simplymindspace said: I shall most certainly post my thoughts on this when I have more time later today/nite. But just, DAMN DOC. JUST DAMN.

You’re the only one I can be this forward with BUT IF WORDS FAIL YOU A SKETCH IS FINE

skylineofspace said: I really love the way you build characters in your stories, by putting in details that are off from what one might think as the default of a situation, and then tying them together with a reveal. It works really well for both Haruka being adopted and for Michiru’s goal at the end.

 Thank you so much!! When I started this AU, a lot of my “stock” solutions for Haruka and Michiru didn’t quite work, so in some ways it was really challenging to make my own conceptions of character hold against this setup, especially when we CAN’T see what Michiru is thinking or feeling. But I think I like what I ended up with! 

Keyofjetwolf said: “and another half of my brain, the part that was the worst at math” ACTUAL LOL

THANK YOU I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY

: MOUSE IS HERE TOOOOO (I now realize that Mouse has appeared a hell of a lot more than I realized, which I feel particularly daft about. STILL. MOUSE.)(Though maybe Ghost Mouse? I’m thinking very possibly. Did Michiru kill you, buddy?)

MOUSE ENDS UP A LOT OF PLACES ahaahah 

GHOST MICHIRU IS LONELY AND HAS WANTS AND DOESN’T REALLY CARE WHETHER YOU SHARE THEM HARUKA I love that you’ve made her dangerous.

I was just thinking about Michiru, and what if she’d spent a hundred years watching and waiting, and finally saw something she wanted? Something she craved. 

“She had the same look in her eyes, and they were even stranger in full color, like they’d seen everything, and wouldn’t tell you, they would just let you drown.” This is one of those lines you come across every now and then, where it’s just so fucking good you kind of want to scream. God.

THANK YOU SO MUCH I LIKED IT TOO

“She was talented and set to marry Mamoru Chiba” WELL I’D PROBABLY FLING MYSELF TOO HONEST

AHAHAH

“Of course we want to come to your giant palatial mansion, holy shit rich kid.” Mina was about as nice about this as usual. ANOTHER LOL

THANK

“Ow!” She threw off the sheet. “Oh my god, I’ve been hit by a popcorn ball but also inspiration. Let’s do some ouija board shit!” Oh my god Minako you fucking idiot, this is amazing, my anxiety just shot through the roof.

I AM SO GLAD. Horror and humor are the two hardest things to write, i think. 

The glass moved again, not waiting for a hand. C..A..T..G..O..T…Y…O…U..R..T…O…N..G…U…E..? –Michiru finally gets to speak and this is what she says. MICHIRU KAIOH YOU ARE DEAD BUT YOU SHOULD ALSO BE ASHAMED

MICHIRU PLS

Man, I have so many ouija board shit, this really sticks with me. I’m glad you went there.

I LOVE TO SCARE YOU SO SO AM I

“Mina’s right. I’ll go into the basement for a pretty girl.” I love this. LOVE this. That despite everything, despite KNOWING better, Haruka’s convinced herself on some level that Michiru’s not dangerous. And it’s such a stupid fucking thing to do, but Haruka – EVEN MORE HERE PERHAPS THAN USUAL – as a goddamn martyr complex and wants to save the fucking world and everyone in it. And she, too, is lonely, and wants to love and be loved, and she wants a girlfriend and god, she’s just SO UNSPEAKABLY STUPID about this, but so understandably, and I adore it so fucking much. If there were one genre that would be yours, I think we’d agree it would be horror. And I love how the person is much at the root of it. Haruka’s being haunted, but it’s her own nature that’s really doing her in here. Those are ideas that are always so present your horror stories, and it makes them just so delicious.

THANK YOU. Yes I feel like horror is personal, and this moment, that sentence, is the linchpin of what I think this is for Haruka. That she can’t leave it alone. Despite everything she knows about MIchiru she feels BAD. She feels like she can save her. And that strange goodness that Michiru, if we could hear her side, could barely understand, well, that just makes her bolder. 

“I don’t know what she wants. But I think it’s me.” WAIT THAT’S IT THAT CAN’T BE IT WHAT THE FUCK HOLLIGAY WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE F

AND YET

Shadowsarefriendstoo said: This is a fucking masterpiece. Those layers add a depth to this otherwise fairly simple storyline in a way that sent actual chills crawling down my arms. Not just in the…spoopy scenes if you will- but those tiny emotions mentioned, the parallel and that lingering sense of insanity are so seamlessly woven throughout the writing. Gah, I just love it. Haunting beyond Michiru’s ghost who was being really fucking extra and creepy as well. Good god, she’s dead and she’s still the more dominant of the two.