#noshiko

Thank you!! Here's Noshiko for you ~

2/ The tricksters are there for balance, more than Deaton could ever be. If there is light, there is darkness, but tricksters can be benevolent to bring the light or malevolent to bring the dark. The nogitsune was polluted. It actually made me super angry that she got away with what she did because it was outside her pact with her spirit. She had to have known that she was only going to treat her own spirit badly by her own actions.

I totally get how she called the nogitsune for vengeance – certainly well-deserved because of what was happening, but Noshiko is hundreds of years old. She should have known what a potential disaster it could have been, and she had 70 years to try and clean up the mess. It  makes no sense to me that she basically just came to live in Beacon Hills, knowing there was a chance the nogitsune would be free, and didn’t tell the local emissary, or alpha, or anyone? 

She should have clued Deaton in from the beginning - even before she returned to BH. 

Yeah, the trick with the show is not to think too deeply about what’s going on, or it all unravels! 

Laura hated it. She hated how powerless she felt in the face of that impassivity. She wanted to rage and be raged at. She wanted to feel bone breaking under her hands. She wanted Noshiko to give her something.

What she got wasn’t planned. It was late at night, far later than usual, but it had been a bad day for Derek and Laura had fled. Holing up in the gym to avoid her shell of a brother was cowardly and she knew it, but beating her fists bloody against a rowan-filled punching bag was less painful than hearing her brother gasp through his fourth panic attack of the day, so here she was. The banshee was hosing down the boxing ring as the last of the day’s patrons limped out the door. She eyed Laura warily but didn’t tell her to leave.

Laura had almost worn herself out when Noshiko had appeared beside her.

“If you leave those fingers broken for too long, they’ll heal that way,” she warned, as if Laura didn’t know. As if she cared.

Laura kept punching. She didn’t mind the pain. One, two, three hits until the heavy chain holding the bag broke and it went skidding across the floor.

Noshiko didn’t flinch. She never did, even in the ring when Laura came at her with a roar that had sent seasoned hunters running. She watched, idly unwinding the wraps from around her wrist. Her knuckles were scraped and red, her bare shoulders and stomach sheened with sweat. Her expression revealed nothing of her thoughts.

“Are you looking for a fight?” Laura asked, itching for it. Itching for the chance to get the woman on her back. To get the upper hand, just once.

“I don’t need to fight,” Noshiko said. “Not the way you do.”

“You don’t know what I need,” Laura snapped back, fists curling.

“I know better than you might think.”

oh this is actually one of my favorites of all my rare-pair oneshots!! i accidentally talked myself into shipping this, like, for real for real, lol

Laura is a character that is so often used as a foil for Derek in the sense that she has to be the well-adjusted one, to contrast how Derek is falling apart, but i neeeeeeded fic where Laura is fucked up too!!!! she went through the same trauma that Derek did, but she has eldest daughter syndrome on top of it, having to repress her own emotional response for the sake of taking care of her brother.

in this fic, she is just so so so angry, and there's nowhere good for it to go. she can't let it out at the person who burned her family, she can't let it out at Derek because he's fragile, she can't let it out at the family that left her behind because they're gone, but she can take it out in the ring. she can vent it at strangers. she can turn it on this woman who is so fucking immune to it that it makes her want to scream even louder.

the intersection between messy-broken-angry characters and quiet-self contained-still-broken-but-maybe-half-healed characters is a fascinating one to me. the latter is so much harder to spot. Noshiko has a kind of poise to her that means no one would ever guess she's got a core of deep pain and loss. Laura certainly doesn't see it, because it doesn't look the same way hers does. how can anyone grieve without burning down? it's a lesson she needs to learn.

meanwhile, Noshiko can look at Laura and see herself a hundred griefs ago. the way she had raged in her first human lifetime. it's a pain she recognizes and she connects in a way that she doesn't usually do with humans anymore. she knows better than to get attached to every human she comes across -- a hundred griefs, one for each -- but this is an empathy she can't ignore, and she learned a long time ago that it really is better to have loved and lost in the end.

it's just a relationship dynamic that i really invest in every time i come across it.

(also apparently underground boxing rings are just one of my bulletproof tropes, i will never not go a little feral over underground boxing rings)

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All of these are so adorable but I have to make a suggestion for the pirate AU. Imagine... PIRATE Queen Noshiko. (And mayhaps an alliance with a small Oceanside kingdom via Kira marrying prince Stiles??)

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i like the way you think

Yeah, I was always a little confused as to whether the tails were physical, or if the obsidian things were just a representation of those tails…