#maybe I’ll make this a thing

[sliceoflifebear]

Introvert Horror Story

(Maybe I’ll make this a frequent thing)

* It was a sunny and clear day *

When Nessa was typing on discord. Everything was going well until…nessa saw the dreaded words. “Too long to type, I’ll call you.” She panicked and tried quickly to say it’s ok…but it was too late. THE DISCORD CALL APPEARED!! IT KEPT RINGING AND RINGING!!! And it would not stop…

[ask-the-archs]

RP Related in that it’s Gabriel spiralling/venting in the third person in his diary journal

Gabriel was no stranger to being trapped. After his siblings Fell, their roles fell on him and for a while, he could barely move from the weight of it all. He became the Supreme Archangel not even 300 years after his creation, all of the accumulated Domains gathered neatly under one title.

Many things changed over the years: Michael became Michelle; a court for judgements had to be formed; Michelle was eventually stripped of her Domain altogether due to the biases of humans; the exterminations started and grew more gruesome with every passing year; and the exterminations were revealed to Gabriel far later than it should have been.

It got to the point where the very few remaining constants were:

• Gabriel is tired

• Gabriel hasn’t eaten in x amount of years

• Gabriel is injured

• and Michelle is still getting hurt by those who dislike her

The family fell apart without the Sins around. Even with the Rising of two new Archangels who were previously human, and their youngest half brother being revealed to them all, they all grew distant, meeting once a week if that. Everyone continued to pile portions of their workloads on Gabriel, complaining that they couldn’t handle it being too much.

Michelle helped where she could, but being a Domainless Archangel made even the slightest burden take a large toll on her health. She helped though, and she tried more than the others, having the vivid memories of when her brother used to have the energy or time to be truly happy. She tried. It didn’t do much other than lift his spirit some.

Slowly but surely, Gabriel cut back on eating, and sleeping, and anything he deemed nonessential for the others to be able to thrive. Heaven had plenty of food, but it took time to eat, and he technically didn’t require eating so it would be a waste of resources, really.

Sleep hadn’t come easily since his siblings had Fallen, with every night he allowed it to take him spent reliving that. He got rid of his bed next, he hadn’t slept in it for a few decades, usually just passing out on the floor if absolutely necessary, and he still had his chair, so it wasn’t that bad.

Michelle disagreed when she found out. That was the first and last time they properly fought.

Sometimes, Gabriel finds himself, late at night when he is not expected to be working and yet still is, wondering how Lucifer is doing. He doubts his brother is thriving as he hopes. Many years later, still before Michelle finds a way to visit Hell, he will realise that Lucifer had never had that much more of a choice in what happened when the universe was still so, comparatively, young.

So no, Gabriel is no stranger to being trapped, he has been for almost all of his existence. But it never felt quite as terrifying as when someone else witnessed him spiralling. That was when it seemingly became all too real.

[focsle]

I hate when people try to be some kinda funnyman in response to powerful art. Maybe you should just earnestly feel things once in a while, babe.

[merlins-strawberriesandroses]

POV you’ve informed the Queen and the Court’s Sorcerer of something and they very clearly know something that they’re not letting on

[wyyvoren]

you are in rags once again, clawing and tearing your way through hell. you begin to think it, maybe it’s you who needs to do it. to balance the scales. be the hand of justice and guide these so called righteous sects into the ground. bury the mountain, pull it from the heavens, topple it down to nothing. they do not deserve heaven. you do not deserve heaven. you think there’s no one in the world who does.

[ID: fanart of Luo Binghe clawing open an abyssal creature, covered in blood and dirt. innards spew across the screen. End ID]

[mysicklove]

puppy yuuji in his nesting phase he steals ALL ur dirty laundry and wants you to lay in it with him so bad 😵‍💫 he spent so much time and effort into making his little nest the LEAST you could do is fuck him in it 🙁

gets all weirdly tense and surprisingly even a little snappish at you when he gets into his phase. he doesn’t mean to of course, he just wants everything to be perfect and it causes an unreasonable amount of stress on the poor puppy. so every time you ask for an article of clothing back, a low growl is let out and it surprises you, but he is nearly tackling you in the next second, yipping out apologizes and nuzzling his face into your neck. he wants you to like his nest, desperately so.

and so when he finally does show you the mess of clothing and pillows he seems to be practically hiding behind you, hands pawing at every inch of your body and clinging to you like he was afraid you would say something cruel about it. but the second you say how amazing it is, his tail moves at a rapid pace and he’s basically dragging you into the nest, wrapping his entire body around you and purring happily.

of course one thing does lead to another and yuuji seems to be practically glowing, face damp with sweat, but the biggest grin on his face. it is what he made it for after all

[takatul]

Twisted Wonderland self-aware!Yuu except they’re empathic.

When I say self-aware!Yuu I don’t mean a scenario where Yuu transmigrated into Twisted Wonderland with memories intact.

When I say self-aware!Yuu I mean someone who knows themselves better than anyone else.

They know they have flaws. They know that, sometimes, their flaws will get in the way. Whether it’s shutting down emotionally, not being able to express themselves properly, or something to do with a physical ability. Their flaws will always follow them around. Even in Twisted Wonderland.

And yet, self-aware!Yuu is still kind. Still loving all of their strengths and flaws.

Ace needing a place to stay after Riddle off’d-his-head? “Yes, of course you can sleepover.”

Deuce breaking down after letting his delinquent side out? “No, you’re not a bad guy— you just protected me and Grim from those bullies!”

Riddle having a crisis after his overblot? “I don’t accept your apology. Not yet at least. But I can understand why acted this way… you’re allowed to feel angry about your past. You didn’t deserve that kind of treatment.”

No matter how wrong the opponent is, self-aware!Yuu always empathizes with them in the end.

Maybe one day, someone confronts them about it. I can see Leona or Azul or Rollo and maybe Jamil. They’re people who have experienced and or seen how terrible people can be.

“Why are you so nice all the time? You’re too thought. Too kind. Good people like you always end up last.”

Perhaps self-aware!Yuu will look at them with a stoic face. Perhaps a shocked expression, accompanied by a frantic gasp. Perhaps even small laugh at their question. And just as the confronting student was about to retort again, self-aware!Yuu will smile.

“Well, I’m not a good person. I just do what I think is right.”

Self-aware!Yuu will sit down, watching activities unfold around them— heart still bursting full of kindness. They’ll pat the empty space beside them. An invitation, but it’s up to the student to take the initiative.

“It’s everyone’s first time living after all. May as well make it kind.”

Soon enough, if the student plucks their courage, they’ll sit and slowly learn how to become self-aware too.

banner credit: @bunnysrph

[bruhstation]

you never change, do you

[add1rall]

guys the chapter that came out today (136) is the 39th chapter for part 2

guess what happened in part 1s 39th chapter

FUJIMOTO WHAT ARE YOU DOING

[orphetoon]

aichi sendou you will always be famous to me

[stuckinapril]

Growing up w no Instagram does SOMETHING to a bitch like I really get taken aback by how second nature it is for people to whip out their phones and take pictures of the most mundane things. Not because I judge them for it but bc apart from selfies, pictures w friends, and obligatory pictures on trips I literally forget to take pictures of my life period

[ricky-mortis]

I have a lot of thoughts about Tinky fucking Ted up- have some doodles about it

[pacipinka]

I did something

[sturnioloho]

chris n his baby voice

[origamibears]

local bird man explains… something

[thedaythatwas]

I’m just thinking long and hard about the way Akiren and Akechi are written as foils for each other. Because of course, the game drives it home for us that the two are narrative foils: Akiren is the champion of free will who finds power through his friendships, Akechi represents the ways society binds us. He is chained by his desire to be wanted (importantly, by the wrong people– I’ll get to that).

At first glance, Akiren and Akechi’s point of divergence has to do with their relationships– Akiren has confidants, Akechi doesn’t, and this is the deciding factor in Akiren’s victory over Akechi on November 20th and in the engine room. Still, while this is certainly part of what makes their relationship important as a narrative device, it’s not the full picture. That, I think, has more to do with the fact that they both desperately want the very relationships that are used to foil them. They have common ground, and that’s what makes the emotional beats of their differences hit as hard as they do.

Even though Akechi doesn’t have the close bonds that Akiren does with his friends, he is defined as a character by his desire to belong. He wants to be praised and given everything he feels he was denied by Shido’s callous disregard for his mother and society’s unjust treatment of him after her death. He was a self-proclaimed “undesirable child” who spent his young adult life doing everything in his power to never feel unwanted again. He literally spells it out in his engine room monologue– “I was extremely particular about my life, my grades, my public image, so someone would want me around!”

Akiren, like Akechi, begins his character arc as a social outcast. Unlike Akechi, who appeals to systemic power to claim social clout and chase his own sense of belonging (the Shido revenge plot, which would, uhm, theoretically end with Shido acknowledging his son’s worth), Akiren finds family with other outcasts. All of the Phantom Thieves understand his struggle, and because of this they foster a sense of understanding and community that Akechi never gets to experience.

It is important to note that these bonds are deepened when Akiren helps those around him. While there’s absolutely nothing bad about doing things for the people you care about– in fact, most would argue that this is what makes a friendship a good one– we can take a reasonable guess that Akiren craves the love of those around him just a bit more than is healthy for him. He plays therapist for half of Tokyo– he stretches himself absurdly thin for the sake of his friends. That’s a bit much to ask of one person, but Akiren seems to demand it of himself. This is the nature of confidant routes as a game mechanic, of course, but hey, reading into game mechanics is important to getting a solid reading of who Akiren is behind the mask!

The crux of it is, Akiren and Akechi are both lonely characters. Their desire to be loved quite literally drives the narrative of the game, both in terms of plot and gameplay. What makes their foiling so tragic is the fact that Akechi so obviously wants what he has himself determined he can’t have. He says as much in the engine room when he questions why Akiren has things that he doesn’t, despite being (as he says) criminal trash living in an attic.

And yet, Akechi’s isolation is frankly the result of his own decisions. He is the one who chooses to work for Shido. He is the one who acts on a worldview that requires he keep his cards close to his chest to win— against Shido and against the world that wronged him— and to be considered desirable (even despite the fact that this mindset obviously works against satiating his hunger to be loved. He really needs to go to therapy, but I digress).

I don’t think Akechi even knows how to go about claiming what Akiren managed to. Akechi has agency in the actions he takes, absolutely– he would be furious about any suggestion to the contrary– but in many ways, the choices he feels himself able to make are constrained by his circumstances and the lessons imparted to him by his past.

All this to say, Akechi and Akiren aren’t different because Akechi doesn’t want teammates, or even friends. He sincerely wants everything Akiren has. He tells us this in the engine room. He shoots himself in the foot by prioritizing approval from society and love from Shido above other relationships. But thinking from inside his shoes, what else was he going to do? Where else would he have thought to turn to find what he wanted? He was dealt a horrible hand and he played his cards according to the rule book he was given. If the world were just, Akiren and Akechi wouldn’t be foils. It’s the injustice implicit in that that really drives home the point I think P5 is trying to make when it foils Akiren and Akechi in the first place. It also, personally, has been making me want to scream all day.

On a related note, this is also the exact reason that Akechi being the one to bring up that things might have been different if only he met Akiren a few years sooner makes me want to throw things, but this post is long enough. I’ll save all that for later!