, wooden life ring to hand.
That life ring won't save them today.
When the wind changes, he smells it before he feels it. It no longer blows seawards, drawing up the rich aroma of the village: roasted tuna, steamed rice, woodsmoke and clay tiles baked by the sun. When Kakashi sniffs the air, he smells only sea.
His shoulders stiffen. Behind his patch, his red eye, which does nothing but hallucinate and cry, sets up its usual pre-storm ache. Bad weather rising.
There's no sign of it. The whole world is flush with summer. It could be his imagination. It could be superstition. It could be any number of things...
"Captain," whispers Sakura. Always the most perceptive of his crew. "What is it?"
Kakashi glances at the other boats. The bay bustles with bright rectangular sails, bobbing about without a care in the world. They dip in and out of view behind the reef, as the waves lift Kakashi's little boat and drop it, and lift it and drop it again.
Bigger waves than just a moment ago. Bigger again, now.
Kakashi's ship is furthest out. No others are close enough to offer aid. Konoha has rules about this, anyway - getting the catch to shore is your first priority, and you never risk certain death by going back to save your fellow sailors.No heroes among seamen.
The wind picks up, spinning them widdershins as the waves slap at the reef again and again. Kakashi's fists clench.
"Make for shore," he says.
The tone of his voice catches Naruto and Saske's attention. They scramble upright, shoving each other as they take their places at the sail.
Naruto asks - "Captain? What's going on?"
The summer warmth on Kakashi’s back fades. Behind him, on the horizon, the clouds tower into black anvils, growing like an oncoming tsunami wave. Eclipsing the sun.
"Go," is all he says. The children blanch. They’re quick to obey, skipping their ship over the water like a flat stone.
#
They're almost back in the shallows when the squall reaches them. When the large wave slams their vessel violently to the side. When Sasuke's grip jars from the rope, and he tumbles down the steep incline of the deck, towards the gnashing, frothing waves.
Almost.
The sea beneath them is still black as a tarpit, and just as capable of sucking them down. Kakashi doesn't hesitate. He barks an order to Sakura and Naruto - "Hold tight!"
They might or might not hear, over the screeching wind. Doesn’t matter. No time to be sure.
He dives.
The water parts around him like it's welcoming him in. A cold shock, like lightning running him through.
Kakashi is prepared for it. Overcomes it. Hones his focus, carding the water, kicking down deep. Following the trail of bubbles. Reaching for the grasping white hand...
He catches it. Hauls Sasuke up, into his arms.
Not losing this one. Not this time.
Never again.
They break the surface with a mutual gasp, right next to the ship. A wave swings it towards them. Kakashi shoves Sasuke up so he can grab on, heaving him halfway out the water on god-knows-what strength. Sasuke coughs and splutters, so far from the cool little boy who refuses to call Kakashi captain. He latches onto the rail so tight his hands must cramp.
The sea smashes and screams. Up the boat rocks, hauling Sasuke away from Kakashi, out of his arms.
He has to let go.
He can't drag him down.
The next wave crashes over his head, sucking him under. Smashing him into the keel.
His eyepatch is gone - dragged off at some point during his initial dive. Kakashi didn't notice when he lost it. The saltwater stings his grey eye, not his red one - Kakashi sees all too clearly through that.
And what he sees is death.
The bottom of his boat high above him. The churning tumult at the water's surface. The chaos, the lashing wrath of the storm.
So wild, so angry. Not like down here.
Here, everything is peaceful. Smooth. The world is tinted a pale, delicate blue, as if it is overlaid by a thin-cut sheet of sapphire. So beautiful, this underwater paradise. A mad part of Kakashi - that little boy who loved the sea - wants to gasp out in joy, breathe it in.
But he can't - he can't, he can't. He's lost too many this way. He can't let Naruto and Sakura and Sasuke lose him, too. Can't let them lose their love for the sea, as he lost his...
Bubbles stream from his lips. Pluming up away from him, towards the surface. Kakashi kicks against the current, swimming after them. He scrabbles at them with his fingers, as if they might form a ladder that he can pull himself up to safety.
Impossible. He's too late. Too deep. The wave ploughed him far below the surface, smacked the oxygen from his lungs. He hit the keel hard - blood laces the water around him, leaking from his temple, his ear. It's over. The dizzy swirl in his vision is just the start of the end.
Kakashi pulls at the water, but it's so much stronger than he is. He fights and he fights, but he cannot win.
He should be terrified. Drowning is one of the worst ways to go.
At the very least, Obito was spared such suffering. He was already dead when he hit the water.
Yet as black occludes his vision, Kakashi realises he too might die with a smile on his face. He wants to get back to his kids. But other than that, he has no real regrets. No real purpose. A part of him always knew it would end this way. He's been waiting for this moment his entire life. Waiting for the sea to claim him, too.
Which is why it's such a shock, when it doesn't.
Something wraps around him. A fishing net? Arms? The jaws of a scavenging shark?
What about that pressure against his spine - is it the bottom of the ocean? Or a sturdy chest, cradling him close?
He can't look, too weak to even turn his head. Whatever happens next, it doesn't matter. He stares up at that faraway surface, distant as a dream, and longs to see his children one more time. Equally, he longs to let go, to drift down to join the whale carcasses and feed the monsters that dwell in the deep.
"Don't you dare," says a voice. Low and melodic, reverberating through the water like whalesong. "Not yet, Bakashi. Not yet."
Kakashi's obviously dead if he's hearing him. No sense fighting it any longer. He lets his eyes, black and red alike, drift shut.
#
More dreams. Stranger, this time. He is himself, yet he's also looking down at himself, like he's undergoing an out-of-body experience. He looks too small, drifting underwater, white hair floating above him. Shrunken by the vast enormity of the oceans.
Kakashi wakes. Then immediately rolls onto his side, drags down his clinging, sodden mask, and vomits up half the ocean.
"Ugh," he groans.
He knows the coastline as well as he knows the constallations that saillors use to navigate. Still he's so disorientated that it takes several seconds for him to place where he is.
The reef is exposed at low tide. The ocean stretches out before him in one direction, storm-lashed in the distance yet eerily flat nearby, reflecting the sky like a plate of glass. Behind him lies the bay, the beach, the village.
No sign of the ship - Sasuke must've had to knock Naruto out to stop him diving in after Kakashi. At least, that's what Kakashi hopes happened. No other bodies washed up on the reef beside him. He can't think of his kids under the water, bleached and bloating, rotting slow.
The scratch of the coral against his hands grounds him, It's sore, like a thousand tiny razors are cutting his skin. The surface is almost as rough as the arm around his waist, which curls tighter as Kakashi finishes spitting out salt and acid and wipes his mouth on the back of his hand.
Wait.
The arm around his waist.
The giant, heavy arm. The white hand on his stomach, cold as a dead fish, webs between the fingers and the thumb...
Kakashi goes very, very still.
He's heard the stories. Of course he has. Strange things lurk in the cracks and crevices of the ocean floor. Sometimes they swim up to the surface. Sometimes they get curious.
Sometimes, they develop a taste for human flesh.
Kakashi swallows. His fish-gutting knife is still in his thigh holster. If he can reach it...
Another webbed hand seals around his wrist before he can free the blade.
"Hey now," grumbles the monster. "I just saved your life, Bakashi. Is that any way to treat an old friend?"
Its voice sounds like those pebbles at the beach, grinding together in the riptide. Deep and hungering. Breath breaks over his neck, stinking of rotting meat.
But Kakashi doesn't care. Because the monster called him Bakashi. And only one person ever did that.
Slowly, he twists in its arms, careful not to shred his soft, human flesh. And stares at the monster.
For that is what it is. A monster, undoubtedly so. A giant tail drapes off the edge of the reef, webbed with old scars. Gills ripple along its muscular sides, granting soft pink glimpses under its gunmetal-grey skin. And its teeth - god, its teeth.
But it is a monster with one red eye.
Kakashi reaches out without quite meaning to. He makes to cup its cheek, hesitating just before he makes contact. His fingers tremble - or perhaps that's an optical illusion, caused by the saltwater streaming non-stop from his left eye.
It can't be him. It's stupid to even consider the possibility. The sea gives and the sea takes, but the sea doesn't give back again. What is lost will never return.
But Kakashi has seen driftwood weathered and petrified into stone. Has seen fossils filled with opal, glittering from inside cracked pebbles. The sea takes, yes, but the sea also transforms. Maybe it's drowned delirium talking, but who is he to say that the water can't work the same magic on a dead boy? That it can't rebuild him, fill in his gaps, replace his broken parts?
The beast before him measures twice his size in every direction, boasting the easy streamlined strength of an undersea predator. Broad shoulders, thick trunk, powerful tail. On the longitudinal axis, half its body is white as dead fishbones. On the latitudinal...
Kakashi's gaze trails down to where the humanoid abdomen distorts into sharkskin.
"Oh," he says. Then: "Obito?"
Obito leans his cheek into Kakashi's hand. He sighs, low and rumbling. His lashless eyes quiver shut.
His face is so cold. All of him is - cold as the sea. How must Kakashi feel to him? A furnace? How long has it been, since Obito - if this truly is him - last felt human warmth? Human touch?
"Bakashi," he whispers. There's so much contained in that word. Too much.
Kakashi still doesn't know what to make of this - doesn't know if he's dead or dreaming, if he's in his own world or the next. But right now, soaked in seawater and shivering, sprawled on a reef in the arms of a gigantic sharkman who may or may not be his resurrected childhood crush, there's simply too much to question.
He opts to roll with this, rather than letting the how and the why drive him mad. If they're both alive, they can get to all of that later.
"Crew," he manages. His throat burns from hacking up all that seawater. His wet mask dangles around his throat. Usually he'd shy from the thought of anyone seeing his face, but since Obito has appeared before him in all his mutated, gill-chested glory, mouth bristling with multiple rows of serrated, triangular fangs, it feels rude to hide himself away. "My crew. Are they -"
"Safe. Back in the village." Obito pouts when Kakashi withdraws his hand from his face. What an odd expression. Boy and monster, overlaid. "I can't take you back to them. They're gonna have to come find you."
Kakashi frowns. Regardless of whether his old friend has returned from the dead, those are his kids, and he needs to see them with his own eyes before he’ll believe that they’re safe.
Obito holds up a finger, halting his protest. The webs are translucent grey with just a touch of turquoise, making them gleam like wet kombu under the sun.
"Think about it. If I showed up and plonked you unconscious on the beach, I'd be harpooned before I could speak a word in my defence, right?" He rubs the back of his head. What Kakashi thought was hair is actually a crown of sharp black spikes, like an uni shell. "Which - yeah, I get it. Of course they'll want to defend themselves, considering what's to come. And what I've done..." His voice trails off, his gaze drifting far away, like Kakashi's does sometimes, when he remembers rowing furiously out in his little dinghy to the wreck of Minato and Kushina's ship, too late, too late... "But - but it's all for the best! It will be, I mean. I promise. Everything that’s coming, it’s to help you, not hurt you. You have to trust me on that."
Kakashi’s head still hurts. Blood cakes one side of his face, turning itchy as it dries. Obito's words are all fuzzy, stitching themselves together in orders that don't make sense.
What's he saying? Wouldn't the village be glad to have one of their lost souls returned to them, no matter how changed?
Obito clacks his jaw shut. A blue shimmer darkens his cheeks, a blush in the wrong shade. "I - uh - I just - forget all of that! I wasn't supposed to come to your rescue, okay? But I did it anyway, so you'd better be grateful, Bakashi!"
Kakashi is still trying to make sense of Obito's previous speech. "I'm grateful," he murmurs. "Thank you."
The blue tint gets bluer. Bluer again, when Kakashi lets his head rest against Obito's scarred, strong chest. Thank you. Did he ever say that to Obito, when they were children?
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Just focus on breathing. I'll stay with you until the ships start coming out again, just to make sure your pathetic little lungs are still functioning."
A smile twitches at the corner of Kakashi's mouth, like it always does when he feels himself drifting down into deepwater dreams. "Kind of you."
"It's not kindness. It's pity. You looked so fucking pathetic, flapping about, sinking like a bit of trash dropped overboard... Ugh. It was embarrassing."
The storm is over. Gulls emerge from their cliff roosts. They swirl up on thermals, squawking an accompaniment to the high jangle of tackle, just audible from the faraway harbour. Sun warms Kakashi's bare face. He snuggles back against Obito, watching the lazy flick of his tail in the water. Fighting this weird, childish urge to stroke it - he doesn't want to slough the skin off his palms.
He still has so many questions. If Obito's alive, why didn't he come back earlier? Even if he didn't want to return to the village, for whatever reason, why not swim up alongside Kakashi's boat? Why wait until now?
But almost-dying turns out to be a fairly exhausting procedure. All his body and mind want to do is rest.
"Must make a nice change," he says, lashes drifting shut. "Me being the embarrassing one."
Obito huffs and gives him a sulky squeeze. He could probably crush in his ribcage if he put his mind to it, with those arms. Weird thought. Kakashi doesn't know why he likes it.
"Shut up, Bakashi. Just rest."
Since he became captain of his own crew, Kakashi has grown used to giving orders, not following them. But hey. It's been a weird, upside-down sorta day. He lets himself limpen, breath crackling wetly in his chest, and waits for his usual visions of the open sea. He's not unsurprised when he dreams instead of laying down a little human, brushing webbed fingers over their scarred eyelid, then sliding back into the water, easy as a knife through the belly of a fish.
Kakashi shakes himself awake again. Just for a moment.
"Thank you," he whispers. This time, he's not talking to Obito.
He's not sure if he'll ever love the sea again. Not in the simple, unassuming way he did as a child. But love is as ever-changing as the ocean itself: different every day, unpredictable, dangerous, deadly.
The water doesn't love him. It doesn't love any of them. That is what makes it so horrifying, and so beautiful, too.
But perhaps, every now and then, the ocean decides it does love one of the many boys who are fed to it, from villages like Konoha all the way along the coast. And for that, Kakashi is more grateful than he can comprehend.
He glances over his shoulder, to where the tiny fishing boats are daring to venture out of the harbours. Then rolls painfully onto his side, coral scraping through his salt-crusted, sun-dried shirt, and watches the grey dorsal fin flit out between the waves, until it sinks beneath and disappears.
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