#fooltrick

[electricea]

@fooltrick

"Heh thanks, dude! Same to you and your folks! You all deserve the best too!"

[oraclememehacker]

filled it out for funsies and aww, so close!

the transparent ones are because while hibiki loves both modern and retro gaming pretty equally, he's definitely got a preference for retro and thinks turn based rpgs are fun but it definitely depends on what the devs are going for- say, xenoblade is a fantastic rpg that... would not be nearly as good if it was turn based, for example. stuff like that. and while he still really likes featherman and would totally marathon it with futaba, he also feels like he's outgrown loving it.

"So close! You just need to play the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, AND the nomination-winning Stormblood expansion up to level 70 for free with no restrictions on playtime."

[justiceburst]

softly, but with feeling: i love your akechi a lot! he's so fun!! words are hard bc i'm a lil sleepy right now but i love how much care goes into the balancing act that his Everything(tm) entails- keeping him sympathetic but held accountable; i find it's easy to want to lean into one direction or the other, but all the layers and facets to his personality shine through well! basically you're doing great, keep it up~ and i'd love to see more yusuke, joker, and mona too <3

「   ASK MEME :   HOW’S MY PORTRAYAL?   」

ahhh, thank you!!! maintaining that balance is super important to me, it's something i think about a lot while writing him, so i'm very glad to hear that that comes through, and i'm accomplishing what i'm trying to! 💜

[of-invisible-ties]

"It didn't feel right, but it worked." @ akechi, sojiro, or phoenix 👀

From This Cursed Meme II Accepting!

"It didn't work, did it? Not in the end."

Akechi laughs, but it's utterly mirthless. This new reality may have given him a second lease on life, but there was no point in indulging in it. The palace's ruler had to be toppled, and that was that. He would prefer death over living in the palm of a fool's hand. He was dead no matter what, and, thus, he didn't see any reason to reconnect with Hibiki again.

Not for the latter's lack of trying, of course. Hibiki had invited him to darts. Alone. It was obvious what he really wanted. To reconnect and see what went wrong and what could be righted.

Worthless. Utterly worthless.

Hibiki doesn't know that Akechi will die, but he's being an idiot regardless. What was the worth in befriending a murderer -- especially one who had killed people his friends knew and cherished? Those people were resurrected in this false reality as well ... a grim reminder that, had it not been for him, they'd still be alive today.

He has too many sins on his ledger, and he won't pay them. Where he's going, he won't need to.

"You're wasting your breath. I don't know what you think you saw in me, but it was a lie. We both know I was lying the entire time."

He wants to break something. A table, maybe. But he doesn't. He sits there, seething, his knuckles whitening as he clenches the one of the darts they were playing with earlier.

"I should be dead. You know that, don't you?"

[inkantation-arch]

@fooltrick said,

"no matter what they tell you, the future's up for grabs." ( lyric asks! )

"Got a lot of confidence, don't you, Biki?"

Eden shouldn't really be shocked; she knew Hibiki well enough. Still, she lets a little gasp out, and crosses her hands over her hips. "I wish I could steal some," she admits with ease. Slumping forward, Eden looks... diminutive. Like the weight of it all could crush her.

"It's like, sometimes I'm on top of the world, y'know? Like nothing could ever touch me." She smacks her hands together, bringing one fist into the palm of the other, "But then, I get hit with it all over again. And it's like - am I even good at this music stuff, or are people just showing up because they pity me?"

"Do people only care because Marina and Pearl know me - I swear, I see people say that every day now."

[healingwords]

@fooltrick asks ' 🎧 for ann! '

♫

The first time I heard this song... I damn near cried.

Every lyric, every note--it's all Ann picking herself back up after what Kamoshida did to her and getting her justice. The line 'When I'm finished, they won't know your name.' just... I can't put into words. It gave me chills.

(I still think it's bullshit this song missed out on the Grammy in favor of Ed Sheehan singing about how he was horny, but that's neither here nor there, ahem.)

[alibabastreasure]

@fooltrick​

futaba, that's a coma.

“Zzzzz... sounds festive.... zzzz”

[phoenixdynearch]

❝ i gave my all for this moment… ❞

“ and it looked spectacular, hibiki ! ” you give your friend a warm smile, and a thumbs up. ��� you put a lot of effort into your craft and it shows-  so give yourself more credit. ”

timeless play. @fooltrick.

[ghostbustingreen]

"so... you catch ghosts with this thing?" hibiki asks, turning the poltergust 5000 over in his hands curiously. to the untrained eye it looks... well, like an every day vacuum cleaner. if ghosts can phase through walls, what's keeping them in such a dinky little container?

to say so would probably be rude, though, so he hands the device back to luigi and smiles brightly. weird machine aside, the entire notion of chasing and fighting ghosts does seem rad as hell. "i didn't peg you as the ghost busting type, but that's really cool! does mario do it too? i bet you guys have loads of stories, hehe."

❝That's-a right! It cleans up ghosties just as well as it cleans up dust, ha-ha.❞ Luigi took the device back and continued tinkering with it. Professor E. Gadd kept the G-00 at his lab with Gooigi, but Luigi still liked having a Poltergust on hand for the sake of his nerves.

His expression fell into a somewhat pained smile when the other asked about Mario. ❝W-Well, not exactly, uh... Big Bro's not-a so good with-a ghosties, eheh. He, um... tends to get-a captured by 'em.❞

[gingermuses]

baby’s first starter call | @fooltrick

"A fine match; well played. It does feel freeing to battle opponents at my full strength."

There was a ghost of a smile on Hifumi's face as she brushed a lock of her silky black hair behind her ear, her bright green eyes twinkling as she locked them with Hibiki's.

"However... it might be beneficial to broaden my horizons. Do you have any strategy-oriented activities that you enjoy? It might give me muse for another attack against the enemy lines in a future match."

It would not surprise her at all if he did; after all, she always sensed that he had some sort of gambler's streak in him. Betting wasn't where her heart lied, of course, but the thrill of the battle could be the same no matter the game or sport.

[electricea-archive]

@fooltrick​​

“...Truthfully, I think that Joker is much more cute than me!”

[electricea]

@fooltrick sent - it's kiss ryuji day? don't mind hibiki casually leaning in and stealing one then! ❤️ ( Kiss Ryuji Day! )

"Stealing hurts and stealing kisses, huh...?"

He manages to quip in spite of himself, an underlying nervousness to both of his voice and his body language as he asks his follow up question.

"Do I...get to steal one back?"

[oraclememehacker]

✏️ !!! <3

Send in ✏️ and I’ll use this (improved) incorrect quote generator featuring both our muses!

Futaba: Did it hurt when you fell- Hibiki: From heaven? Wow, I didn’t think you were such a flirt- Futaba: No, I meant when you fell down the stairs. Hibiki: ... Futaba: You just laid there for 15 minutes.

Futaba: You’re alive. Hibiki: No need to sound so disappointed.

Futaba: Hey, if you type in your password, it'll show in stars. Futaba: ********* see! Hibiki: hunter2 Hibiki: Doesn't look like stars to me. Futaba: Hibiki: ******* Futaba: That's what I see. Hibiki: Oh, really? Futaba: Absolutely. Hibiki: You can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2. Hibiki: Haha, does that look funny to you? Futaba: Lol, yes. See when YOU type hunter2, it shows it to us as ******* Hibiki: That's cool. I didn't know this site did that. Futaba: Yup. No matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as ******* Hibiki: Awesome. Hibiki: Wait, how do you know my pa**word? Futaba: Er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause it's your pa**word. Hibiki: Oh, ok.

Hibiki: I'm having problems with a guy... Futaba: Like his dead body won't fit into your trunk kind of problems, or you like him kind of problems?

[justiceburst]

eyyyy, multiple bingos, what does he win~

while hibiki accepts that the atrocities are part of goro and why he turned out the way he did, he doesn't find them funny and goro would have to commit to changing for the better for things to work out long term ( during the events of the game, however, he is hoping he can win him over by showing him kindness and offering a place to belong, and thus get him to quit while he's ahead. unfortunately, as we know, this doesn't pan out and it's a very good, lucky thing he was aware that it probably wasn't going to happen. ) also, while we know he's a pretty, pretty man and thus i marked it... biki himself doesn't, lmao. he thinks goro's like a million times prettier.

"You win the satisfaction of getting a bingo on my board!"

[of-invisible-ties]

👀 akechi or sojiro, go

Meme II Accepting!

"Don't worry. The leader of the Phantom Thieves will be an easy mark."

"He'll never see it coming. By the time he realizes what's happened, he'll already be dead. The guard will be one of ours, of course. I won't be taking any chances with this operation ... and I don't intend to leave any loose ends, either."

Akechi laughs, and, speak of the devil, he'd just gotten a text from Hibiki.

"Ah, would you look at that. He wants to see me today. Give me a moment to text him back."

Just to stick it to him, Akechi hung up before Shido could reply. Despite himself, he was grinning as he replied to Hibiki's text. He even threw in an emoji, just for kicks.

Sure, you know I like darts :)

Can we see a movie, too? If you can guess which one I want to see, snacks are on me today.

[inkantation-arch]

the fool and the sun!!! for both of them!!!

take a card // accepting

19.  the sun  :  in general, how optimistic is your muse ? does your muse appreciate the small things in life ?

I'm going to blanket cover the last part of the question first: Yes. Tsunaomi and Eden have both lost so much in their lives - family members, time, opportunities stolen by their circumstances. The small things are absolutely treasured by them.

Optimism.... however.... It's a bit complicated? Tsunaomi and Eden both certainly try to be optimistic, but are both held back by trauma in different ways. Tsunaomi is infected, infested with doubt from her partial sanitization via Tartar; it preys upon the discrimination she has seen, the pain she has been through. Eden, meanwhile, has seen true, terrible horror in the Deep Sea, and thus, takes everything people say or do with a grain of salt. Bad things can happen - it doesn't mean they will, it just means she has to look out for them.

the fool was answered here.