#i ended up getting distracted reading his last fte ....so proud of him for wanting to become a carpenter

[krynutsreal]

leans on expensive motorcycle with cake

pretend I posted this yesterday okay

[kimmysfandomblog]

So Nae/giri, Kamu/koma, Toukomaru and Kii/ruma for the ship meme ? :P You can do all of them or pick the ones you want to talk about, I just wanted to give you one ship per game ~

Thank you so much for the ask Serahne!!! :D I’d be more than happy to do them all!!!

From here: https://kimmysfandomblog.tumblr.com/post/168063250112/send-me-a-ship-and-ill-give-you-my-brutally

Since there’s 4, I’m gonna have to put it under the cut! And they got very long, sorry ^^;

obviously, V3 spoilers for the last one!

Nae/giri (+)

So, funny thing about me: I actually started DR with the Animation (I hadn’t even known a game existed at the time). Anyways, because it’s an anime, you don’t get those free time events, and everything is much, much faster. Basically…. I’m a real dunce when it comes to romance, so I hadn’t even realized Nae/giri was pretty heavily hinted at ^^; I spent most of the time thinking Kirigiri was gonna betray Naegi (which… I mean I wasn’t completely wrong, kinda? XD She didn’t mean to throw him under the bus at all, of course).

Now, I didn’t ship anyone in DR by the time I finished the anime. I’d seen it mostly as friendships, and that Naegi and Kirigiri’s was the strongest one. I don’t know when exactly it sprung on me that, hey, this is a ship!!!, but my best guess is that it wasn’t until I stumbled across DR again when it came out on Steam. A let’s player I kind of visit occasionally was playing the game and I got sucked into nostalgia, and he did Kirigiri’s FTEs. It was probably during that time that I recognized this was definitely a ship, one that was practically canon, and that actually, I’m okay with it, and even like it! If two characters like each other, and can support each other this well, then why not?

I’m not the biggest Naeg/iri fan (that spot for favorite DR1 ship belongs to another pairing, but admittedly it’s more of a pre-canon ship). I’ll admit, a part of me still thinks Naegi forgives Kirigiri too easily after all he’d been through, but if he gave her a hard time, he wouldn’t be Naegi! And I was a little salty she threw him under the bus, but Kirigiri made a mistake, acknowledges it, and even returns the favor back to him! It wasn’t even really her fault (she clearly didn’t know what would happen or she would have definitely let herself be sacrificed), so I forgive her, too!

If DR3 proved anything about Naeg/iri, it’s that Naegi and Kirigiri very clearly care for one another, and are able to balance each other out. They understand each other so well, and I’d say they definitely like, probably even love, each other. So, given canon events throughout the series, I ship it! It’s been good for both of them, the way I see it! I sincerely hope they continue to care and love each other post canon, too. They both deserve happiness after all they’ve been through together!

Kamu/Koma (-)

Okay, this one… this one actually irks me, I’m sorry to say. I know Kamukura is Hinata, and I definitely ship Koma/Hina, but Kamu/Koma…. it’s very different. I’ve read Kamu/Koma fics, and seen the fanart, (and sometimes I actually like the fanwork). I get why people like it. However, to me, it’s a very unbalanced ship.

Ko’s obsession with Hope and Talent, with Kamukura being the embodiment of Talent, and of the Hope Ko originally fixates on, makes it much too unbalanced because Kamukura is given all the power in this relationship. Not only that, but it would be Ko constantly trying to be useful to Kamukura, or trying to make things interesting for Kamukura. And Kamukura, well, I can’t see him reciprocating or giving back much. Kamukura’s kinda weird, as in he’s pretty selfish in a way. Maybe he’d do things back for Ko, but would he mean it? Would Ko even know if Kamukura cared? It doesn’t help that the majority of the fanworks don’t really do anything to disprove how I feel their relationship would work. People write/draw fanart for Kamu/Koma using this power play: Ko revering Kamukura like a god, doing demeaning things for him, or being like his housewife or maid or something, and Kamukura kind of staring blankly back, or barely reciprocating or acknowledging any of it. It’s also portrayed very sexually (?), with no amount of fluff, and I end up feeling sorry for Ko. I really can’t ship something this one-sided where only one person has affection for the other, or at the very least, where it’s difficult to see how affectionate one is for the other.

And, I suppose, another thing is just the fact that I like Haji way more than Kamukura. Sometimes Kamu/Koma shippers portray Haji as the one losing out, the third wheel left behind, or even saying Kamukura should have fully returned. I’m glad, in the end, Haji is seemingly acting like he’s mostly Haji to his friends.

However, I admit that besides how I see the Kamu/Koma dynamic playing out… the really extreme shippers were the reason I can’t stand it most of the time. More than a year ago now, there was this huge shipping war, and at least to me, with the people I was following at the time, it seemed like it was mostly between extreme Kamu/Koma shippers against the extreme Hina/Nami shippers. The sheer hatred and pride at being so hateful disgusted me. I unfollowed a few people that I used to like because of all these scathing remarks against Nami (by that I mean DR2 Nami) and basically mocking the fans for liking and defending her, and then being proud of it, even celebrating it in a congratulating post to themselves. I mean, I know now it was aimed at the Nami lovers that were just as bad as they were being, but it still hurts either way. I wasn’t following anyone that was strictly Hina/Nami at the time, but I did see a lot of Ko discourse flying around, too (and heavily disagreed with them of course). Even after that, people were tagging their hate for Nami and Ko, and the ships. I couldn’t escape it. Maybe I’m over-imagining it, but that’s how I feel about it. I’m glad it’s settled down now that V3 is mostly distracting people from it these days.

As for how I feel about Kamu/Koma today, sometimes seeing Kamu/Koma (or Hina/Nami) makes me cringe, and other times, I find it okay (though it’s mostly the former. I always felt weird about Kamu/Koma because of the power dynamic).

Unrelated: Weirdly enough, even though I don’t like Hina/Nami, I ended up liking Kamu/Nami, but only because AI Kamukura exists ^^; I actually participated in Kamu/Nami week, too, and… yeah I actually like it. My guilty pleasure ship, lol. Just... not so much for Hina/Nami. DR3 Hina/Nami was that bad.

Sorry that answer was very negative, but brutal honesty right? I know I have followers that ship it, and I don’t really mind as long as no one is trying to force me to like it or see it!

Toko/maru (+)

Well, I didn’t like Another Episode as a whole that much, but I did like the interactions between Toko and Komaru a lot. Their friendship was just so good! They were able to help each other, see the faults in each other, and call them out. Komaru helps Toko learn to trust her through her genuine kindness and loyalty, and Toko helps Komaru find solutions and helps break Komaru’s habit of seeing herself as just a normal girl with no way to change what happens around her.

And the ending, where Toko decides to stay with Komaru instead of leaving with Togami? It makes me feel a lot of joy, honestly. Nothing against ToFu, but her choosing Komaru over Togami was great! Like, from what I remember of her FTE’s Toko has had trouble trusting people. Neither of her moms wanted her, and she was even dated as a part of a dare. Her moms and that boy both treated her nicely, but they actually didn’t like her (actually I wonder about the moms, but I’ll have to revisit those FTEs eventually). The reason she is so infatuated with Togami probably has to do with how rudely he treats her, on top of being the SHSL Heir. If he got with her, it would be like a romance novel come to life, and he wouldn’t be pretending to like her. However, it’s unrealistic the way it is in canon. Togami may be getting better, but at least at the point canon left off, he still needs some work.

I’m very glad Toko has Komaru. Komaru treats her normally instead of being scared off or angry at Toko’s accusations and jokes, and she openly shows how much she cares about Toko. I can see Tokomaru both as a strong friendship, or a future romantic relationship, given time. And, based on the one DR3 episode, it seems like their bond has done nothing but grow! They trust in each other and work really well together. May they remain this close or more post-canon!

Kii/ruma (+)

I don’t know if anyone was expecting this to be appealing? I usually don’t like the characters that spew vulgarities, so I thought I’d never like Miu. I was so wrong! And, knowing what I did, I never thought I’d ship her with Kiibo, who’s just… so pure??? I remember, back when I was trying to avoid spoilers, that one CG where Miu was apparently performing maintenance came up, and I totally misjudged it. 

However, this game… it subverted my expectations. The CG was not as uncomfortable as I thought! Miu got a bit too close, and I’m 99% sure she knew what she was saying and how it could sound, and Kiibo just came for maintenance, and he doesn’t really get the double meanings to her words, but somehow ends up saying things that could be suggestive too XD It was so funny! I honestly thought, upon getting spoiled that CG before playing, that he wasn’t consenting to whatever was going on, but while I can’t say it was “innocent,” it was clearly not that bad. And after that, Miu is introduced to the Neo World Program and Kiibo gets jealous of the computer XD To try to get the most out of my V3 experience, I actually went up to every character each FT to get their “FTE starter,” so I know he’s always been either in the hall right before the computer room, or (not much farther away from there) next to the three empty rooms. I’m pretty sure the first FTE of that chapter, he even gets defensive over his not-jealousy of a computer, lol!!! There was also that part in Chapter 4, before going to the Virtual World, Monotaro calls Kiibo “Daddy” and Miu “Mommy” XD and even after her death, he was so sad he wished he could cry for her, which just punches me in the feels… and from what I remember in Trial 4, Kiibo was pretty much trying to defend her as the others pretty much admitted to not caring that much about her? I’d need to replay that trial, but that’s what I took from it in regards to Miu. Also, I guess another reason I like it is because Ouma bullies both of them, so they are similar in that regard haha.

I guess, maybe as the sole complaint, I wonder how Miu felt about Kiibo? I mean, clearly, she was interested in him because he’s a robot, but I wonder how she felt about Kiibo as a person? I think she respected Kiibo, but I can’t gauge how much she liked him from what I remember of the game. She was certainly proud and happy to give him upgrades, and Kiibo doesn’t seem to mind so much when she does, even though he hates sci-fi things, or generally any reminder he’s not as human as he’d like to be. She always kept her upgrades rather simple, and he was always so proud to have them! Maybe she wanted to add all that fancy gear from his Ultimate Lab, but didn’t push him when he said no. Maybe that’s why he was fond of her?

Kii/ruma’s a really cute ship to me! It’s probably more funny, than cute (but the fanart is so very cute...), but either way, I still really like it! And well, it’s about one of the only ships I care about in V3 as well, hahaha. It didn’t seem forced, I didn’t really feel like it was necessarily one-sided, and their dynamic was great and interesting!!! I should really check out those anthologies sometime to see if there’s any more Kii/ruma in it, hahaha.

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F and T for the fanfic ask? Thank you:)

Long answer is long, so there’s more below the cut.

F: Share a snippet from one of yourfavorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’reproud of it.

This is hard.  Dialogue is one of thethings I always struggle with, because I’m literally putting words ina character’s mouth and I want them to be flawless (ahahahahahahaha*cries*).  I also tend to not be dialogue-heavy and do way too muchinternal monologuing between spoken bits, because I’m pretentious.

But enough waffling.  I guess I’d haveto say the part near the end of Longer Than the Road, in the cab withJohn and just a bit later at Angelo’s.  I felt like the voices wereas close to pitch-perfect as I could get for both of them.

“Could do worse than MollyHooper, you know,” John begins lightly as he surgically quartersa meatball.

“I’d rather do withoutentirely.”

A pause, John considers as he chews.

“It’s not a weakness to careabout people. And before you say anything, you know that’s absolutelytrue or both of us wouldn’t be sitting here now. You obviously stillcare about her.”

He should deny it entirely; the liefeels wrong on his tongue. “Your point?”

“My point is that you don’thave to be miserable. The world isn’t going to end because SherlockHolmes gets a leg over.”

“Eloquent as always, John.Women are a distraction, and I can’t be distracted. Not my area,married to my work, I believe we’ve had this conversation before,although we did have a better table at the time.”

“And yet you figured it outabout Moran, in what, two weeks?- when your brother had three monthsand probably half of MI6 on it? I’d say that’s not too bad,considering.”

Mycroft told John some of thedetails, then. Irrelevant, though irksome.

“Eight days, actually, from thetime I got the complete files. It would have been considerably lesshad Molly not been there.”

It’s a small lie; she let him be(lost half a day at most to her attempts to help). He would haveneeded sleep at some point, regardless of her presence, so itultimately didn’t matter that he did so in the bed they shared (withher fitted snugly against him, also of little consequence).

“Ah. You do realize that rightnow you’re talking complete bollocks, right? Don’t forget, I havepersonally witnessed you ignore entire rooms full of people, not tomention the fact that you completely tune me out whenever you’re lostinside that massive brain of yours.”

“If you wouldn’t be so dull allthe time, I wouldn’t have to.”

“Right, yes, of course.”Sarcasm, followed by another forkful of pasta. It’s a tacticalretreat; he’ll bring it up again later.  

For something more recent, I’ll go withchapter three of FTE, the whole big scene from the time Sherlockcalls Molly until he twirls out the door.  I think there was enoughexposition without a lot of spoken words getting in the way.

“Are we still… friends?”Sherlock asked tentatively after a moment’s hesitation.

She nodded, willing herself not toget choked up. There was something young and raw in his voice thatsnagged her heart and pulled.

“Good,” he said. “Good.Because I need that. I need you. To be my friend.” His wordswere stilted, unsure.

Of course you do,she thought. Before Sherlock, she never knew just how deeplybitterness could twine itself through the warmth of love.

“I am,” she affirmedquietly, stirring the sugar into Sherlock’s tea. Always,she added in her head, unable to say it out loud.

And right now I’m having myself a goodol’ time with all the banter in my ficlets.

“I at least want a t-shirt,then.”

“Why do youwant a t-shirt?”

“For my Mum. She has amemorabilia collection of me. One for Mycroft, too. Every timethere’s a coup or a border skirmish she buys a paper.”

He didn’t sound happy about thatlast part; Molly could only guess whose collection was bigger. “Your,ah, Mum already has one,” she said.

“Wh—how?”

“She might be a fan,”Molly hedged.

“You’ve never even met mymother!”

“Actually…”

“When?” he asked,accusatory.

“The first time, or…?”

“How do I not know about this?Me?”

“Well, I mean, you were dead,and your brother didn’t want to go to the Chelsea Flower Show, andAndrea hates flowers…”

“You even know his assistant’sreal name? She never tells anyone that! It’s like you’re not evenMolly Hooper! Do you have three kids and a dog I don’t know about,too?”

“Yes, I hide them under the bedin the spare room with your harpoon and the suitcase full of singlesocks you keep under there, which, I mean, I’ve never asked aboutbecause I probably don’t want to know, but really…?”

T: Any fandom tropes you can’tstand?

So many.  So, so many.  Biggest one? “My/ his pathologist.”  I know how it started and why itstarted, but it’s just as stupid and reductive as always falling backon the “my blogger” thing on the j*lock side of things.  Ican’t think of any others atm, but there are others that just make mylip curl when I read them.  I know, I’m a snobby elitist asshole, butwe all have a thing.