#rukato

Please stop burying your gays. I much prefer when they get to kiss each other and have happy endings and live happy lives.

I'm an adult who spent most of my personal and professional life working to support women, gender equality, and other feminist related matters. I also use a bunch of my adult money to commission art of my fandoms.

TERFs can frick off. BLM. Stop the genocide in Palestine. AI art is not real art. Protect trans kids!

I'm not perfect. I'm always learning. Please be understanding.

Alright. Now that all of that's out of the way, what you're really here for:

Touch of the Sun: The Tyzula work that put me on the map. Ty Lee and Azula are in love from childhood, but Azula can't admit it and Ty Lee is too scared to bridge the gap. For a while at least. 90K words.

Dragon Empress: The Legend of Azula. Six books that I wrote over 3.25 years that covers Azula's entire life from post-Smoke and Shadows comics all the way to the end of her natural life. It's a lot but I think it's worth it. Long, long, long form redemption. Tyzula endgame. 465K words.

My Moon Flower: This one is well known because I collaborated with rising super star and Tyzula fan Vago to make a comic of it for Tyzula Week 2023. 5.9K words.

February 20th: Azutara. Arguably the best thing I've ever written. Has inspired fan art! Modern AU. Azula and Katara don't realize how much of their lives are intertwined. That's the beauty of every day life: we don't know what's going to happen on any given day. 11K words.

Autumn Leaves Trilogy: Digimon fic. Rukato. Long form trilogy series I wrote over 14 years. The first fics I ever did write. The last one, "Autumn Ends" is worth reading and I'm quite proud of it. 112K words.

Funny, Anon!!!!!! ~~~~~ I don’t really have defined opinions on the series that come after the first four, with the exception of Appmon and Ghost Game. So, sorry if I will skip those other three!

Adventure 01

• Mimi: My princess💕. Along with Katara from ATLA, she’s my own definition of what a girl character should be written like, but I don’t think you want to read long explanations😂.

• Michi: Mimi was a second mc by Taichi’s side. I feel like she had a mirror role in comparison with Taichi’s, as if she’s some sort of girl icon for the franchise. I don’t know how to explain it, but she has got so much presence in the anime, in the merch, in posters; she is voiced by AIM which allowed her to have her own ending, and somehow it feels like this fact makes her omnipresent in the history of the Digimon anime. Wishful thinking, but I like them together because of so many other reasons. THEY JUST CLICK SO WELL.

-Adventure 02

•Miyako: I know I know, she’s not that jewel of character when it comes to her writing, bur her concept has always intrigued me even when I didn’t know Digimon that well. She’s funny, clever, she’s connected with Mimi, she’s also got such a cute design ngl. Can I say she’s my favourite because of these shallow reasons? I think I will find many others when I rewatch 02.

• Daiyako: MY GUILTY PLEASURE. They’re so precious in each other’s regards, always being in the middle of teasing sessions but eventually showing to care about each other so much ? They can work platonically too, and I love pairings that are amazing both platonically and romantically.

-Tamers

KINDA HARD, I will admit it. I like the characters from Tamers but I don’t feel that connected to them. I used to have a huge adoration for Jenrya but it faded somehow. I like Ruki and Hirokazu but not that excessively. I relate to Juri sometimes but she has got so many moments that make me cringe out. It’s … A complex relationship…

• Takato: Again, I’m not THAT attached to him but he is a huge cinnamoroll and a great new beginning for the franchise. I like he’s so ordinary and creative, because…I can relate🤣. And I admit people often call me a girl Takato, sooooo🤣. Like you can see, I don’t have anything to say ahahahha.

• Rukato: MY BBIES, my bbies who are so pleasant at the sight too, thanks to their matching palettes. I confess I come from being a huge Jenruki shipper. Then, I’ve grown bored of those two and I’ve started getting so attracted by Ryouki and Rukato, but the latter eventually won especially because of Runaway Locomon. How could I keep myself from shipping those two after that film? I know there’s Jurato, but the future dramas made me dislike the way things develop…

-Frontier

• Junpei: my only prince son💕

• Junzumi.

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SHOULD I REALLY SAY SOMETHING, C’MON🤣💕💕💕💕💕

- Appmon

• Eri: I like how she finally brought back a kind of digigirl who could be considered a real character with an interesting story, a nice and quirky personality, meaningful relationships. I had got tired of so many sexualized and pretty uninspiring digigirls (starting from Frontier era SIGH).

Eeeeh I don’t know. I liked Eri and Torajirou but I’ve discovered he’s 11 and she’s 14, so ehmmmmm. Even if the anime pushed it a bit, maybe it’s not the case to ship them ahaha.

I’ll go with • Haru x Yuujin because they are a parallel Jurato✨.

-Ghost Game

• Emma: I KNOW SHE IS NOT PART OF THE TRIO AND SHE APPEARED FOR LESS THAN AN EPISODE, but she ensnared me and makes me salty whenever I see her, because she would have been a perfect four member. Leave me alone, I need to cry and mope.

• Ruri x Kiyoshiro: The total flop this shipping was because in GG the kids had 0 interesting interactions and I want to cry again, because why is that anime so unfair. Still, I ship them, I don’t care. Ruri had her small teasing moments with Kiyoshiro and their personalities CLASH. Idk Ruri would take him to the worst night trips in forests, parks and he would tag along because Jellymon’s and Ruri’s personalities are so perfectly aligned!

Day 8 - Favorite Pairing:

Rukato

Playing to my weakness for matching the kindhearted dork with the tsundere, as well as my preferring couples that give off rom-com vibes. The two of them have always had a fun chemistry, being similar and [mostly] different in all the right ways. Takato is a warm and open person who wants to learn to be a better Tamer, while Rika is a strong Tamer whose strength plateaus until she learns to open up and accept help from her friends.

Green Tea Rescue By ss3dj: This right here is the longest little fic in the history of the world. At over a billion words over half of which are just Green Tea 4 Life, it says so much and so little at the same time. Of course there are moments that stand out such as...What? What do you mean I can’t self promote here? It’s my freaking list! Lowest common what? What shame? Well can I at least talk about the kissing? No? What about when Izuku walks in on Ochako and Himiko doing...? No? What about Izuku’s arm. I can talk about how it gets...No?...FINE! Okay So I’m being told I can’t talk about this one. Sorry folks. Moving on I guess.

Tamers Forever 1 - 5 By Daneel Rush: Long before BNHA and Izuocha existed, a little ss3dj grew up with a simple ship. Rukato. He enjoyed Digimon season 1 and 2, but Tamers struck a cord that made him go “WOW!” And in that show his 2 favorite characters were Takato and Rika and of course since he shipped them. It was this ship that introduced me to fan fics. I read a few, and while cute and fun, there was nothing with any real meat to it. Until I found this fic. This fic not only had plenty of meat, but it also runs the gambit of every genera you can have in a fic, angst, action adventure, humor and romance. It was the first fic that made me feel like I was reading a book. If you used to watch Digimon as a kid like me, check this one out. There’s something for everyone here.   

🅱OI

I hope you know what you just unleashed because I have QUITE A FEW. Not all necessarily how they act together, but moreso stuff centered around their relationship.

But for an easy ramble-off:

It took a lot of time for Rika to even admit to herself she liked Takato, well into her teen year; she didn’t make any move in consideration Takato and Jeri might still have feelings for each other.

During down-time and hanging out with his friends, Takato practices his anatomy by drawing his friends, and consciously or not, draws Rika’s poses the most.

Takato developed a habit to grouphug his friends after biomerge battles; Rika considers it an extra reward when it’s just Takato and her that take down a wild one and he gives her a side-hug.

Takato as the unofficial leader often turns to Rika for reassurance on his decisions. She trusts his judgement as much as he trusts hers.

Renamon was the first to notice Rika’s more frequent smiles and casual touches with Takato and kept quiet about it until Rika was ready to accept it herself.

Takato is an idiot and stares a lot; Rika knows he stares but doesn’t say anything aside from catching him when he’s being too obvious and teasing him over it. she likes the staring tho

Takato loves to hold hands and Rika begrudgingly grows to enjoy it too, even if it ruins her “cool” image.