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whiskeysmulti · 14 days ago

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Make A Wish (A KHR Fanfic)

Fandom: KHR Word Count: 1,055 Prompt: Make A Wish Ship: 5927 (Gokudera Hayato/ Sawada Tsunayoshi) Characters: Gokudera Hayato, Sawada Tsunayoshi Event Host: @flufftober

He'd made a wish on a falling star one night. Sawada Tsunayoshi, the loser of the school who didn't have anything going for him, and who felt no one could ever care about, wished on a star for something he never dreamed imaginable. They often warn to always be careful what you wish for because you never know, you just might get it.

"If I wish for anything it's a true friend, someone who understands me, who will accept me and love me just the way I am. Someone who will see past all the no good things in me, someone that I will actually mean something to." Tsuna wished as hard as he could, as deeply as he could draw out his emotions, he wished with all his might and all his heart for only a few simple things, love, acceptance and understanding.

However when you're a teenager those are three of the hardest things to get. But sometimes on rare occasions wishes do come true, on full moon nights on the most magical day of the year when you think your prayers will never be answered, they are and an angel is sent down to you, in the form of a foreign exchange student sent to assassinate to you.

He wasn't what Tsuna expected to be his saving grace, but aside from the gangster attire, the silver hair, the delinquent ways, the bad boy image in general, Gokudera was about to show him sometimes wishes do come true and good things can happen to a typical loser like him.

Yes, Tsuna was and would always be a loser, but that didn't mean he couldn't be loved, that didn't mean his wish couldn't come true. Sometimes it was the person you least expected to be your saving grace that was. Tsuna's knight in shining armor was right there before him this whole time in the form of a delinquent foreign exchange student sent from Italy.

To those who saw them together it wouldn't seem like Gokudera and Tsuna were each other's dream boyfriend, but they were. One rough around the edges and the other so soft that it didn't seem like he even had edges until you pushed him way too far. An odd couple in every way, it wasn't quite believable that they were indeed each other's saving grace, but that's exactly what both boys were to one another.

It was subtle but it was there. Tsuna had never dreamed he'd find true love in an exchange student from Italy but that was exactly what he found. Gokudera had walked into his life in what felt like his darker hour and lit his world up and showed him what devotion, patience, understanding, romance and true love really were like. "It's funny, I never dreamed I'd ever be this lucky in all my life, Gokudera-kun." Tsuna mentioned as they lay on their backs, watching the stars together and just talking for the evening.

"Huh? What do you mean?" He looked at Tsuna as if he'd just grown a second head and any minute now he'd be woken by his alarm for work and told this was indeed just a dream and his wish hadn't come true.

"I have you as a boyfriend." Tsuna blushed and turned away quickly. He realized the weight of what he'd just said and that their relationship had actually been a deeper, stronger devotion than the two boys were able to admit before. The loser of the school had stolen the heart of the popular bad boy and didn't even realize it at first.

Having gotten the guy he'd actually always dreamed of, there wasn't much that Tsuna would have wished for. His wishes he knew were unrealistic deep down because there was no way he would always be able to save his friends no matter how protective he was or how strong he got, pain and fighting were inevitable and you can't protect someone twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week, it's an unachievable dream because it's just a fact, bad things happen and sometimes sadly good people are the victims hurt by it.

He could have wished for fame and wealth, some things many people only dream of in their lifetime, but again for someone like Tsuna those kinds of wishes didn't seem within his grasp, they didn't seem realistic enough to even hope for right now.

But Tsuna also had everything he ever wanted, Gokudera loved him for who he was and stood by his side even when the rest of the world doubted him, even when they pointed out his flaws and called him a loser right in front of the Storm, he still loved Tsuna just the way he was, for who he was and never tried to change him and that was enough for Tsuna to know he was loved and accepted as he was, finally for the first time in his life. Tsuna had wished for just one friend who understood him and he'd gotten that and so much more in Gokudera.

Gently a strong arm pulled Tsuna in close and kissed him deeply. The moment felt right, even if many would frown upon two boys showing each other affection, Tsuna and Gokudera didn't really care, they were content in the moment as Tsuna put his head on Gokudera's chest and pointed to the sky. "A falling star! Make a wish!" He exclaimed excitedly, snuggling into the arms of his boyfriend.

Gokudera however shook his head. There had never really been much in his life that he wished for, always understanding that harsh or not, this was the life he had to live, he had to keep going no matter how bad it got or how little he really had left. Gently he kissed Tsuna again, and held him tighter, it just felt like the right thing to do. But when those brown eyes looked so curiously at him, he knew whatever the question was that was coming, he wouldn't be able to lie to him about it.

"What did you wish for, Gokudera-kun?" Tsuna asked, curious what Gokudera wanted deep down and found himself a little shocked and red in the face when the answer came so simply and plainly.

"Nothin'. 'Cause I already have everything I wanted in you."

#whiskey speaks; ooc #whiskey writes #flufftober2024 #KHR fanfic #day 31 #prompt: make a wish #ship; 5927

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ciaossu-imagines · 2 years ago

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Day 14: You're hired to conduct a paranormal investigation - who's your dream team? (Characters from all fandoms) :)

Ahhhh!!! I love this so friggin’ much, you have no idea! This was such a fun thing to sit down and consider and plot out so thank you so much for sending it in!

So, building up a paranormal investigation team, and a sizeable one because we’re taking on the tough jobs, I’m going to recruit from each fandom, especially since you’re allowing me to.

From KHR, I’d definitely pull in Gokudera. He loves all the paranormal stuff, along with cryptids and urban legends and anything vaguely supernatural in the least, even canonically, and he excels at research. He’s my team’s main researcher and I feel he’d be able to give us the most information on each case, along with guesses on what type of paranormal creatures we might deal with, their weaknesses and so on and so forth. He’d be the voice in our ears as he stays in the van, watching the footage and shifting through the research he’s compiled.

From K, I’m recruiting Bandou. He’s very technologically competent and there’s a lot of gadgetry that goes into paranormal investigations. He’d be in charge of all the audiovisual equipment, as well as maintaining and teaching everyone how to use the gadgets, like EMF sensors, infrared thermometers, digital voice recorders, etc.

Nanbaka’s character recruitment is a no-brainer! It’s established in canon that Rock can see ghosts, so he plays such a huge role in any and all investigations the team conducts.

From Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun!, I’m recruiting Clara Valac. The girl is always prepared, and her high energy and good spirits keep the team’s motivation up. That, and she has very little fear, so I would never have to worry about her chickening out of an investigation if things started going down!

From Bungou Stray Dogs, I’m choosing Ranpo! He’s the team’s resident skeptic and with his keen observational skills, he’s able to weed out all possible hoaxes or normal causes for things that everyone else might be too quick to assume are paranormal.

From Servamp, I’m recruiting Mikuni. He might not be the most trustworthy at all times, and we all know he’s definitely in this whole thing for himself, but the man is a genius, with a lot of paranormal knowledge and an interest and knack for learning more. He’s part of the research team with Gokudera.

From Saiyuki, I’m definitely getting Sanzo on board the team, just because I need a smoking buddy who can shoot the shit and commiserate with me when everyone else is being idiots. That, and he’d come in incredibly useful if we ever had to exorcise a bitch.

From Mystic Messenger, I’m recruiting Jumin Han. He rarely comes out into the field with us, but he funds our entire organization and gives us valuable resources and we all love him.

From Ikemen Revolution, I’m recruiting Fenrir against his will, just because the idea of him having to go through even just a very basic ghost-hunt amuses the fuck out of me.

From Eyeshield 21, I’m recruiting Hiruma. He comes and goes as he pleases, participating only in the cases that interest him, but he’s an invaluable member of the team, nonetheless. He seems to always know ‘a guy’ who gets us what we need or help us get to where we want to be, not to mention that he always seems to get the best jobs sent to us.

From The Outsiders, I’m recruiting Ponyboy. I don’t know why, but I do think Pony would be the most open to the idea of the paranormal and he’d work really well no matter where we stuck him, doing his best and just kind of keeping to himself and not causing many issues.

Okay, hear me out here. From Ronin Warriors, I’m recruiting Rowen. I can’t even fully explain it out, but I just strongly headcanon him as just being very sensitive to ghosts and spirits and the paranormal in general. He’s not bombarded by them, he doesn’t speak to them, but he does seem to draw them towards him and, with his high intelligence and ability to think logically, he’s both able to help the research team and to keep his head while out conducting surveillance or working in the field.

From Kekkaishi, I’m recruiting Yoshimori. He really is a very empathetic boy, and he’s going to try to find ways to empathize and lay any spirits to rest during all investigations. He keeps all of us grounded and helps us remember the human element of paranormal investigation and that the end goal is always to lead whatever paranormal creature we’re investigating to peace.

From GetBackers, I’m recruiting Paul! He feeds us and makes the coffee, while working with the audiovisual and research teams. Honestly, he mostly sticks around because we all amuse him.

From Blush Blush, I’m recruiting Cole. While Stirling would be the more logical choice, given that he’s paranormal himself, I just feel that, with Cole being the obsessive stalker he is, I’d never truly be in danger with him around.

From Class of the Titans, I’m recruiting Odie, who rounds out the tech team. The boy’s a genius and he even helps create some new equipment for our investigations, though he does have a slightly skeptical side that does help keep the rest of us (save Ranpo, who Odie becomes fast friends with) from jumping to hasty conclusions.

While not technically part of our team, I feel my paranormal research team works closely with the entirety of The Howling Commandos from Disney’s Ultimate Spider-Man. Being paranormal creatures themselves, they give our research team lots of information and sometimes give us a hand with the tougher cases.

#event asks #i loved this #so much fun!!

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makeste · 4 years ago

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BnHA Chapter 304: The Council of OFA

Previously on BnHA: Hawks and Best Jeanist were all, “what up Todofam, we are here to apply for the positions of ‘son #4’ and ‘weird uncle’, respectively,” and then proceeded to insert themselves into the family drama without waiting for an answer. Hawks briefed Endeavor on the nation’s current status of “totally fucked”, promised to help him sort that out, and then asked him about OFA. Endeavor was all, “oh do you mean One For All, the mysterious thing that my intern Deku was apparently being targeted for?” and then we cut away, presumably before Endeavor could clarify that it never occurred to him to follow up on that, and Hawks was all “no of course not, why would it occur to anyone other than me to follow up on any of this super weird and ominously important shit.” Anyway so meanwhile Bakugou was all “LET ME SCREAM AT DEKU UNTIL HE WAKES UP” and the other kids were all “NO”, and then the chapter ended with All Might being all “I wonder what the vestige!me is currently chatting with Deku about.”

Today on BnHA: Deku drops in on the Vestiges, who are all “sup Deku, how do you like our fancy chairs.” OFA II and III are all “if you need us we’ll just be standing here silently in the corner pretending to be invisible and sparking endless discourse with our mere existence.” OFA IV is all “and now I will explain to you in a very convoluted way that you being quirkless was actually a good thing, since it means that you are probably not going to suddenly drop dead at the age of twenty. But also you’re probably going to be the last user of OFA for that very same reason.” Deku is all “that is wild. I’m just gonna stand here and stare at my hand.” Nana is all “so now that that��s settled could you please do me a small favor and kill my grandson for me”, because having just one topic to discourse about this week WASN’T ENOUGH, apparently. Thanks so much Horikoshi.

(ETA: okay so just a note before I start, this week’s RHA translation was a huge mess, so I followed up this chapter by reading a couple of other translations. the main one I’m using for reference is the one by @hanashimas, whose weekly posts I highly recommend. anyway so you’ll see a couple of ETAs in this post in places where the initial translation was off.)

how many layers of bandages did they wrap this poor kid’s fucking hand in omg

jesus Deku. are you holding onto a bouquet of flowers under that thing?? or a tennis racket??

omg yes, finally

is he reading these names off a teleprompter lol. and if so, what has Jeanist ever done to slight you, Deku? “god bless Kacchan and Aizawa-sensei and Todoroki-kun and everyone else in the whole wide world... except for Best Jeanist. fuck that guy.” actually this joke would be funnier if half of tumblr didn’t legit feel that way lol but anyway

OH MY GOD

I NEED TO HAVE A TALK TOO. ABOUT, OH, EVERYTHING

I got immediate KHR vibes from ALL OF THIS. this is seriously such a Vongola aesthetic. “let’s use the luxuriously cushioned chairs with the seat backs that are ten feet high, and arrange all of the handsome ghost people in a big circle” like come on

that said there are also some slight LoTR vibes as well. “bring forth the ring, Deku”

I like how Six is sitting there with his feet drawn up all casual, but with his arms inexplicably sticking STRAIGHT OUT IN FRONT OF HIM and dangling over his knees like he’s doing some sort of zombie walk

apparently the Fourth wasn’t a big fan of shoes huh

interesting that All Might is the only one who’s still faint/indistinct, and and that Two and Three are fully visible

(ETA: the rest of my speculation about Two and Three has been moved into a separate post, the better to focus on the shit that’s actually happening in this chapter lol.)

and lastly, interesting that all of them are talking now, except for All Might (and I guess the Second and Third as well). to the best of my knowledge Deku hasn’t unlocked the Sixth’s quirk yet, so I guess the quirks don’t really have anything to do with it

oh and it looks like Deku’s mouth is still covered. I guess that’s convenient for the vestiges since we all know it’s hard to stop Deku once he gets going. but on the other hand it’s very inconvenient for people like me who wanted to see some interaction. alas

so First says that OFA’s power has grown a lot in the last four months (i.e. since Deku unlocked Blackwhip), and now the vestiges can communicate with each other as well as Deku

so even when Deku’s not around they can all just chill with each other. this is such a weird thing to me lol. like it’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but it’s also strange as hell to know that you’ve got eight other people hanging out in your head spying on everything you do and having conversations with each other about it. it would be like if Dark Shadow had someone to hang out with other than Tokoyami. good thing you weren’t triplets, Tokoyami

First says that it’s become easier for the vestiges to interact with Deku ever since TomurAFO barged into the OFA Domain back at Jakku. huh

(ETA: apparently this is because AFO forcibly pulled out OFA’s power when he was trying to steal the quirk, so I guess that makes sense.)

okay thank you Banjou for addressing this concern which I initially brought up as a joke, but which was apparently real enough for you to reassure Deku about

“don’t worry, even though we’re awake and hanging out inside of you at all times, we’re definitely not secretly watching and making fun of every single thing you do” hmmmmm

(ETA: “not that you could do anything about it even if we were, since you’re probably going to be the last OFA holder ever!” I don’t trust anything this asshole says lmao.)

OH SHIT??

YESSS DEKU now you can hold them accountable for all of their bullshit! because I do not doubt that there will be bullshit lol but let’s see how that goes

oh damn

well okay then. you didn’t have to stand up and walk over to him and loom all threateningly like that but okay sir

this guy has kind of a Kimimaro vibe to him. remember? that bone-growing guy from Naruto? except I’m pretty sure he had eyebrows. and wasn’t twenty feet tall. speaking of which, that explains the chairs

why are you wearing only 3/5ths of a shirt

lol what

someone’s gonna have to explain this to me. is he just redundant or something lol, or is he strangely poetical or what

(ETA: apparently HE’S MAKING A PUN omg. I immediately gained +10 love for him lol. also it flows a lot better in Japanese. this is one of the things Caleb is usually good at, so we’ll see what he does with the wordplay.)

omg the hermit theory is true!!

“I’M NOT WEIRD, IT’S SOCIETY WHICH IS WEIRD.” lol whatever you say buddy. also love how Banjou tried to give him a big hearty slap on the back but Hermit Boy was not having it lmao

IS HE TRYING TO CAPTURE HIM WITH BLACKWHIP

AND ACTUALLY, NO, SIR, AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE ARE NOT AWARE. SO SPILL!!

?!!?

okay my first response was LOL ARE YOU SERIOUS, THAT’S THE BIG SECRET!? -- and then it hit me what the significance of “died from old age... AT AGE FORTY” meant. at which point it was like “!!!!!” and then “OH, SHIT”

(ETA: there’s also an Iida joke here somewhere but I’m just too tired to make it.)

oh my god oh my god

did he somehow get a copy of the coroner’s report or something? like how does he even know that he died from “old age” as opposed to any number of other natural causes? ??

but anyway. so this is the quirk singularity coming into play then I guess. but then how come All Might is still alive and ticking?

(ETA: so this is one example of where this week’s translation is a mess lol. apparently the Fourth explains here that he didn’t know what the fuck he died from until All Might researched it. and it turns out there actually was an autopsy lol so there you go.)

so Fourth says he held OFA for eighteen years, and since he knew he would never be strong enough to defeat AFO on his own he basically just spent all his time punching rocks in the woods and training to power the quirk up

oh shit

is he implying that his body literally fell apart?? like that’s how he got the scars on his face? -- IS THAT WHAT KEEPS HAPPENING TO TOMURA, THEN. oh shit

DUDE

so you’re telling me that this quirk actively shortens the lifespan of anyone who uses it?? and my little boy here has had it now for a year already?? fuck me, I have immediately have a TON of thoughts about all this but let me save it until he’s done with his explanation

THANK YOU, DEKU

right?? how come All Might didn’t die then. even after he got injured. please don’t tell me he actually is dying still and is just being slow about it because I SWEAR TO GOD

what does this mean??

so what you’re trying to say is you all have NO FUCKING IDEA how long Deku’s gonna be able to hold this quirk before he SUDDENLY DROPS DEAD?! five generations ago this dude was able to hold it for eighteen years, and then four generations later All Might was able to hold it for thirty-odd years or so, and now Deku has it and you all have no clue which way it’s gonna go? actually this makes it sound like it really wasn’t OFA that killed the Fourth at all and you guys are just really bad at forming hypotheses. but since you’re making a big plot point out of it I guess it must be true

and don’t think I didn’t notice the part where you said you didn’t have OFA very long and then “died while fighting”, Firsto. I want to hear more about that. specifically who you passed the quirk onto before your death

and yes, if we are agreeing that OFA was the cause of the Fourth’s death, then the conclusion on this next page is the natural one to draw

so that’s a bit of a relief then, because Deku is quirkless too. so it means he won’t be able to hold OFA forever (and will probably have to find another quirkless person to pass it on to), but at least he won’t be randomly dying out of the blue next Tuesday or something

oh my god now he’s talking about OFA and AFO and user consciousnesses and all sorts of good theory stuff but it’s so much exposition. you’re really gonna make me read all this lol

wait what. why would All Might being quirkless have anything to do with the presence of his vestige in OFA Outer Space Party Land

but Deku is also quirkless and he’s clearly visible and chatting with you guys. so what gives. like how much of this is verified fact and how much of it is you guys just shrugging and making stuff up lol

SERIOUSLY, GUYS

BUT DEKU IS ALSO -- you know what, never mind sob. none of this shit makes any sense but whatever

(ETA: seriously, this all seems like an awful lot of speculation on their part. for Deku’s sake I sure hope they’re right.)

FSSKDJFLSKLKJLKJL ALL MIGHT IS FIFTY-FIVE?!

lol that’s a full ten years past my closest estimate, wow. but this pretty much confirms his age now at last! or at least confirms it within a couple of years, because we know All Might and Nana met when he was in middle school, and he presumably had the quirk by the time he took the U.A. entrance exam. so yeah. gonna go with fifty-five

so they think that because All Might was quirkless, OFA was better able to adapt to his body and became his true quirk, as opposed to being an extra quirk that stacked on top of the one he already had and overwhelmed him. ties in back to the whole “AFO used to bend people to his will by forcing quirks on them” thing, as well as the “Noumus are all mindless because of the strain of having multiple quirks”

Two and Three are really ruining the serious vibe of this scene here lol

they look like they’re doing the counting for hide and seek

and is this Deku talking now? I was about to get mad at First for implying that quirkless people are somehow freaks, as opposed to “normal” people jdslk

so in other words, don’t go giving it to your best friend all casually for shits and giggles, Deku. even if it would make a really cool climax for a movie. well shit. maybe that’s why they were so quick to nope back into Deku’s body afterward

so First says that because quirkless people are becoming rarer and rarer, the fact that All Might just happened to stumble upon Deku is “nothing short of a miracle.” which, yeah, that was definitely a stroke of luck there. being quirkless saved his life. but being quirkless is also part of why he was chosen in the first place, and we’ve always known that much

“in other words, kiddo...”

looks like there was some hurried clone stamp usage going on here lol. but props to RHA as always for putting this scan out so fast, especially given how exposition-heavy this week’s chapter has been

“anyways, that was the main topic” ARE YOU SERIOUS. there are like ten other topics imma need you all to get to here, people

(ETA: seems like this is a mistranslation; the line should actually read something more along the lines of “and now for the main topic.”)

FFFFFFFFF

“ENJOY YOUR CLIFFHANGER THIS WEEK.” dskfalkjlkjwlgkjl you really went and dumped this discourse on us yet again. fucking...

(ETA: forgot to mention, but as several people mentioned, this seems to be another mistranslation -- rather than asking Deku to kill Tomura as though it’s doing her a personal favor, Nana is asking “will you be able to do it.” in other words more of an “are you capable of doing it” type of thing. which is a very reasonable question to ask given that Deku is, well, Deku.)

anyways, and the answer is obviously going to be “no” of course. this isn’t going to end any differently than when the previous Avatars all told Aang to kill Ozai. but I guess it means we’re in for a fun conversation next week

so Nana looks pretty grim here though (nothing at all like the person who once taught All Might the importance of saving people with a smile), and I’m wondering if this means she believes that her grandson is already beyond saving. as in killing him would be a mercy, as opposed to him continuing to live with AFO bending his mind and body to his will. except if that is the case, I think she’s underestimating Tomura’s own will. and definitely underestimating Deku’s will to save

and also, just... I’m so fucking sick of AFO screwing the Shimura family over, honestly. this is exactly what he wanted. well fuck you, guy. you don’t get to have what you want. go out there and save Tomura, Deku. for his sake and for Nana’s. give them some hope. do your thing, boy. can’t wait for your big speech all about it next chapter lol

#bnha 304 #midoriya izuku #all might #ofa prime #ofa iv #idk what his name is I forgot it already lol #the actual forty-year-old man #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #makeste reads bnha #ofa the first

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hopeswriting · 4 years ago

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FANDOM: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

EVENT: Flufftober 2020

PROMPT: “Oh No, They’re Hot”

AUTHOR: @hopeswriting

RATING: G

PAIRING: Adult!Colonnello/Adult!Skull

SUMMARY:

Colonnello officially meets Skull for the first time, and he finds him way more hot than a could-be, easy, bully target.

TAG WARNING: Swearing, Sexual Innuendos, Implied/Referenced Bullying

WORDS: 1603

How hard could it be to be a punctual human being?

Surely not that hard, seeing as Colonnello was one all his life.

You’d think he would have mastered the art of waiting by then, but if this Skull guy doesn’t show up in the next five minutes, he’ll just leave without looking back.

Or maybe he’ll stay until he shows up, so he can give him a piece of his mind, depending on how long he can make his drink last.

Colonnello rolls his eyes, bumps his head against the wall.

This whole “meeting the Arcobaleno one-on-one as your now teammates” is ridiculous. What is he, a new student at school trying to win the favor of the popular kids?

Colonnello was always among the popular kids, thank you very much. He can’t believe Lal would support this idea, but no matter now.

He just needs to meet the Cloud to be done with it all for good.

Colonnello hears it long before he can see it.

A black and purple motorbike rounds the street corner in a very sharp turn, an equally black and purple driver riding it.

He speeds past the cars in no time, driving around them but keeping so close it’s a wonder they don’t make contact, the sound of the engine revving and the tires against the concrete drowning everything else.

He speeds right past Colonnello, then makes an abrupt u-turn, his motorcycle tipping sideways so low Colonnello doesn’t comprehend how he doesn’t fall, switches lanes, and smoothly parks right in front of him on the sidewalk.

Is this guy… trying to show off to him?

Because it’s working alright.

Colonnello laughs breathlessly, goosebumps up his arms. A chill runs down his spine, adrenaline running through him from just watching.

Oh, he absolutely needs to earn himself a ride.

Skull casually walks up to him, not seeming to care about all the eyes on him. “Hi, I’m Skull. Sorry, I’m not too late, am I?”

Colonnello glances at his watch. Thirty five seconds before five minutes.

This fucker.

“Hi, I’m Colonnello. You are late. I thought we both agreed on the meeting time?”

“I know, I know, I’m sorry. I got stuck in traffic.”

Colonnello subtly narrows his eyes. He just can see Skull grinning despite his helmet, and he sure as hell heard it.

This little shit.

“So. You met all the others already?”

“Yeah.”

“Right.” Skull puts his hands in his pockets, fidgets uncomfortably. “Well, I’m sure you heard all kind of things about me from them, but, you know, I wouldn’t exactly call them Skull specialists.” He shrugs, raises his hand to his head. It bumps against his helmet. “Oh right, my helmet. Hold a second.”

Colonnello’s drink goes down the wrong pipe. He doubles over in a coughing fit, his drink slipping from his hand entirely.

“Woah man, what the hell?”

What the hell?

This guy is hot.

“Are you alright?”

Colonnello pushes his helping hand away, still coughing a little.

Skull’s purple eyes watch him with amusement, highlighted by his purple smokey eye, with heavy mascara on his eyelashes that somehow only draws the gaze more to his eyes.

He nips at the piercing on his bottom lip, linked with the one on his earlobe by a silver chain. Plump lips smeared with purple lipstick spread in a smug smile, emphasizing the teardrop tattoo under his left eye.

His purple hair points in every direction in a stylish mess of a haircut, a fringe falling above his left eye.

And really, it’s a lot of purple, but holy shit the guy is gorgeous.

How did that not come up even once during Lal’s briefings?

“I’m fine, I just swallowed wrong.”

“Yeah, I noticed.”

Colonnello straightens himself up, shakes his hand from the drink that spilled on him. He licks off the last of it, and oh, he knows that look in Skull’s eyes.

Good. Now they’re even.

“Sorry about that by the way,” Skull says. “These kind of accidents just keep happening around me, and I really just can’t figure out why.”

“Yeah,” Colonnello says, trying to play it off as casually as he can, “can’t imagine why either. I really don’t see anything that could provoke these kind of reactions.”

“Sure.”

“Listen, I’m a really smooth guy, alright?”

“I guess I’ll just have to take your words for it.”

“Fuck off.”

Skull snickers, something purposefully meant to rile him up further. Colonnello doesn’t take the bait, and bites the inside of his cheek to not laugh too.

Shit. Are they flirting? Colonnello can’t have that.

He has a reputation, and standards, and this guy... could very easily meet them, actually.

But he wears leather jumpsuits, chose purple as his defining color, and going on with the design on his helmet, octopuses of all things could get involved at some point.

And unfortunately Colonnello knows for certain it’s not just the symbol of the Carcassa famiglia.

“Oh shit, Immortal Skull?”

They both turn to the pair of teenagers, wide-eyed at the sight of Skull. Skull’s face lights up. He waves his hand excitedly, and poses for them to take a picture.

Colonnello raises his eyebrow.

Right. Stuntman shows, death defying stunts, famous guy.

He snorts. “Isn’t that cute? You have fans.”

Skull’s smile dims, and disappears entirely once the teenagers are on their way. “As a matter of fact, I do. It kind of comes together with being famous.”

“Yeah,” Colonnello scoffs, “famous for riding bikes.”

Skull doesn’t wince, not quite, but Colonnello catches his face twitching. He puts his free hand in his pocket, hunches his shoulders.

His voice is carefully neutral. “Yeah, for riding bikes. With hundreds upon hundreds of hours of training behind the handle, but no big deal right? Listen, can you...” he sighs deeply, meets his eye again “... just not? We literally just met? Or at least don’t come for the literal greatest passion of my life right off the bat, maybe? I don’t know man, just cut me some slack.”

“Sorry.”

Skull blinks. Colonnello blinks.

Well, that came out embarrassingly easily. And it did sound an awful lot sincere, if Skull’s more open face and posture is anything to go by.

Fucking hell, what is he doing? Playing nice? Is he actually trying to get on Skull’s good side?

“Thank you, I really appreciate it.” Colonnello watches the last of Skull’s hesitance disappears in his eyes, a smile slowly pulling at his lips until he grins at him again. “So, should we wrap this up? Or maybe we could keep meeting each other for a bit?”

Colonnello peers above his shoulder, at the sleek black and unfortunately purple motorbike.

Now, how much does he really want this ride?

“Sure,” he says, walking past him. He puts a leg over the bike, and sits comfortably on the back seat.

Maybe if he’s really good, Skull will let him drive it.

“Excuse you,” Skull splutters, “do you think I just let anyone ride my baby?”

“Excuse you,” Colonnello shots back, “take another good look at me and maybe you’ll realize I’m not anyone.”

“Right, you’re doing me a favor, is that it?” Skull crosses his arms on his chest, in what Colonnello supposes should have been an intimidating move. “I mean, you’re really hot alright, but I meet plenty of hot people on a daily basis. Don’t flatter yourself.”

“Take another really good look at me, and maybe you’ll realize I’m a category of my own among hot people.”

Skull laughs, very clearly despite himself, the hard-to-get act nowhere to be seen. He chews on his lip a bit, but Colonnello knows he already won the argument.

“You just doesn’t have any will, do you?”

“Oh, hush.” Skull rolls his eyes, shoves him playfully. “Maybe I’m just weak for pretty people.”

Colonnello mournfully watches him puts his ugly helmet back on, and rethink his life choices. Really, this goddamned Curse just might have affected his tastes too.

“You know, I did hear things. And I must say I don’t understand.”

Skull throws his hands up in the air. “I know right? You’d think I would have gotten laid with, I don’t know, at least three of them by now. Well, minus Luce of course.” Colonnello gets whiplash. What even—? “No offense to you. I know you have a thing going on with Lal.”

“No, let’s stay focused. That’s where your priorities lie?”

Skull shrugs, takes his place in the driver seat. “I mean, in exchange of all this shit I didn’t sign up for? I think it would have been the barest fucking minimum.”

Colonnello bursts out laughing, because really, what else is there to do?

Not that he doesn’t strongly share the sentiment. He met the others too, and does vividly remember what they look like.

Skull revs the engine, and hell yeah, here they go.

Colonnello wraps his arms loosely around his waist, leans a bit too comfortably maybe against his back, rests his chin on his shoulder.

“Tell you what.”

Skull catches his eye in the rear view mirror. “I’m listening.”

“If you impress me really hard right now—”

“What, with my driving skills you mean? Is that supposed to be a challenge?”

“—and make me spend a really nice time with you,” Colonnello continues, ignoring him, “I just might do an exception for you to the “not on the first night” rule.”

Skull chuckles low in his throat, crinkles at the corners of his eyes. He lowers his visor.

“This better be a promise, because I’ll hold you to that.”

The anime watchers only might not know that, because the anime did him so dirty, but Skull is straight up handsome.

I, for one, at the very least, find him very pretty, really handsome, and yes, straight up gorgeous. And it’s a hill I will die on, and I won’t hear any criticism on that.

Also I enjoyed myself writing this so much. Could you tell? Because this is my khr otp as of now, and I wish they’d be hundreds more fics about them for me to read.

Rarepair hell is, well, hell lmao.

Thank you for reading! Any and all review are appreciated ^^.

#katekyo hitman reborn #khr #khr fanfic #flufftober 2020 #khr skull #khr colonnello #oh no they're hot #colonnello x skull #otp immortal soldier #guys guys guys #IMMORTAL SOLDIER #i found it that's what their ship name would be #i'm still open to propositions but let's be real #it's a VERY cool ship name i have there #also sex at first sight am i right #because yeah they do make out that day asdfghjkl #i said what i said

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any-n-everything · 4 years ago

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Mukuro: Beyond the Darkness

English Translation of the KHR Drama CD

I did this a few years ago and recently saw an ask looking for a translation so I thought to share the one I made here.

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn. I did make this translation, however I am not fluent in Japanese. (I tried my best tho :P)

[Intro. Mukuro’s Thoughts.]

In this world… light does not exist.

In my body, there are traces of memories of my previous lives, when I wandered the Six Paths of Hell.

Wherever I looked, there was only blood, cruelty, and screams of horror in a darkened world.

That is why I know… In this world, light does not exist.

So, with these hands I will paint the world with the true colors of darkness.

In this way, I will take revenge on the world that created me.

Mukuro: Beyond the Darkness

*door creaks open*

*running*

Ken: This way, Mukuro-san! What do you think? It’s a bit old but it’s big.

Mukuro: Oh, an abandoned amusement center? It seems… this [particular area] was used as a movie theater.

Ken: We’ll have a roof over our heads [here], no one will come in, and we can do so many fun things.

Mukuro: That’s true… It’s somewhere to hide. There are so many places that it will be easy to organize traps. Good job, Ken.

Ken: Hehehe. Mukuro-san praised me-byon!

Chikusa: You only found it by chance during the search. You got lost and found it. It was troublesome.

Ken: Sh-Shut up! You don’t have permission to play in the bowling alley I found!

Chikusa: That’s fine. I didn’t want to play anyways.

Ken: When you want to play and ask me for permission, I won’t give it! I will never, ever, give you permission to play!

Chikusa: Mukuro-sama, what will be your next move?

Mukuro: Hm, I suppose… since we have little information, we must first find out who is Vongola Tenth.

Ken: Why don’t we just take somebody and make them spill it all out?

Mukuro: That would be too difficult. Only the higher-ups are aware that Vongola Tenth is in Japan. [And when] speaking of the Vongola, one must remember that most Mafia Families are in Italy, and as the strongest of all of them, they have many enemies. They have to protect the next Boss with all their strength. I believe he lives securely hidden.

Ken: So, how do we find him?

Chikusa: Ken, Mukuro-sama has an idea.

Ken: Eh? What’s that?

Mukuro: Kufufufufu. No matter how much they hide it, there will always be something that the Mafia cannot conceal. There should be people close to Vongola Tenth. And these people will be well-prepared.

Ken: So that means we just have to find strong guys?

Mukuro: If we fight against anyone, they may become aware of us. We have to narrow our options, then we will draw them out. But first, we need to strengthen our position. Since we have shelter, we can rest a while.

Ken: Eh?! I want to fight already!

Mukuro: There is no hurry. Sooner or later we will fight. After all, we are very close... yes?

---

*door creaking*

*footsteps*

Mukuro: How do you feel, Lancia-senpai?

*grunts and chains moving*

Lancia: What do you want?

Mukuro: Yare, yare… you really must hate me. And to think that you were once so good to me.

Lancia: At that time… I thought of you as my little brother. I was hoping to be able to take care of you as the Family did with me and give you a place to belong.

Mukuro: Kufufufufu. How nostalgic… Yes. You treated me very well.

Lancia: At that time… if only I understood what you thought… My Family and my friends—

Mukuro: Useless. You would not have been able to stop me. From the beginning, my goal was you.

Lancia: What?!

Mukuro: If I had you, the Strongest Man in Northern Italy, I could have used you in many ways. And as you can see, you’re really useful.

Lancia: So you killed my Family just to take advantage of me?!

Mukuro: Naturally. But your Family was destined for destruction from the beginning. I told you… I despise the Mafia. So much so that I want to destroy it completely.

*Lancia grunts*

*sounds of chains*

*more footsteps*

Mukuro: Kufufufu. And my next goal is the Vongola Family.

Lancia: Wha—?!

Mukuro: Big target, right? It seems that I still need your strength… senpai.

Lancia: You… want to force me to make a meaningless massacre again?!

Mukuro: Yes. But I need Vongola Tenth alive. Hey, senpai… Did you know that all Vongola Bosses can use special powers? I don’t know what kind of powers they are, but it is the key to Vongola’s strength… and this interests me very much.

Lancia: It can’t be… you intend to control him as you did to me…

Mukuro: Yes, exactly. I will destroy the Vongola using the strength of the Vongola. Kufufufufu… It’s so funny even just thinking about it. Well, until I see this power in action, I do not know what to use.

*footsteps*

Mukuro: When it’s your turn, I will call you. Until then, stay calm here, please.

Lancia: Why?

Mukuro: What is it?

Lancia: You’ve… spent a lot of time controlling me. Because of that… sometimes I can feel something from you.

Mukuro: Oh?

Lancia: You say you hate the Mafia. But I… I feel exhaustion.

Mukuro: Guh—

Lancia: Your obsession with the Mafia… is it even the truth? Is it really what you want to destroy?

Mukuro: *scoffs* You say the most interesting things. Perhaps it is because we are so close? Kufufufufu… Fine then. Do you really want to know… the darkness within me? How deep it is?

Lancia: Mukuro… You…

Mukuro: Are you afraid of me? Unsurprising. You still cannot understand.

*footsteps*

Mukuro: Stop fighting me and do as I say. I have high hopes for you, senpai.

*more footsteps*

*door creaking open*

*door shuts with a thud*

---

*clothes rustling*

Ken: The uniforms of Japanese schools are terrible. Oh, no, the collar’s choking me! Take it away!... Huh? Kaki-pii, you can stand it?

Chikusa: I’m fine with this.

Ken: Huh… Well, okay. But I never thought about going to school. I thought we wouldn’t have anything to do. Kokuyo Middle School, huh? Looks interesting!

Chikusa: We won’t be real students. It’s just a way to gather information.

Ken: Yeah, I know! But we can also have some fun!

Chikusa: *sighs* Anyway, just don’t relax too much.

Ken: Yeah, yeah. Hey, let’s divide these! What do you want?

*plastic rustling*

*sounds of wrappers*

Ken: Hey, Kaki-pii…

Chikusa: What?

Ken: Why do you think Mukuro-san saved us?

Chikusa: You mean this time… or that time?

Ken: Both. It would have been easier for Mukuro-san if he stayed alone. So I wonder why…

Chikusa: I don’t know.

Ken: Ehh? So you don’t know, and I don’t know, and I can’t even ask Mukuro-san.

Chikusa: No matter what Mukuro-sama thinks, we follow him and that’s enough. That’s all.

Ken: That’s right. For Mukuro-san, I would give my life. And give the Mafia a beating!

Chikusa: Don’t get overexcited, you might lose control of yourself. You keep forgetting, Ken.

Ken: That’s not true! Kaki-pii, you too, don’t get too overexcited.

Chikusa: Don’t worry about me.

---

*fast forward through the Kokuyo Arc of the Main Story Line*

Ken: And who are these, your friends? Stay right there! I’ll take care of all of you!

Lancia: You should have already realized that you have no way of surviving. Abandon all hope.

Chikusa: Mukuro-sama ordered it.

Mukuro: Yes, I am the true Rokudo Mukuro.

Tsuna: Mukuro… if I don’t defeat you, I can’t die in peace!

---

*pencil scratching on paper*

Tsuna: *sighs and stops writing*

Reborn: Move that hand, Dame-Tsuna!

*Leon-Mallet thwack*

Tsuna: Itte—! What are you doing, Reborn?!

Reborn: Blame yourself; you’re distracted during my lesson! Be serious. You’re behind because of the fight against the Kokuyo students and even missed a lot more due to muscle pain. You can’t take too many breaks.

Tsuna: You don’t give me breaks at all! And, you know… That time I really thought I would die. I’d like to relax a bit!

Reborn: Naive!

*Leon-Mallet thwack again*

*sounds of pain*

Reborn: *sigh*… What are you even thinking about?

Tsuna: Eh? Ah. Uhm… I’m just wondering what happened… to Mukuro and the others…

Reborn: This again. I told you that you don’t have to worry about it.

Tsuna: I can’t help it! Obviously, they were our enemies and I can’t forgive them, but…!

Reborn: After you’ve finished thinking about other things, here’s another task. Do these too.

*papers rustling*

Tsuna: Eh?! All of these?!

Reborn: Finish by today. Work. If you don’t, you know what will happen.

Tsuna: HIEEEE! I understand, I’ll do them!

*pencil scratching on paper*

Reborn, thinking: I don’t know if something changed now that Tsuna has purified Mukuro’s Dark Aura with his Dying Will Flame. It will probably not change anything. But maybe there is a chance that they will meet again one day.

---

(At Vendicare)

Ken: Chikusa. Chikusa. Wake up, please.

Chikusa: Ken… Mukuro-sama!

Ken, possessed by Mukuro: Yes, it’s me. I’m worried about Ken, but I had to borrow his body for a while.

Chikusa: Mukuro-sama, where are you now?

Mukuro: I’m in the next cell. It’s nice to see that I was given a cell with surveillance and security cameras, but my abilities allow me to come here unnoticed. By the way, how are your wounds? We have been pretty imprudent.

Chikusa: *sound of confusion* I’m fine.

Mukuro: Hm. It seems Ken is also able to move. Lancia does not seem to be close. Or he is not here at all... Well, we can’t do anything if that is the case. At the very least, we three can escape. When I’m ready, I’ll contact you again. Please be patient until then.

Chikusa: Mukuro-sama…

Mukuro: What is it?

Chikusa: Nothing, it’s just that… you seem a little different from before…

Mukuro: Kufufufufu. It feels that way. I do not understand what happened, but I feel… good.

Chikusa: Mukuro-sama…

Mukuro: It must be the power of the Vongola. If so… I want it even more.

Chikusa: Mukuro-sama…

Mukuro: But to have it, we must first get out of here. Will you come with me, Chikusa?

Chikusa: Of course.

---

*running*

*alarms*

*chains capturing Mukuro*

---

[Outro. Mukuro’s Thoughts.]

In that instant, I saw a glimmer of light.

That burning fire during the battle was the shining flame of his life.

I would like to see that flame again.

It’s not an illusion; it really exists.

I’m sure we’ll meet again.

Until that moment… it’s not so bad to sleep here in the dark.

Until I am awakened by brilliant light.

#khr #katekyo hitman reborn #khr drama cd #mukuro beyond the darkness drama cd #rokudo mukuro #sawada tsunayoshi #reborn #reborn (khr)#joushima ken #kakimoto chikusa #lancia (khr)#english translation

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tsukikoayanosuke · 4 years ago

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Twisted Wonderland x Katekyo Hitman Reborn - Dorm Leaders' Dying Will Flames of the Sky (because, why not?) [Part 2]

This is a continuation of the first part. You can read that first before continuing through this.

So basically, my Mafia AU was a part inspired by an anime called Katekyo Hitman Reborn! In KHR, the mafia has a thing call Dying Will Flame, basically superpower in a form of colorful flame created by one's own life-force. The most common DWF is the Dying Will Flames of the Sky, which are named after seven weather phenomena in the sky: the Sky itself, Storm, Rain, Sun, Lightning, Cloud, and Mist.

In the last chapter, I’ve chosen three flames for three dorm leaders, which are:

Rain Flame (Tranquility) for Riddle Rosehearts

Sun Flame (Activation) for Vil Schoenheit

Cloud Flame (Propagation) for Leona Kingscholar

Now, we only need these four:

Sky Flame, characteristic: Harmony

Storm Flame, characteristic: Disintegration

Lightning Flame, characteristic: Hardening

Mist Flame, characteristic: Construction

Let’s see who gets what!

Lightning Flame - Hardening

"To draw damage to himself and away from the rest of the Famiglia, serving as a lightning rod."

The Lightning Flame is known as the toughest flame due to its characteristic, Hardening. Lightning Flames can be employed to solidify and increase the firmness of objects. By themselves, the Flames can be used defensively by projecting a solid barrier and offensively by cutting like a sharp blade. It can also be used to electrocute like actual electricity.

Another hard one, but I have to give this to...

... Idia Shroud!

I have to be honest, I only know a little about Idia since he rarely appears in the Main Story. But from what I've gathered, Idia is such a guarded person. A very shy (I wouldn't dare to call this social anxiety since I only know a little about it), so I can imagine him using his Lightning Flame to protect himself from the high energy. Or he can use the electricity aspects to turn on his computer.

Storm Flame - Disintegration

"Continuously at the heart of the attack, the furious Storm that never rests."

Storm Flames are highly offensive, primarily used for attacking. With its Disintegration characteristic, it causes anything that it touches to decay and break apart, including other Dying Will Flames. It can also minimize the effect of other Flame-enhanced attacks or break through other Flames.

We only have three characters left, and this one might be a surprise because I choose...

... Malleus Draconia!

Riddle was my original first pick for this flame, mostly because he’s quite similar to Hayato Gokudera (the KHR main gang’s Storm Flame user), but since I gave Riddle Rain Flame, I can give this to Malleus. We already know that Malleus is the top five magicians in Twisted Wonderland, so I can imagine how destructive his power might be. Not only that, but Maleficient is also the most destructive between the Great Dragon. She turned into a freaking dragon, that's enough to prove that she's powerful and destructive. Originally, I want Malleus to have the Mist Flame or the Sky Flame, but Malleus I changed it again. Speaking of...

Mist Flame - Construction

"Creating from nothing into something, turning something into nothing; bewildering the enemy, so making the Famiglia untouchable."

The Mist Flames characteristic, Construction, makes it optimal to be used in conjunction with illusions. It can be used to create real illusions, easily fooling the senses. The created real illusions can be used for either escaping or rendering the opponent vulnerable for an attack. Stronger illusions can also affect bodily functions. Mist flames generally possess a relatively weak density level, and, consequentially, a weak offensive power. Softer Mist Flames are easier to use and control in activation rate and effectivity. Hard Mist Flames are of a greater level of density, resulting in a darker, foggier, stronger, and more compact appearance. All illusionists seem to have access to both types of these Flames.

Another surprise picks probably because this one belongs to...

... Azul Ashengrotto!

Azul was probably my last choice for this Flame. In fact, I originally have no idea what flame he should have. But what if we look this in another light? Azul, in a way, is quite similar to Mukuro Rokudo (the main cast’s Mist Flame users). Both of them are a sly, manipulative, sunning bastard who once became the villain at one point in the story. In KHR, Mukuro is a strong flame user, and he saved a girl named Chrome Dokuro by giving her illusory organs for her since her old one was ruined during a car accident. Imagine Azul using Mist Flame to grant the most ridiculous request from his clients or even use it against those who failed his contract. He makes the impossible possible.

Sky Flame - Harmony

“Sun, Lightning, "Storm, Rain, Mist, Cloud-- He envelops them all, he accepts them all. That is the Sky's purpose."

The Sky Flame is described as having many mysteries, its characteristic, Harmony, represents a state without contradiction nor flaws in which the balance of the whole is maintained. The Harmony characteristic allows it to combine with other types of Dying Will Flames to create a new one. The Sky Flame was also shown to have the ability to petrify.

And by the process of elimination, this flame goes too...

... Kalim al-Asim!

Yes, Kalim is the boss of all the dorm leader. Not only because he’s the only dorm leader who is based on the good guys instead of villains, but really, the Harmony aspect of a Sky Flame connects with others flames, it attracts them. And Kalim's sunny personality was the main reason why I give him this. There’s no way anybody would hate this guy.

And there you have it! All seven flames for the seven leaders. Though, in KHR, someone can have more than one flame. Hayato Gokudera has five flames! So, you can think that all dorm leaders have Sky Flame and another additional flame, with Kalim being the only one who has pure Sky Flame.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk!

If you have any suggestions or comments or if you disagree, feel free to say them!

#twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #twst #katekyo hitman reborn #katekyo hitman reborn au #dying will flames #dying will flames au #idia shroud #malleus draconia #azul ashengrotto #kalim al asim

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blastthatsadfm · 5 years ago

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I WAS TRYING VERY HARD NOT TO GO ALL DGM BUT! top 5 dgm characters?

YOU CAN GO ALL THE DGM YOU WANT TO GO, Its not a problem at all! ⋆Ask me my “TOP 5” anything! LETS GO!5 - Lenalee Lee- I appreciate Lenalee now so much more than I used to appreciate, before. To be completely honest, she’s still very much a stereotypical female character of a shounen manga, but I do feel like Lenalee always had more Heart than other female characters filling the same stereotypical roles, on other shounen mangas (I’m thinking of Ky.oko on KHR, Sak/ura on Tsub.asa, even Urara.ka from BNHA). Its hard to explain now, but lots of things feel like Lenalee, rather than feeling like “heres the main girl from this almost all male cast”. Now I can understand her character arc and how it was about protecting her kindness on a cruel, cruel world, instead of assuming a cold, unbothered facade. On the moments she cried, it felt natural and even brave to do so. Its crazy to think that not every exorcist is absolutely overwhelmed with their depressing missions, and seeing Lenalee letting it all out feels refreshing, and it feels very her, too. She’s sensitive and a gentle soul who’s endured a lot and knows she’s endured a lot. And even though she’s brave and strong cuz she had to become brave and strong, her kindness is still very much her priority. When she sheds tears saying “welcome home” to Allen before they enter the Ark is… Is the Soul of DGM, you know what I mean? That one moment is DGM’s very own Soul.4 - LulubellUNLIKE! YOU! I really loved the anime, it was my defining anime, when I was growing up. And I do love how they explored Lulu’s character. I think she’s super Cool, man, the kinda side character that you fall in love with and dedicate yourself thinking about just on solely the very few moments she has. I love her power and I think it was one of the best ways I saw that kind of power being nicely explored on a villain (the “Changing your appearance” type). She’s cool, elegant, seems to be analytical and intelligent, all of that while being Lust and without (at least for a long time on the manga) being sexualized. 13 year old me Loved Her and dedicated a lot of Brain Power thinking about her and shipping her with Tyki.

3 - Allen WalkerI Love Allen’s character! (Or Allie, if you prefer!); I love their kindness, and how, ultimately, their kindness is their strength. This has been explored time and time again on so many shounen mangas but I dont think it has ever been so well done as with Allen on DGMS’s first 9 volumes. I mean, Akumas are some of the fucking worst and most Cruel Creations as enemies on a shounen, and Allen wants?? To save them?? Has always wanted. Allen always respected them and Felt for them, out of their empathy for their souls and for the Loss they represent. Those feelings take So Much, so much out of them, and you feel it! You feel it while they cry about their resolution to save them, right on Crowley’s arc, and their cursed eye evolves, on volume 4. You feel that no one is with Allen on this, and they know. They keep on persevering to save as much as they can, how much they can, even when they’re fighting lost battles. The second volume with the Doll arc, represented that very well, and you could see how unreasonable Allen’s self sacrificing ways felt. Their dialogue with Kanda “We are destroyers, not savers” - “Then I wanna be a destroyer that can save”, so heartfelt, so stupid and so humble. Allen’s self sacrificial ways inevitably makes people around them Suffer, but they cant get rid of this trait because its their Core one. Its what drives DGM as such a humane, empathetic story, how you feel for the Fallen, for the Akumas, even for the Noahs, and you’re right to feel so, cuz Allen drives the story and they try everything to save (and feel for, and respect) lost causes. Something about Allen and their amount of kindness feels so, so, ultimately tragic.2 - Lavi Bookman Jr.One drawing I have of Lavi without his bandana was one of the first drawings Ive ever felt completely proud of, when I made it on seventh grade. I feel like Lavi’s character is almost entirely done on his very own character design. He’s so beautiful and daring and Cool, ya know? Something about him is so fucking chill. When we found out later he’s a Distant person who needs to dissociate from everything around him, naturally, almost by profession, it feels like him, too. How he’s so airy and calm when literally the Worst Fucking things are happening around. How he’s capable of smiling every time, even at the face of the worst situations. Bravery? No, our boy is a fucking coward. Its just Pure Dissociation (and a little bit of self hate).

I feel like Lavi always had those depths we can almost touch out of how well they seem to come out of his character but… We never really got to see them entirely, and well executed and we probably never will. He was Hoshino’s first protagonist on one of her first ideas, so I think thats why she could give off that feeling on Lavi’s character. She knows him and have always knew him, better than us, and this is why he feels so real, but she will, ultimately never be able to tell his story on the way she probably meant to.

And that shit hurts, but thanks for the memories, Hoshino. which is incidentally the fall out boy song I associate with Lavi, along with carpal tunnel of love.

1 - Kanda Yu,

Hey, I love my man.

I could be done with only this phrase, but lets try to drive this car to memory road. Yu was the first character I headcanoned as something like trans/non binary without even knowing those terms. (again, confused 13 years old.) I remember reading tidbits of something that I realize now and only now, was hentai and it depicted Yu with breasts and I remember thinking “ah, cool, this might as well be.” or something, anyway yeah, fucked up that I was trying to read that, but I feel like it drives my point home about how I feel towards him. I liked his appearance a lot the way it was and felt it was kinda unnecessary when Hoshino made a point to draw him less pretty, androgynous boy and more manlish like on his face. But of course, nostalgia might be playing a factor into this.

Kanda is just so fucking cool, u know? The way I like him so much is almost unreasonable. I like his clothes, I liked his weapon, I liked his Innocence powers, I liked his boots (to this day I headcanon he is the kind of guy who wears only boots on a modern day AU), I loved (loved) his introductory arc, with the Singing Doll, and his phrase “we’re destroyers, not savers” was said with so much … grief. It’s not like he wants to look cool in front of Allen, that was the phrase of somebody who witnessed so much loss and destruction, he got used to it, it was a warning from Kanda to Allen. The thing is that exorcists technically are saviors, they are the good guys and the world needs them. So Kanda telling this to Allen was indicative of some major shit he’s probably been through while going through missions and trying to save people. He always felt like the kind of character that was an asshole because he needed to become one (plus just his natural lack of social skills). Ever since the beginning, I had my eye on him He was very effortlessly cool cuz he honestly didnt give a shit to anybody else, as this lonesome character; and his disagreements with Allen felt very real and in place. Their personalities and attitudes just didn’t match and it created a good symmetry of having Lenalee and Lavi as their best friends and the people they had a soft spot for. Not gonna lie, the Lavi/Yu ship is a HUGE REASON as to why those two are in my thoughts even to this day. They completed each other effortlessly, by personalities; and Lavi was the only one to call Kanda “Yu” while Kanda called him “stupid rabbit”, it was nice, ok? also they were closer in age … Loved them so much, even their seyuus used to ship them.

Anyway, Kanda up until like … volume 17 of DGM was 9/10, one of the most important characters in my life, just so you know.

#long post #d gray man #dgm #isa talks headcanons #kanda yu #cross-tiedoll #THANK U FOR ASKING !!!#it feels so refreshing to talk about DGM #I COULD CRY TYPING THIS OUT #.... shit

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skygemspeaks · 7 years ago

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I wanted ur opinions on the gentle/La brava ship. Why do you think its creepy? They're around the same age bc they were at high school together. And I haven't read the manga but apparently she'd had a crush on him even then? (I promise I'm not attacking!! Ur just the first person I saw in the tags who said they didn't like it so I'm curious!)

Whoops just came across a panel proving that she was a stalker in high school so. yeah that’s kinda creepy.

Sorry my dear, you seem to be misunderstanding something. La Brava and Gentle didn’t go to school together. The person she liked in her first year of junior high was someone else.

After she overheard the classmate she had a crush on (when she was 12, first year of junior high), she became a shut-in, and an unspecified amount of time after that, she found a video of Gentle on youtube and became a big fan of his.

Given we saw a shot of her graduation album in the flashback, she’s at the very least in high school (as it could have been her junior high graduation album), but is probably somewhere in her early twenties. Even then, in the video we saw of Gentle, he looked to be in his mid-thirties at least, which is still a pretty big age gap, which is the first thing that creeps me out.

But more than that, the thing I really have a problem with is how she LOOKS like a pre-pubescent girl, which is no fault of her own, but is a super gross and prevalent trope in anime.

I’m tired of character designs La Brava, or Akatsuki from Log Horizon, or Tatsumaki from Onepunch Man.

I’m tired of grown ass women being drawn like little girls, but still being sexualized. ESPECIALLY when their behavior is still very much childlike.

It’s possible to draw short adults while still making them look like adults, guys!!!

And like, even if you wanted for them to look like children, there are better ways to do it.

Lal Mirch from KHR is a good example of this. She’s drawn as a literal baby, but there’s an actual reason for it!!! And she is, not once, sexualized while in her infant body!!! Because, like, her mangaka is a decent woman who knows how creepy that would have been, even if Lal is actually an adult!

I’m personally just over here hoping that La Brava’s feelings are one-sided and Horikoshi only wrote them in so they can become a catalyst for her quirk, rather than him actually intending for them to be a couple.

#ignore me #ship hate #unpopular opinions #anon asks #bnha ask #spy reports

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ruluxe · 7 years ago

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Red River Hustle

KHR Digital Zine 2017 Submission

Characters: Gokudera Hayato & Yamamoto Takeshi Word Count: 4,318 Summary: When a mission goes awry, Takeshi meets Gokudera at a rest stop somewhere just outside Catania, Sicily, to take him back to their base in Palermo — only Gokudera isn’t his only passenger and Takeshi is reminded of how deep the mafia way of living still roots in him. Warnings: Contains swearing, gun violence, blood & minor character death.Inspiration: Red River Hustle by The Mumlers

Read on Ao3 & download the KHR Zine 2017 here!

Italy is a really beautiful place — specifically Palermo, Takeshi thinks as he drives along the E90 towards the main city. Mountains, serene beaches with clear waters that sparkle under the sun and eclectic ancient architecture rich in history thousands of years old soaked into the stone surround him. It really is one of his most favourite places he’s travelled since becoming one of Vongola’s guardians.

Another beautiful thing to come out of Palermo — if he could be so bold as to say so — is sitting in the passenger seat, shouting at someone over the phone in his native tongue. Takeshi has yet to catch on to the dialect, it’s much different than the Italian he was taught, and Gokudera speaks so fast that it would be difficult to understand him even if he were speaking Japanese. He does, however, understand when Gokudera turns to him, covers the mouthpiece of his cellphone and in Japanese says,

“Can’t you drive any faster?”

Takeshi laughs, the scar on his chin pulling with the motion. “I’m driving the speed limit.”

“There’s no one else on the fucking road, Yamamoto,” Gokudera gestures. “Drive faster .” He returns to his phone call, raising his voice to an even louder octave to the point that Takeshi feels bad for the person on the other end.

He presses his foot to the gas pedal tentatively at first, then, pushing it beyond one-hundred mph. Adrenaline surges as the engine revs and the speedometer climbs. There’s something dangerously exciting about speeding down a lonely stretch of road with the wind in his hair, as cliche as it sounds. Perhaps it’s old age getting to him or perhaps it’s just because Takeshi’s always enjoyed the simpler things life has to offer.

“Cazzo!” Gokudera suddenly shouts, tossing the phone into the cup holder next to him. “This mission has turned out to be such a fucking mess,” he says, making the smooth transition into the language Takeshi understands best. “The Tenth expects more of me, more of my team, you know?”

“I’m sure Tsuna isn’t going to mind.” Takeshi isn’t sure of the situation Gokudera’s in, or what mess he’s referring to but it can’t be as bad as he thinks. Gokudera has always been exceptional at keeping his unit in line, much better than the rest of them — with the exception of Hibari, but there again, Hibari’s unit is well, just Hibari.

“Thanks for coming,” Gokudera grumbles, prodding at the swollen split in his lip. He elicits a hiss before grunting, “I needed someone else to fucking drive. I haven’t slept in two days, I can’t feel my eyeballs.”

Takeshi laughs, despite his concern. “No problem. The car is nice.” It’s an Italian car, of course, he can’t remember the name of but it’s a two-door convertible in vibrant red. “It’s not one of ours though.”

Gokudera snorts. “Definitely not one of ours.”

“What happened?” Takeshi catches Gokudera’s subtle cringe at the question and doesn’t miss the tremble in his hands when he pulls a cigarette out of its case and proceeds to light it, or the fact that he's wearing shades to cover up a bruised eye.

He shrugs. “Little fender bender. I uh, commandeered this vehicle from the parking lot of that sushi place in Catania you love so much.”

Takeshi raises an eyebrow. “You stole a car?”

“I borrowed it,” Gokudera corrects. “Relax, I changed the plates.”

“Well… I’m glad you’re okay,” Takeshi says with a slow nod as if he’s trying to convince himself that he’s fine without further prying. He certainly doesn’t look okay. “It’s not very inconspicuous.”

“Yeah.” Gokudera takes a drag of his cigarette. “But it sure is beautiful.” He doesn’t say anything more about what happened, and Takeshi catches him looking over his shoulder several times.

“Are you worried about the police following us? Because I gotta tell you —”

“No.”

“— this car isn’t easy — oh. Okay.” Takeshi shuts his mouth abruptly and focuses on driving as fast as he can without drawing too much attention to them, though it’s not an easy feat in this car. It just gives Takeshi something else to worry about on top of Gokudera’s elusiveness.

After several long minutes of silence, “Turn here,” Gokudera demands and Takeshi complies without a second thought. It’s only after driving down the abandoned dirt road for a few minutes that Takeshi realises they’re not on course.

“This isn’t the way back to base,” he observes, easing his foot off the gas pedal. “We’re supposed to be going —”

“What are you doing, idiot?” Gokudera reaches over and shoves down on his knee so that his foot is forced to press on the gas again. “Keep driving!”

“But Gokudera —” Takeshi doesn’t get a chance to finish because the tires hit a dip in the road and the car bounces violently, tossing them around in their seats. As this happens, a loud thump! sounds from the trunk. The car lands on smoother ground and Takeshi brings the car to a full stop.

“What was that?”

“What was what?” asks Gokudera, pushing hair out of his face with one hand and bringing the cigarette to his mouth with the other. He brings his hand back down, gingerly poking at his ribs, wincing with the action.

“That sound. It came from the trunk.”

“I didn’t hear anything.”

“Yes… I’m sure you did. It was loud.”

Gokudera shrugs and raises a brow over his aviator shades. “Spare tire probably.”

“Gokudera,” Takeshi begins with a sigh, “what are we doing out here and what was that noise in the trunk?”

As if on cue, another hollowed bang sounds followed by some muffled, incoherent shouting.

“Are you telling me you don’t hear that?” And then something horrifying dawns on Takeshi. “Oh shit — Is that a person?! In the trunk?!”

“Maybe,” Gokudera supplies but Takeshi now knows he’s clearly hiding something. Someone, rather.

“That isn’t… one of our guys, is it?” he asks with a swallow, his mouth suddenly going dry. “Because now that I think about it, your team —”

“Look,” Gokudera says with a sigh and a pinch to the bridge of his nose. “I wasn’t thinking straight. I didn’t have time to question him myself, but I couldn’t take the chance of him being the rat. He was acting suspiciously before the mission and with it being the fucking shitstorm it became, now I know why. I should have killed him on the spot, but I know the Tenth would never forgive me.”

Sometimes Takeshi forgets Gokudera's lifelong ties to the mafia and a family far more unforgiving than their own. “So what are we supposed to do with him?”

“You're the natural born hitman. You figure it out.” Gokudera flicks his cigarette butt over Takeshi's shoulder. He hears it hiss as it passes his ear. Takeshi frowns.

“We should take him back to the estate and let Tsuna handle him.” He says this calmly in hopes of diffusing the inevitable explosion.

“There's no way in hell I'm bringing this guy back to the estate. What if he's got a GPS tracker hidden somewhere on him — or in him? We'd be putting everyone at risk,” Gokudera gasps. “No. We have to cut the fucker open right here, right now. After you get him to tell you what he knows.”

“You don't even know if he's guilty! You can't just cut a guy open on the side of the road in broad daylight, Gokudera! I think the lack of sleep is beginning to affect your brain.”

“Yeah well — I think the fact that you were dropped on your head as a baby has already had an effect on your brain and you're in no position to be telling me what you think is wrong with my brain.” Gokudera adjusts the glasses on his face and shifts with a haughty roll of his neck and shoulders.

Takeshi stares at him really hard for a really long time. “I think you're being paranoid bu—”

“I'm being paranoid?” Gokudera starts, his jaw dropping in offence. “I'm —”

“But,” Takeshi continues, raising his voice over Gokudera’s increasingly high pitched screeching. Sometimes it's comical when he gets like this, but now is not the time for laughter. “But let's get him out of the trunk, get him some water and talk to him.”

Gokudera shuts his mouth abruptly and Takeshi feels much better. Before exiting the car, he looks at the road ahead and behind them for any witnesses. There are none, so he reaches down to flip the latch and Gokudera grabs onto his arm.

“Wait, you idiot! You can't just open the trunk with no one back there. What if he jumps out and runs off? We can't leave that up to chance. You go. I'll stay here.”

Takeshi raises a brow and slowly eases back into an upright position. “Uh, okay… Not that I mind but, why me?”

Gokudera reaches across his lap to open the driver side door. “Look at me,” he says leaning back. He holds out a hand.

Takeshi can see the erratic tremors passing through his fingers. It makes his stomach sink to think that Gokudera’s been through so much in the last couple of days, and even more so, his life. He shakes his head. Of all the times to reflect on that, now is not the time. “You're right,” he says, getting out of the car. “But I have no idea what I'm supposed to be asking him, so maybe you could enlighten me?”

Gokudera sighs again, this time more dramatically exaggerated. “As I said, we were compromised. The only people that knew our location and target were the Tenth, myself and Stronzo.”

Takeshi knows that word, and it's not the name of the man in the trunk.

“We were shot at, the target escaped and we managed to get away without any major injuries, but they chased our car down. We were railroaded, our driver died —”

Takeshi’s stomach lurches into his throat, threatening a purge of its contents. He chokes it back down with a hard swallow and manages a shaky, “Gokudera!”

“Relax, I'm fine,” he says nonchalantly, waving his hand in dismissal.

“You don't look fine. Since I picked you up, you've been shaky and in obvious pain — did you even go to a hospital? How do you know you're not suffering internal inj—”

“Takeshi,” Gokudera cuts, harsh enough to stop him from continuing his sentence yet soft enough that Takeshi knows whatever Gokudera's about to say next is weighted with sincerity. “I'm fine. Just a couple of bruised ribs and a somewhat busted face. I'll live.” His lips slide into a partial grin before shadow falls over his face and the smile disappears. “Maybe. Depends on the Tenth’s punishment when we get back.”

Takeshi allows himself to grin at this, just a little. “I'm glad you're okay. I also don't think Tsuna is going to punish you, let alone kill you if this guy is responsible for messing up the mission. That isn't your fault.”

“Yeah, maybe.”

“But hey — you just left the driver at the scene of the accident? What if the police start to ask questions?”

Gokudera draws in a sharp breath. “I know we've been over each other's level of intelligence a few times since you picked me up, but do I need to remind you that I actually use my brain? Of course I didn't just leave him there. I called for the Cleaners. That's who I was just speaking to. I know I'm supposed to check with the Tenth first but I couldn't get a hold of him on such short notice. As Right-Hand man, I had to override him.” Gokudera frowns. “I'm finished. The Tenth isn't going to want me by his side, let alone in the family, after this.”

“It's been eleven years, Gokudera. I really think Tsuna will understand your decision under the circumstances.” Takeshi pauses, running through the scenario in his head. Then, “How do you that the informant wasn’t the driver?”

Gokudera peers over the frame of his sunglasses for a minute before clicking his tongue off the roof of his mouth. “Because I just do, Yamamoto. It’s instinct. I know these things.”

“Well… okay,” Takeshi agrees despite his instincts that Gokudera might actually be wrong. He steps towards the trunk and calls out for Gokudera to open the latch.

The door springs open and Yamamoto finds the man hog-tied, his wrists and ankles bound by rope. There's a strip of duct tape covering the man's mouth as well, muffling his pleas. Yamamoto opens his suit jacket and pulls a shorter blade, a tantō, from his custom-made shoulder holster. Seeing Yamamoto do this, the man’s eyes blow wide and he begins struggling hysterically.

“Calm down,” he instructs in clipped Italian, reaching across the man to cut his restraints. “I'm going to keep your wrists and ankles tied until we're finished questioning you.”

The man stills, allows Takeshi to cut the rope and remains still while he re-binds the man's wrists and ankles in a more comfortable position. Well. As comfortable as Takeshi could make him, given the circumstances. “I'm going to take the tape off but if you scream, we're going to have some problems.”

A snort comes from the car. “You watch too much American television,” Gokudera chides in Japanese.

“And you don't? I'll remember that the next time one of your bigfoot documentaries conflicts with my baseball games on the recorder.”

“Shut up.”

Takeshi grins as he rips the tape off the man's mouth. He whimpers and Takeshi offers an apologetic shrug. “It's better to take it off quickly. Like a band-aid.”

The man nods slowly.

“You work for the Vongola?”

He nods again.

“What's your name?”

He coughs, but Takeshi doesn't offer him any water just yet. Finally, after a minute or two, the man in the trunk responds. “Frankie. Frankie Gallo."

“How did the target find out about you guys?”

Frankie starts speaking, and it's so quick that Takeshi can't catch enough of it to understand. He frowns and Gokudera shouts, “English, Frankie!” To Takeshi, he says, “Your English sucks too but it's better than your Italian.”

Takeshi stifles a laugh. Gokudera's not wrong. So, in English, he asks again, “How did the target find out about you?”

“How the fuck should I know?” Frankie retorts with a shrug. “All I remember is we're gettin’ shot at, then the boss drags me to our car and bam! We're gettin’ t-boned by one of the other guys. Next thing I know, I'm wakin’ up in a trunk tied up like some sorta prized pig.”

“Gokudera seems to think you're the one that compromised the mission. Why do you suppose that is?”

Again, Frankie shrugs. “I don't know nothin’ about that so how 'bout you cut this rope and let me outta this fuckin’ trunk.”

Takeshi looks to Gokudera, who shakes his head. “I can't do that just yet,” he says, glancing back at Gokudera for some sort of guidance. When Gokudera says nothing, Takeshi slams the door shut. Frankie starts yelling, but he doesn't pay any mind. “Gokudera… what are we doing here? The guy says he has no idea what happened, let's just get back to base and figure it out.”

“I'm telling you, that guy is a rat.”

“We can't just sit here on the side of the road waiting for the police to find the car.”

Gokudera lets out a loud sigh. He pushes his car door open and steps out, pulling a gun from his waistband. “I lost my holster,” he offers with a shrug even though Takeshi doesn't mention anything. He switches off the safety and suddenly slams his fist down on the trunk lid. It springs open, revealing a red-faced and sputtering Frankie. Without a word, Gokudera points the muzzle at his head. “Who are you working for? Georgio? Alphonse?”

Frankie’s eyes widen and he worms further away from the gun. “I work for you, Hayato Gokudera, right-hand man to the tenth Vongola boss, Tsunayoshi Sawada. Sir.”

Gokudera cocks his gun, Takeshi’s heart begins to race. Part of him starts to itch, the possibility of bloodshed prickling his skin; rippling cold yet somehow electric chills up his spine. The other part of him begins to feel fear, his stomach twists in knots and his fourteen-year-old self is telling him to take the gun away from Gokudera and find another way. The internal war keeps him from moving at all, his eyes locked on Gokudera's face. He can see the mottled blues and purples shine under the gold rim of Gokudera's sunglasses. The angry red swell around the corner of his mouth when he sticks his tongue into his cheek before clicking it off the roof of his mouth and saying,

“Who do you work for?”

Frankie says nothing and Takeshi doesn't miss the shift in his eyes; the way they transition from round and fearful to narrowed and cold.

“I work for you and the Vongola, sir.” Frankie's voice changes too; low and flat with a hint of defiance. Working in the mafia especially under the tutelage of Squalo and Reborn, Takeshi has become more aware of these tells.

Gokudera wraps his finger around the trigger. He must notice this change as well, only his awareness comes from a lifetime of personal experience; hard lessons he had to learn all on his own from a very young age. This makes Takeshi frown.

He clears his throat. “Who do you work for?”

Takeshi waits, his eyes still fixated on Gokudera's every miniscule move, catching the slow rise and fall of his chest as he breathes; the thinness of his lips as he presses them together. The way his hands have completely stopped shaking. He doesn't have to be a genius to know this is Gokudera's last time for asking this question.

Frankie doesn't respond.

“You know,” Takeshi pipes up before Gokudera has a chance to squeeze off a round, “I think before we shoot him, we should cut him.”

Gokudera doesn't lower his gun but he does look over at Takeshi, puzzlement scribbled across his face.

“What?”

Takeshi shrugs. “If you're just going to shoot him dead without him giving us any answers, we still aren't going to have any answers. Right?”

“And? If he's not going to answer me, I'll put a bullet in every fucking joint until he tells me what I want to hear.”

“It could get messy,” counters Takeshi.

Gokudera scoffs. “Oh, and you think cutting him up like a Sunday Sushi Special won't be?”

“The gunshots are louder.”

“I have a suppressor.”

“We don't have the time or the luxury,” says Takeshi, switching languages. “You fled the scene of an accident and stole a car. The police are definitely looking for you.”

“Well then I'll cut my losses and put a bullet in his brain,” Gokudera says, placing his finger back on the trigger. “It'll be quick. We can take his body back there and bury it before —”

“Hey, assholes, either shoot me or take me back to see Sawada. I can't take any more of this bickering.”

“Shut up,” Gokudera says, turning his attention back to Frankie. “As if I'd be stupid enough to take you back there.”

“If I really was workin’ for someone and they wanted at the boss, I coulda already told ‘em the location of the base,” Frankie says, his tongue slicing sharper with every word.

“Let me put a bullet in him,” pleads Gokudera.

“He's going to put a bullet in you if you don't talk,” Takeshi says to Frankie.

Frankie's mouth twitches and slides into a lopsided grin. “If you guys were gonna shoot me, you'd already done it.”

Without warning, a gunshot cracks through the silent day, its echoes carried by the warm Mediterranean air for miles, as do Frankie's screams.

“That wasn't very silent,” remarks Takeshi.

“Giannini's working on better ones,” Gokudera quips.

“Tu cazzo di cazzo!” Frankie snarls. “Che cazzo è il tuo problema?!”

Another shot fires, reverberating through the air. Frankie howls in pain and Takeshi finally shifts his gaze from Gokudera to the man in the trunk. “English, Frankie! I said English!” Gokudera groans.

“You're fucking crazy,” spits Frankie, the words dripping like acid off his tongue.

“My partner’s not a patient guy,” Takeshi says apologetically. “You should probably just tell him what he wants to hear.”

“I think you should cut him,” Gokudera suggests. “Go for his ankles.” He grins. There's something eerily mad about it and it makes Takeshi’s skin tingle. “Achilles tendons.”

“Okay,” he agrees, and he feels that darkness begin to take over; it's tendrils embracing him like a mother would a child. There's still that vice in the back of his head that tells him they should just bring Frankie in, that there's still the possibility he's innocent.

“Wait,” Frankie cries, squirming until his back hits the divider. There's nowhere else for him to go. Not that it would matter, he's still restrained after all. “Let me go, I don’t know anything!”

“No,” Gokudera says, firing off another shot. This one hits Frankie in the abdomen. Blood begins to pool as it over-saturates the upholstery lining the trunk. “Now you have to tell us, otherwise you're going to die very shortly.”

“I thought you wanted me to cut him.”

Gokudera pushes the sunglasses up the bridge of his nose with his free hand. “I got tired of waiting.”

Takeshi turns to Frankie, disappointed but he's worried now that Gokudera's going to kill the man before they get any information from him. “I told you he was impatient,” he says, sliding his tantō back into its holster.

“And… insane,” Frankie breathes, his face twisted in agony. “I work f-for Don Alphonse. I w-was supposed to kill you — or get y-ou killed.”

This makes Takeshi's blood turn cold, yet fury ignites a fire so hot under his skin that he feels like it'd start to blister any second. He reaches under his coat again when Gokudera holds his hand up, motioning him to stop.

“Well, now. Wasn't that easy? How many more of you are there?”

“And why Gokudera?”

“One question at a time, Yamamoto. The guy is dying and not very bright.”

“There’s… there's no one else. Taking o-out the Sawada’s b-bitch —” This makes Frankie laugh but then he starts choking on blood. Good.

“So your mission was to take out Gokudera and then what? Go after Tsuna? Did you ever stop to think he's got six other guardians that would be protecting him?” Takeshi's laugh tastes as sour as it sounds.

“I find it hard to believe that Alphonse would just send one little shit to kill me. Is he really that stupid?” Gokudera asks.

Takeshi watches as the colour drains from Frankie's face. “He's gonna die in a minute,” he says, frustration and rage wrapping around his ribs like a boa closing in on its prey. “You shouldn't have shot him there.”

“Got the job done,” Gokudera shrugs. “Next question determines if I kill you now or leave you here to bleed out on the side of the road. How many more of you are there?”

Frankie's grin begins to fade. His breathing is laboured, Takeshi can see that it's a struggle. “N-none… Boss said t-hat if this m-mission went bad —” He falls silent, his mouth still moving on words he's unable to put sound to.

“Shit,” Gokudera hisses, sliding the safety on and slipping the gun behind him. “I shouldn't have shot him there.”

Frankie's gaze goes vacant, his eyes reminding Takeshi of the dead fish he used to clean at his father's restaurant. He almost pities him in the end but one side glance in Gokudera's direction, Takeshi's reminded of the worst that could have happened, and that a member of the family almost didn't make it home. He slams down the lid of the trunk and heads towards driver's side. "We need to call Tsuna. If any of Alphonse's men see you're still alive it'll give them a chance to flee before we can find out who you are."

Gokudera gets in the car and picks up his phone from the cup holder. "The CEDEF can help out. We should call Lal too." He sighs. "The Tenth isn't gonna be happy I killed a guy."

"It'll be fine. I'll call them," Takeshi says, taking the phone from him. He puts the key into the ignition and starts the car. "We're not too far from the base now."

"I need coffee." Gokudera digs into his pocket and pulls out a crushed cigarette pack. Takeshi watches from the corner of his eye as Gokudera struggles to light the cigarette. It isn't just the wind, no. His hand tremors are back.

"What you need is sleep," Takeshi teases.

"What you need is to shut up," Gokudera retorts, finally managing to get the cigarette lit. The wind blows back his hair and Takeshi sees speckles of red fanned out across his cheek. Without saying a word, he reaches over and wipes off as much as he can with the swipe of his thumb. Gokudera turns and scowls.

"You had blood on your face."

"Thanks," he mutters.

"What are we going to do with the body?"

"Burn it," Gokudera replies. "And the car."

"Ah... that's too bad. I really like this car."

“I’ll get you one for your birthday,” Gokudera says. “Minus the dead guy.”

“Preferably not stolen.”

“Obviously not.”

“Does it come with the grumpy, sleep-deprived, chain-smoking guy?”

Gokudera clicks his tongue off the roof of his mouth. “While supplies last.”

“Nice,” Yamamoto says with a grin as he pushes down on the gas pedal, racing off into the sunset. “Real nice.”

#gokudera hayato #yamamoto takeshi #8059 #yamagoku #khr #katekyo hitman reborn #khr digital zine 2017 #ru.writes #my writing

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i-w-p-chan · 7 years ago

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Unholy Payback

Summary: In which Nono's funeral is turned into a spectacle. ("Xanxus, you bastard." "Heh.")

Note: I am sorry for this shit piece of trash fic. Enjoy.

Alt. titles: 'The Drama Queen Gene', 'How to Bury Your Father and His Good Name with Him', 'Professional Mourner', 'Allusions to Illicit Affairs', 'Why to Not Piss off Your Kids'.

Warnings: Crack (To The Extreme), OOC (Played By Xanxus), Don't Try This At Home, Xanxus And Tsuna Are Horrible And Irresponsible And They Do Not Need Any Further Enabling, Someone Help Enma Please (He Needs It), Self-Indulgent, Trash Fic (Sorrynotsorry), Allusions To Illicit Affairs (And All That It Entails), Tsuna's And Xanxus' Dramatic Shit Show, Goddamnit.

Disclaimer: Don't own KHR.

"I did not expect to see you here." Enma said under his breath to Xanxus from where the two stood off to the side during the procession of Vongola Nono's funeral.

Xanxus smirked, "I have plans to send my dear old man off. Properly."

Images of Xanxus setting the casket aflame and dancing on the ashes flashed through Enma's mind.

"Oh?" Enma wasn't sure he really wanted to know.

"I brought a professional mourner to the funeral."

"A-" Enma opened his mouth, snapped it shut then spoke up again, "A… a professional mourner?"

Enma was sure he hit his head on the way to the funeral and was hallucinating at the moment.

The funeral passed by in a haze, not that Enma cared. Xanxus was the only reason he was present anyway.

By the time the funeral was about to draw to a close, and the only ones still around where upper echelons of the Vongola and bosses of allied famiglia and their right-hand men, Enma was squinting suspiciously at Xanxus; was he serious when he said that he hired a professional mourner or was he just messing with Enma (even though it seemed unlikely)?

That was when a sound cried out, "Oh, Timoteo! No!"

Enma blinked as a cute guy in a disheveled shirt, messy brown hair and distraught amber eyes, ran to the casket's side before flinging himself at it.

The newcomer wailed. Enma was sure that he was saying something, but he couldn't focus enough through his haze of shock. When Xanxus said professional mourner, he hadn't expected… this.

Enma could only make out words that sounded suspiciously like: 'what about the children?', 'you said you loved me' and 'I can't believe you're leaving me like this'.

As the mourner proceeded to throw allusions to having an illicit affair with the former don that resulted in kids, plus allusions about Nono's sex life that Enma really, really, could have lived his life without knowing, the other dons looked stricken (not that Enma was doing any better, he was sure his mouth was hanging open), in the front row, Sawada Iemitsu looked ready to raise Vongola Nono from the dead to kill him again, Dino was determinedly staring blankly at the ground, Byakuran looked as amused as he always was and Yuni occasionally gave a scandalized gasp from behind a hand (actually, Enma knew for a fact she was trying to smother her laughter).

Suddenly, the mourner rose to his feet, sniffing delicately and dabbing at his eyes with the handkerchief given to him by Iemitsu; the movement attracting the attention of the stunned crowd to the ring the mourner was wearing- the Vongola Sky Ring.

There was a collective gasp as the audience crash landed on the realization that Vongola Nono apparently had an illicit affair with his heir.

(Or did he declare his lover his heir? Some of the people in the audience murmured.)

"I'm so sorry, Timo. I know you wanted me take over the Vongola after you but I cannot, simply cannot, wear the ring you once wore, sit on the chair you always sat on, work on the desk you always worked on and rule over your family. I don't think I'm strong enough for such an inheritance. Your memory shall haunt my waking hours and my dreams.

"For that, I must give over the leadership to your beloved son, Xanxus!"

"Xanxus, you bastard." Enma cursed quietly.

"Heh." Xanxus seemed to find the situation amusing.

(Enma did not blame him. Enma would probably find it highly hilarious after the shock wore off.)

Xanxus strode forward, gracefully accepting the ring from the mourner and escorting his shivering form away from prying eyes.

Enma considered slamming his face repeatedly against a hard surface in hopes of waking up from this extremely weird nightmare- by all things holly, Enma wanted the image of Xanxus valiantly escorting a shivering cute guy away from people while offering a consoling shoulder for the aforementioned cute guy, forcibly removed from his brain and all traces scrubbed away.

Xanxus and the mourner walked towards where Enma was situated before Xanxus let the mourner go into Enma's arms.

Enma had a complete mental shutdown at the contact.

"Hi. I'm Tsuna!" The mourner, Tsuna, smiled up at him.

Enma looked at Xanxus who shrugged at him and sauntered away to his own boyfriend, Dino.

Enma looked back at Tsuna who was staring at him pensively.

That was it; Tsuna was clearly some sort of Black Widow who just had Enma sacrificed to him by Xanxus.

Enma tried to telepathically convey distress signals to Xanxus, but to no avail.

There was a snort, "Relax, I'm not going to eat you."

Enma looked at Tsuna just in time to catch his eye roll.

"I am not going to eat you." Tsuna repeated in a huff, half-amused, as he raked a hand through his hair, "Xanxus just wanted to introduce you to his future Outside Advisor."

"You're going to be the Outside Advisor?" Enma asked, tone neutral.

"Oh, yes." Tsuna put his hands on his hips, "I gave the ungrateful bastard the Decimo position, and he landed me with the position of Outside Advisor. The asshole."

(And that was the start of Enma's acquaintance with the former Vongola heir. Enma still wished he could murder Xanxus for it later.)

Extra- deleted scene:

"Oh yeah, I'm Iemitsu's son. And Primo's descendant. I have the Drama Queen in my blood."

End.

Once again, I'm so, so sorry for this shit piece of trash fic. But what type of primarily self-indulgent author would I be if I didn't have at least one trash fic?

#khr #unholy payback #xanxus #sawada tsunayoshi #kozato enma #Dino Cavallone #yuni #byakuran #timoteo di vongola #sawada iemitsu #I.W.P-chan wrote something

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emypony · 7 years ago

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Every number, lol

ily lmfao

gdi lina

((now i gotta open my own goddamn tumblr to find it smh))

i’ll do edits throughout bcs i go on other questions and i legit like, answer them and go back and add stuff

1. first anime you ever watched

tbh i can’t freaking remember?? Though it might’ve been something on animax. I don’t count pokemon rly bcs i rarely watched it. I think watched thoroughly…???

Frick. Deltora Quest (??) ((god I just remembered I need to hype that too crap)) but I’ll be proud to say front to back as a really long anime is going to be Inazuma Eleven. God I was so trash for it. Saw a few eps on Disney and decided “i want to see this but without this crappy romanian dub thx”

I can’t remember any other anime I watched but amongst the first ones were: Shugo Chara, Princess Tutu (I NEED TO DRAW THIS AS WELL AUGH LINA WHAT’VE U DONE) uhhhhhhhh, Kaleido Star? Zero no Tsukaima (VERY BAD ANIME TO START WATCHING WHEN UR LIKE 13) and other trash stuff like Oran Highschool Host club, Toradora (I didn’t watch the last ep gg me), Brother’s Conflict (another harem AND I DIDN’T WATCH THE LAST EP EITHER GG OMG) and this is all I can remember great…

EDIT: UNDERRATED ELEMENTAL GELADE LIKE DID ANYBODY EVEN HEAR ABT IT like AAAA

look at me i can’t even do one question without rambling this is gonna be long asf

EDIT:::: Shaman King was the first. Used to air dubbed on some non cartoon channel over here and I got hooked.

2. first anime crush

Shun from Bakugan. I’m trash. (yes this was after I found out that it was originally japanese. I think i wanted to watch the jap dub but i couldn’t find it anywhere and i couldn’t take Dan having Naruto’s voice either thx)

Then i discovered Spectra (aka the Brother of that girl from the 2nd season) and i cried bcs how could I choose

3. favorite anime character

Tsurugi Kyousuke and you know it girl

TSUNA FROM KHR (in his more serious form)

ALSO GOKUDERA ^^^^

4. least favorite anime character

fricc. uHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…(inazuma eleven makes everybody lovable I mean…)

5. list all anime you have ever watched (do non finished one count too thx)

NOTE: The ones with * means I didn’t finish them.

I DID THIS IN QUESTION 1 THANKS BUT LET ME ADD SOME

Mob Psycho 100

Shokugeki no Souma** (in prcess of watching)

Oban Star Racers

Sword Art Online

SMILE PRECURE - it’s so clichee but I love it

Kaichou wa Maid-Sama

K-ON!*

Fruits Basket!!!

Sukitte Ii na yo

edit: Noucome

Dog Days!* (i can’t even what is this anime)

Kamisama Hajimemashita* (THERE’S LIKE A 2ND/3RD SEASON I NEVER KNEW ABUOT)

//screams

SHAMAN KIIIIIIING

DNANGEL AHHHHHHHHH

Beyblade (newer series tho)*

To Love-Ru* (wasn’t my thing but i saw a bit of it)

more Pretty Cure series which I can’t remember tbh

SUGAR SUGAR RUNE //CRYING

Gugure! Kokkuri-san*

6. popular anime you didn’t like

NOTE: I DIDN’T ACTUALLY WATCH MOST OF THESE BUT THE HYPE OVER THEM JUST KILLED IT FOR ME

Vampire…s-something with Vampire? With the Subaru and stuff.

EDIT::: DIABOLIK LOVERS

LIKE ONLY 1 GUY WAS CUTE AND HAD REASONABLE REASONS BEHIND HIS AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, THE REST WERE JUST F*CKED UP PSYCHOS THANKS

Naruto (I mean first seasons are nice and all but like, it becomes confusing)

One Piece, Fairy Tail, YURI ON ICE , HETALIA ((MISS ME WITH THAT SH*T THX)), Death Note, Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, Clannad, Boku no Hero Academia, Dragon Ball Z (and what have you), Kuroko no Basket, Haikyuu, Free!, Bleach, Inuyasha, YuGiOh (i’ve seen a bit but meh..), Mirai Nikki,

//inhales Sailor Moon

idk just not for me, though maybe I should give it a chance??

7. anime you are currently watching

I guess Shokugeki no Souma since I’ve yet to finish s3

But I’m still in IEGO hell rn, rewatching it for the lolzies

8. anime character you are most like

Tenma, ofc.

9. favorite anime child

uHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Tenma. ;;w;; he’s so precious and doubts himself and I think he’s great ahhh

Konoha. She loves animals and she’s kinda cute ouo

idk if there’s more i am really not recent anime trash sorry

10. favorite anime animal sidekick

Kili who’s Jasmine’s(?) -idk if that was her name in the jap version too- crow

I frkin love crows holy danm

Sasuke is such a cute dog save me

11. anime you didn’t expect to like but did

Inazuma Eleven (I don’t even like soccer) , Princess Tutu (I don’t like ballet and it was old af so I literally put it off for watching Shugo Chara), uhhhh idunno anymore

12. anime that should get more attention from others

PRINCESS TUTU I CAN’T STFU ABOUT THIS

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

INAZUMA ELEVEN ALSO!!!

13. funniest anime you have watched

the one anime with the guy who had to make decisions or else

Noucome? (wikipedia: short for My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy) Yeah that’s the one.

Shokugeki no Souma

14. saddest anime you have ever watched

PRINCESS TUTU (screw me, right?)

15. anime you never get sick of watching

INAZUMA ELEVEN THX

16. 10 best animes you have watched

oH COME ON

Inazuma Eleven

Katekyo Hitman Reborn

Princess Tutu

Bakugan

Deltora Quest

Sugar Sugar Rune

Noucome

Shokugeki No Souma

Shaman King

i don’t know another one save me

17. biggest anime crush

TSURUGI KYOUSUKE

18.10 worst anime you have watched

how can I even-

19. favorite anime ships

kYOUTEN

YuuiChi ( ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ;)))))) furiously winks)

RanMasa

Ibuki x Shindou ((idk the name of this together lmao))

i don’t have anything more tbh x’D

20. least favorite anime ships

ShinKyou (I’m sorry but how?)

Fakir x Rue (Princess tutu. But like y these 2 srsly they hate each other)

21. anime that made you cry, when

Inazuma Eleven, not sure when but it did. I’m p sure it did

UHHHHHHHHHHHHH

fricc. Princess Tutu defs at the end

22. age you started watching anime/person who introduced you to it.

idk how the hecc I found it but i think i was like 11/12?

23. unpopular character you love

YUUICHI

I mean c’mon we only see him a few times like give the poor guy some love

SARU!!!

24. popular character you hate

Fudou

Idk just… :^) not ma’ thing

25. anime you would recommend to someone who hates anime

i can’t?? my anime choices are literally trash

26. manga you have read all the ways through

i…didn’t read mangas xD

((yes you’re free to kill me now :^))

(((TBH THERE IS ONE. And that’s Nana to Kaoru I think..but it’s nsfw sorta but it was nice as well? like you don’t see that often)))

27. anime you plan to watch in the future

uhhhh crap good question. I had some lists somewhere but idk

28. most upsetting moment in anime, why

WHEN KAZEMARU LEFT THE TEAM LIKE AAAAAAAA MY BOY

When Shun from bakugan cut his hair but damn he was still hot

THE CUTE BOY FROM DELTORA QUEST WHO WAS SUCH A CINNAMON BUN TURNED OUT TO BE SOME MONSTER FREAK LIKE HOW DARE YOU

29. anime that deserves another season

PRINCESS TUTU

DELTORA QUEST (THERE WERE 3 BOOKS BUT THEY ONLY MADE ONE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB

FRUITS BASKET AAAAAAAAH

i can’t think of more

30. one anime conclusion you would change

((SPOILERS))

Princess Tutu: MAKE AHIRU GODDAMN HUMAN SERIOUSLY I WANT TO SEE MY SHIP SAIL AUGHHJKFGBG

I FREAKING HOPE I DIDN’T MISS ANY AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#this is too long #god dammit lina #why did you do this to me #i love you though #ask me questions people but like not lina over here #neither these questions either cuz im not answering them again fo sho

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trilies · 7 years ago

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Chikusa Kakimoto, Assassination, and Rain Flames

subtitle: Mukuro Rokudo, do not use your fragile assassin DPS to fucking tank, you melodramatic asshole

[image: three panels from the Kokuyo Arc after Chikua has first attacked Gokudera. Gokudera: “This guy... He’s no ordinary junior high schooler. Whether it’s his killing instincts or his fighting style... He’s a professional hitman!”]

I’ve talked before, if briefly, on why Chikusa Kakimoto is actually a pretty talented character. In the Kokuyo Gang lineup, he’s pretty identifiable as the “brains” to Ken’s “brawn”, even if they both ultimately follow Mukuro.

Not only is it debatable how much education he received while growing up under the Estraneo (who were gunned down in the streets, even if they were children, if they showed their faces), it seems pretty likely that the Kokuyo Main Trio lived on the fringes of both regular society and the underworld. I mean, Mukuro up until the events of his arc wasn’t even recognizable as himself.

Yet despite this huge setback, Chikusa still has grown to be pretty intelligent in knowing poisons, their antidotes, a second language, dealing with Mukuro, and how to handle extremely unique weaponry (which I feel as though he created and maintains himself, because that’s not a regular weapon at all). And yet it feels like he tends to be passed over pretty easily, even more than what often happens to KHR minor characters, whether in canon or in fandom.

A part of that is probably his personality. As someone who RPs and writes Chikusa, it can be hard to puzzle out his personality or what’s going through his head. He’s a very quiet character who prefers to let his partner or leader do the talking. Thus, he can often fade into the background.

But I think there’s something else, too, and it’s this:

Chikusa Kakimoto sucks ass at fighting.

Oh, he can manage in fights against regular people, or average mafioso. Sometimes even above-average ones. However, in a shonen fighting manga, that’s not going to mean much for long, and Chikusa is a minor character so he has even less of a chance for any thought to be put into him.

However, it’s not just that he’s bad at fighting... To be more specific, he’s bad at upfront fighting. Chikusa isn’t meant to be in this genre, because what he really excels at, what really makes him a dangerous force within the underworld...

...are assassinations.

We see this a few time throughout the manga, although Chikusa’s only two big fights are with Gokudera. (He participates TYL in the Big Clusterfuck (tm) and also during the fight against Team Giglio Ner in the final arc, although not with much attention paid to what he’s doing.) Both times, it’s not even a win, at least in the traditional sense. The second battle has Gokudera succumbing to the leftover poison effects and Ken coming in for an assist. And in the first battle, the way he wins isn’t that of an upfront fight, but rather...

[image: Gokudera looking to where he thought Chikusa had fallen after he blew him up to fucking smithereens. “What-? He’s not there!!”]

Chikusa uses the smoke as a smokescreen for his own ends, vanishes from view, and reappears once it’s become certain that his REAL target (Tsuna) is there. That’s an assassin’s technique, and it shows that he’s pretty good at it for Gokudera to not have noticed at all until Chikusa makes his presence known a panel later.

There are a few other places in which Chikusa very clearly demonstrates an assassin’s mindset and technique, even in his very first spoken lines.

[image: two panels. The first panel has Ken saying “We’re boys from the next town, here for our away game, or something?” Second panel has Chikusa saying, “Quit fooling around. Finish it quickly, Ken.”]

Mukuro and Ken are very different from Chikusa, and like to draw out things in some ways although for different reasons from each other. Ken does it because he thinks it’s fun, and he clearly loves the thrill. Mukuro does it because he thrives on melodrama, and probably injects his veins with sheer Extra (tm) every morning.

In contrast, Chikusa has no interest in hanging about. There’s no reason to fool around. To an assassin, you finish your target off quickly, and leave. That’s that. When you start thinking of Chikusa acting with some degree of an assassin’s mindset, a lot of other things and talents start becoming clearer. For example, in my last post talking about his talents, I brought up this moment:

[image: a pane of Chikusa watching the fight between Tsuna and Lancia. “The Arcobaleno fired an instantaneous shot in under 0.05 seconds. It must have been a special bullet.”]

An assassin’s skills of observation are probably their most valuable skill, besides being able to murder someone and get away with it. Not only is this true in general, but I feel as though it’s especially true for Chikusa in trying to be valuable for Mukuro personally. (Chikusa tailor making himself for Mukuro’s use being a whole big post for another time, people willing.) Chikusa doesn’t have the multi-purpose eye that the Estraneo gave Mukuro, or Ken’s versatile Channels, or Chrome’s illusions. He’s had to make himself useful in other ways, and one of those ways means being able to observe, deduce, and keep up with Mukuro’s own train of thought. There’s a reason why I feel like Chikusa is essentially his Number 2, in a way that mirrors Gokudera very fittingly.

(ANOTHER thing to babble about at a later date.)

Other characters pick up on Chikusa’s abilities as an assassin as well, although they don’t outright say it as Gokudera first did. Going back to when Lancia is struck with the needles, consider his reflex time. It’s very clear that he realized that an attack was coming. If it had been aimed directly for him to silence him from giving away any of Mukuro’s secrets, he likely could have avoided it. However, instead, Chikusa aims for Tsuna despite Tsuna being the body Mukuro wants to possess. The implication is that Chikusa was banking on the idea that Lancia would focus on Tsuna’s protection over his own safety, only able to save one body and not two. It’s a move that proves successful.

And in the moments immediately following it?

[image: Panel 1, Gokudera: “It’s the yoyo freak!” Panel 2, Reborn: “He’s gone. A hit and run...”]

There’s two main things to note in this sequence of events. The first is, obviously, that absolutely no one picked up on Chikusa’s presence until he had already attacked.

The second is that, even as everyone is reacting to the sudden attack, Reborn confirms that Chikusa is long gone. He’s so gone that there’s no point in trying to attack him, or make a chase after him. This is Reborn, best hitman in the world even while stuck in the body of a toddler, making that call.

Chikusa is really really good and really really dangerous... When he’s allowed to do things his way.

So why not have done things his way in this arc?

[image: two panels. Panel 1, Gokudera: “You were pretty easy about letting them go, eh?” Panel 2, Chikusa: “Those were Mukuro-sama’s orders.”]

Again: Chikusa might be the brain to Ken’s brawn, but he still defers to Mukuro. In most cases, anyway. If Mukuro wants to be a melodramatic dumpster fire (which is always), then Chikusa will go along with it so long as it’s not a Really Stupid Idea. This means that, even when Chikusa is well aware that he’s being asked to do something which isn’t particularly in his skillset, he’ll go along with it, trusting the ends to justify the means and that Mukuro will be happy with the results.

Also, I would just like to point out how Gokudera continues to recognize Chikusa’s talents. While he was more obvious about it when he identified Chikusa as a legit hitman in their first encounter, he’s also subtly acknowledging him when he addresses the fact that Chikusa could have been a much bigger problem for Tsuna and Bianchi (especially with them going to the only entrance to the next floor). Not only is Chikusa’s observational skills good in chaotic situations, as I mentioned before, but his weapon of choice also means that he could have gone for a wide spread of areas and been guaranteed at least one hit.

And when the weapon involves poison... Sometimes a single hit is all that’s really needed.

In all honesty, I think that some of the only reasons Chikusa even gets through the fights he does participate in would have to do with his dexterity... and a certain theory of mine.

Let’s rewind back to the first fight he has with Gokudera. For all that he technically won it, Chikusa is still in incredibly shitty condition. But....

[image: three panels, depicting a group of adults and announcements that the police have arrived. Chikusa: “You’re Ken’s prey... It’ll be trouble if I intervened.. I need a shower...” And he shuffles off with a trail of blood behind him.]

I want everyone to bear in mind that, at NO point in his battle with Gokudera does Chikusa actually.... react to the attacks that are being leveled against him. Oh, sure, he responds to the physics of it all. When there’s an explosion, he’s blown back, or whatever, but he doesn’t really show any indication that he’s being hurt. That he’s feeling pain.

And then he just... Shuffles to his shitty base. In the middle of nowhere. While evading police. Despite leaving an actual trail of blood behind him.

When he finally arrives back in front of Mukuro, I’m fairly certain the reason he collapsed was because his actual body realized it couldn’t go any further, not because he was tired from all the pain he SHOULD HAVE TECHNICALLY been in.

Here’s a question for any reader that’s beared with me this long: If all the Estraneo family experimented on all of the kids... What was done to Chikusa?

We know what they did to Mukuro, in giving him that eye. We know what they did to Ken, in giving him his teeth. Yet Chikusa does not display any such abilities so blatantly. While Mukuro and Ken showcase their abilities in all of their fights, Chikusa just comes to the party with yoyos and stubbornness.

However... I think we’re given a hint of what was done to him, although it is only shown in the manga and the anime shows absolutely nothing similar to it. It’s only a single panel, and it’s not commented upon in any way. It’s during the final chapter of the Kokuyo Arc, where Ken is talking about their history with the Estraneo. In just one panel, we see a pair of Estraneo adults with one of them commenting “We’re still far from being able to use it.” At their feet is a small boy, with short black hair, bandages wrapped around his head, glasses on his face... and flames burning from his extremities.

For anyone who pays attention during the Future Arc, it can be seen that Chikusa wears a ring with a blue stone in it. Thus, we can be pretty sure that Chikusa has Rain Flames, like Yamamoto, or Squalo.

So.... What I feel happened is that the particular Estraneo experiments that Chikusa was subject to had to do with manipulating Dying Will Flames. Really, from what we can tell, most of the (successful) experiments were! Mukuro’s eye relies on the spiritual, an aspect that Mist is extremely connected to. Ken’s Channels are probably extremely reliant on the Sun Flame’s activation attribute.

As for Chikusa... It’s hard to say what the intention could have been for Rain Flames. The flashback has the adults saying it’s essentially an incomplete experiment, and there’s no telling if they ever finished it before Mukuro slaughtered the entire Family. Yet I don’t think it’s much of a leap to say that Rain Flame’s “tranquility” factor could be adjusted until its owner couldn’t feel pain at all.

#khr #katekyo hitman reborn #reborn!#chikusa kakimoto #kakimoto chikusa #long post #image heavy #no one else gives as much of a fuck about chikusa kakimoto than i do #i can guarantee you this #kokuyo

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ciaossu-imagines · 2 years ago

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Match-Up for starkling

For @starkling25

For your romantic match-up for KHR, I think you'd be in relationship with BYAKURAN GESSO! You and Byakuran got along really well, right from the start, surprising a lot of people. You guys were friends for years before you started to date but the relationship still shocked quite a few people, despite them knowing how good of friends you were. After all, Byakuran and you do seem like a bit of a mismatch from an outsider's perspective, but honestly, nothing could be further from the truth. Byakuran is outgoing and charming to your more timid, introverted nature but the two of you compliment each other well. You calm him while he helps draw you out of your shell and your comfort zone a bit. In fact, he decided from the start he liked you and his insistence on befriending you and his constant presence once he decided that helped build your friendship to begin with. He honestly thinks your meeker nature is adorable and views you a bit as something cute and precious to protect. He loves your loyal nature - it makes him feel safe in your friendship and eventual relationship and the care and support you give everyone around you, though he does keep a close eye on those he feels might be taking advantage of your sweet nature. His own loyalty, despite his somewhat flirty manner, is something he will assure you of in a million ways, a million times. He will make sure he gives you no reason to doubt him once he gets you into a relationship with him and he will stay true to you. In a somewhat perverse turn, he does enjoy picking at you a bit, getting you to the point where you do lose your temper, just because he enjoys seeing it, though he will apologize for upsetting you and will try to curb his impulses to do so a bit once you let him know that doing that upsets you. Now, let me scream this to the rooftop - all your anxieties and insecurities, oh goodness, there will be no room for those in this relationship, though Byakuran will listen to them attentively. It's simply that he will do everything he can to take care of anything making you anxious or to jolly you out of your anxious moods and there is no way he's letting you worry about your size or the way you present yourself to the world. He thinks you're the most gorgeous creature on the face of the planet and he will do whatever he can to make sure you feel that every day! He's all about quality time with you, though it isn't always possible and if the relationship suffers at all, it's only in the times when he is busy or off pursuing his own interests and can't provide you with that quality time the both of you do need to stay a strong couple, though those periods always are temporary and do end.

For your romantic match-up for Saiyuki, I think you'd be in a relationship with CHO HAKKAI! Because of his past experiences, Hakkai is very much like yourself in that he needs time and comfort in a platonic relationship before he could ever imagine getting romantically involved with someone. While there would be chemistry right from the start, this would be a true slow burn relationship to give you both the room to get comfortable and build a good, solid friendship first. And solid it would be. You and Hakkai get along perfectly, fit each other like a set of gloves, and seem to understand each other very well. Both more introverted by nature, the two of you understand the pleasure in peace and quiet and in small gatherings and quality time together, preferring that to the bustle and hustle of parties and bars and crowds. He loves your helpful nature and the care you take of people around you and returns the favour right back to you. Usually, he's the only one doing that and with you, the relationship feels equal and his love reciprocated in ways he feels and understands best. You give him a listening ear, one that does their best to understand, and you are one of the few people to hear his troubles, his regrets, his true thoughts and there's comfort in your willingness to just listen, to understand, and be there for him that he has in precious few other places. The fact that you will give him your honest opinion instead of just feeding him what he wants to hear is invaluable to him and something he will struggle with but always try to return to you as well. In turn, he calms your anxieties, helping you discuss them and challenging your perceptions and helping walk you through how realistic each anxiety is. To him, to love you is to support you in whatever ways he can and it's the least he can do for someone who truly allowed him to feel alive and to believe in love again. He takes interest in your hobbies and does give most of them a try beside you, often naturally excelling at them, sometimes to your displeasure. He always compliments any crafts you are working on, encourages you when you get writer's block and truly looks forward to reading what you write, giving helpful critiques and lots of praise. His most treasured times though are when the two of you get to just quietly enjoy each other's company, taking long walks or drives in Jeep. The conversations will flow naturally but the two of you share a love and a bond that makes even the silences in each other's company anything but awkward.

#replies #romantic match up

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makeste · 5 years ago

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BnHA Chapter 261: Wakey Wakey

Previously on BnHA: The heroes decided that the only way to beat the villains was with an insane winner-takes-all gambit involving two simultaneous attacks, one on the Pliff base in Gunga Mountain, and the other on a quaint little hospital in Jakku that just so happens to be where Ujiko is keeping his Noumuraki in cold storage along with all his other evil science junk. We still don’t know what the fuck is going on in Gunga, but over in Jakku things are shockingly not really going according to plan! First Ujiko was stabbed by a Noumu space slug and melted away into nothing because HE’S A FAAAAAAAKE. Then a bunch of other Noumu came running out of the morgue to distract everyone while the real Ujiko scuttled about his lab in a panic in his lab and literally called the heroes “THOSE MEDDLESOME HEROES” because he is literally a cartoon villain, only with the evilness cranked up to 11. Thankfully before he could warp away and escape, Miruko, a.k.a. the queen of this entire arc, busted down the door and crushed John-chan like a bug (RIP JOHN-CHAN) and took hold of my heart and was all “THIS IS MINE NOW” and I was like “okay” and now she’s gonna kick Ujiko’s ass????! Or so we can hope anyway?

Today on BnHA: Well Miruko almost kicks Ujiko’s ass, and he almost doesn’t manage to punch in the activation code for his High End Noumus, and we almost manage to be spared the chaotic scene where they all come to life and wreak havoc. But unfortunately “almost” is as close as we get, mainly because every single other character decides to hang back in the hospital entrance fighting a bunch of nobodies rather than bothering to help Miruko out. Everyone that is, except Crust, who provides some assistance by (a) not mentioning to anyone how there’s a whole other tunnel that leads out of the lab and goes DIRECTLY OUTSIDE TO WHERE MY CHILDREN PRESUMABLY ARE, and (b) arriving at the lab and then not really doing anything else at all except shouting a bit. So apparently this is what we’re working with. Thankfully Miruko is somehow still alive, because it looks like she’s about to have to fight these guys pretty much on her own. Unfortunately Ujiko takes advantage of all the chaos to abscond the fuck out of there. And so the chapter leaves off with one of those “record scratch, freeze frame, yep that’s me you’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation” moments. Fun times.

so Ujiko got a new name last week; he is now Garaki Kyuudai. you can read all about the meaning of the name on Caleb’s twitter if you feel so inclined. so we are now moving on, and we’ll see how many times I forget this new name and have to go back and look it up (ETA: at least twice so far)

so hopefully today will be the day when we finally discover just how and why everything is going to go terribly wrong, because it’s getting stressful bracing myself for that shoe to drop every damn week. if you’re going to put my kids in terrible danger than GO AHEAD AND PUT THEM IN DANGER ALREADY THEN. please. I can’t go on like this

holy shit you guys

see, now this is the kind of fanservice I can get behind. too bad I can’t really focus on that at all right now because

well then. it’s only the thing I’ve been simultaneously anticipating and dreading ever since the start of the My Villain Academia arc! don’t mind me guys. I’m just gonna. sit here nearly frozen but also kind of vibrating/pulsing ever so slightly

OH NO MIRUKO WHAT DID YOU DO

holy shit you guys. I RECOGNIZE THAT BIG BLACK DOOR FROM BACK IN MY KHR DAYS. ONLY BACK THEN IT WASN’T A DOOR AT ALL, BUT A WALL. A GLORIOUS AND TERRIBLE WALL WHICH SINGLEHANDEDLY BROUGHT ONE OF THE STRONGEST CHARACTERS TO HIS KNEES DURING A DO-OR-DIE “HEROES INVADE THE VILLAINS’ LAIR” ARC VERY MUCH LIKE THIS. oh my god. and now he has returned, after all these years, to once again fuck up the heroes’ plans at a critical and devastating moment. curse you wall

also did we really need to see this

Horikoshi: “you know what I haven’t drawn yet that I’d really like to draw. brains. just some brains splattered around all messily. children love that almost as much as they love dead dogs”

ffsdsdlfkjl YOU KNOW WHAT WE ALSO DIDN’T NEED TO SEE, HOLY CHRIST

A FLASHBACK TO UJIKO “COMFORTING” A BLOODIED JOHN-CHAN AFTER A SUCCESSFUL TEST RUN OF HIS NOUMU CAPABILITIES, OR WHATEVER THE HELL THIS IS. DID YOU GUYS ASK FOR THIS? I SURE AS HELL DIDN’T. I HAVE NO REAL WAY OF KNOWING THIS FOR SURE, BUT I’M GONNA GO OUT ON A LIMB AND SAY THAT ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WANTED TO SEE THIS. LIKE, I CAN’T SAY THAT WITH CERTAINTY, BUT ACTUALLY I CAN THOUGH

ugh. anyway. “just Noumu Arc things,” Horikoshi says with a shrug. listen you son of a --

meanwhile if Ujiko gets all angry and tearfully sics all of the High Ends on Miruko in his rage, I will... actually I’ll sit here not being even remotely surprised at all, but still freaking out though. damn it, this is why I need that freaking shoe to drop already like I said. that thing is just sitting there like a loose snack in a malfunctioning vending machine and I’m standing here cursing and thumping on the glass and asking if anybody has a quarter

GODDAMMIT I DON’T NEED TO HEAR HIS FUCKING EULOGY FOR HIS PET MONSTER WHICH USED TO BE AN INNOCENT LITTLE CHILD UNTIL HE MAIMED AND TORTURED THE HUMANITY OUT OF IT

is that freaking All for One in the top right panel. YOU’RE ON MY SHITLIST TOO MISTER

looooooooool :’)

lol I think we finally got that shoe loose folks. sob. go ahead and activate them you crusty old fuck

also are these things in the little tubes... quirks??? like what the hell

so now Ujiko’s screaming (I guess if he’s upset we can take that as a good sign?), and meanwhile Miruko is all

still smiling even now. god how I love her. “I’LL FIND OUT IF I KICK HIM” GOD MIRUKO WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE. IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A FEMALE HIMBO. LIKE WITH LESS PEJORATIVE CONNOTATIONS THAN THE ORIGINAL “BIMBO” AND WITH MORE OF A “SOMEONE WHO’S REALLY HOT AND COULD CRUSH YOU WITH HER PINKY AND IS ALSO A FEW ICE BRICKS SHORT OF AN IGLOO” KIND OF VIBE TO IT. HERBO??? OR WHAT ABOUT... SHIMBO

anyway Endeavor is all “catch him” which is some great fucking advice coming from someone that hasn’t even made it inside the morgue entrance yet. what fucking good are you. at least he fried the space slug

but unfortunately that hasn’t quite solved all their problems yet

honestly though, he should still go after her. like, screw all the rest of this. get your priorities in order!! she just said there were a ton of REALLY STRONG-LOOKING!! Noumus over there too, and meanwhile she’s the only one there because none of these other dinguses seem to realize that if you want to stop the fucking Noumus you need to stop the guy in charge. otherwise they’ll just keep on coming!!

you know what, forget what I implied a couple paragraphs ago about Miruko being a few twists short of a slinky. she may have a straightforward “hit first and ask questions later” approach to things, but it’s increasingly clear that she’s still in possession of this team’s one shared brain cell right now

(ETA: the more that I think about this the madder I get. I count at least seven heroes in this shot. you’re telling me you couldn’t spare a single one??)

ooh we’re cutting to Mandalay!

she says the last of the civilians have just been evacuated from the hospital! I don’t know why she’s yelling this to them out loud and not thinking it at them like in the forest arc but whatever. the evacuation part got me thinking about the kids and now I desperately want to see how they’re doing but first we have to wait for this High End situation to finish spiraling out of control I guess

-- holy shit holy shit holy shit

okay so this guy, who was the closest behind Miruko -- I forget who he is but I remember he was one of the top ten... goddammit let me look it up... okay yeah, he’s Crust, the number six hero, whose quirk I don’t think we know yet -- anyway so he’s running down the corridor and, well...

first of all he says hmmm way too much. but more importantly he just confirmed that at least one of these corridors leads directly outside. without passing through the hospital at all. implying that the Noumus can bypass the squad of heroes entirely and escape to rampage out on the mountainside

so the one job that the heroes had today, which was to make sure that none of the villains escaped, has already proven a failure. there are Noumus outside. and who else is outside in the mountains of Jakku right now, you guys? EXACTLY

meanwhile this fucking boomer hasn’t even bothered to say this part out loud so that the other heroes can hear and realize that there are potentially escaped Noumus on the lam! like it would be nice to maybe mention that so that they know their plan has sprung a leak and also so that Endeavor can WARN HIS FUCKING INTERNS JESUS CHRIST

anyway so Crust has stumbled upon a group of Noumus and is attacking them and still not revealing a thing to his pals, thanks so much!!!

and now Miruko is leaping at Ujiko so that means ladies and gentlemen it’s finally TIME FOR SOMETHING BAD TO HAPPEN!

WHY IS THIS TAKING A WHOLE FUCKING PAGE

no fucking duh?? holy shit. he may be an evil genius but he’s really not that great at thinking on his feet

-- oh shit?!

A WILD RAY OF HOPE APPEARS?? looooool are you serious? that must mean that they’re so fucking powerful the heroes wouldn’t stand a chance if they were activated. so despite all appearances, Horikoshi is actually not throwing them to the wolves just yet and there is still a thin layer of plot armor surrounding them!

--but what the hell IS HE TURNING THEM ON ANYWAY?!

sob, he is. holy shit he’s gonna sic a High End on my wife and it’ll be the strongest fucking thing we’ve ever seen and meanwhile Ujiko will be watching all “hur hur it’s not even using 10% of its power” fucking fuck me

WHAT THE FUCK

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME THERE’S ANOTHER WARPING NOUMU JESUS

so he just left?? but turned the Noumus on first?? so now they have ten fucking hours before these things get strong enough to level the whole fucking planet are you shitting meeeee. and did he just leave Tomura there too or did he also warp him out?

wait a sec no he’s still there. lol what the fuck. so did Mocha-chan create a duplicate of him then and that’s what Miruko kicked?

I’m so confused lmao

(ETA: still confused tbh. but we have bigger fish to fry!)

but anyway. this is what we came for though

wakey wakey. hey can someone go slap Endeavor and all those other heroes for me for deciding it was more important to battle the “small fries” out in front rather than give Miruko some fucking backup so it wouldn’t be all on her to stop this shitclown from remote activating his unstoppable army of death? fucking Mic could have ended this whole show with one shouted “YODELAYHEEHOO~” down this echo-y corridor for fuck’s sake!! Aizawa could have stopped Mocha from using her quirk! god damn! I hope you’re all happy!!

LMAO HOLY FUCKING SHIT

THAT’S THE SCARIEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN?! HAHAHA MY HEART IS GENUINELY RACING, I’M DEFAULTING TO MY “HAUNTED HOUSE LAUGHTER” INSTINCT IN WHICH I KEEP LAUGHING BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS TOO FUCKING TENSE AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO

LIKE, THE ONE NEARLY BIT HER FUCKING FACE OFF BEFORE SHE KICKED ITS BITEY HAND IN HALF, BUT MEANWHILE THE OTHER ONE IS TRYING TO GRAB HER ENTIRE HEAD WITH ITS MASSIVE FUCKING HAND ATTACHED TO AN ARM THAT’S LITERALLY AS LONG AS MIRUKO IS TALL, AND THAT HAND IS BIG ENOUGH THAT IF IT CLOSED ITS FIST HER HEAD WOULD LITERALLY POP LIKE A GRAPE HOLY SHIT?!?!

NO THANK YOU I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING BUT THAT’S ALL RIGHT I DON’T WANT IT TAKE IT BACK PLEASE

oh thank fuck I think Miruko escaped?? or they just threw her into that wall, at least. well still better then getting your head crushed

and now these two are trying to talk because fuck me I forgot high ends can fucking talk

“h...hero...” took me a second to figure out what they were saying there but damned if that didn’t send a chill down my spine!

also Miruko really did kick its hand right the fuck off, god I love her. even if it is instantly growing back

you guys I literally can’t stop laughing lol

HAHAHA WE’RE SO FUCKED!?!

ALSO IS THAT ONE GUY CRIMSON RIOT?!!

hmm lol maybe not. idk though he just gave me that vibe

LOOK HOW HAPPY THEY ALL ARE LOL

THEY JUST WANT TO KILL THEM ALL THAT’S SO GREAT. THIS IS ALL SO WONDERFUL THEY KO’D MIRUKO IN 0.4 SECONDS AND NOW THEY WANT TO “GO BERSERK” WHAT A GRAND TIME WE’RE IN FOR

LMAO ARE YOU SERIOUS

FUCKING CRUST OUT HERE LIKE TROY WITH THE PIZZA BOXES. DO YOU WANT TO JUST TURN THE FUCK AROUND RIGHT NOW BOY. NGL IF THEY RIP YOUR HEAD OFF I’M NOT EVEN GONNA DO ANYTHING EXCEPT ROLL MY EYES. WATCH HIM NOT SHOUT A WARNING TO THE OTHERS EVEN NOW

(ETA: I s2g though. hello?! is your headset broken???)

and he’s being greeted by this big guy with a gear head and a weird lumpy spine

somehow at first I thought that first lump on his back was an “R” symbol because I’m bad at interpreting images, so now I want to call him Rusty because I’m also bad at coming up with nicknames on the spot. I’m sorry Rusty

anyway so Rusty and Crust are immediately getting into an argument and meanwhile Ujiko is just SITTING THERE BECAUSE HE CAN, NOW

because Endeavor, Aizawa, Mic, and the others all decided it was more important to abandon their most important target in favor of trying to contain the comparatively harmless redshirt Noumus in the lobby. which is also pointless, because they’re not actually containing shit, because there are other exits besides for just the hospital! which they would fucking know if Crust was capable of relaying vital information instead of strategically saving his breath for more important things like sarcastically calling this Rusty guy “clever”

in conclusion the heroes have all picked the absolute worst time to collectively shit the bed and I’ve had it with them and they all need to retire, except for Miruko. and the kids. who are now soon to be directly in the line of fire thanks to this shitshow

LMAO HORIKOSHI YOU PIECE OF SHIT SOMEHOW I FUCKING KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO PICK THIS WEEK TO ANNOUNCE A BREAK YOU GLEEFUL LITTLE TROLL

and two weeks from now is when I’ll finally be watching the new movie though, so I don’t even know how that’s gonna work lol. guess that’s why they put the extra day in February this year. ah well

anyway! so Miruko is still alive and more reminiscent of Katsuki now than ever, which is fucking great because Crust so far has been exactly as useful as you would expect some stupid old guy with the name “crust” to be, sigh. anyway I’m glad to see my girl’s spirits haven’t been dampened

meanwhile Ujiko straight up did leave Tomura there, which is interesting lol. and so now it looks to be Miruko and Crust (with the latter’s contribution extremely in doubt) versus Rusty, Jester, Max Rebo, Girl!Noumu, and Noumu!Riot. I’m strangely not worried for Miruko because I have decided that she’s invincible, and because Horikoshi has graciously nerfed these guys a bit (please accept my dripping-with-sarcasm “gee thanks”, Horikoshi)

but I am however worried about my three sons over on the edge of town who are about to be waylaid by god knows what. not to mention all my other kids 80km away! how will their day be ruined? we shall see!

#bnha 261 #miruko #ujiko daruma #garaki kyuudai #crust (bnha)#bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #makeste spoiler recap #makeste reads bnha #I half expect crust to pull out his money clip that he got at the haberdashery #and throw it at the noumus while screaming 'street smarts!!!' at the top of his lungs #then he chews up the tab of alka-seltzer that he carries with him at all times #thus creating a foaming-at-the-mouth appearance that makes him look like he has rabies #now he's thrown them off his rhythm #then he grabs a telephone book and beats them with it #anyway how this guy got to be number six is a mystery for the ages

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