Hello, Ukatake fam! Here is chapter 1 of my contribution to the HQ Sword and Sorcery Big Bang! (https://x.com/swordandsorcbb)
A whopping 50k words were required for this bang, but mine will be a bit longer. (I'm still working on it, so I don't have a chapter quantity yet.)
Anyway!
My artist-teammate is @thejerseydevile, who drew some amaaaaaazing illustrations, as well as this gorgeous full color scene, which can be viewed here, as well as in the fic itself!
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Wild Whisper's Waning
Fandom: Haikyuu / HQ
Rating: Teen and Up
Pairing: Ukai Keishin/Takeda Ittetsu (UkaTake)
Genre: Fantasy AU
Summary:
It’s been five years since Prince Keishin Ukai went missing in Karasuno. Most believe he left the protection of the city’s magic barrier, and that he was devoured by the mist that plagues the hostile landscape of The Wilds. But in the heart of Nekoma, Keishin keeps his true identity a secret, abandoning his family name along with his role as heir to his grandfather’s throne. Now he sits behind the counter of his pawn shop, smoking cigarettes and turning book pages between the exchange of money and goods.Â
He exists. Purposeless. Winding down his clock in cynical apathy.
Things change, however, when a very strange man enters his life. A nameless man with secrets of his own. He’s peculiar to say the least, with seemingly bottomless coffers of knowledge, but an astounding lack of caution or understanding of the real world. It’s clear the man can’t be left to fend for himself. And the broken shackles on his wrists are alarming at best.Â
Keishin agrees to help him, reluctantly at first. But what begins as an urge to protect someone so devastatingly helpless becomes something far more powerful than Keishin ever could have imagined.
