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I'm Kina (kinaesthetic/kinaesthetique)! I write about girls falling in love and kissing and examining what it means to be human or otherwise. I also like to break my toys sometimes, but I know how to fix them.

I do not take requests, or commissions, but most importantly, I do not take creative direction for my fics.

I'm notorious for writing characters in ways that make me happy. :) This tends to manifest with explorations on gender and neurodivergence or odd/alternate takes on canon. That's okay if it's not for you.

I would personally prefer to NOT have my fics placed in public ranked bookmark collections, even if the list is 5/5 stars or whatever. Thank you!

Now that's out of the way, I love in-universe plots with changes to canon, supernatural additions, supernatural/non-human AUs, and wingsssss! Sometimes I draw for my fics and other times I seek commissions. I'll occasionally post art here as well.

This blog is mostly for posting in-progress snippets, working through fic logistics, answering questions, and crying/yelling about headcanons. I reblog art and other fandom stuff to my main unless it was gifted to me. I do not post what my main is publically for Reasons™, but if you keep an eye on your notifs, you'll probably find me.

I write slowly but I don't give up or abandon. Longest wait for an update was 4 years on the dot. ┐⁠(⁠´⁠д⁠`⁠)⁠┌ I have a full time job, a full time academic career, a house, and three cats. I write whenever I get the energy and the time. :') I'm always grateful for the patience of my readers, so thank you whether you've been here since 2013, 2017, 2020, or yesterday. 💛

Currently Active Fandoms

RWBY

Overwatch

Permanent Rotating-In-Mind Characters

Nora Valkyrie

Weiss Schnee

Satya "Symmetra" Vaswani

Penny Polendina

Pyrrha Nikos

Ruby Rose

Blake Belladonna

Fox Alistair

I only really have one "signature" ship and that is sympharmercy. I'll write whatever looks cute, usually sapphic rarepairs. At the moment, I flip between fixating on Nordic Winter and Valkos.

Acronyms and Tags Below

found all the conversations excerpts for 29 that i struggled with writing for the past several weaks, already written out and perfect.

Team MYNT is the only first year combat team comprised exclusively of Faunus students!

Marine "Mar" Axatilus

Faunus: Fish - Fins and scales on ears, forearms, and calves

Semblance: Hydrokinesis - controls water

Partner: Yasmin

Personality: Cool, calm, and no nonsense, Mar is the obvious choice for leader! Mar is inclined to keep to herself for a variety of reasons, which bleeds over into her team's tendency to be somewhat insular. She's sharp and very observant, as well as unapologetic for her needs and accomodations. She doesn't care much to retaliate against bullies, but she doesn't mind when Yas has fun in her stead.

Fun Facts: Originally from Menagerie; very thick prescription glasses; going to Beacon was her first time leaving Menagerie; despite having a faunus trait better suited to an aquatic environment, Mar decided to train as a huntress anyway with the intention of protecting aquatic faunus settlements; totally oblivious to Yas' flirting... maybe? they've been doing this dance on and off for so long

Yasmin Tigris

Faunus: Tiger - Tail

Semblance: Shadowstripe- As long as there is a combination/balance of light and shadow (think a sun dappled forest), Yas can fade into the background and remain visibly undetectable

Partner: Mar

Personality: Yas is incredibly willfull and opinionated, never afraid to stand up to bullies or anyone who tries to get in her way. A self-described mean lesbian, she takes zero shit from anyone but especially human boys. She'd eat Cardin for breakfast if she hadn't already scared CRDL off early on.

Fun Facts: aro as hell and loving it; tiger stripe tattoos; Sienna Khan's biggest fan; parents sents her to huntsmen's academy as an attempt to distract her from her dreams of joining the white fang (it's only strengthening her resolve); grew up on Menagerie

Navina Rana

Faunus: Bullfrog - Spots (typically mistaken for moles)

Semblance: Bellow - can make herself heard over incredible distances; can also use her voice as a short-range attack

Partner: Tia

Personality: Navina is sweet and a little shy, but very sure of her desires, even when she's a little unsure about pursuing them. She's easy to tease and easy to please. She often acts as her team's peacekeeper. She's the first to back down or try to avoid attracting attention. Similar to Ilia, she grew up on the mainland, typically obscuring her faunus heritage. To avoid closer scrutiny, she learned to be agreeable and quiet.

Fun Facts: Born on Menagerie, lived there until she was about eight; knew Yas as a kid, who called her Navi; also knew Tia way younger, though she did not recognize her at first; Navina's family is pretty big and she's the youngest of the middle children and the second to attend a huntsmen academy; her eldest brother attended Beacon academy several years prior on the support track; pretty used to being overlooked

Tia "T/Tea" Lampyre

Faunus: Firefly - skin glows when excited, brightest where her vitiligo is most prominent

Semblance: Flashbang - intentionally flashes brightly and dazes her target(s), both mentally and visually

Partner: Navina

Personality: Tia is often mistaken for a loudmouthed idiot, but she really is a firecracker and quick to set off her fuse. She's more than happy to defend herself and others, damn the consequences. She'll loudly and brightly do what's right, even when it makes her unpopular and misunderstood.

Fun Facts: orphaned by a mine accident and shipped off to relatives in Vacuo, Tia was the kind of kid who learned to hide sadness from a young age; nearly Flashbang'd half the forest in her excitement when she locked eyes with her old childhood friend; always dresses to show off her vitiligo

Read the MYNT side story here!

her introductory monologue does soooo work for both her and ren and i love it so much

"you're the perfect student and i'm– well, i'm me!"

felicity and callie coral are allusions to nurse joy (pokemon)

initially only felicity existed

however in ch 15, the one where weiss gets sent back to bed, i realized as i was writing it that i was having waaaaay too much fun with felicity and i realized she was completely off base. and then i thought "what the fuck is a nurse joy allusion doing without at least one twin"

thus callie was born because i was gonna be damned if i gave up the fun i had writing her

they're fraternal twins. callie is cis and felicity is trans

they had matching birth names and have traditionally had a very tight, do everything together, relationship

felicity was worried about changing her name because she didn't like anything that matched callie's birth name. callie told her to fuck it and pick something she liked and she would follow her lead.

callie picked calamity bc of the suffix and also "one of us should pick something cool"

they're inseparable... except when they're working. one of them works in the satellite infirmary that services the combat wing. the other works in the campus hospital. on any given day. they like to switch up who's where. sometimes they'll both get scheduled in the combat wing.

it's very hard to tell them apart by sight (or scent).

they also have quasi-allusions. with felicity's being mercy and callie's being moira (overwatch)

(don't @ me it's quasi for a reason. callie's not evil; she's just chaotic sometimes)

callie's semblance is tactile empathy. she can get a read on someone's most prominent feelings by touching them. it works through 1-2 layers of clothes. were it to evolve further, it would allow her to pass her own emotions to whoever she touches

felicity's semblance is tactile anaesthesia wherein she can put someone into a relatively deep sleep with a single touch. hers does not work through fabric. however, she can keep hold on multiple people. however, the more people she has under control, the more her hold slips on her first victims to the point where they may wake up on their own. it doesn't work on grimm (as it requires an aura to work, she doesn't know this)

*whimpers*