#what happens when you're neck deep in a ship and a character and a fandom and wants to read quality fics but there are almost none

[djappleblush]

It's so frustrating how you're so excited to read a very specific scene in a fanfic AND IT'S NOT JUST FVCKING WRITING ITSELF

[elmaxlys]

002 for utaren and/or 003 for adam?

Ooh thank you hehe 🌹❤

002 | Send me a ship and I will tell you: Utaren edition

When I started shipping them:

Back when I first read the manga, when I reached chapters 111 to 113. Man, I was hooked. Their young selves did something irreversible to me lmao, and then Uta hit me with the old tattoo meaning and I was Gone.

It was in 2014, iirc. I started TG when it was over but before :re was published (by the time i was finished, :re was 7 chapters in, very precisely xD i remember bc it's the chapter Nishiki calls Haise Kaneki)

My thoughts:

I've talked about this extensively in the past but yeah their friendship is insanely important to me. The way they go on about "you're my friend" it makes me bonkers. They are the definition of what relationships should be, in my book. Friendship first and foremost and above all, for better or worse. They are The QPP™. Absolutely legendary. First ship to make me so gone. I often say Percabeth was my first OTP but nothing consumed me quite like Utaren did before they did. They're my OTQP? I guess? xD

What makes me happy about them:

Yeah, their friendship. How ride or die they are about each other. Able to rip each other to shreds but will also risk their lives to save the other. How accepting Renji is of Uta's clownship (before it threatens Touka lmao). The unconditional love. The brutality of it.

What makes me sad about them:

"Nec possum tecum uiuere nec sine te". doesn't make me sad per se but ouch anyway. The abandonment Uta felt when Renji left. The intricate knowledge Uta has that he can't be by his side but they can't be apart either - to the point of getting it tattooed. On his fucking neck.

Help.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me:

Making it sexual. I don't read much TG fanfics these days (or at least not new ones. i reread my favs instead) so idk what's the trend regarding them but back then I never liked them smut. Feels unnatural.

Also once I read a fic in which one said "ily" to the other (they were in a relationship already) and the other got up and left and they broke up??? What's up with that. I genuinely don't get why saying ily to your boyfriend would make him leave?? isn't that why you're dating?? Anyway.

Things I look for in fanfic:

4th ward era. "graphic depiction of violence" is always welcome.

My favorite Them Fic

My wishlist:

They're already perfect, thank you.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:

No one tbh. They're both too aro for that.

My happily ever after for them:

I think what we got in canon is the best that could have been for them. It's a half return to what they used to be..

003 | Give me a character & I will tell you: ADAM edition

How I feel about this character:

I feel too many things in too much quantity. I feel love, I feel grief, I feel protectiveness, I feel something sink in my stomach and something lift me in the sky. He is my most beloved, my husband, the light of my days. He makes me smile, he makes me oh so happy and he's one of the reasons I cry at night. He is everything to me.

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character:

Langa, of course. Kiriko, also and also of course. Both in the EDEN and Adakiri/LoveMantis way and in the EDENMantis way uwu

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character:

With Tadashi, kink dom/sub relationship, with deep deep devotion on Tadashi's side and slowly recovering trust and friendship.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

Depends on unpopular where. If it's in the entire western sk8 fandom, the unpopular opinion would be ADAM is absolutely amazing both character-wise and person-wise. He's the best and he deserves so much love.

If we're talking ADAM fandom, it would be that He Is Not A Slut. He is the very opposite of that.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

I wish Cherry would apologize to him. I wish he'd managed to kill Reki. I wish we would know more of his past, especially regarding Kiriko. That's three things. Who cares.

Favorite friendship for this character:

With Tadashi, as kids. With Joe and Cherry, as teens. With Langa (and with Kiriko in my dreams), as adults.

My crossover ship:

With Matsuri (TG). I don't exactly ship it and it wouldn't work anyway because they're both doms but it's fun thinking about them meeting and becoming friends.

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The Ask Game

[moophinz]

I have never come across a more confusing relationship than these two fucks.

Seriously. The original first game made it clear they definitely know each other before that alley meetup, and the stabbing scene probably made a lot of people go 🤨. Really weird to say another man belongs to you. Can't just claim dibs on people smh. And then Kiryu is suddenly close with him in the second game and Majima's bitch ass almost dies for him again. Then in 3... Motherfucking three... they finally have a true bond solidified, and I'm seriously trying to make a post on whatever the hell was happening in 3. There's that much to discuss.

And then some really confusing mess happens from there. Sure, Majima hasn't appeared a whole lot in games, but then it's like they're trying to separate Majima and Kiryu though any means necessary while also still dropping huge hints on how much they mean to each other. Who needs interaction and shared screentime when you can just have Kiryu casually acknowledge that he and Majima shared tied fates "for some reason." Haha RGG what does that mean- And hell, while you're at it, have Majima be under the topic of love when talking to a hostess. Just. Do it. In the same game. Use Majima and Kiryu's close friendship against them, too. Twice. Good job, villains. Have that snakeskin bastard be the happiest he's ever looked and sounded in canon upon seeing his bestie. The audience will love it. Kiryu won't acknowledge him. Fuck it. Make them a big deal to each other even in spinoff games where they have almost practically past life versions of themselves. Zombie apocalypse? You're the only one who can put me down when I go full zombie, Kiryu-chan. But don't you dare put them on screen together for too long.

Hey, are we trying to separate them or not?

Don't stop there. Let's recreate them. Not down to the dot but just enough to make you really go hmm. Look at these fuckers.

Red and yellow is truly the greatest color dynamic they can think of huh. Zhao is clearly similar to Majima af, and Ichiban has a few of his own similarities to Kiryu. And then they've got their parallels. And then they've got their own dynamic that makes me want to snap my neck. I can't believe RGG did it again. Are they doing this consciously?

But as for Kiryu and Majima... The Western branch and localization team ship it. And pretty openly.

What more can I say to something so bold and beautiful?

The Japanese live action movie and stage play threw their own shit into the mix. Hey, uh, wtf is this? And Majima telling Kiryu that the angry look in his eyes is turning him on in the play and threatening Shimano if he tries to kill his Kiryu-chan. Wtfffffff. They both added more Majima (and Kiryu interactions) than was originally there. And they went deep. How did so many people walk away from the games with that as their takeaway about these two. Especially Majima. The translators. The movie director. The play staff. How do you even end up in a situation like this with your two most popular characters?

Yet, I don't know what the game writers even want to do with them. Half the time it feels like they're trying to escape them, but then other times it's like they're running full force into it like with the Majima Everywhere System. Not only did they add more of the fandom beloved, but they even added heaping amounts of whatever the fuck all that ho yay was. Just. Oh my god. RGG, if you're reading this hit me up at-