#utena fanfics

[ohtori-dropout]

I have decided to drag my past deranged ideas into my present deranged ideas and turn this into a minific of “what if Anthy got stupid from sleep deprivation for once”. enjoy

Sleep deprivation was something Anthy was more than used to. She barely ever got a night’s worth of sleep in the first place, so making the adjustment to working double-time as Anthy and as Mamiya was simple. Besides, as Mamiya, he could pass off the tiredness as sickness - a symptom of the mystery disease that had “nearly” taken his life so long ago, never mind the grave and the corpse and how warped his portrayal of the dead boy was. So when the hours lost caught hold of him, clutching to his masculine parody of a Rose Bride’s uniform and digging, digging, digging deep within him, his sudden lack of cognitive function took him entirely off-guard.

As he gracefully (grace above all - bride or groom he was still of the roses) slumped over the edge of the tank, his eyes making bleary contact with the rosebud beneath him, all he could think of was Nanami. More specifically, how funny it would be to mess with her right then. It had been a long week, after all - the cow trick was a great laugh, but he felt the urge for more, something to get his mind off of Mikage and Akio and Utena and burning halls and false memories. Maybe he would have thought of something if he wasn’t one dose of cold medicine away from a coma — wait.

He blinked once. Twice. Utena had cold medicine. There were raw chicken breasts in the form fridge. An involuntary giggle erupted from his throat - quickly disguised as a hacking fit. As he heard Mikage’s footsteps approach, the “plan” - if one could truly call it that - solidified in his head.

Heeheeheeee cold medicine chicken bento for Nanami.

[ao3feed-utena1]

by ebeatrice

“Send Utena to me,” Akio says, “sometime after lunch. I should be free by then.”

He says it so casually, as if asking his secretary to pencil in a meeting.

Throughout the series, Akio and Anthy confer in secret.

Words: 2034, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con

Categories: F/F

Characters: Himemiya Anthy, Ohtori Akio, Tenjou Utena, Chu-Chu (Utena), Shinohara Wakaba

Relationships: Himemiya Anthy/Tenjou Utena, Himemiya Anthy/Ohtori Akio

Additional Tags: Angst, Ohtori Akio Is His Own Warning, Canon Compliant, Self-Hatred, Physical Abuse

[calypsolemon]

Touga is sitting on a pink rose. Butterfly wings spread backwards from his shoulders, vibrating slightly as he pushes aside layers of petals to dip his hands into the nectar at the base. It’s sweet and sticky, tingling strangely with power, and he gulps it down before moving on to the next rose with an effortless flitter of his white wings. After a while the sweetness makes him feel sick, but he still needs it, this energy. He deserves it. If he’s the one suffering, shouldn’t this power be his?

Suddenly the rose is cupped brown hands, holding him up to a face with deep green eyes. He freezes in terror, afraid she will touch his wings and brush the scales off, leaving him to die.

Instead she stands on tiptoe, very gently setting him on the lowest branch of an apple tree.

❧The Butterfly Bride, Ch. 4

[transmascutena]

(a very quick and unpolished thing i wrote on the bus home today)

Utena, Anthy, and a conversation about love. Around 500 words.

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“I loved him,” Utena says. She feels vulnerable admitting it, staring at the ceiling rather than at Anthy curled up at her side. “Not… not in the way he tried to convince me I did. But…” she sighs at the feeling of Anthy's fingers moving gently up and down her arm. “But I did love him.”

Anthy is quiet, and Utena can tell she’s waiting for her to say the next thing, the logical conclusion to this line of thought. It’s the hardest part to admit to herself, let alone to someone else. Let alone to Anthy.

She takes a breath. “Sometimes I feel like I still do.” Anthy exhales against her shoulder.

“Love is,” Anthy starts, then stops. Utena feels her shake her head. “It’s not… enough, on its own. I loved him too. I still do. I think I always will.”

Utena squeezes Anthy’s hand in the dark, and for a while they simply listen to each other breathe. “I’m not sure I even know what love is,” Utena says. “I definitely didn’t, growing up. But I wanted it, more than anything. He knew that. He offered it to me, and he knew I would do anything to keep it.”

“Family,” Anthy whispers, her mouth still pressed against Utena’s shoulder.

“Yeah. Family.”

They’re both quiet for a while, aware of the weight of the conversation. The entirety of what used to be their world, all contained in that single word.

“Do you think…” Utena starts to ask, but hesitates. She doesn’t want to say the words, and doesn't want to hear Anthy’s answer.

“What is it?”

She shakes her head. “Nevermind. It doesn’t matter.”

“Everything matters,” Anthy says simply, but in a tone that tells Utena that she doesn’t have to say if she doesn’t want to.

She sighs. “I just mean, it doesn't change anything. It doesn’t make what he did… better. But I just wonder,” and she has wondered for years now, “I wonder if he loved us too. If any of it was real.”

Anthy wraps an arm Utena’s middle and touches her scar lightly. “He did,” Anthy says, confidently enough that Utena doesn’t question it. “It was as real as anything was in that place. But like I said, love is… It’s not an inherent good.”

“No,” Utena mumbles. “And he hurt us in spite of it.”

Anthy catches Utena’s eye for the first time since the conversation started. “He hurt us because of it, Utena.”

“Oh,” Utena breathes, turning her eyes back to the ceiling. She lets that revelation settle in her chest, but doesn’t know how to feel about it. She was right that it doesn’t make any of it better. She’s not sure whether or not it makes it worse.

[koalem]

Loustat/ Shōjo Kakumei Utena /AU

Lestat enters a school where sword fights are held between students to obtain as a trophy the student Louis, known throughout the school as the fiancé of the rose.

Now Lestat, after defeating the previous champion, will have to enter into a duel with whoever challenges him, to protect Louis, whom Lestat wants to free from his role as the fiancé of the rose

[mieowkoid09]

Write your blorbos going to Nemuro Hall for therapy. I dare you.

[buy-axes-in-central-london]

watcher’s bride 👁️🌹

[frapajapa]

Uploaded the first chapter of my Utena fic, it should have like, 3-4 chapters by the end.

It's about Nanami leaving Ohtori (LFG!!!!) and immediately getting picked up by a lesbian she has beef with and moving in with them. All against her will (totally), may I add.

tldr Nanami freeloader era

[zerokogane]

IM BCK AND I NEED HELP FINDING A FIC ITS BSD

so basically I saw a tweet on twitter about it so I actually haven’t read it I just asas the description and all that

It’s a bsd x revolutionary girl Utena fic but it’s only tagged under bsd so

Basically the description was something like

Chuuya goes to the new school and it’s weird bc why does anyone think the many wearing bandages is a princess or why is he playing a mummy princess

And how he became the protective guard or stmts

I think it was like 20k or smth it was completely and that all I know help pls I beg of you 

[number1villainstan]

Making a JJK/RGU Crossover for Fun and Profit

Assumes working (but not in-depth) knowledge of both RGU and JJk.

Content warnings for anything that applies to either RGU or JJK (so discussions of abuse in general, sexual abuse specifically, rape, incest, death, gore, body horror, unreality, w/e). Ohtori Akio and Ryomen Sukuna are their own warnings.

Warnings for major JJK manga spoilers up to chapter 263 and for major RGU spoilers if you haven't watched the show.

Disclaimer for RGU fans: This isn't gonna be an in-depth analysis of either work. Or at least that's not the focus. There may be some of that in the body of the work, but if you're here for insightful commentary, this is not the post for you. However, if you're here for taking a dumbass idea way too seriously (for fun), then this is exactly the post for you.

And with those out of the way, let's get started, shall we?

What kind of crossover?

There are several different ways you can combine elements from two or more different stories, but you often end up having to throw away or twist certain elements to fit the other world/story, because lore (or magic system or a character's backstory) from one story may conflict with lore from the other story. You end up getting setups like characters from one story acting out the events of the other story, or characters living out a version of their own stories but in the other story's setting, or characters from both stories interacting in a setting separate from both stories.

However. Every once in a while, there's a combination of stories that allows you to preserve both settings, while having them be in contact with each other, and RGU and JJK is one such combination.

This lies in the enclosed nature of Ohtori (the setting of RGU) and the nature of cursed energy and techniques (part of the setting of JJK). When you combine these aspects of both stories, you end up with the crack crossover theory that Akio is a cursed spirit, and Ohtori is his domain expansion. It's a shockingly tight explanation for why Ohtori is Like That, especially coming from a work in a different genre and that is not in conversation with RGU at all (so far as I know). It explains how the world of Ohtori can be so unconcerned with physical laws, such as "there's no way for the pillar and stairs to support the dueling arena's weight" or "there's no topologically valid way to get from the forest to Akio's living room on those stairs" or "Ohtori's not by the ocean, so Ruka can't be both on campus and overlooking the ocean on a bench"; how illusions and tricks of the mind are so prevalent; why the dead can cheat death, if not forever; how Akio can be aware of nearly anything that happens at Ohtori; why time is so incredibly fucking weird (implying temporal/spacial manipulation cursed techniques on Akio's part); why Ohtori is practically fine-tuned to maximize misery in the long term.

Ohtori being a domain meant to capture teenagers and feed off their cursed energy not only provides another explanation for what Ohtori is, it fits very neatly into RGU's themes of abuse and how to break away from it, adding an extra layer onto Akio's ability to control everything about Ohtori. Akio being a cursed spirit also fits his backstory--if we take the flashbacks as indications of what happened, although not True Narratives, we can imagine Dios as a jujustu sorcerer who played the hero too much and ended up dying from exhaustion, with Akio being the cursed spirit that was his resurrection (much like how Sukuna is canonically a resurrected sorcerer). This also implies that Anthy herself may be a sorcerer, one who was likely thrown to the wolves (the cursed spirit that was Akio) upon his death, and who Akio has been imprisoning inside his domain since said death.

Unfortunately, this explanation isn't quite as tight as I would like it to be. There are several wrinkles to consider. Number one is that multiple characters leave and return to Ohtori over the course of the story, while domains are meant to be incredibly difficult to break out of given the barriers necessary to uphold them. Ryomen Sukuna and Fushiguro Megumi both demonstrate barrier-less domain expansions, but Megumi uses natural barriers (such as the inside of a warehouse), and Sukuna's usage of a barrierless domain expansion is seen as "divine". However, if we expand the boundaries of the hypothetical Ohtori domain expansion to include the town surrounding campus, and posit that there must be a second school there, we solve this problem by providing a place to go for Saionji when he's expelled, for Wakaba to go grocery shopping off-campus, for Ruka to be in the hospital, and for Shiori to attend school before transferring back to Ohtori, without them actually exiting Akio's sphere of influence, and furthermore

This is where we run into problem 2: keeping a domain expansion as big and as complex as Ohtori active for at least several months, for likely decades or centuries, requires an insane amount of cursed energy, and that we've never seen a domain expansion that large in JJK canon. Even Sukuna's 'divine' domain expansion in Shibuya, although he covered several city blocks, was a very simple domain, and wasn't as large as both Ohtori and its surrounding area. Furthermore, making Akio extremely powerful is a thematic sacrifice I don't want to make--part of what makes the finale so powerful is that Akio ends up posing less of a threat to Utena and more of an annoyance, although he's more powerful in Adolescence. (Some fans may say that I've already made a thematic sacrifice in making Akio not human, because part of the message of RGU is that normal, well-liked human beings can abuse other people without not being human, and their abuse may even be enabled by being well-liked and socially cushioned. To that I say: you are correct, but unless you have a smoother way to integrate the settings of RGU and JJK it was a necessary thematic sacrifice for this thought experiment. Also that I'm not all that interested in stories about humanity, being only technically human myself.) This is why I've made references to Akio siphoning off the cursed energy of those attending Ohtori, because it works both practically and thematically--this way Akio gains the cursed energy necessary for maintaining such a complex domain expansion by sucking it out of the students he's trapped inside, and it's a commentary on the soul-sucking (hah) nature of school and abuse and on how cultural systems of oppression and abuse need people to uphold them because they have no power on their own. But I doubt that Akio would get enough cursed energy from simply a bunch of non-sorcerers, which implies that there must be at least several sorcerers (or just people with abnormally high amounts of cursed energy) attending Ohtori; it would also make sense to say that Akio would keep these deeper energy reserves (so to speak) closer at hand than the rest of the student body. Yes, I'm going there: the Student Council + Utena are likely sorcerers themselves who haven't realized it yet, and Anthy is likely the most powerful sorcerer of anyone there, which would be part of the reason why Akio keeps her so close (and why she's implied to be able to do things like influence the arena and set all of those animals loose on Kiryuu Nanami). However, they would likely be unable to access any cursed techniques of their own, because Akio's influence would siphon away so much of their cursed energy.

So, to recap: Akio is a vampiric curse and Ohtori + the surrounding area is his domain expansion, and he feeds off the misery of the students he has trapped inside his domain; in addition, Anthy, Utena, and the Student Council all have sorcerer levels of cursed energy, along with potentially a good portion of the "unspecial" population, but in most of their cases have functionally the same power levels as normal people due to Akio's vampiric nature.

Okay, but so what?

Having a setting like this is very fun, but it can't reach the level of story as it is; currently it's just a crack crossover theory/headcanon. In order for this to become a story of its own, we need characters and we need a plot. Given how character-driven RGU is, and how the world of Ohtori responds to its characters' emotions, most of the plot can be extrapolated from our choice in characters and from how the world of Ohtori is set up. The main thing we need, besides choosing which characters, is an inciting incident. I have a simple one ready: whoever monitors these things in the jujutsu world has received reports/evidence of high levels of cursed energy where Ohtori is, and sends in our characters to investigate, thinking it would be a normal mission, and they end up entering the domain expansion and becoming students at Ohtori.

But who are the characters?

We've got several options for characters or character groups to send in to Ohtori, and we can safely assume that the RGU characters will start fundamentally the same as they are in canon, only changing in response to the actions of the JJK characters introduced to their environment. I also strongly doubt that any of the JJK characters we would introduce would have a rose crest ring, or come in with Akio's approval--in other words, they broke in, and they start as "unspecial". It would also make the most sense storywise to send in teenagers (or those who look like them); adults would likely be stonewalled out of getting close to Ohtori campus. That being said, let's go over some options and their consequences/implications:

The First Year Trio

The protagonists of the show: Fushiguro Megumi, Itadori Yuuji, and Kugisaki Nobara, with Ryomen Sukuna tagging along with them. You could do a Junpei Lives AU and include him as well, but I won't, since I'm focusing on bringing together both canons, which means Junpei is fucking dead. Let's go over each of the characters:

Kugisaki Nobara:

potential for Weird Sibling Shit: none, unless she has a sibling we never hear about in canon.

potential for Sunlit Garden Shit: low to medium. It's implied that she doesn't miss her country upbringing, and she talks about a girl she admired being bullied away by unsympathetic folk in her neighborhood, but nostalgia has a way of twisting the truth, so it's not impossible.

potential for Shining Thing Shit: low to medium. If Maki enters with her, then she may end up having her as a shining thing; however, there's not any one specific person or ideal that she tends to fixate on.

is she Stuck In Her Coffin: I'd say no. She's very assertive and seems not to care about what others think, and she's unafraid of interacting with the world.

Kugisaki Nobara would hate Ohtori. Loudly. And violently. Despite being mostly gender-conforming appearance-wise, her personality directly contradicts Ohtori's 'ideal woman', and she'd likely draw scorn from the general population. She'd probably make a fascinating parallel with Saionji; her violence is usually played for laughs at the other person's expense, or for making herself look badass, while Saionji's violence usually makes him look like a dick or earns him a trip to Clown Town. (Some of this difference is in what they direct their violence at, of course, but not all of it.) They're also both incredibly stubborn, unlikely to go along uncritically with tradition, extremely direct, and often eager to throw the first punch, so to speak. She'd also probably outright refuse to talk to Akio on the basis that he has "bad vibes", and if she ever hears about the shit he pulls with other teenagers she'd (attempt to) put a nail through his skull.

Fushiguro Megumi:

potential for Weird Sibling Shit: medium to high. We likely wouldn't see his older stepsister Tsumiki come back to life like Ruka, but healing Tsumiki is a main motivator of Megumi's actions in canon, and she was the one who took care of him after both his dad (her stepdad) and her mom (his stepmom) abandoned them (or died, in Toji's case, but Megumi doesn't know that). Strong case for Weird Sibling Shit even if Tsumiki doesn't show up.

potential for Sunlit Garden Shit: low to medium. He did NOT have a happy childhood, and he hates his dad. The only thing he would want to go back to the past for would be to see Tsumiki awake again (which would tie into Weird Sibling Shit). But, like I said with Kugisaki, the memory-warping effects of nostalgia cannot be underestimated.

potential for Shining Thing Shit: low to medium. Probably his 'shining thing' would be Tsumiki.

is he Stuck In His Coffin: Honestly, probably. At the beginning of canon he has hangups about his own power and self-worth, and struggles with expressing himself openly and honestly. (Actually, I don't think he gets better at expressing himself over the course of canon aside from whaling on curses.)

Fushiguro Megumi is probably the character who's most susceptible to Ohtori's emotional manipulations out of the whole JJK cast. His personality is most similar to Juri's, I think, in the way he's emotionally constipated and finds it difficult to express his feelings to other people. Thankfully he doesn't have a Shiori, both in the sense of being hurt and of hurting someone else from stonewalling them (unless you count Sukuna, but we all know Sukuna can take it and also deserves it). Given his relationship with Gojo (his main parental figure), he may be somewhat more vulnerable to Akio's manipulations, or he may be much less vulnerable given how much he rags on Gojo.

Itadori Yuuji:

potential for Weird Sibling Shit: none. He's canonically an orphan and an only child (iirc).

potential for Sunlit Garden Shit: high. He is not doing well--he's been possessed by a demon, slated for execution, his grandpa is dead, and his pre-canon friends are in the hospital. There's no way he doesn't wish to turn back the clock in some ways, to go back to when life was simple and safe.

potential for Shining Thing Shit: low. He doesn't have anything specific he obsesses over, although you could argue that he could obsess over the goal of beating Sukuna, especially in the late stages of the manga.

is he Stuck In His Coffin: No. He's much better at making connections and expressing emotion and vulnerability than someone like Megumi, and he's shown in canon to be respectful of others (aside from like. Sukuna and Mahito, who both deserve the disrepsect) no matter their gender.

Yuuji isn't as vulnerable as Megumi to Ohtori's emotional manipulations, but that isn't to say that he isn't vulnerable at all. He's a lot like Utena herself personality-wise, and I think he's vulnerable in similar ways as well, especially in a desire to go back to a time when life was simple and safe and guaranteed. His attachment to Gojo may also make him especially vulnerable to Akio's carefully-cultivated aura of "coolness".

Ryomen Sukuna:

potential for Weird Sibling Shit: none, unless he has a sibling that survived the Heian Era as a curse (highly unlikely) AND he's actually attached to that sibling (even more unlikely). The only time Sukuna mentions anything like having siblings it's to say that he ate his twin in the womb, I don't think he puts much emphasis on family of any kind

potential for Sunlit Garden Shit: none. Man's out here living his best hedonistic curse life all day every day; anything that might trigger Sunlit Garden-type nostalgia in someone else (like being stuck in Itadori's body or having to deal with Akio's siphoning his cursed energy away) he views as an annoyance or a threat, but not as evidence that the Past Was Better.

potential for Shining Thing Shit: none. He's practically his own shining thing.

is he Stuck In His Coffin: lmao no he got out a long time ago just cuz he decided it wasn't comfy in there

Sukuna is, hilariously, the JJK character with the most comedic potential in this situation. There's two ways he could go, with him either being stuck in Yuuji's body the whole time (which confines him to being a menace to Yuuji) or, my own preference, him getting his own body at Ohtori, which allows him to go off on his own and do weird shit, which I like too much to not do. Watch as he makes all the right logical steps as to why Ohtori Bullshit is Wrong Actually and then his conclusion veers so hard to the side that we end up in territory that is maybe actually Even Worse. "This whole Dueling Game thing is bullshit" yes "Anthy should have way more agency" yes "the kids should be fighting proper death battles cuz they value the thrill of the fight" nO. His reaction to Akio would literally just be "you need to learn how to respect your betters". He's utterly impervious to Akio's and Ohtori's emotional manipulation and yet he keeps Missing The Point. Everyone else is Suffering(TM) and he's just off doing hot girl shit with Nobara or trying to figure out how to get his cursed energy back. Ohtori may be Hell but Sukuna is literally a demon.

Bonus Characters

My original plan was to go through a lot of different JJK characters/character groups, but it's late and I want to be done with this so those will have to wait until a reblog. But to wrap up quickly, I'll do Maki&Mai and Uraume.

Zen'in Maki and Zen'in Mai:

potential for Weird Sibling Shit: very high. Not only are they twins who have been split apart by jujustu society, Mai ends up dying to 'free' Maki, and there's one panel where it looks like one of them is kissing the other one (who's unconscious) on the mouth. Yeah. They're up there with Miki and Kozue for Weird Twin Sibling Shit.

potential for Sunlit Garden Shit: medium to high. Some of the flashbacks for them heavily imply that there were some very high-nostalgia-potential moments in their childhood, before they realized their inequality.

potential for Shining Thing Shit: low for Maki (who doesn't care anymore), high for Mai (who would idolize Maki in some sense, or at least desire that Maki come back).

are they Stuck In Their Coffins: Mai yes, Maki no. Maki's already decided to leave the Zen'ins behind when canon starts, but Mai is still trapped in her own desire to go back to the way it was ('won't you stay at the bottom with me?' iirc).

Maki and Mai would be hard-pressed to survive in Ohtori's environment. Mai's something like Shiori, methinks, while Maki's just trying to get out again. They already have a deeply fucked up relationship, and Ohtori would probably just warp it further and drive them apart even more.

Uraume:

(This entry is formatted a little differently.) Uraume is an interesting character, especially with the implication that they and Sukuna genuinely enjoy each other's company. Their gender, or lack thereof, would also become much more important in RGU's story, despite being mostly just a side note in JJK's. It would be more difficult to get them in, because they don't have anyone around to order them inside, but if they got word that Sukuna was potentially lost inside a rogue curse's domain expansion they'd have a personal motivation to enter the story.

Pros of having Uraume in this story:

A straightman (straightperson) for Sukuna's bullshit to play off of, like in a comedy duo

Interesting parallels and contrasts between Uraume's serving Sukuna because they genuinely like him and Anthy's whole Rose Bride stuff, especially in the third(?) episode when she claims she wants to be the Rose Bride

Would force interesting questions and developments in the narrative of the crossover story, in the world of Ohtori (how do they deal with someone who isn't gendered if they have no information on which box to put them in?), and in certain RGU characters (Saionji: "are you a boy or a girl?" Uraume: "I'm neither" Saionji: "oh i see" Uraume internally: three. two. one. Saionji: "WAIT YOU CAN DO THAT?").

Cons of having Uraume in this story:

their no-gender swag is too powerful, if they stepped foot on Ohtori campus the whole school would spontaneously combust

[ineffable-doll]

"This World Where We’ll Meet" by IneffableDoll

G, 875 words

Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena

When Anthy found her, there were roses.

A post-canon reunion fic, because this show has invaded my brain and set up camp.

[frogisakai]

Chapters: 1/1Fandom: Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Himemiya Anthy & Tenjou Utena, Kiryuu Nanami & Tenjou Utena, Himemiya Anthy & Kiryuu Nanami Characters: Himemiya Anthy, Kiryuu Nanami, Tenjou Utena Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, not set at a specific time, Humor, mentions of juri and miki, anthy loves being a meanace to nanami and honestly she deserves it, nanami utena and anthy are just a fun little trio

Summary:

Nanami likes to think she's the smartest in the room, Utena likes to think Nanami is not the smartest in the room, Anthy likes to think that being in the room is nice. And that Nanami is not the smartest in the room also.

[ao3feed-utena1]

by ebeatrice

Soon, their stilted conversations in the dead of night take on an almost ritualistic feel; Touga cannot leave the appartement without bidding Anthy goodnight.

Or,

Touga can never leave Akio's room without running into Anthy in the dead of night.

Words: 2228, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Rape/Non-Con

Categories: Gen

Characters: Kiryuu Touga, Himemiya Anthy, Ohtori Akio

Additional Tags: Ohtori Akio Is His Own Warning, Dubious Consent, Character Study, Canon Compliant, Unrequited Love, Angst, Emotionally Repressed

[sillybayo]

Snow Duel

(Originally uploaded on fanfiction.net on 6/23/24)

A utenanthy fic thats silly and fun. Utena wakes up to snow falling outside her window, and excitedly brings Anthy along to enjoy the day...however, she has never played in the snow before, so Utena must show her the joys that come with it.

~~~

The sun rose and peeked through the curtains, poking Utenas face. The gradual warmth caused her to stir, and once her eyes met the window, she saw pure white mixed with the pale blue sky. A familiar feeling bubbled up in her, something that she hasn't felt ever since she was a small girl.

She hopped out of bed instinctively, and instead of rushing to her parents room at the end of the house, she found herself going across the hall, knocking gently, yet excitably, on Anthys door.

"Himemiyaa! Himemiya!"

It took a minute or two until Anthy opened the door in her usual nightgown and bonnet, rubbing her eyes and noticeably a bit irritated. "Utena…what's the matter?"

Utena bounced in place and smiled at her in contrast. "It's snowing!"

"Snowing?"

"Mhm! You know, when it rains, but the temperature is too cold, so little bits of ice fall instead?"

Anthy looked more awake, but not any less bothered. "I know what it is, but it doesn't seem to be a huge deal," She paused to let out a good yawn. "It's only ice.."

Utena stopped mid bounce. "Only ice!?"

The two promised to be more open to each other. And Utena's glad that Anthy is being more honest and expressive! But she'd be lying if she said that her lack of enthusiasm didn't halt her momentum.

But in retrospect…it does make sense. Ohtori Academy looked like it was stuck in a constant late spring. It rained sometimes, but there was no snow, no change in the leaves, anything. Utena assumed that Anthy lived there all her life up until now, where they lived together in a nice cozy cottage. Anthy proposed the idea herself, six months ago, when she left Ohtori and found Utena. So it would make sense for her to not know about the enjoyment that comes from snow.

Utena, meanwhile, had a vague memory of it. The days where she'd hop on her parents bed, then pull them out of bed, and then they'd all go out in the freezing cold early in the morning. They didn't mind it though, as they were occupied with throwing snowballs and making snowmen. She remembers the silly childish nature that made her happier than almost anything else ever would.

Would it be too much to ask to share that joy with Anthy?

"Could you go outside with me, please? Just put on the warmest coat you have, a sweater, two pairs of pants, some gloves, earmuffs, boots," She counted all of those things with her fingers. Anthy adored the way she spoke with her hands. "And you'll be good to go! Come onn, it'll be fun! You won't regret it!"

Anthy couldn't help but to smile at her pleading eyes. "Fine, just this once."

"YES!" She jumped and pumped her fists in the air. She then rushed into her room and shut the door, presumably to go change.

What has Anthy agreed to…?

—

"...What's so fun about this?"

Anthy stared at the white blanket in front of them, and the trees that were sprinkled with white powder. There were icicles hanging above the door frame, and snowflakes fell before their eyes.

"I'll show you!" Utena took Anthys hand, and led her into the snow. She then crouched down and formed a ball as carefully as she could. Anthy watched the process with curiosity, what could you possibly do with something as small and delica—

The ball smacked her in the shoulder and crumbled.

Utena couldn't stop herself from giggling. "Did I hit you too hard? I'm sorry!"

Oh. Ok.

Anthy sees how it is now.

She then traced Utenas movements from earlier, rolling and gathering the snow into a sphere, and then swiftly attacking Utena with it. But one ball wasn't enough! The thrill rose up inside of Anthy, Utena could throw back at any moment! So she made another one and stood up as fast as she could. She lost some balance (the two pairs of jeans weren't helping, they only stiffened her movement), but she managed to chuck one in Utenas direction. But she dodged it! And while Anthy wasn't paying attention, she made not one, not two, but three snowballs! And they crashed into Anthy one by one.

So then the war began.

Dozens of snowballs were thrown across the yard. Utena hid behind the trees, Anthy hid behind the bushes. Utenas movements were much quicker and harder to predict, but Anthy was able to hide and move to different areas almost instantaneously, rewarding her with a good hit into Utenas sides and back.

Though, eventually, Anthy rolled out of the bushes to the right of Utena, when she could've sworn that she was just in front of her. She laid on the ground, her dark and curly purple hair contrasting with the harsh white snow, and she breathed in and out, trying to catch her breath from all of the fighting. But she couldn't stop laughing. Everytime it got quiet and Utena thought she was ok, giggles erupted from Anthy again and again. After a while, Utena got down beside her.

"I-I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun…" Anthy breathed.

"Thank you for going out here with me." Utena booped her beautiful hooked nose.

"Of course…" She let out one last huff before simply looking into Utenas eyes.

After a beat or two, Utena rolled on her back and then moved her arms and legs up and down. The sudden movement caught Anthys attention.

"What are you doing?"

"Making snow angels! Do what I'm doing."

Still puzzled, Anthy adjusted her position and then mimicked Utenas technique out of pure curiosity. Though, her limbs soon started to ache, and the freezing snow pierced her all over. Not to mention her curls intertwining with the wet powder, which will undoubtedly tangle and cause a lot more trouble than usual. This is on the list of things that Anthy believes only she can understand. Soon, she got tired and stood up.

"You're done already?" Utena asked as she also stood up.

"It's cold..." she rubbed the sides of her arms, hugging herself. "What is a snow angel anyways?"

"Look behind you!"

Anthy then turned to see two particular shapes pressed into the snow, humanoid figures wearing dresses, and curves on the sides that are meant to imply wings. Utena then stepped around the angels as carefully as possible, went into the bushes, and found a stick, using it to carefully draw a narrow circle above each of them.

"Tadaaa! Now they're really snow angels!" she beamed.

"Why do you like doing this, Utena?"

"Hm? It's just simple fun. I used to do this with my parents, but now I have you! I thought it was a nice opportunity to have a nice morning with y—ACHOO!" she rubbed her nose midspeech, and her body made her sneeze one more time for good measure.

"You're very sweet, but we should go indoors. It's far too cold out here."

"G-good idea…"

[transmascutena]

a bit of fanart to go with my utenanthy reunion fic that i wrote... exactly 9 months ago today apparently! utena comes home one evening to find an anthy on her doorstep.

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Is there a dream fanfiction project you've always wanted to tackle but haven't had the chance to yet?

Actually, uh, yeah, I do! I even have an esoteric title!

The dream project is called "a wonder and a terror", in reference to Keanu Reeve's answer for how it feels to grow old. I want to go back and revisit most of the worlds I used to visit in fanfic. That would include Final Fantasy 7, Sorcerer Hunters, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Hellsing, Slayers, Gensoumaden Saiyuki, Gundam Wing, Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, Trigun, Gargoyles, and Generation X--aaaaaaaaall stuff I once obsessed over.

The thing is, I was writing/reading fic for those works when I was a teenager. And most of these works also feature teenagers, or very young adults. In a lot of cases, these shows are literally about child soldiers, or extremely young/inexperienced adults being forced to take on The Good Of The World.

The theme I'd take on in all these fics will be threefold:

What happens to child soldiers when the war ends and they grow up?

What happens to folks who thought they'd die on the battlefield who live long enough to experience aging?

What happens to characters who became powerful/famous under one gender identity who try to transition?

In addition to flipping characters' genders or their cis status, I plan on doing a LOT related to characters having chronic disabilities, physical as well as mental. And there will be a lot of shipping, many of it for ships I never explicitly wrote for in the past. (Specifically, I'm very glad that Barret/Cloud's time has come 'round at last.)

Some fics are already released on my account. "Entering King" is where I introduce the idea of trans man!Sanzo, which ties into some of the stuff I wanted to do for the Gensoumaden Saiyuki fics. My Gen X work is going to take place in the same canon already established here. Not a lot has been completed yet, but I do hold out hope that I'll get there!