#OBViously the rika

[neuvostoliitto]

if i had money i would get one them higurashi figures that look like the sprites...

[heich0e]

teenage megumi develops a crush for the first time and every time he sees/interacts with you he keeps accidentally making rabbits appear w his cursed technique

[amildlyspookydeer]

penny pokemon is ABSOLUTELY fanfiction girlie. you know shes on that rpf lifestyle. she reads fanfics about gym leaders she's never met. she's a raihan/leon/piers shipper and only reads the most nasty smut she can find of them except she also reads hyper fluffy ones and she's more embarrassed about those. she has the rika x reader tab on pokemon ao3 open and when she met rika after getting caught hacking the pokemon government for crypto, it made it weird. she closed the tab but after a few months and finishing community service she opens it again and tries to ignore the sense of impending doom and the fact that she knows this woman in real life. she has to reevaluate her choices when she gets asked to actually work with the league. no one but her after dark, privated twitter followers know of her depravity.

[cephydeluxe]

okokokok so I was listening to chappell roan 2 spite ms.sw*ft and like

wasn’t expecting 2 be hit with rika feels so I’ll try 2 be a tad coherent…..

so first of all, you will never convince me that rika is anything but a heavily closeted lesbian for most of her life, being adopted by extremely religious conservatives, and even being influenced by the church when she lived in an orphanage, being taught that her desires were bad and that made her innately evil and disgusting no matter what,,,,,, and her constantly torn between wanting to appease her family to be loved for once in her life, to “unleashing the devil” to keep herself safe from her tormentors,,,,,, yeah she refuses 2 acknowledge that she like women even if the truth slapped her in the face for a long time,,,,

And even when she meets V and “falls in love” with him,,,, when in actuality she just wants to be loved by another person so bad that deluding herself that she feels attraction to him is easy, twisting her envy for V into romantic interest,,, AND HER ENVY FOR V,,,,,,,, omg I could go on abt it forever but I’ll sum it up to its bare bones like,,,

“ I’m envious of V because he has the ability to love me endlessly, it comes naturally to him, and deep down, despite my attempts to fool myself into believing differently, I don’t feel love for him the way I’m supposed to. This must mean I’m incapable of feeling love, and my abusers were right, and I’m a horrible monster.”

(And I could go on about how wrong she is about v’s “love” but this post is already incoherent)

BUT LIKE,,,,, ITS SO OBVIOUS SHES JUST PERFORMING COMHET, but she can’t come out it!! Because:

If she breaks up with v, then her abusers were right, she’s incapable of love inherently, and therefore doomed

If she says “fuck it” and comes out, then she’s guaranteed to be dogpiled by her family and their community, either constantly harassed or completely ostracized and isolated, or most likely both. Not to mention having to “give in to her devil” wouldn’t help her self image.

And I’m not saying being a closeted lesbian is the reason she broke down, but I am saying it was like,,,,,, 40% of the reason at the least,,,,,, cause it ties into so many of her other issues,,, it exasperates all of them at once uuuuhhhhhggg (((*hooked up to life support brain dead but still rambling*)))

Eventually she DOES break down and creates mint eye (fucking love that she modeled her paradise off of V cause of her envy, holy shit I love it sm) and embraces her devil, she comes to accept the idea that she likes women,,,, and falls in love with MC in V route,,, AND SHE SAYS SHIT LIKE,,,,

“Oh I’ve never felt this way before, I stare at the moon longingly and think of you, can you just come back and be my moon and I’ll brush your hair?”

BUT LIKE,,,, ITS TOO LATE CAUSE SHES ALREADY TOO FAR GONE IN HER “DARKNESS” FOR MC TO COME BACK!! it’s the irony of because rika embraced her devil led her to coming out of the closet somewhat and accept the idea of loving a woman,,, but BECAUSE she let the devil loose it cost her the love of the only person she’s ever loved genuinely DO YOU SEE THE VISION……… im losing consciousness someone herlp-

[mewguca]

more assorted oc doodlies featuring the higurashi brainrot seeping in as i read thru chapter 6

also apparently chime is rlly tall. and sls is............quite short so. not the most height accurate

Chime Of A Bell: (the one with the heart) @catboyarchivist

Paths Left Untaken: (3 pairs of antennae) @fauxbia

[tvlandofficiall]

discussing what i would do for a gba&dragon blazers darkner duo and it always does come back to archetypes (jrpg and otherwise)

[emtheforeverdm]

No one can tell if Rika from Pokemon is a girl or a boy or something else, but everyone is attracted to Rika. Therefore, we're all gay

[kingofanemptyworld]

gege akutami really said I need a young girl who inspires the protagonist(s) and whose tragic death means she (quite literally) haunts the narrative, acting as a catalyst for the protag’s explosive growth (good or bad). what’s a good name for her? rika?

and then later on: I need another girl exactly like the last one, but how to make her stand out…

riko? yeah that’s different enough

[theusernameiwantisntavailable]

I need to finish this sometime before the manga ends or so help me 😭

[rfaromance]

Suit the cat... curling up on Suit Saeran's lap when the latter is paranoid.

Saeran certainly didn't intend on having any sort of companion in his workspace.

With Ray's needy, pathetic little doll locked up in that royal prison that Ray had designed, a locked dollhouse to which only two people held the key, Saeran had hoped to work faster. Faster, harder, better, stronger. He would track down that filthy traitor sooner than Ray ever could have.

At times, though... he almost missed the sound of that whiny, wimpy voice.

To clear his head, he found himself pacing outside, always ending up in Magenta's gardens without consciously intending to go there.

Maybe Ray wasn't entirely asleep just yet. That was a horrible thought.

His nighttime forays into the gardens would not have been so awful, having the darkness and crisp air to clear his mind, if not for the pitiful, whimpering creature that he'd come across on one fateful evening.

"The hell is this?" Saeran gruffed, stomping forward to get a closer look. In a panic, the black-and-white ball of fur had scrambled away, perhaps intimidated by Saeran's powerful figure. Good. "Some sort of tiny bear? We should get strong fences out here," he muttered, turning around to head in the opposite direction.

Except the creature found him again. And again. And again.

Saeran's biggest mistake was throwing out scraps of food he didn't want. Meats, rices, breads. He thought that if he gave the beast some food, it would have what it wanted and then leave for good.

Unfortunately that only brought the mewling brat back for more.

Saeran didn't know when he anticipated this pathetic furball as part of his nightly routine. He didn't know when the scrappy creature entered his mind, his life.

All he knew was that on the night of a fierce storm, he found himself venturing to the gardens and scooping up a sad black-and-white mop of fur out from under a bush and into a cardboard box.

~~~

Saeran wasn't a fan of thunder, either. He wasn't sure what about the loud bangs, combined with the brief flashes of lightning, rattled him so much, but he knew that he detested it. Possibly because the storms interfered with the internet signals and disrupted his work. Possibly because he couldn't hear himself think above the booming of thunder, the whooshing of wind, the smacking of rain against Magenta's walls.

But for whatever reason, curling up in his chair with the quivering fluffball on his chest helped ease his nerves. The beast was just as frightened as he was, if not more, but it kept butting its head against Saeran's chest and hands.

Cautiously, Saeran ran his palm and fingers along the creature's scalp, prompting a deep rumble from its chest. He scratched it between its two pointed ears, and the furball let out a soft "mrrrp" of approval.

They jumped in unison at each boom of thunder. At one point, Saeran felt a sharp sequence of pricks digging into his shoulder, and he realized with a hiss that the animal had dug its claws into him. "Who do you think you are?" he gruffed, but as it bumped its head against his chin, Saeran's frustration dropped to low grumbles. He stroked the animal's back repeatedly, finding the rhythmic movement and the softness of its (now dry) fur to be soothing in an odd way.

"I can tell you're terrified," he muttered at last. "But you're trying to comfort me?" With a disgruntled sigh, he grabbed the creature by the scruff of its neck and held it out in front of him.

Saeran hadn't noticed the pattern on the thing's fur before. It was mostly black, but the chest and paws were white. In a way, the pattern almost made the beast look like it was wearing a tuxedo, or perhaps... a suit.

"You know... you might be stronger than I gave you credit for."

[cloudcountry]

the first time i played vs route i got really angry at rika and while i still don't believe her actions were right or justified playing his route a second time just breaks my heart. the both of them went through so much and things could have been better if they'd had a healthier attachment to each other :((((

[rikamae]

I like to think I'm a genuine person. I like to believe that I'm honest and open with everyone. This is not true: I often changed my opinion to match the people around me. It's about reducing risk of abandonment: if you're agreeable then they won't push you away. I end a conversation feeling dirty because I couldn't find the words to express my thoughts. I just start to agree. It's frustrating. Conversations are so hard. I don't have the time to properly think about my words before I'm expected to speak and I panic.

I've rewritten this post 5 (five) times already, trying to find the right way to express myself. I can't say the same thing over and over in person. When I do I get the look: will you ever get to the point?

I try to be genuine too. But I'm too passionate about things. I get loud and do silly noises for emphasis and fun. I get so excited my whole body needs to move to express it. My energy level doesn't match theirs and slowly the people start leaving my circle, finding conversation with others.

By the end of every party, I'm alone and waiting. Waiting for someone to show interest in talking to me. Waiting for someone to show a little bit of interest, to match a little bit of my energy. Does nobody love anything anymore? Does nobody else get a little silly while talking? How come everyone is so much better friends with everyone else than with me? I'm open, I'm friendly, I actively help out a lot. What draws them to each other and away from me? What do they have that I don't?

Why is it so hard to not feel lonely?

[chibipandaao3]

Loyalty and fandom

I am curious to see other’s opinions on this -

So, I’m extremely loyal within fandom. What I mean by that is I have a favorite person/character that I discovered early on when introduced to a media and that favorite never changes. I’m ride or die.

This happens to me with every kind of fandom; kpop, BL, books, movies, games, tv, everything.

That’s the character I heavily focus on when writing. The character I sort by when reading. My one and only bias in a group (*note* in the event said person does something unforgivable, they’re out… this has happened on 1.5 occasions sadly)

This “loyal bitch” aspect of me, dates all the way back into my childhood. I can pick my favorite character/person from every franchise or group I’m a fan of.

Tl;dr - I’m extremely loyal to my favorites (within reason). Does anyone else experience this tunnel vision? Does anyone else have all their writing, reading, etc. focus almost exclusively on your “favorite” at all times?

[cephydeluxe]

v x rika is my benevolent goddess that i pray to each and every night because they are the gift that keeps on giving and giving cuz i just imagined the most gutwrenching breakup scene ever whilst listening 2 "sun's love" it's perfect i beg you 2 try it

[vveakfish]

new self indulgent superbat au just dropped

[freytful]

Rika mystic messengers inevitable fate to be hated by the fandom simply because it was filled with boylikers was frankly so sad. Nobody liked to see a girlboss winning...