#blue eye samurai blurb

[biibini]

Bold of y'all to assume mizu goes to college. She works at a garage fixing cars, tank top on, abs out, grease all over her tattooed arms. Ringo DOES go to college though and talks her ears off to go with him to one of those typical Saturday night college parties for moral support and there she meets some obscenely gorgeous girl that's at some dude's side, but can't stop staring at mizu all night long and ok..I said i don't like modern aus and now yall have made me wanna write Modern Mix things & that's what i get for living in the bes tags for the past 2 days

frothing at the mouth at her tattoo sleeve w grease on it

i feel like this would be alternate mizu timeline in this modern!au i made

bc i feel like she would be smart and be a nerd/gym rat

idk both niches tend to mix

not all nerds are gym rats and vice versa but theres an overlap

i see ur vision tho dw

her with a wife pleaser

yeah not a wife beater im talking ab a wife pleaser bc she knows how to-

also ringo would def give mizu a rundown of the events that happened during the week

i feel like no matter where ringo goes, something always be happening

doesnt have to be major things but its always something unique or some weird interaction

and ugh imagine if rlly pretty girl aka reader was dragged to that party w the guy as a favor

and counting down the minutes

but then they spot mizu

and something in the frat party air shifted

the yells and talk become more mumbled

the dance lights flicker and highlight mizu’s arms

reader is freaking tf out and is like “woahhhhh this is NEW”

they would def not keep their eyes off of mizu’s arms

(i would also do that too)

anyways this was great ty for the idea

pls write modern au mizu i love reading other variations and interpretations of her :)

im cooking up in the drafts i swear yall 😭😭

also if ur an artist,

im begging on my knees

pls pls pls draw mizu w a wife pleaser and tattoo sleeve im so serious

dont make her look like a “hey mamas” lesbian but pls pls pls begging on my knees like a dog

if i could draw i would do it rn 😭

[multi-fandom-imagine]

smutty blurb, aiighty

just mizu jacking off to the thought of reader

A/n: 👏👏 ....let me know if you want a part 2

Warnings: Self pleasure, dirty thoughts

Part of Mizu knew this was wrong, she couldn't help but feel a little dirty doing this but she had to get rid the tension she was feeling or she'd never be able go concentrate.

So she made up a lie, a simple lie that would make sure the other's wouldn't follow, that you wouldn't follow.

Stripping herself free from the confine's of her clothes, Mizu sunk her teeth into her lip as she slipped into water. The cold doing nothing to stop the feel of her heated skin.

Sinking her teeth into her lip's she let her fingers trail down her body. Past her breast's and toward's the once spot that was desperately aching to be touched.

Her thought's drifted off toward's you, your smile, your laughter. How soft your hand felt clasped against hers.

Her back pressed against the rock, her hand slipped between her thighs. Her fingers began to explore her own wetness, gliding through her folds in an intoxicating rhythm.

You were not far from her mind, her heart rounding, how she desperately wished that this was you who was pleasing her. Your lip's against her skin, your finger's dipping into her cunt. She could see it now, how cute you are. The little pout on your lips as you would hump her knee.

As she pleasured herself, Mizu let out soft moans, her eyes would never leaving yours. She would reveled in the power that she had over you, knowing that her own pleasure was driving you wild with desire.

Sinking her teeth into her lip, she bucked against her fingers, she could almost taste you on her lips as she continued to pleasure herself, her movements becoming more urgent as she felt the coil of desire tightening within her. Her thumb rubbing her clit as she was desperate for a relief

Then once hit her, your name spilled from her lips as her free gripped the rock. Chest heaving she slowly felt herself come down from its high though her body tensed hearing a soft but familiar voice.

"Mizu?"

[softness-and-shattering]

How many homoreotic swords fights so far?

Taigen and Mizu x2? x3?

Mizu and horse man

Plus the whole conversation with Madam Kaji was just. Mhhm mhmm. I dont remember the exact wording and subtext now but.

[peachesfather]

So here's the thing, I've been picturing Mizu (blue eye samurai) in a party, maybe an elegant party, wearing a suit staring at fem reader all night and reader noticing her. I just want Mizu to be seduced by reader with it ending in a subjective situation. If you could do that I would be grateful. Thanks!

- thanks for this request!!

UnMask Beauty ❦

Mizu x black fem! reader

Warning:+18, in a public bathroom, sloppy kisses, and pussy eating(reader receives) not proofread !!

Author note ౨ৎ

- please note this is a short blurb that will end with bang of porn filth, I quite tired and the asks that ppl be sending me are great n all but idk if I could write it in a one day, anyways thanks for enjoying my works.

While everyone else was dancing with their partners, I was sipping a glass of wine at a table by myself. Seeing everyone with their partners made me feel like I wasn't really enjoying my night at the moment. I had a dull expression on my face and continued tapping the wine glass.

Everyone gathered into a slow dance with their lovers when the slow jams began to play. I started to get really depressed and my eyes started to water, but then I saw this fine ass woman arrive at the ball party wearing a sharp black suit and perfectly fitting black pants. I couldn't contain my drool; I really wanted to dance with her, but I was too afraid to ask her.

I stared at her until she turned to face me and smiled, causing me to become weak at the knees. Her smile increased my desire for her.

She walked her way towards my table and i was hiding my face from the rise of embarrassment from being caught staring too hard, she looked at me with her blue eyes.

She approached my table, and as I covered my face to avoid looking out of place when I was caught staring too deeply, her blue eyes met mine.

"Would you like to dance? "It seems like you need it because you look so beautiful tonight," she said, gesturing for me to take her hand. I did so, and we held hands as the warmth of the dance floor filled the room.

she was searching for someone while she was holding my wrist while we were dancing i was such a nervous mess that i closed my eyes in the process, I smiled as I opened my eyes and she danced, she stopped what she was doing to embrace me. She tilts closer and plants a kiss on my lips, making me feel dizzy. I press her cheek and we swirl our tongues in our mouths, allowing her to prove her dominance, which makes me whimper beneath her.

She grins and reaches for my ass through my silk dress as I moan in her shoulder, praying that no one hears me. She then whispers, "I want to fuck you so badly right now," which causes my cheeks to slightly burn.

I boldly responded to the question, "Can you even handle all of me?" She pulled me into the bathroom stall by holding my hand, closed the door, and aggressively grabbed my wrist to make me turn around. She kissed my neck and then my lips, leaving me feeling wetter than before. I spread one of my legs while she holds me for her to have access to my clothed cunt.(my pum pum)

She grabs my neck to look into her lustful blue eyes while placing her fingers on my clothed pantie and pulling it to the side,She then dropped to her knees in the bathroom stall, wedged between my legs. She touched my clit and immediately began to lick my cunt at a rapid pace. i desperately moaned and grabbed a fist of her long hair while she kept face down onto my cunt.

She pauses in the middle and looks directly into my eyes while grinning through my clit. "missing my touch already, fucking brat" she said while pressing her thumb onto my cunt.

Although I can't deny that I wanted more of her, I was ashamed of how much of a mess I looked beneath her. She smacks one of my thighs, showing a dull expression that shows how unsatisfied she is right now with me.

I closed my eyes and whispered, "Touch me." She asked me what I wanted, rolling her eyes and grabbing my cheeks to look in her direction. "say that again with your property words" she said and i gulped and shyly guided her hand to my cunt.

“Please use your tongue on me, baby..” I murmured in a desperate tone, and that got her attention. She smirked and pressed her lips back on my cunt, while she looking up at me.

She stare up at me while latching onto my pussy, My cunt's drenching sounds fill the restroom stall as she pleases me, getting wetter with each lick.

She began slurring up my clit's fluids, causing you to squirm. You clenched around her tougue, causing your thighs to tremble with the close to orgasm."mmmm..fuck imma cum just like that.."

"i got you, please make that pussy come for me"She said as she gripped my thighs, pushed more against my heated cunt, and sucked me through my orgasm. I closed my eyes, came onto her mouth, and breathed slowly.

We exchanged a nervous glance and giggled at our current situation as I opened my eyes and stood up. I said in a mocking tone, putting my pantie back on my body, "Maybe you did know how to handle me, but whatever."

"This is the beginning, I can show you more what I am capable of other than my tongue," she smirked cockily and held out her hand with a card that has her name.

Imma think about that..Ms.Mizu??

She grabbed my wrist, kissed me sloppy but gently, and said, "You be calling that name everyday." She hurried out of the bathroom.

[doumadono]

What I write:

fluff, smut, angst

emergency requests

blurbs, fics, series, headcanons

character x: female reader, gender neutral reader

aged-up characters if the character is a minor

character x OC: available only via commissions

I write for:

My Hero Academia (all characters, but mostly Dabi, Hawks, Shoto & Bakugo)

Demon Slayer (all characters, but mostly Douma, Akaza & Hantengu Clones)

Jujutsu Kaisen (all characters, but mostly Sukuna & Choso)

Genshin Impact (all characters, but mostly Wriothesley & Neuvillette)

Bucchigiri?! (all characters, but mostly Marito & Matakara)

Wind Breaker (all characters, but mostly Hajime Umemiya & Haruka Sakura)

Haikyuu (all characters, but mostly Osamu Miya)

Blue Eye Samurai (Mizu)

Honkai Star Rail (all characters, but mostly Boothill)

Avatar by James Cameron (all characters, but mostly Neteyam & Jake Sully)

I won’t write about:

anything underage; extreme kinks

male reader & other gender identities than gn!reader and fem!reader as it aligns with my comfort zone and ensures that I provide content responsibly

detailed descriptions of a specific reader (including characteristics like eye color, skin color, hair color, any specific genders, and very specific disabilities)

Don't interact if:

you are a minor/blank blog with no age listed

r*cist

h*mophobic or anything like that

you willingly use hate speech of any kind

Due to real-life commitments, I may not always be able to write consistently. I prefer to take my time and ensure I'm satisfied with my work before sharing it. Writing brings me joy, and I hope this journey will help me improve my skills.

[docholligay]

On Doc watching Blue Eye Samurai

Hello and welcome to Eight Days of Whatever! This first day was picked by @merriblu and is the Netflix series Blue Eye Samurai.

I know nothing about this show. She even asked me not to read the blurb, so I know only the title. PLEASE NO SPOILERS.

Spoilers: Please don't tell me things directly, but also don't confirm, deny, or correct anything I say in regards to the show, even if it's an interview, unless I DIRECTLY ask, which does happen from time to time! I am VERY good at saying , "This is a question I want an answer to"

Please bear in mind, before getting wild with me, that I was asked for MY opinion and thoughts, which may well be different from YOUR opinion and thoughts. This is totally fine! But don't get buckwild about it, I was quite literally asked.

WE BEGIN

[mirconreadzztuff22]

Hello! My name is Mircon. I’m a 20 year old lesbian. I’ll probably not be that active but I’ll write goofy shit for many different fandoms [Such as listed below].

Arcane [Mainly Sevika, Jinx, Vi, Caitlyn, Grayson, Silco, Finn and Cassandra]

Blue Eye Samurai [Mizu, Taigen, Akemi and Ringo].

Hazbin Hotel

Steven Universe

(Here is the masterlist to my new little series <33: here) (Another Masterlist, but for Gem!: here!!)

Yes:

Headcannons

Fluff

Sexual THEMES (not pure rotten smut)

Angsty THEMES (just not full blurbs of pure angst yknow?)

No:

Pure Smut (I cannot write smut for shit 💀 (I mean I could just nothing serious) )

Pure Angst (can’t write that shit either, nothing serious anyway 😭)

Anyway, have a good day y’all. 💚

[sophswritingthings]

sneak peak of where my mind is at with the modern au! blue eye samurai. right now im just kind writing blurbs for each chapter and this is from... the third one, I think?

[inkofthebrain]

Blue Eye Samurai Masterlist

Multi Part:

Of the Trees (1) (coming soon…)

Mizu x F!Reader || Mizu encounters a strange person in the trees of the Japanese forest

One shots/imagines/Blurbs:

Beach Day

Mizu x F!Reader || The gang at the beach playing volleyball and you can’t help but notice how good Mizu looks in a bikini

[biibini]

thinking ab a ghostface!mizu on this spooky night… need her i fear

[multi-fandom-imagine]

[ tequila sunrise ] Modern!Mizu

A/n: Need to write more for my Blue eyed queen!

Prompt used:

[ tequila sunrise ] - while on holiday, the two lounge on a sun-soaked beach and enjoy one another’s company

It's not like she didn't like the beach...no that was a lie she hated it. Dealing with a bunch of assholes and random as kids running past her, she'd honestly just spend the day stuck in the hotel room or not go at all but she couldn't do that anymore because now she was with you and you loved the beach.

At least this was a private beach and she didn't have to threaten to stab any assholes that would glance in your direction. Dropping the things down on the beach she titled her head to her side. You looked so cute in your frilly little swim suit, the color was perfect and she just loved how it seemed to fill out your body.

Stepping close to you she wrapped her arms around your waist resting her head on your shoulder. "Let's rest on the beach for a little bit then we can swim."

Grinning, you tipped your head back to give her a small kiss. "Okay!"

Chuckling softly, she dragged you to the towels as you quickly relaxed in her arms. Your head resting on the woman's chest as she ran her fingers down your back gently. "Thank you Mizu."

Humming softly, Mizu enjoyed the shade of the umbrella as she held you. "You have nothing to thank me for...I love doing things like this for you."

"You're amazing Mizu! I love you." You said letting out a small yawn as you fell asleep on her chest.

"I love you too." Seeing that you had fallen asleep her gaze softened as she pushed a strand of your hair out of your face. "I'll tell you when you wake up."

[destiny-smasher]

Updated to include blurbs on Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and Blue Eye Samurai.

Stuff From 2023!

List of things of note I experienced in 2023! A few things didn't technically release in 2023, I'm sure, but yea. Will contain my 'Top 10 Games I Played in 2023' as well.

Firstly, something I played a lot of this year in bursts but doesn't quite crack my Top 10 is Vampire Survivors. Very addicting, did some very fun goofy shit that had me laughing and engaged in a lizard brain way. Appreciated the many Castlevania references and jokes, too.

A couple of games I played every weekend for a few hours across many weeks this year were Project Zomboid and Roots of Pacha, both in a group 4. We had lots of fun with those two, and I think they're both great co-op time-sink games. Zomboid is a zombie survival sim that has way more attention to detail than its graphics may imply. It's still in early access but the depth to its is honestly pretty dang impressive. Pacha iterates on the Stardew Valley formula in a ton of small but deliberate, thoughtful ways that make for a nice twist on that Harvest Moon style game.

REMAKES

There were so many great remakes this year, on top of just amazing games in general, I can't fit them all into my Top 10. So here's a segment dedicated to most of the remakes I loved this year.

The remake of Super Mario RPG was such a surprise, and turned out very damn well. That game, turns out, is very near and dear to my heart and I did not fully appreciate that until this remake was revealed. It comes just shy of cracking my Top 10 list and that's honestly only because I finished Mother 3 finally right at the tail end of the year. This game manages to still feel weirdly fresh even today just due to how fucking strange it is, and the remake speeds up the pacing a bit while also adding in some new mechanics and a chunk of new post-game content. Everything was handled so well. This is like the new gold standard of complete one-to-one remakes of sprite-based games imo. I will admit the artstyle is a bit 'off' in some ways but I think it's very clean looking and captures that 90's CGI spirit really well, all things considered. And the music, OOF, so damn good.

The remake of Dead Space I don't have much to talk about, but it's very well produced. It's remade so well, in fact, that it felt like my memories of the original, even though I know it's not an exact recreation. Very well done and still holds up as a great horror action game with these improvements.

The remaster of Metroid Prime is so impressive it feels like a remake, even if the game is identical to the original aside from presentation and some control changes. It's an iconic classic, and yet I have no patience to do the Chozo Artifact stuff, so I actually did not roll credits on this version BUT still thoroughly enjoyed reliving the game with a very nice new coat of paint. It makes me excited to see what Prime 4 will look like on, I expect, more powerful hardware.

SHOWS/MOVIES

The year started strong with a TV adaptation of The Last of Us. While I've come to have conflicted feelings with the franchise at large, mainly due to its leading boss man, I thoroughly enjoyed the first season of this series. Very well done adaptation that picked and chose what to keep and what to change and honestly makes for a better story as a whole if you ask me, while not really replacing the game's tactile interactive tensions. Cannot wait to see what they do with Part 2 tbqh. I loved that game more than the original but also felt it was worse as an overall game/experience/narrative. But a fresh take on that same plot could potentially address a lot of the issues I had with Part 2, while simultaneously not really 'replacing' it, either.

The Bear. If you haven't seen it, it's just. Very good television. Two seasons in and it's sitting up there chasing Mr. Robot and Better Call Saul as one of the best live action series I've ever seen. Season 2 did such a great job of giving us deeper dives on the various characters and building toward an organic and rewarding conclusion that still leaves room for another season to theoretically wrap things up. Nothing too crazy with this show, it's super down to earth, and it owns that very well with editing and pacing that varies per episode, kind of in line with the different character perspectives.

Super Mario Bros.: The Movie had me worried for a while, mainly due to the animation studio and casting. And while I'm still not 100% sold on this celebrity casting, I will admit it didn't weight the experience down -- even if it's still the second weakest element by far. The weakest element is the writing. It's not, like, offense -- it's loyal to the source material and works, it functions. But it's not doing anything beyond pushing us from set piece to set piece. If anything, the movie is a bit too short for all of the stuff it's cramming in. But on the upside, there is a lot of amazingly rendered visuals and music to take in. A real treat for fans of the franchise, and the most loyal gaming adaptation in movie form, I would say.

Across the Spiderverse is in essence the first half of a two part film. That makes it kind of difficult to talk about, especially when it's also a sequel, and the production sounds like it was marred with bad management and crunch. But the results they came up with actually met my hopes and expectations for a sequel, and that is saying something, as I had very high expectations. So it's no wonder that there's still a rub -- this is the first half of the story they planned. The editing, animation, framing, effects, acting, action sequences, music, writing, theming, just Farore's sake, this is SUCH a damn banger of a film and one of the best movies I've ever seen, which, again, is kind of insane given the circumstances. I can only hope they don't fuck up the conclusion.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off was quite the surprise announcement, and as it turns out, quite the surprise adaptation. I won't spoil much but I will say that by the end of the first episode, it becomes very apparent that this series is no mere by-the-books adaptation, and does something unique and edifying, even if it still maintains a certain surface-level depth I wish the franchise would push beyond. Either way, I enjoyed it way more than I expected to going in, and I think it makes for a great companion to the rest of the series. The animation style was super fun, as well, with some great action sequences.

But Blue Eye Samurai sucker-punched me, having released before I'd even known about it. This show is something else, something unlike any other animated show I've seen besides Arcane. And it's not like it's mimicking Arcane, it's just the closest I can think to compare it to: a quality, thoughtfully framed, thoughtfully written, made-for-adults animated series. It tows the line between fantasy and realism in a refreshing way, its protagonist is great, its cast is compelling, its plot goes to some neat places, and things just feel very well thought-out and well-executed. Slap this in second place behind Arcane as the TV series I am the most excited to see more of in the future, just ahead of The Bear.

Something I did near the end of the year was watch The Hunger Games movies, back to back over the course of like, a week. Have not read the books but man, watching these sure made me interested in doing so at some point. I totally get why people were so enamored with this franchise, and honestly, I think its themes and messages are more relevant now than they were when this franchise was at the peak of its popularity. The films certainly have glaring issues for my tastes but yea, I managed to really enjoy them as a whole despite my lack of mainstream sensibilities. Looking forward to reading the books eventually.

Another thing my wife shared with me was 花ざかりの君たちへ (often called 'Hana-Kimi' for short). Specifically, the 2007 version, as, uh, apparently there are multiple adaptations of this. It was a live action Japanese drama about a high schooler who was born female but transfers into an all-boys school, identifying as a boy while she is there. There's more to it than that, and I won't say it handles everything the best (it's from the mid 2000's) or concludes things in quite the way I'd have preferred. Not to mention it's kind of weird seeing many tropes I'm used to seeing in anime rendered by physical, real actors. BUT it was overall a really sweet, adorable, funny, heartfelt, and reached for pro-queer expression in a time and place when that wasn't mainstream yet (and honestly kinda still isn't depending on who you ask).

Good Omens Season 3 also dropped this year. I actually don't have much to say partly because I think a big element of it is just not knowing what to expect going into it! But it was also very good, very fun, pretty damn gay, I really enjoyed it and am crossing my fingers hard they get to wrap it up the way they want.

All right! Onto my personal top 10 GOTYs.

TOP 10 GAMES (I played in 2023)

10) Mother 3

The one entry on this list that did not actually come out this year -- in fact, it's never technically released outside of Japan. Originally release in 2007 on the Game Boy Advance, this quirky RPG has developed quite the reputation. I started playing the fan translation back in like 2020, and only got around to finally finishing it this year. While that likely did tarnish the experience a bit for me, so does the final third or so -- it kind of drags on a bit, and any old school format RPG that requires grinding to progress can become a bit of a chore.

Thankfully, Mother 3 did earn its hallowed reputation in my eyes now that I have experienced it. I totally get the passion for this game now, and I am a convert. It makes me want to finally finish Mother 2, aka Earthbound. But here's the biggest thing about Mother 3 I weirdly did not expect going in, yet smashed my face in like a hammer by the time I finished it:

without Mother 3, there is no way Undertale/deltarune would exist.

The DNA for Toby Fox's works is achingly obvious in its relation to this game, specifically. I won't spoil anything and I won't go into my long list of evidence like an Ace Attorney case, but trust me, there is ample evidence to make this claim.

And that also means that Mother 3 stands on its own merits as doing things that RPGs just plain were not doing in 2007, and in some ways still aren't today. Aside from some pacing issues further in, the characters in your party aren't as developed as much as I'd like. BUT the overall narrative it tells, especially in those opening chapters, have a rare kind of earnest, human magic to them that most games just don't let themselves fall into. And it concludes in ways I did not expect and yet offered clarity as to why it is so beloved, and how Toby Fox was so inspired to put his own mark on the gaming landscape.

I owe a great deal to Undertale, personally, and as such, I also owe a great deal to Mother 3. You don't need to have played others in the series to enjoy it, you'll just be missing some referential stuff here and there. It's quite playable and unique by today's standards and I strongly recommend it if you want an RPG that is heartfelt, funny, fun mechanically, and has some simple but hard-hitting things to say about the world we live in, and what we are doing to ourselves and that world.

9) Super Mario Bros. Wonder

What can be said that hasn't been said already? Nintendo knocked it out the park with this one. This was everything I've wanted in a 2D Mario for like 15 years. The only thing 'missing' from it is playable Rosalina, but hey, we finally got Daisy in a mainline Mario game, so I'll take it. After a decade or so of dragging their feet with low-effort but enjoyable 2D games, Super Mario Wonder finally, at long last, captures what makes Nintendo games great and with their best foot forward. They haven't done 2D Mario this well since World on the SNES in 1991. And they have never put this level of production into a 2D game since... ever?

This is one of the all-time best 2D platformers out there, and for once it finally feels like 2D Mario is running on all cylinders as a big budget passion project kind of game. You love to see it.

8) Scarlet Hollow

This game isn't technically finished yet, as it is episodic, and its developers wanted to release Slay the Princess in the interim, but that doesn't stop its quality from being good enough to make my list. This game is doing the kinds of things visual novels should be doing, the kinds of things I wish to do in a sense with my own visual novel development.

It's a horror themed experience but balances the high tension with actual real stakes very well against mostly down-to-earth conversations, with lots of great tricks and touches of presentation you don't typically see in indie visual novels, along with a fantastic art style, charming characters (my favorite character has turned out to be the one I immediately disliked at first, and that's rare for me), and meaningful choices.

I can't wait to see how this one wraps up but even as it stands it's one of the best things I experienced in 2023.

7) Xenoblade Chronicles: Future Redeemed

I will admit I skipped Xenoblade Chronicles 2 after giving it an honest go in like, 2019 or so. A few hours in and i couldn't stomach it, the tonal whiplash from Xenoblade 1 (one of the best RPGs I've ever played) was too much for me. But then Xenoblade 3 came out last year, and is also one of the best RPGs I've ever played, even better than the original for my tastes.

But I wasn't prepared for the DLC to drop a whole ass side-game on us, a self-contained prequel to 3 that serves as narrative cohesion to tie the whole trilogy together with a bow on top, complete with perfectly tuned fanservice (and not the sexy kind, although grown-up Rex and Shulk, well, yes) that really respects its fanbase for investing hundreds of hours in this franchise.

Matthew is easily one of my all-time fav RPG main characters, probably the favorite RPG main character when I think of it (as main characters specifically go, anyway), and his game is a fraction of the length of many RPGs out there. But as usual, the entire cast had their charms, the story was nicely paced, the gameplay and overall length was just about damn perfect for what I could want from the genre.

As an expansion to a pre-existing game, this is one of the top 3 best expansions/DLCs I've ever played. When taken as a side story to an overarching trilogy, I'm not even 100% in on the lore and I still enjoyed the hell out of it, it's just the kind of thing that hits a tone of 'damn, video games are a fucking unique medium that we can do specific narrative things with across years of telling a story.'

I don't know where Monolith Soft is going next, though the ending certainly offers some intriguing teasing, but I suspect I will be there day one to see it, and am looking forward to it.

6) Pikmin 4

Given the long wait (10 years!) one might understand fan concern over the state of Pikmin 4. Turns out, that extra time was spent making this game fucking good. It's not the largest, most impressive, most complex, most inspiring, most 'anything' game I played this year, and yet I can't help saying that this is a damned good video game. It really nailed what it set out to do as a sequel, incorporating just the right ideas to spice up the formula while bringing things back to how Pikmin 2 was, and improving on the series in basically every way -- including stuff to do!

This is easily the most Pikmin game... in a Pikmin game. I still haven't 100%'d it. Without giving away any details, I'll just say that when a game rolls credits and you're only like, halfway through its content, and it just keeps going, that's just kind of wild. It would've felt like a great game even then, but the breadth and depth it ends up going to in order to keep giving you ways to engage with its wonderfully detailed world and addictive mechanics, I love it.

I just want more of it. Give me DLC with more Dandori content, the formula and feel just works so well at this point.

5) Hi-Fi Rush

This is gonna be a running trend from here on out, but on any other year, Hi-Fi Rush would've been my GOTY, easy. From this point on, we're talking measures of inches rather than miles in terms of my love for these games.

Hi-Fi Rush finally delivered on something I have waited like 20 years for: a rhythm action adventure where playing the game in sync with the music felt fucking cool and gave me emotional resonance in a way only this medium can. The humor was charmng. The visual aesthetic is almost peak 'my taste.' The music was groovy with a few tracks I did not see coming but loved seeing how they were incorporated. The story was surprisingly fun! The characters were fantastic, I loved the entire main crew in a way I rarely ever do and would jump at the chance to spend more time with (and hey, there's a whole bunch of post-game I have yet to do, so I intend to in 2024).

The only real thing I could reasonably ask for from this game is a way to play as those other party members in post-game content or new-game plus or something. And who knows, maybe we get that some day. Even if we don't, what they came up with here is the next best thing besides. And what we got is one the most video-gamey video games I have ever played, a real classic and one I think will go down as one of my all-time favs. A passion project given meaningful time, budget, and creatives to bring it to life.

Had this game offered multiple playable characters, a bit more development in its story, and maybe a stronger climax, it'd be higher. I still love it to death and want more games like it regardless.

Hi-Fi Rush is exactly what kind of game we could have gotten more of if the Internet hadn't pushed gaming into a 'live service' direction. It is literally the spirit of a PS2/GameCube game given modern form. And either way, we did get it, at least, in that form, and it fucking rocks.

4) Resident Evil 4 (Remake)

This year was big for remakes and remasters, but one stands tall above the rest, if you ask me. The original RE4 has stood as my fav in the franchise, the one that got me into the franchise, the one that got me into M-rated games in the first place. Lots of nostalgia, but it's held up surprisingly well over the years despite some limitations of the time (mainly the controls) and some older-fashioned sensibilities ("with ballistics, too~").

But Capcom fucking nailed it with this reimagining. Like Final Fantasy VII: Remake, this game is not a remaster, or a one-to-one recreation. It is a brand new game, built from the ground up, reimagining the original entirely, complete with new mechanics and story. But unlike with FF7, this is also shockingly authentic and loyal to the original at the same time. It remixes elements from the original game, maintains most of the original's map design, adds in new stuff, removes some of the more goofy shit -- and even 90% of what feels 'removed' is revealed to be repurposed for the Ada side story DLC.

It looks great, it sounds great, the adjustments to characters and story are improvements across the board, (except for Hunnigan, RIP) the gameplay is improved in intensity and feel and action and replayability. And yet despite all of this, it balances that campy tone of the original just enough to still evoke what I loved about the original's tone. And it doesn't outright replace the original game, either. The two are now like different recipes of the same sandwich or something. There's reasons to revisit the original, though for me this has now replaced the remake of RE2 as my fav in the franchise.

I really don't know where they go from here but I will look forward to it, and regardless, they fucking nailed this one.

3) Street Fighter 6

Two Capcom games, back-to-back? They had a fucking good year in my eyes. The interesting thing about this particular entry is that unlike the others on this list, I will be continuing to play this one for hours and hours into 2024, especially with more fighters still planned. And in another year, this would've easily been my GOTY.

After all, Street Fighter 6 is the single-best traditional fighting game I think I've ever played. And while fighting games are my overall personal favorite genre, I'm more of a Smash player who also loves the hell out of Street Fighter and then dabbles in Tekken and whatever else releases. Street Fighter has always been one of my go-to top multiplayer games since I got into the franchise with SF4 in 2010. While I did enjoy SF5 well enough, it just didn't keep me hungry to come back for more like 4 did. SF6 has fixed that problem by way of a multitude of changes.

It has easily the most fun single player mode I've seen any fighting game have. Like, yea, The Subspace Emmisary (and even then, I don't love that mode like other folks do, I kinda think it's... fine?) but tbqh World Tour is just better in most every way. You get to build your own fighter, earn and mix and match different costumes and individual character special moves with each fighter's fight style. You get to just hang out with the SF characters, get to know them as people, their hobbies, their fears, their insecurities, their passions besides just beating the shit out of each other. On top of this, the realistic art style shift (a by-product of the RE Engine) seals the deal on what Street Fighter 6 is aiming to do: humanize its cast.

Is it still wacky as fuck? Is it still comical and weird and goofy? Hell yes, it is. Is the story mode deep in its narrative? Not in the slightest. But it's still stepping confidently in a direction fighting games should be trying to, not being too self-serious, but also being earnest.

And I haven't even touched on the mechanics! The Drive System alone is a brilliant addition that adds a sort of 'stamina' system that works so well to add an extra layer of decision making and tension. The game's not perfectly balance imo but for how much is here it is surprisingly damn well balanced, especially given they have insisted on not pushing out a single balance patch since it launched in June. For most any other competitive game, that would be like suicide for the scene, but the game seems to be thriving and selling extremely well for the franchise. And it's earned it.

I will absolutely be continuing my warrior's journey into 2024 and I can't wait to see what else Capcom has in store for this game.

2) Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Out of every game I played in 2023, Tears of the Kingdom is easily the most technically impressive. From a design standpoint, from a 'how in the hell is the Switch doing all of this without exploding' standpoint. From a 'holy hell how is there this much stuff in a single player game' standpoint. From a 'oh my goddesses that stupid batshit idea I had 100% worked because it actually did make sense' standpoint.

Where Breath of the Wild opened our minds as to what an open world game could be -- fully designed like one giant interconnected 'level' -- Tears of the Kingdom replied in much the way I expected: it pulled a Super Mario Galaxy 2. What I mean by that is that this is a direct sequel, building directly off the foundation of the original. You know. Like video game sequels almost always used to. And which many very successful ones still absolutely do.

But Tears of the Kingdom somehow managed to wow me all over again by adding to that open world's verticality in insane ways -- the Depths alone are probably my favorite 'mechanic' from any Zelda game ever besides the time loop of Majora's Mask (and what that did for the story and gameplay). But beyond the scale of the world basically doubling and then some (floating islands and caves on top of Depths), I was curious how this game could stand tall after Elden Ring, which is easily in my top 10 favorite games of all time at this point. Elden Ring was Fromsoft's reply to BOTW. And yet Tears of the Kingdom still managed to have something new to say in spite of that very strong reply.

Tears of the Kingdom opened the door to let players essentially create their own mechanics. By removing the abilities Link had to engage with the world before, and replacing them with a brand new toolset that includes abilities you just... don't see games give you, because they'd be 'overpowered,' TOTK designs its massive world in ways that invite you to use those 'overpowered' abilities however you see fit.

Being able to interact with the world and objects in this way, being able to fuse them together to create all kinds of effects, or new methods of transportation, even interacting with things not just spacially but in respect to time, it's nuts and fun and I've already poured like 130 hours with still so much I haven't done. And that's the thing: this game wasn't designed to be 100%'d. It was designed to just... be experienced, as much or as little as you want. And games on this level of scale/budget just do not have the guts to let so, so much 'content' be missed out on. And this game does.

It's a technical achievement and while I had my doubts with how strangely little Nintendo had to show, I am very glad that the experience itself manages to breathe new life into one of my all-time favorite games while improving on it in so many ways. It won't convert you if you didn't love the original -- this is a Super Mario Galaxy 2 style sequel, after all. But it's essentially replaced the original in ways I didn't think would be possible.

The story? Oof. Uh, not so much the story, let's ignore that part. That's what Nintendo wants you to usually do, anyway. But everything else, just. Din-damn.

It expands upon the first game's already fairly open-ended nature in an exponential way that I suspect developers will spend years to come trying to pin down, much like how they've spend the past 6 or 7 years trying to replicate BOTW's open world design.

For much of this year, I thought this was personal GOTY. And for many it will be, because it's just an extremely impressive video game.

Number 1...?

Going into this list, I kept telling myself, 'man, on any other year, this would be my GOTY. And if you know me personally you likely have already figured out what my GOTY is by omission. But the more I've thought about it, the more I've realized just how close these top 5 games are, it really is like centimeters instead of inches, and they each -- well, every game I've mentioned here, beyond the Top 10, as well -- offered something edifying that I was very satisfied with.

Street Fighter 6 is fucking fantastic but it could still use some more actual fighters and incentives to keep playing besides monetizing its players in weird ways. I love it, and it will be the game from 2023 I end up playing the most (it already is, I think). But if it ended as it is, I would be very satisfied.

Hi-Fi Rush is oozing with originality and style and I adore it to death, and when I finished it, I was very satisfied.

Resident Evil 4 kept me addicted for over 100 hours, had an amazing DLC expansion, oozes replaybility in the specific ways I like for a single player action game (rogue-likes besides). I am extremely satisfied by it.

Tears of the Kingdom is so massive and fun to just explore that I know I will continue to play more in the months to come. Will I ever revisit it entirely? I'm actually not sure! That massive length does lend some repetition, even if it's the kind I find therapeutic and satisfying.

And that's what made me realize something. My personal GOTY did not just satisfy me. It made me hungry. It filled me up in a way I didn't think was possible and yet I still hunger for more, because I enjoyed it that fucking much. I played through it twice and still hunger for more. I know I will play it a third time eventually, but mainly I just have not been to remove from my brain the particular ways it made me feel, ways that only a video game can. Nothing about it felt like it needed to be overlooked.

SF6 and RE4 had dubious monetization, TOTK had a story I found to be like 90% boring and it still maintains many of the flaws of the original. And Hi-Fi Rush, while amazing, just didn't scratch the particular itch this game did for me.

1) Lies of P

If you told me that Lies of P was a game developed by some sub-division of FromSoft, I'd believe you. Which is to say I would also believe that it was made by people who wanted to break free from some of the shackles of the now infamous 'soulslike' genre.

A narrative that actually makes sense by the end? Opening up options for the player without requiring specific stat levels? Encounters and boss fights that feel ravenously challenging without just feeling like cheap bullshit? Music that crosses borders beyond 'angry chorus, angrier orchestra'?

Lies of P doesn't quite eclipse Elden Ring, but that's an absolutely unfair comparison given the utter scope and scale and variety that game packs. But Lies of P improves at the FromSoft formula in specific ways, while making concessions in others, and as a result it's just an experience that seeped into my brain like no other game this year, not even Tears of the Kingdom, despite that I put half the hours into this one.

I love all of the games I have mentioned here, you could honestly swap around the order of this top 5 and I could mentally meander a way to justify why, no, actually, this one was my favorite game of 2023. In a year so awful for the people who make games, yet so amazing for games themselves, Lies of P is exactly the kind of game I needed. I needed someone to show me that you can make something directly inspired by someone else's work, yet fine tune it in all the right ways to make it stand just as tall in terms of quality and design. Lies of P made me feel things in ways only a handful of games ever do -- and I would actually count Hi-Fi Rush among those in a regard.

But Lies of P also told a story I found compelling. It had mystery, tension, buildup, it started off seeming like it would do the vague FromSoft schtick only to 100% come together, make sense, be rewarding, and offer a 'true ending' that I got on the first playthrough, organically, without looking things up, because it just... felt right. Not only is the game adapting FromSoft's formula into something its own, it's also doing that with the story of Pinocchio. The gameplay and the story congeal together not in the 'perfect' way that it does with games like Celeste or Undertale, but rather in a more... messy way, like a puppet aching to become a real boy.

The game is full of loss, in its world and for you as the player, who will die many times. But unlike much of FromSoft's catalogue, I never once felt like I died because of bullshit. Was I trolled? Sure, the game definitely 'trolls' you in classic FromSoft fashion, lulling you into a sense of security only to sweep you off your feet. But unlike how FromSoft does it, these circumstances can always be avoided if you're cautious. And if you're not? Hey, 'We got you! We gooottt youuu, haha' and you lose a couple minutes of progress, rather than like fifteen minutes and also an entire level's worth of souls because oh right, this section you just got through is kind of bullshit cheap.

Don't get me wrong, I love Dark Souls. But the thing is, Lies of P takes the parts I love about Dark Souls, admits it can't pull off quite the intricate web of level design, but then throws away everything I do not like about Dark Souls, improves on the things I already liked, and then pushes me to meet it on its level.

The satisfaction of being a boss you spend an hour, two hours on, cannot be understated. It's a feeling unlike any other, and one only this medium can provide. And Lies of P kept me motivated, like Sekiro before it, to keep improving, keep growing, keep trying. And unlike Sekiro, it gave me so many more tools to play with, to learn, to balance in an arsenal with intent. Enemies have elemental weaknesses if I so choose to exploit them, the moveset of one weapon's handle can be applied to a completely different blade, my robotic arm can leverage things in a pinch, or be the backbone to dealing with a boss. Mastery is rewarded with practice. A vicious boss that annihilates you in five seconds can be defeated without a single scratch if you practice enough. Mastery, creativity, quick thinking, and reacting are all rewarded here.

I am more than the hands pulling the strings, I am more than a puppet, I am human. And games like this can only be made by humans, who get that specific itch that only video games that challenge us can scratch. It's not an itch everyone has, but that's why it's my GOTY and not yours, innit?

With its unique setting, its wonderful music, its cozy hub area, its narrative that offers just enough to make me care, but not so much that I am bored or feel misled, its amazing boss designs, and its wonderfully tactile and engaging combat, Lies of P is a game I just can't stop feeling something about whenever I am reminded of it.

It epitomizes so much -- not all, but much -- of what I love about what video games can do, what adaptations can do, and much like how Toby Fox was inspired by Mother 3, what people can do when they are inspired by someone else's work.

As far as I can tell, this is developer Round8's debut game, and just. Holy hell, what a way to come out swinging. I haven't seen a debut game hit this hard since, I don't know, Bastion.

Close your eyes. Come to me. Feel all right.

I did, and I do, and given what you teased at the end of this game, I have extremely high hopes of what you come up with next. And in a landscape where things feel more difficult to get excited for with each passing year, much less new IP, it's so damn refreshing to have both Hi-Fi Rush and this game standing out as signals that, hey, some folks are still willing to invest bigger budgets into new games, new ideas.

Again, a battle of centimeters here and at this point I should wrap this up and go to bed.

But yea, Lies of P reminded me of what makes me, specifically, human, in a very particular way that only it has. And I honestly think out of all of single player games of 2023, I think it will actively stand out in my heart the most in the years to come.

[peachesfather]

do a smut fic where you meet mizu in a restaurant in london and you end up going back to her house with her then one thing leads to another 🤕🤕

Doing way too much pt2

Mizu x black fem! blue eye samurai

Warning:+18, smut(porn everything), missionary position, doggystyle, rough sex, and grammar errors

Me in the back seat humming of the car, while both mizu and taigen are in front seats arguing about how me and mizu fucked in the bathroom.

Mizu glances in the back seat to see me being nervous, I rolled my eyes and just lead on through window of the car and looking at the cars moving by.

Mizu drove taigen back to his place, she said “I see you later, I have business to do” while giving him a smile and shutting the door for taigen. He just stared while being dumbfounded while she drove off.

Few minutes later..

When we got to her place, she leads me against the door while kissing me to the top to the bottom to my body, I kissed her shoulder while she gives me pleasure that will have me screaming her name for a lifetime(need her now 💋)

We both continued kissing up on each other while reaching her bedroom, she throws me on her bed while she goes to her closet to get something, I remove more of my clothing to get ready for her.

She came to me and pushes me down on bed, she closes my eyes. “don’t be weirded out ok?” She said while I nodded my head in response, she spread my legs open and holds my hips in place while she shoving whatever to my pussy. I whimper, she push the strap all of way in me I started tear up a lil from the pleasure.

Mizu removed her hand from face so she could see me, we met each other’s eyes. She waited for me to get used to feeling of her cock, she leads on chest and starting moving out of me in rapid pace. I almost felt butterflies, I moan louder when she went faster holding my boobs in one hand while other is caressing her face.

“You’re so beautiful” she said while thrusting inside of me, she grabbed me by the hips and made me be on all fours. She pushed my head in the pillow so she can pushes her cock back inside of me.

I looked back to see mizu fucking me raw I couldn’t resist her, I whimper and tell her to hold my hand. She hits me to drilled my shit more, saying “fuck that affectionate busshit” i was so out of it when heard her say those words.

Author’s note ౨ৎ

- I’m sorry, this is a very short blurb because I have other asks that I’m looking forward to finish. I hope you like this one.

[headspace-hotel]

writing prompts for writers with no motivation

pick a topic you know nothing about and write about it like you’re the expert. just make stuff up. Tell us all about the complicated history of scissors or whatever and how left handed scissors were banned by the Catholic Church until 1978, or something

Create completely over-the-top self indulgent OC’s. Write about the magical half-unicorn witch with rainbow hair and sparkly purple eyes that you wanted to be when you were 14.

Write a negative review of a book that doesn’t exist. Just make stuff up off the top of your head to complain about.

Write smut, but like, intentionally bad smut. make it as unsexy/pretentious/purple/unrealistic as possible. Find the most convoluted metaphors for your characters’ genitalia that you can possibly conceive of.

pick two of any kind of work of fiction (movies, books, etc) and come up with an “X meets Y” style blurb for a hypothetical work of fiction that...in theory??...meets the two in the middle.

lists of names in a specific style, but they get progressively more ridiculous. examples: pirates, supervillains, Vikings, Fantasy(tm) taverns, puritans, settings on a Fantasy(tm) map, boybands, YA dystopian protagonists, warrior cats, any category you can find on a name generator website really

Make up some unhinged political opinion or conspiracy theory for a fantasy setting. spend a paragraph in the persona of some elf antivaxxer arguing that wizard staffs make you gay

make titles (and if you want, synopses) for books that don’t exist. you can base them on real books if you want

write fake sayings, inspirational quotes, fortune-cookie sayings. Make them sound almost like they mean something at first glance but they’re incomprehensible when you try to delve into them. Or make them just weird.

In a similar vein as the SCP Wiki’s Log of Anomalous Items, come up with magical or “anomalous” versions of everyday objects. You can start with stuff on your desk if you like. Water bottles that fill up with horseshoe crab blood if left unattended. or whatever. Include details on where they were found if you want.

write about questionable super heroes with weird or overly specific powers. Like the little known Blue Footed Booby Man

write a “horror” story or creepypasta but it’s like...as stupid and not-scary as possible. Dont just depend on “the twist/scary thing is super cliche and predictable” for it either, see how you can take an actually effective concept and make it unbearably dumb

invent swear words/insults, the more complex the better

plagiarize. By this I mean write something that’s completely made from sentences from other things and try to make it coherent

write one (1) scene from the most outrageously cool and epic hypothetical story you can imagine. just try to cram as many references to magical flying wolf bounty hunters and inter-dimensional dragon priests and time traveling samurai as you can with literally no regard for anything

Take a sentence or paragraph and replace every word you can in it with a synonym. either try to make it as weird and uncomfortable as possible, or just keep doing this in a telephone game sort of fashion until it’s no longer comprehensible.

[skywardsoul]

Dianakko Week 2019

@dianakko-week My entry for the final day, Day 7 Freeday! 

This little blurb comes from an AU idea that I've had for awhile, but never really had the time to flesh out or make in full. In the AU, Diana is the princess of Lunovia and is set to become it's queen. Her aunt wants to contest her challenge to the throne however, and means to start a civil war!

Realizing that her splintered support of her people and troops isn't enough to defeat her aunt, Diana travels to the distant country of Niohnja where the emperor, an old friend of her mother's, has offered his aid. While traveling through the country to the capital city, Diana meets the mysterious samurai, Atsuko Kagari.

I know I’m a little late, and I apologize for that. I can't stress enough how much this stupid hurricane has thrown a wrench in my writing schedule...and my day to day life schedule as well! Thank you for your patience!

Read on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20391742/chapters/48668411

Read on FF.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13372417/7/Dianakko-Week-2019

There was truth to the old saying, that it was hard to rest easy in a bed that was not your own. Diana sat on a fallen tree, not far from the now extinguished campfire, staring up at the sky full of stars. It was a quiet night, interrupted only by the light snoring coming from her companions. Diana turned to look at Hannah and Barabra, both of whom appeared sound asleep in their bed rolls. Diana knew better though. If she made and kind of noise, any calls of alarm, her two retainers would be awake in an instant, swords drawn and shields raised. Diana could see the moonlight glint off of their scabbards, revealing just how close the two knights kept their blades.

Diana wished she could join them in actually getting some sleep, but after tossing and turning for the last two hours she was pretty sure that wasn’t going to happen. It made sense, Hannah and Barabra may be her personal guards, but they were also royal knights. They had been trained under harsh, unforgiving conditions. The two of them would be used to sleeping outdoors in a forgien land. Diana’s upbringing as Lunovia’s crown princess didn’t really prepare her for such rigours. Diana sighed as she turned back to the stars. She was so focused on the sky that she didn’t hear the last of her group walked up behind her.

“Can’t sleep?” Came the accented voice.

Diana whirled around on her seat, her self-defense dagger half drawn. She felt the tension in her body leave when she realised who the voice had come from. Akko had her hands raised in defense, a goofy smile on her face.

“Whoop. Sorry Diana. I didn’t mean to scare you,” Akko said with a chuckle. 

The samurai girl gave her short but respectful bow, before coming to take a seat on the ground next to her. Diana watched as Akko folded her legs under herself. Diana had no idea how the people of Niohnja could sit like that for so long. The most Diana could manage was an hour.

“Do you always sneak up on compatriots when they are fearing ambush,” Diana asked with a huff.

“No, just on the jumpy foreigners,” Akko said with a grin.

Diana scoffed and looked back to the sky. She didn’t quite know how to feel about the mysterious samurai girl. She had appeared early on in their journey. Diana, Hannah, and Barabra had been in the Niohnja for only a few hours when they were accosted by a bandit troupe. The bandits thankfully gave no indication that they knew who Diana was, just that they could tell she was a forgnier. Hannah and Barabra had their swords drawn in seconds, moving themselves to be between the thieves and herself the best they could. The two knights, as trained as they were, were outnumbered. Combined with how unfamiliar they were with Niohnjan fighting styles, and Diana had begun to fear a dangerous outcome. She had total faith in her retainers, but didn’t see how they could get out of this unscathed.

Akko had come to the rescue, in a sense. For some reason, the sight of the samurai alone sent the bandits packing. From there on, the Niohnjan woman joined their party and offered to help escort them to the capital. Diana was weary of the girl at first, but warmed up to her as they traveled. Akko carried an air of levity about her. She told jokes, stories about the land and its people and shared songs around the campfire. Diana could tell Hannah and Barabra found her annoying, but Diana couldn’t help but find her endearing. It was strange, thinking about how a girl like Akko could possibly ever be a samurai, let alone one so fierce brigands ran at the sight of her. Diana glanced to the woman sitting next to her.

Akko definitely didn’t look the part of a menacing samurai. With her friendly rounded face, goofy ponytail and large ruby eyes, Akko looked about as threatening as a puppy. Her clothes didn’t help much either. She didn’t wear any ornamental armor or the like, just a  tattered, long, red and white robe, open at her left shoulder to revealing a set of bandages wrapped around her chest. The garb gave her the air of a former aristocrat, down on her luck. Even now, as Akko sat next to her, the childlike wonder that shone in the girl’s eyes showed no sign of the battle hardened readiness that Hannah and Barabra had. 

“Do I have something on my face?” Akko asked.

Diana felt a blush heat up her face. She didn’t realize she had been staring. Something about Akko just made it hard to look away.

“Why are you helping us?” Diana decided to ask out of the blue. For some reason, she felt like she needed to know.

Akko sighed. “I told you. I was on my way back to the capital anyway and you guys look like you could use the help.”

“Really? Out of the kindness of your heart?”

“Well, sure,” Akko replied. “It’s not like I wanna hurt you or need money or anything. I just wanted to help. What better reason could I need?”

The frank way Akko said it, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, shocked Diana. In that moment, it really clicked with Diana that for the woman sitting next to her, helping people in need really was just basic nature.

“What...kind of samurai are you?” Diana asked incredulously. “I can count the number of truly virtuous warriors I’ve met on one hand. Yet here you are, after showing up out of the blue, claiming that you want to help us just because it feels like the right thing to do.”

Akko laughed. “Yeah it does sound kinda lucky when you put it that way, doesn’t it?” The samurai stood and stretched before letting out a yawn. “Who knows, maybe the two of us were destined to meet.”

Diana cursed as she felt her heart flutter at the cheesy line. She watched as the other woman walked back to their campsite before plunking down to the ground. Akko leaned up against a tree, her katana resting by her side.

“You should try and get some rest Diana,” Akko called back towards her. “It’ll be a long hike to the capital tomorrow. I’ll wake you guys at sunrise.”

Diana nodded before moving to lay down on her bed roll. It would have been easy to let their conversation end there. Diana, for some reason didn’t want it to. Something was bothering her, as question eating at the back of her mind.

“Akko, once we get to the capital...what do you plan to do?”

Akko looked up in thought, bringing her hand under her chin. It was obvious she was being careful about picking her words.

“I got business I have to take care of, someone I have to report to,” the brunette woman finally responded. “I’ve got a friend that runs a good inn, very welcoming to foreigners. Once I introduce you to her, I’ll probably be on my way.”

“I see,” Diana responded.

A wide grin stretched across Akko’s face. “Why? Are you gonna miss me Diana? Don’t want me to go?”

“Don’t be ridiculous!” Diana said angrily.

With a huff, she turned her back to Akko. She hated how right Akko was and how much she really didn’t want to part ways with the mysterious yet charming woman.

“I’ll probably miss you,” Akko said at a whisper.

Diana figured the samurai hadn’t meant for her to hear it. She probably thought Diana had stopped listening and was trying to sleep. Unfortunately for both of them, Diana had heard it, and as the words dug into her rapidly beating heart, Diana accepted that she really wasn’t going to get any sleep tonight.

[sirenfromthelostcity]

MASTERLIST 2.0

DELSIN ROWE 

The Best Mistake Pt. 1

 -Pt. 2

- Pt. 3

- Pt. 4

-Pt. 5 (final)

Speed Of Light 

SPIDERMAN/ PETER. B PARKER

A Cat And Spider Game

JOHN WICK

The Most Pt. 1

-Pt. 2: 

- Pt. 3: 

DAMIAN WAYNE

Movie Night

-Pt 2

-Pt 3

-Pt 3.5

-The Contingency (blurb before pt 4)

-History (also before part 4)

The Scarlet Witch Alt

MIZU- BLUE EYE SAMURAI

College Mizu! X Dancer Reader pt 1

-Pt 2

Snowed In Pt 1

Snowed In Pt 2