* i share my dreams with ghosts

TIDALRITES : multi - muse featuring muses from arcane/league, final fantasy, one piece, naruto, other animanga, and ocs. i write what i like, and muses may be added or removed as i watch/read new media. NOT spoiler free. navigation & about pages for muses are wip.

i am mutual exclusive, and do not practice exclusives. personals & minors DNI , if your blog focuses on smut/usfw also DNI

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❝ then we should go to many places and leave them. then you can tell me everything you realized about them. ❞ it's a ridiculous notion, but endearing all the same, because she means it. she wants to ensure he experiences all that he can. even if that means not being in one place for long. her notoriety at least helps with that.

fingertips are loosely gripping to his arm, not out of uncertainty, but out of caution. he's not entirely steady yet, but that's just fine to her. there's sadness that lingers where they stand, what they overlook. things even now, after all this time, she doesn't want to linger on at all. but he's always carried things heavier than she has. so the best she can do, is to keep smiling, so that he might be able to mirror it.

element/noun - hymn / rites / pyre / bled

there’s a slow turn of head, earphones partially muffle some of the words spoken. not enough to not be annoyed with him when he says this. she couldn’t begin to process what level he’s on? — unblinking, gripping to something as to not be thrown about. now she understands why he is only allowed to take over in a rush.

❝ if by level, you mean leveling us into the dirt, then certainly I understand. ❞

there's the comment abt how shikigami users who can fight at close range are rare, and i think a lot of people just forget that shiori technically is one, because there's so few times she even activates her technique.

i also think about the design of her domain being so interesting bc she can use it to assist an ally also

they’d fought for quite a ways before arriving at this village, even now, they’re not really safe. he provides enough cover to allow her to heal the wound they’d gotten from the beasts that had attacked. both this walking patrol, and their subsequent encounters and rescues along the path would hopefully keep the merchants safe for a while. allow the villagers to get items they desperately needed.

setting up protective wards may prove difficult. something she’d need to bring up later. perhaps just some form of sanctuary. but they would need someone of serie’s caliber.

there’s a nervousness when he says that, nails all but digging into her palms. she can’t bring herself to look at zanka. how is she supposed to when she can’t even get a grip over her abilities. she just keeps disappointing people.

august, supports her, knows her, trusts in her abilities. but how is she supposed to— a tremble begin in knees, traveling up to chin. blinking several times, irises darting about, never quite making it back up to the other cleaner. how could she?

Zanka was always so sure, capable, even when the odds weren’t in favor of him winning.

❝ uhm, it’s, just nerves I think? even now she’s not sure. ❞ it’s not a total lie. she wants to reach out, riyo always has such kind things to say too. perhaps… maybe he’d understand too.

there’s a sharp inhale. ❝ It’s just that I, think about things, and I feel like I’m not doing well enough, progressing enough, everyone is trying to get better, to improve… but I don't want to burden anyone with these thoughts. I don't want to be a weight that discourages someone by trying to help me. i need to do it on my own. ❞

i want to. but I’m stuck here. the part she can’t speak out loud. grip tightens to her skirts, tears stinging her eye but not quite threatening to pour over.

how was she supposed to face anyone with where she is.

and I think about her curiosity being something that lets her connect to people. she is also a girls girl idc what anyone says, she loves her sisters so much, and she’s absolutely about making people take accountability. ( she’s the exception not the rule I never said she wasn’t a hypocrite )

but I also think about her intelligence and how it’s normally written off in canon as her being “boy crazy” and I do not. Abide by that. I think she should’ve been more of another Big Sister type to Luffy. And just generally had the patience to actually explain things to him in the two years he spent with them and rayleigh.

Honestly this is her dynamic with him in my brain I’m ngl IAJDJFNCNV

BUT CONSIDER THIS AN INBOX CALL

I often think about too lily watching from afar knowing she was going to snatch gountess the moment that she could. I also think about how we aren’t shown her grief, but she would’ve been just as devastated as he at the loss of the people who took her in and cared and loved her just as much. And at the end of it all, she still chose to trust and believe and love him.

she knew so much more than she let on, and yet, she chose to allow herself to not really truly know, so she didn’t accidentally hurt anyone in order to save him. GRAHHHHH

how much love and kindness she pours into anything and how that manifests similarly to eishia’s pure hearted kindness in wanting to help and heal. And how because of the watchman’s price neither of them were able to do anything to intervene with it, and they were both like ???? Wtf.