#soudesu

Requested?: Yes. “I hope you’re eating well 💓👾 Can I request mafia Jin’s reaction to you shooting a gun? 🦑🦑🦑”

Pairing: Jin x Reader

Genre: Yandere, Angst?, blurb, Mafia

WARNINGS: guns, blood, death 

A/N: I am eating VERY well thank you! and also I really enjoy that you added the squid emojis they really made me happy idk why :)). I’m really rusty on doing Mafia shit so I apologize in advance.

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Christ, why didn’t you just listen to Jin? He just wanted to teach you how to fucking disarm someone in case anything were to happen, but no- you had to throw a fit in the middle of the lesson as to you why you didn’t need to know this skill. 

You’re an idiot.

“It’s simple. Just give me the code.” The burly man spoke, aiming the pistol straight at you. 

“Your guess is as good as mine, asshole.” You retort, trying to buy as much time. Both you and the man were standing in front of the safe that Jin held preciously to his heart. Truly, he never told you the code because well, you never needed to know.

You couldn’t scream out for Jin, or the man would kill you right there and then. Okay, Jin said to go for the wrist- but what if you’re too weak? Are you going to be able to shoot him? You can’t kill him- do you have to kill him? Your brain couldn’t form a practical solution and the man was growing impatient.

The attacker cocks the gun, his stance becoming rigid. He’s ready to shoot.

Without thinking, you lunge at the dude. Grabbing his wrist and using all your willpower to move the weapon towards the air. A gunshot rang throughout the office. Drywall from the ceiling dusted over both you and the attacker. You twist the man’s arm just enough that he drops the gun. 

You quickly grab the weapon, aiming it straight at his chest.

Do you shoot? Where do you shoot? The chest- no he’ll die- but he tried killing you- but that means you’ll be a murderer- but-

You broke out of your thoughts when your instincts took over you as you saw the man run at you, earning you to shoot him, not even looking where you had shot him.

The door slams open to a distraught Jin and his men behind him armed and ready. Your boyfriend runs over to you, embracing you into a tight hug, ignoring the man who seemed to be choking on his own blood on the floor.

 “Jin- I shot him. I-I-I killed him.” You sobbed through your words, letting go of the object that made you a murderer. 

Jin holds your cheeks, making sure you were okay.

“Hey- no you didn’t. Baby you didn’t- look-“ Jin reassures you, bending down to pick up the gun and shooting the struggling man on the floor. His body becoming limp.

“I killed him. I did. Look at me.” He says, wiping your tears away. You do as he says, hiccuping as you try to keep your composure.

“I did it, not you. Okay?” He whispers into your neck. You nod incessantly, still trying to convince yourself. Jin’s men shuffled around the room, trying to dispose of the body.

“You’re okay. You’re with me.”He reassures once more, kissing your forehead.

For once you realize why Jin always had you hidden away and locked up from the world. He wanted you safe, and you love him for that. 

What you don’t know is that he had hired that man to come into the office to attack you. He didn’t think you had it in you to shoot the man, but more trauma made you more vulnerable nonetheless which allowed Jin to pick up your pieces.

久しぶり、みんなさん！Today, I'm going to talk about そう and らしい. Some of you have probably encountered そう already, as it's a standard part of everyday speech because it has tens of meanings. We'll only care about a few meanings for now.

Initially, そう is often introduced as "seems like" or "looks like", which is true. But I'm going to hold off on that now because of reasons. 

そう can mean "I heard that ~~". Let's see an example:

そのレストランのケーキがおいしいそうです。

"I heard that restaurant's cake is delicious."

A lot of you might be jumping in to say "Why can't it mean that the restaurant's cake seems good?" It's because of how the sentence ahead of the そう is phrased.

When you want to report something that you heard or something that people say, you use the sentence in its entire form. I realize that might be hard to understand, but let's see how the sentence would look if I wanted to say seems.

そのレストランのケーキがおいしそうです。

"That restaurant's cake seems delicious."

You may have noticed that the い is missing from the the second sentence. When you take off the stem of a verb or the い from an い adjective, the そう being used is "seems like". When the sentence has a full sentence, then the そう is "I heard". Let's look at the next one:

みやばし先生がうつくしいそうです。

I heard Mr./Ms. Miyabashi is beautiful.

This sentence would be a little odd if it was "seems". "It seems that Mr./Ms. Miyabashi is beautiful." Unless you're suspicious about something that seems obvious, it would be weird to use "seems". Not only does the presence of the い make it "heard", it also helps it make sense.

Also, as a note, this does not mean that you have to hear it from "people". You can hear it from the T.V., newspaper, blog, etc. 

But, what if you wanted to use nouns or な adjectives? Like if you heard that some homework was simple.

しゅくだいがかんたんだそうです。

簡単／かんたん is a な adjective meaning "simple". 

Now, you'll notice that a form of です is used twice: once in its plain form, and again at the end of the sentence. When you have a な adjective or a noun, a だ has to be there in the appropriate plain form. This doesn't mean it has to be in present positive all the time though.

たかばさんが先生じゃないそうです。

I heard that Takaba isn't a teacher.

みかさんがねむくなかったそうです。

I heard Mika wasn't tired.

The key is that そうです is always present positive. In Japanese, "I didn't hear" doesn't really exist in the そうです format. This is sort of like how 思いません doesn't really exist, as "I don't think" is a little bit of a misnomer. There's really no way to say "I didn't hear that." (as in "it wasn't heard by me) without sounding a little obnoxious or rude. 

Now, for そう meaning "seems like" the rules are a little different. As I mentioned before, the stem of the verb/adjective is cut off, so this is more of a suffix than a word. 

おもそうです。

That looks heavy.

With 重い／おもい being the い adjective, the い is cut off, letting the そう hitch on. 

雪がふりそうです。

It seems like it is going to snow.

Here, the ます of ふります is taken off and replaced with そう. 

Once again, nouns and な adjectives use the same rule:

かのじょがしずかそうです。

She seems quiet.

In a な adjective's condensed form, the な is cut off and there is no です/だ. 

Now, here is where things get a little tricky. What if you wanted to say "He doesn't seem okay"? You can't change the verb/adjective because the そう has taken over the part that typically changes.

かれが元気そうではありません。

He doesn't seem all right.

In this case, the そうです changes as appropriate, because it's the only part that can change now. This is okay, because "doesn't seem ~~" makes sense. Is the the opposite of "I heard" in the sense that "I heard" makes the sentence before change, while "It seems" makes the です after change. This is the key grammatical difference between the two. Here are some sentences to practice by yourself. Try to identify if it is a "heard" そう or a "seems" そう.

わかばくんがいそがしそうです。

うどんがからいそうです。

面白い本だどうです。

その国があつくないそうです。

このアイスクリームが寒そうじゃない。

A note before we move forward. The "seems" そう is left as そう in reference, and the "heard" そう is そうです is reference.

Now for らしい. I'm mentioning らしい because it is very similar そう. らしい is an い adjective meaning "seeming", "~ish", and "typical of ~". For example:

かのじょがゆうめいだらしいです。

She seems famous.

かれがやくしゃらしくないです。

He doesn't seem like an actor.

らしい's rules are a mix of both そうs. You can change either the sentence before, or the らしい after depending on what sort of inflection you want. In a way, らしい is closer to the English seems because of this flexibility. However, in Japanese context "He seems like not an actor" and "He doesn't seem like an actor" mean pretty much the same thing. Of course, the former sentence is awkward in English. 

らしい can also be used for "____-like". For example:

かめらしく、いつもおなかがすいた。

Like a turtle, I'm always hungry. 

スミスさんががにぎやがです。うんどうせんしゅらしいです。

Smith is energetic. He's like an athlete.

かなしそうです。はなこらしくないです。

You seem sad. That's not like you, Hanako.

Now, what sets らしい apart from そう is that らしい means you have reliable information, or at least more reliable than そう. This blurs it with そうです a little. そうです means that "From some information source, I heard ____". らしい is like "Based on something reliable, It seems like _____". そう means "I don't really have any proof, but it seems like _____". Here's an example:

このスミス先生によって本がエキサイティングだそうです。でも、スミス先生らしくないだから、本が好きそうではありません。

I heard this book that Mr. Smith wrote is exciting. But, that doesn't seem like Mr. Smith's style, so I don't think I'll like it.

Wow, this sentence was a handful. But it sort of embodies each term nicely. そうです means "heard", as in I heard from someone that the book is exciting. らしい is seems like, using Mr. Smith's earlier work to make a standard for what kind of person/author he is. And そう it seems like I won't like the book, but I don't really have that much to support my theory other than a feeling or bias.

This is らしい's only context by the way. There are several different types of そうs besides the two I mentioned. 

An adjective form that expresses that we think something is probably (adj), or that it is seemingly (adj) based on our impression of it. Usually this impression lacks enough evidence to conclude the fact so it is just a guess. For example, before you eat something you might say it is 美味しそう (seems delicious) just based on how it appears, then after you eat it you would be able to declare that it is indeed 美味しい (delicious).

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Conjugation:

い-adjectives = drop the final い

ex. 美味しい（おいしい) -> 美味しそう（おいしそう)

ex. このりんごは美味しそうです。- This apple looks delicious.

な-adjectives = drop な

ex. 元気（げんき) -> 元気そう（げんきそう)

ex. キムさんは元気そうでした。- Kim seemed healthy. 

Negative ending ~ない is changed into ~なさそう

ex. 難しくない（むずかしくない）-> 難しくなさそう（むずかしくなさそう）

ex. この本は難しくなさそうです。- This book does not look difficult.

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Usage (modifying a noun):

そう as a な-adjective

ex. 美味しそうなバナナ (おいしそうなバナナ) - A tasty looking banana.

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*Note - usually impressions are based on visual evidence so you cannot use ~そう for visual based adjectives like きれい (pretty) since they would not be a guess.

Sob, thanks for actually talking to me. There were like, 15 people reading that post and only 1 of them messaged me -_-

Sigh. I'm terrible at thinking of facts (but I'm glad you tagged me ^^) Studying can wait.

I love your blog and your icon is adddorrable.

I'm very impressed you actually remember my name.

I just learned that heck is a combination of hell and f*ck and it depressed me because I use that all the time but I don't like swearing that much.

I'm obsessed with tumblr and I'm trying to limit my time to an hour a day because I waste way too much time here.

Whenever anyone asks me for my favorite color, I always say white, but I like all colors equally (except for some really gross  ones).

I'm really weird with numbers and I have specific ones I like/don't like. For example, I hate 7, but I like 17. 

I like turning times into a math problems (I think this habit started when I was first learning how to multiply). It's 10:55 right now, so I turn it into 10=5+5. However, I don't really like this time because the numbers sound weird (haha refer back to #6. Whoever's reading this probably thinks I'm crazy right now, lol.

I like reading nonfiction more than fiction (but it has to be interesting, not biographies or anything like that)

I wish I could write, but I'm lazy.