RIPE & RUIN

mannami yuka - xxii - astral manipulator

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yukamannami

[acxyuka-blog]

‘ a splash of colour

[acxyuka-blog]

acxjaehwan:

———- ✂

he closes his eyes, takes a deep breath and prays for patience. “fine. fine. i’ll have your loot tomorrow, personally delivered to your doorstep. now please save my hair.”

“there’s no such thing as too many gummy bears, jaehwan.” she tells him, despite being all too familiar with tummy aches that were a result of too many sweets. “secrets are meant to be kept, are they not?” the grin on her face only grows even more smug, if possible.

upon his agreement, she drops the smug look and offers him a more sincere one before rummaging through her bag to find the solution to all of his problems. “you’d think with all that haircare and maintenance you do, you’d know about dye remover.” when she does, she hands the bottle to him with a satisfied look in her eye.

“but here you go, you’re welcome. no need to thank me, i know i’m your saviour.” she smiles, before zipping up her bag and getting up from her seat, not even bothering to help him up. it was nearly time for her to feed peach a cricket as a late afternoon snack so she would not be held back by some pitiful vampire man. 

“i expect my gummy bears and juice personally delivered at my doorstep tomorrow. thank you very much for your cooperation.”

[acxyuka-blog]

“ what’s your power? climbing trees? gobbling down food? >:) "

narrowing her eyes, she glares down at him and sticks her tongue out like a child. “not my fault i made it to the nice branch before you did.” she says, popping a few m&m’s in her mouth afterwards. she reaches for one of the branches above her and proceeds to throw a bunch of leaves at him, because that’s what mature young adults do. mature young adults also climb trees at 7pm and eat chocolate while sitting on one of the branches.

“i’ll have you know that right now, there’s some weird creature on the astral plane leering over your shoulder.” she points out when she’s hit with a convenient yet brief moment of astral vision. she eats another m&m. “it’s real big and scary, ginormous teeth and all that jazz. you should be grateful you aren’t in the astral plane right now.”

[acxyuka-blog]

“ are you sure you can do it by yourself? ”

“totally.” she stumbles as picks up the large tank while her gecko rested on the top of her head. she needed to clean peach’s home which involved moving the tank to the bathroom so she wouldn’t make a mess on their room’s floor. but the tank she got for the gecko was a bit larger than she expected, so carrying it around was tedious. “don’t worry, i- shit.” she yelps, nearly tripping over a fallen book when she begins to walk to the bathroom. she turns to face jieun and an embarrassed smile graces her features. “see? i’ve got this in the bag.”

[acxyuka-blog]

“ that’s scary. ”

the dark glowing shards of astral energy surrounding her drop and dissipate into the grass at the interruption. she looks up at him, narrowing her eyes when the sunlight hits her face. “what’s scary?” she cocks her head, reaching over to grab peach from her shoulder. she lets the gecko crawl on her arm, which she juts out towards him. “i mean, i don’t know how you could find her scary but sure, you do you.”

[acxvernon-blog]

❝ revenge of the gecko thief. ❞

[acxyuka-blog]

acxvernon:

———- ✂

honestly, he didn’t think that far ahead. ‘this is all your mom’s fault.” vernon claimed, watching the gecko wiggle its tail from the corner of his eyes. “you’re staying with me now. for, like, forever. buddy.” 

after spending a good hour chatting with her classmates after her final class, she returns to her dorm room with a tired smile, humming a soft tune as she shut the door behind her. it appears that it would only be peach and her for a while, seeing that her roommate still hasn’t returned. she sets her bag down on her bed and walks over to peach’s cage, looking for her gecko. but she isn’t there.

frowning, she calls out peach’s name once - as though the gecko would actually respond and come to her. she crouches down to look under the beds and other furniture in the room, but there’s no sign of her. “where did you go...” yuka trails off, getting up to look at the cage once more. the lid was fully closed with a book she had yet to return to the library sitting on top, so there’s no way peach would’ve been able to escape. that means someone took her.

and yuka's pretty sure she knows who did it.

closing the door behind her again, she walks down the stairs to the first floor at a rather leisurely pace given that she realised that someone took her pet. but the thing is, she knows who took peach and she’s certain no harm would come to her gecko so there’s no need for much of a rush. once she reaches her destination, she knocks on the door twice before pushing it open.

“vernon, how many times-” she stops when she notices his red eyes and the sound of frank ocean playing in the background. of course. why else would he steal peach in the first place? resisting the urge to roll her eyes at this overused ploy to get her attention, she takes a few steps towards him and spreads her arms out for a hug. “come here, you big crybaby.”

[acxkrp-blog]

❝   MEME SUNDAY #01 !

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[acxyuka-blog]

‘ a splash of colour

[acxyuka-blog]

acxjaehwan:

———- ✂

“i’m part of the staff,” he reminds her, swiftly graduating from supplication to threats (he’s not really a begging type of person anyway). “detention! you don’t want detention, do you? for the rest of your life, i promise you!”

"of course it’s real hair dye. is there even such a thing as fake hair dye?” she smiles, staring down at him from where he was crouched before her. “you know, i’ve been reading a lot these days. and you know what i found out?” her smile shifts into a grin as she leans down towards him, arms propped up on her thighs so she could rest her chin on her palms.

“that dye in your hair now, it’s real damaging. makes your hair all fried or even worse, makes it all fall out.” it’s a bluff obviously. she didn’t have the heart - or a lack thereof - to use hair dye that would make his hair fall out, besides that would require the help of bleach. but she did have it in her to scare him like this.

his whining is music to her ears and she quickly whips out her phone to take a quick picture of the state he is in. april fools, 2017. the day mannami yuka finally got lee jaehwan to cave in. even if it was only for a brief moment. she didn’t plan on letting him forget about it. this is truly a memory she would latch on to forever.

“but detention won’t save your hair, jaehwannie.” she says, the smug expression never leaving her face. “only i can save your precious hair from its demise.” as in, she had a bottle of dye remover in her bag, but she highly doubted he’d be smart enough to even think of that. especially not in the state he’s in. “perhaps an apology for last year would suffice... and a bag of gummy bears plus three bottles of apple juice.”

[acxjoshua-blog]

╰☆╮early birds.

[acxyuka-blog]

acxjoshua:

———- ✂

he held the door mostly for safekeeping purposes. josh wasn’t exactly sure when yuka would decide to slam it in his face. “ and there’s not a lot of students around at this hour to jog.. you won’t be accused of being a teacher’s pet, if that’s what you’re afraid of. “

now, her close friendship with joshua is something yuka cherished a lot. obviously, she wouldn’t simply throw away her friendship with him like it was nothing but at times like this, she’d seriously reconsider their relationship. “it’s far too early to crack those dad jokes of yours.” she says, glancing behind her to check that her roommate isn’t being bothered by all of this. because of his consistent friendly smile, she lets out a defeated sigh and holds up five fingers. “fine, just let me close the door and give me five minutes to get changed.” 

once she’s changed, she opens the door again and shuts it behind her gently. “joshua, i don’t think you understand. if i die out there, you’re going to be held responsible, you know that right? that would not only inhibit you from progressing - let alone continuing - as a teacher, but completely erase the chances of me becoming one!”

[cqxseunghyun-blog]

❝ ginger root gossip.

[acxyuka-blog]

acxhongbin:

———- ✂

He felt her emotions nearby before he heard her thoughts– only knowing it was hers he felt because a) they were in her voice and b) she just passed a ripe tomato plant with disgust. Yuka doesn’t like tomatoes, this Hongbin knows. Regardless, he doesn’t quite make any effort to move to make it easier for her to find him. The greenhouse isn’t exactly a maze, but one can hide in here if they so wished. Besides, she was close enough as it was and she was definitely smarter than him.

after receiving a text that would be indecipherable to any other person, yuka heads down to the greenhouse to fulfil her duties as a good tea friend, in both senses of the word. lucky for him, she had been astral projecting earlier that day during a free period and found some pretty juicy gossip material in her short stroll around the campus via the astral plane.

by now, she had a box on her desk with a variety of different tea bags which she didn’t even use herself. unlike hongbin, yuka herself isn’t a big fan of tea. the idea of leaf water didn’t really sit well with her, and most teas aren’t sweet enough to please her tastebuds as well. most of the time, she sticks with juices, especially apple juice ( read: only apple juice). which is why there is a bottle of said juice beside a thermos with warm ginger root tea inside her bag.

the walk to the south wing from the east wing was a bit of a long one, but her pace is a tad bit faster than usual to avoid walking into a greenhouse that reeked of dead hongbin. finally, she reaches the greenhouse and her nose scrunches up in distaste at the growing tomato plants near the entrance. she heads down an aisle and takes a turn before she’s met with the welcoming sight of hongbin lying face down on the greenhouse floor, which had soil scattered around here and there.

she sits down crosslegged by his body and pokes his side once, taking out her bottle and his thermos out of her bag afterwards. “c’mon, get up before dirt starts piling up on you and you become one with the plants.” she says, opening the thermos and pouring him a cup of tea. “brought your ginger root tea, as requested. also have some other tea to share so...”

[acxyuka-blog]

‘ a splash of colour

[acxyuka-blog]

acxjaehwan:

———- ✂

“how dare you!” he all but flies over to her table, pouty face and whiny tone in full force by the time he reaches. “stop talking about my hair in public! and what did you put in it? what if it dries out my hair? what if i start losing my hair? what brand did you use? why? why, yuka?” he clutches at the sides of his head in utter despair.

“there are lines you don’t cross, yuka! my hair — my hair!”

poetic cinema.

that’s what this entire scenario was. people will wax poetic about this scene. artists will capture it on their canvas and title it ‘the birth of tragedy 2.0’. lyricists will write songs about today that’ll rank number 1 in the billboard top 100. things took a turn for the better, on yuka’s end that is. as for jaehwan, it was quite the opposite.

she had to admit, his attempt to come off as ‘intimidating’ ( in her humble opinion, he was about as intimidating as a tiny white butterfly ) is almost enough to send her into a fit of laughter. but her willpower is stronger so she holds back on her laughter and instead beams at him when he reaches her table.

“highlighter green is a good colour on you.” she says nonchalantly, the mischievous glint in her eyes never leaving. “never really pinned you for a hair dye type of guy, but hey, i can’t exactly say that this is bad character development. i’m glad you decided to try something new.” she gestures at his hair, a giggle slipping through her lips because of the now closer look of her masterpiece.

“it’s very... eye-catching, just how you like it, right?”

[acxjoshua-blog]

╰☆╮early birds.

[acxyuka-blog]

acxjoshua:

———- ✂

making his way down was almost melancholic. it was as if he was the only person who was awake (undoubtedly, he knew a bunch would have been up to train as well). thinking about it now; tagging a practice buddy along won’t hurt, and so for the mean time he went to drop by his close friend’s dormitory room and wake her up. josh was cautious enough to ensure nobody was around to see him though. the last thing he wanted was the whispering of a certain staff accused of playing favorites. three firm knocks, “ yuka—- hey, are you awake? hey. it’s me! “ @acxyuka

as many people may know by now, yuka loves her sleep. if she were to be an animal, she would probably be a cat, which often spend a total of twelve and a half hours in an entire day sleeping. on days where she didn’t have morning classes, she’d often wake up with an hour to spare for brunch and getting ready for her next class. astral projecting did involve napping and sleeping, yet her energy was still being used, so sleeping for real was an absolute blessing.

unfortunately, she’s quite a light sleeper. a minor disturbance could easily wake her from her slumber, which is why when the sound of three consecutive knocks on the door echo throughout the dorm room, she forces herself to get up from the bed to open the door, making as little noise as possible to avoid waking up her roommate. rubbing her eyes, she swings open the door with a disgruntled expression on her face. “who the fu-” she stops when she sees joshua standing before her, clad in his usual training outfit, and is suddenly tempted to slam the door in his face. oh no. 

“are you actually going to drag me out to go jogging with you in the ungodly hours of the morning? where is your humanity?”

[acxdks-deactivated20180103]

* crash course;

[acxyuka-blog]

acxdks:

———- ✂

earth-colored hues traveled to the watch around his left wrist. 3:11 pm. eleven minutes late from their supposed rendezvous. one of the students–yuka–was supposed to meet him there for a supplementary lessons. probably napping in the astral world somewhere. he shakes his head, grabbing his water bottle once more. its quite typical of her to exhibit such a… tardy behavior. besides, he can wait for another five minutes. then maybe look for her. 

or maybe another ten. not that he’s lazy, of course.

yuka is in the middle of watching a shark documentary with peach crawling up her left arm when she notices the time on her phone. “oh shit!” she says out loud, shutting her laptop screen and quickly but gently putting peach back in her enclosure. she hastily puts on training appropriate clothes, nearly tripping over her own feet in the process when she puts on her shorts with one hand and uses the other to shove her water bottle in her bag. then she pauses when she realises something very important.

kyungsoo wasn’t going to kill her, not when she could easily pull the puppy eyes card on him.

so she takes her sweet time lacing up her shoes and instead of jogging to where she promised to meet him, she strolls. when she’s nearly there, she pats her cheeks and shirt with some water from her bottle and runs over, deliberately panting heavily as if she ran a fucking marathon. “got here as fast as i could,” she says in between breaths, offering him an exhausted smile. “sorry i’m late. i was busy and lost track of time.”

[r-minseok-blog]

ready, aim, shoot

[acxyuka-blog]

acxhakyeon:

———- ✂

“okay, so, yuka, my cute little pupil,” hakyeon started as he ruffled her hair with his right hand, his left hand holding onto three darts with plastic tips, “i’m going to teach you how to aim, shoot and destroy opponents in social games like this. because if you start winning you can get free drinks later on in your life and also make everyone kneel and leave you alone.” 

life tips. hakyeon was teaching her life tips.

yuka wasn’t quite sure how it got to this. of course, she never pinned hakyeon as a regular teacher, but she certainly did not expect to be babied by him as soon as she stepped into the simulation room. because for starters, he was just four years her senior, and he was only four centimetres taller than her as well. 

she didn’t know how that did not come across his mind - and if it did, how he simply disregarded it as if it was nothing.

this strange dynamic between the two of them eventually led to him giving her life tips, as he liked to call it. and today, they were at some centre to play darts. because apparently, winning darts equals free drinks and dominance. however, she failed to mention to him that her hand-eye coordination wasn’t the best, which was a bit of an understatement to be honest.

when he ruffled her hair, she inwardly cringes and immediately reaches up to fix her hair as she listened to him talk. “but won’t you having enhanced marksmanship make teaching me this a bit useless?” she asks before glancing at the darts in his hand. there was a 7/10 chance that when in her hand, those very pointy objects would hit anywhere else but the board. but that could be a surprise for him. 

not a very nice surprise, but a surprise nonetheless. 

[acxyuka-blog]

‘ missing in action

for @acxhyunjoong

the downside that came with owning a pet that was just a tad bit larger than your palm and could easily defy gravity was that when it went missing, it could take hours to find it. yuka is no stranger to losing peach, in fact, one would think she would’ve learned by now to stop losing the gecko, but that is clearly not the case. besides, it’s much more easier to find her pet when she had a helping hand.

thirty minutes into the search for her crested gecko, they decide to split up to cover more ground - and ceiling. another thirty minutes pass and there is still no sign of peach, although yuka was certain that she saw a light brownish blob on the wall she just passed by, but when she turned around, it was gone. just as she’s about to walk down the stairs, she hears an ear piercing shriek coming from the corridor to her left.

aha, someone must’ve found peach.

she jogs down the corridor and instead of a random student, who she expected to have let out the noise, it was in fact, hyunjoong plastered against the wall with the look of sheer terror in his eyes. okay, perhaps that was a bit of an exaggeration, but still. rather than taking sympathy for her friend, she frowns at him.

“i can’t believe you let her go because you got scared of her. you’re like, a hundred times her size!”

[yua]

Yuka Mannami for IT GIRLS STYLE MAGAZINE SPRING 2016 - ISSUE #9 Ph: Ari Takagi Hair/makeup: Emi Ohara

[acxyuka-blog]

‘ a splash of colour

[acxyuka-blog]

acxjaehwan:

———- ✂

he doesn’t particularly want to, but sacrifices must be made if he is to catch the culprit responsible and sentence them to toilet duty for the rest of their life. lee jaehwan is out for blood, and for once, not literally.

eventually, he returns and the loud screech that could somehow pass off as laughter startles her. but what startles her the most is his abrupt stripping in his living room. immediately, her hands fly up to shield her eyes before her will to live could leave her ( oh no, she’s beginning to sound just like him ) and she waits until she hears the door of his bathroom close before letting her hands fall back to her sides.

a few minutes pass and then she hears it. an ear-piercing shriek that probably wasn’t amplified due to his mutation, but due to her wonderful treat for him instead. she giggles to herself when she hears his whining from the bathroom, a satisfied grin on her face as she makes her way back to the cafeteria to return to her body instead of waiting for him to emerge from the room.

it would be a shame to spoil the surprise, wouldn’t it? after all, patience is a virtue.

she kills the time by sipping the rest of her apple juice in anticipation of what was to come soon, eyes on the lookout for anything bright green. this was by far the most exciting thing she’s been involved in all week, if not the week before as well. and finally, around fifteen minutes later, she spots him entering the cafeteria, sporting a snapback which didn’t quite cover all the green.

tragic.

“jaehwannie!” she deliberately yells, waving him over while stifling a laugh when the gazes of other students fall on the man. her own stare is fake obliviousness and curiosity, masking the amusement and smug self-satisfaction in her expression. for extra effect, she tilts her head sideways and furrows her brows. “hm, did you do something new with your hair?”