#that's what imma call it

[athela-3]

mankai company: cyberpunk

I never asked for this. But that’s just how ideas work, ain't it? One minute you’re mindlessly going through the daily grind, and the next moment it hits ya like a sucker punch to the gut. Then your mind’s racing, and you think: Why not? Whaddaya have to lose? You’ve rambled your way through semi-coherent flashes of inspiration before. Why should this one be different?

Note: everyone is aged up, oh, let’s say at least five years. Also, long post is long. I’m not joking. The page break is there for a reason.

Mankai Company is a modest-sized corporation specialising in biotechnology and cybernetics. But operating beneath its public face is a semi-covert band of mercs, private eyes, and fixers called Kaga Solutions, fully-equipped to navigate the mean city streets on command. Their founder and CEO, Yukio Tachibana, has recently disappeared; as per his express wishes, the company leadership is transferred to his estranged daughter, Izumi. 

Izumi Tachibana: the new CEO, more experienced in programming than in biotech, she wants to lead Mankai in a new direction focused on augmented reality and fluid human-machine interfacing, while also investigating her father's disappearance with its covert Kaga operatives.

Isuke Matsukawa: Yukio's—and now Izumi's—personal assistant who also handles most of the day-to-day finances, a seemingly bumbling man with hidden talents. He has more connections than you'd expect, and his loyalty is bone-deep.

Yuzo Kashima: a major shareholder in the company whose investments helped Yukio jump-start his dream into reality. Initially skeptical of Izumi's direction, he slowly grows to believe in her vision, even if he's still brutally honest about many things. He's aware of Kaga and the hidden side of Mankai, and is implied to have once partaken in it more personally.

Tetsuro Iwai: the local hardware genius. If you need something built, he'll figure out how to do it in record time. He's happy to work with the old boss' daughter, even if her ideas can stretch him to his limits sometimes.

Ken Sakoda: nobody's really sure what his official job is. He's just always there, usually appearing out of nowhere to do whatever Sakyo asks him to (there's rumours of a personalised cloaking device). This ranges from coffee runs to, ah, semi-legal inventory procurement.

Kamekichi: a robot parrot Yukio personally built as a pet project. Originally a prototype for robotic therapy animals, his code gave birth to his own emergent sassy personality.

Sakuya Sakuma: head of Engineering, what he lacks in experience he makes up in talent and dedication. Has politely declined playing a more active role in Kaga's assignments, declaring his current job to already be his dream job anyhow.

Masumi Usui: a tech prodigy, a quick learner who's always keen to impress Izumi for reasons which may not be strictly professional. Built his own memory implants from scratch, and is always willing to help with Kaga if ever asked.

Tsuzuru Minagi: the top dog when it comes to programming and software. Tends to overwork himself, especially at crunch time, but he writes top-notch code that leave Mankai's competitors scratching their heads. Also helps oversee and plan Kaga's missions, especially when it comes to concocting cover stories and identities.

Itaru Chigasaki: yet another punch-clock worker whose only skills lie in testing and bugfixing… or so he'd have you believe. In reality, he's one of Kaga's most reliable operatives, using his salaryman persona to relieve suspicion and gain people's trust. By the time his targets notice the "GG EZ" hacked onto every screen, it's too late.

Citron: another Kaga operative, people see him and think he's the expat office worker who struggles to string a coherent sentence together, so they don't always pay attention to what they say around him. Big mistake. If he can't evade you in conversation, then he'll evade you the traditional way and vanish seemingly into thin air.

Chikage Utsuki: formerly Itaru's senior at their old job, who followed him to Mankai for reasons of his own. He does minor coding for them now, but his primary focus is on being a field agent for Kaga, where his charm and covert investigative skills really come into play.

Tenma Sumeragi: a former child actor, now the company's face, appearing in advertisements and endorsements. He's great at both presenting Mankai's personable, human-interest agenda and selling Kaga's sharp professionalism to potential clients.

Yuki Rurikawa: hired fresh out of university, his sharp sense of aesthetics led Izumi to trust him with practically all of their product design. Every concept has to have his seal of approval before moving to the production stage. He also handles disguises for Kaga's operations.

Muku Sakisaka: formerly slated to compete in the Olympics before an accident, he now provides another public face for Mankai alongside Tenma. He writes a good deal of the company's promotional material, and has a strong sense of what would affect their clients.

Misumi Ikaruga: officially, he tests the more physical cybernetics, such as Sakuya's impact-dampeners or Tasuku's mountain-climbing legs; his videos performing literally superhuman parkour feats often end up as promotional material. Under the table, he's Kaga's go-to operative for situations requiring speed and agility.

Kazunari Miyoshi: head of the PR department, in charge of keeping their public image in the positive while also keeping Kaga’s activities mostly out of attention. He keeps everyone in the loop with current affairs, often feeding intel to his old friend Tsuzuru for planning.

Kumon Hyodo: baseball's new rising star, he started doing sponsorship and endorsement deals after Muku and Juza introduced him to Izumi. He's enthusiastic about working with them and often helps coming up with ideas for reaching into the sports demographic.

Banri Settsu: a bio-augmentation enthusiast and grey hat hacker, he once breached Mankai's firewalls basically out of boredom; when Izumi tracked him down, she decided to offer him a job in her cybersecurity division, and he agreed. Of course, as soon as he hears about Kaga, he all but jumps into it headlong.

Juza Hyodo: wanted to be a cop as a kid; that was before the city's corrupt police force disenchanted him of the idea. His cousin Muku convinced him to work for Mankai, so he thought he'd give the corporate samurai gig a chance. His earnest dedication quickly wins him a spot on Kaga, as do his excellent combat skills.

Taichi Nanao: initially a mole from Godza, sent to tear Kaga apart from within, he went turncoat within months and is now their primary source on Godza's methods and internal affairs. He balances quick and dirty combat tactics with his boyish charm and knack at appearing harmless.

Omi Fushimi: former military, honourably discharged after a terrorist attack took out his best friend and left him heavily injured. Now he works for Mankai as head of security, with a bit of unofficial HR thrown in there. Unlike the rest of Akigumi, he isn't part of Kaga, as he believes his focus should be on keeping the company safe and secure.

Sakyo Furuichi: head of Kaga, and its oldest member still on active duty. These days he mostly sticks to mission control, but occasionally lends support on the field if he deems it necessary. His sharp mind and eye for patterns makes him particularly good at planning missions, exit strategies, and backup plans.

Azami Izumida: the son of a yakuza boss who decided to leave the family business behind to strike out on his own, he still keeps a number of his old underworld contacts. Officially an intern, he's also eager to get into fieldwork with Kaga, putting his years of swordsmanship lessons to use.

Tsumugi Tsukioka: head of biotech, his research on how cranial implants can be used to treat sleep disorders turned him—and Mankai—into a household name. He infrequently lends a hand to Kaga by developing and fine-tuning their cybernetics.

Tasuku Takato: a former member of Godza, he quit his job to work for Mankai instead, and is now a valued member of their biotech team. He specialises in developing prosthetics for their more athletic clients, and like Tsumugi, focuses on his R&D most of the time.

Hisoka Mikage: formerly working for a similar fixer/PMC group, a near-fatal neuro-implant malfunction caused him to forget everything that happened since its installation. As Mankai found him, removed the bad implant, and nursed him back to health, he thought it's just apt to repay the debt by working for them. One of Kaga's most well-rounded operatives, he is strongest in stealth and wetwork.

Homare Arisugawa: an eccentric professor to his core; his studies range from urban to agrarian, sprawling across fields and topics, but his passion project lies in developing ocular implants that can read micro-expressions on the fly, allowing its owner to identify and record people's emotional reactions easily.

Azuma Yukishiro: the face of the biotech divison, he works closely with Mankai's clients to help them find the perfect cybernetics for their personal needs. He also often gleans information and gossip from his endless well of unsuspecting acquaintances and old contacts, passing them on to Kaga for their missions.

Guy: a friend of Citron's from his homeland; extensively cybernetically augmented after a major accident years ago, he claims to be more machine than human by this point. Ostensibly Homare's research assistant, he is a field agent for Kaga, equally skilled in hacking as he is in hand-to-hand combat.

[krystaldeath]

Logical me: you shouldn't make another AU, especially considering it's gonna be an AU that's been used MANY times before. Don't you want to be original? Don't you want to continue ALL of those other things you started??

Me:.... VOLTRON SUPERNATURAL CREATURES AU

[sassyasslance]

I say it's coming along pretty nicely. The hairs a little shit but I'm watercolouring over it anyway, I just wanted to try it out.

[an-exotic-writer]

ADDING ONTO WHAT SUPERHERO!BTS ANON SAID like bts in sky high man! like I can see yoongi being selected for being a villain, jungkook a hero, namjoon a villain(cause he's breaking everything) Jimin and hobi are heros as well. Jin being like a teacher or an already known super hero and Taehyung a side kick cause his powers haven't kicked in yet but he's not bothered cause he snuck his new puppy into school on the first day aka selection day -peach anon

I!!! HATE!!! ALL!!! OF!!! YOU!!!

you know, what you see in comic books and movies with these people having superpowers and stuff? oh, that shit is real. all your life, you had this perception of everyone else in your surroundings possessing some type of advantage that wasn’t humanly possible.

well, take your group of friends, for example.

yoongi was widely known as the one who was able to control temperature, only making it cold, though. ice would form from the tip of his fingers, snow would fall from the skies if he was really into it, charging from the day before to prepare himself. whenever the system crashed and the classrooms were too humid and hot, yoongi was your go-to-guy to make things cooler. plus, he’s really good at making sure your ice cream stays frozen after each bite, something you notice he does for you whenever you two go out for ice cream.

jungkook was something expected under the public eye. he developed a strength level so high, it was impossible to deny he’s strong. car crashed? he’ll break them apart, put it by the side of the road. train wreck? no problem, jungkook’s there. airplane crashing? land on jungkook and things would be fine. again, insane. but it’s fun when jungkook’s always giving you piggyback rides, even when he doesn’t need to.

namjoon was one hell of a person that scared the life out of you. he was able to read through people’s actions, not minds (because if he did that would be even scarier) but he just had a hunch of what they were going to do before they actually did it. some said he could see into the future, too (and he can, he told you). what made it better was that he’d always have the best jokes around you, especially when the both of you sit on the rooftop and namjoon’s narrating people’s every day lives.

hoseok was a radiant piece of sunshine ball... literally. he’s able to emit light from his body when the days are dark and out of power. the sparks and electricity would flow through his veins and he’d light up during earth hour and it’s amusing to see how his skin glows from beneath his flesh. what makes it all the more interesting is the way his eyes look at you when he’s in his zone, staring at you with radiant eyes, bright eyes.

seokjin had a different side to him when it came to powers. it was either he’s very destructive or not at all. initially, they placed him as just a sidekick, ready to cure people at all times but after an incident where he almost ripped someone from inside out was when they realized as much as seokjin could cure, fix, he could destroy. it was helpful when you’d always get those cuts and bruises out of nowhere and his touch was the softest as he graces them over your skin, living for the way you smile after he healed your wounds.

jimin had the ability to be fast as fuck. and by that, his legs moved so quickly, dragging him ahead than everyone else, there was no way anyone or anything could beat him during the annual race. it was illegal to see how someone cal move so quickly but hey, that came in handy when you were late for school and hopping onto jimin’s back... you were actually early to class.

taehyung was a special case. he didn’t quite develop his powers yet and... well that’s the same like you. thankfully, you had someone to keep you company and it was fun, really. it didn’t help that he brought in his damned puppy during the first week but hey, you got in trouble with him for trying to hide him and at least detention was spent with a furry animal.

as you step through the doors, walking down the halls with your bag over your shoulder, you already see seven boys loitering around your locker. trying to keep your smile away from them, you bite down on your lip and approach them, to which hoseok and jimin’s already tugging you into the circle excitedly, “hey, kiddo! ready for another day of learning?”

“since when did you get so enthusiastic?” 

“oh, hush up. she just got here,”

“let her live, really,”

“with you here? good luck with that shit,”

“i swear one day i’ll rip your mouth off your face,”

“if you can catch me,”

that’s when you smile, nodding at a question left hanging earlier.

“yeah, i’m ready.”

[tyrian-sexual]

I just came up with a name for shipping Eridan, Sollux, and Terezi The Hopelessly Doomed Minds trio