#VERSE | MAIN �� Ryou Bakura

[kitxkatrp]

Listening to a youtube video of how to summon a demon. "What an idiot. That method will just get you killed. Totally flagging this."

Also he's in a public cafe.

[hyaciiintho]

Season appropriate starter call | @ironbloodcd

There had been signs throughout the evening, some more easily ignorable than the others: The slight CREAK of the staircase when no one was on it, the random bump from down the hall as though someone were knocking into something, and the occasional feeling of a sudden chill washing over them as they settled in. Ryou had been on high alert with each and every sign the house gave off, taking note of each and every staple of a HAUNTING that occured.

And boy was he EXCITED.

"Did you hear that?" He inquired with poorly concealed excitement in his voice, shifting from their huddled position on the couch as the TV played something far from spooky in nature, per Yugi's request. Ryou, however, was dialed in. "It sounded as though it came from upstairs...!"

[kitxkatmusings]

@crimsonandgoldthieves

"I didn't think you were interested in this kind of thing, Bakura. All right." He shuffles his deck, pulls out three cards and sets them down on the table.

"So in the past slot we pulled X of Potions upside down. In the present slot we pulled II of Potions upside down, and in the future slot we pulled The Tower upside down."

A pause as he considered it.

"In the past slot, the X of Potions upside down considers turmoil in a relationship. It doesn't state which kind of relationship, so take that as you will. But when that is followed by the II of potions upside down, it means that the conflict between you and this person is still ongoing. You may be feeling unsure, and need to do some self reflection. And finally, the Tower upside down in the future slot generally means a great change in your life, whether it's brought upon by yourself or another person. It's also a gentle reminder that fighting change does no good, and you need to embrace it. Both for your heart and for theirs."

[kitxkatrp]

He froze right in his tracks, eyes widening as he stared at her--his little sister, whom he thought was innocently unaware of all the things that happened when she wasn't looking, all the things that happened in the dark--

He clenched his jaw tight, eyes filling up with tears and he brought his hands up to his chest as he struggled not to fall into that dark place in his mind. That would mean Bakura would have to switch.

She deserved to hear this from him.

"...How did you--" He swallowed thickly, lowering his gaze to the floor. "...I guess...I wasn't that good at hiding things from you. Yeah I....I've killed people. A lot of them. To get money. To defend myself. Or sometimes...just because I get angry and don't know what to do."

His hands clenched into fists and shook,

"...Everyone always looked at me like a monster....so in the end, I...became a monster. Father was right...I'm disgusting."

And now...he felt like he had harmed her just by her knowing this.

@kitxkatrp asked: "You should be scared of me." Ryou to Amane (woops )

"But...why?" The female asked in disbelief. "You're my big brother and I love you....Why should I be scared?" Amane lowered her head slightly, her gaze landing on his feet as she processed what he was saying.

She didn't believe her brother was scary person.... she couldn't believe her brother was a scary person. Even if all evidence pointed to it.

"....is...is it because you've killed people...?"

Her fingers curled on the edge of her shirt, clutching it as she addressed him.

[kitxkatrp]

"I'm sorry, who is unhinged?"

We all know my Ryou Bakura is the most unhinged.

[hyaciiintho]

🌸｡*ﾟ+. @theunknownmasks | smol starter

"You're not real." The silveret breathed, having experienced the NIGHTMARE phantoms of his past more often than not. This would be no different, surely? "You're just... i-in my head." He insisted with fervor, fists clenched and eyes hard set. "Go. Away."

Clearly, he was feeling unwell again, was all. Nothing else made LOGICAL sense, after all, even with his feline companion hissing from the corner before FLEEING moments later into the safety of his room. Oh what a mistake he had made.

[kitxkatmusings]

@kurai-honoo

"Okay so, a pull for Yami...let's see here..." He shuffles and grabs three cards and spreads them out.

"An interesting read. In the past section we have the Devil upside down, in present we have V of Potions, and in the Future we have The Empress."

A pause as he considers it.

"Okay, so starting off with the Devil. Upside down in the past position generally means there was something holding you back, something dark and scary, but you successfully faced it and moved past it to get to the present. Which brings us to the V of Potions....this card represents that you might be feeling depressed or stuck, and what you need to do is persistently look for a way forward. As for the future slot...this card represents compassion. In this sense I believe it's talking about self compassion, which you will learn to have for yourself in the future. That's a good sign, and a sign that you should feel hopeful for the future even when it feels out of reach."

[aromantic-character-showdown]

GROUP ONE!!

In this poll you will vote for who you want to STAY! The low two characters will be OUT and will NOT be in the main showdown!

Vote wisely!

[iilahalzili]

Is there any ship / poly focused ship you been thinking of or even want it can be worked on by whoever was interested? I know shipping not your focus and its hard but for fun and to let you at least think about ships?

Honestly there are a good few ships I enjoy of Marik's, but yeah shipping isn't my focus and tbh with Marik it's very difficult to get any ship going ( sometimes I just let his muse does what it wants but that really never leans towards any ship especially ones that last more than as a fling ). The fact he's got 1 full ship and 2 ( maybe 3, or 4 if you include whatever he has with Rayne's Zag? ) possible ones is impressive. Some of my favorite ships are: Hubris, Clash, Cross, Fade, Eclipse, ( whatever the ship with Priest Seth would be called??? ), Soul, and Sickle. Most of them would honestly work better in an AU setting or with a whole shite ton of plotting. I'm alright with Death but it's been shoved down my throat so much in Marik's tags that I'm hesitant to do it, and hesitant for one with Yami Bakura ( I hate the ship name for them and refuse to use it ), but that second one falls sorta with Sickle with a hurdle of trauma association. As for poly ships, honestly highest one is with Seto & Atem // Yami or Atem // Yami & TBK // Bakura. Couple others that could be interesting would be Yugi & Ryou, Jou & Seto, or TBK & Seth ( especially AE with Medjay ). Any of these would require a lot of development and talking between muns to get it to work. And tbh as long as a muse identifies as male and within his age range ( not the whole thousands of years old soul thing, but over 21 when matching his main verse of being physically 26ish ), I am open to the possibility of chatting about a ship--including crossover ships

[gingerninja8]

I imagine British Bakura to sound like if Ted Lewis spoke Fluent Japanese plus I’m not sure if Ted Lewis accent is fake according to British people I wonder how the 4Kids dub would handle British Bakura he will probably be considered a foreign exchange student and if the topic of English comes up maybe it would be change to English Literature or be changed into French or Spanish since the dub whitewashed the Yugioh verse to be from America I imagine jokes about Bakura stealing the items is due to him having British blood in him and the topic of his dad owning a museum would come up since Egypt and Britain have a lot of history meanwhile the Ishtars like Ishizu would hate it as well

I'd say a fake accent just because he's an American putting on a British accent.

At best it's a London accent, but easily just what Americans seem to think we all sound like. If you look up the comedians Peter Kay, John Bishop, Sarah Millican, and Jason Manford, you'll hear 4 different accents, but they're all British. Honestly, after hearing them, just imagine the Bakura's talking like them.

As for the topic of English, I remember watching Tokyo Mew Mew that had a character that was American or something. She spoke in English to the main characters. In the English dub, 4Kids made her Spanish. I'd assume they'd do the same with Ryou. Maybe they'd just switch it around, make him half Japanese.

There is definitely a joke about thieving Brits in there.

[kitxkatrp]

"You could also ruin me if that's what you wanted to do."

"The lands before me have long lain silent. Truly unfortunate that I seek to ruin it."

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

20 Questions for Writers

Tagged by @cxttlefishcxller, thank you my friend!

I really wanted to tag Pix, but I can’t seem to remember your blog’s URL. ;;;

Note: I am unsure if "fic" here indicates fanfic or also includes original fic, but I assumed fanfic for some reason? Meh, most of what I write is fanfiction anyways.

Also, this got really long....

How many works do you have on AO3?

So, I don't really have many fics posted on Ao3. I have like. Three, I think? I'm working on moving them over! I just only want the Rewritten Better Versions on Ao3.

Update: It's 4! I forgot I put the Ruby Gloom fic up there hoping someone would adopt it.

(Fanfiction.net has 33, for comparsion.)

What is your total AO3 word count?

...How does one find that out without manually adding the numbers up....????

Edit: I found the Statistics page. It's 35,853

Fanfic.net would be over 300,000 though.

What fandoms do you write for?

Actively: Teen Titans and Pokemon! I also started a Ruby Gloom fic and almost-entirely-outlined but never-fully-wrote a Steven Universe fanfic. (Well, I did finish the Ocean Gem scene from Lapis's POV. Does that count?)

As far as RPing (you did only say "write for", after all!): - Teen Titans (Dove's main verse, which is part 00's show and part 80's comics) - Steven Universe (my Lapis blog was kinda active for awhile and though my Blue Diamond blog never saw any actual roleplaying, I did write a lot of headcanons!) - Yu-Gi-Oh! (Ryou Bakura, like Blue, was never roleplayed except once on rabb.it but I wrote scattered heacanons) - DCAMU (Raven, of course! Would love to get some actual rps going with her again. But alas. The Horrors.)

What are your top five fics by kudos?

So, kudos is specific to Ao3, and I don't have a lot there. Apparently, uhh.... the only fic that has any kudos at all is the 14 on Unforeseen and Unforesaken.

....I was going to say "But on fanfic.net..." Except fanfic.net doesn't have a comparable feature. {lD;;

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I really should! I just. Keep forgetting to check my email. I would, given the time and attention spoons and a computer that actually stays connected to the internet for longer than 15 minutes at a time...

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

It's not done yet. But it's going to be the final chapter of DDD. Dove literally asks, "I killed five people. Do I deserve to die?" It's... going to be Intense and come with a few content warnings because it's HEAVY.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

So far? Uhhhh........ I mean, A work of Magic (Pokemon fic) is pretty upbeat so far. The story basically BEGINS with Jess wanting to raise a Misdreavus and Mismagius (and finding them); Murky hating his flock (and he's with a trainer now so he's away from them); Missie being abandoned (but then found by a trainer who loves her!); and Mistress's arc is in the works (ha) but it's already begun (she's mad about her species being hated for their reputation but Jess doesn't care about that). It's going to be ALL happy endings.

I think, in the published stories, it might be between Mystery Sickness (Raven heals from the titular sickness and everyone's happy!) or Missing: Raven (wherein the titular missing Raven returns and everyone's happy!). In my unpublished fics though... Fire and Flight is going to end with Dove and Srentha getting married, and that's a really blissful scene for them, of course. This is hard actually because I don't like NOT-happy endings! They mostly all do except the ones that have direct sequels (DDD and Something Special).

Do you get hate on your fic?

Oh my stars, I USED to! Dove's core concept - "Raven's sister" - made SO many people mad! Keep in mind, I started sharing my stories in 2005 or 2006. Writing a character that fit arbitrary criteria that everyone else except me somehow knew was a !!SIN!!. (Two exclamation points for Mercymorn vibes are, in this case, intentional.)

One of the first things I shared was Dove's character bio. And people almost always said things like "She's a Mary Sue!" Simply because she was related to Raven. Or "She has too many powers!" (And Raven canonically has a new power like every 3 issues in the comics; what's your point?) People also said I wasn't allowed to make Dove like J-Pop because I also liked J-pop. Which is. Like. ??? H u h ? ? ? ???

It didn't make sense to me then and it doesn't make sense to me now.

I don't think I've gotten any hate in the past 10 years or so, though. Though I personally consider it equivalent to hate when someone goes to my Teen Titans stories and, in a review on that Teen Titans fanfic, without commenting on anything whatsoever regarding the content of the Teen Titans story, asks me to update the Ruby Gloom fic.

Fuck off.

(I got Really Painfully Disappointed when I saw that email that someone reviewed DDD! The first review on that story in YEARS! A story I've poured my heart and soul [and a little bit of my own mindscape experience] into creating! Only for it to be someone begging--on the WRONG DAMN STORY-- for me to update something I already explicitly said I was no longer writing.)

Do you write smut?

Not really. Not often. Not well. I mostly just have outlines. And there are like. Five scenes outlined. Brief scenes. (99.5% of the time, I don't care about smut at all. It's just not fun for me unless I am REALLY in EXACTLY the right mood to have fun with it.)

Do you write crossovers?

I did once! Unfortunately that was the only time I ever felt shame, because I thought it was Too Self-Indulgent and for some reason decided it was silly. Pokemon and Teen Titans. Dove gets a transportation spell wrong and ends up in the Pokemon world, and accidentally catches a Misdreavus. (Because what else would I write about in the Pokemon world? XD) I had this really fun idea about the ghost getting stuck in Raven's mindscape and Dove has to go in there to retrieve it. But I simply didn't have any idea where the story was going and lost interest. It's the only story I've ever deleted, and I regret it so much. I lost the flashdrive that had the original file on it and all the notes for that scene, too. u.u

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge. Although, let's be real, the idea that "Raven has a sister named Dove" is Very Far from Unique. Stories like that were all over 2000's fanfic.net. (I named my Dove independently and refuse to change it. It Has MEANING for mine, okay!)

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not to my knowledge?

Have you ever co-written a fic?

Most of the process! Sort of. A Work of Magic (my ACTUAL Pokemon fanfiction) is going to involve my best friend's trainer character as my trainer character's traveling companion! Eventually. Assuming I ever publish enough of the story to solidify Jess's team first....

That's also assuming rping doesn't count, by the way. I assume you mean fic as in "fanfiction specifically". But if RPs count, I have co-authored a GREAT many fics! In fact the first 5ish years I was roleplaying, it was in a chatroom specifically for Teen Titans OCs!

What's your all-time favorite ship?

This may be cheating, but my VERY FAVORITE ship is actually my OCxOC ship, Dove and Srentha! Secretshipping! My babies. The first romantic interest/couple I ever actually cared about.

If it HAAAAS to be a ship of characters within the realm of canon... JeriRae is probably the one. Though Lapidot was a contender for awhile.

I also really liked the OCxRaven ship in my favorite Teen Titans fanfiction... before I reread it at an age where I realized it's Weird to ship a 25 year old man with a character that the story states "hasn't even reached her sixteenth birthday". Their dynamic would be REALLY exciting if it wasn't a little creepy.

What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Honestly? All the smut scenes. I write at such an agonizingly slow pace as it is, but when I'm not actually In the Mood For Smutty Things, I'm actually mildly s*x-repulsed and when I'm not repulsed, I am simply Disinterested, and I'm not going to write it if it's Not Interesting.

What are your writing strengths?

Characterization so every character feels unique and alive! Maybe dialogue, as a subset of characterization and also sounding Pretty Natural? Using descriptive words that paint vivid pictures and echo vivid sounds and evoke powerful emotions! I've gotten my writing to a place where it generally flows very well, syntax-wise. Immersive descriptions of sensory experiences (especially tactile and auditory). Being able to get into the character's head and write the scene As They See It without using first-person. Character growth and developement is a Big Thing. I'm also learning to write better metaphors! (Still learning quite the right places to wield them, but I used to use a ton of hyperbole and modifiers that kinda killed the mood. I'm getting WAY better at them now though!)

Also, fic-specific: Hella headcanons! Especially for something I'm really interested in, like Azarath or how Raven's powers work. My analytical mind combined with the joy and perpetuity of hyperfixation means I analyze a LOT of little details in canon.

I can take a line that only briefly mentions a "magistrate of food production" and extrapolate an Entire Aspect of Society. (They have people in charge of food production! It's an organized aspect of society! It's HIERARCHICAL. "Magistrate" means he's judging things; he's not the only one calling the shots! It's PRODUCTION, which means it's not all foraged! They have a whole system for it; it's REGULATED! And I'm just now, at this very moment, thinking "holy shit, what did they do when the magistrate of food production fucking PERISHED"... not like that was the most important part of that scene. But. I never considered that before. Food is pretty important. I actually need to gnaw on this for awhile.)

What are your writing weaknesses?

Humor and fight scenes. Also fluff and smut, but I don't really enjoy writing those. There may be Occasional Fluff, especially in secretshipping scenes with Dove and Srentha, and usually it comes out pretty sweet, but it's always wrapped in Actual Story. And smut just. Doesn't really have any place in my writing. I've outlined a few things, "fully written" one singular lime scene. (It might eventually someday possibly conceivably become more than a lime. Maybe.)

But humor? I absolutely suck at that. My Pokemon fanfic has some humor elements, and sometimes the character narrating the scene via limited third person or omniscient makes a dry comment, and I appreciate dry humor. But humor just isn't... something I gravitate towards naturally. And when I do, it's dry and subtle and understated.

I tried to write a funny moment into DDD where Dove tries doing laundry with her powers, they go out of control, she gets the clothes mixed up and because Dove isn't from Earth and didn't know they have to stay separate in the washer, the whites and colors get mixed, and so Beast Boy laments his clothes turning pink. The scene ends with Beast Boy teasing her and saying he'll just get revenge, and Robin says, "So everyone except Dove: Watch for trip wires." It feels SO out of place in DDD. (You know: The story where murders happen and Dove has a breakdown.) I was going for "Break the dramatic tension with humor". You know. Comic relief. I'm not sure how well it worked.

And fight scenes? I can imagine Some Things Happening, but it's always in brief snatches of moments. I can't follow the flow of a fight in my head. I mostly describe it in snapshots, because I don't enjoy fights much. I don't enjoy physical training or sports or martial arts or war stories. I even zone out during Teen Titans (My #1 Hyperfixation) episodes when they're fighting. I don't enjoy writing them and I don't enjoy content of them, so I kind of just. Can't even figure out how they work. Solution: Slap a few serviceable moments together and call it a day. It's not a skill I intend to polish beyond "just get it over with so I can get to the COOL part". Cool, subjectively, being the part AFTER the fight.

I will say that I GREATLY enjoyed both the process of writing and somewhat enjoyed the result of the DDD climax battle! Chapter 20, the largely-abstract battle between Raven and Dove in Dove's mindscape. I absolutely LOVED playing around with how an empath and a telepath would wage war when they're LITERALLY INSIDE SOMEONE'S MIND! I didn't have to coordinate hits and weapons in my head; it was all abstract, emotional, redirection stuff that DOES capture my imagination!

But how often am I ever going to write an empath and a telepath fighting in a mindscape? It's the only battle scene I've ever written that I'm actually HAPPY with. (....event-wise, anyways. Not at all happy with the rhythm/prose/style. I like What Happens in the battle, not How It's Written. But the thing about not enjoying, and thus not practicing, a thing is that I'm not going to be good at it even when I really want to be.)

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I kinda do that already! Though most of it is in a conlang... Not sure if that counts. (I don't think I've published it anywhere. But if you've ever seen the scene I posted on dA that ends in "May your spirit soar free"? I hadn't done it at the time, but I now know how that's written: Phiareh se-o a'erentha.) Names come into play for character!Zira, particularly Ciraen and Zirane, and Leyla and Dove both have "affectionate" names used to denote especially deep fondness and significance. I don't think I've ever written an entire CONVERSATION in another language though.

Oh, and I intersperse Rorek's dialog with Latin at the beginning of that story because I'm a dork for Latin and he's supposed to have been ripped from the past and is ~magically~ learning English. It's a transition.

Anyways, I think it's fine but I think people should try to find a beta who knows the language.

First fandom you wrote for?

Does "inventing a Yu-Gi-Oh! card" count as writing? Because if so, probably that. If not: Does imagining a species count as writing? Then Pokemon or Yoshi (both of Nintendo fame). As far as actually fully writing out the stories in words with the intent for them to be read as a narrative: that's 100% Teen Titans.

Favorite fic you've ever written?

What is my favorite star in the sky? My favorite leaf on a tree? Which tidal wave is the moon's favorite? By the gods, I can't pick just ONE. I love them all for the whole tapestry they weave, and my Current Favorite changes by the day. The most statistically common "Favorites" tend to be:

- Dove's Dark Discovery (because writing the mindscape scenes was SO DAMN FUN!) - The Final Journey (I'm writing about Azar and that's very important to me for private Nexus reasons, but it's also important to DOVE! And it's a classic Adventure Quest story with a twist of "she's still getting over the fact that she killed people") - Something Special About Srentha (perhaps my most coherent plot to date and headcanoning Azarathean history like CRAZY) - Growing Up Demon (Leyla's childhood scenes that don't fit elsewhere and she's very fun and very loved and it warms my heart A Lot-- some of the only time I enjoy writing slice of life, but is it really slice of life when your life is magic and demons?) - A Work of Magic is my favorite when I'm in Pokemon-hyperfixation mode or am just really appreciating warm-fuzzies and low stakes.

...

Holy fricking gods I'm tired. I read that last question as "first fic you've ever written" and. Answer under the read-more because I typed that all out and I Like The Answer, but it's not....... the answer it's asking for. {lD;;

Oh great gods, define "writing"! I was playing out stories with my PowerPuff plush figure things at like age 5. I made up characters and species for Pokemon and Yoshi when I was that age, possibly even younger! And I made up Dove at a VERY young age, considering I'm still writing about her at age 30: I must have been 10 or 11! I came up with her Core Concept veeeery shortly after getting into Teen Titans. I specifically remember playing pretend when Teen Titans was still airing; my oldest sister was playing Terra and I was playing Dove. We were playing toys with a spare Raven Bandai figure being Raven's sister named Dove (something about time travel and crossing a river in a boat made of legos?) the night Spellbound aired. That was... (checks internet) October of 2004!

And the oldest writings I have dated-- as in, writings when I actually wrote down the date I put the words on paper-- are Dove stories from 2005. But I know I was writing the stories down on paper about a year before I actually started writing the dates down. So at the VERY latest, I started "writing" fics in 2005.

I don't think I started Intentionally Writing Fanfiction, as it actually

I'm tagging: Under the singular condition that you actually want to do it! @mymixofmuses @orionsdestiny @sirenianheart @impulse-goblin 

+AND: Anyone else who sees this and wants to do it! Frankly I'm not sure who else writes. @monstrousgourmandizingcats, if it can be interpreted as original fic?

[fxllen-rxse]

Five comfort characters, five tags

Kojiro/James - My number one because James was probably my very first fictional crush. I was almost always reading Team Rocket fanfiction when I first gained access to the internet. I would watch the anime just for them. Over the years, I learned more and more about his character and background. How he ran away from home because his parents are basically the worst and tried to force him to marry some dominatrix. And, all in all, James actually seems like a decent human being to some extent. He cares for others and his Pokémon. Even if he gets nothing in return, he still seems like he would do just about anything for Jessie and Meowth. His found family next to his grandparents, who were the only other family he had that actually gave a damn about his well being. I'm not going to say that I know exactly how that feels, but I will say that I do have a found family myself. And my biological family isn't exactly in the picture except for some holidays or if someone needs money. But anyway, this is one of the many reasons why I picked up James as a muse. A lot of nostalgia and admiration I have for this guy.

Hanzo Shimada - If I'm being honest, Hanzo was not the first character I mained in Overwatch. It was actually Reaper. While it was fun playing as the dark edgelord, I began to experiment with other heros. Once I made my way to Hanzo, I immediately found that there was something about him that I quickly latched onto. His back story is traumatic. He struggles to find redemption and come to grips with his past. In the process, discovering his brother was alive in the Dragons short, which is by far my favorite. The biggest thing about Hanzo that stood out to me was that I felt I related to him in a lot of ways. Sure, my own back story isn't exactly the same as his, but there are definitely some elements there that I can understand. It's one of reasons that I picked him up as my very first canon muse. In fact, you can still find him here @brxken-arrxw. I haven't been on there much as of late, but there's a good chance that I could be bringing him back :)

Yami Bakura - From the Yu-Gi-Oh! verse. Yes, there was a time where I was all about that series... but only the first generation and the characters. And don't ask me how to play the game because... Yeah, I never learned, but anyway! I was very invested in the characters and ships. Yami Bakura is the evil spirit of the Millennium Ring. The spirit of a tomb raider and thief from ancient Egyptian times. He inhabits the body Ryou Bakura, who was gifted the ring by his father, who is an archeologist (I think). He possess him constantly and takes control to do his bidding. While he is technically supposed to be "evil", I did kind of latch onto him more over the other characters. I can see his past being a very traumatic one, which probably led to him becoming a ruthless thief. I have also read a lot of amazing fanfiction where he struggles with this and dealing with his feelings. Like coming to grips with who and what he is. Even with Ryou. Like, I can see him actually caring for Ryou to some extent, but doesn't want to express those feelings because maybe he's afraid it will show weakness. It is something I have dealt with before. I have attempted to hide things so that I don't appear weak to others, but man did that fail so hard for me. It's probably why I still have issues with it to this day. I am better than I used to be, but I still have moments. But yeah, I really feel like Yami Bakura has more room to deal with and grow. I definitely admire him a lot.

Lucas - A Mother/Earthbound series character. Lucas is from Mother 3. The game that was never actually released in the US. There used to be a way to download the game with translations and stuff. While I did, I only managed to get halfway through. I have read a lot about the back story. Lucas loses his mother and twin bother. I'm a little hazy on the rest of the game's plot, but I do know that Lucas is an individual that carries a lot on his shoulders. Dealing with the loss of family members while trying to carry on. No crying until the end... As the game says, at some point. Unfortunately, I understand a thing or two about the pain of loss. And having to quickly pick up the pieces and carry on. Lucas has a very special place with me for this. I have so much love and admiration for him.

Zorra Lynn Lombardi and The Devil Cat - I really struggled with this one, but Zorra was my first and only written OC. I ultimately ended up dropping her and stealing her name for myself. I once had a blog for her, which has since been deleted and repurposed into this blog (email wise, that is). She was lone girl who lived alone with a cat, whom was probably more of a thing than she was, if I'm being honest. This cat was a calico cat with fake set of red devil horns mounted on it's head. I called her "The Devil Cat". In most cases, she was referred to as just "Kitty". My idea for the cat was that they were once a god-like entity. Cast down from the heavens to reign terror upon the Earth. While this was a cunning plan, the appearance that was taken on wasn't exactly ideal. Their vision was for a cat-like beast with horns. A creature that would surely be feared by man. When they arrived on Earth, however, the plan somehow backfired and they appeared as a small female calico cat with fake headbanded devil horns. How this happened was beyond them, but it was also a no turning back kind of ordeal. So this is what they were stuck with. While they still had the ability to control some minds and start small fires, this definitely was not what they had in mind.

Anyway, back to Zorra. She was basically a reflection of myself. I basically poured all of my experiences and stuff that almost was into her. She was outcasted and forgotten by her own family, went through mental trauma after losing her mother and step father, once engaged to be married but was left after the mental trouble, but somehow made a strive to get back on her feet and try to make the most of life. She had a job at a coffee shop, had a home of her own. While she originally did not have any pets to begin with, the Devil Cat found Zorra and moved herself in. Seeing her as easy to manipulate, which did work to some extent, but being a small cat complicates things. Particularly when you're constantly given catnip and treats.

These two were my original babies, but I ultimately dropped them due to lack of interest. I made a lot of drawings of them both and had a lot of fun while it lasted, but it wasn't meant to be unfortunately. :(

Tagged by: @healingbrews

Tagging: @bombmate, @abelladxnna, @therippingtides, @imgonnaketchumall, and you!!! :)

[kitxkatrp]

"I'm in a bad mood." Which usually meant some poor bloke was going to die. Poor guy.

[hyaciiintho]

"Well, to start: Freeze to death, I suppose." There's a bright smile despite the morbid statement, but that was just in CLASSIC Ryou fashion. "But I suppose that's what makes us such a great pair." She had leaned back, and he, forward, silver tresses draping over her in a curtain with the action as he nudged his nose against her cheek-- it was cold. "I'll refrain from holding your hands. Death's touch, and all that."

His hands may have been borderline frozen, but his LIPS were warm enough as they planted a kiss against her rosy, freckled cheek. "Have you a long day ahead of you?"

Ever the excitable & often times, reckless, it was always best to have one of them have their heads level. Yuugi would lose her head were it not attached to her shoulders. ❝ I always forget that summer slips by so quickly.❞ Cheeks puffed in disappointment but not until the weight of a jacket draped on her shoulders & her back pressed gently against his chest.

❝ What would I do without you?❞

[hyaciiintho]

A certain spirit sticks the young albino's hand in a glass of water very carefully not to wake the man before disappearing. // I'm so sorry Ryou.

It's not until MUCH later that the silveret is startled awake, though, rather than a bed becoming wet, the glass is knocked over to DRENCH his entire floor. A swear is barely contained behind his lips, the same hand slapping over his mouth, sending him sputtering from the water still on it. Gracelessly he leapt from his sheets, a sense of PANIC washing over him as he quickly checked his bed-- nothing.

A sigh of relief escaped him, though it lasted but a second before IRRITATION came over him.

Who was responsible for this?!

"Not. Funny." He grumbled aloud, eying up his room with RISING suspicion.