#kiridare fic

[aparticularbandit]

Hope I'm not too late but Peace with Kyoko and Yui please and thank you!

WIP Wednesday Game

definitely not too late! in fact, i have finished the rough of this chapter now! so thank you! :D

Yui clicks out of Junko’s Instagram page and switches over to her Twitter account.  As Kyoko scans the latest tweet, she points to the date.  “She’s still been posting; this one’s from just a few minutes ago.  She must be fine.”

“No.”  Kyoko shakes her head.  “That’s a cry for help.”

“Blue raspberries are the bestest flavor of candy in the whole world, and you can’t make me believe otherwise!” Yui reads, confused.  “Isn’t blue raspberry Junko’s signature perfume?”  She flushes a bright red and avoids Kyoko’s gaze.  “Or, um.  I’ve heard that’s the case.  I can’t walk into a clothing store without seeing one of those things front and center.  They even come in a cute little raspberry shaped vial!”

Kyoko nods.  “The scent is a clever marketing ploy; it allows Junko to take something that isn’t real and associate herself with it; it gives another layer of fantasy to her as a person, making the impossible possible.”  She brushes her hair back out of her face and just neatly tucks it back behind one ear.  “But blue raspberries aren’t real, and so they can’t really have a scent – or a taste.  Junko will promote her fake scent all she wants, but anyone who knows Junko – really knows Junko – knows that she hates the taste.  It’s too artificial, she says.”  She nods to the tweet.  “Whoever has her will think just like you did, Yui onee-sama, but to me, it’s clear.”

Something is wrong.

Just like she thought.

And now, from the way Yui is looking up at her, Kyoko’s certain that Yui believes her, too.

[aparticularbandit]

The thing about writing a fic where Kyoko runs before the challenge in vol. seven is where do you put the running.

And I think the most poignant place to put it is while Yui is having the conversation with Shinsen, when she's being told that if she doesn't agree to do murder then Kyoko will be kidnapped and disappear and she'll never see her again.

Vol. Seven implies that Yui agreed so that she could save Kyoko. (Yui's narrative implied that she did something that dirtied her hands, but so much of what she did or did not do in regards to that challenge are left vague and ambiguous.)

It's fun to imagine that Yui stood up to them and said no.

Or even that she still said yes.

And then Kyoko ran, and Yui spent the last three years thinking that the Victims' Relief Committee kidnapped her.

Spent the last three years hopelessly trying to find her.

...only for Kyoko to just randomly show up in her agency one day.

[aparticularbandit]

I feel like, given how this is a huge theme in OAEI (and how you can tell when Junko is lying) and how it comes up again as a theme in OAFC (Ryoko trying to do the impossible), I should buy this shirt.

[aparticularbandit]

....

How many fics can I write that are just somebody runs away from their problems and how can I start looking at myself like is this a problem I also have BECAUSE IT'S COMING UP A LOT RECENTLY

[aparticularbandit]

The thing about writing a what if Tohru died and then Akito leaves and etc. fic is like.

Akito is gone, yeah? Separated from the Sohmas.

Means I need to bring in characters for Akito to interact with that aren't any of the canon characters in Furuba and aren't connected to any of the canon characters in Furuba.

Which means either I make a host of OCs or I pull from something else entirely.

And my mind is immediately reaching for Danganronpa and like Akito can not be in the vicinity of Junko ever. I have talked about how BAD that would be.

I'm debating having Akito get adopted by Chisa (for VA doubling funsies), but really Akito + Yui is probably where I'm heading.

Which means Tohru Dies gets combined with Yui Lives which like.

I'M GONNA WRITE A FIC THAT IS SO SELF-INDULGENT.

[aparticularbandit]

so there's noose imagery with kyoko in the latest oaei chapter right.

and i've brought it up in my rough of the next we were never friends with darkness chapter right.

then i went back to the dr3 opening and you know what's in that.

i'd say i kept more from dr3 than i remembered but

i finished the rough of oaei - with the noose imagery in it - before starting dr3.

so uh.

huh.

[aparticularbandit]

okay, i have another chapter of both oalh and we were never friends with darkness (wwnfwd) thrown into the backlog.

i'm debating if i want to poll now or if i just want to keep oaei as updating on mondays. i like knowing that goes up every monday. you know?

anyway.

also.

the chapter of we were never friends with darkness is also really rough. and feels like maybe i cut it off when i shouldn't have but if the chapter is meant to be kyoko convincing yui that junko is definitely missing and it's a case, then it fulfills that purpose, sooooooo.

-shrugs-

we'll see.

[aparticularbandit]

me, blinking: wait i chose blue raspberry as junko's scent for a very specific reason but. but blue raspberry takes on. an. an entirely different layer. in a world where. where junko is lico.

[aparticularbandit]

Some 'Peace with Kyoko and Yui' for WIP Wednesday?

WIP Wednesday Game

can do and have done! thanks so much for asking!

Yui glances up at her.  “Is something wrong?”

“No, I—”

Junko looks familiar.

Of course, Junko looks familiar.  Junko is her classmate, and even if she wasn’t her classmate, she would have seen her face on a million magazines everywhere she went.  Her image is insidious.  People who have never met Junko or read any of her interviews probably still have her pop up in their dreams from time to time, just as a face that is familiar to them, even if they don’t know why.

Her brow furrows.

It can’t be important.  She’s just…something.

“You said we should check her other accounts?  Is this the only one she has?”

[aparticularbandit]

Woop woop wip wed!

Peace with Kyoko and Yui

WIP Wednesday Game

can do and have done! thanks so much for asking!!

If Kyoko didn’t know better, she would think that Yui interrupted her just because she mentioned Junko’s kiss.  But that doesn’t sound like the Yui she….

She knew.  It’s been years.  The Yui she knew might be the Yui sitting before her now, no matter how much like her she might seem.  She doesn’t know Yui anymore.  Maybe she should quit pretending that she does.

Yui glances over from the monitor and gestures with one hand for Kyoko to join her.  “Here.  It’s—”  She slaps the monitor a couple of times; it flickers, freezes, flickers again, and then sputters before letting what looks like a social media site focused on pictures show up.  “Instagram,” Yui says by way of explanation.  She barely scrolls through anything before saying, “She hasn’t updated this since last week.  She probably has a secret one for her friends; this is all curated for fans.  You wouldn’t have any idea who—”

“Mukuro, maybe,” Kyoko interrupts.  “Her twin sister.  If this is all corporate, then you won’t see her in any of these.”

“Oh.”

Still, as Yui moves the cursor to close out of the page, Kyoko says, “Stop.”  She doesn’t know why she does it.  There’s nothing important to be found in any of these pictures; in fact, a good half of them seem to be things that could just as easily be found in one of the many, many magazines with her image plastered all over them.

And yet.

[aparticularbandit]

kyoko and her clear misunderstanding of how social media works, bless

[aparticularbandit]

yui having trouble with the line that is kyoko tell me everything that has happened in the past three years, where have you been, what's been going on, OH you got into hope's peak, tell me about it and then having to constantly kyoko is not here as a friend, kyoko is here as a client, we can't have this conversation, she doesn't want you for that so clear in every question she starts and cuts off and then doesn't cut off but then tells kyoko not to answer

my poor child

[aparticularbandit]

hey bandit

hey

why do you keep giving kyoko noose imagery

she is neither of the characters who got killed with a noose

why are you doing this

[aparticularbandit]

...yui i know you didn't go to hope's peak because you chose not to after being scouted but i feel like maybe if kyoko disappeared you might have changed your mind

no this is not because i want her to have another girlfriend in the three years that kyoko disappeared

....

i mean, i don't even have to send her to hope's peak, seiko was homeless for a while after getting expelled, yui would absolutely take her in

the question is whether or not i want to include seiko in the fic or not and like whether that just complicates something that doesn't need to be that complicated

[aparticularbandit]

The problem with new multi-chap projects is that I still want to finish the old multi-chap projects.

I want to finish TTLT. I want to finish WYHT.

I have added ... why did I make this title so LONG WHAT WAS I THINKING ... WWNFWD (that's shortened and I'm not sorry) and TRLYYYK to that group.

TRLYYYK is probably going to be slower and more installment based (you will notice the DR/Haruhi series is not here and that's because that's for me to take a break and have fun with as I want) - each chapter an installment.

But WWNFWD feels much longer and more complicated, similar to WYHT (but maybe not as complex, and certainly nowhere near TTLT).

And I want to write it and think about it but I want to prioritize finishing TTLT, which means I need to prioritize OALH, but like.

Shiny new thing where I have so many thoughts.

(And that's not even getting into the Junko/Alana Toon thing I want to do.)

I CRY, y'all. TT.TT

[aparticularbandit]

...wait if there's no volume seven then Kyoko still has those handcuffs.