#oc reina kageyama

[outoutdamnspark]

I just found this in my drafts and I don’t remember writing it or where exactly I was going with it, but hey! Have some random Gardenshipping thoughts!

(cw: none. one minor suggestive mention of office stuff. under cut for length)

For all the silverfox!Emmet x Reina stuff I’ve thought of, for some reason I’ve never thought of Reshiram!Emmet x Reina before? So...

🔥 I imagine Emmet is an aspect of Reshiram - not the god-dragon in full, but a piece of it. He’s probably reincarnated several hundred times by now, as the mortal aspect of Truth, and has memories of all his previous mortal incarnations as well as Reshiram’s memories and probably even a good chunk of Kyurem’s. The man is A Mess™️, especially after Ingo, his twin, his brother, his other half (platonic, don’t make it weird), vanishes. After all, what is Truth without Ideals to give it purpose?

🔥 That’s why, when he meets Reina and she becomes his personal assistant at Gear Station, he gravitates towards her. Just like in Gardenshipping canon, he starts to fall for her because of her genuinely kind and caring nature; she also has no idea he’s a piece of a fucking god, so she just treats him like a normal person. Not a celebrity trainer, not a deity, just. As Emmet. And he soaks it up like a man dying of thirst. Here’s this beautiful young woman who truly doesn’t care what or who he is, she just wants to make sure he’s eating and sleeping and taking care of himself. How can he not be intrigued by her?

🔥 He can also smell dishonesty a mile away and he can tell Reina is just actually that good of a person. Sure, she lies about her living situation (she doesn’t tell him that she’s unhoused for the longest time), but I’d imagine Emmet can also tell the intent of a falsehood, so he probably picks up on the fact that any lie she tells is born from the need to survive, rather than malice or the desire to mislead. She isn’t hurting anyone - she just wants to keep her misfortunes private, and Emmet can... sooooort of understand that? (He might not like it, it makes him worry about her, but in the end it really only affects Reina herself, which makes Emmet bound and determined to get to the bottom of her problems and help her in any way he can. The man is SMITTEN.)

🍃 On Reina’s side, I honestly don’t think she’s all that religious; Reina is from Kanto originally, and she has a lot of internalized stuff from the local belief system (i.e. she’ll say things like “Legends” or “Birds” in place of “Arceus” or “Dragons”). She’ll probably still have a subconscious desire to believe in something, but she doesn’t actively practice anything. Also, having only been in Unova for a couple of years at most, she might not really understand the region’s religion all that much. She probably doesn’t really think about it - which. Valid.

🍃 That being said, she would probably not know how to handle being face to face with a literal piece of a deity. For starters, her entire worldview would be - at the very least - a little bit shaken. After all, if you go from nearly thirty years of disillusionment and not fully believing in anything because you’ve been through absolute hell, to suddenly finding out the man you’re in love with (and who’s been railing you over his desk every day) is the Incarnation of Truth, you miiiiiight need a moment to process.

🍃 (That last part, especially, because how on earth do you reconcile the fact that you’ve had an actual god between your legs?)

🍃 Reina already has hella self worth issues, so to find out that her boyfriend isn’t even human, she might not handle it well for a while. In her eyes, what could a god possibly see in a lowly human like her? She still loves him, that part will never change, but she’ll have to take some time to try and reorient before she can even work up the courage to go near him again.

🔥 Emmet, in the meantime, is going to be utterly distraught. He’ll put on his trademark Subway Master Emmet smile, but it’ll be hanging on with a hope and a wish, because he is not doing okay knowing that the love of his life might be terrified of him now. He can’t lie, no, but he’s gotten really, really good at talking around the truth after countless lifetimes, so anyone that asks how he’s doing is getting a series of non-answers until he can slip away. Reina makes him feel normal, human almost, which is something he’s never fully gotten to experience - because while he might be a shard of a Dragon, he’s still somewhat his own entity, since he’s, you know, actually out in the world of man and not sitting dormant in a rock somewhere. He’s constantly torn between two halves of his own existence, and the thing that made it bearable all this time was his twin; with Ingo gone, however, Emmet has been feeling the extra weight of responsibility around his shoulders like a yolk for damn near a decade.

🔥 Until Reina.

🔥 (Like in regular Gardenshipping canon, one of the reasons Emmet falls for Reina is because she just treats him like a person. Doesn’t fawn, doesn’t get close to him just to challenge him, doesn’t pity him; just sits with him and lets him be a regular guy.)

🔥 I’m also imagining the way Reina even finds out Emmet is one of the God Dragons of Unova is uhhhhhhh not the most pleasant of circumstances. Probably Team Plasma, but I’m picturing there being some sort of siege on Gear Station or an attack somewhere that requires Reshiram’s attention, and somehow, someway, Reina winds up witnessing Emmet with his more draconian features and spewing ethereal fire. Get that sweet, sweet ‘oh shit’ moment with Emmet turning around, eyes slitted and glowing, claws out, wings sprouting from his back, fire still trickling from between fangs too big for a human mouth, only to see Reina standing there, completely frozen, just staring at him. 

🔥 The follow-up conversation is gonna be... a lot.

🍃 I feel like it’ll take about a week or so for her to be able to talk to him again

[outoutdamnspark]

THEM 💕

👉👈 If you’re still doing the mistletoe meme, Reina + Aman in 7?

- Spark💥

Its been so long since I've drawn these two ahhh ;.;

[appleinyoureye]

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Fandoms and characters that I write for:

❇ Anime/Manga

↠ Attack on Titan

Armin, Connie, Eren, Jean, Mikasa, Sasha

Erwin, Hange, Levi

Annie, Reiner

↠ Bungou Stray Dogs

Atsushi, Dazai, Kunikida, Ranpo, Tanizaki, Yosano

Akutagawa, Chuuya, Gin, Oda, Tachihara

Poe, Lovecraft, Lucy, Mark Twain

Fyodor

As of now, I haven't watched the fourth season, but I'm sure this list will be updated as soon as I see it.

↠ Dr Stone

Chrome, Francois, Gen, Ginro, Kinro, Kohaku, Magma, Ruri, Ryusui, Senku, Suika (only platonic), Taiju, Yuzuriha

Homura, Hyoga, Nikki, Tsukasa, Ukyo

Amaryllis, Kirisame, Matsukaze, Mozu

Luna, Maya, Stanley, Xeno

Byakuya, Lilian

↠ Haikyuu

Karasuno: Daichi, Sugawara, Asahi, Nishinoya, Tanaka, Ennoshita, Kageyama, Hinata, Tsukishima, Yamaguchi, Kiyoko

Nekoma: Kuroo, Yaku, Yamamoto, Kenma, Fukunaga, Inuoka, Lev, Shibayama

Aoba: Oikawa, Matsukawa, Hanamaki, Iwaizumi, Kindaichi, Kunimi, Kyotani

Date: Aone, Futakuchi, Koganegawa

Fukurodani: Bokuto, Akaashi, Konoha

Shiratorizawa: Ushijima, Semi, Reon, Tendou, Goshiki, Shirabu

Inarizaki: Kita, Aran, Atsumu, Suna, Osamu

Kamomedai: Hoshiumi, Hirugami

Itachiyama: Sakusa, Komori

Other: Alisa, Daishou, Kanoka, Meian, Miwa, Pedro, Saeko, Takeda, Terushima, Tomas, Ukai

↠ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Part 1: Dio, Jonathan, Speedwagon

Part 2: Caesar, Joseph, Kars, Lisa Lisa

Part 3: Avdol, Dio, Hol Horse, Joseph, Jotaro, Kakyoin, Polnareff

Part 4: Josuke, Jotaro, Kira, Koichi, Mikitaka, Rohan, Yukako

Part 5: Abbacchio, Bruno, Diavolo, Doppio, Fugo, Giorno, Mista, Narancia, Trish

I haven't seen part 6 yet and haven't read the manga yet.

↠ Jujutsu Kaisen

Hakari, Inumaki, Itadori, Kirara, Maki, Megumi, Nobara, Yuta

Geto, Gojo, Ino, Mei Mei, Nanami, Shoko, Toji, Yuki

Koichi, Mai, Miwa, Noritoshi, Todo

Choso, Mahito, Sukuna

Haven't read most of the culling game

↠ Tokyo Revengers

Literally everyone, except for South, Mochi and Muto.

❇ Games

↠ Genshin Impact

Mondstadt: Albedo, Amber, Barbara, Bennett, Diluc, Eula, Fischl, Jean, Kaeya, Lisa, Mona, Razor, Rosaria, Sucrose, Venti

Liyue: Baizhu, Beidou, Chongyun, Ganyu, Hu Tao, Keqing, Ningguang, Shenhe, Xiangling, Xiao, Xingqiu, Xinyan, Yanfei, Yelan, Yun Jin, Zhongli

Inazuma: Ayaka, Ayato, Ei, Gorou, Heizou, Itto, Kazuha, Kirara, Kokomi, Kuki, Sara, Thoma, Yae, Yoimiya

Sumeru: Alhaitham, Candace, Collei, Cyno, Dehya, Faruzan, Kaveh, Layla, Nilou, Tighnari

Other: Aether, Dottore, Lumine, Scaramouche, Signora, Tartaglia

I also write for some NPCs.

Platonic only: Diona, Dori, Klee, Nahida, Sayu, Yaoyao

↠ Yakuza 0

Kiryu, Lee, Majima, Nishiki, Nishitani, Oda, Tachibana

Makoto (only platonic), Reina, Yuki

I'm currently playing Yakuza Kiwami, so please, no requests with future characters, and no spoilers.

❇ Series

↠ Alice in Borderlands

Will write who you may request later. Don't have energy to do so right now lmao. But I think everyone is cool (except for Niragi)

↠ Stranger Things

Idk, I just love Steve. Will eventually update this list.

↠ The 100

Currently re-watching it with my partner after I've seen it four years ago, so I may not remember some of characters.

Haven't seen the last season, so no reqs with it, and no spoilers please!

[antidotesprout]

(Belated) Holiday art pt 1: OCs

(I’m still working through fan art/au gifts so if you’re not represented here do forgive me, pt 2 is coming)

Pecha and Rawst from @peachsodama (deep apologies that Rawst isn’t up to date now 🥺)

Mina and Champion Emmet from @betasuppe

Renee from @bellafragolina

Mari from @nc-eikin

Licorice from @simpsnsnails (I know you said you were reworking her but I stubbornly continued)

Kana, Reina, and Hina Kageyama from @outoutdamnspark

Silas from @r0-boat

Jamie from @smallestapplin (I was originally drawing you Rika but then you posted up about Jamie and oops my hand slipped)

(I already had to scale back from full illustrations cause that was far too ambitious tbh) (sorry these are not as grand as I originally set out to make but I had to be practical with my time)

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~Welcome to My Garden~

Rules and About

🌸 Independent RP blog for my pokemon OCs, Reina, Kana, and Hina Kageyama.

Default setting is Unova (mostly Nimbasa) or Hisui, though the sisters are originally from Kanto.

Reina has traveled across Johto, Sinnoh, and Galar. (speaks Kantoan and Galarian.)

Kana lived in Hisui for about 15 years. (speaks Kantoan, Sino, and Galarian.)

Hina traveled with Reina - minus Galar - and was also in Hisui for a decade. (speaks Kantoan, Sino, and Galarian.)

🌸 Default muse is Reina, but will RP Hina and Kana upon request. Please specify~

🌸 🔞 18+ only!!! 🔞 Mun is 33 years old and will possibly post NSFW - minors please DNI.

🌸 Open for shipping if our muses have chemistry! Willing to RP both SFW and NSFW; please message me beforehand to discuss. Reina is always up for friendship~

🌸 Selective! Mutuals only, please! (This is a side blog and follows from ChronicCombustion. Submas-centric sideblog is OutOutDamnSpark.)

Ask/anon memes, questions, and headcanon requests are welcome from mutuals and non-mutuals alike.

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🌸 AUs and fusions welcome. Crossovers are currently a no.

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🌸 And lastly, thank you for you patience in advance: it’s been a long time since I’ve RPed on tumblr, and am not always the fastest at replying. If it looks like I forgot something, please send me a gentle reminder~

Askbox is always open for questions - so feel free to message me if you need anything~

~Spark💥

[outoutdamnspark]

😆 I suppose I should clarify about Reina, too.

I should have said Nomad-Era Reina, since she doesn't have to worry about being able to afford food after she's finally able to get her life back together.

She goes through Some Shit™️ for a while during her teens and then about halfway through her 20's, so the shoplifting thing sadly becomes a necessity at times. 😔 (But only when she can't battle for money or find an odd job.)

She never quite stops keeping a stockpile of supplies, though, and has a habit of making sure no one around her is hungry.

(Her new friends are getting so many home made meals.)

{Chatting}

Reina 🤝 Renee

Both members of the "Willing to Shoplift For Pecha" club.

~Spark💥

Lololol

I’m afraid only Haunter Renee is doing any real shoplifting, and due to the fact she’s dead and lost care over how the economy works.

Human Renee shoplifts only if it’s a minor item. She’ll steal a banana for Pecha if she wants on but refuses or is unable get one. I mean, it’s just a banana. What’s it cost, $10?

~Renee

[outoutdamnspark]

(Yo, I heard it was smooch Ren hours! >:3)

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Reina stops with the watering can halfway to the flowerpot in front of her and turns her head with disbelieving slowness.

"That's..." She pauses, scrunching her nose. "That's 'Packet Hero.'"

Renee doesn't look up from her camera. "Wassat?"

"'Packet Hero,'" she repeats quietly, almost breathlessly. "You're. You're humming 'Packet Hero.' From Kids on the Bridge."

A kind of awe colors her voice, like she can't quite believe what she's saying, that the impossibility of the situation has left her in a mild state of shock.

Ren snaps the picture she'd been lining up and sits back. She looks over to where Reina sits wide-eyed and staring, and Ren tilts her head in confusion at the other woman's odd behavior.

"Yesss?" she drawls, unsure if she's done something to upset her friend without knowing. She shrugs, hoping to play it off if she has. "It's catchy."

But Reina just continues to stare.

A full ten seconds of silence follows, broken only by the sound of Reina’s breathing picking up little by little, matching the slow spread of pink across the bridge of her nose.

Ren fidgets uncomfortably. “You uh... You alright?”

“...You listened to Kids on the Bridge?”

Setting the camera down carefully next to her, Ren shuffles around to face her friend a bit more fully. “I mean, yeah?” she says. She shrugs again. “It sounded cool when you were telling me about it, so I looked it up.” She twists her fingers in the cuffs of her shirtsleeves, feeling her own face beginning to heat up the longer Reina wordlessly watches her.

She clears her throat. “That... and uh. It seemed like it was something really important to you and I wanted--oomph!”

The rest of her sentence is cut clean off as Reina’s hands come up to bracket Ren’s face, holding her still as the blue-haired woman abruptly leans in and smashes their lips together.

Ren freezes.

She sits there, eyes wide, as she attempts to process what’s happening; Reina’s lips are chapped, a little rough, but there’s a warmth and a soft pressure that makes up for the barely-there scratchiness of dead skin.

And then Reina pulls away.

“I am SO SORRY, I have NO IDEA what came over me...!”

(But Ren barely hears the rest of Reina’s panicked ramble, too preoccupied with touching the spot where Reina’s lips had just been, and wondering what song she should try humming next if it means getting a second, longer kiss.)

@bellafragolina

Here's your smooch.

[outoutdamnspark]

Hmmmm. Gonna overhaul the Kageyama Sisters’ character bios, I think (though I never did finishe Kana and Hina’s).

Obviously Reina’s team is staying the same, and Hina’s has somehow grown to now also include just. Pets.

I can’t seem to nail down Kana’s, though. Her murkrow, jolteon, gyarados, and baby sneasle are staying, but after that I’m stuck. 😓

[outoutdamnspark]

Happy birthday spark!!! I have a present for youuuu ☺️🥳

*HORRENDOUS UGLY SOBBING*

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! This!!! T H I S!!!!!

I don’t!!??? Have words!!!???? Habshsjsbdhsbhdhs THANK YOU SO MUCH, IT’S BEAUTIFUL!!!! She’s so serene and her SMILE!!!!

And little Chamie is so cute!!!

I’m fucking dying, THANK YOOOOOUUUUUU!!!!!!

💕💕💕😭😩💕💕💕

[outoutdamnspark]

Yet another head full of OC a/b/o thoughts while at work!

(Inspired by @bellafragolina breaking down Ren’s scent notes~ 💕)

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🌸 Reina (Ω) smells faintly like cigarettes and fertile soil at any given time, due to her love of gardening and occasional smoking habit. Her natural omega scent, however, also contains chamomile, petrichor, sweet grass, and cloves. Overall it might seem off-putting, since no one would automatically consider those scents to pair well together. Up close, however, they combine to create an earthy, subtly sweet scent that calls to mind thoughts of calm spring mornings.

When she’s excited or extremely happy, the petrichor and sweet grass become more prominent - sometimes eliciting second-hand feelings of joy in those around her.

When calm and contented, more of the chamomile scent comes forward. Most notably, her scent is almost overridden by it entirely around the handful of people she feels comfortable enough around to cuddle, giving into her omega nesting instincts.

When afraid, her scent turns to something like compost, as if the plant matter that makes up her overall scent is now starting to decay. Anger smells similar, but more like active, choking rot and less like dampened earth.

When in heat, her scent changes to incorporate notes of chai tea and honey, downplaying the sweet grass and petrichor in favor of something thicker and spicier.

———

🌼 Kana (β) likes to make and wear her own fragrances, so she’ll oftentimes smell softly like pear and blackberry, or sharp, sweet pine. She likes to play with scents that pair well with her own subtle beta scent, which contains black walnut, honeysuckle flowers, and clear, cold water. Generally her scent is calming, pleasant, with just a hint of spice and earth from the walnut - like a dry summer evening.

When in a neutral, calm state, her scent stays mellow, with the walnut being an undertone and the honeysuckle being at the forefront. The feelings typically described from being exposed to her scent when she's content and happy are comfort, security, and oddly, a kind of awareness or clarity.

When excited or joyous, the black walnut takes center stage, stinging the noses of those around her in the most pleasant of ways and 'waking them up,' so to speak.

Around her loved ones her scent shifts to be more of the fresh water, inviting them to relax. It's different than her usual honeysuckle "neutral" smell, as it only properly comes out when she's fully content and relaxed, herself.

When agitated or afraid, her scent changes almost entirely to something sharp and metallic, like rotting walnut and iron. When angry, though, nearly everything else fades away until all that's left is the scent of hot blood.

After Osuke's death, Kana's scent is tinged with the bitter ashes and rain-damp sandstone of ever-present grief. Over time, it fades to salty ocean spray and charcoal but doesn't start to go away until she meets and adopts Nise. Her new pup brings happiness back into her life, and her scent changes to reflect it; in addition to the incorporation of Nise's scent of ozone and earth, Kana also gains the scent of the sweet milk "mother" scent.

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💖 Hina (α) doesn't have much in the way of extra scents that cling to her, as she isn't as much into fragrances as her oldest sister is, nor does she smoke. She also just dislikes wearing hair or makeup products that smell like much of anything, so the most she'll have is possibly sakura shampoo or vanilla lip gloss. These compliment her natural alpha scent of cherry candy, hibiscus, and the faintest hint of cinnamon.

When she's happy or playful, her scent is primarily candy-like - fruit and sugar and with a tiny bite of tartness that's not so cloyingly sweet as to have her be mistaken for a child. People around her tend to find themselves in a slightly brighter mood if around her cherry scent for long enough.

When relaxed and comfortable, usually reserved for her partners or sisters, her scent mellows out and becomes more like cherry blossoms than cherry candy. Not quite so sharp or bright, but softer and more floral. The cinnamon fades, leaving behind the impression of mild, warm springtime just on the cusp of summer.

When angry, she smells almost like cinnamon whiskey. All fruit and candy sweetness are gone, replaced with the harsh burn of alcohol and hot cinnamon. Her fear, however, smells like fermented fruit.

For her ruts, Hina's scent changes to be mostly hibiscus, but with the addition of candied oranges and red raspberries - still sweet but sharper, more like a strong, fruity, herbal, tea than candy.

———

All together, the sisters share the underlying familial scent signatures of flowers and herbs, with little hints of earthier undertones. The most common note that is most recognizable when they're all together and relaxed, is red clover or the faintest touch of honey.

[outoutdamnspark]

My head was full of thoughts while I was stuck at work today, so have this~

🌸 Reina is definitely an omega.

Sadly, as she’s really never been in a good enough environment to have a proper heat, she has an instinctive association with them equaling anxiety and lack of safety. The only exceptions are the 2 years she spends in Galar with her best (un-eebied) friend, Raleigh. (My wife’s oc~) Raleigh, being a beta, provides that missing comfort and security during the 3 or 4 heats Reina has while the pair are roommates, and acts as a very sweet, calming, platonic nestmate. Even after Reina gets her apartment in Unova, the fear of impermanence makes weathering her heats an exhausting affair.

(Which means that the moment she enters into a stable relationship, her cycle is going to swing wildly out of control.)

———

🌼 Kana is a beta.

She’s a very calming, assuring presence in the lives of those she chooses to keep close, and there’s an adamant sort of stability that underlies everything she does. She does, however, exhibit traits more commonly associated with the other secondary genders - in that she is a terrifying sight to behold if she feels someone she loves has been wronged. She fights like a protective omega, viscously and without mercy, and commands a cold, intimidating anger akin to an alpha’s warning behavior.

(She is also a switch in bed, so depending on her partner, she can play any of the three roles as needed during their cycle.)

———

💖 Hina is without a doubt, an alpha.

She carries herself like an alpha, she clicks her teeth to show irritation like an alpha, she’s quick to defend the people important to her like an alpha - there’s just no mistaking her for anything else. Whereas some might think this makes her arrogant or pushy (as some people do just in general thanks to her entire vibe) she’s actually quite gentle and encouraging and displays the softer alpha behaviors far more often than one would imagine upon first meeting her. Her “hell yeah I’m awesome” self confidence does not extend into “I’m better because I’m an alpha” territory, and she will, in fact, throw hands with other alphas with that attitude.

(Her ruts are… both mild and not. She doesn’t get ravenously rut drunk, but she does get even more mischievous and probably even kinkier than she normally is. She’s usually a pretty dom-leaning switch, and a brat when she bottoms, but during her rut she’s all top energy - whether that be directly or bottoming from.)

[outoutdamnspark]

💌I meant to sent this earlier but then I got busy but Reina for Rawst and Hina for Pecha??

<3 0w0b (sorry this is kinda late)

from the ask game here

Reina x Rawst

Reina is predictable in that at least part of her gift would be food of some kind. She knows some baking (like the xmas cake), but it's not her forte - however! she is from Kanto, so she might very well try and teach herself how to make homemade chocolates. (They might not be the prettiest, but by the legends, she will try! She'll even probably rope Pecha into being her quality control, with the promise that Pecha can take any of the less-than-perfect offerings she wants.)

If she suspects that Rawst would like it, she'll probably also give him a little potted plant (with symbolism, of course) that she grew just for him - possibly something like the Sweetheart/Lucky Heart Plant, that doesn't require too much attention and won't be chore for him to keep alive.

Hina x Pecha

Hina is a mix between wanting to go all out because Pecha is amazing and deserves all the nice, romantic things, and not wanting to overdo it. She'd probably do some stealthy field research all through January - invite Pecha to watch movies together so Hina can make notes of what romantic tropes Pecha responds best to, etc - and then plan accordingly.

All in all, it would probably be more of a whole experience than a single material gift - and it would absolutely be an all-day thing, too. Hina would probably show up with Pecha's favorite coffee order a then take her out for brunch somewhere they serve heart-shaped pancakes topped with little strawberries.

After that would probably be a walk through a park or maybe a little open-air market or something, especially if there was a stall where Hina could buy a dozen pink and red roses. (She'd have 100% scouted ahead the day before, with a backup plan for flowers if there weren't any left.) Later in the afternoon, Hina would take Pecha to the amusement park and try to win her the biggest bug-type plushie prize they had. No cheating or bribing the carnies, either - she needs to do this right!

And, of course, you can't have an amusement park date without a ride on the ferris wheel~ Gotta kiss your lady on top of the world, after all.

[outoutdamnspark]

Y’all ever look at your OC, whom you’ve already traumatized mercilessly, and go, “…I could make it worse.”

Because Reina has already lost so much - her sisters, her sense of safety, her childhood - but now she has a husband and she’s starting to heal and everything is going well!

…Be a shame if Emmet got taken away from her, too, huh?

[outoutdamnspark]

0w0 Hopping on board with my own favorite picrew~

With my ladies, Kana 🌼, Reina 🌸, and Hina 💕

[outoutdamnspark]

(Shipping meme template from here; OC image made using this picrew)

GardenShipping meme with Emmet and my OC Reina Kageyama. I’m working on a full introductory post for Reina, but in the meantime, have this~

(More info under the cut.)

Normal Verse (”Free Cookies”)

Reina and Emmet meet during one of Reina’s closing shifts at the battle cafe she works at, roughly six months to a year after Ingo’s disappearance.

Emmet works himself to death after his brother goes missing, holding Gear Station together by day and then going home late at night to do research leads until he passes out. One night, in desperate need of caffeine, he stops by the only place he can find still open on his way home: a quaint, relatively new little battle cafe with a pretty, blue-haired barista. 

Reina, (originally from Kanto) has lived a mostly-nomadic lifestyle for the past near-decade, having only just recently moved to Nimbasa. As such, she doesn’t recognize Emmet as anyone famous; all she knows is that he looks exhausted.

Before he leaves, Reina gives him a bag with the last remaining baked goods from the counter display free of charge, telling him, “Everyone needs a free cookie sometimes. You look like you could use one right now.”

Reina treats him kindly, without any of the pity or invasive-ness Emmet has grown so sick of over the past year; her smiles are genuine - albeit a little weary - and she doesn’t fawn over him. She simply treats him like a person, and it’s the most refreshing interaction Emmet has had in far too long. 

He keeps coming back almost every night after he leaves work. He even catches her on a shift where she’s working as the trainer for the day instead of as a barista, and they get to battle for the first time. (She doesn’t win, but it’s damn close.)

Eventually she learns who he is and what happened to Ingo, but instead of pity like Emmet fears, she offers empathy; Reina once had two sisters, who disappeared over a decade ago - first one, and then the other a few years later on the same day. She’s lost her own hope, so she tries to keep Emmet from losing his. She doesn’t try to convince him to let his brother go - rather, she truly believes that Ingo is still out there for him to find.

(Despite them helping each other through their similar grief, Reina and Emmet likely don’t get together

officially

until Ingo returns, when Emmet finally feels stable enough to be in a relationship and Reina faces her fear of letting anyone close.)

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Gear Station AU Version (”Age Gap”)

(inspired heavily by the SilverFox!Emmet AU over on leggerefiore’s blog)

Emmet is nearly 40 after Ingo’s been missing for a decade, so there’s a wider age gap between he and Reina in this one. The pair are also slightly more jaded here, and together they re-learn how to love after their respective losses make them push everyone away.

Reina arrives in Nimbasa and lives in a tent or at the pokemon center for a bit while looking for a job and a place to rent. She applies for an assistant position at Gear Station on a whim, and, not knowing who Emmet is, is the first applicant to not offer flattery or bullshit; she’s hired on the spot.

Emmet staying late gives her an excuse not to go back to a tent in the woods, so she starts staying at the station with him and they wind up bonding. Like in normal verse, she treats him like a person - and then later, like a friend. She makes it a point to try and make his job easier, and once she’s housed she starts bringing him food.

On the anniversary of her sisters’ disappearance, Reina gets utterly shitfaced and calls Emmet so she doesn’t have to be alone with her thoughts. She drunkenly confesses her feelings to him because the anniversary makes her terrified she’ll lose another person she loves.

The next day at work, Emmet pulls her aside and confesses in return, leading them to timidly start a relationship - and then slowly grow more (somewhat questionably healthily) obsessed with one another as their respective abandonment issues combine.

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General Relationship Stuff

Clingy: In both verses, Reina is wholly unused to affection, so she’s a little oblivious at first. After she gets used to it and she finally lets herself love him, her unprocessed trauma surfaces, mixes with Emmet’s own, and they both slowly learn how to not feel so alone. She adores him, but is admittedly almost just as needy as he is.

Horny: She’s demisexual but also incredibly touch/affection starved, which means that once the relationship has progressed enough emotionally to where she finds herself sexually attracted to Emmet, all bets are off. Her libido almost perfectly matches his.

Trust/Jealousy: Emmet and Reina trust one another implicitly. For Reina, she’s more likely to be insecure and self-depreciating than she is jealous. Occasionally she’ll get annoyed instead, - usually when someone is blatantly throwing themselves at Emmet or making him uncomfortable by refusing to take no for an answer. Emmet gets jealous a bit more easily, but it’s never directed at Reina; it’s more super overprotective than anything.

(In the Age Gap verse, he worries she’ll get bored with him and leave once she ‘realizes she doesn’t want an older man slowing her down.’ She never does.)

[outoutdamnspark]

Cerulean

More Gardenshipping, with Reina x Emmet in the Age Gap au - collectively titled ‘Watching the Earth Rise.’

This one’s set two months after Reina’s drunken confession in Lost and Found; it’s not the one I mentioned in the tags of a different post (I... can’t remember which one), but it is the night directly before. That one is almost done and I’ll probably upload it, too, if people are interested~

This is also where Emmet’s quote from the shipping meme thing comes from.

(Thank you again for the amazing feedback, by the way! I’m so thrilled that everyone likes Reina so much!! <3)

CW: some minor self-depreciation, mentions of alcohol use, allusions to past tragedy. Other than that, it’s pure fluff. (Flashing lights in the song link.)

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“I still fall for you like suns do for skies

Cerulean pouring in from your eyes

Just a hollow moon that you colorize

So powerful, I feel so small but so alive

Like watching the earth rise…”

- (“Earthrise,” Starset)

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The autumn night is comfortably warm as they walk side by side, hands brushing occasionally but not quite managing to catch; every time Reina thinks she has the courage to twine her fingers with Emmet’s, she quickly tucks them away again.

She isn’t sure how to go about any of this. 

Two months of dancing around one another. Two months of Emmet being unbelievably patient with her as she creeps ever emotionally closer like a scared litten slowly coming out from under the bed. Two months - July into September - since two bottles of gods-awful vodka and grief had loosened her tongue and spilled her adoration through the phone and straight into her boss’s hands. Two. Months. And still she’s struggled with the chains that hold her heart safe inside its cage. 

He’d told her he loved her back; she has no idea what to do with that, even now. 

(Cracked and dented as she is, she doesn’t think she’s worth the wait. She doesn’t tell him that.)

The funniest part about the whole situation is that Emmet - patient and kind - makes her want to be worth it. He makes her want to be human again, not just whatever hollowed out mannequin she’s become, and maybe she’s being selfish, but she wants him to want her. She’s so tired of being invisible, even if it’s been by her own choosing for the past ten years - better to be forgotten on her own terms than in a way she has no hope to control. 

(And that’s the thing: she’d tried to hide away, to keep herself locked up tight and stay as unnoticeable as possible, but Emmet had refused to not see her. And that is probably what made her start to see him back.)

Reina doesn’t realize how long she’s been buried in her own thoughts until there’s a soft brush of a hand against her own. She blinks back to existence to see that they’ve stopped walking - her own body unconsciously attuned to his as it’s been for the past 10 months. 

(Ten years of hiding behind a layer of iron and ice; ten months for him to break it down without even trying.)

“Hmm?” she questions, tilting her head at him instead of digging for words at the back of her tongue. 

Emmet pulls his hand away with a slowness that feels painful; his eyes linger on the space between their fingers as it stretches wider, until he’s tucked his hand back into his coat sleeve and let it come to rest at his side. 

“...We are at the halfway point.”

Reina furrows her brow in confusion. Looking around properly, she sees that - indeed - they are at the halfway point between his apartment and hers. This would normally be where she’d turn down a different street at the end of the block and disappear into the more affordable sections of the city, while he would assumedly turn and go the other way.

But this is the first time he’s walked her home, despite the many times he’s offered. (And, admittedly, Reina finds that she’s more comfortable with the nighttime commute than she’s ever been before, despite the different form of discomfort that comes from being awkward around the man she has feelings for. Emmet’s presence is soothing in a way she doesn’t know how to describe, and it’s probably because of him that she let herself get so lost in thought to begin with.)

She exhales quietly and runs the thumbs on both hands across her the backs of her fingers, popping her knuckles one by one. 

“...So we are.”

She looks back at him, and finds that his eyes have been on her the whole time. 

Turning, she angles her body towards him. “Emmet?”

He blinks, shifts his gaze to search her face, furrows his brow slightly in obvious thought even as his eyes themselves are soft. She feels her heart speed up and decides she needs to blink, to speak, anything to break the spell. 

"What's up?" she asks quietly, just to fill the poignant silence. 

Monotone as ever, he says, "...I am unsure how to tactfully ask if you'd like to spend the night with me."

She can't help it - she laughs. It's a quick thing, a bark and then a giggle, a sound made more from her being caught off guard by his frankness than anything else. Though what she even expected from him but candor, she doesn't know. She looks back up at him with a warm, fond smile so he knows she's not laughing at him. She lets the edges of it turn playful to drive it home.

"I mean," she says, eyes crinkling, "I think that was pretty tactful, actually." She smirks up at him through her bangs. "It could have been a lot worse; you could have just straight up asked if I was down to fuck."

Emmet's face contorts. The smile is still there but it's strained, flattened out slightly like the failed birth of a grimace, and his eyes are tight. "I would not ask that," he says. "Not… like that." He says it carefully, too, like there's something else there he can't find the words for, a deeper feeling he doesn't know how to vocalize but is doing his best to delicately try anyway. 

(She realizes with surprise that he's been doing this off and on for a while now, she'd just never managed to pin down what it was. The thought of her being something he'd actively try to verbalize for makes her already-stuttering heart beat even further off-kilter.)

She lets him find his thoughts and tries not to implode under the weight of his quietude. 

Eventually he takes a step forward, reaching out a (shaking) hand to catch her fingers in his own. "That would imply sex is all I want from you; it is not. I am Emmet, I am not interested in a quick fling." He turns his hand so that his fingers, still shaking, slot with hers. His voice is so, so quiet when he speaks again, a level of vulnerability she hasn't seen before creeping into his usually toneless words. "I was serious when I said I love you." He pauses, looking down at their combined hands. "It would not just be a fuck for me."

Reina has never believed that something could almost literally take a person's breath away; now, standing under a street lamp equidistant between his place and hers, she finds herself exhaling in a single short, quiet, quivering burst. She knows that if she pulls away, lets go of his hand, tells him "not tonight," then he'll let her go without protest. He'll smile - and it will be smaller but it will still be real - and walk her home, no questions asked. No coercion, no ill will, no ulterior motive beyond wanting to make sure she's safe and comfortable. He'll be disappointed, she's sure, though probably not so much over not getting laid and more at the idea that he's messed up somehow. (He's easier to read than most people take the time to realize, she's learned; you just have to be willing to look.)

Reina looks up at this sweet, sweet man, this wonderfully kind and friendly man, endlessly caring to the point of self-sacrifice sometimes, awkward and anxious and constantly just trying to do his best to navigate human interaction on a daily basis, hiding his efforts behind a mask of joviality, secretly the biggest dork to ever exist - and feels something inside herself finally, finally come back from the brink of oblivion.

"Fuck," she whispers. She’d never stood a chance, had she? "Fuck, Em…" She lifts her hands, carefully disentangling from him, and brings them up to the sides of his face, stroking her thumbs across his cheekbones.

He brings his own hands up to cover hers, his expression both happy at the contact and worried by her delayed reaction. He tilts his head at her, brow creasing in confusion. She feels something spill from her eyes and trickle down her cheeks at the same time his eyes widen and he makes a noise of concern.

"Please kiss me," she begs. It's quiet, desperate in the way only someone starved for love can be, hopeful and scared all at once; she can hear it in the cracking of her own voice, hears it mirror the way Emmet's hand had been shaking as he reached for her before. 

Without hesitation he leans in, covering her lips with his, hands sliding down her arms to wrap around her waist and pull her close; she slips her arms around his neck and pulls him closer. 

"I love you," she whispers into the kiss, sobs without sorrow but instead, the breaking of a dam. It's the first time she's said it since the first time she'd said it - the first time she's said it sober - and she feels his breath catch against her chest from where they're pressed together. 

It isn't the first time they've kissed; there have been a handful of others (small pecks on the cheek, chaste brushes of lips along the corners of one another's mouths, little moments stolen in between larger pieces of life and responsibility, usually initiated by Emmet when she was too afraid to believe this was real), but this is the first one that carries so much weight. It's a turning point, a beginning, and for the first time in her entire life, Reina meets it head on, embracing it with open arms. She's spent her whole existence in a state of perpetual stagnation, guarded and afraid, with nothing left to lose, but with nothing to hold onto as a result, nothing to ground herself should the things she's been running from finally catch up enough to bury her. Now, though, in the last place she'd have ever expected it to be, there's a light at the end of her long, lonely tunnel. 

She takes a step into the unknown, and finds, not a bottomless chasm, but solid ground - with someone there to greet her on the other side.

"Em," she murmurs, sliding her hands back around to rest against his jawline. He pauses, pulls back just so, giving her room to collect herself after the kiss. She pecks the tip of his nose in thanks, earning her a quiet giggle.

"I love you," he breathes, resting their foreheads together. Pale eyes slit open to peer down at her through the softest, most adoring smile she's ever seen.

"I love you, too." 

His eyes slide closed again at her words, crinkling as he smiles, deepening the shallow crows feet at the edges. He sighs. "I have never been in love before," he admits. "You are my favorite person, I am happy it was with you." 

Reina nearly chokes as her eyes threaten to spill back over with tears. She squeezes them shut and nuzzles her nose against his. "Gods, Em, you can't just say stuff like that." 

She kisses him before he can think she's being literal, or that he's done something wrong. When she pulls back again, she tries to meet his eyes - with minimal success, but the effort is there. "I adore you; you have no idea how much."

Emmet groans. Pulling her flush against him once more, he buries his face in her shoulder and hugs her for all he's worth. "Stay with me tonight. Please? No expectations, just… just stay."

He doesn't have to extrapolate for her to understand what he's really asking. "Of course," she promises against his ear with the same quiet fervor as his own. "Of course, Em, of course I'll stay."

He clutches her impossibly tighter, a hitch in his breath muffled into her shoulder belying his own dam beginning to overflow. His grip is far from painful, however; instead, it's a comfort. Like a weighted blanket, steady and grounding, pushing her towards the overdue end to her decade-long derealization. 

She squeezes him back just as tightly and runs her fingers through his hair. "Take me home, Em," she whispers, words deceptively easy, and nuzzles his temple. She leaves it unspoken that he's her home now, knowing full well that, in this stolen moment, he'll understand what she means.