#twewy fic

[sky-wisteria]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ONE OF MY FAVORITE FICS OF ALL TIME GOT DELETED and I AM DISTRAUGHT

and i, stupidly assuming it would be around forever, DONT REMEMBER THE AUTHOR OR NAME

I NEED HELP IN IDENTIFYING, AND/OR IF SOMEONE HAS IT SAVED

even if you don’t have/know the fic, please please like or something so this gets pushed out to people who can help 😭😭😭😭

if you’re a literal saint and have read this far, here’s what i remember about the fic

cw; mentions of sewerslide

it was a joshneku fic (from twewy)

it was on AO3

it was either mature/explicit

it had somewhere around 10-18 chapters

the premise was that neku got hired to be joshua’s assistant, joshua’s filthy rich, but his parents died in a car crash and he’s a piano prodigy but can’t write his next composition because he has artist’s block. and hanekoma is worried about him because he’s tried to commit sewerslide before - thinking all his worth is his work, and so if he can’t write, it’s not worth living

josh eventually tries to commit unalive again the night of his performance, but neku saves him, and then josh finally finishes his piece

there was a piano song linked in the fic as well, but i don’t remember what it was called, even though i can hear it in my mind. i will link it if i can find it

i feel ridiculously stupid for not saving this fic, and i now have trust issues with all fic writers. i’m extremely devastated cause it was kind of a formative fic for me, and so if somebody could please, PLEASE help, i owe you my life 😭😭😭😭😭

[black-quadrant]

babe wake up new ship dropped: joshiya

Waiting Game 🔞 [AO3]

[hadassahriv]

One-Sentence Fics: TWEWY

Ages ago on Twitter I did a little writing exercise with one-sentence fics that fit into a single tweet. Then did absolutely nothing else with them. And so I give you: one-sentence fics, TWEWY edition.

The moment the boy who will become Joshua realizes he has wings, he takes flight to see Tokyo—the sprawl, the infinite possibility of it—for the very first time.

Joshua knows how the game will end, has looked into the future, every eventuality, discarded most of them; it is not until Neku drops the gun that he realizes he has been outplayed, by a boy who has no idea what he’s won.

Neku sees his friends differently now, after so much time away; he wonders sometimes if it’s a consequence of being trapped in Shinjuku, or if he has always been this way and just never noticed.

Joshua thinks sometimes that he has been Composer too long and perhaps it would be better to let someone (Neku, it must be Neku, it can only be Neku) remove him from the board to create a future beyond his imagination.

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Neku, who died and lived and died and lived and, one day, realized that he could no longer tell the difference.

Many years later, with his first Game faded to sepia in his memories, Neku looks at Joshua, the two of them together, and regrets nothing.

Joshua is difficult to like—catty, superior, sure he knows best—but Shiki sees the way he looks at Neku, hears the reverence when he says Neku’s name, and maybe it’s not so difficult after all.

Had someone told Neku, during the first Game, that there would come a day when he would say “home” and mean “Joshua”, he would have laughed in their face—and he would have been wrong.

Dealing with the politics of the Higher Plane has always been a regrettable side effect of becoming Composer; watching Neku take a sledgehammer to it all is a pleasure Joshua had never even allowed himself to dream of.

There are things Joshua knows to be true—his city will collapse, stripped of all meaning;  this final game can only be lost—until Neku drops the gun and the future rewrites itself in an instant.

[ha-youwish]

the ask game.... 18 and Beat

hi. this one came out longer than i expected. i might be incapable of writing something less that 500 words

ask game (i decided to do it with writing). Song: About Damn Time by Lizzo

After it was all over, just after Shoka was found and everyone had settled into something almost normal, Beat started to feel restless. 

They all settled into this routine. Rindo, Fret, and Nagi all went back to their schooling. Shiki always had her job, but she made time. He and Neku hung out often. Shoka had a place to stay and hung out with Rindo and Fret. Rhyme liked to swing by his apartment randomly. They all kept up with each other through their group chat. Everyone was doing their best to make everything feel normal. 

So why the hell couldn’t he? 

Beat couldn’t fully relax, no matter how hard he tried. Not like it showed, he liked the hangouts and the chance to talk to his friends when they weren’t under the threat of the Reaper’s Game. Nagi and Fret kept trying to talk to him about that confusing game, Rindo showed a surprising interest in learning how to skateboard, it was all good. 

So why was it that sometimes it didn’t feel good? He was still tense when he should’ve been going back to normal—whatever that was.

Beat hadn’t really had a normal in three years. Spending every waking hour chasing after a ghost wasn’t really the most average thing for someone to do. Even now, when he got on his board, he’d find himself scanning and searching for someone he knew was in his reach. 

He talked with Neku about it, though it was a struggle to even begin putting the feeling into words. Neku wasn’t the most talkative about his own feelings, but he was a great listener. 

“It’s not that everyone’s trying to get back to normal,” Neku had told him after Beat had asked what he thought. “We’re just… Doing stuff that helps us feel alright. Sometimes that’s doing stuff that’s familiar. Sometimes that’s me talking to you, or you talking to me. You get it?”

He got it. Neku always could explain shit like that so easily, it was just one of the things he was good at. Still, that didn’t really give Beat the reason he felt so tense. 

The person who really got it was, surprisingly enough, Rindo. 

Rindo actually talked to him about it. It was when Beat met up with him like they always did when Rindo wanted to learn how to skateboard. 

“Do you ever feel like the rug’s about to be pulled out from under you?” Rindo had asked, sitting at the edge of the skate pool. 

“Like a board?” Beat hadn’t understood at first. “Everybody falls off the board, don’t worry ‘bout it. Y’just gotta get your balance down first, so even if you totally wipe out, you can land okay.”

Rindo sighed. “Not what I’m talking about.” He sat there for another moment. “But… thanks, actually.”

Beat realized what he meant long after that particular conversation had moved on. Duh, it felt obvious after the fact. Rindo was feeling that tension, like he had to keep a close eye on stuff or it’d be snatched up. 

But Rindo wasn’t alone in that feeling, the others probably felt it too, now that he thought about it. That’s why everyone was doing so much to make things feel alright, wasn’t it? Maybe they should do that too.  

“Yo, there was this one time,” Beat started, watching Rindo slowly ride on the flat concrete and try to turn around. “I fell off my board in the middle of Center Street. Just ate shit so hard on the ground.”

“Must’ve sucked,” Rindo commented. 

“Yeah, got a huge scrape on my leg. I couldn’t ride for a bit and it hurt like hell, man.” He scratched his head. 

Rindo slowed to a hesitant stop on the board, turning to look at Beat quietly. 

“So it got me super down. But I still had to go home and clean up and all that, y’know? To let it heal. Rhyme wouldn’t let me go out on my board ‘till it was better…” Beat wasn’t sure how to make his point, and honestly it was getting a little confusing at that point. “Anyway, the point of the matador or whatever is, right now you’re still grounded by Rhyme ‘till you feel good enough to ride again. Worry about falling off the board when you get back on it, not now. Okay man?”

Rindo looked at him, then nodded, taking the words to heart. “Alright. Thanks, Beat.”

Beat knew he should take his own advice, there was no reason not to. That tension in his chest that he was feeling? It was definitely less than what he’d started with just after the Game. It was slowly unraveling, but it wasn’t like he’d ever claimed to be patient. 

Still after that talk with Rindo, things felt like they were looking up. He could enjoy not understanding a single word from Nagi, or sending Shoka stupid memes a lot more than he could before. 

Everyone was still getting better after that fall. Beat was too, he had been since Neku was killed again. Still, it was about damn time he aimed to get back on the board.

[toppiegames]

This is what it feels like every time the TWEWY fever comes back

[lampochkaart]

A work inspired by another fanfic that I can't stop thinking about.

"The Lucidity of the Descent" by devicing on AO3

This fic is so well written and the setting itself is interesting. Even though I'm not familiar with TWEWY it was easy enough to get understanding of all the rules. I highly recomend to read it!

Some context for this drawing (plus bonus doodle with SPOILERS)⬇️

What I love most about this fic is how Kaito and Kokichi just can't seem to get along. One second it seems like they're finally finding common ground and finally coming to a truce, and the next they're either angry again (Kaito) or running away (Kokichi).

+ bonus doodle

[bctoastyyy]

more <3

more beat (wanted to redraw it but got eepy) the reapers ever kariya and uzuki, beat in a dress that he rocks, doodle(s) from a fic im writing, and warm up sketches pertaining to an animatic im making and dont get distracted from working on!

[scramble-crossing]

Woe. Uzukarimoto be upon ye

[elendsessor]

ntwewy never really explained why rhyme got into hacking but i like thinking beat influenced her to

given how rhyme uses masculine terms when talking about herself + their parents seem to be against certain things as seen with beat, i’d assume they’re from a very traditional/conservative family where anything not often associated with traditional feminine roles is deemed too masculine. she’s sorta been branded as this golden child of the two, so she adopted tomboyish mannerisms that are passed off as a phase.

tokyo and what surrounds it (basically the entire kanto region) are very tech heavy so that could be part of why rhyme got invested but i think her time in the ug helped since the mere existence of it proves there’s a lot more going on in the region than she probably thought possible n hacking is just one way to see that other side.

[artistictiliqua]

"I looked all over for you!"

[joshnekuu]

Fic idea I probably won’t ever write but plagues my brain

Instead of getting sent to Shinjuku after being shot, Joshua somehow sends Neku back in time, tricking Shibuya’s UG into accepting his soul into the Game again because he technically hasn’t played it yet at that point.

The catch? It’s the game that Joshua first played, as an actual player. If Neku wants to get back to life and back to his time, he needs to ensure Joshua wins the game and becomes Composer, so he can send him back.

This is of course easier said than done, as Neku knows things he shouldn’t, and makes himself look very suspicious to Josh- especially since he sought him out to team up. A fun inversion of their original dynamic, with Josh not fully trusting Neku, and Neku having to hide things from Josh in order to avoid screwing with the timeline.

As they work together and Neku learns more about Josh though, and his reasonings for wanting to become Composer, Neku starts to feel conflicted about whether he should actually help Joshua, or whether he should encourage him to win the game and come back to life. He knows this could potentially ruin the timeline as he knows it, but he can’t help feel like he’s helping Joshua make a huge mistake, and he isn’t sure if he can make himself sit idly by while he does it.

Of course, he knows there would be major consequences to altering the timeline like this. He would never have to experience the Reaper’s Game, but that would mean he’d never meet his friends, might never grow or change as a person. He doesn’t want to give that up, but he isn’t sure what the ‘right’ thing to do is in this situation. And Mr. H isn’t particularly helpful either.

Also if Josh does become Composer and send Neku back you could have the fun implications of a stabilized time loop where Joshua seeks out Neku to be his proxy because of the time they spent together in his own Game.

[sky-wisteria]

yoooo if anybody is interested in reading the original joshneku version of Making Money in Shibuya, just hmu! i finished restoring the whole thing and can send it to anyone who wants it 🫡🫡

[black-quadrant]

[hadassahriv]

Fic Master List: TWEWY

I always feel like everyone who might be interested in my fics has already seen them. But then every once in a while I get new readers who leave wonderful comments, so that is clearly not the case. Everything is housed on AO3, clearly labelled, but this is the master list of my TWEWY fics to date.

Fate and Other Impossibilities (105,596 words) Chapters: 35/35 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya/Sakuraba Neku Characters: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya, Sakuraba Neku, Misaki Shiki, Bito "Beat" Daisukenojo, Bito "Rhyme" Raimu, Hanekoma Sanae, Kanade Rindo, Mikagi "Haz" Hazuki, Sakurane Shoka, Furesawa "Fret" Tosai, Usui Nagi Additional Tags: Post-Game(s), Canon Compliant, Conductor Sakuraba Neku, Developing Relationship Summary: Neku's never wanted to be special. He just wants to be. After three years in Shinjuku, that may no longer be possible.

Notes: My love letter to TWEWY and the first fic I wrote after almost 10 years out of fandom. In May 2021, I heard that a TWEWY sequel was coming, so I replayed Final Remix and then, naturally, played Neo. And after beating the game, I really wanted a story that didn't exist. I actually did not originally intend to release it at all, but a few chapters in decided I might as well. And two years later, here we are!

The Life and Death of Joshua Kiryu (3,274 words) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya/Sakuraba Neku Characters: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya, Sakuraba Neku, Hanekoma Sanae Additional Tags: character backstory, Non-Linear Narrative, Established Relationship, pre- and post-canon, Canon-Typical Talk of Death and Dying Summary: There once was a boy named Yoshiya Kiryu. He died, and then his life began. - Joshua before, during, and after Fate and Other Impossibilities.

Notes: I've written a couple of additional fics within the Fate continuity and this is my non-linear, heavily stylized Joshua piece, highlighting different moments in his life and afterlife. You could read it standalone, but it will be better with context.

Being there together is enough (6,303 words) Chapters: 2/2 Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya/Sakuraba Neku, Eri/Misaki Shiki Characters: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya, Sakuraba Neku, Misaki Shiki, Bito "Beat" Daisukenojo, Bito "Rhyme" Raimu, Kanade Rindo, Furesawa "Fret" Tosai, Usui Nagi, Sakurane Shoka Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Sequel, Weddings, Romance Summary: Wedding parties, old friends, and happy endings to go around. Sometimes everyone really does get the life they deserve. - Or: six years later

Notes: The third fic set within the Fate continuity. This is the happy ending sequel, light and frothy, and it will be more emotionally satisfying if you have read the story it follows. But I am not here to tell anyone what to do.

Unreal Cities (16,550 words) Chapters: 4/22 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya/Sakuraba Neku Characters: Sakuraba Neku, Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya, Misaki Shiki, Bito "Beat" Daisukenojo, Bito "Rhyme" Raimu, Kanade Rindo, Furesawa "Fret" Tosai, Mikagi "Haz" Hazuki, Usui Nagi, Kariya Koki, Yashiro Uzuki, Hanekoma Sanae Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Developing Relationship, Conductor Sakuraba Neku, Post-Canon Summary: Three years is a long time to be dead, trapped in an endless loop of a city's final days and trying to understand what happened to it. No one told Neku that going back to his own life would be the hard part.

Notes: And here is my current ongoing fic! Slight canon divergence, rooted in a different take on the Shinjuku years. Eventual Conductor Neku, because that's my niche, but it's a different kind of story than Fate. Updating twice a month, if you want to come along for the ride!

[subasekabang]

Title: Meeting Notes From Cowards Club https://archiveofourown.org/works/59553856

Author: Regali @regallibellbright

Partner: tinpin

Author's note: I've been working on some form of this story for a while, and I'm glad I finally got it written. Hope you enjoy!

Rated: G

Warnings: A lot of casual jokes about death

[playtwewy]

Joshua and Sho cooperation moodboard