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I almost made a Zexal multimuse today so I thought...why not put everyone on one blog? that makes sense, doesn’t it? I don’t have to keep switching blogs and I don’t have to worry about reblogging to the wrong blog. so that being said, this blog is now closed and my muses are over at my new blog WORDSCARRED.

some tidbits to be aware of:

I won’t be keeping most of my threads ( outside of my alternate university threads ), but you’re welcome to ask for new ones there.

I’m effectively RESETTING every one of my muses. things have gotten so cluttered that I’m not having fun anymore. so all RELATIONSHIPS and VERSES have been cleared and are ready for a new beginning.

my muses now come with an AVAILABILITY setting and a SHIPPING setting.

green checks mean everything’s good to go! interactions with those muses will be abundant and shipping is open and encouraged.

yellow question marks mean I’m iffy, either on shipping or the muse themselves. sometimes I’m just not feeling them! yellow muses will normally be request only for this reason.

red x’s mean these things are a no go — sorry! even if we were previously interacting or shipping, I’m now not accepting either of those things. some muses I’m going to be focusing more on their personalities and thus I’ll be keeping shipping away from them so I can enjoy that! others I’m keeping as uninteractable until I’ve gotten them down.

My rules are effectively the same.

For those of you who know and love it, Alternate University won’t be affected by my new rules as it’s technically a separate “canon” from my main verses. It’s highly plotted out and doesn’t follow the canon of the Zexal, Arc-V or Vrains animes at all. Rest assured that you’ll still see regular Alternate University content from Kasa and I!

Verses and muses will be getting new tags! Things will hopefully be more organized because I’m really bad at that.

My blogs @sctsunai and @shincbinaku were not merged, so you won’t see them there! My Yuus are still on hiatus and I made Kasa and I matching themes for Astral and Yuuma so I wasn’t giving that up.

If Takeru had noticed Ryoken’s smug grin at his comment, he ignored it. In his mind, his offer had been completely innocent! After all, if Yusaku actually went through with wearing that jacket out in public with the two of them like they were wanting, then he deserved something as compensation for his suffering cooperation.

Though maybe his phrasing was something that’d end up being used against them both.

“I don’t think the school has any festivals planned until winter break, so I think you’re safe. It’ll be worth it though, I promise.”

          “It’s not that I don’t trust you, Takeru,” Yusaku starts out with what should be followed with ‘but I don’t trust you at all,’ “but you like showing off more than I do. I hate when people in our own dorm talk to me, let alone pay attention to what I’m wearing.”

          “You both look great, so you should stop worrying,” Ryoken admonishes, but Yusaku doesn’t look like he’s buying it. “Besides, I’ve been waiting forever to give you these. The least you could do is wear them at least once for me.”

A far off dream that Takeru honestly couldn’t understand. Yusaku pulled off his Playmaker hoodie well, and aside from all three of them in matching jackets obviously attracting attention, he looked nice! Takeru thought it was nice to look at, at least.

“C’mooon, Yusaku,” Takeru all but pleaded again. Stubborn or not, he wasn’t about to let one of his best friends slip out of something like this so easy.

“Wear that jacket out once for us and I’m sure we’ll make it worth your while somehow.”

          “You’ll—” Yusaku stops himself before he even tries to address that; it’s innocent to Takeru, maybe, but it was clear they needed to have another talk about phrasing if Ryoken’s grin was anything to go by. He shakes his head and just lets it drop. They can talk about it another time when Ryoken’s very presence doesn’t make him want to punch something.

“C’mon, Yusaku! You should! That Playmaker jacket fits you a lot better than it does either of us, so you shouldn’t be so self conscious of it.”

Maybe it was where Playmaker was actually Yusaku’s avatar inside Link VRAINS, but no one in the room could deny that he actually looked the best decked out in his online persona’s greens wand its neon yellow stripe. Takeru approved; now it was just a matter of getting Yusaku outside their dorm room so everyone else could see that, too.

“You should at least wear it to class one day.” 

          “Can’t you two wear your own instead of mine?” Yusaku asks, even though he knows it won’t happen. If they’re going to force him outside, which he knows they will, he’d rather they’re not all matching and drawing even more attention. If Takeru could stick with Soulburner and Ryoken with Revolver then they’d be fine. Of course, asking the two of them not to embarrass him seemed like a far off dream...

          “Don’t you want us supporting you?”

“Besides, they’re warm!” Takeru seemed to chime in right behind Ryoken, already leaning forward to try and tug the Playmaker hoodie out of Yusaku’s personal space. Yusaku had been stubborn about things before, but obviously this was going to take a little more effort on their part to convince him of. 

Maybe he could just plop the jacket on Yusaku’s shoulders himself?

“C’mon! We’re still behind closed doors, so it’s not like anyone but us will see you right now anyway. Just try it on to see how you like it, then you can judge all you want.” 

          They were behind closed doors, yes, but something told Yusaku that if he put that jacket on, he wasn’t going to get it off anytime soon. Still, with winter rolling around, it was a little cold and he could definitely use the warmth. 

          “Fine, fine!” he finally agrees, tugging the jacket back from Takeru and slipping it on. It fit perfectly, not too tight or too loose, but comforting and warm. Ryoken definitely had these custom made, but when he got the measurements — well, Yusaku decided he just didn’t want to know. It was better this way.

“They won’t stare! And even if they do, just pretend they’re staring at us instead of you.”

That probably wasn’t much motivation for Yusaku to go along with this, but that cold stare threatening to burn holes right through the both of them wasn’t stopping Takeru from already slipping into his Playmaker hoodie. It fit perfect and it was warm, so Takeru couldn’t complain.

“But if it makes you feel any better, Yusaku, we can always wear the Soulburner ones first if you don’t feel like standing out that much!”

          “Yeah, neon colors will make me feel better about it.” 

          Yusaku knew Link Vrains wasn’t very popular around their campus but that didn’t mean he wanted to look like his avatar — or, worse, a fan of Playmaker. Couldn’t he just get some peace? A quick glance at Ryoken also slipping on his Playmaker hoodie said no, no, he couldn’t.

“Well, I like them; even if Yusaku doesn’t.” Takeru can’t hep but mention, examining the last of his three new jackets before glancing up. 

That smirk plastered over Ryoken’s face had its way of irritating him too, but Takeru couldn’t deny this was actually a well thought out gift from him for once. They weren’t embarrassing to him; these jackets were top quality. 

“You shouldn’t be so quick to judge these, Yusaku! They’re nice! Especially now that we can match whatever we have something important come up. Though, if you don’t want your Soulburner one, I can always take two.”

          “They’re nice. It’s you two I’m worried about,” Yusaku grumbles, and Ryoken would almost say it was cute if it weren’t for the dead stare Yusaku was giving him. He acted like Ryoken had insulted his entire family with the jackets.

          “I think we should wear the Playmaker hoodies around for a bit, then,” Ryoken says, and Yusaku glares at him. “Until Yusaku’s not so self conscious about wearing his own. It’s the perfect way to support him.”

There was more? 

Never losing his smile from pulling out the first, Takeru lets his new jacket drop on top of his school bag before he goes investigating more. He’d been so excited about seeing a Soulburner jacket that the other gifts had gone completely unnoticed until he pulls out a Playmaker-esque top that mirrors the one Yusaku’s holding and Takeru’s smile only grows.

“Look, Yusaku! I’ve got one of these too, so now we match! Neat, right?” 

          Yusaku’s about convinced Ryoken’s going to explode from being so smug up until he sees why. Takeru’s holding a Playmaker hoodie that nearly perfectly mirrors his own and Yusaku can see that underneath it, where Takeru hasn’t looked yet, is another jacket with Revolver’s design on it. Ryoken had hoodies custom ordered, and Yusaku confirms his suspicion by setting down his Playmaker hoodie and pulling out the Soulburner one in his size.

          “Ryoken, you motherfucker.”

“Must be good if it’s taken this long to come in…” Takeru mumbles, inspecting the box before casually popping open on of its tapped shut ends. Ryoken’s given him the go ahead though, and before long, Takeru’s managed to pull out the fabric inside to hold out proudly in front of him.

And his face instantly lights up right after, too!

“—Hey, these’re all custom made, aren’t they? Not that I ever wanted a jacket that looks like my avatar’s or anything!”

          Ryoken grins as soon as Takeru’s face lights up. Takeru had said months ago about wanting a Soulburner jacket and Ryoken had found a custom designer online that had been willing to make, well, nine custom made jackets. Takeru hadn’t even seen his other two.

          “Oh God,” Yusaku groans as he opens his own and holds up the Playmaker-designed hoodie. It’s amazing, yeah, but now he knows Takeru’s going to make them wear them all over campus! He’s right as Ryoken opens his own and shows up his matching Revolver hoodie.

“…Mine?” 

Takeru barely had enough time to drop his bag into a nearby chair before a box was shoved in his direction, his confused blink more aimed at the gift than at the sudden pet name Ryoken had used. Takeru could remember ever asking for anything?

“Isn’t it still a little early for Christmas presents though? I thought we still had over a month before we’d have to worry about that?”

          “This one isn’t a Christmas present, it just took a while to come in,” Ryoken explains with a gentle smile. Takeru is adorable when he’s confused and technically he never knew about the present in the first place.

          “I’m suspicious,” Yusaku pipes up, and Ryoken simply rolls his eyes and shoves the second box at him, much to Yusaku’s annoyance. Still, it was interesting that a present had taken that long anyway.

It hadn’t even been a ‘situation’ until sometime after Ryoken had shown up either. Calling their second year a ride was probably a complete understatement, but that hadn’t meant that Takeru hadn’t adjusted to it all the same.

Ryoken was an obstacle to get use to being around in himself, but the second Takeru had made his way through the door-

“Yusaku, you didn’t tell me we were all meeting in here today. I would’ve brought back something!” 

          “I was just waiting for the coffee, and then he,” Yusaku gripes, gesturing to Ryoken somewhat grumpily with his pencil before returning to his book, “decided he was just going to aggravate me.”

          “You’re so mean, Yusaku,” Ryoken pouts but it’s really only a smile as he picks up one of the boxes and checks the label. Yusaku glances up again when Ryoken holds out the package with a smirk. “He’s only grumpy. Here, this one’s yours, babe.”

          “Okay,” Yusaku says around a bite of his granola bar, pointing the end of his pencil at the flat boxes on the table between them, “I’ll bite. What are those?”

          Ryoken only grins and that just makes Yusaku nervous. This second year of college has been a ride so far, and Ryoken hadn’t made it any easier. Worse was that Ryoken and Takeru were far too eager to show off their...situation.

          “No, no, Yusaku,” Ryoken scolds with a smirk, “Not until Takeru’s back from class.”