#demon slayers: band kids

[messy-crisantemo]

Genya + bass + bisexual lighting ✨

Based on a KimeGaku panel under the cut~

Thank you, KimeGaku, you were so fun while you lasted 🥺💜

[prettynice8]

HI, I'm PrettyNice8 and have literally no idea what to make, so please give me any requests you have. Also, this is my first time posting anything, so if you have any advice, I'll very much appreciate it.

Won't do

- rape

- pedophilia

- beastiality

- incest

- female readers

- female characters

- maybe top reader, but who knows, if the character is an unedniable bottom, then sure

Thats all

Will do

- anything other than the things in won't do, I mean really give me that nastiest, weirdest, goofiest fantasies you can think of. This app seriously lacks gay shit so I mean it.

Fandoms

- naruto

- jujutsu kaisen

- haikyuu

- my hero academia

- demon slayer

- bleach

- aot

- chainsaw man

- hunter x hunter

- bts

- tomorrow by together

- stray kids

- seventeen

- ateez

- enhypen

[eclipsedrawsthings]

And now, a Demon Slayer shitpost

Ok so. I’ve never been super athletic personally, my day job aside, but both my little sisters are of jockish tendency and I’ve learned a few things through osmosis as a result

One of those things being that some things in sports are regulated very stringently for safety reasons

One of those things being earrings. ESPECIALLY earrings of the large and dangly variety, such as Tanjirou’s. Even small studs have to be covered by band-aids while on the field (at least in soccer, my sisters’ primary sport) so that they can’t scratch or cut anyone if there’s a collision—big dangly earrings are full-on banned to my understanding because of all the ways they could get snagged or tangled on other players.

Now, I invite you to amuse yourself by imagining how many minor injuries Tanjirou’s probably gotten offscreen because of his earrings catching on things, and other shenanigans that might ensue from this.

You’re welcome.

[ashleyxd69]

demon slayer headcanons (modern)

(*^▽^*)Tanjiro(*^▽^*) 

-has no enemy’s, everyone in the class loves him

-is that one kid who knows everybody while walking down the halls

-definitely keeps reminders on his phone of plans and people birthdays

-on the basketball and soccer team

-is part of 10 clubs because he can’t say no to people

-gets in fights a lot with Sanemi a lot because he accuses tanjiro of not paying attention 

-kid that is friends with almost every teacher 

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)Inosuke( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

-class clown

-in detention almost everyday 

-every teacher hates him because he’s always so loud and distracts the class

-everybody finds him hilarious though, and loves him

-on the basketball team 

-always yelling doesn’t know how to just talk, you can hear him from the other side of the school

-uses a 3 in 1 shampoo, conditioner, and body wash 

(*��∀≦*)Zenitsu(*≧∀≦*)

-is that one kid that is always bring like erm actually 

-everyone finds them annoying but for some reason the popular kids still talk to him (aka tanjiro)

-took on class president cause he thought it would get him more girls

-that one kid who is always crying in the hallways

-hates sports, he hates even watching them because he thinks there boring and a waste of time

( ^ω^ )nezuko( ^ω^ )

-very popular

-great makeup advice 

-always found in the corner of a class with a few other girls gossiping 

-always has information on everyone

-has the cutest pencil case 

-cheer team captain 

-she gets love confessions every week but turns them all down

-she has a very fast metabolism, and likes to go on eating dates with Mitsuri 

(*´-`)kanao(*´-`)

-quite girl

-as A’s in all of her classes

-if you ask her nicely she will help you study

-is great friends with nezuko and tanjiro

-nezuko will try to beg her to join but she is to shy to, but she definitely knows every dance and cheer by heart 

-is part of the band and plays the flute 

-has a lovely singing voice but only nezuko has heard it

-volunteers at a nursing home in her spare time

(๑╹ω╹๑ )Genya(๑╹ω╹๑ )

-people are afraid of him because they are scared of his older brother 

-looks mean but is super sweet

-still can’t talk to girls except nezuko and kanao because he’s so close to them

-plays basketball with Inosuke and tanjiro, but isn’t on the team

-loves to play the drums, he likes how they are loud and he can take his anger out on them

-once played a Roblox horror with muichiro, he got so scared he screamed and threw his phone, he never played again

-definitely has braces 

✌︎('ω')✌︎Muichiro✌︎('ω')✌︎

-loves the window seat

-would play which one of us is Hikaru game with yuichiro 

-come off very rude if you have never talked to him but is very sweet once you get to know him

-sleeper build fr 

-he doesn’t mind sports but he doesn’t do them unless other people are 

-trades hair care tips from nezuko

-is part of nezuko gossip circle and is the o lot boy part of it

-loves to play Roblox, he likes scamming kids on adopt me

This is my first time writing headcanons so please no hate and I hope you enjoyed ☺️☺️

[snowywolf1005]

HAPPY MEXICO WAR OF INDEPENDENCE!!!!🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

Now, how would the strawhat crew do after they found mexico.

The one who are joining is...

(Luffy x lunala reader)

(Zoro x demon slayer reader)

(Sanji x wednesday addams Reader)

(Heart pirates)

(Kid pirates)

(Koby x pirate reader)

(Asl x mother reader)

Okay! Let's start!

LUFFY

He'll go around the city.

Going on rides, go to the water pool, restaurants.

Eats a lot of new food.

Brings lunala reader with him.

Meets the military people.

Play with kids of soccer.

He remembers his mother went to Mexico.

He wants to go to Kaiju Island(gets a fight with Kid to go kaiju island)

He discovered that people know about his mother death and they're so sorry for him.

NAMI

Go every store to buy.

Draw a map, but she realized how big the island is.

She tries not to steal, cause if she does, the crew would be kicked out of the country.

Buys some jewelry and makeup.

Read some books of maps of Mexico so she can learn where they are at.

Draw a map of Kaiju island

ROBIN

Read some books to study the history of Mexico.

Go to the museum with Law and find out about lunala and luna history.

Robin and Law to find the poneglyph.

She heard that there's another poneglyph on Kaiju island.

FRANKLY

Show off everyone the sunny ship.

Play with kids.

Drink some mexico cola.

Study their machine.

USOPP

Study plants of Mexico.

Being a show off.

Buy some cool clothes with luffy and Chopper.

CHOOPER

Read some medical books.

Gets attention to people and kids if they see them. (They also give him candy)

Eats some candy.

ZORO

When he got defeated by his girlfriend, demon slayer reader.

He went the breathing style club.

The people know me and started teasing you of having a boyfriend.

Keep losing from his girlfriend when they're training.

Sometimes, he gets lost.

SANJI

Learning about Mexico food.

Has a book of the recipe.

He discovered how to cook animals live in sea, land, and the sky.

But he wouldn't be alone when he has his girlfriend. Wednesday addams reader.

Friends with the fisherman.

JINBE

He was very surprised that everyone was so excited to see a Fishman and not scared of him.

He shows kids his karate move.

He let the kids play with him.

He makes some new friends.

BROOK

The people aren't scared of him because they see their loved one on the day of the dead holiday.

Meet some band.

And brook play with the band.

He'll meet spirit people from the dead.

SABO & ACE

Sabo want to learn his mother culture.

Discover the people who respect his mother.

Ace hang out with luffy.

They want to the kaiju island that the world government are trying to find.

Meets their mother old friends.

They walked around when they saw people handing out some flowers to police and they realized why.

Because the flower are meant for their mother, ace and sabo saw where police put the flowers on a gaint picture of their mother.

KOBY

His pirate girlfriend invited him to Mexico, but he has to keep it a secret.

They'll dance with her.

Meet luffy and his crew, he tell luffy he'll keep a secret from the marine of Mexico.

Meet his girlfriend family and friends, and he didn't realize there were many of them.

[forest-hashira]

A Little Swing

heeellllloooooo everyone! i'm back with another demon slayer fic for y'all, this time as yet another entry for @kentopedia's "Love Through the Ages" collab! i can't even definitively say this is my last entry bc my brain is still cooking up ideas whoops. make sure to check out that masterlist to see everyone else's entries, and to find my first two entries there as well (one for gojo, one for geto)!

also, i'm apparently making a game of it now, not writing more than one thing for any demon slayer character. i've got 3/9 hashira so far, who's next? kidding, kidding.... unless?

read on ao3 here | wc: ~1k | cw: gender neutral reader, reader is described as pretty & wears a dress, brief mentions/consumption of alcohol, the whole polycule is here but no names are exchanged

Parties weren’t really your scene, especially parties as big as this one; they never had been. But you always said yes when one friend or another asked you to go with them, insisting that you’d find someone to dance and have a good time with. You always hoped they were right, but so far that had never been the case. 

And now here you were, tucked into the corner of the bar, having long since lost track of your friends. The music from the live band was loud, far louder than you’d expected, so little effort was made to communicate with anyone but the bartender. So you stood there, leaning against the bar, sipping your gin and tonic, watching the rest of the partygoers dance and laugh and spill their drinks on one another. 

Out of the corner of your eye, you saw someone making their way towards you, and when you turned you were more than a little surprised to see a young woman, probably about your age. 

“Hi,” she greeted, a small smile on her lips. “I saw you over here all by yourself, and thought you looked kinda lonely, so I wanted to invite you to come dance with me and my friends. We all think you’re really pretty.”

You blinked in surprise at her words, not having expected her to be so forward. As you considered her offer, you took a moment to look her over: she wasn’t very tall, but she wasn’t particularly short, either, with dark hair a little past her shoulders and light colored eyes – maybe grey? It was hard to tell in the dim lighting by the bar. The dress she wore was blue, and even for a flapper style dress it seemed a little short to you, the neckline cut a little lower than most people wore, but it suited her well.

“Who are your friends?”

The girl glanced over her shoulder for a moment, then turned back to you. “The tall man with the white hair, and the two girls in dresses like mine.” She pointed in their direction, though really she didn’t need to; the three of them were impossible to miss.

The man in the group was a giant. You could tell he was well over six feet tall, even from this distance, and his broad shoulders filled out his shirt almost too well, especially since his sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, exposing his forearms; every part of him was large, apparently, though you shoved that thought aside as quickly as it entered your mind, not wanting to allow yourself to drift down… less appropriate avenues. 

Before you were able to pull your eyes off the man, he caught you staring, and he grinned, shooting you a wink that had your face heating with surprise and embarrassment. Deciding that was your cue to look over the other two women, you quickly averted your gaze. The women appeared to be about the same height as the one who had approached you, with similarly dark hair, though one of them had striking yellow bangs that framed her face, and the other wore a high ponytail with hair that still reached the middle of her back. Their dresses matched, as well, both in the same style as the first woman; the one with yellow bangs wore red, the one with the ponytail wore purple. Even with the unreliable lighting in the room, you could tell they were beautiful.

“You know what?” you said, half to yourself, half to the woman still waiting for an answer. Downing the rest of your drink in one go, you set your glass back down on the bar with a small grin. “Yeah. Let’s go dance.”

Her eyes lit up at your words, and she was quick to grab your hand and pull you back to the dancefloor with her; you couldn’t help but laugh softly at her eagerness, and you hurried to keep up with her.

Pushing through the other partygoers proved easier than you expected, and it wasn’t long at all until you’d reached the rest of the group.

“Hi!” the woman in the red dress enthused, her cheeks flushed, though whether that was from exertion from dancing or from drinking, you couldn’t tell.

“You look really good in that dress!” added the woman in the purple dress, having to shout a little to be heard over the music and laughter.

“Thanks!” you replied with a grin, giving a little twirl to show off the full thing. It was a relatively simple piece, a deep green that accentuated the shape of your body in a very flattering way. The most interesting thing about the dress is the fact that it sparkles, light glinting off the material with every twist and turn you make as you settle into the rhythm of the music with your new companions.

“Glad you could join us!”

The sound of the man’s voice has you turning to face him; it’s a little higher than you would’ve expected from someone of his stature, but it suits him.

“I don’t usually get asked to dance with such good looking people!” Maybe the drink was making you braver than usual, or maybe you were just tired of being a wallflower at all the parties you got dragged to by friends who would eventually abandon you. Either way, you were ready to cut loose and enjoy yourself for once. 

“Hard not to want someone as flashy as you by our sides!” He winked at you again, his platinum hair and magenta eyes practically glowing in the colorful flashes of light that engulfed the dance floor. 

A pleasant warmth filled your chest at his words, and you couldn’t help but laugh. Conversation between the four of you was practically nonexistent after that, the music washing over you as you twisted and swayed spun to the beat, laughing so hard your ribs ached and the muscles in your cheeks hurt. 

For once, your friend had been right: you had found someone to dance and have a good time with.

feels a little weird posting something so short (especially since it took me so long to actually finish, rip) but hey! there's a first time for everything, lol. also ty leigh for looking this over for me!!! i hope you guys all enjoyed this little bite of sparkle daddy and Vibes 💜

tagging: @kentopedia @mitsuristoleme @kentohours @witchbybirth @marinnnnnnnnn @peachdues @ghost-1-y

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[theachskid]

Hello! Welcome to my blog! ✨️

You can call me Achs! You pronounce Achs as Aw-ch.💪💯

My pronouns are she/her/hers/they/them/theirs, and if you want it/it's ( there just fun ya know?), and I'm pansexual

On this blog, you will see my art/ my oc (Alanza) and other characters. You will also see some memes, music (bands, and stuff), and my bearded dragon piccaso!

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

my art will have blo0d, scars, and other content that may be uncomfortable for some. ALSO, I AM A MINOR!!!

⚠️RULES⚠️

🔸️DNI, if you're a terf, transphobic. Homophonic, racist, sexist, or any other hatred to any kind

🔸️ Dont like it. Don't interact

🔸️be kind to anyone who interacts on this blog! my moots, people who comment, *me*, basically everyone!

I do art requests! So send me asks! ✌️✨️❤️

You can find My stuff on..

Youtube: @The_Achs_kid / ~Artists Achs~

Ibis paint: The Achs kid

That's about it...😪

The rest is just things I like! And things about me!

📺shows i watch:

Young sheldon, Evil lives here, mha, Sxf, Demon slayer, Komi can't communicate, Ghost, ghost adventures, fear thy neighbor, married to evil, see no evil, Monsters: Eric and Lyle Mendez story, and Avatar the last airbender.

🎬Movies I like:

Nightmare before christmas, blended, the silent voice, the sixth scene ,the quiet place, imaginary, the longest yard, over the hedge, surfs up,happy Gilmore, Ragnorok, Evan hansen, Guardians the Galaxy vol.2, shark tale, and deadpool (1,2 and 3)

📚Books I'm reading/ have read.

Obsessed, the collected, American murder houses, the girl in the locked room, the ghost in the head lights, Percy jackson: the lighting theif, and Percy jackson: the sea of monsters.

🎨Artist I listen to:

Pierce the veil, Korn, TV girl, insane clown posse, odetari, 6arelyhuman, queen, panic! at the disco, sir mix-a-lot, eminem, kesha, mitski, queen, marina and the diamonds, Alec Benjamin, doja cat, miracle musical, fall out boy, mother mother, Bruno Mars, Tally Hall, kendrick Lamar, And Tyler the creator.

🎮Video games I play (mobile and console):

Amoug the sleep, hello neighbor, goat simulater, untitled goose game, roblox, cube escape, block blast, story teller, Fnaf, sims 4, little miss fortune, creepy tails, and organizer.

Facts about muah <3

I speak 2 languages! Spanish and English, and I'm trying to learn German and hungarian because that's what I am!

I do dance! I just left my dance class and I'm trying to find a new one!

I have 4 awards! 3 art awards and 1 government award for being a good student!

I have eplipsy and anhidrosis! Anhidrosis means I can't sweat!

I'm a big-time collector! I collect rubber ducks, funko pops, stickers, stuffed animals, crystals, and glass bottle caps.

I'm allergic to 3 things! Kiwis, amoxicillin and fake jewelry

ALSO, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THIS STUFF YOU CAN ASK.

My radom favorite things!

Favorite place : the beach

Favorite food : sushi

Favorite song: pass the nirvana- pierce the veil

Favorite sport team: sandiago padres- baseball

Favorite yt: Duncanyounot and funkyfrogbait

BTW MY TAG #help he is attacking me... IS MADE BECAUSE OF MY BEARDED DRAGON NOTHING ELSE

SHIPS I GO FOR 💪💯

Izuocha , kirimina , todomomo , bakucamie , tokotsuyu , Erasermic , twiyor, damianya , shouko X Shoya , kamijirou , ojitoru , katarang , Alberta X Peter , Thor X flower , and probably more i can't think of 😅

Also, go check out my mutruals!

@rafrfr @leviathan-winters @generalallxsanjishipper @innercupcakehottub-blog @scobunny @myausofia @lastnightstoryart

[blues824]

Hello! Don't mind me just sneaking onto your blog here to request with a crossover from demon slayer , can I have the obey me (any characters is fine) with an noble upper moon 4 reader? With the clothing of an high class ranking. Changing it up a bit , Douma finding Daki and her brother and taking them to reader so reader takes care of them giving them the care of a parent. One day an demon slayer tries to kill them making reader kill the slayer instantly with their weapon & has an servant with them to clean up the mess , cue reader lightly scolding Daki and her brother for being reckless

What would be (any of your characters choice) reaction would be

I’ll give you the older brothers. Gender-neutral reader, who uses a scythe because why not. Daki and Gyutaro are still children in the fic.

Lucifer

You both are basically parents now. Since Douma had placed Daki and Gyutaro under your care, you never went anywhere without them… and this included when you got teleported to the Devildom. You still had your children.

As Lucifer watched you tell the siblings a story, he couldn’t help but remember himself in the same position, helping to raise some of the younger angels. They seemed to accept him as another parental figure, so you both had your happy little family.

However, there was one day where a demon slayer somehow got into the Devildom and tried to kill you, Daki, and Gyutaro. Lucifer was about to attack when you brought out your scythe and started laughing very maniacally before slaughtering the slayer. Then, right after, you were making sure that the children were okay.

It was at this moment where Lucifer remembered that you were an upper-ranking demon in your world. He called over one of the Little D.’s to help with the cleanup, and then he made sure that you were alright and not injured. Mans was still in his demon form, and his wings wrapped around all of you as he was glad that none of you were injured.

Mammon

This man is so down bad for you and ‘your’ children (unofficial adoption). The two are very spoiled, and Mammon swears that he is a better man now that he has a family to take care of. Lucifer has thanked you countless times for helping his younger brother grow more mature.

The three of you have the second eldest brother wrapped around your fingers. I imagine him as the fun father figure, and that he secretly craved a very domestic life. The children love him as if he were their actual dad, so it’s like his wish has come true.

Unfortunately, there was a demon slayer who found a way into the Devildom, and just so happened to be searching for you, Daki, and Gyutaro specifically. Diavolo was a bit too late in warning you and Mammon, so you made sure that the two were safe in Mammon’s room and you were waiting at the front door. Needless to say, you defeated him in like 5 seconds.

Mammon came rushing back down to you to make sure that you were alright, and you called one of the Little D.’s to help clean up the body. Mans let out a huge sigh when he found out that you were unharmed. He took you back to his room where the children were waiting, and they cheered about how you were alright.

Leviathan

Not gonna lie, he probably wasn’t expecting adopting two kids and getting romantically involved with a single parent, but here he is. You two spend a lot of time with Gyutaro and Daki, Levi teaching the former how to play video games and you and the latter watching and cheering.

He loves having a little family with you. He finally has something that none of his brothers have, and he lets a bit of pride show. He’s closer with Gyutaro because the two just understand each other on a more personal level. That’s not to say that he isn’t close with Daki either.

One time, Levi took you all out to a concert for a band that you all loved. Unfortunately, a demon slayer was there as well, and they smelled you out. This caused a bunch of other demons to flee as you shoved the kids behind you and swung your scythe. The slayer was headless within the minute.

You quickly turned around to see that your lover and the kids were alright, and you let out a huge sigh of relief upon seeing that they were not harmed at all. Your boyfriend was a bit shocked at how quick the battle was, but as long as you weren’t touched everything would be fine.

[thelastsaiyanprincess]

☕️ - Your favourite anime

*inhales, preparing for the biggest yap of my life*

okay so choosing ONE anime out of all as my favorite is super difficult because i like all kinds of anime for different reasons so im gonna tell you about my current faves, my all time faves, and my faves from each genre. i hope you like reading huge walls of texts!!!!!

aight so starting with current fave: one piece has been this year's obsession & i like it because theres SO MUCH STORY AND SO MUCH CONTENT and everything ties together so nicely, like something that happened in the third arc of the series or a character that was introduced SEVERAL arcs ago will suddenly become super relevant again and/or play a HUGE part in the story, there's so much lore and several really great character arcs (nami, nico robin, sanji, etc) that just make you wanna CRY, this band of misfit pirates that were ostracized and abused and neglected and thrown away by their families and society all come together adopted by a goofy kid in flip flops and become a found family of weirdos and oddballs plEASE im going to cry if i think about it too much

dragon ball was my fave anime of 2023 and it will always be a fave because i grew up with it and i love the characters and (most of) the story and the transformations and the vegeta and the skfbskjskss

fruits basket is my favorite shoujo of all time, every episode makes me bawl my eyes out and its just so well written and all the men are gorgeous but fucked up but EVERYONE gets a happy ending and idc it its unrealistic sometimes we just need fluff and romance and cutesy shit the world is awful enough but fruits basket makes it worth the suffering

philosophical wise i LOVE ghost in the shell, psycho-pass, and parasyte because they make me question what truly makes us human

for funsies i like yugioh cuz its just so damn goofy, manga is exponentially better than the anime tho

full metal alchemist brotherhood is one of the best written anime of all time i ALWAYS recommend people watch this if they watch any anime at all

revolutionary girl utena is a wonderful satire on the magical girl genre and turns it on its head, very surreal and symbolic u gotta watch a few times to really "get it". its also super fucking gay oh my god im such a bisexual

demon slayer is a great shounen and one of the most well written ones plus the animation is god tier its another one i recommend people watch cuz its JUST SO GOOD

im tired now but theres sooo much more i could yap about thank u for asking and if you made it this far youre a real one <3

[im-just-sal]

Demon Slayer Highschool AU(ish) Head Canons

Uzui totally seems like a popular playboy in high school.

With Rengoku being his best friend and only nice popular kid.

Giyu's the weird bad boy Rengoku is friends with and no one knows why.

Muichiro's the kid in the younger grade they took pity on because he had no friends.

Shinobu is the nerdy chemistry expert who's popular because a lot of boys like her.

Mutsuri is one of the popular guys exes, but nobody can remember who's, but she's in the group anyway.

Iguro is the weird kid who brags about his pet snakes and thinks he's cool for wearing bandages. He repeatedly gets told off by teachers, and is a wanna be bad boy. Misturi loves him anyway.

Gyomei is a senior, and he doesn't play any sports. No one can remember how he got popular, he just did.

If the hashira are popular kids, what are Tanjiro and his squad?

They're BAND kids.

Tanjiro plays Trumpet.

Zenitsu was passed down his grandfather's tuba and hates it so much.

Nezuko plays the xylophone .

Yushiro has spent his whole life mastering instruments, and he plays the flute for band, but loves playing piano.

Kanao plays the drums in the back. Little effort needed.

And Inosukes on triangle.

So Tanjiro I imagine has an amazing singing voice.

He's the best at it.

Zenitsu sounds like a dying cat.

Inosuke is surprising good, but he mostly listens to death metal, so he scream sings.

Nezuko doesn't sing, but she'll do a little Dancy dance to any song she hears.

Uzui thinks he's the hot shit at it, but he's not. He's average.

Rengoku cannot sing. He doesn't try. He knows his voice sounds awful.

Muichiro doesn't really sing, but he can. He's okay at it, but if he's doing karaoke he's going all out on that demi Lovato high note.

He'll hit it even higher.

Iguro is good at singing, but he'll sing my chemical romance until even Misturi wants to rip out her eardrums.

Shinobu thinks she's good, but she's just fine at it. Nothing special.

Mitsuri's voice sounds like nightcore singing.

Gyomei opera sings in the shower and that's it.

And Sanemi has a raspy ass voice that cracks if he tries to hit any note higher than the bass.

Yushiro sings to himself in his room. He also sings in the shower, but do not tell anyone.

He performs Call me maybe.

Lady Tamayo has recorded it.

He has no idea this recording exists.

Zenistu also sings in the shower.

Buts it's the take cover shut your ears kind.

He thinks he is the HOT SHIT.

He made Yushiros ears bleed.

Tanjiro had to literally yank the shower curtain back to get him to stop.

But then he screamed for the next hour so it was a lose lose.

Believe me, he was searching for bleach for hours.

Inosuke hid it tho because he wanted Tanjiro to suffer.

After Zenistu got out of the shower Yushiro punted him to next week.

[tsuchinokoroyale]

I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on JJK. Admittedly, I’m not well versed in shonen, so I never even considered that it was trying to subvert the genre.

P.S. Thank you for the consistently thoughtful takes and hot ass 😘

Ooooo boy I hope you’re ready for a whole ass essay 😎😎😎

Shonen as a genre has changed over time as any art form does, but it is still mired in tropes that can be traced back to the classics. The shonen genre is thus named bc its target demographic is boys to young men, for our discussion we’ll say teenage boys. While it obviously has big appeal for other demographics, it is mainly designed to both appeal AND communicate life lessons to that crowd of impressionable kids.

Because of this dual function you get this really odd genre full of super powerful special boys who love their friends but have no qualms about slaughtering their enemies. They typically espouse lessons about the merits of hard work, sticking to your beliefs ((so long as your beliefs are beneficial to society at large)), of goodness and friendship triumphing over evil. Look no further than DBZ and Naruto which can broadly be divided into Battle Arcs and Training Arcs, upping the ante for our special boy main protagonists until we literally have them fighting gods as the logical extreme of continuous escalation.

The Standard™ Shonen formula has a boy main protagonist who’s got some sort of motivation that is so ideologically pure that he’s basically impossible to defeat. Goku loves to fight, Naruto wants to be hokage, Tanjiro wants to cure his sister and slayer all the demons, etc. He forms/joins a band of merry outcasts with their own tragic backstories and sets out to defeat whatever villain appears for that arc. If they win, arc is over move onto training arc, if they lose, they train, fight and win, then train some more. The fun of the genre comes from the colorful side characters, and the little twists that come with each battle system, which brings us to Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

At the time JJBA was being published, the big influence on manga was big beefy male led 80s action movies and Fist of the North Star, a manga about a beefy martial artist named Kenshiro going around beating baddies in a post apocalyptic world. Battle systems in Shonen were usually incredibly soft, most tied to physical combat enhanced by some poorly defined life force energy that could be called upon to even out fights and give big climactic finishes, like Ki from dragon ball and their iconic kamehamehas. Even JJBA starts off this way, with our beefy boys learning Hamon/Ripple and duking it out with vampires, til my man Hirohiko Araki was like “mmmm this is kind of limiting. Time to Change Everything~” and he came up with the concept of Stands, incredibly limited psychic/magic abilities that manifest as furries or sexy robots or a Lego version of the White House (?). You can see this idea really grow and expand within the part it’s introduced, going from “fire furry” and “robot knight with sword” to “guy whose stand turns into a ball that immediately erases anything it runs into but he can’t really see what he’s attacking since he has to be inside his stand in order for it to work also his name is Vanilla Ice and he’s a vampire in a thong.”

You can FEEL the impact this had even to this day. Stands became Jutsus in Naruto, quirks in MHA, Nen in HxH, Cursed Techniques in JJK. And part of what made it fun was that it added strategy to the mix! Str8 physical fights are hard to strategize bc it’s basically just a numbers game, right? Like bc his power level is over 9000, it’s going to be a tough time until some plot contrivance and/or training occurs to drive *my* power level over 9000. But now there is an additional layer of *how* these powers interact.

My ability is to blow bubbles and his ability is to turn a single person who comes into contact with bodily fluids into a mindless zombie? Create bubble shields so they can’t splash blood on you. My ability is to fold anything into origami and if you touch the origami you begin to see one object as something else and his ability is an automatic tracking stand that hunts me down by creating face shredding tornados when I breathe? Make a city bus look like my dad ((part 8 is fucking nuts)).

As you can tell, JJBA really burst open the dam on creativity, but as per the examples I’ve given they can often feel very… silly and contrived. The Serious Anime Fan™ will complain and say those fights are full of asspulls, which they are, but that’s very much part of the fun of the series. BUT because diversity is the spice of life, you also get artists who are less interested in adhering to the Rule of Cool and more interested in making things explicitly “logical” which is how we get Hunter x Hunter.

While JJBA dabbles in using stands for characterization, HxH goes HARD into it. Nen abilities are ((usually)) manifestation of their user’s idea of power, creating a direct link between who that person is and what they can do as a result. This is balanced by people having innate Nen types which means the kinds of abilities they can use are limited, though there are rules restrictions and exceptions to this as well. We know all of this bc mangaka Togashi literally gives a college level lecture on Nen in the story, describing how it manifests, how it works, what it can and can’t do, and how individual rules can supersede the basic set of rules and the rules for doing that. I call this style Erudite Shonen, bc bitches be TALKING. In erudite Shonen, powers usually fall on the complex side, even Bungee Gum, which has the properties of both rubber and gum, can be used in insane ways like ricocheting bullets, gluing minors together, and/or cheesing a game of dodgeball and it’s all both shown AND told.

Now where does JJK fall into all this? Listifying the common Shonen tropes we have A Special Boy main protagonist with a pure motive, a crew, goodness triumphing over evil, prioritizing bonds and community over selfish gain, and the winning power of hard work.

Early JJK fits the mold pretty well. Yuji Itadori starts off the series special, with superhuman fitness before he ingests sukuna’s finger at which point he becomes a Naruto analog, where he is strong because he has a powerful spirit trapped inside him. He has the rather off kilter but still acceptable goal of “dying a proper death”. His squad of mentor Gojo, Fushiguro, and Kugisaki is established by episode 3. The villains are cursed spirits who want to eradicate humanity, the good guys are the jujutsu sorcerers who say “no u” to that. Yuji wants to gain power to protect others instead of just becoming powerful himself. And there’s a training arc! Sure, it happens after Yuji gets his heart ripped out, but he’s not even dead that long. Even the powers in early JJK present themselves as pretty simple, Fushiguro does shadow summoning, Kugisaki does hammer and nail resonance, panda, Inumaki does cursed speech.

It wears its darkness on its sleeve however, presenting Junpei as a potential future team member only to shockingly kill him. The whole star plasma vessel incident casts an unflattering light on Jujutsu society. But none of that COMPARES to the shitshow that happens in Shibuya, where JJK finally shows its real hand.

Over the course of the Shibuya arc, we watch our protagonist mount an offense against the villains that have been building themselves up over the course of the show, sacrificing so so much just to ultimately… lose. The Shibuya arc subverts not just idiosyncratic plot beats but story telling traditions as well. “The strongest” loses, multiple fan favorite characters are either taken out of commission or outright killed, the story progression slams the fast forward button as Yuji goes from having ingested 4 out of 20 fingers to 15/20 resulting in mass civilian casualties because his version of the 9 tailed fox is an actual monster, and ((meta-narratively)) worst of all, Yuji doesn’t even get to defeat his arch-rival, Mahito. Instead Mahito is unceremoniously absorbed by other big bad Geto/Kenjaku. It’s supremely unsatisfying and the weight of the tragedy is so immense you wonder how our heroes are gonna come back from this.

And thus begins the “deconstruction” phase of JJK. Cuz they just… don’t. As dark as Shibuya got, a standard Shonen would then go on to give the heroes a big fat W, some sort of come back after all that. But not JJK! Bc JJK is subversive 😏 this means the fact that the story is super unsatisfying is like, the point mannnn. This isn’t the worst thing that can happen. Chainsawman is also a story of major L’s and minor W’s and it’s my #1 favorite modern manga series. The difference is in intent, however. Chainsawman works as well as it does bc at its core, it loves Denji. He REALLY goes through the ringer, but it’s all in service of understanding what life is like for someone trapped on the hedonic treadmill and how one can ((attempt anyways)) to break out of it.

And then there’s JJK. It truly feels like the manga is designed to tear Yuji’s self sacrificial mindset to shreds for the sake of making him suffer and for the reader to feel bad for ever feeling like good has to triumph over evil. The real problem is, it feels as if the series is bending over backwards to make this shit happen.

Part of the change over is what was a previously simple-ish battle system goes full Erudite Shonen. There were hints that cursed energy could get more complicated, what with domain completion competition and guaranteed hits and simple domains and that one guys FPS ability I can’t explain. But we go FULL HxH level afterwards. All of a sudden oxygen delivery to the brain becomes important to cursed technique, there’s domain range and boundary fidelity and incomplete domain properties, disruption of somatic components becomes a factor, and… it honestly feels like utter nonsense at times.

Complexity isn’t bad, like I mentioned I LOVE HxH and could probably explain the chrollo-hisoka fight if you gave me a few hours to study, but I could not tell you all the new rules for cursed energy that seem just kind of invented on the spot in random chapters during this back half of JJK. Bc they involve concepts never really mentioned before, it feels like an asspull, like this was something made up to force the situation at hand. Thing is, more of those situations only benefit the villains. You get shit like a character winning a battle at the end of one chapter and then starting the next one to find they were killed off screen moments later, actually. It’s just like yeah it’s subversive, but the reason stories aren’t told like this is bc this shit sucks lmao. I think out of all the plans the heroes make like only a handful of them are actually successful, and even then they get so unwound by the next step in the plan that they may as well have not happened. It doesn’t help that the abilities are so complicated now you’ll get a chapter dedicated to explaining what one guy can do just to have him wiped off the face of the earth the next one.

So the crew is gone, our special boy is actually the most disempowered guy ever except for the fact that he can’t be killed for some reason, the good guys are NOT doing a great job standing up to evil since like 86% of their plans fail or have bad results, a gag character wins one of the most important fights in the story and it’s unironically the best thing JJK has done in a while, and it’s all just a very confusing slog to read. This is the danger of writing subversion for the sake of subversion with intent for contempt, kids 😮‍💨

Granted we aren’t at the end of the story yet so maybe I’ll be wrong and there’ll be like a reset button that fixes everything (( which would also suck )), but yeah. JJK wants what HxH did in the chimera ant arc but forgot that that story was possible bc it was fundamentally about humanity and love, not just the parts about how people suck and goodness can fail.

If you made it this far congratulations you’re entitled to one big kissy on ur forehead from me and barnaby 😚😚😚

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THIS IS THE OLD SUBMISSIONS POST. UP TO DATE SUBMISSIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE

Sorted alphabetically by band. Please click through to original post to see full list. IF IT'S NOT ON THE LIST, PLEASE SUBMIT IT. NO BAND IS TOO NICHE. Multiple bands from the same media are permitted.

Putting this under the cut because it's getting too long!

0-9

4*town - Turning Red

A

About Gardens - ROGUEMAKER

The Ark - I Was Born For This

ABXY - Splatoon

Arno van Eyck - Disco Elysium

B

The Band With Rocks In It - Discworld

The Beets - Doug

The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - The Mountain Goats

The Bettys - Phineas and Ferb

Black Stones (BLAST) - NANA

The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers

Bottom Feeders - Splatoon

Boys In The Sink - Veggietales

Boys Who Cry - Spongebob Squarepants

Boyz4Now - Bob's Burgers

Boyz 12 - American Dad

Bunk Bed Junction - No Straight Roads

C

Cheetah Girls - Cheetah Girls

The Clash At Demonhead - Scott Pilgrim 

The Covey - Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Crash & The Boys - Scott Pilgrim

D

Daisy Jones & The Six - Daisy Jones & The Six

Damp Socks - Splatoon

De Bois Band - & Juliet

Deep cut - Splatoon

DETHKLOK - Metalocalypse

Dedf1sh - Splatoon

Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeros - Space Opera 

Dingoes Ate My Baby - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

DJ Octavio - Splatoon

DJ Stylbator - Samurai Jack

Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem - The Muppets 

Drive Shaft - LOST

E

Evar Orbus & The Galactic Jizz-Wailers/The Max Rebo Band - Star Wars

F

Fig and the Cig Figs - Dimension 20 Fantasy High

The Flaming Creatures - Velvet Goldmine

Fran-Shou-Shou - Zombie Land Saga

G

Gallifrey Academy Hot Five - Doctor Who 

Gem & The Scotts - Secret Life SMP

Gillion & The Tidestriders - Just Roll With It

Girls Dead Monster - Angel Beats

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Grifters Bone - Magnus Archives 

H

Hatsune Miku - Vocaloid

Heaven Seventeen - A Clockwork Orange

The Hectic Glow - The Fault In Our Stars

Hex Girls - Scooby Doo

I

Ink Theory - Splatoon

J

Jem & The Holograms - Jem & The Holograms

Johnny Casino and The Gamblers - Grease

Josie & The Pussycats - Archie (Comic)

The Juicy Fruits - Phantom of the Paradise

Julie and the Phantoms - Julie and the Phantoms

K

Kessoku Band - Bocchi the Rock

Killer Boy Rats - Horrid Henry

The Killjoys - My Chemical Romance

L

Lacus Clyne - Mobile Suit Gundam Seed

Lady Parts - We Are Lady Parts

The Last Days - The Last Days

Lemonade Mouth - Lemonade Mouth

Leningrad Cowboys - Leningrad Cowboys

Lincoln Hawk - Gossip Girl

Little White Lie - Little White Lie

Loded Diper - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Love Burger - Can't Hardly Wait

Love Händel - Phineas and Ferb

LumberZacks - Milo Murphy's Law 

M

Mad Gear & The Missile Kid - Danger Days, My Chemical Romance

Maxwell Demon & The Venus In Furs - Velvet Goldmine

The Mechanisms - The Mechanisms 

Milkcan - Um Jammer Lammy

The Misfits - Jem & The Holograms

Muppet Orchestra - The Muppets 

N 

Needy Beast - Hatchetfield

O

Octoplush - Splatoon

Old Gods of Asgard - Alan Wake

ok, kids - Andre and Karl

Off The Hook - Splatoon

P

Pink Slip - Freaky Friday

Plasmagica - Show By Rock

Proto Zoa - Zenon Sweep 

R

The Rainbooms - Equestria Girls

The Rats - Velvet Goldmine

RIP - Ruby Gloom

The Risky Fix-Ins - Buzzfeed Unsolved Franchise

The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

S

Sadie-Killer & The Suspects - Steven Universe

Sadgasm - The Simpsons

SCÄB - Home Movies

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

Sev'ral Timez - Gravity Falls

Sex Bob-omb - Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Sing Street - Sing Street 

Soundcheck - Odd Squad

Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap

Squid Sisters - Splatoon

Squid Squad - Splatoon

The Stiff Dylans - Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging 

Sunset Curve - Julie and the Phantoms

The Superconducting Supercolliders - Designations Congruent With Things (Pacific Rim fanfiction)

T

The Three Lights - Sailor Moon

Trapnest - NANA

Turquoise October - Splatoon

V

The Vampire Lestat - The Vampire Chronicles

W

Wonderlands x Showtime - Hatsune Miku Colourful Stage/Vocaloid

The Wonders - That Thing You Do

Wyld Stallyns - Bill & Ted franchise

Wet Floor - Splatoon

w-3 (omega-3) - Splatoon

Y

Yoko & the Gold Bazookas - Splatoon

Z

Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie

[velvetcake96]

✨Introduction Post✨

Name: Velvet (I also go by Kayla)

Age/Birthday: 19/ July 16 2005

Mutt (Native/Asian/Irish Mix)

She/Her

Girl Kisser (Lesbian)

{Insert mental stuff here that we all know I have but we’re not gonna label them on a social media site}

Fandoms I’m into: Fullmetal Alchemist, Twenty One Pilots, Xdinary Heroes, Stray Kids, Itzy, Gidle, Slime Rancher, Soul Eater, Demon Slayer, Madoka Magica, RWBY, Vocaloid, general emo/kpop bands.

General Interests: Psychology (Getting a degree In community counseling), Animals (Specifically: Cats, Rabbits, Foxes, Box jellies/Jellyfish) Baking.

What You’ll find: Random thoughts on my interests, fanart, fan writings!

And because this has been pin to my page for three years, let me add it to this:

[coraniaid]

58 "I made a mistake" or 95 "I'm a mess" Fuffy?

Thanks! Tough choice but I went with 95 in the end.

This is another canon-divergent Season 3 AU, but it's not set in the same world as anything else of mine. (Actually, I guess it's fully canon-compliant up until the very end of Homecoming.) It's also, I think, the least angsty thing I've ever written.

It's safe to say that this isn't exactly how Faith saw her night going. 

She'd been promised a limo ride, for a start.  And, okay, she'd guessed that the whole school-sanctioned dance party thing would turn out to be a drag -- it's not like she has much experience of this sort of thing, but she definitely still remembers enough about high school to know that it sucked -- but she'd still been sort of hoping that somebody would've smuggled some alcohol in; that she wouldn't have been the only person there who knew how to have some fun. And, of course, she was supposed to have had somebody to talk to all night.  That had been the whole reason she'd invited herself to Homecoming, hadn't it?  To spend a bit more time with Buffy?

But none of that had panned out.  Things never did seem to go the way Faith wanted. Instead of a limo there'd just been a short and weirdly uncomfortable trip over here in somebody's crowded van.  The only entertainment on offer was a mediocre high school band and some free food so terrible even she hadn't felt like eating much of it.  She hadn't even known anyone at the party all night, except for Red and Xander (who had both been too busy acting even weirder than usual to spare more than a few words for her), Buffy's stuffy old Watcher (who hadn't even bothered to say hello) and that sleazebag Scott Hope (whose own night she'd maybe managed to ruin, at least).  She sure hadn't had anyone to dance with.  And Buffy herself had been hours late to the whole thing because of some sort of demon ambush that sounded a hell of a lot more fun than anything Faith had gotten up to all night.

Plus, it turns out that the kids who go to Buffy's school have kind of terrible taste -- which would at least explain the music and the finger food -- so she hadn't even had the chance to see Buffy Summers up on stage in a tiara.

At least now it's just the two of them.  The way she'd hoped it would be, months ago, when she'd set off across the country to find her way to Sunnydale, alone and desperate and not sure who else she could run to.  When she’d had nothing in the world to cling on to except for her dead Watcher's stories of another, better Slayer living somewhere out in California.  For an awful minute, after the results were read out, Faith had thought Buffy was just going to storm out of the building without even stopping to say goodbye.  She isn't sure what she'd have done if that happened.  Slunk off into the night herself, she supposes.  Found something lurking in the shadows with too many eyes or teeth and punched it and stabbed it until it stopped moving.

But Buffy hadn't abandoned her.  Hadn't forgotten about her.  They're sitting side by side outside the building now, feet up in front of them, backs against the wall, staring out into the silent darkness that surrounds the town.  Buffy's been filling her in all the stuff she missed -- Slayerfest, Lyle Gorch, Trick -- while Faith's been mostly quiet.  Just offering the occasional comment to keep the other Slayer talking, trying not to sound too bitter that she missed out on all this.  That Cordelia Chase, of all people, had had the chance to see this part of Buffy's life too.

"I really should be heading back home," Buffy says, for at least the third time tonight.

Faith mutters something non-committal, just like she had the other times.  Home isn't really an option for her.  Never has been.  At the end of the day, when Buffy finally tires of her, she's just going to creep back to the motel like she does every other night.  Maybe find something to kill along the way if she's lucky.  Hope she doesn't run into the management until she's had a chance to catch some sleep.  Not worry about where tomorrow's rent is coming from until tomorrow.

"Tomorrow I'm going to have to explain to my mom why I spent a year's allowance on this dress," Buffy says forlornly.

Faith doesn't know what to say to that either.  It's a nice enough dress, she guesses, or it was before all the mud and the demons and the explosions.  Pretty, in an old-fashioned kind of way.  She can't say she'd want to wear it herself, but that doesn't mean Buffy doesn't make it work. She hasn't got the first idea how much it costs though, and not just because it's been a while since she paid for any of her clothes. 

She doesn't know what the asking price was for her own outfit tonight, though she knows how much it cost her.  A few hours earlier that afternoon spent wandering alone around unfamiliar stores on the wealthy side of town, convinced that everyone was staring at her, that they knew she didn't belong there.  A moment of crisis; a sudden mad dash towards the exit which nobody was expecting, stolen dress clasped tightly in her hands; shouts and raised voices behind her; the lingering but distant threat of jail.

(Faith had always figured she'd end up in prison one day, with or without her powers, ever since she was old enough to know that that was where people like her belonged.  But not today.  Not tonight.  Not until she slows down enough that they can catch her.)

How much is Buffy's allowance, anyway?  Joyce is obviously doing pretty well with the art gallery, if the big fancy house they live in is any clue, and she seems pretty cool -- seems like she cares about her daughter in a way that Faith can only envy -- but what does that mean Buffy gets as a weekly allowance, exactly?  Ten dollars?  A hundred?  More?

"I mean, look at me," Buffy says ruefully.  "I'm a mess."

Faith's been looking for a while, at this point.  Ever since that night outside the Bronze a few weeks ago.  Really, the way she sees it, the mystery is why nobody else is looking.  Why Buffy ever had to settle for the likes of Scott Hope, when by all rights she should've had her pick of any guy in her school.  Hell, Buffy had screwed the undead, hadn't she?  Why did she have to limit herself to guys from her high school anyway?  She could have anyone she wanted.  Even--

Too late, she realizes that Buffy's giving her a strange look.  Shit.  She's been staring for a little too long, hasn't she?

"Nah, the blood spatter looks kind of cute on you," she says, as breezily as she can. "Really, uh.  Brings out your eyes."

She thinks Buffy looks at her a little strangely when she says that.  She guesses it was a pretty strange thing to say.  It's true though.  Ruined dress or not, Buffy looks stunning.  Always has done.

"You ... your dress looks good, too," Buffy tells her, almost shyly.  "It's really pretty."

Faith really doesn't know what to say to that.  Shrugs, suddenly self-conscious.  She settles for clearing her throat. 

"Wanna hit the Bronze?" she asks.  "Still got time to find a couple of guys and have some fun with them, you know?"

The strange look on the other Slayer's face hasn't quite gone away.  Doesn't go away even when Faith mimes exactly the sort of fun they could be having, faking an enthusiasm she certainly doesn't feel.

"I think I'm happy to skip the stud-using part of the night," Buffy says drily. "At least, if that's okay with you?"

Faith nods, maybe a little too quickly.   Hopes her relief isn't too obvious.  She didn't really want to share Buffy with anybody else tonight.  Or ever, if she's being honest with herself.  She hadn't come all this way to California to be an afterthought or a third wheel.

"Whatever you want," she says, almost casually.  Like they're only words.

Neither of them says anything more for a few minutes.  They're just looking out into the horizon, watching the stars in the sky peeping out from behind the clouds, feeling the refreshingly cold air against their skins.  So Faith's not ready for the ambush; doesn't see it coming.

"So, uh." Buffy says. "I was thinking and ... well, this is sort of a date, isn't it?  I mean, that's what's going on here, right?"

That word 'date' comes out as almost a squeak; the rest of the question after it tumbling out faster and faster.  Faith tenses.  Has to fight a sudden urge to curl in on herself; to make herself small.  Risks a surreptitious glance to her right, a quick denial already waiting on her tongue.  She'd rather turn this into a fight than have Buffy repulsed by her or, even worse, have her feel sorry for her.

But Buffy doesn't look disgusted or dismayed. She doesn't seem mad either.  More ... embarrassed, maybe?  A little pinker in the cheeks than usual.  Faith might even say curious, if she didn't know she was just kidding herself.  After all, Buffy's got a type and she's already told Faith exactly what it is.  Buffy likes guys who are nice and normal and funny: not exactly things people have ever accused Faith of being.  Buffy likes guys who are fundamentally, alive or undead, guys.

"It's just, most girls don't ask their friends out to homecoming, you know?" Buffy continues, sounding oddly nervous for somebody who just kicked a whole bunch of demonic ass all evening in heels without breaking a sweat. "That's not something that happens very often."

Faith wouldn't really know about that.  Doesn't say anything.  She guesses she was pushing her luck a little the other day in the library.

("You've got the tickets already," she'd said, trying to sound casual, seizing the sudden unlooked-for opportunity.  "Why don't we go together?")

"I mean, none of my other friends would have offered to replace my recently ex-boyfriend, anyway." Buffy pauses.  "Well, except for Xander, and he ... you know".

Faith knows.  She's known plenty of guys like Xander.  World's full of them, as far as she can tell.  Dude somehow lucked out into dating a popular, gorgeous girl like Cordelia and he's still out there leering at any pretty girl he sees.  She wasn't surprised at all to find out he used to be even more pathetic over Buffy.  But she doesn't want to be like Xander.  Hates the thought of being compared to him, actually.  Of being told she's just some stupid kid, harboring a ridiculous and hopeless--

"But you're not like my other friends, are you?" Buffy says, mercifully cutting off that train of thought.  "You're like me.  You're the only one who I can ..."

Buffy shakes her head.  Doesn't finish the sentence.

"And if it is a date," she continues, voice still going a little high-pitched and breathless when she hits that final word, "Can we skip past the awkward figuring-things-out part too? And jump right to the part where you kiss me?"

Faith blinks.  For a second or two she's too shocked to say a word.

"You sure you want that, B?" she manages.

Her own voice sounds strange in her ears.  Much lower and huskier than usual.  Frankly, she's just impressed she was able to speak.

The other Slayer nods, almost imperceptibly, cheeks flushed and pale green eyes open wide, locked on her.  And Faith still doesn't know what to do.  She hadn't ever thought that-- 

"I know I've not been on an actual date for a while," Buffy says slowly, frowning slightly, "But I'm guessing it's still a bad sign if you have to ask the other person to kiss you tw-"

Faith kisses her. 

Maybe this isn't how she saw the night going, but it's a lot closer to how she hoped it would go than she'd dared to think.  She isn't going to screw things up this time.

So the kiss is soft, almost painfully soft.  As gentle as Faith can manage. She kisses Buffy like the other girl is something fragile, something delicate: like she's made out of glass or spun sugar.  She kisses her like she's somebody who needs to be taken care of.  She kisses her the way nobody's ever kissed Faith before.  Like this is something important; like it matters.  Like she matters.

Because this does matter.  She's kissing Buffy Summers and for a moment -- even if this is just going to turn out to be a mistake or a moment of temporary madness -- Buffy's into it.  She's kissing her too.

Faith isn't sure exactly when she closed her eyes, but when she opens them again -- when she pulls away, still gently, tentatively -- Buffy's own eyes are half-closed as well.  She's got this kind of glazed expression on her face that Faith doesn't think she's ever seen before.  She wonders for a moment if she looks anything like that herself.

"Huh," Buffy says slowly, breaking the silence.  A short, contented sound, like she's just figured something out.

And before Faith can ask herself what that means, Buffy leans in and kisses her right back.

When Buffy kisses her she presses into her slightly, pushing her back against the brick wall behind her.  She puts her weight on her, straddling her, legs resting on her until she's all but sitting in Faith's lap.  Cups her face in her hands possessively, like she's taking charge, the sort of move Faith would never have put up with if any of her loser boyfriends back in Boston had tried it.

With Buffy though, Faith guesses she doesn't mind so much.  That, actually, she doesn't mind at all.  Maybe the other Slayer isn't the only one figuring some things out tonight.

Buffy tastes like earth and sweat and flowers and scented soap. Like running for your life through a dark forest. She tastes like something achingly real, something better than Faith's ever known before.  Something she hasn't got the words to describe.

An eternity later, when the world starts moving again, Buffy asks her a question.  Has to repeat it before Faith remembers how to talk.

"I said, what have you got lined up for the next part of the date?" Buffy asks, half-smiling the way she does when she's in control. "A movie, maybe, or ..."

"Whatever you want, B," Faith tells her hoarsely.  Meaning every word this time. Meaning it like a promise.  Like an oath. Meaning whatever Faith can give her, whatever she can take.

Buffy frowns.

"Honestly, after how the whole Homecoming Queen thing went, I'd really, really like to hit something." 

Faith nods.  She gets that.   Hell, up until tonight she'd have probably said that hitting demons was the best thing she'd ever done in Sunnydale.

"I think I spotted a vamp nest on the way over here," she offers.  "Out by Shady Hill Cemetery.  Not too far to go if we hurry."

The other Slayer smiles at her, and Faith can't help grinning back.

"That has potential," Buffy says, nodding approvingly.  "Come on."

She springs to her feet, offers Faith a hand up.  And Faith doesn't hesitate.

Buffy's fingers curl around hers as she pulls her up to her level.  Then they're both running, as fast as they can, suddenly neither one of them wanting the night to end.  It's just the two of them, the way it was always meant to be.  Two girls in the dark against a world full of demons.  Laughing as they run because they know they're going to win; that they've already won the only prize that matters.  Laughing because they're young enough to tell themselves they're indestructible, and that tonight's going to last forever.

The Chosen Two, Faith tries out in her head.  She thinks she likes the sound of it.

Buffy's hand is still holding on to hers, pulling her onward, radiating warmth and strength and somehow, impossibly, real.  Gripping her tight, like Buffy's almost afraid to let her go.  Almost like Faith's the delicate one, the one who needs to be taken care of.  Like Faith's a valuable prize that the other girl's determined not to let slip away.

Faith doesn't let go either.

[x-emeraldsky-x]

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[teenietinytangerine]

THE TRUTH UNTOLD;

part i. chapter 3.

prev > chapter 1, chapter 2. content disclaimer: light cursing, soft smut. not proofread. pairing: gumiho!yoongi x oc btvs saein (moodboard) summary: Saein was activated as a Slayer during The Reckoning, a spell liberating every Potential Slayer to their full ability. Recently, a client asked her to get rid of a Gumiho (succubus-like in the story, nine-tailed fox) that had taken hold of a house he inherited. A few shenanigans later, the Slayer offered herself up to the Gumiho to feed him. (the story is in media res, if ppl are interested in knowing how they actually met, I might write that in the future)

The prophecies. The legends. All leading to ... her destiny? In Hwachang? The misty city in the south of Seoul, was sitting prettily on top of a Hellmouth, a fissure between realities that let demons in and attracted the local bloodsuckers, kooky wizards and the occasional delusional mummy to its source, but nothing to worry! For the Slayer (or one of anyway, nowadays they operated more in the thousand, which was still quite a low number considering it was worldwide, but you gotta admit it is better that the One, unique, singular numero uno it used to be) had made it her home a few years back already and kept the lid on the infernal soup brewing in there. Somewhat. As best as she could, you know, while juggling her two part-times and gig in the band to whom she promised she wouldn't miss another concert or she would clean Lee's drumset off the gums the kids stuck there with a toothbrush.

But you gotta stake a vampire's heart first!

Or fix the Gumiho issue the sunny-smiled client had brought to your door, and with payment for a change.

... And now, she was waking up in his bed.

Snuggled against him, his warmth, his slow breathing. For the first time in years, she had dreamt of nothing. Her mind had been preoccupied with rest only. Even as she rose back into consciousness, there was something peaceful in the room with the way the light was turning golden through the curtains, or was it the summer breeze of the evening? Saein couldn't remember why she was fighting off the urge to fall back in, let the embrace of oblivion wrap her once again. It was his presence, the fox, the sneaky little fox she had thrown herself at his mercy and could not find any regrets for, innocently dozing off behind her that awoke her fully. She didn't even know what a Gumiho was a month ago and now she was spooning with one, wondering if she should interrogate the reason it felt like an elephant had took off his foot from her chest and ultimately deciding to leave that for the next spiralling down existential crisis that was most likely looming around soon. In the meantime, she'd enjoy the lightness.

Her sleepy gaze fell on his curled hand that he had kept where she put it, hugging her from behind, right next to her own arm and she was, without realizing, noting their every detail: the paths his veins were drawing on his pale skin, the pinkish color of his knuckles, how long his fingers extended despite being crouched over themselves... Her mind wandered towards those fingers' abilities. The way he could sense and absorb emotions, but not any emotion, hers, no, no not exactly, not any of hers either, just pleasure. Her thoughts drifted back to what those fingers did to her only a few hours before, how they felt on her body, in her body... The memory alone is enough to bring back the electric warmth. It felt like trying to remember a dream that kept escaping her. The more she tried to recount all the details, the more she grew restless, the proximity of his body right next to her seeming too far, and the more the view of those fingers being so close to her skin and yet motionless was driving her bonkers.

Suddenly, it occurred to her. Once again, somehow, she had her back to him. Maybe it was because they were practically in the same position than in the bathroom, and her body was merely reacting to the recall like, like... muscle memory, or something. She wanted needed to see his face. She turned slowly to face him, and the change of position made his hand slip to her waist. Damnit. But now she could see him. Half his face snuggled into a pillow, the fox looked peaceful, almost innocent. So human, not a single feature betraying him. His long raven hair fell across his eyelids, his cheeks were fuller you would expect, and, like a magnet, her gaze fell to his well-defined lips. Once again, she felt the rythme of her heart accelerate and a fog rise amidst her better judgment as she leaned ever so slightly. "You're..."  Gorgeous. It was stupid how gorgeous he looked. It would be pointless trying to explain the harmony of his traits, he might as well have been sculpted by the fabric of the universe itself.  

"Hm?" His grumbling scared the living bejesus out of her, with his cave-like voice, awakening from the depth of his sleep and stopping her cold in her tracks. He opened his eyes and for a moment they were both frozen, neither willing to give in nor escape whatever this situation was. Saein, going as far as tilting her head as if she was not leaning mere inches away from him, innocently echoed: "Hm?"

Yoongi's eyes were flickering all over her face, trying to figure her out and finding himself completely unable to. That was not how things usually go. By now, she should be miles away from here, actually she shouldn't even be in his bed. ACTUALLY, a Slayer, should not even be in the same city than him, and definitely not offer herself up and even less should he be able to still taste her in his veins, and crave her... Her scent should not be all over his sheets, and he should not be woken up with her, above him, taunting him.

Saein moved closer, and he recognized the same look she had given him in the bathtub. "What are you-" he said absentmindedly, as his whole brain, barely awakened, was shutting down in the attempt to process the situation, only aware in this instant of her face closing the distance on his. As if she was in a  trance, she continued to mumble to herself "You look..." The words died on her lips as she could no take off her eyes from his. If only she knew how he was looking at her, completely puzzled and adoring with defeat the confusion she was putting him through, but her attention was entirely on her own realization of his absolute sinful beauty she was gorging herself in.

She swallowed the last distance between them and let the end of the sentence crash on his mouth, unfinished, sealing the answer with a kiss that felt like silk, mellow and light. This time, the fox was not as taken aback as he was before, but still, he had no time to process or react before she halted it. "You've got to stop doing that", he murmurs behind his breathe as they are close enough to hear any whisper from each other. "Why?" The fever was still very much present in her. "It's not what I usually ..." "It's not part of the ritual?" She rubbed her nose against his, he bit his bottom lip, suddenly crisping, then finally exhaling: "Yeah, something like that." But you're not pushing her off. "You said you fed on my pleasure... Can't you feel it?" He did. Every brush against his nose, the slightest touch of her wandering lips hovering right above his, waiting for nothing more than permission, with every single skin ship, he could feel her, completely, her and the flood of emotions she carried. More than the kiss, it was the eagerness that made him spiral. She was so .. what was she? 

"Christ, you just woke up, what did you dream about to be like that?" But he couldn't help himself, he couldn't deny that she was stirring up his own hunger at an alarming pace. Now, as if she could read his defenses melt away, her fingers were venturing along his neck all the way to his jaw. "I dreamt of a bath." He smirked. The fox is back. "A good bath?" The gumiho slowly rose up, making sure to never wander an inch away from the distance they had established, their breath mingling together.  She tucked a piece of hair behind his ear. Her smile widened. "It wasn't too bad, i guess." That's all it took, Yoongi succumbed to the black hole-like attraction and, truly, fully, kissed her.

 Kissing him was intoxicating. Kissing him was understanding the meaning of lust itself. She felt like she was satisfying a thirst after a drought, like the water had been right out of her reach for days and now it was gliding in her throat and she didn't know how to appreciate the immensity of it. The slayer was a good kisser, but even her had to admit she had never been or kissed like that. She felt no inhibitions with him, and why should she? This was always what she came here for, and intimacy with him felt like the most natural thing in the world. Saein didn't wait to take over, guiding the depth of the kiss to the heights of her expectations, rolling over him for more control, sitting on his chest and her hands sliding in his hair.

The chaste kiss was far gone and they were inhaling each other, exploring how far the other would let them go and neither posing any boundaries if it wasn't for the rush that limited either from melting completely in one movement before another got distracted by wanting more.

The Gumiho was completely overwhelmed. There was a reason he didn't usually kiss. Although the mythical creature fed through every touch, his mouth remained the true mean to do so, and therefore the most sensitive part of him. He had a hard time focusing on her pleasure without getting distracted by his before he could actually eat anything. She made his head spin, dangerously. He got so dismayed by his own efforts to snap out of it that he didn't notice one of her hand forsake his dark hair to travel down his chest and work on the buttons of his silky shirt. He only noticed when she freed his mouth, although he pursued her in a rush, to kiss her way down his neck and when she reached his collarbone, all the buttons had come undone and she was sliding her fingers along his bare skin. "So soft," she whispers in-between pecks, finally giving him a moment to breathe but only as she has a new destination in mind. Before moving any way down further, she suddenly sat back up, straddling him. Here, she was taking him in, slowing down their clock at a still because the view was breathtaking.

Yoongi was having a hard time catching his breath, his eyes slightly rolled back, his mouth still hanging open. He looked both ethereal and lost in ether at once. Her gaze followed the trace of her fingers on his chest, feasting on the wide, soft but defined chest, nearly drooling at it. "Not bad," she sighed.

This was the moment she started to wonder if Gumihos didn't emit pheromones or something  because there was no way she was like that just after a make out session, right?

"Not bad," he repeated. With the golden light from the dying sun coming behind her, the Slayer looked divine. He was looking up at her, standing astride him, her messy onyx hair dripping down on her forehead, the curve of her waist he could distinguish through the enormous tee-shirt he had lent her, her naked thighs pressing against his ribs, and if she were to move back ever so slightly...

His eyes widened when she proceeded to do just that, but instead of following through on his thoughts, she merely bent back to kiss, with tenderness, his chest. She was putting all her attention on how the muscles of his breast reacted to her touch, tensing up and releasing, caressing the smooth skin and the chest hair before adventuring herself onto the most sensitive parts: the brown pinkish buttons enticing her. Her teeth brushed over, then bit above it, before remembering how much she hated him teasing her the same way, which honestly was leaning her more towards teasing him even more but her own desires won and she started licking unceremoniously the nipple, exhorting a deep grunt out of him. He didn't just lost control, he wasn't sure he could remember the meaning of the word. Admittedly, it had been a while since he had been on the receiving end but by the name of all that is evil, what the fuck.

When he felt her hand sneaking down between his legs, he suddenly pulled himself back up, making her slump on her ass on the mattress, wide-eyed.

He coughed with a forced laugh, as if he just remembered something that could not wait. "I forgot you're human! You gotta be hungry." Parsed lips, eye contact nowhere to be seen. Her eyes succinctly fell down below his waist but she did not comment on what she saw and he pretended not to notice but continued with a faster pace. "I'm not going to make you starve, I take care of my guests, I'm not a monster. Wait here." Before she had the chance to riposte, or comprehend the sudden switch, he was gone in a storm.

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