They Still Say I'm A Dreamer

❰❰ Aoi ❱❱

@duelrisen​

Green and red hair. White jacket, thin frame… And a smile that never failed to make Aoi stop still, green-blue eyes widening in surprise. He’d vanished so suddenly and for so long, she’d thought the worst - What if he’d gotten hurt? In trouble? Needed help? He’d been nowhere on the island she could find, and now… Now he was standing there like he’d never left, a sight that had her feet moving before she could stop herself, strides quickening into a jog in his direction without another thought.

“Yuya-!”

“—Oh, hey! It’s you!”

That probably wasn’t the most elegant of greetings, but it’d seemed like forever since Yuya had last seen the approaching girl. Disappearing to help solve the world’s mysteries hadn’t exactly helped his case of staying in touch, but at least she hadn’t seemed to forget him! Especially when Yuya wasn’t sure if he would’ve ever ended up in a position to meet up with Aoi again.

“I almost forgot that this was the dimension you stayed in. It’s been so long since I’ve been here,” Yuya would start, “Things are still okay here and everything, aren’t they?”

It really wasn’t, no, but at the very least, she wasn’t about to let it stop her from breaking into a broad smile just from the mere sound of his voice. If she could hear him, then he was real - Real and there, and not some kind of figment of her imagination just because she’d-

“Missed y’,” Aoi breathed the moment she was close enough to him, smile morphing into a grin bright enough to rival the sun. She’d thought for so long she‘d been catching glimpses of him, or seen him somewhere around the island; with how suddenly he’d vanished, he couldn’t have gone anywhere else, and she’d spent so long searching, to no avail. Long enough that she hoped he wouldn’t mind he hand reaching out for a tug of his jacket - She... Wasn’t imagining him, right? “...Yeah - Y’ real, right?”

That had been a stupid question and she knew it just a second too late, cheeks flushing pink.

Green and red hair. White jacket, thin frame... And a smile that never failed to make Aoi stop still, green-blue eyes widening in surprise. He’d vanished so suddenly and for so long, she’d thought the worst - What if he’d gotten hurt? In trouble? Needed help? He’d been nowhere on the island she could find, and now... Now he was standing there like he’d never left, a sight that had her feet moving before she could stop herself, strides quickening into a jog in his direction without another thought.

I think, a year months later, Aoi’s redo is done! The only thing remaining is to tidy up her new relationships page a bit, which involves adding links, actually rewriting the relationships there, and add in a few missing icons, but for the most part, things should be complete! <3

Of big notes to this rehaul:

-I’ve removed a few verses (Rose Of Fate, Wings Made To Fly...) and condensed others for a smaller verse list. My main partners for some have left, be it the fandom or tumblr as a whole, and thus aren’t available to continue things, while in other cases I simply had way more verses than I actually needed and could easily combine them into others (i.e. 1 post canon verse for GX rather than three).

-Shipping is closed. That’s not to say it can’t be reopened in the future, but as it’s not a priority to me or Aoi and ships take a great deal of plotting and building up before they happen with her, shipping is and will stay closed until one possibly builds up there again. Ships I already have/those remaining are unaffected by this rule change.

-Everything has been rewritten. This includes rules, so please give things a looking over! <3

-Aoi isn’t an idiot and I will stress this from this point forward. I don’t care if your muse’s first impression is that she’s stupid. I don’t care if your first impression is the same; that’s reasonable! But if we’re not talking/plotting ooc and you’re not giving me or Aoi a chance to show you otherwise, and/or treating Aoi poorly on the basis she’s ‘just stupid’, I can and will drop threads. A big part of the reason I lost interest in writing her was people deciding on two replies that she’s nothing but an idiot and treating her like trash, and insisting to me she was ‘nothing but a moron’, all while ignoring any attempts to explain why or trying to not be. Her friends and even I affectionately call her stupid, but Aoi has reasons for how she acts. Allow time to get to know my muse past a first impression.

-Aoi now has a The World Ends With You verse, but this is by request only.

I’m pretty sure that should be everything at this point, though I’m probably missing something. XD Replies to kept threads will be coming in the next few days, but please keep in mind Aoi will remain on slow activity for the foreseeable future, too! As much as I love her and want to get back into things here, I still run multiple blogs and deal with a lot offline; it’s going to be a long time before she’s super active again, but this is a start! <3 And of course, if anyone has questions or needs clarification my ask box is always open!

Here’s to a new beginning <3