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those two baddies from Naruto you like (sorry Idk know their names, but they look lovely together, plus I like hearing you talk about them). + Cherry Magic AU [let the ninjas do a corporate job and be a gay mess]
Thanks so much for your patience while I answered this! I haven't seen Cherry Magic at all, but I have it on good authority that if I've seen any BL where one of the main plot devices (or the only plot device) is miscommunication, then I've basically seen Cherry Magic. I'll be taking my best stab at what I think the show is while making this AU. Also, thank you so much for enjoying my yammering about Kisame and Itachi, I do love it when the ninjas are a hot gay mess.
On another note, I just started reading "The Isekai World's Books Depend on the Corporate Slave," or "Isekai Office Worker" for short, so I'll be giving you two freebie headcanons of an AU of that for KisaIta as well to make up for my lack of knowledge about Cherry Magic.
AU Headcanons Ask Post for those who’d like it!
So, based on the full title of Cherry Magic, I know it's based on that trope where if you're a virgin for 30 years, you become a wizard. And from my own recollection, I know one of them gets the ability to read minds, but is still so horrendously oblivious he can't understand the main interest is gay for him, and keeps thinking the love interest is straight. Unfortunately, one of KisaIta's best strengths is their communication, so this is a difficult AU to do for them fadsjdsll. I'll do my best interpretation of Suitable Arrangement by Ant_Bee to achieve this, since they've written one of the best cases of KisaIta miscommunication I've ever seen. Between the two of them, I think Itachi has the mind reading power, since he's more likely to overthink and not be used to interpreting people's more intimate/personal thoughts and could potentially be dense about it (is more likely to write those off or make excuses for certain thoughts to himself.) Meanwhile, it's very easy to interpret Kisame either way, as either having sexual experience, or being somewhere on the asexual spectrum and while he's not shy about sexuality or intimacy, he just hasn't had anyone catch his interest until Itachi. So I want to make Kisame Itachi-sexual and a 45-year old virgin with the ability to control water on a small scale and talk to sharks. Also, since I'm unlikely to make this an actual fic or anything anytime soon, I'll leave it to audience choice if Kisame is canon shark man Kisame, or Black/half-Black half-Japanese Kisame.
I think the premise will be just a little ridiculous, but the rest will be pretty grounded of like "I can maybe see this happening in real life, or at least suspend my disbelief and pretend this is a scenario that could happen IRL." I think Itachi's main job is being a corporate mercenary, where companies can hire him to work for rival companies and ruin their sales from the inside for a specified amount of time, or do other kinds of sabotage. I think he's been doing this since he was 22, and is just great at doing cold reads of people, and eventually he developed the perfect power to accompany this skill at 30. I think the Uchiha family tends to have kids when they're older to maximize the amount of time they have access to their powers, and they all tend to develop these genjutsu, mind manipulation-y powers like creating illusions, reading minds, copying skills and techniques, type of things. So a lot of them go into more high profile fields like lawyers, CEO, intelligence gathering, etc. So Itachi just being a salary man basically makes him kind of a black sheep in the family, but he's good at it, it makes a lot of money, and keeps Sasuke out of the typical Uchiha jobs as well so he can pursue a more artsy path in life, so why should he change. His most recent job is to ruin Seven Swords Seafood and Cookware. I think it's just funny if the Seven Swords in this AU sell knives and manage fisheries.
I'm going to base some of this on my favorite salarymen BL, Akuheki by iimo, because that's my strongest understanding of salarymen BL since it actually has the business stuff be a main plot point. But, basically, Kisame is Itachi's senpai in the company and shows him around, and Itachi discovers he's basically a 45 year old virgin who uses his water manipulation powers to pull neat tricks at the water cooler and make heating up instant ramen more fun by making shapes with the steam while he waits. Itachi is immediately like, "I need him carnally, but that would destroy my entire life's work." So to continue denying his feelings and the way that Kisame is flirting with him and is surprised by how much he likes Itachi, Itachi finds a woman co-worker from an affluent family who's interested in Kisame as well, but her family is particularly picky that she marries a man of status. So Itachi gets sidetracked on the side quest to turn Kisame into her family's ideal man by getting him promoted to section chief and all these other nitpicky requirements. Meanwhile Kisame's just... "wow, Itachi-san is really good at his job and likes me a lot, I'm excited to ask him out on a date to my favorite restaurant."
Most of the external tension and conflict is going to come from Itachi wanting to quit his job because he genuinely wants to be with Kisame. Eventually Sasuke encourages him to go for it, because when's the next Kisame going to come into his life? So Itachi eventually fakes his death and hides out in this remote village where his company will never find him, and sets up a nice house near the beach and a fishing boat for them to live at, and Kisame eventually finds him there.
I do think that Itachi has a friend at his company who vouches for him dying, and even if the company finds out that Itachi's still alive, the friend will confirm that he's no longer a virgin, and therefore no longer useful, or a threat to them, so leave him alone. I think Itachi finally getting rid of his power and embracing Kisame fully would be such a nice symbolic thing, and it's a pretense he hides behind, but they both know that it's truly Itachi choosing Kisame and wanting to do this with him.
Also, here's your bonus Isekai Office Worker headcanons:
Isekai Office Worker is about Kondou Seiichirou who stumbles on a young woman getting sucked into a portal. When he fails to pull her from the portal, they both get sucked into it and sent to a fantasy world, where Yua is a saint who will save the fantasy world from a curse called the "Miasma" while Seiichirou asks for work, and gets assigned to work for the accounting department, where he starts trying to make their lackadaisical staff into a functional accounting department that actually manages the books properly to make sure there's an emergency reserve fund for when the Miasma starts wrecking havoc on the world, but also because he can't live without working.
This world and premise is so fitting for a KisaIta AU to me, since Itachi being Seiichirou and Kisame being the super hot captain of the Knights Third Order who is a prodigy at magic and the blade is perfect. Honestly it could also go both ways where Kisame's a normal office worker who's found his only purpose in working could be similar to Kisame's dedication to Obito's promises of a new world, and ends up getting distracted by Itachi who he just jumps at every command Prodigy Knight Captain Itachi gives. But I think with Seiichirou giving Aresh some sass back whenever Aresh tries to care for Seiichirou is a more Itachi thing to do. Also, Itachi having Anime Wasting Disease from using the Mangekyou Sharingan in Naruto canon is a great parallel to Seiichirou's mana/magic sickness. On that note, I do prefer ItaKisa, where Itachi is the top, and there is a moment where the Isekai Office Worker protags speedrun getting into the relationship where Seiichirou nearly dies and Aresh has to save him using magical healing cock; I think it would be so peak for Itachi to be the top in that situation, especially with how that scene plays out in Isekai Office Worker. It's good both ways honestly, but just, small Itachi bridal carrying giant Kisame and being so gentle with Kisame is *chefs kiss*
In the most recent chapter I read, it ends on a joke where Seiichirou says "I don't consider anyone younger than me a love interest" which is a devastating blow for Aresh, but for Kisame I just picture him silently smiling but in his mind he's just "YEAAAAAAAH" lmao. In the reverse situation Itachi keeping a stone face but internally dying, screaming, throwing up is hilarious to me as well.
the Ex-Aid crew (heroes and baddies, take whoever you want from the gang) + Ghostbusters AU
Thanks so much for sending in this ask and for your patience while I answered! This ended up getting so, so long, so I'm putting it under a cut!
AU Headcanons Ask Post for those who’d like it!
0. You get a bonus simply for the AU being called the Ghostbugsters AU lmao.
I think from my own personal preference, I wouldn't have it be a Ghostbusters AU where it follows the exact beats and premise of the movie, and I'd also likely stage it in Japan. Ghost type media I generally like are Mob Psycho 100, the early arcs of DanDaDan, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Junji Itou's works, and Mieruko-chan, so I'm would draw more from those to create the overall vibe. I hope that's okay! I feel like as long as they're the ghost equivalent of sanitation workers with the iconic uniforms and equipment, it should still work? Also, since I'm determined to not waste multiple spaces on "this character would be this or that," I'm going to list all of my headcanons in this bullet point as well.
The Ghostbusters: Nico, Asuna (haunted by Poppy), Emu (possessed by Parad), and Hiiro. Kiriya is their receptionist who sometimes goes out into the field, but prefers to hang around and spin around in his desk chair and drink his fancy, sugary coffee orders (he only wants to go out into the field when too many people start calling in and being at the desk is a pain.)
The Ghosts: All the bugsters (the usual suspects, of course, lol), Masamune, Saki (I love the idea of the body still being piloted around by a collection of small spirits like in Katashiro no Itansha, the hivemind is not Graphite tho, I have created three Graphite/Saki entities in this AU, ruh roh), Taiga (bakeneko that takes human form.)
The Regular Humans ™️: Kuroto, Jungo, Nisshi, Haima, Riko, Mizuki and Satsuki IDK If I missed anyone else who is crucial but the usual humans are going to be humans in this one.
The Momose Breakdown: So, just to go more in depth of the three Graphite/Saki entities, here they are. Original Goods Saki. Saki who got murdered by Masamune as a ritual sacrifice, but because that ritual messed up, part of Saki's soul didn't fully metamorphose into a "bugster" (yokai) as it should've, so there's this remnant running around. Saki's now soulless meat suit that got possessed by a hivemind of small spirits that I will be referring to as "Momose." The hivemind got so entangled with Original Goods Saki's memories the longer and longer they possessed the body, they genuinely started believing they were her, causing a lot of misunderstandings as they added to the way Saki haunts the narrative. Graphite, a yokai that was created from Saki's sacrifice by twisting and transforming her soul into a yokai that looks like a dragon. As a twist on Graphite being one of the only complete Bugsters, he's now one of the only incomplete yokai.
I'm not entirely sure what the diverging event will be, but I think there's going to be at least two different endings to this AU: one where Kiriya becomes a full-time Ghostbugster, and Haima becomes the permanent receptionist; and the second where Kiriya stays as the full-time receptionist and Haima helps him with the workload and keeping the office organized.
I imagine the Ghostbugsters got started in this AU sort of like the Spirits and Such consultation business in Mob Psycho 100, where people come to them for pretty mundane problems, but are convinced there's some sort of supernatural problem. Nico and Emu started it up because their repair business was failing, and it turns out there's lots of gullible people who think their faulty pipes groaning are ghosts, but they also give the repairs a supernatural twist to help convince the customers they're doing the exorcism they promised. Eventually, they end up getting Asuna as a customer, who's actually possessed/haunted by a ghost and totally out of their area of expertise. They try their best to figure something out, cobble together a prototype of the Power-Packs with their repair equipment, but it doesn't fully work. Eventually, Asuna's exposure to Poppy develops into psychic powers, so the Ghostbugster team ends up doing some actual ghost consultations and exorcisms, and they have to hire Kiriya as business picks up and they need a receptionist to handle all the calls. Eventually they're approached by Hiiro and Haima who give them the budget to create the final version of the Power-Packs and the uniforms on the condition that Hiiro gets to join the team.
They generally try to help the ghosts pass on peacefully, but there are some who are malicious that they can't reason with and are causing harm, so they suck them up into the Power-Packs, and eventually plug the ghost storage into their business' power grid to save on electricity. They discover that the ghosts' energy can get leeched out into electricity, and they eventually disappear, like fully erased from the reincarnation cycle, can't go to heaven or hell kind of disappear, and the team can have an ethical debate on that. Maybe it's a plot point that they get rid of that aspect of the ghost storage system.
I'm trying to think hard about how the ghosts in this AU would look, and how the ghosts from Ghostbusters looked, and all I'm coming up with is Slimer, lmao. I think I want to pull from Bly Manor and No, I'm Not a Human, where the ghosts forms kind of reflect their moment of death. In Bly Manor, one of the ghosts seem to have these huge glowing eyes, but you can pretty quickly put it together that it's light reflecting off their glasses. And eventually it's revealed that the blinding light is from the headlights of a car that ran that ghost over, and the glasses are still being held onto by the living relatives. Of course, there's exceptions to the rule, like the 10 main bugsters looking more like yokai, and Gamedeus. I really really want to give Poppy a monster form since I feel like she was done dirty by not having one. I also like the idea of the length of time a ghost exists effects and evolves their form. This isn't really a new concept, (think of kitsune and nekomata, where they grow more tails the longer they exist and get more powerful) but I really like the way that Mieruko-chan plays with this idea in it's most recent volume (I'm keeping it vague to not spoil it.)
I know it can't be like an endless cleaning video game (I guess it can, but I'm imagining writing this and I would want to stop eventually, lol) so there's gotta be some kind of conflict or plot. So that's where the ritual sacrifices I mentioned forever ago come in. In the background, slowly becoming a foreground conflict, Kuroto will be sacrificing people and using the rituals Masamune did to continue his father's work, but also show up his dad that he can complete the ritual he couldn't. Kuroto will be sacrificing people, transforming their souls into 10 specific yokai (the 10 main bugsters) to open portals around Tokyo that will connect into a big one that eventually summons Gamedeus. One of the final arcs leading to the climax will be Kuroto and the 9 main bugsters hunting for the Saki fragment running around to fuse her properly to Graphite, and Asuna and Poppy to complete their transformation, to complete the ritual, with the Ghostbugsters trying to bust Graphite or Saki first and keep the fusion from happening. Maybe Kuroto creates Lovelica and he serves as a replacement for Poppy so Asuna doesn't have to die.
I think there would still be the iconic scene where Gamedeus tries to get into the Ghostbugster's minds to find their ultimate fear, and creates a giant Pac-Man because Emu and Parad panic and think of Pac-Man as a reference to the crossover movie with Ghost. Maybe Takeru and the gang shows up briefly to help out, that could be fun lol.
It's not gonna happen anytime soon but I got to talk over a bit of Just Two Bros' lore with a good friend and I wanna do a rewrite of it eventually. Probably not anytime soon until I have everything planned and written out to where I could probably do monthly updates. I also wanna get all my Castlevania notes sorted out so I can get the remake of that AU up and out. Not sure which one I wanna prioritize since Uuultra C is still occupying my brain right now, especially as of my replay with Marine.
I know there's a lot of posts from OTW about guest spam comments but like, could they put out a post about what's being done about bot accounts? Cuz I'm getting hit with comments from accounts way more and those accounts are still up on the archive.
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i fell in love with uuultrac recently and thank you so much for all your fics!!! i'm loving them so much!
YAAAY always great to hear other people are falling in love with Uuultra C!!!! welcome to the fandom and thank you so much for reading and enjoying!!! I hope to keep writing when I get the chance!
@aroihkin If you're the same aroihkin as on Ao3 I just wanted to send you a very heartfelt thank you for reading my works and leaving kudos and I wasn't sure how else to get into contact!
4. what tag do you search when you need a good cry?
Hoshigaki Kisame/Uchiha Itachi.
A good chunk of the fics that come out of this tag that I've read are so heart wrenching and solidly written like omg how???? The pure tenderness and the doomed lovers nature of it all goes so hard. And like, angst and stuff is normally something I don't really engage with, but KisaIta/ItaKisa writers know how to make it palatable and delicious to me, probably because the angst is usually balanced with incredible understanding of Itachi and Kisame's dynamic, and/or overwhelming tenderness.
Fic Recs: Grant My Last Request (just let me hold you), For The Man Who Has Nothing, Uncover, Wake, and Even Tomorrow, You Will Have Today
5. what tag do you search when you need a good time?
It fluctuates based on my fandom at the time, but the Uuultra C tag has never let me down, yet, since all the writers there are so talented and I love pretty much all the cast to pieces.
Fic Recs: The Righteous Mask, One Step, murmuring, sparkling, living love, 地下之歌 (only Chinese version available), The Beach Curse, and Just Desserts
15. what tag are you going to search first when you open up AO3 again?
Might be ZENO since I just finished all the routes, though I definitely need to read a guide to refresh me on what the name of each ending is, lol. If not, I might do my weekly peek into the Gozyuger tag.
This is from an upcoming fic in my 'Specimens' series!
A brief shudder ran up and down Kiriya's arms, remembering the squirming feeling of Graphite's blood vessels wrapping around him and squeezing when the vampire first "awakened."
Tagging @marinehaddock, @aqua-tan, @polkadotcache, @chocochococoffee (no pressure to do this, but you all came to mind as writers!)
idk if I'll ever get around to writing this but I'm thinking about it again, so might as well write out the summary.
Anyway, @heteronumber and I made an AU where Emu has an accidental baby acquisition of Parad through mitosis. Slice of life with hint of sci-fi AU where if you get the bugster virus you have a small chance of accidental mitosis where a video game child just sloughs out of you.
Parad goes to the same elementary as Saki and Graphite. Emu just happens to be waiting to pick Parad up and talks with Kuroto as they kind of flirt and get to know each other, then point out their kids. And Emu's like "yeah my kid is— oh my god that kid is biting my son" and Kuroto looks over and, "ah, that would be my son."
After they break the kids up, they're still wanting to connect and exchange numbers.
Kuroto got his kids from accidental human Saki acquisition. Either through adoption or he's the next living relative. And Saki gets sick with bugster and Graphite separated from her so Kuroto just:
Kuroto: I sure thought there was one of these yesterday but guess I have twins now
Kuroto: come on kids let's go buy saki 2 a bed
-lines that had me dying by @heteronumber
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Here's the Fanfic Day Asks if you'd like to reblog and do them yourself!
4. Do you prefer writing long or short fics?
Hm... I feel like I'm more of a medium fic writer. I know that there's fics out there that are like upwards of a million words, but I seem to solidly live in the 200-30,000 word fics so I'm going to go off of my own range. Most of them fall in the 1,000-9,999 range. (197 to be exact. I have 97 fics in the 200-999 word range, and 17 fics that are 10,000+ words.)
To add onto this, I feel like I have too much to say about a concept to ever write a drabble if it's piqued my interest enough that I'm writing a fic about it. I do really like to get into the whys and hows of the fic being set in a particular moment or AU. But I also don't have enough power yet (or time) to write long fic and make a coherent plot and pacing for it and also make sure it gets complete. This is something I gotta work on with myself, but multi-chapters make me varying amounts of anxious.
8. How often do people catch onto your little details.
Not often. But also a lot of them are often just like, really small or just for me to come back to and smile that they're there so I don't usually anticipate people picking up on things.
Off the top of my head, one of my constants is if I write Kuuga fic that features the morgue, Kiriya from Ex-Aid is there as one of the interns. Timeline-wise that definitely doesn't make sense, but it's funny to me.
I'm a strong believer in my 'Kuroto is much smarter than he comes off because Takahashi didn't understand the implications of Zero Day' headcanon: Basically Maki is a pathologist, so if Saki was getting tutored by him, she might've wanted to go into pathology, and Jungo was a forensic pathologist, possibly the primary pathologist in the department at the time of Zero Day, so Kuroto was literally taking out all the "firefighters" in the lives of the Kamen Riders before "starting a fire" so the response time was much slower, on top of having influence on CR and their equipment. This hasn't come up much in my fics, besides anytime I'm pointing out Saki is definitely a competent medical student and not just a damsel. But I definitely want to expand on it more in fics. Ever since I came to this headcanon in about 2021-ish, I'll always write Kuroto, Maki, Saki, and Jungo with this in mind.
All my Uuultra C little details are usually just references to different toku or things that the game itself references.
13. Do you have a favorite character to write for?
Can I do one for each of my fandoms? I'm gonna do one for my top 3 fandoms.
Ex-Aid: Kiriya - I'm really proud of my growth on being able to write his voice and mannerisms and generally convey how intelligent he is while not being the sharpest tool in the shed myself.
Uuultra C: Suzu but from other character's perspectives, Akira for his own perspective - It's really fun to write Suzu as this character that the others are all kind of crushing on because 'oh no the most beautiful girl in the world just looked at me.' Also I feel like it's generally easy to nail down his aura while using Shirou's perspective. Akira is so fun and kind of a 'turn my brain off' while writing because I simply write that "unloved unloved unloved," and "broken ass marriage!" cat posts whenever Shou does something that creates the tiniest inconvenience for him or ignores him for a second. Around that, his personality is so clear because he's generally a very says and does what he's going to do (unless it comes to Icarus stuff or his past) that I can write him easily.
D.Gray-man: Krorykiiinsss - I love writing him all blubbering and pathetic. I don't like the "this character is pathetic so i'll make bad things happen to them to make them more pathetic" trend I often see on my dash. Krory completely changed my perspective on 'writing pathetic characters' because I don't really need anything bad to happen to him, something spooks him or he thinks of something sad and he's crying and clinging to Lavi who's immediately petting him to calm him down and I love that for them.
Me!? Tagged in a writing game!? I'm so flattered @droppedalltheseoreos, thank you! It was quite an adventure going through my published things, but I think I've gotten them all.
Writing Tag Game
Rules: I’ll give you five words. Find the word (or the closest approximation you can) in your works and post an excerpt. Tag others to play and give them new words too!
words for you: accurate, sword, sigh, doubt, ballet
My responses below the cut.
relief - in man versus himself (Toward the Terra, T)
There’s no air left in the room—no room left inside your head for you. You clasp your hands over your ears even though you know it won’t help, can’t help, doesn’t help. The teacher’s irritation cuts into you, but that pain is a relief when they order you to the Discipline office and away from all the unwanted guests in your mind.
lesson - in show me now (what harvest brings) (D. Gray-Man, G, Kanda Yuu/Lavi)
And then someone is leaning against the wall right at his side. Kanda winds up a biting lesson on personal space until he sees red. Lavi, smirking. Pleased.
damage - in moonlight red (Persona 3, M, Kirijo Mitsuru/Yamagishi Fuuka)
Mitsuru drags a talon across her own neck. “Yes, I am certain there is quite a mark. I can assure you it likely looks worse than the damage done.” She lets the silence stretch between them, poised still like a statue.
ring - in i can't be your saint (D. Gray-Man, T, Kanda Yuu/Lavi)
“I worry about the rumors I hear. Kanda Yuu is known for being—”
“Taciturn. Uncooperative. Violent,” the apprentice supplies. Wonderful, forty-nine adds.
“Dangerous.” Bookman’s words ring heavy in the wet night air. “Dangerous to himself and those near him. And so are the missions he is sent on. The Black Order directs Kanda Yuu’s rage at some of its most lethal enemies. When you are sent off with him, you share the same burden.”
visual - in she cares (Kingdom Hearts, E, Aqua/Phantom Aqua) (that's the closest to visual I had)
When Aqua manages to pry her eyelids the smallest bit apart, one thing cuts through her haloed vision: fierce, icy eyes unblinking. The thing squeezes harder once their eyes meet, and Aqua’s eyes fall shut again.
Donbros is truly the show of all time but I fear it's gonna be one of those "so good I'm afraid to make fan stuff of it" shows. Especially because Sonoza is so peak to me but there's so much in the way he moves and his expressions that makes his character so my usual route of writing fic probably won't be sufficient for wanting to see him more.
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Waugh, I'm very late on this, so thank you for waiting! @marinehaddock tagged me in a writing challenge I'm going to link here since it's a pretty long post!
Writing Tag Game
Rules: I'll give you five words. Find the word (or the closest approximation you can) in your works and post an excerpt. Tag others to play and give them new words too!
My words: meet, cycle, drum, queen, tape
New words: relief, lesson, damage, ring, visual
Absolutely no pressure to do this, but you're the first writers who came to mind.
I totally don't remember which words I used in what fics, so I went from my least interacted with fics to look for the words and slowly moved up the list.
Meet
After the long drive home with a certain dragon in his ear the whole time, Shirou barely had the energy to take his clothes off and put his pajamas on. But he still managed it. Force of habit from years of working at SCP was the only thing keeping him moving until he finally collapsed in his bed. He curled up under the covers, pulling them tight around him until his mind drifted off somewhere halfway between sleep and awareness.
A place that Suzu was more than happy to meet him in.
A sharp claw drew itself down the shell of Shirou's ear. And even though the pad of the finger it was attached to didn't touch him, Shirou could still feel the warmth radiating off Suzu's body. The nail skimmed down his jaw, then came to rest under his chin.
Shirou turned easily when Suzu applied pressure, letting them tilt his head up and his body turning fully towards them. A sharp inhale filled Shirou's lungs. No matter how many times he turned to see Suzu lying in his bed, as if they were truly there, it would never fail to take his breath away. Dozens of researchers in their department, and Shirou was lucky enough to be the one to get assigned to Suzu.
- Keep You in Mind on Ao3
Cycle
The flashing of neon signs outside the window caught on Kiriya's skin, tinting it shades of green, pink, yellow, blue, then back to green, endlessly going through the cycle and forcing him to squint as he stared out with his forehead pressed to the glass. He never really noticed the view before, but it's really something...
Maybe that's not entirely accurate. He noticed it before, when he first moved in and was still starry-eyed and fresh out of his residency, when everything still seemed new and exciting.
- I'm Sick of Being Guarded on Ao3
Also, little shoutout to Rev Your Engines
But as a motorcycle, there was almost nothing beyond the rumbling of the engine inside of him, the pulling or squeezing of coils, and whirring of belts and cylinders as Graphite's weight shifted around and each part did its thing.
Drum
Yamato leaned on his handlebars with a dreamy sigh. The boy in the garage across the street from where he'd parked just stood up from the car he'd been working on. The mechanic ran his finger along the side of the wheeled cart he'd pulled up next to the car. As he glanced over the tools laid out, he drummed his fingers along the edge, as if he were playing the piano along the tools. Yamato wanted to cross the street and hold his hands, run his fingers along the boy's and kiss his palms.
After a bit more thought, the boy picked up a pair of pliers, setting down his wrench with his other hand. Yamato bit his own finger to cut down on the urge to cross the street and actually do any of that. He didn't know that guy at all, so that was a recipe for getting punched in the face.
- From a Distance
Queen
Shirou trembled. With anger, of course. Definitely not any sort of involuntary reaction to Isshiki pulling him into his lap suddenly to pet his hair. Anyone would be pissed off if a drag queen picked them up out of nowhere to start messing with them. Shirou wondered if this was some weird plot to get him into makeup or some lacy and weird clothes again. Maybe Isshiki was going to try styling his hair with a curling iron or something stupid like that.
Isshiki was paying special attention to the ends, too. He'd run his fingers through the strands, then Shirou could feel the way Isshiki lightly pinched and tugged at a lock. Then his fingers would go back to the top of Shirou's head, nails pressing into his scalp gently and dragging down in a way that made him shudder and lean his head back toward Isshiki until his long, delicate fingers reached the ends again.
When Isshiki started twirling a lock around his finger, murmuring "What nice hair," Shirou had enough. At this rate, Isshiki might really try to style it.
- Soft Bunny Ears
Tape
"Oh, Taiga look!" Saki excitedly bounded over, trying her best to present whatever was in her arms to him, "They have the first generation Drago Knight figurines!"
Taiga turned from the shelf full of second-hand VHS tapes with a copy of Kiki's Delivery Service clutched tight to his chest, like someone might come to steal it from him at any second. He stared at Saki, precariously balancing five vibrantly colored boxes in her arms. Her hair was all messy, and her face was slightly sweaty, like she'd been exercising right before she ran up to him. The two of them stayed frozen for a while, Saki's eyes glued to the VHS pressed to Taiga's chest. Meanwhile, his eyes wandered over her, distractedly going between her disheveled state and the boxes.
"So... what do you have there?" Saki asked slowly, nodding towards the VHS in his arms, "It looks like there's English on the box art?"
- Taiga Really Steals? No Dignity.