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i wake up like a stray dog belonging to no one.

[10shadow]

cold, cold, and the rain... a private multimuse centered around gege akutami's 𝒥ujutsu 𝓚aisen, by reyes. sideblog to @deathsverdict, so find my rules there.

✷ CANON. asterisk indicates high muse.

* chōsō. 150 + nonbinary, they/he.

* megumi fushiguro. 16 + cisman, he/him.

satoru gojō. 29 + gender apathetic, he/him.

* shōko ieri. 29 + ciswoman, she/her.

kiyotaka ijichi. 27 + cisman, he/him.

* yūji itadori. 16 + cisman, he/him.

* atsuya kusakabe. 34 + cisman, he/him.

* kento nanami. 28 + cisman, he/him.

yūta okkotsu. 17 + nonbinary, he/they.

ryōmen sukuna. 1000+ + gender apathetic, he/him.

masamichi yaga. 47 + cisman, he/him.

* maki zen'in. 16 + ciswoman, she/her.

✷ ORIGINAL.

mikaze. 28 + gender apathetic, she/her. sorcerer haunted by the duality of her existence; calm outside battle but unstoppable within it, always at risk of succumbing to her inner curse.

tsumugi ayakawa. 25 + ciswoman, she/her. osaka-born fashion designer and part-time sorcerer, weaving style and sorcery into one.

* sen hazuki. 27 + nonbinary, she/they. curse user and tattoo artist who turns ink into living curses. in order to survive, she paid a terrible price: her twin's life.

* shun ishiguro. 28 + gender apathetic, he/him. formerly sei mizoguchi, elder heir of the mizoguchi clan, he forsook his name and bloodline ten years ago. now a defector wanted dead or alive, he works as a back-alley doctor treating sorcerers and curses alike. his special-grade status and the strange nature of his technique make him all but untouchable.

yūma mizoguchi. 16 + transmasc, they/he. young heir of the mizoguchi clan, left to shoulder the future their sibling abandoned. devoted yet burdened by expectations, even in a clan that prides on equality, they secretly long for one thing: to also cast it all aside, for the simplicity of a mundane life.

* mizoguchi no koshizu. 32 + nonbinary, they/she. forebearer of poisons and dream-like states from the heian era. less renowned than contemporaries, koshizu's deadly, quiet genius granted them to flourish in obscurity and further shape the legacy of the mizoguchi clan.

[10shadow]

i'm freezing my balls off.

winter flushed nanami's cheeks pink; he endures. "complaining won't make it warmer, @sgeto." the world narrows, cold and near, into the space between them: coat thick, scarf snug, hands buried, breath puffing and fading. he shifts, gives getō a passing glance— then moves on, to the icy glaze on street signs, lamp posts, windowsills. slush gathers at curbs. flakes cling, then slip away. "you can survive another block. c'mon, we're almost there."

[10shadow]

you looked at it for two seconds.

halfway up the stairs, he angles his head back toward @svetle (as utahime iori)— just short of a full look. "there's nothing immediately concerning from what i saw. no anomalies, no deviation from expectation." even so, he relents, humoring her. his eyes sweep the lower level once more... and slower this time. "but if something feels off to you, we can confirm it before moving."

[gonchayas-a1]

he really wishes he could be more trusting.  more trusting than they are right now,  at least.  if he didn’t actually trust him,  he wouldn’t be sitting there in his car—  wouldn’t entertain any messages,  any brief meetings between their incredibly busy schedules.  it helps,  too,  that he’s made severance with the apparatus.  no more crime scenes,  no more morgues to stand in.  death and missing person reports will always persist,  will always make the three o’clock news,  and they will always know the reason.  but it’s out of sight,  out of mind.    (    still,  they see the shadows beneath his eyes.  still,  they see the exhaustion in his posture,  like nothing had really changed.  still,  part of them envies the life he lives now.    )    what has really changed after all this time?  kostyantyn doesn’t meet his gaze,  not immediately.  he opts to eye the side-view mirror of the car instead,  then the front-view,  searching for anything,  anyone,  that wants him dead or worse.  repeat it again:  nothing had really changed.

❝ i know you care.    ❞    he mutters.  says it like he really doesn’t want to hear it,  or that he doesn’t know he should believe it.    (    fourty-six dead in miyagi.  no conclusive evidence.  one student missing in action.  people make their own conclusions. they hear the rumors.    )  kostyantyn looks down at their food and bows their head because it’s the polite thing to do,  but they don’t touch it just yet.    ❝    it’s not that i think i’m unworthy,  or any of that sappy shit.    ❞    he lies,  boldly,  because it’s something he’s good at,  and it’s his best marketable skill.  he stares at his food,  catches hints of the ingredients.  damn near a decade later,  and kento still remembers what he likes.    ❝    it’s just—  you had enough sense to leave.  you have your own life now.  i don’t want you to get pulled back into this bullshit because of me.    ❞

[10shadow]

damn near a decade later, and @gonchayas's still a terrible liar. it isn't obvious. not to most. years of refinement saw to that: their irregularities smoothed. their inconsistencies minimized. their delivery improved to an acceptable standard. a necessary adjustment, and one that was required of them by the world they both came from. (students-turned-soldiers before they knew what that meant— classrooms traded for kill-sites, lessons appraised in blood instead of grades. grow fast or get buried. learn quick or don't learn at all. all about adaptation, all about performance, all about survival, all about becoming a goddamn weapon—) and objectively, it should work. on anyone else, it probably would. but nanami's never been "most".

hazel meets off-white, briefly. he knows it, too. notices, sees past it; past the careful phrasing, the cleaner presentation... to the truth still bleeding through at the cuffs. he sees past it, over and over, in different shapes, under different names. (nanami remembers when they came easier. when lies were clumsy, obvious things— excuses for missed assignments, for reckless decisions, for all the sorts of things that felt... reversible. back when they could afford to be bad at it. now, it's different, so different—) nanami knows it— and worse, he lets kostyantyn get away with it anyway. again, over and over. he hears a train pass; he looks down at his casse-croûte.

then exhales, almost a sigh. you really didn't change. "you're giving me too little credit," he says, unwrapping his baguette. takes a bite of gourmet ham and cheese... chews, swallows. doesn't rush it. "i didn't leave because i couldn't handle it— i left because it wasn't worth it. there's a difference." he brushes a stray crumb. "you're still in it. i'm not. i..." a pause, barely perceptible. his jaw sets— deciding how much to say, what to leave out. he settles on the rest. "i chose a different kind of miserable." another bite, pared down. "and if i go back, it'll be because i decided to. not because you pulled me there, kostya." his eyes wander too, never finding his. "but right now... sitting here, eating with you, pretending we're just two people meeting in a parking lot— that's all i want." it's enough that you're willing to meet with me at all. "for a little while, at least."

[10shadow]

thinking about how nanami was originally meant to be a villain and was supposed to murder his coworkers, then gege turned away from the idea (then very obvs rehashed it for higuruma) and had him overcome his hatred.. thinking about how he's both a parallel and foil to geto... thinking about how he feels the same anger but chooses not to act on it......... thinking about how haibara essentially was to nanami what geto was to gojo....................... thinking ab- *BLOWS UP*

[10shadow]

what does it look like i'm doing?

"moving as though the world bends to you." koshizu coalesces in the courtyard's periphery, layered silks unfurling, then pooling in a hush-soft bloom along the engawa. "beautiful, in its folly... so calculated, and yet entirely exposed. even the exalted betray themselves; it tells me far more than you intend." their head tilts, eyeing @ategod (as zen'in no eishin) as one leg crossed over the other. "and i take pleasure in it... a shadow spiraling into itself, perfect and inevitable."

[10shadow]

this is life or death.

koshizu's smile spreads, settles, and seeps into place. two snakes lie in wait, neither striking. "do not call it life or death," she whispers. "it is both. blurred, entwined... like waking from the wrong dream." from the dark, two pale-gloved hands reach in "and you..." fanning past @imitor's (as inumaki no sukeyasu) hair. "you stand at the threshold where dream and reality bleed into one another. every movement must follow the body's law. precise, unerring." she looks down, observing them from behind her veil. "falter, and it is over."

[10shadow]

i can’t wait to talk about my mizoguchi lore

[10shadow]

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[zachrp]

ᝰ🚬 𝚉𝙰𝙲𝙷𝚁𝙿 .ᐟ DONNIE BRASCO (1997) PROMPTS. CHANGE ANY PRONOUNS IF NECESSARY. SOME MATURE THEMES MAY BE PRESENT.

that's how i'll know that i've been sent to fucking hell.

to me, this is like a great moment in my life.

how many times have i been on the other end of that fucking phone?

did you rat me out?

say it to my face, if you're gonna do this.

sweet dreams, angel.

listen to me, you cocksucker, i'll eat your fucking balls for breakfast.

what's it look like i'm doing?

that's a beautiful thing.

let me talk to this fucking guy for a second.

i'm so disgusted with you, you know that?

we could be cops.

we ought to hijack an oil tanker, there's a lot of money in oil.

he could have got whacked out just for that, for your information.

you understand? i'd die with you.

you know what you did, pal.

i want my husband.

hey, i'm talking to you now.

you ain't got no fucking idea, my friend.

the whole society's going down the tubes.

my ex-wife lives in this building.

i don't want to have to come looking for you. you hear me?

you're getting senile.

you want me to help you out?

why don't you go to the bar and have a drink?

i'll be in the kitchen if you need me.

if he gets in touch with you, you have got to try to talk sense into him.

ain't no way you can say to me a lincoln is better than a cadillac.

i guess you didn't ever think of paying these guys off, did you?

who's that over there?

keep your nose clean, be a good earner, follow the rules, and who knows, maybe one day when they open the books, you get straightened out.

i didn't know that.

that's something i don't forget, something that i will never ever forget.

from now on, i'll deal out the cards,

why'd you pay for that drink? a wise guy never pays for a drink.

i said i knew him, i didn't say i fucked him.

this guy is going to fucking kill you.

get me the fuck out of here!

okay. i'm sorry. i gotta go back to sleep.

it's not even a debate, it's a better automobile!

who's this guy?

you think i hate you?

i spent all these years trying to be the good guy.

what makes you think we're wise guys?

i got to have three spritzers afterward just to calm down after i see her.

you vouch for this guy?

you're on my side because i say you're on my side.

what? i'm freezing here!

i'm gonna show you something, i want you to look at it very carefully, and then i want you to think very carefully about what you say to me.

got a girlfriend?

were you asleep?

i just shit in my pants, right?

you're not the only one out there risking your life, bud.

i'm freezing my balls off.

what do we got to be standing outside all day in the cold for?

don't get on your fucking high horse.

did you ever once ask yourself how i make it through my days?

honey, don't wait up for me tonight.

a lincoln is better. it's a better automobile.

bing-bada-boom, it's done.

i'll bet you $20 that you can't get through this entire meal without saying three words.

don't ask so many fucking questions.

how about if i fucking whack you right here and now?

this is life or death.

what the fuck am i gonna do with razor blades?

i'm out here, worried to my fucking death.

you want to check in with me tomorrow?

go home, you miserable bitch.

we're gonna have to wash your mouth out, bud.

i don't want to come down here and iron anything out.

that's for the fucking drinks, pal.

you love control, don't you?

he got me so fucking aggravated.

forget about it.

the bureau wants your autograph.

fuck you, it's not over. i'm not coming out.

i'm checking my lipstick.

you think i'm fucking stupid?

i was working. nothing i could do.

you understand what i'm saying?

it's a nice fucking bluff, huh?

i can get these real cheap and i got a guy who can move them.

you have no idea what you're talking about.

i ain't running from nothing.

one day, i'm gonna die.

i want a divorce.

the meek want to inherit the earth, they're gonna have to get in fucking line.

i'm known all over the fucking world.

where are you going? wait in the car.

want to tell me where we're going?

don't you fucking call me cocksucker.

you think i got a wire in my car?

he ain't got no fucking respect.

you think i don't know that?

go back to sleep. i'll call you tomorrow.

am i getting the silent treatment?

no man of mine is gonna be alone on christmas. come on in here.

i'm doing the best i can.

you'd better fucking kill me.

just give me half a second, would you?

in all the five boroughs, i'm known.

i tell you right now, we better start earning or somebody's gonna get clipped.

you stabbed the wrong guy in the back, my friend.

you're starting to repeat yourself.

you a cop?

you know what happens when you get there, don't you?

i know you. you don't say nothing unless there's a reason for it.

this is a fucking deformed creature from the black lagoon‘s claw i got here.

sometimes you don't make no fucking sense.

we got about two minutes to figure a way out of this thing.

what the fuck are you doing down there?

i live with that every day.

don't start this shit now.

what the fuck are you talking about?

give it back to me, okay?

just stand there and look dangerous, friend.

i did what you asked.

come on, give me a hand with this.

you're pissing up the wrong fucking tree.

i'll cut your fucking throat, understand?

you're not saying things that mean anything.

you belong to me now.

i'll take care of it.

are you kidding me?

i got bruises on my hands.

i want to eat sometime tonight.

i want to know what you're up to.

congratulations. come here.

do you know another man that vacuums? it's abnormal.

this job is eating me alive.

fuck you, i'm getting my own room.

you know what i did yesterday?

ask him why this place is such a fucking dump.

it's a misunderstanding.

he does look dangerous, don't he?

are you married?

could you spot me a couple hundred?

how else am i supposed to open this?

keep your eye out for your balls.

i never said you was a rat.

wow. look at this.

you know that i wouldn't do this to you if i didn't think you could handle it.

you're gonna walk out on me? you don't walk out on me, i walk out on you.

i don't got a family.

i need a steak, medium rare. couple bowls of chili, extra hot.

one of you has got to be wrong.

how am i supposed to know if you don't explain it?

i'll show you a fucking picture.

if i vouch for the guy, i could wind up dead.

you know i'm sorry.

the good news is my dick is now a popsicle.

quit riding the fucking brake.

he'll never know what hit him.

you don't make no fucking sense.

look how beautiful you look.

just go away. stay away.

i don't want to die.

there's got to be a snitch here.

you're here for my dad?

i'm sorry.

i wanted to be alone with you.

what kind of people are gonna take another man's property right off the street?

i don't even want to look at you.

ain't that something?

you looked at it for two seconds.

are you trying to get me killed with that fucking suit?

i'm telling you, i'm freezing to my fucking death.

what? you gonna leave me?

hey, i got a fucking black belt, pal.

why don't you just shut the fuck up?

he was a friend of mine. broad daylight. i can't believe it.

come on, i'm gonna get a candy bar.

what are you talking to him for?

a wise guy don't carry his money in a wallet.

i'll break your fucking head.

no, i didn't hear a fucking thing.

what's the big deal?

hey, pal, you want to see something?

you got to get rid of that mustache 'cause that's against the rules.

a lincoln's like driving a fucking water bed, for christ's sakes.

you took away your wife's ring?

why don't you give it to your wife?

a wise guy's always right; even when he's wrong, he's right.

it's over.

i'm so tired.

wise guys? what are wise guys?

christ, i think i shit my pants.

what would i do without you?

did i say that? did i say you got a wire?

well, well, i've got to school you, my friend.

i pretend you're dead, that's how my life makes sense to me.

i got some things i got to take care of.

you're right. i misunderstood.

i'm not gonna do it anymore.

put the phone on your pillow, i want to listen to you breathe.

i was up here. i had a few things to care of.

don't you tell me what i know.

you never hear from the boss until he gets whacked and then your life gets turned around.

you know how fucking embarrassed i am?

what do you want me to do?

god, why do you hate me when i love you so much?

you keep your mouth shut about me.

how do you find anything in here?

since when does she have a boyfriend?

i didn't mean no disrespect.

that's a tiffany fucking diamond.

if you knew what i was doing today..

it's fucking cold. why is it so cold in here?

i don't want to be stepping on nobody's toes.

you're becoming like them, you know that?

if this is your family, then this is your family.

i came here to be with you.

what do you want me to say?

you don't talk until i talk to you.

whoa, you don't fucking call me that.

i'll blow his brains right there.

no, hold on. wait. i gave you the diamond.

a guy like you doesn't touch a made guy.

i'm getting fucking cancer over here.

you know what i'm saying?

he's a stand-up guy.

your father is so proud of you.

what happened to him? is he gonna be all right?

do what you're told.

seven days a week, i'm out there busting my ass, and this is the shit i come home to.

come on upstairs.

sorry ain't gonna do it.

the problem is that you think that he's helping you, but he's hurting you.

you, wait in the car.

when i introduce you, i'm gonna say, "this is a friend of mine." that means you're a connected guy.

come here. don't mess around with me.

jesus christ couldn't touch you, because i represent you.

a wise guy carries money in a roll, like this. see?

let me tell you something, i hope he crossed over.

you want to go embarrass yourself with this thing..

you don't know the worries i got.

you scared that guy, though.

will you fucking stop that?

you got a car?

is that your way of saying you're sorry?

you're taking the whole fucking thing apart.

i don't know how long i'm gonna be.

you're sorry? shut the fuck up.

hey, you. come here!

you owe me $8,000.

what do you know?

all i'm saying, i'm saying they don't appreciate you, is what i'm saying.

take off your shoes, or i'm gonna chop off your fucking feet.

you don't mention his name, all right?

where you going? sit down there.

come on, honey. come home.

you said it was gonna be three months, it's going on two years.

give me the keys.

all that fucking money you owe downtown, you'd have to lay off a fucking brink's truck.

i was hoping we'd get off on the right foot here.

i got a girl out there in california.

i want to help you out.

that's really nice of you.

sometimes i think, in that orphanage, they dropped you on your fucking head.

nobody else gave a fuck.

all i want from my end is $8,000.

forget it, i ain't taking my fucking shoes off.

the army? it ain't nothing like the army. the army is some guy you don't know sends you out to whack some other guy you don't know.

that's good, babe.

what were you doing last night?

what do you think you're running from?

i think you owe me an apology.

i'm gonna show you something.

i got 26 fucking hits under my belt, and you're the one he's scared of.

a cadillac's got more acceleration, it's got more power.

you think that's funny? i don't think that's so funny.

where the hell am i gonna get money to go bribing cops? nobody authorized that.

we're getting what we want. fuck him.

you losing your marbles on me or what?

give him a smack in the mouth once in a while.

you don't got a family?

you gonna break his legs?

nobody can touch you now. i'm your man.

what's that, you want me to sign it?

what kind of car do you drive?

a son should respect his father, capisce?

are you okay, honey?

i'm gonna be right here. all right?

where we going?

it was the only thing i liked about this job.

they're gonna kill him, because he vouched for me, because he stood up for me.

i put a bet on a horse, that horse don't do what it's supposed to do, like every fucking thing else in my life.

what do you want? $100?

i said that?

you don't have to be fucking einstein to understand this.

come on. i was just bullshitting around.

pull over. i've got to do something.

please calm down.

can you believe those fucking guys?

this ain't a fucking rodeo.

i'm your best friend.

he looked after me when i was in the can.

where the fuck do you get your ideas?

i ain't married.

just shut up, please. leave me alone.

you think i don't know how a hit gets set up?

we never had this kind of a problem when nixon was around.

i'd like to put a dent in that guy's head.

that's the same thing as if i put the bullet in his head myself, you understand?

this place is a goddamn palace, for christ's sake.

i didn't rat you out.

i demand that you tell me where my husband is!

i brought this by for you, it's a little christmas present.

let's go get your car. come on.

i don't hate you.

you know who you're talking to, my friend?

shut the fuck up. nobody's going to jail.

[10shadow]

fuck my stupid baka sorcery fight life