#pika writes

[pikanyachu]

A Lone Star In The Sky

Started writing a new fanfic! A what if Siffrin never left the island. Theres a few chapters already posted

[pikatsum]

a non-comprehensive list of annoying things Bakugou Katsuki would do to a put-upon live-in partner:

- pushes you back into your seat any time you try to stand up and is WAYYY too smug when he catches and “saves” you from the peril of his own making.

- walks by and steals your phone/book/bag right out of your hands for no reason (attention).

- never ever EVER forgets when you misuse or mispronounce a word, and repeats it ad nauseam.

- “[pet name] likes me better than you”.

- mimics voices CONSTANTLY. your voice. the neighbor’s voice. your annoying coworker’s voice— he’s got a whole repertoire.

- if you wear glasses… godspeed, because he WILL try them on and make comments abt your prescription (hold strong, he’ll need his own pair by 40)

- (correctly) predicts the ending of 9/10 of the TV shows you watch together.

- sometimes whaps you with a dish towel.

- Windexes a surface IMMEDIATELY after you’re done with it. you will have BARELY moved a hot dish from the oven before he’s swooping down on the microscopic crumbs you’ve left behind.

- for the easily-startled crowd… occasionally he’s gonna exploit that. thinks he’s SO FUNNY for the self-created jump-scare, like he doesn’t have a heart condition himself.

- If it reaches self-appointed bedtime (read: a hot 9:30 PM) and you, in a flight of fancy, are NOT in bed? those eyes are tracking every. single. step that you take.

- only once you slide into bed does he mutter something like “that’s what I thought” (be prepared: whacking him with your pillow WILL incite a wrestling match)

[tantanart]

draco malfoy

[many-shades-of-violence]

being part of their crew I Donquixote Family

✢ characters: Donquixote Doflamingo, Corazon, Trafalgar D. Law, Baby 5, Dellinger, Pika, Diamante, Trebol. Giolla, Monsieur Pink

✢ content: slice-off life, mafia dynamics, loss, death, grooming, gaslighting, immorally characters

✢a/n: the continuation for my "being part of their crew"-series. Next up are the Strawhat Pirates.

Impressed by your actions, Doflamingo extended a hand, inviting you to join the crew. He recognized that your fervor to safeguard the youngest member of the crew could be harnessed to shape loyal soldiers, ready to uphold his reign of power.

Beyond your vigilant guardianship over Baby 5 and the other junior members, you embraced the role of an informant, delving deep into the shadows of the Underworld to procure valuable resources for Doflamingo's realm.

The tender yet resilient presence of Corazon became an anchor of support, his brotherly demeanor creating a haven for you. His scruffy yet tender disposition beckoned you into a realm of trust and camaraderie. With a shared love for cigarettes, you often retreated together to concealed corners of Spider Town. Amidst the veil of smoke, you exchanged stories and concerns, finding solace in his soothing presence. Corazon's patient guidance in learning Morse code paved the way for a unique means of communication—an unspoken language that became your secret conduit for sharing thoughts, emotions, and even stolen moments of levity.

Your connection with Doflamingo, though intricate, was marked by a shared ambition and the complexities of loyalty. Your allegiance to the Warlord manifested as unwavering dedication to his cause. As you delivered crucial intelligence to him, your strategic acumen proved invaluable in realizing his ambitions, fostering a sense of trust between you. His ability to draw you into a world of power and intrigue was both captivating and unsettling, a testament to the intricate tapestry of emotions he stirred.

As your bond with Corazon deepened, it introduced layers of conflict to your relationship with Doflamingo. The tension between your attachment to Corazon and your loyalty to Doflamingo created a dynamic that tested your resolve and blurred the lines between duty and desire.

Your rapport with Trebol, Pika, and Diamante often pivoted around cutting banter and sardonic repartee. Despite the trio's lack of moral grounding, their unwavering loyalty to the crew made it easy for you to look away, even in the face of their cold-blooded actions.

From time to time, you found yourself at the mercy of Monsieur Pink and Giolla's dress-up tendencies, amusing the whole crew with their fashion experiments on you.

During combat training with Baby 5, you witnessed the astonishing versatility of her body as she transformed it into an array of formidable weapons. Her tokens of affection, occasionally bordering on excess, were as unconventional as her affections, underscoring her profound regard for you since the day you saved her life.

Law's entry into the crew brought an unexpected shift to your daily life. The palpable aura of a young boy burdened by his hatred for the world and the specter of impending mortality resonated deeply with you. Your initial attempts at camaraderie saw you treading carefully, almost mirroring Corazon's fate of a knife to the back. However, your willingness to listen and offer a space for Law to share his concerns inspired confidence in his eventual integration within the crew.

The tragic demise of Corazon at the hands of his own brother cast ripples across your allegiance. Depending on your loyalty to Doflamingo and your evolving understanding of the family's dynamics, you faced the pivotal choice of persevering alongside them, marked by a pang of regret for Corazon's unfortunate trajectory, or extricating yourself from the family's grasp. Years later, you'd find yourself collaborating with Law to orchestrate a complex plot aimed at dismantling Doflamingo's rule, reflecting your resilience and strategic acumen.

[pikahlua]

so, I dunno if you typically answer questions like this, as it seems like most of your Asks are related to dissecting the manga, but!

in your opinion, what's the best way to write a post-canon fic without getting wrapped up in keeping it loyal to the still-unfolding story?

for context: i'm writing a (potentially long) post-war-arc fic at the minute, but seeing as how the arc is still ongoing, I'm finding it challenging to not stop and rewrite and every time i learn something new. perhaps this is a stupid problem to have lmao, but you seem so good at untangling the MHA narrative threads, so I guess I'm just curious if you have any tips for folks trying to weave 'em in our own way?

thanks in advance, and thanks for all your hard work in general <3

Aww I love this ask!

So if you think about it, there are plenty of great post-canon fanfics out there that were written without the full context of the series. The lack of information those stories have about the end of MHA does nothing to hurt those fics.

You have several options really. You can commit to adapting your story in future chapters to what may happen in the MHA canon as it goes, but that's a pretty difficult path to take. I started my fanfic based on the assumption we would eventually learn AFO's real name, but now I'm realizing I'm going to have to come up with a solution to the possibility he may have no other name. You could pick a cutoff point in MHA and write a story that doesn't rely on any information that might come later. You could write based on an alternate set of events to fill in the blanks so that your story is canon-adjacent and divergent. In any case, you have to accept the fact that you're writing a story before the source material has ended.

The real question you have to ask yourself is: what does "keeping it loyal" mean to you? I'd advise you to remember that, no matter what, you're not writing something that will be part of the official canon. That gives you a lot of space to move around. If you try to stick too rigidly to the canon when you don't know how MHA ends yet, then ask yourself what your story is even about in the first place. If your story is so up-in-the-air right now that the important beats in it could change at the drop of a hat depending on what happens in the canon, then you don't have a story; you just have an idea. There's nothing wrong with that per se. Plenty of authors write without knowing where their story is going or how it ends yet.

My suspicion though is that's not your problem. I'm guessing that you're just worried about small details or references to events in the canon that may incidentally occur in your story. To the best of your ability I would advise that you don't worry about such things. Just write KNOWING you will do that. It's a feature of fanfic to do so, not a bug. Anyone reading your fanfic will know that.

So now I come back to the question about what does "keeping it loyal" mean? I am writing an AU fanfic. I have to ask myself often what I care about when it comes to "keeping it loyal" because AUs have the potential to diverge so far from the canon material they're practically their own original stories. In this case, "keeping it loyal" to me is about the characters. When I write these characters, are they behaving in the way I would expect them to in the canon? I've chosen major events in my characters' backgrounds to make them behave similarly to how they would in canon because to me, the appeal of an AU is in seeing how my favorite characters would behave in a new environment. By extension, I've also chosen some events to happen in my fanfic that maintain similar themes to the canon. My characters may have to change some from their canon counterparts based on the specific events that happen to them, but there is a core vision of the canon in my heart I always try to come back to.

It's a lot easier to keep that distance between my story and the MHA canon because I'm writing an AU, and that helps me to answer your question because the obvious things my story and the canon have in common are the characters and the story themes. Those two elements would be my answer to you. The line becomes grayer when you're writing a story set in-universe to the canon. My best advice is to not get caught up in those details. It's far more important that you write and get out your ideas. You can always come back and edit things later, EVEN AFTER PUBLISHING. That's the forgiving nature of fanworks. That said, I personally think canon-divergent/alternate canon stories are supremely underrated, so I would embrace the label. It's up to you if you want to do that or just try to adapt to the canon as you go, but IT'S OKAY if your story doesn't completely match up to the canon. It doesn't make your story any less loyal to the source material so long as you maintain that integrity in other ways. No one is reading fanfic because they expect it to be a rehashing of the exact events in MHA anyways. They're expecting something new, something additional, whether it's an embellishment, a soliloquy, or an entirely alternate set of events.

Just write what's good for your story right now, and everything else is incidental.

[pika-bitch-iii]

Alright I had my bad day. On to new and better things! While everything is kind of a dumpster fire right now, we have until at least January to start beefing up the organizations that’ll make it count.

I wouldn’t say I’m the biggest author out there but I know some of you like me, so I’m offering some CHARITY FICS.

Shoot me proof of a donation of $5 or more to the following organizations (or similar ones) and I’ll write you a oneshot of your choice for any of the listed fandoms. The only thing I won’t write is porn or kink and that’s just because I don’t know how any of that stuff works! Anything over $15 I’ll do multi-chapters or totaling over 5K words for more complicated ideas! Hell if you do $50+ I’ll do full rewrites to the best of my ability.

To summarize:

$5+ or non-USD equivalent: One shot of varying length

$15+ or non-USD equivalent: One shot or multi-chapter fic at least 5K words long, probably more.

$50+ or non-USD equivalent: Whatever the hell you want up to 50k or so!

Show proof of donations to the following organizations, or similar ones:

ACLU

Trevor Project

Planned Parenthood

Satanic Temple

Currently I know enough to write about fandoms like BNHA, JJK, Naruto, hell, DSMP or South Park or COD or whatever, probs more; If you have a fandom I haven’t written before or an idea you’re not sure about feel free to HMU to clarify! I’ll be able to write most things, pairings, etc 😉

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Well, today was definitely not my best day. I got bogged down under work, and was under the weather, so I only managed to eke out 934 words in a couple of hours at the end of the evening. Still, I'll take it; The Everyday Naturalist manuscript is now at 69,204 words, and I've gotten a good start on the chapter on citizen science. I'm going to rest up this weekend, and focus on getting more writing done next week.

[wildflowers-of-trolberg]

If you had written S3, what would you have had it centered around?

I would have just done Season 1, Volume 2 - a return to episodic adventures with the kids, basically, but with Johanna coming along on more of the adventures - probably including another Kaisa episode, another Bellkeeper episode, and something with the Marra - what I wouldn’t do is do an overarching narrative, include Anders in any way, or anything with Trylla & Baba.

I so like some of the episode ideas in Season 3 on their own, like the Faratok Tree and especially the Young Johanna part of The Fairy Isle. I actually really like the idea of Hilda venturing into a fae realm (including the Victoria stuff) and helping a kid she meets there, but I wouldn’t have tied it into Johanna’s family, or tried to turn it into an explanation for where all the magic in the world comes from. I’d just do it as it’s own thing, a nice adventure (I also want to avoid a repeat of “Hilda goes missing and her friends and family are worried/looking for her” - it’s overdone)

Depending on when that episode takes place in the season, I could see myself amaglamating the fairy girl character with Louise’s role. As in, making her the 4th member of the main group. I feel like that would be neat :))

[hersurvival]

I took it as a sign, the dreams came first -

A black bunny at my door

One week later,

The first rabbit I had seen in years,

A small shadow with tall ears sat waiting

In the driveway when I got home

And he was there every day

Until Winter came and I lost him

If the universe was trying to tell me something,

I never understood

But if it was strictly coincidence

Then I refuse to believe it

@nosebleedclub April 18th - Lagomorph

[yuckydraws]

Hey Yu! This is my first time requesting but I've been watching your work even before I made an account(I think? I sometimes just mess around logged out so I don't really know) but;

How would Red, Coffee, Midas, and Bear with a S/O who will immediately relax/ fall asleep if their head is being pat? Like even if they are freaking out over something it works to calm them down.

Aw thank you!!!

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Red: He's not always the best with words, and he tends to show his support more through physical affection anyways. When he sees just how much this helps to calm you, he's honestly relieved that he can at least do that much when his words may not be helpful. He'll also, of course, pull out the head pats when you're both cuddling just to see your cute sleepy face.

Bear: He can't relate to the feeling, with his injury, but he probably finds this out and then forgets about it a few times just to rediscover it again - it'll eventually stick. He loves to play with your hair if you allow, so... chances are you're in for lots of sleepy, relaxing cuddles.

Coffee: He also loves head pats/pets and will purr up a storm if you show affection like that. When he finds out that you like them just as much (if not more) - he'll pull them out much more often. He likes to pay attention to and remember the small things like this about you. It's just one of the ways he shows he loves you.

Midas: So. He's kind of a turd (affectionate), and will definitely tease you about this little quirk of yours while taking advantage of the sleepy-state it puts you in so you can't retaliate. However, that's all just in lighthearted fun, and he also pats at your head in soft moments too, just because he loves you.

[beanmaster-pika]

March’s room is so lovely and cute and personal and then Dan Heng’s just set up a futon and a blanket in the archives.

[archivestarlyht]

" thank you for your candour. " @ sol'rys

* 𝐀 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐄: 𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄.

“lae’zel and astarion were furious i did not drive you away.   i need more assurance that my judgement did not err.”

“thank you for your candour.”

candour.   sol'rys was not entirely confident what that word meant,   actually.   annoyance flared in him (he was not a smart man.   had he been a smart man he would have carried a spellbook as well rather than two swords.   he knew this.   need the wound be salted?),   and for a moment he was unsure if he was being mocked or condescended to.   but gale’s expression,   to his eyes at least,   remained honest and open as ever.

“you will do more than thank me,”   he responded sharply.   “i suppose you are worthy enough with your book.”   the closest to a compliment the wizard would get from him.   the thing he had learned,   though,   was that wizards were just men and bled like any other man when someone like him got close enough.  “but i need more than what little information you have provided.”  a threat hovered beneath the warrior's words.  the wizard was a smart man.  sol'rys was confident that he would hear it.  “otherwise i may just decide they are right.”

[ssomepersonn]

finally been makin some actual refs of the guys, heres a winnie and cyllisaro

[the-era-of-shadow]

Relic's Lost Journal

Written by Ash Rose Red

Content Warnings:

Mentions of bodily mutation

Summary:

It's a cold, brisk early morning on board the Black Arms' Floating Temple, and Shadow is restless about the day ahead. While lost in their thoughts, Shadow's comes across Relic's journal, seemingly left by accident. As Relic prides herself on being quite dedicated to studying the Black Arms, one has to wonder... What kind of things are written in such a journal, anyhow?

Notes:

So this was originally just the journal entry. I wrote it in 2021, forgot about it, then found it a few days ago while looking for something else! Originally I had just spruced up the journal entry to match my current lore and timeline of events, but when I showed the improved version to my beloved polycule, they suggested that I perhaps create a full story around the journal entry, even possibly having the story reference in a sense how it had been originally lost, and I really liked that idea, so now we're here!

EDIT (1/11/2024): I've added translation notes under the uses of Hi-Bloosiæne to this story as well as a few others! You can still check out the link to the Hi-Bloosiæne google doc in the blog's pinned post to learn more, however!

Shadow paced restlessly about the central platform of the Aerth Temple, for despite it being so early that not even the sun had awoken, it simply could not find it in them to be tired enough to return to a state of slumber. Today was the day that Shadow and their mother, Black Widow, will be raising a forcefield of chaos energy around the temple in order to protect it and those within from the incoming snowfall and frigid temperatures. This sounds easy enough on paper, yes, but Shadow understood that not all is what it seems, for they have been training for this very day for the whole week beforehand. This process, according to Widow, requires a lot of chaos energy, an amount that Shadow has only used one other time before in its entire life; the fight against the Biolizard, which resulted in Shadow going unconscious and crashing into the Aerth’s surface. It can’t remember much of anything after that event, up until that fateful night when they and the rest of Team Dark were informed of the existence of the New Black Comet, everything in between is an unreadable blur, aside from some minor bits it’s managed to grasp onto. One of those grasps being witness to the demise of their father, Black Doom. They were told that the Black Arms had invaded Aerth, and that Shadow, being “the good hero that they are”, had made it their goal to stop them and take Black Doom down. But all Shadow remembered for itself was the final battle between them and Black Doom in his “Devil Doom” form, and only glimpses of it at that. It remembered feeling unable to control their body, unable to speak, only able to watch as a version of themself that wasn’t them killed its father without mercy, without consideration, as if they were complete strangers.

Shadow remembered feeling a sort of “coming to” moment after the news of the New Black Comet’s existence was given out, as if they had been in a state of deep slumber for the past… 3? Years? They thought that the battle with Black Doom had been just a bad dream it had. They didn’t recognize Omega, they barely recognized Rouge. They were scared and afraid, oh so terribly afraid.

It remembered being forced to move on with it all. It remembered feeling sick at the thought of killing a Black Arms - again, apparently. It remembered… trying to slip away from it all, to try to find their way back into the hivemind. It remembered feeling that there was no hope left for them, that this was the end, that they had messed up so terribly that it would result in their demise and they couldn’t even remember messing up in the first place. It remembered… finding that light of hope… It remembered rejecting that hope for the “safety” the government they once despised had granted them.

They remembered wondering why they couldn’t remember, why couldn't they remember the “hero” it once was? Why can’t they be that hero again?

Why did they, in the end, choose villany? As if that hero never existed… as if that hero… was another person entirely from Shadow.

Shadow was snapped away from its thoughts rather suddenly, as they noticed a lone journal flipping its pages in the wind, resting on the floor beside them.

Curious, it picked up the journal, and saw that on the front cover was Relic’s name written into it.

“Oh… Well this is an odd thing to leave behind, isn’t it?” Shadow began to wonder to itself, “I wonder if she lost it by accident…”

They thought about returning the journal to her, but Shadow figured that unlike them, Relic was asleep. So with that thought, Shadow’s curiosity began to get the better of them.

“I’m sure she wouldn’t mind if I just took a little peek…” It muttered, opening up the journal to a random entry.

Journal Entry #?????

Date: November 01, 2011

I've been noticing that I've changed a lot since I first started living in the vicinity of the Black Arms. My exposure to them has slowly but surely increased over the 3 years that I've been with them so far, starting off with just working alongside the ever elusive Eclipse and their Dark Arms in late 2009, to being truly accepted into the fold of a hivemind of about 15 members. I know it does not sound like much of an increase when it comes to numbers, but something that I've learned about the Black Arms is that there's power in numbers, no matter how small, as with every new addition to the family, they as a whole become stronger. 

Ever since I first joined, I've been taking blood samples of myself every 6 months. The reason for such a thing is that a long time ago, I heard a rumor that those that are caught in the Black Arms' web are warped, both mentally and physically, into something quite monstrous. It's very clear to me that the mental warping is referring to the effects of the Black Arms hivemind, and the Black Arms are quite monstrous, but as a scientist, I needed more proof than just that, and thus, the blood samples. One of the Black Arms' defining traits is their bioluminescent, nearly neon green blood that runs thin like water. It's quite a sight to see in a test tube, it's as if I'm holding a glow stick bought from the store! Today when I took my blood sample, I saw something incredible…

My blood looked nearly identical to the Black Arms blood sample!

It truly seems unreal that such an outlandish rumor is true, but in a sense, I saw this moment coming, I have for quite a long time. As with every blood sample I took, the color and properties of my blood shifted ever so slightly. But this still doesn't answer a very important question, that being of why Black Arms blood is like this in the first place… and even more importantly, what in the world made it possible to change the properties of my blood, the blood of a mere mobian, to match that of the blood of a Black Arms? 

After running some tests on both the BA blood sample and my own, I do believe that the answer to both of these questions is in the incredibly high amounts of raw chaos energy found in the samples. Around 85% of the contents in both blood samples is purely raw chaos! Truly absurd, and yet, incredibly fascinating! 

I told Rouge about my findings, and decided to get a blood sample from her as well! It would seem that this effect is being made within Rouge's blood as well, which is truly impressive, considering that she joined the hivemind only a month ago! As much as I would love to document the full natural process with Rouge in the same manner I have with myself, the both of us were given the opportunity to undergo Eclipse's specialized Accelerated Assimilation process within the next month or so. Considering my fascination with Eclipse's passion for innovating the Black Arms' biotechnology for the modern era, and Rouge's hesitation towards the traditional, long-term method of Black Arms assimilation, we both very happily accepted their offer.

Despite this, I will continue to document any changes to myself and/or Rouge that occur before we undergo the Accelerated Assimilation process, and I for certain will document the process itself and its results to the best of my abilities when the time comes. When that time will be is currently uncertain, as according to Eclipse, their attention has been very suddenly stolen away to a different matter for the past month. I'm not sure what it is that Eclipse is preoccupied with, as they have not told me, but whatever it is, I'm sure that it will be very fascinating! 

For all of this is truly, incredibly fascinating…

Shadow smiled softly while reading the journal entry, happy that Relic was enjoying herself being a part of the Black Arms. Shadow’s memories of Relic are rather vivid, as they met her after the New Black Comet mission. She was kind, and curious, and even sometimes a bit too ambitious for her own good, or at least, that’s what some people say.

Relic was the first mobian Shadow had met that didn’t judge them for being part Black Arms, nor criticize its bias towards them. In fact, Relic too was sympathetic to the Black Arms, or at the very least indifferent enough to their faults to still want to research them regardless. That’s why it was no surprise to it when Shadow found out that Relic had eventually switched teams and started working for Eclipse. Oh Eclipse, that light of hope that they had once rejected, but one day returned to, and when they did, there Relic was, standing right by Eclipse’s side, right by Shadow’s side. She’s always been there, from the very beginning.

Maybe that’s why Shadow felt a warm and fuzzy feeling wash over them as it read Relic’s journal entry. Assimilation is quite an intimate topic in Black Arms, and every member of the hivemind experiences it differently, and even then, it can vary even more depending on who the assimilatie is and their relationship to the Black Arms member in question. For Shadow in this moment, it was a sense of warmth, like the kind you get from a tender hug. It was the arrival of a new member of the family.

“Oh, Shadow! Thank you so much! I’ve been looking all over for that blasted thing!” Relic’s voice came into earshot of Shadow, who was still a bit lost in their thoughts.

“R-Relic! I thought you were asleep..!” Shadow sputtered, slamming the journal shut.

“Same to you! But I’m quite thankful that you weren’t, as being awake allowed you to find my journal!” Relic responded with glee.

“Heheh.. Yep..!” Shadow muttered, sheepishly handing over the journal to Relic, who started to catched onto the guilt they felt.

“I don’t mind you reading my journal, Shadow. Really, I don’t! Actually, may I ask you which entry you read? I’m quite curious!” She said to them.

“Th-the November 1st one…” Shadow answered, still feeling a bit uneasy.

“Oh, excellent!! That one is very exciting, I do say! Aah… I feel so honored to be a part of the great and mighty Black Arms!” Relic’s words soothed Shadow down from their nervous state, as the warmth it had felt as they had read the journal entry returned to them.

“I’m… so happy to hear you feel that way… I’m very happy that you have joined us as well…” Shadow responded, gently taking hold of Relic’s hands into their own.

“Why aren’t you the sweetest thing…” Relic remarked, smiling. “Say, what are you doing up at this hour, Shadow?” She then asked.

“Shouldn’t I be asking you that question?” Shadow asked Relic.

“Ah… I do suppose you’re right..! You see, Eclipse, Rhygenta and I got… a bit distracted with the new Dark Arms and Project Midnight… and the three of us ended up pulling an all-nighter…” Relic explained awkwardly.

“I see- Wait, R-Rhygenta too???” Shadow reacted suddenly. “... Kæ’ Blak Doom ducsie, sum yahn vih, vou nu’mihnenro, nu’e???*”

*Translation Note: “Dear Black Doom almighty, have mercy on me, you’re mindless, no???” (Localized Equivalent: “Dear god, have mercy on my soul, you really are an idiot, aren’t you???”)

“Yeah… I guess that’s fair…” Relic mumbled with a giggle. “But since you're awake, would you like to see the progress we’ve made? Especially on Project Midnight, considering that’s your project too!”

“Su, vih kæ blarjikære..!* Lead the way…” Shadow replied enthusiastically.

*Translation Note: “Yeah, my dear comrade..!” (Localized Equivalent: “Sounds like a plan, pal..!”)

“Su!*” Relic chirped.

*Translation Note: “Yeah!”

“Once we arrive, I can take the wheel from there on matters. You three need to rest.” Shadow told Relic. “That’s an order!”

“Oh alright, we will, Blak Shahdo duscie..!*” Relic sighed in a jokingly defeated tone, which caused Shadow to chuckle.

*Translation Note: “Lord Black Shadow..!”

Maybe it didn’t really matter to know all the pieces of how Shadow got to this point after all, for perhaps the matter of true importance is that they’re in a happier place in life now.

Maybe, just maybe, they will come across the answers when it least expected them, when it isn’t paying attention to that matter, in the same manner they ended up finding Relic’s lost journal, by complete accident…

[icharchivist]

[hxh chapter 395 spoilers]

Sorry to be talking about hxh on main again after all these years but i’m going slightly insane after the last update. After years of writing about how i believed the Kurta clan has been murdered probably because of the D-Hunter book Sheila had given Kurapika (this post more or less have the outline of the theory in it), while at this point we didn’t know anything about Sheila, the last chapter just. 

Showed that Sheila was a childhood friend of the Phantom Troupe???? That she was already reading the D-Hunter book then????

It’s not “theory confirmed” at all, at least not yet, but it’s at least setting pieces in a position that fits this theory again i’m going insane.

the other theory of the post i linked is also disproven this chapter re: regarding Sharlnark, but i don’t really care much about this part of the theory i linked, i’m just, only focusing on the book. I’ve been arguing for years that the Troupe must have attacked the village because of Sheila and the Book and the new chapter really just say “well, they DID know each other...? <3″ at me. Excuse me.

[pikahlua]

You've probably answered this before but I want to know if you think IzOcha will be canon by the end? And by canon I'm specifically talking about kissing, marrying, being official bf/gf and not something that can be interpreted as friendship. Same with Bakugou. Do you think he'll ever be canonically with someone?

God I hope not. That implies a timeskip epilogue I don't want that glosses over their remaining years in school as if nothing that happens then is important. I would like them to retain the optimism and magic of their adolescence by story-end if possible. At the very least, if I'm forced to endure an epilogue, let it be one where everyone has become heroes and achieved their dreams so that the magic can live on!

I don't get the feeling Horikoshi is interested in really boring story-writing like that, but I'm just one person so who knows? In my experience though, Japan does love its open endings more often than not.