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I want more people talking about the update When Day Breaks received back around 2021 because I want to know every one’s thoughts on it. It’s a prequel like story detailing the reason as to why everything happened.
If having an explanation to it takes away from the horror you initially liked about When Day Breaks, then you don’t have to read it. But there is something so horrifically tragic about it and how it ended up affecting humanity. I’m being vague about it because I don’t want to spoil anything, but I personally loved the update and everything it brought to the table. Like I said if you like the idea of no one knowing why the sun just started melting people together and you want to keep it that way, that’s fine because I also love that aspect.
But to the people that are interested in reading it (or have read it), I wanna hear your thoughts!
#scp foundation#scp fandom#when day breaks#when day breaks scp#scp#scp 001#s d lockes proposal#this is my favorite scp#everything about it makes me love it so much#both before and after the update
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Halves company
Danny had a big problem: since a couple of days ago he had discovered that he didn't look good in pictures. He wasn't a vampire so he was actually in them but his eyes always looked bright green, and the photos left an eerie feeling.
His friends didn't mind, and his family much less (they had gotten along much better after revealing the whole secret), the problem was that he was due to take a trip to Gotham soon and he just knew he would have some pictures taken.
A couple of years ago Danny had accepted Vlad's request to "start over" and together they had formed a research company that specialized in several fields, among them: the technological field, advanced engineering, space engineering, and different ecto-related projects, although the latter was not revealed to the public.
Few months later "Wayne Enterprises" seemed very interested in their inventions for everyday life so they wanted to negotiate some deal and dig into their technology. Danny was fine with that, he had created those things to make people's lives easier.
The problem came when Bruce Wayne invited them to a gala, he told them that the "founders" of the company were very elusive about their identity (neither Vlad nor Danny liked cameras much in those days) and joked that it was a shell company for some illegal activities and it was better to check, Danny was not amused about it.
He accepted Bruce's invitation knowing full well that Vlad couldn't meet the challenge (or be polite about it), but once he got to the gala he saw all the reporters and knew he was screwed.
Would it be better to be unsettling or not appear in the photos at all?, he supposed it would be best to avoid all the cameras and say hello to Bruce or Lucius, talk a bit and then leave.
It was supposed to be easy: walk in, say hello, walk out; Of course, his plans had never been perfect, so before he knew it he was seeing the Wayne "kids", and a reporter from the Daily Planet looking extremely nervous.
#dpxdc#immortal danny#Vlad and Danny have a truce#they formed a company together#Danny had brains#Vlad had money#and both had experience#Danny had no problem with photos before#but the cameras were updated to pick up more spectrums of light and that screwed it up#Danny found out because his mom bought a new camera#and she wanted a family photo#after that he just started avoiding the cameras#Vlad avoids them out of habit#dp x dc#dc x dp#Bruce is interested in the company's technology and how advanced it seems#but don't trust them#he has suspicions that it is a shell company#or something worse like the birth of a second Lex Corp#Vlad masters doesn't have the best track record after all#and no one has seen the co-owner of the company#maybe he doesn't exist#that's why he invited them to the gala#Clark was instantly uncomfortable when Bruce's new “business partner” showed up#It was disturbing
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ghost story premiere day! check @melliotwrites for more info
#*there's less than a day left* me: does this count as a prediction :33 sorry it's vague i just predict Vibes. stream sheep in wolf country#last several hours i can post this before it comes across as a Reading Comprehension Cringefail! due to the new update (premiere)#which is also to say i've rushed it in the last 24h after cc told me ''go for it''. i haven't digitally rendered like this since i was 15#in lieu of character designs falling into my lap from above i give you wolf & sheep & wolf & sheep. also House. also fire and water concept#brought to you by (1) general excitement i've been swept up in // (2) cc; who i messaged yesterday with a sketch on a half-wet receipt#and was an enabler of this nonsense // (3) copious usage of the procreate liquify tool and eyedropping colours from the pinterest boards#(4) '' rotatable 👍 '' from cc which means that the house in water isn't beset by reflections and vague. and this work is rotatable.#bonus points if you treat both sides as a spot the difference game.#tempted to print this out as like a6 merch. lowkey. // (4) me rendering last minute on the last possible day [art proj flashbacks] //#(5) ghost story art draft 1 i did like dec last year involving a shelf; incense sticks; peeling paint; spilled cup; the whole shebang -#if you look at the water house there's incense sticks in the window. yippee! had fun with that... it never made it out of sketch.#and then i lost the paper. alas. sorry i guess that was fated to never be. here's attempt 2.0 with months of hindsight#anyways let's talk really quick about song assocs! water imagery @idk you anymore // sheep in wolf country!! pretty obv. above#there's a house & there isn't a house. much House. idk how else to put it. // also that one timeline (not a song) saying <house burns down>#incense sticks mentioned in i breathe in you breathe out // the lighting for the field of grass comes from there's a house:#'where the grass looks like fire sick with anticipation'. also in the same song: pond mentioned 💥💥 body of water moment //#also also the house in this work is like. if you took the ghost story header & the ghost story programme houses and smushed them tgt#except i was lazy to render wood that clearly. and last note here is that the smoke was kinda insp from how clouds are done in chinese art.#ghost story musical
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A snowman(tis) for a mantis❄️
#praying mantis#mantis#tenodera sinensis#bug#insect#bug keeping#video#snow#pets#I knew hadn't been doing a good job of updating on my mantises here but apparently I'd never posted Mantis 2#Mantises 1 and 2 are both non-native and I caught them in my garden in July/August before their final molts#Mantis 1 (male) only lasted a little over a month after his final molt but Mantis 2 (female) is still around >3 months after getting wings
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Decided my proposal for a We Are Series ghostship is Beer and Kleun. They could make a very chill couple.
#they might seem boring as a concept but that is why i love the idea of them getting together#imagine with me:#we all agree beer deserves good things#through his his screentime kluen was shown to be a green flag but he had a crush on the wrong person to have a crush on#so beer and kluen meet again independent of the group similarly to the beer and peem interaction#beer makes a comment on kluen disappearing after the volunteer camp and kluen awkwardly says he joined to hit on peem and beer sympathizes#they eat together and talk about the volunteer camp further and beer comments on how jealous phum was of kluen#kluen is in disbelief phumpeem aren't together yet and beer laughs#they have a good time and exchange numbers so periodically in the show beer would be on his phone giving kluen live updates#the two resonate over having braincells and meet up for lunch more and more frequently as tan and phum are enraptured#eventually mick catches them together and jokes he feels like he is third-wheeling a date#beer and kluen both say it is not a date and mick makes a face before going back to his video games#mick is so absorbed in his video games he doesnt witness beer and kluen agree to try and go on an actual date right in front of him#cue we are series typical nonsense as the cast keeps catching beer and kluen on dates without realizing they are on a date#until beer shows up with kluen to a gathering and reintroduces him as his boyfriend#everyone is surprised they got together so quick and beer has to explain to them not every relationship is a bl#then beerkluen becomes everyones relationship counselors because they hold the sacred braincells#at some point phum asks beer how he feels about kluens former crush on peem and beer stresses it was a former crush and relatively minor#and phum realizes he was really shitty and unreasonable to kluen and apologizes and they become friends#just the ghostship of beerkluen#we are the series#we are series#beerkluen#fuck it ill make it a tag
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You know what really sucks?? When you’re really excited for something and then someone goes and makes unnecessary comments about it which taints your fun.
I’m so excited for this coming update and then someone has to say something that just…leaves a bad taste in my mouth??
I get having favorites and all that, me too. I am not any different.
But why ruin it for others??
Why be a sourpuss about it??
Just because you don’t like certain things or how the update went?? Because it didn’t meet your expectations??
Literally this update means so much to me and others and you have to what??
Be a jerk about it??? Because you can?? And ruin the fun??
It’s so dumb.
And unfortunately for them, I’m not one to back down.
Commentary like that just makes me more determined and makes me want to hype it up even more.
#Hana rambles#sorry for the negativity on your timelines I just needed to vent after reading what I did#the fact this happened to me twice now with two different people#once was after part 6 update last year in jp and now before the update in en#it’s like part 6 personally hurt them or something becuase it didn’t meet their expectations and now they have to ruin it for others#I hate when people try to bring others down#there’s a difference between being critical and being downer#I get complaining and wanting things and all that#as a dia fan i *know*#but I also don’t put it in the tags 🤦♀️🤦♀️#what’s worse is I follow this person and I know I should block…maybe I will#for now I’m going to filter them#then decide later#I just feel bad about it that’s why argh#considering who their favorite character is#he would be so disappointed#ironically they both like the same character and he would not be happy let me tell you that#I already blocked one person and debating on the second#sighs i hate this 😭😔#Hana delete later tag
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Man I wonder where the leader of the fear realm could've gone, it's alMOST LIKE NEVIN HAS AN
#had to re-edit the image real quick because the original edit was from a post I made about Drew years ago#and while the Drew thing is becoming less and less likely. Nevin havinv one has basically been canon since#someone mentioned Greg's (was it Britney's) aura being familiar in s2ch1. ive been putting together a list of every line#that points to Nevin's aura throughout the whole thing (most from s2ch1 but then s2ch10 came out and it was really canon at that point)#but clearly i'm running out of time to say ''i fucking called it'' before it's explicitly stated and i dont want to be in another situation#where somebody else will beat me to a theory and me posting anything about it will seem like copying them. sorry about that btw i had#thought i had already mentioned theorizing that nevin was possessed by a demon in that old theory i made but i had forgotten that one was#super old and was about sigma. so no copying there i just got extremely paranoid there was a mention of a cult and i was like ''nuh uh#that's way too specific and out there of a detail to end up in both our theories'' and i forgot the rest of my super old post was outdated#as hell. and echos had gone ''yeah they're so similar!'' and i took their word for it but now i'm realizing they were probably just trying#to be supportive. so yeah no copying there i was just beaten to the punch of saying something. but i will NOT back down from the aura shit#because i have been calling that shit FROM THE START or at least since i started reading ibvs back when ch20 came out.#also not backing down from saying chris was the worse friend because these past few chapters are the first time isaac has done anything tha#could knowingly upset chris meanwhile chris has. let edward drag isaac to the lair after isaac said edward would beat him up. chose not to#believe edward was holding the secrets over their heads because 'it was something isaac had said' and then immediately distrusted edward in#the next chapter because a random person he didn't know said to steal a book (might i mention how that entire scene proves chris' lack of#development and refusal to take responsibility because it perfectly alludes to when chris had brought those fireworks into his old school#and makes me wonder if charlie has actually gotten him in trouble with his past schools or if he's still just not taking responsibility#and if him following nevin to the woods to test out their powers is an extension of ''if something bad happens its not my fault''#like seriously this man would bring a mysterious suitcase onto a plane if he's told to). uh what was i talking about agai#anyway on a related note my mental state has only gotten worse since i left tumblr and the habit of thinking about chris instead of sleepin#or doing schoolwork has not stopped. so i was still failing for a while and might graduate now but am still staying away from tumblr.#so yeah this was a little update and im not going to linger this time im just going to leave tumblr again right after hitting post#addendum because i just can't let things go. and was thinking about chris again. i don't think his lack of development is because of bad#writing (anymore. i used to.). instead i'm certain his character arc is going to continue into him following someone (nevin probably) into#doing something really bad. and then he'll finally get actual consequences and go 'oh shit i fucked up real bad this time'#if you think that theory is reaching too far into the future you should hear mine about isaac dying at the end lmao
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it is now officially the 25th which means...
merry christmas everyone !!! regardless of whether u celebrate or not, i hope u all have a lovely day with whoever u spend it with or with urself <33
#sophie's idle chatter#this is scheduled so im HOPING it posts at 12 am.... prays....#i havent been super active in the past month or two bc life is kicking my ass (<- has said this countless times already but its still true)#also !! i see asks and ill try and answer them when i actually have the time and energy 😭 ik i say this a lot but ive been drained good god#(not so) mini life updates :#the new lovebrush chronicles main story update has made me weep so much... ive done both clarence and ayns routes and....#my god.... this story is darker and honestly im loving it AND i love how they did the chara roles in this world (alkaid... ourgh...)#my tear glands arent tho bc ayn ending 3.... what the fuck was that i couldnt sleep after doing that ending??? ITS WAS SO SAD AND FOR WHATF#currently having to wait until the 27th so i can do lars route 😔#the recent ep of apothecary diaries.... ourgh my heart.... jinshi and maomao beloveds :((#oh !! and ive gotten back into my ace of diamonds/daiya no ace phase and have been rewatching the series...#sobbing chris and yuki and miyuki my beloveds.... kissing ur foreheads and holding u gently.....#the way i got back into it bc im catching up on s2 of a clean sweep (a korean baseball variety show that i love with all my heart ;w;)#my mum is a traitor tho bc she watched every new ep that came out on tuesdays while i was in uni 🧍♀️ so now im catching up on the 30 eps#on my own 🧍♀️#OMG AND ALSO DR STONE S3??? WHY WAS I NOT NOTIFIED THAT PART 1 CAME OUT MONTHS AGO AND PART 2 WAS MORE RECENT???#i havent been doing that much writing recently tho bc the fingers wont type but the brain is exploding with ideas i cannot handle this#i do want to get back to the haitham sxf series tho.... and also my oc various x reader series.......#tbh ive been contemplating abt publishing the haitham series on ao3 once i write more chapters before publishing them#idk i feel like the series would be nice to have on ao3 as well as tumblr JHDG#thats abt it i think?#anywho if u read this far then know i am giving u a warm cookie as a condolence prize for getting through this life dump <33#ill leave it off here but i hope u all have a lovely day !! mwah mwah merry chrysler everyone 🎄🫶#queue... ueueue
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oh man no wonder i'm missing my little guys recently. we haven't seen kaeya in almost a year
#personal stuff#delete later#a month from now marks one year since his hangout....#head in hands.... kaeya come back i miss you#yes i Know he has a hangout i can replay at any time that also has his brother in it. not the same#diluc showed up back in march with his normalguysona and kaeya sent a letter but it's just not the same...#i miss the ragbros insanity that 2.8 and 3.1 inflicted upon me. i miss bouncing off the walls thinking about them and their new lore#can they come back and do something that makes me relive that sometime soon. please. for me#not sure who's going to be in the summer event this year. probably not going to be either of them but can it be Someone i care abt#for the most part they have been? like 1.6 was THE found family slash siblings vacation#2.8 was my girlie fischl and also hidden strife#then 3.8 was kaeya and klee and collei and kokomi#come on let's keep up this energy. this will be THE mondstadt update TRUST#like come onn venti and lisa both told us to come back to mondstadt before setting off for somewhere new......#like at this point i have very little hope for mondstadt character story quest 2. i used to hope for it w every update but now it's like#who fucking knows. we'll wait until snezhnaya i guess. that's when venti and diluc will probably be relevant again#jean miiight get a second one after natlan depending on what happens to varka's expedition? since her mom is there i think#manifesting a second razor quest then too. we know what the rifthounds are now + varka coming back would be a good setup#and klee might get one whenever we meet alice. i have my thoughts but idk when Exactly that'll be#but lisa's thing probably won't be relevant for a while either considering its connection to the abyss order#and kaeya and albedo... yeah.#but like. i'd love to see amber go to liyue and find her grandpa or something :(#and like. fuck it i would love to see a second xiangling quest too.
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Random Thought
So, a while back I posted a pic of all the Pokemon dudes that I like despite knowing basically nothing about Pokemon, and it's become a very shocking fact to me that despite their apparent popularity, the train dudes do basically nothing in their home game.
#how do i know they do nothing if i don't play pokemon?#because i looked through a playilst of an old chugg/a/conroy LP and they weren't in a single thumbnail for that series#that dude covers EVERYTHING in a series. if they were important they would have been there#i guess side characters are capable of getting large fan bases for basically no reason#but i find it very odd regardless#is it a fun mode?#is there a different piece of media that led to their popularity?#because i have minimal interest in pokemon as a series outside of character/creature design#i don't mind looking up spoilers for it#so i know that ingo in particular got a boost after arceus for *Reasons*#and the inherent tragedy of that story was sure to increase the fans of both#but why the heck were they popular before that?#because them being on my personal list is because#i was bombarded with fanart about them for like 2 months so i was basically suckered into caring about them#anyway. i don't think i'm gonna go through the trouble of updating that graphic#but these are the new pokedudes that would be added to it:#gordie. as per forgetting him the first time.#the principal of the school and his alter ego#the dark type leader of team star#the biology. art. and cooking teacher#larry.#and the professor from pokemon sleep#for the record there are pokegals that i like too but that list is much shorter than thus much less interesting#it's hard for me to get into anime girls because i always feel like they're trying to sell me something#and i'm usually not buying
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TWs: Suicide attempt, alcohol, references to disordered eating, referenced abuse, manipulation
FINALLY got around to drawing some art for this chapter SO even though it's been up for like over a month at this point here is the official post for it!!!!!!!
This one's from Russ's perspective, and I am! quite happy with it!! I can't wait to get the next chapter done to finish it off as well, that one's a DOOZY
#fic update#ask edge#ask russ#suicide attempt //#alcohol //#disordered eating //#abuse //#manipulation //#if anybody has a word for tricking somebody into getting drunk that isnt just manipulation pls lmk lol#anyway fun fact i've written and rewritten this chapter specifically like at least 3 times before this#originally it was gonna be chapter 4 but after getting back to it i decided i wanted to set it up a bit more#and i'm glad i did bc i like itttt :>#after wrapping this up i'll either play around with the idea of going off hiatus OR i'll start karma's backstory fic!#i have a whole lotta ideas for both- only thing stopping me is time. that bastard#lol anyway im stalling posting tjhis by adding tags just take it take the chapter before i decide to change the drawing another 5 times
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the reason why i was offline for a day was bc i was in cas editing mattodore and messing with my cas bg, yeah, but also... i found another oc ask game that i liked the questions for so i started drafting theo and matthias's answers for them....... there's 100 questions this time so i've just been like this in google docs
#river dipping#when theo's doc inevitably ends up passing 5k.......... let's not mention it let's simply not mention it#i'm also in spotify playing the respective mattodore playlists while hopping between their answers#i think i've just been listening to their playlists and renaissance and amir and <copingmechanism> for the last month straight#my top tracks and artists of the month rn are definitely a testament to that.....#succession season four soundtrack “action that” is also on there tho <333333333 love you kendall roy <3333333#anyway i have no idea how long it's gonna take me to finish answering these questionnaires for the both of them#but i really enjoy doing this... i said before that i've reread their last 60 questions posts so much i've started to memorize them#and i can tell it's gonna be the same for these questionnaires when i finish them like i will be pouring over them like a man possessed#whenever i finish them (bc i AM planning to spend all of my free time on them after this) i'll share them with updated character pics#so i'll have to go in game for that. i'll need to update their character pages entirely honestly they've changed so much in the last month#like physically#well not matthias....... kjfdvnkdfgjh but theo looks SO... not different exactly but like... he's evolved.#also their last character page pics are ugly kjfkvjhnkjfgh no offense to past me for trying to be cute and edit differently but lmao.#i'll redo all of the echthroi character pics too so can't wait to have 500 new gshade screenshots of the eight ocs i have for it#jackson and everett are still missing in action but it's fine. Whatever. i don't even care 🙄#<- me trying to manipulate my brain using reverse psychology so that it finally pops out a solid image of what i want them to look like
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Just A Jump To The Left (I)
Summary: When Haruhi grabs the collar of her shirt and tugs her backward, Junko expects it. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t still hurt when the back of her head bangs against the edge of Haruhi’s desk, doesn’t mean she doesn’t still wince with the pain of it. She glances up, blinking, and meets Haruhi’s golden honey eyes with a grin. “We’re gonna start a club,” she whispers, mouth moving a fragment of a second before Haruhi’s, so it sounds almost like an echo but not quite.
“We’re gonna start a—” For a moment, Haruhi’s enthusiasm, her excitement, falters. Her brow furrows again. “What did you say?”
OR: Kyon's role is sabotaged by none other than one (1) Junko Enoshima. This...probably won't end well.
Brought to you by a discussion @tobiasdrake and I had about what it would look like if Junko and Haruhi ever met.
Chapter Rating: T. Fic Rating: T.
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Ryoko hasn’t done anything with her hair yet.
Chunks of it still hold its natural blood red sheen, but streaks of it from her scalp all the way through to their tips have transformed to a pearlescent white. She can’t say exactly when it happened; somewhere between the moment she fled her sister’s massacre of assassins (at her sister’s insistence) and the moment she found Yasuke in the little apartment where he’d been holed up since transferring to his new middle school (to intern at the nearby hospital, despite his age) – somewhere in that space of time, it had happened. Yasuke didn’t comment on it the first moment he saw her, but he did shortly after, and she’d run her fingers through it, all grease-spattered and dirty, and wondered how he’d seen the white underneath all of its grime in the first place.
Eventually, she’ll have to decide what to do with it; whether she’ll return it to its blood red or bleach it all white or play around with something that is neither at all, she’ll need to do something.
(Not the red. If not for the white streaks, it would look just like the blood she’d seen around the—)
((When she remembers all of that, she heaves, vomits. She told Yasuke once – just once – and they’ve never discussed it since. Even then, she didn’t give him any specifics, just enough for him to understand why she is here. Why she can’t go back.))
She hasn’t started attending middle school yet, not while she’s still recovering from everything, not when she doesn’t even have hair with one consistent color yet; she’d be bullied ceaselessly for that, and she’s in no condition to be bullied (she’ll snap, she’ll hurt someone the way that Mukie—), and Yasuke is so busy during the day with middle school and his hospital internship that the only time they can spend together is after dark. He bikes to school, bikes to the hospital, because that means he loses less time to sleep (because that means he loses less time with her), but every now and again, as she slowly but surely gets better, she walks to the hospital to see him – to walk back with him, if she doesn’t sit on the back of the bike as he takes them back. Sometimes they walk the streets, silent, and it’s clear that bothers him. She’s always been the talkative one. She just doesn’t have the words anymore.
Ryoko walks through the streets in a white gown, barefoot, with her hair streaked red and white, and people avoid her.
They probably think she’s a ghost. That’s fine.
Yasuke bikes them back, and people avoid both of them. That’s fine, too.
Ryoko holds onto both sides of the rack Yasuke’s tied to the back of his bike and leans her head back and looks at the stars. They seem to stay in place as he bikes them back, and she reaches one hand up and out, as though she could almost—
The bike hits a pebble, something so infinitesimally small Yasuke couldn’t have known to avoid it, and the bike jumps, and Yasuke stays on, and Ryoko, with only one hand loose on the rack, tumbles off. Her knee stings, as does the palm of the hand she’d pushed out to break her fall. The skin of both has been scraped clean off. She’s bleeding. The same color as her hair. The same color as—
To the left of her, something metallic jangles.
Ryoko breathes (had she not been breathing before? maybe not) and looks up to see a girl of roughly her age with long brown hair and a ribbon holding it back trying to climb over some sort of metal entry gate. She blinks twice – makes sure she isn’t seeing anything, and she isn’t because the girl is still there – and shouts out, “H-hey!”
The girl glares at her. “Hey what.”
It’s not a question. It should be a question, probably, but it’s not.
“What are you….” Ryoko struggles with words. She’s never struggled with words before. “What are you doing?”
“What are you doing?” the girl calls back, still glaring at her, pert nose upturned.
Ryoko glances at the sidewalk around her, then slowly pushes herself up as Yasuke’s bike skids to a stop behind her. “I fell,” she says. She brushes the dirt and rocks from her skin, sees the blood bubbling and ebbing up through her broken skin, and her eyes begin to glaze over.
“Well, I’m going to break into the school!” the girl halfway over the gate says. “And you’re going to help me!”
This has nothing to do with me.
The breeze lifts the edge of Ryoko’s white gown and sends it pushing back and forth against her ankles. Yasuke’s saying something – barking it out at the girl whose name she still doesn’t know – and Ryoko’s just seeing the spot at her knee where the white gown is growing stained with her blood.
This has nothing to do with me.
Ryoko shivers as the breeze brushes cold against her bare arms, and she starts towards the gate, to the girl halfway over it. Yasuke grabs her wrist, but she shakes his hand off. “What are we doing?”
The other girl beams.
“You’ll see when we get to the other side!”
~
Ryoko doesn’t exactly collapse on the other side of the gate, but she hits her bloody knee when she lands and then can only hobble where the girl wants her to run.
The girl gives her a sour expression, lips a downturned V, and then glares up at Yasuke as he jumps over the gate with them. “Fine,” the girl says, “you’ll do it then.”
“Do what?”
Which is how Ryoko ends up sitting on the bleachers with her arms resting on her knees, her hand wrapped in a fresh bandage, her right knee wrapped in another one, while the girl shouts out directions to a Yasuke who keeps glaring at her and then looking over at Ryoko, who is too tired to tell him to stop.
Tired.
That’s a funny word, honestly.
Tired. Exhausted. Weary. Consumed.
If she’s honest, Ryoko hasn’t felt like herself since Mukie abandoned her, since Mukie told her to run. She feels like something else – like someone else – like she’s in the middle of some great and terrible becoming. Eventually, the girl sits down next to her, still barking directions at Yasuke occasionally, and without a second thought, Ryoko leans her head against the girl’s shoulder.
The girl flinches. “What are you doing?”
“What are you doing?” Ryoko quips back, voice soft with excessive weariness, as she glances up with big red eyes to meet the girl’s golden brown ones.
The girl gestures with one hand to Yasuke and whatever he’s writing with the chalk along the ground. “Can’t you tell?”
Ryoko sighs. She doesn’t have the dataset for this. She doesn’t want to look for this. But the girl asks, and so she does. “You’re writing a message,” she says, voice growing monotone, “to anyone who can see it and understand what it says. You’re saying, I’m here. To aliens, to time-travelers, to espers, to sliders, to Santa Claus himself, if he’s out and about on a holiday that isn’t his.” She doesn’t blink. “As if that sort of thing would draw any of them to you.”
“You can read that?” The girl’s eyes narrow, and her face gets super close to Ryoko’s. She smells a bit. Sweat, mostly. Probably hasn’t brushed her teeth. “Are you an alien?”
“No,” Ryoko says calmly. “I’m a ghost.”
The girl presses the flat of her hand against Ryoko’s bandaged knee and scowls when Ryoko winces. “Ghosts don’t bleed.” Then she crosses her arms and slumps back down, glaring out at Yasuke. She shouts another direction at him – Ryoko doesn’t care, so no matter how loud the girl gets, she doesn’t pay her any attention – and then gives Ryoko another suspicious look. “How do you know that won’t work?”
Ryoko rolls her eyes.
(This isn’t like her. She cares, usually. She listens. Even when Mukie used to go off on all of her soldier mercenary military assassin research and interests. Even when Mukie spent hours correcting her posture because she was holding her stick sword wrong. But this….
This has nothing to do with her. Even if she’s sitting right here. Even if she decided to break into the school with this stranger. It still has nothing to do with her.
So why is she here?)
“If all those creatures are here and in hiding, a message like that isn’t going to get them out.”
“But it’s in their own language and everything!”
“Are you sure?” Ryoko asks, glancing out over the incomplete message, its chalk inscription trying to gleam in the moonlight and failing. “Or did you just decide it was their language without any real proof?” She leans against the other girl again. It’s overly familiar, sure, but it’s comfortable. And she’s so tired. “If I were an alien, I wouldn’t tell you anyway.”
The girl frowns. “Even if I guessed?”
“Even if you guessed.”
The girl barks out another instruction at Yasuke, but it’s not as enthusiastic as it was before. Half-hearted. “You really don’t think this will work?”
Ryoko shrugs. “It might. There are probably stupid aliens just like there are stupid people.” (She is not like this. She doesn’t call people stupid!) She leans a little more heavily against her. She’s warm, which really just means that Ryoko is cold. “But do you really want a stupid alien? Or do you want a smart one?”
“Any alien!” the girl proclaims, loud, enthusiastic, all that energy coming back all at once. It’s endless, maybe, her enthusiasm for this.
It makes Ryoko feel even more tired.
(She was like this once.)
“People are all just boring and normal,” the girl continues without hesitation, "and aliens, time travelers, espers, sliders – all of them are infinitely better than people!” She flashes Ryoko a grin. “That means you, too, Ghost Girl.”
Ryoko blinks twice and then looks away. (She’s too bright, this girl. She’ll blind her with that warmth.) “At least you’re looking for them,” she murmurs. “You can’t find one if you aren’t looking.” She runs her forefinger along the inseam of her thumb. “Maybe I should write a message for them.”
The girl shoves her. “Don’t steal my idea!”
“I won’t.” Ryoko chuckles – small, broken – as she holds up her bandaged hand, used again to catch herself, twinging with pain. “I’d have to break into another school first, and that….” She sighs and stares out over the now quite marked up field in front of them. “I’m too tired. But you’ll let me know if yours succeeds, right? Make all the papers?”
The girl just grins at her.
~
It’s as they’re leaving the school, as Ryoko carefully situates herself on the back of Yasuke’s bike, that the other girl pauses in her brisk walk in the opposite direction. Then she turns, hands propped on her hips, and yells, “What’s your name?”
Yasuke doesn’t even turn back, answering before Ryoko has a chance to do so, “What do you need that for?”
“So I can tell you if they contact me! Obviously.”
Ryoko hops off the back of Yasuke’s bike. The action causes her knee to twinge again, but she doesn’t wince as she hobbles over to the other girl. “Mitsuki,” she says, voice gentle. Standing next to her, she realizes that she’s nearly the same height as the other girl. How odd. Someone so bright seemed like she would be huge. Huh. Still, she meets the girl’s honey brown eyes as she repeats, “Matsuda Mitsuki.”
The girl looks her over, and then instead of offering her own name, she asks, “What middle school are you at?”
This time, Ryoko doesn’t have a lie ready. Even if she did, something tells her it would be far better to keep that information to herself. There are people she doesn’t want to find her right now, after all, and while it isn’t likely this girl has contacts with any of them, it isn’t an impossibility. So instead, she takes one of the girl’s hands in her bandaged one and holds it up until they’re flat against each other. “Have you heard of the red string of fate?”
“Ew,” the girl says, lips pursing, but she doesn’t take her hand away. “Why’re you bringing that up?”
“Well, think of it like this. If I don’t tell you and we see each other again, then it’s fate, right?” This time, when she meets the girl’s eyes, Ryoko almost feels taller than her, but not by much. She’s growing, finally. Maybe she’ll be as tall as Mukie the next time she sees her. If she ever sees her again. “Like the cosmos says we’re supposed to be friends, or something like that. And if not—” She winks. “Well, we’ll find those time travelers, and we’ll fix it, won’t we?”
The girl holds her hand still, flat against Ryoko’s. “If I find a time traveler, I’m not going to waste my time finding you.”
“Fate, then.” Ryoko tucks her thumb around the other girl’s hand. “Like a good story with a clandestine meeting.”
“Hm.”
But despite the noncommittal sound, the girl tucks her thumb around Ryoko’s hand just the same.
There are no red strings when they leave.
That’s probably for the best. Ryoko hates red, anyway.
#bandit fic#that faint green light with junko and haruhi#danganronpa#the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya#ryoko otonashi#yasuke matsuda#junko enoshima#haruhi suzumiya#matsushima#also absolutely if you do not want tagged in every chapter summary every time i post anything for this series let me know#i can leave a general link to both without @ing you every time#(kind of like how it is on ao3)#of note - the series page on ao3 actually /currently/ has additional content#in the form of a tiny snippet#that otherwise won't be in the fics until...significantly later#it's not in the sigh rewrite#it's not in the thing after that#and it's not in the disappearance rewrite#it's after all of those#/i know where it goes it'll just be a while before we get there/#ANYWAY I HOPE Y'ALL ENJOY THIS#MWF UPDATE SCHEDULE THROUGH THE REST OF AUGUST#and then a break#enoshimiya
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…four 7-star raids beaten in one day (in the span of under an hour and a half. I’m not actually sure when I started the Incineroar raid in Scarlet but it was after six o’clock and it was half past seven when I finished the Serperior raid in Violet) which is pretty impressive given there are two games and only one raid event going on (I was not mentally well when the Incineroar raids were active. I’d like to think that’s as good an excuse as doing the Dondozo raids late because I was on holiday)
#incineroar#…the Unrivaled!#serperior#…also the Unrivaled!#pokémon scarlet#pokémon violet#pokémon#clefairy#delphox#yep it’s a jumbo raid update post#I doubt anyone was wondering why I didn’t bring up the Incineroar raids after they ended but it’s bc I was planning on doing them later#all of these I beat on the first try today except the Incineroar raids in Violet#but that’s because I was selected as the one to get taunted the first two times so I had to restart#(both times I had the exact same lineup of teammates (Mudsdale Weavile and Toxapex from left to right) in the exact same places#turns out the Incineroar raids are a lot easier when you take advantage of Incineroar’s Defense buffs with Psych Up#it’s not even that difficult to make the TM#I was planning on doing the Incineroar raids in Violet before doing the Serperior raids in Scarlet#but I didn’t want to keep swapping the game cards around#I nearly ran out of PP on Mystical Fire in Scarlet bc I was instantly targeted by Gastro Acid after using Skill Swap#that wasn’t a problem in Violet bc Slither didn’t realise he could use Gastro Acid until a few turns after Overheat ran out of PP#both the raids in Violet ended in a crit but I don’t think I needed the crit in the Serperior raids#anyway I think Kitsune has made his mother (Ribbon Fox the Unrivaled) proud
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Hmmm I kinda want to make a side blog for RPG Maker game development related things to be able to talk to more experienced people in that community, but at the same time I both don’t really think I’d get much attention and don’t want to accidentally spoil my own game (^^ ; ).
I have a rough story, concept doodles, a tileset, some character sprites, an enemy that walks around but can’t initiate battle yet (if I even decide to have a battle system), a couple rooms with some events, and a functioning run button, but I’m still lost on how to do much else at the moment. Especially since this program has the ability for scripting, meaning I’ll probably have to learn and actually retain another coding language.
So, I’m not very far at all lol. Idk how well that’d go over on the established fandom website, but eh.
#text post#incoherent rambling#project update#game project#I’m still also debating whether or not I can actually even make a proper horror game too#It’s the rule of like just being a horror fan doesn’t make you good at horror being afraid of something does? ya know?#I am trying to go with things that scare me personally but it’s been difficult#either things aren’t concrete of concepts enough or are wayyyy too oddly specific to make anything about#which is quitter talk I know but how does one translate the childhood heebee jeebees of watching top ten gaming videos past bedtime 💀💀💀#or like the way too broad general fear of lack of control without making it too on the nose or too vague#truly a balancing act writing is#kinda ironically I am also a little bit less afraid of hospitals after having been to one for myself rather than family members#which makes things both more and less difficult???#on one hand I have better references for them now but on the other hand I’m desensitized to it 😔#I think I get used to things a little too easily for a lot of things to stay scary#the thing was a scary movie the first time I saw it and now it’s a comfort film#funger was a very scary game until I first died and reloaded a save with little consequence and now it’s just a spooky but fun rpg#but then at the same time thinking about a movie studio logo before a movie that scared me as a kid cause there was a monster in it#still gives weird left over shivers but actually seeing it doesn’t anymore for some reason#I feel like that’s how it’s worked with most things I’ve ever been afraid of in my life besides concepts like death control or idk drowning#ugh writing is HARD#but actually making a functional and fun to play game is harder oh my god do I not know how to make puzzles#I have made swivel chairs that can be knocked and walked over but that’s about it and idk what to do with that knowledge lmaooooo#and I don’t want the entire gameplay loop to be read text search room get key repeat cause that’s boring#I have also desperately tried making a stamina system but there’s not much help with that online especially not in the rpg maker forums#the no necroposting rule sucks all the threads for questions I have never get answered and never will cause no one is allowed to due to age#anyway idk what to tag this probably won’t get seen since it’s not my usual anyway but eh whatever I’ll think about this#hopefully I remember the passwords to two blogs 💀💀💀
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serin posting mika had me overwhelmed with the urge to make a separate gbf multi for an hour. the things mika does to me
#stardust speaking !#imagine putting one of the greatest characters in the game behind 112chs of main story (this is about both mika & shitori)#I WAS gonna make a lil blog for rein when i eventually pick her up but. mayhaps ill move all my other gbf muses there.............#lots of them have major spoilers anyway LOLT_T#anyway i wanna find a meme to rb on akira but i hateee looking for memes i cannot stress this enough <-says this everytime#mayhaps ill rb it here too. for funsies. i havent opened up to interactions in a long while after all#gonna start writing more again too yahoo cuz who knows when theyll give the main story update and once they do itll be Over For Me#ALSO KOLULU AND MANAMEL EVENTTT???? HEELLOOOOOO is this um. separate from uh. the ending. of uh. last time.<3?!?! or is it. rly. um.......#we'll see when it happens anyway i loooveeee manamel & kolulu im so excited#I ACTUALLY MIGHT GIVE UP ON THE MEME STUFF IM STARING AND I DONT LIKE THESE FOR MY CHARAS maybe ill just look at the same#two ive rbd before
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