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thewriterthatghostedyou · 2 years ago

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Shadows and Scars

Chapter 26

Two chapters in two days?!?! I’m as surprised as you are. I forgot how fun it was to write this series, and hopefully I’ll get more time to write during break. I hope you enjoy this chapter! I know I’m enjoying where this story is going. 😉

Enjoy!

Trigger warnings: it’s an interrogation and death so there’s that, attempted kidnapping?/ non con? It’s a few men being grabby, and death and violence.

Never beta read so all mistakes are my own, and formatted on my phone so hopefully the formatting isn’t screwed up.

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Aleksander’s POV

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“Have they talked?” He asked, evenly, striding into the dungeons.

“A lot of lies. But Volkov hasn’t said a word. Ivan’s with them.” Zoya responded.

The two men were both chained to heavy wooden chairs in the middle of the large room. The shooter seems to look exhausted, sweat clinging to his whole body and head hunched over. Volkov, on the other hand, was just smiling maniacally.

“I’ve been swindled. Hoodwinked.” The shooter pleaded. Volkov snorted and shook his head at that.

“My guards told me that they caught you fleeing the scene of the crime.” He accused.

“Yes, I followed them.” He turned his head to look at the man next to him. “All of them, but-“

“Followed whom?” His voice dropped lower.

“Him, and these people. They come from the other side of the fold. From the start, they seemed, just a bit off to me, so when they left our stage at the fete, I followed them to see what they were up to.” He breathed heavily to catch his breath. “And at the time that I walked into that room, they were gone and…” He huffed a nervous laugh. “Saints, it was unspeakable. So- so I ran-“

“How much of that is true?” He demanded, making eye contact with Ivan.

“He did cross the fold with the others. The rest were lies.” Ivan said as he gave a menacing stare to the shooter.

“What?” The shooter squirmed in his seat nervously. “That’s- No-“

“Your heart gives you away.” Volkov said from next to him. Watching the entire scene with subdued interest.

Aleksander stiffened at the sound of his voice. This is the man you thought was so important? So admirable? He’d deal with him later.

“Do you know we keep records of everyone who crosses the fold?” He said evenly.

The man in the seat opened his mouth to talk, but Aleksander spoke over him. “For the winter fete, we had ambassadors from Kerch, Novyi Zem, the Wandering Isle, but you didn’t pass with them, did you? No. You and your crew, you have another way.” He spat the word crew out venomously.

“I don’t know what you mean. I-“ The man stuttered.

“He does.” Ivan said simply.

“I’m an entertainer!” The man shouted desperately. “Oskar. Oskar Krepkov.”

He didn’t even need to look at Ivan to know the man was lying. It was a trick he had plenty of time to master over the centuries.

With one smooth movement, he strode over and ripped up the sleeve of the man’s shirt. There on his shaking wrist were fifteen tally marks.

“Well.” He said slowly. “This is certainly entertaining. You are the conductor.” He moved his face closer to the conductor’s as he spoke. “Arken Visser, are you not?” His voice became dangerously low as gripped his wrist tighter before shoving himself off of him.

“You smuggle Grisha out of MY PALACE!” He whipped around and yelled at him. “You help them abandon the war effort.”

Arlen’s face grew serious as he dropped his act. “No. I deal in legal indentures, I don’t mess with Grisha.”

“Lie.” Ivan said lazily.

“I don’t need him to tell me.” He spoke mockingly. “I had a spy. Nina Zenik. Ring any bells?”

Arken’s face morphed into an angry scowl. “Nina?”

“Last report we had from her was that she’d be crossing the Fold with the conductor and three rogues from Ketterdam.”

Arken’s face fell as he knew there was no way to talk himself out of this.

“What their mission was, she didn’t know. She was waiting to meet you all. Now poor Nina.. has not been heard from since. Might that have something to do with you, Mr. Visser?”

“No.” He breathed out instantly. “I don’t!” He looked at Ivan to confirm what he had said, which he did with a small shrug.

“See? I don’t know what happened.”

“My guess,” Aleksander started. “You struck a deal with these three thieves to kidnap Alina Starkov. But..” he leaned towards him slowly. “You have a stronger relationship with a certain West Ravkan general who has notions of ruling his own country.” With a small tap on Ivan’s shoulder, the man walked away quickly and Zoya followed without hesitation.

“So long as the fold separates him from us. So you made another deal. You put on a disguise. And you played at being assassin.”

“That’s right.” Arken said lowly. “The prize to bring her back to Ketterdam was a million, split four ways. But Zlatan offered me the same number.. to kill her. So.. give me half that. I’ll get revenge for you, I can get close to Zlatan.”

“No.” Aleksander said quietly. “I think I’ll handle that myself.” And with one smooth flick of his hands, the shadows that inhabited the dank cellar began to move and slithered towards him. He begged for his life of course. They always did, but that never changed the outcome.

Aleksander watched with a sick satisfaction as they crawled onto the man like snakes and began to force their way in his mouth and ears.

“Now. Mr. Volkov.” He spoke loudly over the sound of Arken gagged and choking on the shadows that went deeper and deeper into his throat and head. “I believe we have much to talk about.”

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Y/n’s POV

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“So are we just going to ignore the light seeping out of the trunk or…” Jesper gave a weird face as the four of you watched light spill through the locked trunk.

Kaz just rolled his eyes at him as a slight click was heard.

You all held your breath as the trunk cover slowly lifted and Alina climbed out quickly.

Jesper reached for his gun, but Alina wasn’t paying attention to him. Her eyes seemed you out, worry etched on her face as she took you in.

“We don’t want any trouble.” Jesper placatingly held out his free hand.

“Neither do I, so we’ll just be on our way. Y/n get behind me.” She whispered seriously.

“Let’s just all calm down-“ You were interrupted by the sound of Kaz’s cane hitting the carriage to block her escape.

“Clearly you both want out of East Ravka.” Jesper and the two others stayed still as Alina slowly stepped in front of you. “But we can help you.”

Inej nodded enthusiastically as Hesper continued. “We have a secure route through the Fold.”

“We’re fine. We prefer to travel alone.” Alina gave you another worried look before turning back to face the crows.

“Y/n you know Ruslan trusted us, you can too.” Jesper pleaded, turning his attention to you.

“I’m sorry,” you sighed sadly. “I can’t get caught again. I can’t go back there, neither of us can.” Your cane brushed against your leg as you gripped it tightly with both hands. “You need to let us go.”

“Don’t be rash, if you stick with us, everybody gets what they want.”

“We are not being anyone’s captive ever again.” Alina hissed out. “So step aside and let us pass.”

“I’m afraid we can’t let that happen.” Kaz finally spoke up, glaring at Alina in what seemed to be his usual fashion.

Before you could move, a burst of light flashed from Alina’s hands into Jesper, blinding him and Kaz. As the light disappeared, you noticed Inej covering her eyes before looking at Alina with reverence and holding her hands up in surrender.

“Let’s go.” Alina said, grabbing your arm and dragging you away from the carriage.

“Shit!” Your leg wobbled, unused to being without your brace as you hopped to catch up to her pace. “Alina I can’t run.” You heaved out, gritting your teeth in pain as the two of you ducked into an open alleyway.

“What do you mean? Where’s your brace?” She frantically whispered.

“It’s too noticeable.” You breathed heavily, as Alina stuck her head out of the alley and looked for the crows.

“We need to go. Now.” She whispered urgently. Taking you by the arms again, gentler than before. “Walk as fast as you can.” She led you out of the street and your eyes brightened as you noticed a stall selling cloaks.

“Wait.” Your coins dangled in your pocket as you hurriedly pulled them out and slammed them on the table. “We’ll take two of the black ones.” Alina gave you a small smile as she grabbed what you had paid for and wrapped one of the heavy cloaks around your shoulders.

“Good thinking.”

You discreetly pointed out Jesper ahead of the two of you, before taking her down another street corner. “This way.”

“Are you ok?” Alina blurted out.

You shrugged as the two of you continued slowly towards the outskirts of the town.

“I’ve been better. I’m not sure that treason is a good look on me.” You joked, huffing out a grunt of pain and trying to disguise it as a laugh.

“Why did you run?” Alina asked, securing her own cloak on and pulling up the hood.

“I haven’t been completely honest with you Alina.” You said softly. “I’m not just part of the General’s guard.” You paused as the two of you stopped when your breathing became too labored.

You squeezed your eyes shut before continuing. “I’m his whore.” You said sadly, trying to ignore Alina’s look of betrayal.

“I don’t know what he did to me, or why me, but somehow he can control my body and-“ You blinked away tears as you continued. “But that’s not the point. He has plans for you. And knowing him they can’t be good, I wanted to look for you, but I needed to get out. To be able to think clearly without him pulling the strings.”

“Is he?” Alina’s eyes widened as she backed away from you. “Is he still pulling the strings?”

You shook your head frantically as you noticed a small tear fall down her cheek. “No. I can’t feel him. Not anymore. Baghra said that the further I am from him the more control I have.”

“Please.” You begged, grabbing her hands tightly. “We need to go. If he finds us…” Your mind didn’t even want to finish the sentence as Alina nodded. Part of you knew he could have been good to you. But that part was the one that became complacent. That fell to his influence. That forgot what kind of a man he really was. What he had done to Anya. To Ruslan.

“Y/n.” Alina cupped your face with her hand and you blinked in surprise at the sudden warmth. “I won’t let him get us.” You briefly noted that her pupils dilated as she looked at you and you blushed at your close proximity. “I won’t let him hurt you.”

The two of you were shocked back into your surroundings as a man hobbled slowly towards your alcove and puked on the side of the street.

“Hey! Hey you!” He shouted, pointing to Alina. “So far from Shu Han, aren’t you?”

“We should go.” You said, forcing out a fake smile at the man before turning to head down the street.

You froze as the First army man grabbed Alina by the wrist and spun her back to face him. “Why don’t you come inside? You can bring your friend too.” He leered at her before dragging her towards the door.

Without thinking, you swung your wooden cane at his leg, as Alina punched him in the jaw.

“Hurry!” You caught yourself from saying her name as you gripped your cane like a bat as two more First army soldiers came to their friend’s defense.

Your eyes widened as one of them shoved Alina into the wall and tried to hit her head on the hard surface.

“She’s got some fight in her yeah?” The other man laughed at you as your heart beat rapidly in your chest. “We’ll at least you can’t run away.” He pulled up his trousers with a lazy smile before quickly lunging at you.

“Leave us alone!” You shouted, swinging at him with your cane, but missing as he jumped back to dodge it.

“I’m going to have fun watching you try to crawl away when I-“ You saw red as a bird launched itself at the man’s head, knocking him back with more force than you thought was possible for such a small thing.

He hit the ground with a dull thud as the man you attacked Alina screamed in agony as she shined her light into his eyes.

“Stop! After them!”

“Saints. We need to get out of this town now.” You said, grabbing Alina’s warm hands and letting her pull you away from the scene.

Perhaps if you had stopped to actually look at the bird that laid next to your attacker's head, you’d have noticed the sizable bullet hole through its eye.

#fanfic #reader insert #aleksander morozova #aleksander morozova x reader #darkling x reader #the darkling #darkling #shadow and bone #the darkling x reader #general kirigan x reader #general kirigan #the darkling x you #grishaverse #darkling imagine

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aemiron-main · 11 months ago

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You’ll Come Crawling Back vs Crawling Backwards: What’s With The Crawling In TFS and ST?

So, I already briefly touched on this in this post, but it kills me that Brenner tells Henry that Henry will come “crawling back,” to him in a weird scene with sexual subtext/implications, versus Barb literally crawling while the Stancy sex scene plays:

And then we also have the scene between Nancy and Steve, where Steve talks about how he used to Crawl backwards as a baby.

The scene starts off with Nancy talking about how Robin was slow to walk as a child- which, this connects to Henry in a subtle way because Robin told Nancy that story at Pennhurst, which is where Victor is.

Not to mention that RIGHT after that line, this Pennhurst inmate makes a Cinderella comment to Robin- versus all of the “midnight,” and “Captain Midnight,” stuff in TFS & Cinderella transforming back into normal at midnight:

And Steve talks about crawling backwards versus falling down some stairs and hitting his head- and, of course, two years comes up again- yknow, the exact same span of time that Edward Creel lived in Hawkins and Edward also moving to Hawkins two years before Henry did…

And then, Steve talks about his dream/future plans with Nancy, and specifically says “you’re there- you’ve always been there”- which is REALLY interesting to me because it reminds me of the lines from Patty to Bob re: Henry where she says “he’s listening, he’s always listening”:

And this is in the context of Nancy giving Steve a figurative thump on the head- versus Henry accidentally giving Patty a literal thump on the head when the stage catwalk collapsed in TFS & Patty landed on the floor and hit her head (not to mention Steve’s wording with “of ITS life”, vs the shadow being referred to as “it,” in TFS and all of the weird references between Patty and It such as “it’s perfect- you’re perfect):

And also, El would’ve needed to crawl theough that tunnel at HNL if she’d gone through it/the whole “a scared enough ONE might,” scene re: the tunnel & the idea of young Henry having had a tunnel escape attempt… i also wonder if he had to crawl backwards back into HNL if he got stuck in the tunnel/the end was blocked… esp if they were tracking him via Soteria & blocked the end of it (and also that makes me think of Henry in the cave in Nevada & having to crawl through tight sections there vs Henry crawling through the HNL tunnel…)

And there’s also the idea of a dungeon crawl & DND dungeons being labyrinths vs a.) the Creel house being described as a “maze,” in BTS stuff by the people working on it and b.) HNL during NINA being extremely maze/labyrinth-esque….

And then speaking of the Creel house, there’s ALSO the line from “Master of Puppets,” about “come crawling faster,” which plays when Max is in the Creel house… and the way that Max tries to open the door during that scene REALLY reminds me of Henry during the TFS “come crawling back,” scene, where Henry’s running around the theatre & tries to open the theatre exit door (you can’t see it in this TFS screenshot bc the camera is on Brenner, but I promise, that’s exactly what Henry is doing during that line).

I’m not sure how it all fits together yet, but!! There’s so many weird little crawling references!! And so many that tie to Henry and Brenner and Patty…. Something about “crawling back,” vs “crawling backwards,” and “turn back the clock,” vs Henward literally turning back a clock with his mind (and also, interestingly enough, with both Henry and Brenner being from Nevada & Henry being from Rachel, Nevada, there’s another town near Rachel called Avaden, which is Nevada spelt backwards)…

#stranger things #the first shadow #henry creel #edward creel #tfs spoilers

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crowpricorn · 1 year ago

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7 for wesper😴🐔

questions

7: to shut them up

hi!! here it is 💗💗

D&D nights are a nightmare, and Wylan wonders why on earth he still goes. He should be back at his dorm polishing his last project due tomorrow night but, instead, here he is.

Wylan agreed to one trial night months ago, and somehow he found himself stuck to a every other week night session of role-playing. Not that he hates it — he loves it and he is also fairly lucky with dice. It's just that D&D nights are a mess of yelling young adults that can't accept the fact they are unlucky with dice.

Namely, that's Jesper.

They play because he and Kaz had wanted to try something new rather than watching Moana for the fifth time in a row or playing Risk — "It lasts an eternity," they always complain. Not that Dungeons & Dragons lasts any shorter — on the contrary. But it's way more fun and dynamic. That is, until Jesper throws his dice and it never goes over a five or six.

"It is unfair," Jesper yells now, pointing his finger against Kaz's master book. "I'm sure you're tricking us."

"I'm not tricking you, Fahey. You get a three, you fall into the pit full of snakes. Wait for someone to save you and shut up."

"But I don't want someone to save me," Jesper whines.

"Then you stay down there and shut up."

They keep bickering for a while longer, and Wylan loses himself in chatting away with Inej and Nina, while Matthias tries to back Kaz up.

"Jesper, stop being a kid and let us play," Nina yells after a while.

Jesper pouts, crossing his arms before his chest and darting hostile gazes all around. "Fine, but you'll have to drag your asses here and save me. Again," he spits, eyeing Kaz in hopes of a reaction. But Kaz is already face back into his manual, ignoring Jesper on purpose.

Wylan's mind swarms during the dullest moments, all focused on the project he has not finished and how annoying it is to be here during such a bad Jesper day. Which means that he is insufferable every bit of the way, a constant litany of complaints about Kaz's directions and his dice numbers and that thing Nina's character got as a gift that he would have liked for himself.

Wylan shoves his face into his character sheet the umpteenth time that Jesper interrupts the game to complain. Inej pushes her chair back and stands up with a groan, circling the room and then heading to grab some drinks from Kaz's fridge.

"Bring me a beer," Nina yells after her, surely desperate to wash the night away with a bit of alcohol rather than keep listening to their friend's antics.

Ideally, they all know about Jesper's gambling past and how he shouldn't be encouraged around bets and dice. They also know how little self control he has. That's why they spend their nights around safe board games easy to enjoy without further addiction. That's how D&D nights began.

Wylan watches Jesper stand as well and mutter a choked Going to the bathroom and, before he even realizes, he is strolling behind him.

"Are you alright?" Wylan asks as soon as Jesper opens the bathroom door. Jesper jumps, surely unaware he has been followed until Wylan speaks. He turns, with a sour and sad smile that doesn't reach his eyes.

" 'Course," he dreads.

Wylan sighs, leaning against the wall. "Do you want to talk about it?" he asks. He would never prompt Jesper into talking more, but he also knows his friend and he can see that he has one of those days. Jesper does start talking, like he had been waiting for nothing else than permission to.

He complains about Kaz's leading ways and about this stupid campaign and about his dice throwing luck. He also complains about his character — a half-orc paladin — that he found so brilliant at the beginning and that now he has grown tired of. Inej once told him that they are campaigning just for fun — nothing is involved except their friendship and the intricate worlds that Kaz loves to throw them into. But Wylan knows that Jesper can't stand losing, feeling less than the others, staying behind. And whenever a dice lands on a one, or two, he sees his friend retreat into a shell of self dread and despair.

"We don't have to keep playing if it affects you this much," Wylan whispers.

"But I like it. I just wish I could… be lucky? Or, or be as chill as the rest of you," he mumbles.

Wylan stands there and lets him talk, and talk, and as he speaks his own focus shifts from Jesper's words to his gorgeous face, his bright eyes, the shape of his mouth. The way his hands and body move to bring his words out with more clarity, the way his brows dart up or down whenever he says something he likes or doesn't like.

Jesper is a machine full of clogs for Wylan to uncover and discover, and now he lets himself follow every gear to his heart's content. Until it becomes annoying again to hear all these hasty, complaining words about this or that Kaz behavior or gaming strategy or luck, until Wylan—

He doesn't think, that's the thing.

He is leaning against the wall one second and shoving his mouth against Jesper's but a moment later.

He realizes just as soon as his lips press against Jesper's, but it's too late to do anything other than stiffen right there where he is, eyes stubbornly closed because if he opens them the truth of this will shower over him.

It has the desired effect, though, because Jesper was talking too much and now he is not talking at all and he is as stiff as a stone.

I broke him, Wylan thinks, and he starts to push away, finally defeated by the fact that he will have to face his friend. His friend that he just kissed. On the mouth. To shut him up — even though he is the one who encouraged him to start talking to begin with. Maybe shutting him up was just an excuse that his mind found for him to finally act on this stupid crush he has been restraining for quite a while now. Whatever it is that prompted him to kiss Jesper, he knows he fucked up. Jesper was having a moment, and he ruined it with something selfish like a kiss of all things. Besides, they are friends. Friends don't go around kissing friends.

Just as he is about to push back, though, Jesper presses forward, making sure that Wylan feels that the kiss is being reciprocated. A choked whining sound surges from Jesper's throat when Wylan opens his mouth to exhale a held back, surprised breath and then deepens the kiss.

Jesper moves into the kiss also, leaning closer, hands grasping Wylan's arms and his waist and his curls — but he is ever moving, so it doesn't come as a surprise. On the contrary, Wylan likes it.

He is the first one to break the kiss, pushing his forehead against Jesper's and opening his eyes only to be met by Jesper's impossibly wide gray eyes. Wylan smiles, and then starts laughing against his friend's face, gently brushing his nose with Jesper's.

"Holy shit," Jesper exhales. Then, pushing Wylan back by the shoulders so that he can look at him, "Holy shit. You kissed me."

Wylan smiles again, feeling euphoric and dizzy with joy. He did! "Mh," he answers.

"No, I mean… you kissed me. You are like," Jesper flushes, and if his skin was any clearer Wylan is sure he would see splotches of furious, red blush all over. "You are beautiful. And amazing and gorgeous and I've had this massive, stupid crush for like… And I'm just…"

Wylan grabs Jesper by the collar and kisses him again. And again when Jesper starts to show signs of wanting to talk again. And again until Jesper is reduced to a pathetic puddle, letting himself be pushed closer and hugged tighter and kissed better.

"But what do you… Mh," Jesper moans around the umpteenth kiss.

"Stop talking," Wylan complains. "Just," he blushes, "shut up and kiss me."

And Jesper does. They kiss for what feels like ages but shouldn't be more than ten minutes, until someone comes knocking on the bathroom door — Matthias, who really urgently needs to use the toilet and that won't even notice how entangled they are in each other.

When they go back, Wylan watches Kaz sourly shove a five kruge bill in Nina's already waiting hand. "I told you," she sing-songs, eyeing the two of them with a knowing look.

Wylan blushes, but he also glares her way because "Betting on your friends kissing is fucked up. How do you even know we were?"

"It's written all over your faces," Inej whispers from her chair.

"At least now Jesper might play without throwing a tantrum," Kaz adds. "You can kiss him every time he tries. I am not above some pda when it's needed."

And Wylan — well, he is not above some pda to shut Jesper up every now and then, either. If anything, their D&D sessions get all the more interesting and fun from that moment onward.

#six of crows #ask game #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #soc #kiss ask game

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juiceedapplee · 4 months ago

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Likes:

-Games-

Stardew Valley

Roblox (royale high, bloxburg, dti, bloxy bingo)

Pjsk

Omori

Genshin Impact

Hsr

Sprout Valley

Dol

-YouTubers-

Niji en

Holostars en

Vshojo

Rin Penrose

Kenji

Monarch

Cyyu

Yuzuya

Azeru

Boze vs the world

Smii7y

Kurtis Conner

Danny Gonzalez

Augustheduck

Andy king

Chad chad

Annamarie

Manlybadasshero

Jarvis

Game theory (film, food, and style too)

-Musicals-

Be more chill

Beetlejuice

Kinky boots

Heathers (both vers are good, west end might be my fav)

Mean girls

Into the woods (the old one is better)

Hamilton

Bring it on

Tgwdlm

Black Friday

Npmd

The Oregon trail

-Shows/Movies-

Jjk

Mha

Nanbaka

Haikyuu

Blue Lock

Ohshc

Chainsaw Man

Mob Psycho

Black Butler

Hxh

Bridgerton

The boyfriend

Great teacher onizuka

Secrets in the hot spring

Scott pilgrim vs the world (movie, haven’t seen the show yet)

Trolls band together (got me crushing on a damn troll)

The Lorax

Drink masters

Death note

Saiki K

Saiki K: reawakened

Disenchantment

Mlp movies

Glitter force (I watched it on Netflix, dont know the jp name)

Kakegurui

Everything everywhere all at once

High rise invasion

Legally blonde (both movies)

Hsm (only the first two)

Cruella

-Books-

Tcgf (still reading)

Mxtx (still reading)

Mdzs (still reading)

Svss (still reading)

Remarried Empress

Southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires

Alice in wonderland

-BL-

Boy girlfriend (damn you axel)

Jinx

Perfect Buddy

Shutline

Love leveling

Angel Buddy

Roses and Champagne

Full volume

Semantic Error

Night by the sea

Love Jinx

No love zone

Killing Stalking

Obey me (not the game)

Dangerous Convenience Store

Serious Joke

No Holes Barred (includes a woman, and it’s technically not a bl)

Something’s wrong with my popularity

My darling signed in

Candy Man

Eyes clouded by the tiger

I have to be a good villain

Easy to notice

Kill the lights

Define the relationship

Take off

Angel bunny club

Puppy Love

Shame application

Omega Complex

Mr 100% perfect

Plaything

Don’t say you love me

Love is an illusion

Worst guy in the universe

Attack and Occupy (dropped cuz holy shit)

My hot friend is glowing

Hwanghyeon Text

Dear Door

Jackass

No reason

Raising a newbie to grind them

Galatea through the screen

-Manhwa/webtoons/manhua/manga-

Get schooled/ true education

How to live as a villain

Dungeon reset

Home plate villain

Leveling up by only eating

For my derelict favorite

Eleceed

Trash Count

I obtained a mythic item

World after the fall

Zombie x Slasher

Solo Max level newbie

End of the world is just a game

Duke pendragon

Steel eating player

Dungeon Odyssey

Tyrant of a defense game

Priest of corruption

Lady with one line

Everyone regressed but me

Beginning after the end

S-classes I raised

Bootleg Healer

Teenage Mercenary

Only necromancer

Money Game

Pie Game

+99 wooden stick

Talent eating magician

Max Level Hero has returned

Overpowered healer

Worlds strongest troll

Pick me up

Lazy swordmaster

Resetting lady

Debut or die

Tbate (I haven’t read the chapters from the new artist)

School bus graveyard

Hwarang: flower knight of the underworld

My brothers not so secret boyfriend

Jungle Juice

Disgusted Vampire

I was the final boss

Mono and Mochi

Hectopascal

Viral Hit

Solo Leveling

Solo Leveling Ragnarok

Orv

Villain to Kill

Cinderella Boy

Tax reaper

Deathsitter

Magic Girl Incident

Marry my husband

Return survival

Study Group

Hectopascal

Neon Revenge (I’m still sad it ended so early)

Weak Hero

Becoming the Monarch

Maru is a puppy

My little sister is the demon lord

Mafia Nanny

Hanlim Gym

Return to Player

Paranoid Mage

Born to work retail

World is money and Power

The dickheads

Jackson’s diary

Silho

Ams

Mayo Shonen

My daddy is a villain

Nina’s chest

G.O.D

Swordid

Kids are all right

Class 1-9

Dungeon cleaning life of a once genius hunter

Like mother like daughter

Bad plan man

Forever after

Les piggies

The hammer

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rei-murasaki-the-anime-lover · 3 months ago

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favourite anime and anime characters part3

Phantom of Twilight- Baileu Ton

Phantom Thief Jeanne-Maron Kusakabe

Phi Brain

Photo Kano-Rina Yunoki

Piacevole

Piano no Mori

Pilot's Love Song-Claire Cruz/Nina Viento

Ping Pong Club

Planetarian

Planet With- Ginko Kuroi

Plastic Memories-Isla

Platinum End-Nasse

Play It Cool Guys

Please Teacher/Twins-Mizuho Kazami, Miina Miyafuji[Twins]

Please Tell Me Galko-chan

Plunder-Hina

Plus Sized Elf

Pokemon-Koharu(Pokemon Journeys), Liko(Pokemon Horizons)

Police in a Pod-Mai Kawai

Pon no Michi-Pai Kawahigishi

Pop Team Epic

Popotan- Ai

Popolocrois

Potemayo-Mikan Natsu

Power of Hope

Powerpuff Girls Z-Momoko Akatsutsumi

Precure- Makoto Kenzaki/Cure Sword(Doki Doki Precure), Ageha Hijiri/Cure Butterfly(Soaring Sky Precure)

Pretty Boy Detetive Club-Mayumi Dojima

Price of Smiles- Yuuki Soleil

Prima Doll-Karasuba

Prince Of Stride-Nana Sakurai

Princess Connect-Kokoro Natsume/Kokkoro

Princess Jellyfish- Tsukimi Kurashita

Princess Lover-Charlotte Hazelrink

Princess Nine-Ryo Hayakawa

Princess Princess

Princess Principal- Ange

Princess Resurrection-Reiri Kamura

Princess Tutu-Ahiru

PriPara-Sophie Hojo. Rinka Aoba(Kiratto Pri Chan)

Prism Ark- Bridget

Prison School-Chiyo Kurihara

Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They?- Black Rabbit

Project Scard-Azusa Yuki

Protocol: Rain-Yuu Saegusa

Pseudo Harem-Rin Nanakura

Psychic Detective Yakumo-Haruka Ozawa

Psycho Pass- Akane Tsunemori, Shinya Kogami

Puella Magi Madoka Magic

Pumpkin Scissors- Alive L. Malvin

Punch Line- Mikatan Narugino

Pupipou

PuraOre-Yuu Kiyose

Puzzle and Dragons X- Garnet

Qualidea Code-Canaria Utara

Quality Assurance in Another World

Quaser Of Stigmata-Tomo Yamanobe

Queen's Blade-Tomoe

R-15-Fukune Narukara

Radiant-Melie

Rage Of The Bahamut-Amira, Nina Drango

Ragna Crimson-Leonica

Ragnarok the Animation-Yuufa

Rahzephon

Rail Wars-Haruka Koumi

Raimuiro Senkitan-Momen Sanada, Kasuri Hattori[Raimuiro Ryuukitan X]

Rainbow

Rainy Cocoa

Ranking of Kings

Ranma ½ -Ranma Saotome(female)

Ranpo Kitan

Rave Master- Elie

Raven of the Inner Palace-Liu Shouxue

Rascal Does not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

Re:Creators:Meteora Osterreich

Reign of the Seven Spellblades-Nanao Hibiya

Re-Kan-Hibiki Amami

ReMain

Re:Monster

Re:Stage-Mizuha Ichikishima

Re:Zero-Rem

Read or Die

Real Girl- Sumie Ayado

Reborn as a Vending Machine,I Now Wander the Dungeon-Lammis

Reborn to Master the Blade-Inglis “Chris” Eucus

Rec

Records of Grancest War-Siluca Meletes

Record of Lodoss War

Record of Ragnarök-Goll

Recorder And Ransell

Recovery of an MMO Junkie-Lily

Recently My Sister Is Unusual-Mitsuki Kanzaki

Red Data Girls-Izumiko Suzuhara

Red Cat Ramen-Tamako Yashiro

Red Garden

Redo of Healer-Setsuna

Regalia-Yuinshiel Asteria

Reincarnated as a Sword-Fran

Reikenzan

Release The Spyce

ReLife-Chizuru Hishiro

Remi,Nobody’s Girl

Renai Boukun- Akane Hiyama

Rent A Girlfriend-Ruka Sarashina

Rental Magica-Honami Takase Ambler

RErideD

Requiem of the Rose King

Restaurant To Another World-Aletta

Revenger

Revisions

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Remake Our Life-Aki Shino

Rewrite-Kagari

Riddle Story Of Devil-Haru Ichinose

Rideback

Rifle is Beautiful- Hikari Kokura

Rinkai

Rinne-Suzu

Rio-Rio Rollins Tachibana

Rising Impact

Rising of a Shield Hero-Raphtalia

Rizelmine-Rizel Iwaki

RobiHachi

Robotic:Notes-Akiho Senomiya

Rokka-Flamie Speeddraw

Rokudou’s Bad Girls-Ranna Himawari

Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori

Ro-Kyu-Bu-Tomoka_Minato

Rolling Girls-Nozomi Moritomo

Romeo X Juliet

Romantic Killer-Anzu Hoshino

Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions

Rosario + Vampire- Moka Akashiya,

Roshidere-Alisa Mikhaiovna Kujou/Alya

RPG Real Estate-Kotone Kazairo

Rozen Maiden- Shinku

Rumble Garandoll-Rin Akagi

Run For Money-Luna Nishinotouin

Run with the Wind- Hanako Katsuta

Rurouni Kenshin-Kenshin Himura

Rusted Amor

RWBY Ice Queendom-Ruby Rose

Sabagebu-Urara Kasugano

Saber Marionette

Sabukui Bisco- Pawoo Nekoyanagi

Sacred Blacksmith- Cecily Cambell

Sacred Seven-Ruri Aiba

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts- Sariphi

Saekano- Megumi Kato

Sakuna-Sakuna

Saga of Tanya The Evil-Viktoriya Ivanovna Serebryakov

Sailor Moon

Saint Cecillia and Pastor Lawrence-Cecillia

Saint October

Saint Seiya

Saint Tail-Meimi Haneoka/Saint Tail

Saiyuki

Saki-Nodoka Haramura

Sakugan-Memenpu

Sakura Diaries- Urara Kasuga

Sakura Quest-Ririko Oribe

Sakura Trick-Haruka Takayama

Sakura Wars- Sakura Shinguji

Sakurada Reset-Misora Haruki

Salaryman’s Club

Samurai 7-Kirara Mikumari

Samurai Champloo- Jin, Mugen, Fuu

Samurai Deeper Kyo-Yuya Shiina

Samurai Flamenco-Mari Maya

Samurai Girl-Ryoko Mitsurugi

Samurai Gun

Samurai Harem-Ibuki Ikaruga

Samurai Warriors

Sand Land-Ann

Sanrio Boys

Sankarea-Rea Sanka

Sangokushi

Sansha Sanyou-Youko Nishikawa

Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement-Mitsuha Yamano

Sarazanmai

Sasaki and Peeps-Elsa

Sasami-san@Ganbaranai-Sasami Tsukuyomi

Say I Love You-Mei Tachibana

Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei

Scared Rider Zeches-Akira Asagi

Scarlet Nexus-Kasane Randall

Science Fell in Love So I Tried to Prove It-Ena Ibarada

School Babysitters-Maria Inomata

School Days- Kotonoha Katsura

School Live-Yuuri Wakasa

School Rumble- Tenma Tsukamoto

Schoolgirl Strikers-Yuumi Sajima

Scorching Ping Pong Girls-Koyori Tsumujikaze

Scrapped Princess

Scryed

Scum’s Wish-Hanabi Yasuraoka

Seirei Gensouki-Latifa

Seiren-Hikari Tsuneki

Seitokai Yakuindomo- Aria Shichijo

Seiyuu's Life-Futaba Ichinose

Sekirei- Musubi

Sekkou Boys

Selection Project-Suzune Miyama

Sengoku Basara Samurai Kings- Masamune Date,Yukimura Sanada

Sengoku Collection-Ieyasu Tokugawa

Sengoku Choujuu Giga

Sengoku Night Blood- Yuzuki

Sengoku Youko-Tama

Senpai Is an Otokonoko

Senran Kagura-Asuka

Sensual Phrase

Senyuu

Senryuu Girl -Nanako Yukishiro

Seraph Of The End-Shinoa Hiiragi

Seraphim Call

Serial Experiment Lain

Servamp

Servant x Service- Lucy Yamagami

Seton Academy- Ranka Ookami

Seven Deadly Sins-Elizabeth Lyonesse, Anghalhad(FKotA)

Seven Knights-Ellen

Seven of Seven-Nana Suzuki

Seven Senses of The Re’Union-Asahi Kuga

Sgt. Frog- Angol Mois,

Shachibato-Yutoria

Shadows House: Emilico

Shadowverse-Mimori Amamiya,Ren Kazamatsuri(Shadowverse Flame)

Shakugan no Shana- Shana

Shaman King-Anna Kyoyama

Shangri-la- Kuniko Hojo

Shangei-la Frontier-Emul

She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man-Mira

Shenmue The Animation-Joy

Shigofumi-Fumika

Shigurui

Shiki- Natuno Yuki, Sunako Kirashiki

Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie-Shikimori

Shikizakura-Haruko Yamada

Shimoneta-Anna Nishikinomiya

Shine Post-Rio Seibu

Shining Hearts-Neris

Shining Tears X Wind

Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion

Shinkyoku Soukai Poluphonica

Shinobi no Ittoki-Kirei Kisegawa

Shinya Tensai Bakabon

Shion no Ou

Shirobako-Aoi Miyamori

Shirokuma Café

Shironeko Project-Iris

Shrine of the Morning Mist-Yuzu Hieda

Shokugeki No Soma-Megumi Tadokoro

Shomin Sample-Aika Tenkuubashi

Shoot

Shounen Hollywood

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight

Shounen Maid-Miyako Otori

Shounen Onmyouji- Fujiwara no Akiko

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu

Shoushimin Series

Shouwa Monogatari

Show By Rock- Cyan Hijirikawa, Himeko Mashima[SBRM]

Shuffle!-Kaede Fuyou

Shugo Chara-Amu Hinamori

Shukufuku No Campanella-Carina Verritti

Shy-Teru Momijiyama/Shy

Silent Mobius

Simoun

Sin-Maria Totsuka

Sing Yesturday For Me-Shinako Morinome

Sirius The Jaeger

Sisters of Welber

Silver Guardian

Silver Spoon-Aki Mikage

SK8 the Infinity

Skate Leading Stars

Skelleton Knight in Another World-Chiyome

Sketchbook-Sora Kajiwara

Sket Dance- Hime "Himeko" Onizuka

Skip Beat-Kyoko Mogami

Skip and Loafer-Mitsumi Iwakura

Skirt no Naka wa Kedamono Deshita

Sky Girls-Otoha Sakurano

Sky Wizards Academy- Lecty Eisenach

Slam Dunk

Slayers-Lina Inverse, Zelgadis Greywords

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Catle- Princess Syalis

Slow Loop-Koharu Minagi

Slow Start-Kamuri Sengoku

Smile Down the Runway-Chiyuki Fujito

Smile if the Arsnotoria-Arsnotoria

Snack Basue-Akemi

Snow White With The Red Hair-Shirayuki

So I Can't Play H-Mina Okura

So I’m a Spider, So What- Filmos Harifenas/Kanami Okazaki

Softenni-Chitose Akiyama

Sola-Matsuri Shihou

Solo Leveling-Sung Jin-ah

SoltyRei-Solty Revant

Somali and the Forest Spirit

Sonic X -Shadow,Espio,Knuckles

Sonny Boy-Mizuho

Sono Toki Kanojo wa

Sora No Manimani-Mihoshi Akeno

Sorcerer Hunters- Tira Misu

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen-Claiomh Everlasting

Soul Buster

Soul Eater-Death The Kid, Tsubaki,Meme Tatane[Soul Eater Not]

Soul Link-Karen Tachibana

Sound Euphonium-Kumiko Oumae

Sound of the Sky-Kanata Sorami

Souten Kouro

Space Battleship Tiramitsu

Space Brothers-Serika Itou

Space Dandy

Space Patrol Luluco

Special 7- Bellemer “Ninja” Cinq

Special A

Speed Grapher-Kagura Tennouzu

Spice and Wolf- Holo

Spiral

Spiritpact-Kau

Spy Classroom-Lily

Spy x Family-Yor Forger

Squid Girl - Squid Girl/Ika Musume

SSSS.Grindman/Dynazenon- Akane Shinjo,Mujina(SSSSDynazenon)

Stand My Heroes-Rei Izumi

Starmyu

Stars Align-Kanako Mitsue

Star Driver-Wako Agemaki

Stardust Telepath- Umika Konohoshi

Starry Sky

Starship Operators

Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko

Steel Angel Kurumi-Kurumi

Steins;Gate- Kurisu Makise

Stella Women's Academy , High School Division Class C3

Strain- Lottie Gelh

Strange+

Strange Dawn

Strawberry 100%- Aya Toujou

Strawberry Eggs- Fuko Kuzuha

Strawberry Marshmallow-Nobue Itou

Strawberry Panic-Nagisa Aoi

Strike The Blood- Yukina Himeragi

Strike Witches-Yoshika Miyafuji, Hikari Karibuchi(Brave Witches), Inori Shibuya(Luminous Witches)

Student Council's Discretion. Mafuya Shiina

Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included-Towa

Subete Ga F Ni Naru-Moe Nishinosono

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale-Ann Halford

Suicide Squad Isekai-Harley Quinn

Summer Time Render-Ushio Kofune

Summoned to Another World…. Again?-Yuuhi Hanabashira

Sumomomo Momomo-Sanae Nakajima

Sunday Without God

Super Crooks

Super Cub- Koguma, Shii Eniwa

Super Doll Licca-chan

Super HxEros-Kirara Hoshino

Super Robot Wars Original Generation

Super Sonico The Animation- Super Sonico

Supernatural the Animation

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town-Alka

SukaSuka

Sweetness and Lightning-Kotori Iida

Sweets Reincarnation-Licorice Mill Hubarek

Sword Art Online-Asuna Yuki,LLENN/Karen Kohiruimaki

Sword Gai

Symphogear-Hibiki Tachibana

Synduality-Noir

Taboo Tattoo-Touko Ichinose

Tada Never Falls In Love-Teresa Wagner

Taishou Baseball Girls

Taishou Otome Fairy Tale-Yuzuki Tachibana

Takt Op-Cosette Schneider

Takunomi-Makoto Kiriyama

Tales of the Abyss-Anise Tatlin

Tales of Eternia

Tales of Wedding Ring-Hime/Krystal Novaty Nokanatika

Tales of Zestria The X-Edna

Talentless Nana- Nana Hiiragi

Tamako Market-Tamako Kitashirakawa

Tamayomi

Tamayura-Maon Sakurada

Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless-Miyano

Tasuuketsu

Tantei Opera Milky Holmes- Sherlock Shellingford

Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note

Tatami Galaxy

Tawawa on Mondays

Tayutama-Mashiro Mito

Tearmoon Empire-Mia Luna Tearmoon

Tears To Tiara-Riannon

Technoroid

Teekyuu

Tegami Bachi- Niche

Tenchi Muyou-Sasami Masaki Jurai

Tenjou Tenge

Tenka Hyakken

TenPuru-Yuzuki Aoba

Teppen-Kana Kiyotsuru

Terra Formars-Hong

Terror In Resonance-Lisa Mishima

Tesla Note-Botan Negoro

Testament Of The Sister New Devil-Mio Naruse

Texhnolyse

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime-Shuna

The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me?-Louise Yorande Aorelia Oufelbelk

The 100 Girlfriends-Shizuka Yoshimoto

The Helpful Fox Senko-san- Senko

The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten-Mahiru Shiina

The Ancient Magus’ Bride – Chise Hatori

The Apothecary Diaries-Maomao

The Aquatope on White Sand- Kukuru Misakino

The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases

The Big O

The Brave Express Might Gaine

The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses-Shiragiku Ona

The Candidate for Goddess

The Case Files of Jewler Richard-Shouko Tanimoto

The Case Study of Vanitas-Jeanne

The Comic Artist And Assistants- Rina Fuwa

The Dangers in My Heart-Anna Yamada

The Dawn of Witch-Loux Krystas

The Day I Became God- Hina Sato

The Demon Girl Next Door- Yuko Yoshida

The Demon Prince of Momochi House-Himari Momochi

The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy-Riseria Ray Crystaria

The Detective is Already Dead-Siesta

The Devil Is A Part Timer- Chiho Sakaki

The Dreaming Boy is a Realist-Aika Natsukawa

The Duke of Death and His Maid-Alice Lendrott

The Dungeon of Black Company-Rimu

The Eccentric Family-Kaisei Ebisugawa

The Elusive Samurai

The Eminence in Shadow-Alexia Midgar

The Fable

The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch-Alissa

The Executioner and Her Way of Life-Akari Tokito

The Fire Hunter-Touko

The Faraway Paladin-Robina Goodfellow/Bee

The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil-Lily Amane

The Fruit of Evolution-Saria

The Future Diary- Yuno Gasai

The Galaxy Railways

The Gene of AI-Risa Higuchi

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses-Ai Mie

The Great Jahy Willl Not Be Defeated-Jahy

The Heike Story

The Human Crazy University-Chie Negishi

The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace-Paula

The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague-Fuyutsuki-san

The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World-Amelia Rose

The Irresponsible Captain Tylor-Emi Hanner,Yumi Hanner

The King of Braves GaoGaiGar

The Kingdoms of Ruin-Doroka

The Little Lies We All Tell-Chiyo

The Legendary Hero is Dead-Anri Haysworth

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady-Anisphia Wynn Palettia

The Magnificent Kotobuki-Kylie

The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious-Lilith

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya- Haruhi Suzumiya, Yuki Nagato[DoNY]

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen-Pride Royal Ivy

The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt-Ninym Ralei

The Girl Downstairs

The Girl in Twilight- Akane Tsuchimiya

The Girl Who Leapt Through Space-Akiha Shishidou

The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody-Ireena Litz de Olhyde

The Great Cleric

The Great Passage –Kaguya Hayashi

The God of High School- Yoo Mira

The Good Witch of the West

The Gymastics Samurai-Rei Aragaki

The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter-Emma Brightness

The Law of Ueki-Ai Mori

The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Use to Be Archenemies-Byakuya Mimori

The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio

The Marginal Service-Lyra Candeyheart

The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar-Linnea

The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today-Saku Fukuzawa

The Misfit of Demon King Academy-Misha Necron

The New Gate

The Ones Within- Himiko Inaba

The Ossan Newbie Adventurer

The Prince of Tennis

The Promised Neverland

The Quintessential Quintuplets- Ichika Nakano

The Reflection

The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World-Yifa

The Royal Tutor

The Ryuuou’s Work Is Never Done-Ai Hinatsuru

The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent-Sei Takanashi

The Severing Crime Edge

The Story of Saiunkoku

The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army was a Human-Dairokuten

The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest-Lurie Abendroth

The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids-Luna

The Tale of the Outcast-Wisteria Langley

The Third-Honoka

The Thousand Musketeers

The Unwanted Undead Adventurer-Lorraine Vivie

The Vexations of a Shut In Vampire Princess-Terakomari Gandesblood

The Vampire Dies in No Time-Hinaichi

The Vision of Escaflowne

The Wallflower

The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash-Ivy/Femicia

The Witch and the Beast-Guideau

The World God Only Knows- Elsie

The World’s Greatest Assassin Gets Reincarnated In Another World as an Aristocrat-Tarte

The World Ends with You

The World is Still Beautiful-Nike Lemercier

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic-Suzune Inukami

The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting-Yaeka Sakuragi

The Yuzuki Family Four Sons-Uta Kirishima

Thermae Romae

Those Snow White Notes-Shuri Maeda, Sakura Yamano

This Art Club Has A Problem-Mizuki Usami

Those Who Hunt Elfs- Ritsuko Inoue

Tiger and Bunny- Kotetsu Kuburagi/Wild Tiger, Barnaby Brooks Jr

Tiger Mask W-Haruna Takaoka

Time Bokan 24-Calen

Time Travel Girl-Mari Hayase

Tis Time for “Torture”, Princess-Princess

Toilet Bound Hanako-kun-Nene Yashiro

Tomo-chan Is a Girl-Tomo Aizawa

Tonagura-Kazuki Arisaka

To Be Hero

Too Cute Crisis-Garmie Lou

Toji no Miko- Kanami Etou

Tokimeki Memorial Only Love-Tsukasa Kasuga

Tokko- Saya Shindo

Tokyo 24th Wad

Tokyo ESP-Rinka Urushiba

Tokyo Ghoul-Hinami Fueguchi

Tokyo Majin-Aoi Misato

Tokyo Mew Mew-Ichigo Momomiya

Tokyo Ravens-Kyouko Kurahashi

Tokyo Revengers-Hinata Tachibana

Tomica Kizuna Gattai

Tomodachi Game-Yutori Kokorogi

Tonari no Youkai-san

Tonbo

Tonikaku Kawaii- Tsukasa Yuzaki

To the Abandoned Sacred Beats- Nancy Schaal Bancroft

To Heart-Multi, Konomi Suzuhara[TH2]

To-Love-Ru- Lala Satalin Deviluke

To Your Eternity-Rean

Toradora- Taiga Aisaka

Toriko- Toriko,Rin

Toshokan Sensou

Touka Gettan-Momoka Kawakabe

Touken Ranbu

Toward the Terra

Tower of Druaga-Coopa

Tower of God- Endorsi Jahad

TP Bon-Ream Stream

Train to the End of the World-Akira Shinonome

Trails of Cold Steal Northern War-Altina Orion

Trapped in a Dating Sim-Olivia

Triage X- Mikoto Kiba

Tribe Nine-Saori Arisugawa

Trickster-Makoto Noro

Trinity Blood -Able Nightroad, Esther Blanchette

Trinity Seven- Lilith Asami

Trigun- Vash The Stampede. Milly Thompson, Meryl Stryf

Trouble Chocolate-Hinano

True Tears-Noe Isurugi

Try Knights

Tsubasa:Mokona Modoki[white], Sakura

Tsugumomo-Kiriha

Tsuki Ga Kirei-Akane Mizuno

Tsuki wa Higashi ni Hi wa Nishi ni

Tsukimichi-Mio

Tsukipro The Animation

Tsukiuta

Tsukumogami Kashimasu-Okou

Tsukuyomi-Hazuki/Luna

Tsuritama

Tsurezure Children-Yuki Minagawa

Tsurune

Tsuyokiss-Sunao Konoe

Twin Star Exorcist-Mayura Otomi

Two Car

Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru

UchiMusume

UchiTama-Momo Hanasaki

Udon No Kuni No Kin-iro Kemari

UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie-Sanada

Ueno-san wa Bukiyou-Ueno

Ulysses- Jeanne D’Arc

Umi Monogatari-Kanon Miyamori

Umineko

Umisho-Amuro Ninagawa

Uma Musume Pretty Derby-Special Week, Rice Shower

Un-Go

Unbreakable Machine-Doll-Yaya

Uncle from Another World-Sumika Fujimiya

Undead Girl Murder Farce-Aya Rindo

Undead Unluck-Fuuko Izumo

Undefeated Bahamut Chronicles-Philuffy Aingram

Under Ninja

Unlimited Fafnir-Iris Freyja

Ultimate Girls

Ultimate Otaku Teacher-Sachiko Tanaka/Kisaki Tenjouin

Ultra Maniac-Ayu Tateishi, Nina Sakura

Ultraman

Ultraviolet Code 044

Unnamed Memory-Tinasha

UniteUp

Upotte-Funco

Urara Meirochou-Chiya

Urahara-Rito Sudo

Urawa No Usagi-chan

Urusei Yatsura-Lum

Usagi Drop

Ushio And Tora-Asako Nakamura

Uta No Prince-Sama-Haruka Nanami

Utawarerumono-Eruru,Kuon[U:FF]

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out-Hana Uzaki

Val x Love- Mutsumi Saotome

Valkyria Chronicles-Alicia Melchiott

Valkyrie Drive-Mamori Tokonome

Valvrave The Liberator-Shoko Sashinami

Vampire Dormitory

Vampire Knight-Yuki Cross/Kuran

Vampire Princess Miyu

Vandread-Dita Liebely

Vatican Miracle Examiner

Vazzrock The Animation

Venus Versus Virus-Sumire Takahana

Vermeil in Gold-Vermeil

Vinland Saga

Vilainess Level 99-Yumiella Dolkness

Violet Evergarden

Viral Hit

Virtual-san Looking

Visual Prison

Vividred Operation-Himawari Shinomiya

Vivy-Vivy

Vlad Love-Mai Vlad Transylvania

Voice of Fox

VTuber Legend-Awayuki Kokorone

Wagamama High Spec

Waka Okami wa Shougakusei-Oriko”Okko” Seki

Wakaba Girl

Wakakozake

Wake Up Girls

Walkure Romanze-Mio Kisaki

Wandering Son

Wandering Witch-Fran

Wangan Midnight

Wanna Be The The Strongest In The World-Sakura Hagiwara

Waiting In The Summer-Ichika Takatsuki

Warlords of Sigrdrifa- Miyako Muguruma

Wasteful Days of High School Girls- Saku “Loli” Momoi

WataMote-Yuu Naruse

Wataten- Miyako Hoshino

Wave

Wave Listen to Me-Minare Koda

We Never Learn-Fumino Furuhashi

We Were There- Nanami “Nana” Takahashi

We Without Wings-Hiyoko Tamaizumi

Wedding Peach

Weiss Krauz

Weiss Survive

Welcome to the Ballroom-Mako Akagi

Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun-Clara Valac

Welcome to The N.H.K-Misaki Nakahara

When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace-Hatoko Kushikawa

When Will Ayumu Make His Move-Urushi Yaotome

Whisper Me a Love Song-Himari Kino

Whispered Words-Sumika Murasame

White Album-Yuki Morikawa, Kazusa Touma[WH2]

Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion- Raeliana McMillan

Why The Hell Are You Here Teacher-Mayu Matsukaze

Wise Man’s Grandchild- Sizilien “Sicily “ con Claude

Wistoria

Wind Breaker

Witchblade- Masane Amaha

Witch Craft Works- Ayaka Kagari

Witch Hunter Robin

WIXOSS-Ruuko Kominato, Suzuko Homura[LIW], Akino Onko[WIXOSS Diva(A)Live]

Wizard Barristers-Cecil Sudo

Wolf Girl And Black Prince-Erika Shinohara

Wolf's Rain- Tsume, Kiba

Wolverine

Wonder Egg Priority- Ai Ohta

Woodpecker Detective’s Office

Wooser's Hand To Mouth Life

Working!!-Popura Taneshima, Hana Miyakoshi[WWW.Working]

World Break-Shizuno Urushibara

World Conquest Zvezda Plot-Kate Hoshimiya/Lady Venera

World DaI Star-Yae Niizuma

World’s End Harem

World of Narue-Narue Nanase

World Trigger-Chika Amatori,Yuichi Jin

Wotakoi- Narumi Momose

W’z

Xam'd: Lost Memories

Xenosaga The Animation-Shion Uzuki

Xmen

xxxHoLic-Zashiki Warashi, Yuko Ichihara

Ya Boy Kongming-Eiko Tsukimi

Yaiba-Sayaka Mine

Yakitate Japan-Tsukino Azusagawa

Yamada-kun And The Seven Witches-Urara Shiraishi

Yamada's First Time: B Gata H Kei-Yamada

Yami To Boushi To Hon No Tabihito-Hazuki Azuma

Yatagarasu

Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki

Yatterman Night-Alouette

Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na-Mia Clementis

Your Lie In April-Kaori Miyazono

You’re Under Arrest-Yoriko Nikaidou

Yondemasuyo Azazel-san-Rinko Sakuma

Yosuga No Sora-Nao Yorihime

Youkai Gakuen Y-Fubuki Himekawa

Young Black Jack

Yowamushi Pedal-Miki Kanzaki

Yozakura Quartet- Hime Yarizakura

Yu-Gi-Oh-Black Magician Girl, Asuka Tenjoin(YGOGX), Aki Izayoi(YGO5Ds), Kotori Mizuki(YGOZEXAL),Yuzu Hiiragi(YGOARCV),Aoi Zaizen(YGOVRAINS),Romin Kirishima(YGOSEVENS),Yuamu Ohdo(YGOGORUSH)

Yumeiro Patissiere

Yume no Crayon Oukoku

Yume Tsukai

Yumeria-Mizuki Agatsume

YU-NO

Yurei Deco

Yuri is My Job-Hime Shiraki/Hime Shirasagi

Yurikuma Arashi-Kureha Tsubaki

Yuru Yuri- Chitose Ikeda

Yuuki Yuuna Is A Hero-Mimori Tougou/Sumi Washio

Yuuna and Haunted Hot Springs- Yuuna Yunohara

YuYu Hakusho-Koto

Yuyushiki-Yukari Hinata

Zatch Bell-Megumi Oumi

Zegapain-Ryouko Kaminagi

Zetman- Jin Kanzaki

Zettai Bouei Leviatan-Leviatan

Zettai Karen Children-Kyousuke Hyoubu

Zipang

Zoids- Rei-Mii(ZG)

Zom 100-Shizuka Mikazuki

Zombie Land Saga- Sakura Minamoto

Zombie Loan-Michiru Kita

Zone of Enders

Z/X-Ena Soranokawa(Z/X Code Reunion).Ayase Kamiyugi(Z/X Ignition)

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Reading Log 2024.05 - May

Previous: Reading Log 2024.04 - April

Trying to grasp the moon. Wonder if anyone would ever want to come over to my moon? Maybe we can try grasping it together?

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Reading languages: German, English, French, Japanese, not listing which was what. (There's also been some feeble attempts at Chinese.)

Titles are as I’ve read them either first or most and thus remember it for that title mostly

Not going to bother putting in the original titles of translated reads unless there is something worthy of note to it

Cursive titles have been completed

If it says a volume number it may mean it has been finished or is still in progress

Some notes’ content may be subject to repetition here and there, as I also copied some older notes from casual conversations over and didn’t go through any rounds of cutting things down.

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MAY

JNC (English) puts A Pale Moon Reverie into this month' Catchup Lineup, so there goes a subscription. You gotta make most use the buffet, do you?

I still failed to finish trying out all that was in the catchup...

Also struggled with the JNC Nina deadlines

The JNC quota of my monthly reads have not been counted, but they must make a notable percentage.

What does that tell me again? I get the most things done with a deadline leash.

The distinction between LN/WN regular novels is a bit fuzzy this time due to the potion of Rosmei previews...

Light Novels/Web Novels/Novels:

A Pale Moon Reverie v1-2

At the World’s Mercy Rosmei Preview

Brunhild v3p1

By the Grace of Gods LN v14

Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers v1ch1-2

Don't You Like Me Rosmei Preview

Fushi no Kami v1

Hell Mode v3p4-6

How to Survive as a Villain Novel Rosmei preview ch1-5

How to Survive as a Villain Novel ch137-235

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? v10

Kaleidoscope of Death Rosmei Preview

Marriage, Divorce, and Beyond: The White Mage and Black Knight's Romance Reignited v1p1-v2p1-6

Mushoku Tensei v1p7-8

Nanchan Rosmei Preview

The Defectives Rosmei Preview

The Earth Is Online Rosmei Preview

The Killer of Killers Rosmei Preview

The Rebirth Of The General Who Always Sees Himself As A Replacement ch1

The Saint's Magic Power is Omipotent LN v3p7-8

Unnamed Memory LN v1p2-5

Wolf and Parchment v5-6

Zilbagias the Demon Prince: How the Seventh Prince Brought Down the Kingdom v1p1-5

Manga:

12 Jahre v18

A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires (Manga) v2ch7-11

An Archdemon's (Friend's) Dilemma: How to Babysit a Crybaby Knight ch1-5

An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride v1-10, ch52-54, ch60-63

Are You Okay with a Slightly Older Girlfriend? ch16.3-21

Arte ch86-87

Bibi & Miyu v1ch5

Buta no Liver wa Kanetsushiro ch36.1-2

Daijuukou to Unicornis no Otome ch15.2

Dead Mount Death Play v6

Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuuutsu ch109, ch88-91

Domestic na Kanojo v9-11

Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte (Manga) ch1, ch6, ch10, ch14, ch18, v5ch23-26

Everyday Escape v1-4

Fragtime v1-2

Girl Crush ch85-87

Hari to Hitsuji no Fune ch10.2

Heart Gear ch4-10

How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer ch5-16

I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic (Manga) ch1-5

Is Love the Answer? ch1

Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch18.2-4

Just Because I Love You

Kakan no Oukoku no Hanagirai Hime ch13.2-13.3

Knitter's High ch27.3-4

Living With My Brother's Wife ch49-65

Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru ch32

My Not-So-Fair Lady is Doomed! (But Not If I Can Help It) ch4.2-9.2

My Unexpected Marriage ch10.3-14

Nagiko no Hanashi (re-read)

Okazari Ouhi ni Nattanode, Kossori Hataraki ni deru koto ni Shimashita ~Usagi ga Iru no de Hitorine mo Sabishiku Arimasen!~ ch26.5-6

Oshi no Ko ch145-147

Shinde Miro to Iwareta no de Shinimashita. ch11-12

Shuumatsu Touring ch38.1-3

Sleeping Moon v1

Solange wir zusammen sind v8

Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch68sample, ch69sample, ch70sample, ch70-71

Suicide Notes Laid on the Table ch35.2-50

The 6th Loop: I'm Finally Free of Auto Mode in this Otome Game ch3.3-10

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses ch81-99

Unnamed Memory ch37.1

With the Light v1

Webtoons:

Closer Heartbeat ch0-1

Fall in the Night with You ch74-101

Ice Lamp: The Chronicles of Kira ch49-51

Taberare Usa ch102-105

The Goddess of Healing ch80-92

The Silent Concubine ch1-32

To be or not be ch95-101

Notes:

A Pale Moon Reverie v1-2: What a gob smack disappointment. I really (really) do like Unnamed Memory, but this thing from the same author is just… doing everything UN does right, not all that right. I'm kind of… just astonished. And makes me a bit wary of the rest of the author, which I had planned to buy and read in JP if it doesn't get licensed.

A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires (Light Novel) v1: It's interesting how the hook is basically identical to 7th Time Loop, but the route it goes down is already so completely Anti-Fluff as can be. The hook is easily the least interesting thing, as it's a complete dumpster trope by now, but so far MC doesn't feel like a bad person per se, or more like not even really a person, but more like a completely OP mirror. She does not set out to do evil, but if you do her bad, she will reflect it, as she would honor you doing her good. And then the world is full of evil and incompetence, so it just winds up her mirroring all the mud and dirt of it. Which creates all the more of it in the process.

That's very much an Anti-Fluff spiral and kinda somewhat uncomfortable…. Tho, she remains a badass female MC with some brains and guts at least.

I think another issue probably is. This whole revenge objective. It's not even really feeling like it's genuinely her own. It came from her servant, who had a moment of being passionately full of hate. And she was like "oh you're right" and just adapted it. So she really just feels like a mirror, absorbing and reflecting what crosses her path. And she's unlucky that apparently she's not granted the blessing of meeting anything fluff on her way.

I suppose another bit that makes her very different to Rishe from 7th Time Loop is that Rishe got her OP cheat skills over time though effort and maturity, and she got it all through teachers who were nice enough to take her in. In this one's case, she is simply a prodigy, and it all came from herself. She knows modesty by advantage/disadvantage calculation, etiquette not really having any real innate greed and pride, but there is also a sense of natural condescension that comes out of it towards anyone else, even if she can honor people doing things for her.

German first impressions:

Uffz. Das Inciting Incident ist praktisch 1:1 identisch zu 7th Time Loop, aber die Route, die das hier einschlägt ist so Anti-Fluff wie es nur irgendwie sein kann. :NotLikeThis:

Es ist dabei nicht nur "nicht fluff" sondern geradewegs anti-fluff.

Die MC, mal abgesehen, dass sie viel zu OP ist, sie wirkt ein bisschen wie nicht wirklich wie ein Mensch, sondern eher eine Art gut geölte Maschine + ein Spiegel. Sie reflektiert quasi alles, was ihr widerfährt irgendwie in gleicher Art, und offenkundig hat sie nie was Fluff oder wirklich emotional Gutes erfahren, jenseits von Loyalität, die sie erfährt, weil sie es sich irgendwie erarbeitet hat. Und sie reflektiert das irgendwie und dabei verstärkt sie es noch mehr, was am Ende zu einer Spirale von evil begets evil führt. Und dann ist sie dabei auch noch vollkommen methodisch, effizient, ohne jedes Mitleid oder Verständnis für irgendwelche Motivationen, die dazu geführt haben, dass ihr widerfuhr was ihr widerfuhr (obwohl sie es z.T. auch genau weiß) und das wäre noch eine Sache, aber ihre ganze Rache fühlt sich nicht mal richtig emotional an (so wie bei Brundhild oder so), sondern geradezu Secondhand übernommen, nachdem die Dienerin einen emotionalen Rant voller Hass ob der Ungerechtigkeit (und auch Mitgefühl) abgelassen hat. Buchstäblich quasi "oh you're right" und dann zieht sie, ohne mit der Wimpern zu zucken ihre Konsequenz daraus und alle, die ihr im Weg stehen, kümmert sie nicht, egal was.

KA, irgendwie wirkt sie wie ein leeres Gefäß voller Skills, Wissen, Etikette und Macht. Sie hatte ihren Job, den hat sie wunderbar gemacht, wurde dafür aber nie honoriert und dann wurde der infrage gestellt und sie hat die Rache zu ihrem neuen Job gemacht und das ist irgendwie alles, was sie ausmacht und sie scheint auch nicht das geringste Interesse zu haben daran, großartig was zu ändern.

Am Ende vom Band ist sie geradezu teuflisch, aber irgendwie auch, das Teuflische wurde erst erweckt durch Missetaten und irgendwie ist das so eine Dynamik, die nur das Schlechte vom und im Menschen weiter propagiert.

Fushi no Kami v1: The Maika side of things are still extraordinary uninteresting. Unfortunately, you can't exactly skip them. Probably.

Marriage, Divorce, and Beyond: The White Mage and Black Knight's Romance Reignited v1p1, v2p1-6: Maybe skipping the rest of v1 because streaming has expired was not the most bright thing there, but it somehow worked out still decently fine??

Mushoku Tensei v1 finished: Aaand somehow there's now yet another pervy guy.

Side character: "He reminds me a lot of you [….] like stealing underwear or watching me while changing […] Maybe all heroes are just sex-addicted?"

This series is really…..

How to have some good moments and then just throw of pervy curveball to ruin it, and then it gets better again and yet another curveball….

It's kind of interesting how at first I thought it structurally was very much Hell Mode, but now I was thinking structurally it's a lot like Fushi no Kami, but obviously both are younger so much rather they got inspired the other way round.

Fushi no Kami's switches of PoV are definitely more obnoxious, tho. Cheese striken Maika is for the trash bin, but here there's a strange comicalness to it in MT.

The Rebirth Of The General Who Always Sees Himself As A Replacement ch1: From the same author of How to Survive as a Villain. I had read the beginning of the webtoon, but wasn't exactly wowed, but the novel is coming around with poetry, idioms and literature and everything, and I'm already liking it a hundred-fold more just because of this and how it's used to depict the MC's inner turmoil.

An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride v1-10, ch52-54, ch60-63: Sooo, this was also in the JNC May Catchup list.

Me, before reading: Nothing but a doubtful stare.

But I was being told it it would have fluff, and that came from the same one who made me read Otonari, so....

Me, upon noticing I've been binging this rather fast:

Me upon finding out, I'm liking this, despite, let's say a bit of a wacky beginning: (It screams cheese! It screams it!!)

If A Pale Moon Reverie was a complete flop, reading this directly afterwards immediately amortized the JNC subscription all on its already. And then it was pwoerful enough that sorta everything else tasted staler and worse than it actually was so I needed several days of a reading break to avoid souring me on the other stuff.

The series' primary draw definitely are the masses of good faces (especially Chastille is Lady Good Faces), but even behind that it has a really strong going Found Family aspect to it and while the romance bit is there from the beginning and a central part to it all, it considerably overlaps with found family in its most foundational aspects, which makes it that much less just your ordinary cheese. (And they are kinda doing things backwards, that's also a nice pattern I vastly prefer, but is seen all too rarely.) I also like it how the series has the girl coming from the slave trope, but quickly ties over all the apparent submission into a deeper going characterization and turns it all on its head. She is definitely not your a naive innocent something, not an obedient, subservient damsel in distress, if she exhibits it, it's out of self-loathing and self-punishment and there is a component of active choice and agency to it. And that conversation between her and Chastille about how she refuses to stand at the frontline (despite actually being more than qualified to be there), because she has decided upon which role she considers to be most needed by her and therefore leaves the frontline part to Chastille was such a great way to avoid the trap of both Damsel in Distress or OP Mary Sue. How she's fairly wary of her powers also implies an additional reason why she chooses to continue wearing the mana-sealing neck-chocker (and thus not engage with sorcery on top of her mysticism) aside it from being basically their the engagement ring-replacement. (Altho, her wearing it while confronting an unknown demon alone that turned out to be an archdemon may have been a bit silly.) Chastille's holding it somewhat together while on clock vs. a bit of a hopeless idiot when clocked out is also a streak I find, uhm, hitting a bit too home. She is a great dork in any case. The only thing that did me more in were the good question mark faces. Like, they are glorious. And despite all the dorks, fluff and compf, the thing also has an actual plot to follow, that is both having acute stakes (due to danger baring it fangs already), but also not (because no one knows about any sort of concrete time limit beyond it's coming). And there is a whole mystery component surrounding not only that, but characters themselves as well. The romance aspect comes off as downright simple in comparison, and that also makes for a decent balancing off the scales that gives even the more regular simpleton romance elements more flavor.

But in any case:

Question mark faces ftw!

And Chastille

is just adorkable.

Also this is such a mood, aside from the question marks:

An Archdemon's (Friend's) Dilemma: How to Babysit a Crybaby Knight ch1-5: This guy's dense, an airhead and a tsundere. Also, he's already very much done for. The spin-off is also having a fine amount of good faces, but beyond that I still find it a bit lacking. In part because the side characters aren't as engaging and the two MCs don't exactly have as much freedom for development due to constraints in the main plot (where still nothing much as happened). And kinda, it lacks a proper plot of its own to draw you in.

But it also has Lady Good Faces. And maybe it needs not be more. (It just makes me not so sure about its re-read value.)

"Erm, I'm... not here to listen to your lovey-dovey talk, am I?"

Domestic na Kanojo v9-11: I still do not know what I am reading, beyond that it is definitely a series about a bunch of idiots.

Reactions per volume as they were being read:

Volume 9: Somebody please isekai them to a place where bigamy is legal already…

While at Volume 10: This author really seems to have a thing for lingerie… The ecchi situations are a bit much atm, I'm stuck with this book for 3 days already :NotLikeThis:

As in the sense of them being extraordinarily dumb and feeling artificial. Like if Rui goes to undress herself while telling the guy to not look and then withdraws without him ever knowing that's kinda fine, it's clearly for the reader, but it's still making sense in character.

But like the whole thing around Rui's father's new daughter-in-law with the tripping and everything is just =_=

(Also the hell you go to shower yourself without preparing towels and change of cloth, or if you were dumb enough to forget, then just tell them to leave the room and get it yourself, instead of screaming kyaaa and hitting the other for being a pervert, draahhhh)

Across v11: [An assortment of screaming idiot at just about any of them one after another]

Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte (Manga) ch1, ch6, ch10, ch14, ch18, v5ch23-26: Good Faces and lots of tsundere tsun tsun, and I'll probably complete reading this (will it drop in a catchup maybe?), but I worry about its re-read value or general amount of being memorable. Considering how I could jump all those gaps and not feel too much like I missed out on a lot of plot, so there is that…

I still laughed at this.

Everyday Escape v1-4: It has nice covers. The art is decent and pretty at places. Its content for me, however, is kinda for the garbage trash bin. (Right, you can't get the feels of winter in summer, so turn the air conditioning on to freeze, and then turn on a heater, because it's too cold? Excuse me?) Also, I feel like I picked it up thinking it was GL, but if anything it's just GL-bait.

Fragtime v1-2: I didn't know anything about it beyond the Anime movie key illustration used as the Blu-ray cover, so kinda read into this blindly. From the manga covers I did not expect anything too great, but it was to a surprising level kinda garbage yet again. (What up witht eh GL grabs this month being bad ones?) Peeking panties in any case was not something I expected…

Girl Crush ch85-87: Tenka is great, but now there are even more clear signs of a budding potential romance and between her and that guy, that may get to be a male lead or not, there's now a very interesting dynamic: She's kinda tsundere to him and only him and part of it is she can't help it because his character's obnoxiousness just provokes it and in part because he's a total tsundere himself hiding behind arrogance (which has substance to it, as he is capable however) and she just does him the favor to be just like that in turn. He clearly enjoys it. And to her, it in a way widens her horizon as well as being silly like that just puts away the tension she tends to build up herself. This is a pretty interesting dynamic.

Is Love the Answer? ch1: Read the German sample as it came out, which is ch1. It's still good and authentic, but also just makes my face muscles go rather grumpy.

Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch18.2-4: These two totally are going openly dorks from now on, now that the cat is out of the sack.

Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru ch32: Pouts. Pouty Pouts!!

My Unexpected Marriage ch10.3-14: This… could have been so much more interesting. It had all the good ingredients, but in the end it just served up a decent, but nevertheless rather standard narrative dish, tho I am not particularly surprised, as it seemed more simple from the get-go. The court intrigue was still decently wrapped up, although it does feel a little bit anticlimactic. (And to have a fortune-teller have actual supernatural abilities was rather unneeded, especially as he was kinda painted and implied as a gross pedophile at first.) The entire supernatural bit at the end was kinda weird, but oh well.

To have a tsundere mother-in-law was definitely a kinda very interesting dynamic and the thing I'll probably remember from it most.

Nagiko no Hanashi (re-read): It's still just great, but this time I realized, having read Archdemon right before it: It also has the sort of good cute question mark faces! Apparently that latent preference has been there since forever, I just didn't notice??

Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch68sample, ch69sample, ch70sample, ch70-71: Ok, me messing up the time limited free reading deadlines yeet again and the gaps are not going it any good, but it's rather interesting where this has gone. The initial hook and premise is solved, for the time being at least, but the arc that is now ongoing is kinda dark in its own different way. I unfortunately missed the chapters where the new teacher characters explained themselves, but it really now has a plot surrounding someone nonbinary who has a few issues about that, while there's also somebody else with some entirely different issues herself, will be interesting where this is going.

Suicide Notes Laid on the Table ch35.2-50: finished. The ending twist reminds me a bit of Be My Slave in its mood, it has a sense of something quietly sinister but at the same time still being really human in its own way on the character, who turns out to be quite different from what was painted and then overturned twice.

The lesson it comes out with is still a nice thing, while also not and somehow it leaves me with a similar feeling Piece ~Kanojo no Kioku~ left me as well: That inconspicuous character has kinda ruined somebody else's life with their lack of care and manipulations, but also it was the ruined persons own choice as well to a good extent, and to a considerable number of people the learnings coming from the incident probably may stick and improve their life, although, you definitely can't do anything about human nature in itself either. And that's also interesting to just observe.

With the Light v1: The English omnibus vols are definitely bricks. I had read v1 in JP before, and it has been on the back of my mind from time to time, but I can see that this series will take a while to read. While it's informative and interesting in a learning something you maybe didn't know already way, it's also kinda just so very unpleasant to read, too. So far, at least.

How to Survive as a Villain Novel ch137-235: How to just shy away of reading the last chapter, because you don't want it to end, but then also you've long since read it anyway, because while reading you read out of order. So technically I had finished it already at ch223. In any case, everything I blurbed about it last month still holds. Xiao YuAn really is about as aroace as you can be at the beginning and even after he notices how important Yan HeQing is to him, he's just approaching the things is more directed by his rather misguided ideas of being that tyrannical president (that he never wanted to be, that is against his nature, but he still is proficient enough to be… until Yan HeQin who naturally is the real thing takes over). Like, aside from suggesting they could just have sex for him to "find out", he's also talking about it like "And then we do the things we should be doing". Should be doing? And there is this bit in the fan translation that has him consider him "attractive", but the Chinese word is more like dazzling. And it still just feels all too aesthetic whenever he looks at him and has his eyes stolen, because he's just, well, so dazzling. And then he also seems to jump at doing things spicy for reasons like, he knows Yan HeQing is weak to his seductions, so it seemed like a go to way for him for distracting from the thing at hand or a means of reconciliation, or later it sounds more like it's just become a habitual activity, and he feels "nostalgic" about it, and then maybe because he doesn't have this hunger and appetite he goes and does all the strange ideas he has about it and a playful way. It just comes off very different to Yan HeQing who really is very horny, knows it and therefore keeps trying to restrain himself. What, in the end, I find most interesting: it works out regardless. So at the end of the day: Same difference. And the series makes a good case just how much it complements each other's flaws or gives them what they need most in their life, even if some other aspects they may have liked as well may fall short of it. The novel also has none of the things I felt like were lacking when I finished the webtoon. I still find myself wanting more of it, the characters and the world, even as the main plot is over. And if the extra bonus stories prove, the characters alone are engaging even without an overarching big main story plot hanging around.

Also in terms of Isekai: I find is very pleasant that the narrative never flaunts Xiao YuAn's modern life knowledge as cheat skills. Something that gets frequently used to drive the plots forward in the genre otherwise. The extras do shortly reveal that he makes use of them, like suggesting the imperial exam system ancient has had, but other than that, the only modern knowledge ever gets to be shown is his first aid for saving Xiao Fengyue. Usually it's just his songs and weird words nobody understands that make him a oddball for the rest, but as for the narrative, trying to blend in bits of modern civilization does not drive it whatsoever, but character relationships and politics.

Speaking of him singing, the amount of poetry and idioms or also contemporal slang and tropes just needs another mention. I really do like how every single emotionally tangent thing is expressed in classic literature quotes. You have trouble to express things in your own words? Maybe just let the masters of old do it for you. It's not a new thing, is it? (And they still talk and act on their own, too.) Xiao YuAn's self realization and the nature of his love and how it was just there, there never was a start proper, but simply has sunk into his bones to notice some when just seems even more plausible with there not being any sort of Love at First sight for him, or any of the overtly deep infatuation and cravings that otherwise usually get sung and talked about over and over.

I am also quite interested how this will be translated officially:

Also, I finally found all the footnotes together, well, bar one, which I know on my own I think. (The Internet Archive ftw. Why didn't I think about this from the beginning?)

Anyway, Rosmei's official Singapore English one is coming next month or so, will be fun to have another re-read.

To be or not be/How to Survive as a Villain Webtoon ch95-101: Uh, well, this is a case of you read something liked it quite well enough, then read another version, and then it just falls from your graces a bit… And one of the scenes I found hilarious (the bit about Zhang Changson caughing because he knows they were doing the spicy stuff last night), suddenly makes no sense whatsoever. Yan HeQing wouldn't have done that and then even go to overtly humiliate him by spanking his butt, or like running away from him, leaving him alone all night while knowing he can't sleep without the breathing sounds. And them having done it already before he came back in his new body being all like he wants to sleep with him, also comes off considerably more different. (Like one is, he just comes off as irresponsibly unreasonably horny. While the other is he'd otherwise he'd regret it, especially if he considers it something that he should be doing. And then he's using the entire speech to mentally torment the guards and just generally he as a habit of elevating his anxiety of talking distracting nonsense.) Or like he realized his feelings, because he couldn't imagine Yan HeQing being with a woman? Oh come on, after all the shipping attempts and thinking it to be the natural state of things for him to have his harem? Mere jealousy as a realization trigger makes no sense at all here and more than that it really comes off as trite compared to how he realized it only in the cave in a life and death situation and the prospect of maybe loosing him for good and really really not wanting it.

It's still good when it's good tho, some other bits were just cut in a too bad way and I reaaaaalllly would have preferred the other extras over the AU arc, but oh well. The first third is still good and on the whole also what got me to the novel and that one has opened some gates to getting interested in Chinese stuff generally, something that has lingered in the back of my mind behind a bit of a blockade, so just that alone is a pretty enormous thing.

The Goddess of Healing ch80-92: The two MCs are just such nice fluffy dorks.

The Silent Concubine ch1-32: I saw this on the Monogatari Novels webpage (the publisher that licensed up How to Survive a Villain's webtoon for English release, but still has yet to release anything in English.) Then I noticed it's also up on Comikey, to trying it out it be. Uuuuh. So the premise is kinda the same as The Male Bride (aka Lala no Kekkon), but unlike The Male Bride which has ostensibly the MC make his own choices only to then get drugged, sexually assaulted, kinda confined only to then reveal his agency was fake, because he was being all kinda manipulated in it, while the other guy ostensibly is also a good guy at heart, just the other one is way to seductive to him so he's frequently out of his mind (i.e. your usual questionable BL tropes), this one……….. has all that, but it doesn't even try to put things in a better light. Things are happening to MC Shen Yu, because he's mute and thus disabled, because he's poor and at the mercy of those in power. He never had a real choice in the matter. And so his being all subservient is a literal matter of survival rather than just the trope. Even his winding up going all happy and romanticizing both the guy and his circumstances seems more like Stockholm Syndrome proper and desperately trying to find the silver lining in the hell he's stuck in, and it's delusive, and the plot never even tries to paint it differently.

And the other guy is a cruel, controlling, violent man and he stays it. He just finds out, that if he stays as cruel, his gonna break his latest concubine whom he finds himself drawn to, so he goes and does a few uncharacteristic nice things to keep him safe or humor him, but quickly enough the narrative makes it very clear: He did that with expectations. Nothing about it changes his fundamental nature. Of him looking down on everyone else, of him thinking that MC being subservient is what is to be expected. Ultimately, the romanticized dream pops as exactly that, just a dream. And Shen Yu actually goes to set out finding real agency using everything he can use, despite his handicaps. Which makes things interesting, because the plot is a power struggle between the Male Lead and the emperor, but at the same time it's also a power struggle between him and MC Shen Yu and also an internal conflict inside the latter, because of lingering attachment to the man that doesn't exactly do him good, but still gave him a few things he needed and wanted most in his life for the first time (and still isn't really getting from anyone). At the beginning I thought this was going to go terrible things happen, but the oh so holy grail of love is gonna reform the heinously cruel Male Lead and then everything's good afterward despite all the terror inflicted in the beginning. It put that one on its head, at least so far. It's quite an interesting read, but it's also rather very toxic in all the ways that be.

But then it also wrecks pouts like these:

Which looks almost like an entirely different series. Well, I suppose it's a scene from the middle of the delusive dream era.

Artwise it's solid, but it does seem to take 'shortcuts' by using real life images thrown through some filter and sometimes not even that, which at times feels a bit weird, because those and the drawings themselves don't always blend too well.

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dragonatthedinnertable · 3 years ago

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Book Review: Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master

—by Michael E Shea

Dungeons & Dragons is a topic near & dear to my heart, and given that I am disabled and have limited spoons to run the games I love, this guide on “lazy” game prep & running is excellent.

This is actually a revising or 2nd edition of The Lazy Dungeon Master, which I read some years ago. This is by far the better book. The highlights for me are:

The Lazy Dungeon Master’s checklist: 8 basic things to focus on for session prep. It’s not necessarily the be-all, end-all, but honestly it’s one of the better such lists I’ve seen. It’s broad, but simple.

Simple rules for Fronts (a la Apocalypse World) and simple guidelines for building a campaign world.

Just lots of tips & inspiration for in-session practices, with quotes from celebrated game masters.

If running D&D games (or other TTRPGs) on a time or spoon budget, this is my top pick for advice.

#Nina Reviews #Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master #Michael E Shea #book review #D&D

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SOUR CANDY

part iv: dungeon master

E. munson x fem!reader

Synopsis: back in Hawkins for spring break, the reader is back from college. She gets sucked into the madness again for the fourth time with her best friend and younger friends. Plus an unexpected and unwelcome face.

Type: fixit fic, angst/comfort, enemies to lovers trope

Warnings: cursing as always, reader always in a pickle, insecure/jealous reader, clumsy reader, brief mention of blood, backstory backstory backstory, mention of a razor (teenage shaving mishaps), Eddie growing up headcanons, silly litte mentions of sour patch kids, angst.

Words: 4k (wowza)

Authors note: i think it’s the moment everyone has been waiting for? Reader x Eddie in the flesh??? I had fun with this one. I just like imagining the backstory to Eddie since we didn’t get too many details in the series. This chapter follows the plot loosely of s4 ch5: the Nina project but with the twist of the reader in it. If I missed any warnings let me know!! Hope you enjoy!! :) I’d like to also talk about the gif used and how precious he is

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You really didn’t know how you were going to get into Eddie’s trailer. You had parked by the playground, and you were just staring at the trailer with ‘53’ by the front door. There was no more crime scene and caution tape blocking it off, but Eddie’s uncle, Wayne, was home. If you broke in, he’d hear you with trailer was only so big. You also couldn’t just assume he’d let you in if you asked. He was for sure being hounded and scrutinized by reporters and police right now.

You drummed your fingers on your knees, thinking. Then you had an idea as you stared at the D&D guideline books in your passenger seat. You grabbed your bookbag from the back next to the paper grocery bag, and dumped the contents in your passenger side so you could fit everything you needed for Eddie. Not quite sure how full proof this would be, but it was worth the shot as you got out of your car. You walked up to the front door and tapped on the front door lightly taking a step back waiting for an answer composing your jitters shaking your hands slightly.

The door opened to reveal Wayne Munson, and you beamed at him as if you were putting on an act.

“Can I help you?” He asked suspiciously, confused as to why a young woman was on his doorstep. Hoping it wasn’t another reporter.

“Hi, Mr. Munson, I’m the local babysitter, Y/n Y/l/n. How’re you doing today sir?” You asked politely the smile never leaving your face.

He gave you an incredulous scowl, “have you seen the news?”

He took a good look at you, you looked familiar. Not only being able to place where he has met you and your name before, he didn’t think you looked like the typical babysitter especially for Hawkins in the casual attire you had on.

You mentally facepalmed yourself for asking a stupid question, but you didn’t let that deter you. “I’m sorry sir, how insensitive of me. It must be frustrating that your nephew’s wrongfully accused of murder.”

“You believe Eddie’s innocent?” He was in disbelief, that’s all the town was talking about, and his boys name chastised everywhere he went as of late. It was eating at Mr. Munson that nobody believed him. The police tried to be neutral, but the critical gazes told him otherwise when they interviewed him,

“One hundred percent! Eddie is an oddball, not a murderer.” You reassured him. “ Actually the reason I’m here is because a couple of his younger members of the hellfire club that I babysit let Eddie borrow a couple of things for the game. I was just wondering if I could collect them?” You gave him some puppy dog eyes.

“I also apologize for the ill timing, y’know how kids can be though.” You quickly added for extra measure.

He pointed his finger at you all of sudden, “I know who you are!”

You gulped, your smile faltered, thinking you're in trouble. “Y-you do?”

“Yes, you’re one of Eddie’s friends!” He had open the door wider. “You could’ve just said that. Come on in.” He stepped aside, and you smiled weakly stepping by him into the small trailer.

The trailer was decorated in trucker hats and mugs a yellow stain seemed to envelop everything as you glanced around. Only being in here once before. It was the first time Eddie taught you to play D&D. To your dismay there was no fairy or mermaid option for race, you went for an Elf Druid instead. Towards the middle of him teaching you, Eddie and you just ended up going through his music collection, and you watched him play his acoustic guitar he had got a few months prior. Everything looked just about fine and you almost couldn’t tell Chrissy Cunningham had been killed here almost a week ago. The only evidence was a crack in the ceiling.

“I don’t know why it took me a while to figure out, maybe you had just grown so much since a couple years ago. Eddie doesn’t tell me much about his friends anymore. Then again I’m not home much either.” Wayne looked down at his feet sounding upset. “But I do remember him being sweet on you.”

You stilled as you felt your heart pick up its pace. That swarm of butterflies seemed to flutter back into your stomach again like it did earlier. “He was?”

“Boy was he. Now, I probably shouldn’t be telling you all this. That should be his job.” He chuckled, you chuckled nervously too. “His room is down the hall on the left. Make it quick girl. I have to be at work soon.” With a blank stare and a nod to this information, you tripped over your feet, almost forgetting to walk as you went to his room feeling more uneasy.

When you walked in you closed the door so it was only open slightly ajared, preventing Wayne from seeing what you were doing. The room was almost exactly how you imagined it: piles of clothes in the corner, a couple beer and water bottles on his nightstand, band posters, posters of half naked women, and the smell of weed and his cheap cologne lingered in the air. Things you did not imagine his room to have: his bed somewhat messily made wafting a smell of fresh detergent, his desk area, music collection, and D&D shelf all meticulously organized and dusted. Seemed like he was trying to impress someone. That made you frown, maybe he was trying to impress a certain cheerleader? Chrissy Cunningham was there to buy drugs from him. You knew even Eddie ‘the freak’ Munson would like her. She was pretty, sweet and actually really funny, she never solemnly judged anybody either: only if they liked Coke or Pepsi. She was the IT girl of Hawkins High, and despite being a year older than her; it didn’t exclude you from feeling a slight green feeling in your stomach. You could’ve been over thinking, maybe he invited other clients over and tried to clean up for them too? An envious feeling washed over you, it had left a sour taste in your mouth.

You let it dull as you heard someone knock on the front door that caused you to jump out of your daze.

“Can I help you?” You heard Mr. Munson ask.

“We need to take a look around.” A woman’s voice. Footsteps creaked into the living room. A ringing, high electricity buzzing started.

You gulped, and made pace. Quietly started to search for clothes for him, and dug through his drawers throwing whatever he may have needed in your bag.

“Yeah, I think it’s some kind of leak.” Wayne said. “Hadn’t had a chance to fix it with everything going on.”

You quickly dug through the top drawer, keeping an eye on the door until fingers hit something small and hard wrapped in a bandanna at the bottom of his drawer. Did you want to know? Cautiously you pulled it out, one eye closed because you could never know. Your eyes glowed in bewilderment as you unwrapped the object. It had been something you thought you’d never see in a million years. A litle poorly lumpy gnome looking trinket. You wanted to laugh, but didn’t have time to observe the object thoroughly as the door opened. You quickly wrapped it back up and threw it in the bag, turned around to be met by Wayne.

“Girl what the hell are you doing? Are you with them?” He was furious at the coincidence of you showing up on his door steps and minutes later a government agent. He noticed your bag full of Eddie’s things poking out, his brows knitted in an angry confusion visibly softened. He grabbed your arm gently with one hand bringing you in, as his other shut the door. “Do you know where Eddie is?” His voice only above a whisper.

Frozen, unsure what to say, you started to open your mouth before quickly closing it, eyes wide, and almost scared with any answer you tried to give him.

His eyes started to get glossy, “I just want to know he’s safe.” He tried to hold it together as a few tears ran down his face.

You grabbed a hold of the hand on his arm, squeezing gently. “Trust me Mr. Munson, he’s okay. I don’t know who you’re talking about, but I’m trying to clear his name.” You whispered frantic. “My friends and I are going to clear his name.” You quickly adjusted the sentence. This was a team effort not a you effort.

He nodded, taking a deep breath as footsteps approached Eddie’s bedroom. “You need to get out of here, take this.” He took out his wallet and handed a $20 bill to you.

“I can’t take this,” you insisted, trying to give it back.

“It’s for Eddie, now go.” He closed your hand around the crumpled bill. You just nodded backing up to the window, and with shaky hands you opened it sliding the screen up. You threw your bag out first, before hoisting yourself up and through the window. You weren’t ever the most poised and graced girl so you managed dropping face first to the ground. Your body ached and burned knowing there was going to be cuts and bruises later.

Adrenaline pumped through your veins as you quickly got up dusting off the scrapes and cuts, grabbing the bookbag. You crawled around staying close to the siding of the trailer, sneaking around so you could run to the car discreetly. Noticing an unmarked vehicle was parked in front of the trailer as you made sure the coast was clear. In your last couple years at Hawkins you had gotten very familiar with a car like that knowing it could mean one thing, the government, even more specifically the Department of Energy. That would explain the whirring and buzzing.

You dashed over to the playground where you had parked. Unlocking the door and hurriedly putting the keys in the ignition, engine coming to life. You grabbed the walkie talkie from the survival box from the backseat. Peeling out of the trailer park you clicked the walkie on.

“Munson, do you copy?” You asked out of breath.

“Did you get the stuff?” He quickly responded.

You mentally checked off the list in your head: food, beer, shirt, pants, socks—

“Shit! I forgot the hairbrush!” You still had your walkie clicked on causing Eddie to hear that.

“Y/l/n, you're truly implorable to think Hawkins Most Wanted needs a brush in a moment like this.” You could hear him laugh at you.

“Oh shove off, Eddie!” You told him. “I’ll be there in less than 15.”

“Copy, Princess.” You didn’t need to see his face to know he had a smirk on his face.

Your eyebrows furrowed at the road as you clicked the walkie on one last time, “stop calling me that!”

You parked down the road from Reefer Rick’s place in a tucked away turn around spot by Lover’s Lake. Overstuffing your bookbag with the food and beers for Eddie, putting the rest of your belongings in your trunk and locked the car up. It wasn’t too far away, but far enough to make you haul ass. Cutting through the brush that was behind Reefer Ricks house then to the abandoned boat house avoiding any possible attention. Pushing your stamina as much as you could. You got to the door and quietly knocked before opening the door and closing it behind you as you slipped in.

Eddie sat on an empty trash can throwing pebbles into an empty paint can, looking bored. He looked up at you and he looked dumbfounded.

“Holy shit Y/l/n!” You were still mildly out of breath from the most physical activity you’ve had in quite a few months, holding your hands on your knees throwing the book bag to him. You didn’t even bother looking at him yet, just taking deep breaths.

“I’m never,” a deep breath, “doing anything,” another deep breath, “that involves running,” one last deep breath, “again!” You collapsed to your already bruised and scraped knees tired.

“You’ve seen better days haven’t you?” You could hear the man across from already munching on the honeycombs you got him.

You had your eyes closed still regaining yourself, “always for the flattery aren’t we Munson?” He cracked open a can of beer as you scoffed at the sound.

“Oh do you want me to tell you that you look fresher than a daisy while you have blood running down your forehead?” He retorted. “Christ Sake Y/n how’d you even get that? Got into a fight with the gas station clerk for the six pack?”

You flipped him off, putting your fingers to your forehead and felt a small wet cut on your temple. It wasn’t too bad, but still enough to stain your fingers red you noted when you opened your eyes. You set you eight on the tall unruly man, glaring at him. You eyes making contact with him for the first time since you came into the boathouse. You had only saw him in passing while dropping off Max at her trailer when you were home for winter break a few months ago.

He looked more mature, hair longer, but still wearing his typical outfit: his hellfire t-shirt, tight jeans, leather jacket with the hellfire vest on top, scuffed up Nikes, and an ungodly amount of accessories. His guitar pick necklace hangs on his chest, his wallet chain popping out his pocket, a chain bracelet on his left wrist where he only had on ring on that hand, while his right hand was clad in an obnoxious amount of silver rings in various shapes on his long slender fingers, and his timex watch on the right wrist. His big brown doe eyes glimmered mischievously into yours.

You had to fight the blush from forming hoping that if one did appear you could chalk it out to all the vigorous running. Call Eddie a freak, an idiot, or a loser, but he wasn’t unattractive.

You cleared your throat, averting your eyes to the six pack beside him. “If you’d like to know, I had to practically throw myself out of your bedroom window to flee. Now hand one over.” You made a grabby hand for a can of beer.

“Ooh, the goody two shoes breaking and entering and drinking a beer with a runaway madman?” He rolled a can over to you anyway. “That’s scandalous.”

You opened the beer, taking a thirsty gulp trying to soothe your dry throat. You didn’t care that he chastised you for having a beer, you were parched. “I didn’t break and enter, more like break and exit.” You had corrected after finishing the gulp.

“My uncle let you in?” Eddie sounded surprised.

“H-he recognized me and I made a bullshit excuse I needed to grab something for Dustin,” you stated avoiding the detail of the DOC at his front door. “He wanted to know if you were safe, Eddie.” Not knowing how he’d take the news, you anxiously took another sip of beer.

Eddie was silent, glancing down staring in front of his feet. It was silent for a minute as you two just stayed still. He sniffed, wiping his nose, was he about to cry? You braced yourself just in case he was about to. Comforting the kids came east even Nancy or Steve. But Eddie? Not so much. You didn’t really know if you could say or do anything to help.

“D-does he think I did it?” He asked, his voice shaky.

You shook your head. “No, of course not.” He visibly relaxed at the statement. You bit your lip, seeing how distraught he was. You could go on all day making snide remarks and insults at him, but you felt bad. Genuinely. “Munson, you may be many things, but you aren’t a bad person .” The tone of your voice is sincere and thoughtful as you look down coyly. This was the best effort of you comforting him.

Eddie thought you short circuited being nice all of a sudden. He studied you carefully, scrapes and bruises littered your skin, your mascara from the day before smudged, did he dare want to admit to himself that you still looked pretty? The oversized Slayer shirt hanging off your shoulders, ripped mom jeans, and combat boots that you could squash anyone in. You did not look like the girl you once were in high school not even a year ago. That girl still hid her band tees tucked into skirts under dainty sweaters and paired with Keds or Converse with frilly socks that followed Steve around like a lost puppy. You had grown within the several months since he last saw you, but reminded him more of the personality of the young girl he first met. The you he had envisioned you becoming in high school had him in awe. That didn’t happen though, instead you were corrupted by the popular kids and jocks.

“You’re not going soft on me, are you Y/l/n?” Eddie questioned mockingly as he continued to rummage through the book bag of stuff you got him.

“What, I can't feel an ounce of sympathy?” You bit back.

“I don’t need your pity!” He snapped getting mad. “If this is all you’re trying to prove, you can leave. You did your supply drop, good work soldier. Now leave.” He didn’t need your martyrdom.

You rolled your eyes, “always ruining a moment and any decent conversation Munson.” Maybe you did extend your stay in the boathouse, you were only so he could have some food and clean clothes.

Eddie still pulled things out of the bag, “if I remember correctly that’s always been you.” He pulled a crushed box of sour patch kids from it, his black and white bandana messily folded over an item flying out as he did so. Oh no.

“You’re not going soft on me, are you Munson?” You mimicked him from moments ago as your eyes fell on the bandana too.

“I-I forgot I still had that.” He tried to say. You raised an eyebrow, not believing him.

“In your underwear drawer, that I would hope you go into everyday?” That caused the man across from you to blush lightly as he unraveled the bandana from around the trinket.

“I’m surprised you didn’t smash it.” You said.

“It’s not his fault the person that made it became a brainwashed idiot.” He rolled it around his fingers.

It was chipped, seen better days, but he still knew what it was supposed to be. It was a poorly constructed dungeon master you made for art class in the 8th grade. You were great at art, pottery not so much. You made it as a token of your friendship in your free time. You were so excited when you gave it to him.

It was towards the end of the school year, so you didn’t have much to do in classes as everyone wrapped up missing and late assignments. Steve asked you to hangout that weekend, but the new Judas Priest album was coming out. You wanted to snag a vinyl or cassette for it, so you asked Eddie to come along to the music shop.

As you two waited in the small line, he chatted excitedly about what he heard about the album so far. You listened as you rummaged through your purple canvas bookbag looking for the little clay piece you made in art class for him. It was comical seeing a young girl in the crowd of mainly men clad in their metal t-shirts and flannels in the rising mid day spring heat of Hawkins. You had a pale pink sleeveless romper on with a chunky belt, a geometric printed matching baby blue and lavender windbreaker wrapped around your waist, your signature lacy white socks pulled as high as they could go to hide the razor nicks on your ankles from shaving, and scuffed white keds on. Let’s not forget the clumped on mascara coating your eyelashes, overly glittery lip gloss, and the big band on your chin. When Eddie asked about it, you said you were clumsy and cut your chin, secretly it hid the mountain of a pimple that appeared overnight.

Whereas Eddie had his Hellfire Club shirt on, some cargo shorts, his wallet chain hanging, his newfound guitar pick necklace, some mismatched socks, and black vans with scribbles on the soles. He had tried to grow out a mustache and beard, but it was mainly a sparse area of dark straggly peach fuzz above his upper lip, and ingrown hairs dotted his cheeks. You two were a sight for sore eyes as you were just awkward pubescent teenagers. Not aware of the events that would forebode within the month to come.

“Aha!” You pulled the trinket out, a bright proud smile adorned your features.

“Y/n what is that?” The teenage boy asked you. He couldn’t tell what exactly it was, it looked like a mini garden gnome at first glance.

“It’s for you!” You handed it to him. “It’s supposed to be a dungeon master, see it even has a diabolical sorcerer hat on!” As you explained more he got what you were going for. The hat with lumpy flower pieces had gold stars painted over them. It was a disproportionately large almost just as big as the dungeon master itself. Though poorly made, the details of the paint job were really good; primarily red, black, and gold accents. You had made the trinket look like it was holding a red bat shaped electric guitar, like the one he got at the beginning of the school year that his uncle helped get him for making it to sophomore year. The face is just a peach colored blob with a scowl on the face. Eddie wouldn’t be happy if he had to lug around a hat on his head three times his size too.

“I was going for if Gandalf was in a metal band.” You continued. You were so nervous, knowing it wasn’t your best work, but you still thought it was cute. “D’you like it?” You batted your lashes.

Eddie smiled, it was the worst thing he ever saw. It was the best thing he had ever received though, because you made it just for him. “It’s actually great,” he chuckled. He held his hand out for a high five. “Thanks Y/n/n!” You high fives excitedly back.

He brought it to every Hellfire Club meeting until the day you stopped being friends. It was retired on his D&D shelf until one particularly bad day between you two where you were at each other’s throats in Spanish class. It got to the point where you had to be sent to the library to do your work for the rest of the period, and he got detention. Eddie went home that afternoon ready to smash it, but the more he stared at it the more he couldn’t bring himself to do it. It had been through many great campaigns with him just sitting by his folder scowling at the other members in the club so he just carefully wrapped it in one of his many bandanas and tucked it away. He always unraveled it when his uncle would force him to clean up his room and fold his laundry getting distracted by going through his things instead.

You finally stood up, dusting your pants off grabbing your keys from your pocket turning around to leave. “Well this brainwashed idiot did her job so I’ll just go.” After the much gentle reality check Steve gave you the night before, now Eddie basically paraphrased what he had said the night prior, you couldn’t help it to be bitter as a pang filled your chest. Were you really brainwashed and desperate to fit in?

“Thanks for the trip down memory lane, sweetheart.” The malice that laced sweetheart when Eddie said it was enough to turn the hurt and confusion into anger.

You whipped around to say something, the sound of a tired screeched to stop made you both freeze. “Get down!” Eddie instructed, and he sneaked a glance through the window. You crouched down not knowing what was happening listening to him anyway.

“Shit. Shit!” He exclaimed quietly as he ducked back down, grabbing the walkie talkie beside him.

“What’s going on?” Your eyes widened as he clicked the walkie on.

“Hey Dustin. It’s Eddie, you remember me right?” He spoke through the machine. “Well the babysitters here too. If anyone’s there, we may be in a bit of trouble here.” He started to freak out. “Okay? Wheeler? Harrington?!” He smacked the walkie in frustration, “anyone?!”

You crawled over to the window he was near to see what he was so freaked out over. You bumped his shoulder as you went to peer up through the window, but he quickly grabbed you, pulling you back down before you could see.

“I believe my angry mob has arrived.” He whispered darkly.

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