☆ beware of dog - intimidating softie reader (fic, 9,154 words)
☆ skatepark stars - ily meme 49 (fic, 671 words)
❄️ winter ❄️
coming soon ☆ feel free to request!
💐 other 💐
☆ chikage’s family cums together as one - aug/cito ⚠️ NSFW (fic, 3267 words)
☆ which type of magician are you? - uquiz based on of covens and magicians
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4, 13, and 14 for the end of the year ask meme (*´ω｀*)
thanks for the ask ♡ a lot has happened lately but i hope i can get back on the request grind again! fair warning, my answers get lengthy under the cut. i’m chatty and sentimental.
4: total number of words you wrote this year
citowon words: 35,221
total words (approx): 96,971
the fun thing about this is that i wrote a LOT of fic this year. i always do, but 2021 was probably my best writing year ever, and at the beginning of 2021 i didn’t expect this much success at all! not all of it is published on citowon nor ao3, but there’s a bunch of little scenes i’m very happy about and want to continue into 2022.
13: favorite writing song/artist/album of the year
i’m a HUGE music lover and i’ll listen to any genre, so i switch it up all the time based on whatever my vibe is, not the text. i made some playlists for a few characters and fics, but i have to give the reward to limbo by royal blood, but for a pretty unexpected reason. see, sometimes i’ll loop a song if i really like it, but i usually can’t go more than 45 minutes before i have to skip. i’ve listened to limbo for over 2 hours at a time. my record was 4 hours and 40-something minutes one all-nighter over my us history exam! the album it’s off of, typhoons, is one of my top 5 releases this year and also has gotten me through so many writing slogs. none of the songs have gotten old, and trust me, if they could be, i’d know by now considering how many times i set the full album stream on loop.
despite that, it feels wrong not to mention the tower (theme from the work) by rivers of nihil. i haven’t made a list, but i feel confident that the work is my no. 1 favorite 2021 release, and this song is one that inspired so much content i’d like to get out soon. it’s beautiful and harrowing, and i think a lot about some character dynamics by running them through the song, you know?
14: a fic you didn’t expect to write
this one is strange and also really fun to answer, because there’s so much i didn’t imagine myself doing! i made a #fic-ideas channel in my private discord server, which includes so many stupid jokes, sleepy text, and just straight-up wild concepts.
in november 2020, i wrote a very simple scene-or-two-plus-a-bad-summary chikaita doc about chikage’s past catching up with him, and itaru getting kidnapped because of it. the original was... really garbage. i reopened it in august, tried to figure out what the fuck was going on for about thirty minutes before the concept came back to me, and then wrote another few paragraphs, and forgot about it again. october, i made some ocs, and it light a fire under my ass to keep getting the words out. it’s now one of the docs i’m most passionate about continuing, and- i’m usually a fluff writer, but i feel like this one specifically is very grounding since i apply a lot of real-world logic to it (be honest: if you just got kidnapped because your boyfriend kept his espionage double life a secret from you and you had the self-preservation itaru does, would you stay with him?) and it’s a very welcome return to angst, which is what i did before i joined the a3 fandom.
in a more sobering example than that i also impulsively wrote a vent fic, kazunari opens like four cabinets, a few days after a pretty rough patch with some loved ones (content warning for suicide attempts/idealization and underage drinking), and out of respect i’m not elaborating any more than what the fic itself says. i remember the night i wrote that fic, it was the one day where i had a super chill online class and that was it, so once that ended i was just alone with my thoughts, and barely keeping myself together, so i just had to write something and get the thoughts out of the way. i felt just disgusted with my everything afterwards- you know, writing fanfiction, what i was going through, how nasty my thoughts were, just depressed things- but then the next day i reread it, and then again, and then again, and it was so cathartic that i couldn’t help but love it. didn’t even edit it properly before i posted it. it’s strange in a way, because it’s one of my favorite pieces all year now. i like to think of it as a character study, just as much as it is a vent piece. you see, i’m a theatre kid, and when i’m writing, i envision everything like it’s being acted out. the number-one rule with every single theatre teacher i had is to never just cry on stage. you have to do something with it. you can’t wallow, or else the scene withers, melts together and becomes a slogfest. my last high-school production was a very real, very harrowing drama, but it was so easy to forget because the playwright did such a good job balancing out the weight of the plot with so many jokes. that’s what i tried to do with this fic. after all, even in the worst of times i try to be as witty as i can be! i’ve read this fic over and over so many times, and i could tell you exactly how taichi and kazunari speak every line in it. they never really get caught up in just sadness, there’s always something that they push in front of it so it has substance, like they’re not allowed to be just sad. and there's a lot of little things in the fic, too, that represent something going on there. i won't go so far to say it was all fully planned, but there's so many eensy things i love about it. the blueberries, the way kazu responds to taichi telling his story, how they trade the bottle and the glass, "the worst part”, the unwritten actions made, the pacing. kazu has so many lines here that i love, but "they get the best of me sometimes but i’m better than i was in high school” has to be one of my favorite lines ever.
i feel like it’s such a cop-out not even to reference a citowon fic. there’s so many things i love that y’all’ve requested! i’ll never shut up about how thankful i am for y’all.
my last pick is one that’s a contender for my favorite citowon of the year, masumi and a reader that’s siblings with izumi. i’m super proud of how i wrote him here! obviously, i get his whole obsessive almost-yandere thing is his charm, but i’ve always taken it as him being that one arrested development clip like
masumi: i have feelings for you
narrator: the feeling was friendship, but he had never felt it before
so writing him actually falling in love with someone- and then having that family resemblance to compare his feelings with- was an opportunity i ate up, and i really couldn’t have expected if it weren’t for someone requesting it, since i wasn’t too interested in masumi before i got this request. i feel like this fic was just as much of a character study as it was an x reader, and a really interesting dive into how his brain works. writing this fic actually shot masumi up a few places in my book, and ever since i’ve been having so many thoughts about him, which is one of the reasons why i’m so impressed with this fic. on another note, i’m really fond of how tsuzuru and citron advise masumi. i grew up learning that every story has a moral if you squint, and i’m a believer that you believe the things you consume. tsuzuru’s little scene about how what will be will be especially hits imo, it’s something i take very seriously, while i think of citron’s bit about not rushing as something i wish i knew in the past. masumi’s a chaser, but only that fervently when it comes to izumi. so when he has this moment of reconsideration now that he might not be so into izumi, i think of tsuzuru and citron being a really needed reality check, and really puts his (real and deep!) feelings for reader into perspective compared to his izumi obsession. even with my requests, i only write things that i want to write, and this fic is one that i pick up all the time as a bedtime story of sorts. i’m super thankful for the ask on this one, on a meta level it’s not only a fic that i love, but also one that really helped me realize where my writing skills stand and what i’m capable of 🌟
i’ve been away for a while, but on the verge of completing something for y’all, thanks for being so patient. this includes some wips in my folder that may or may not see the lift of day btw
HELLO MARI IT IS HEN FROM @a3hihi, I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST GIVING OMI A KITH BC WE NEED THAT IN THESE TRYING TIMES
TGANKNYOU 💛 [turns off megaphone]
I AM SO SORRY HEN FOR THE LONG HIATUS I AM ALIVE I SWEAR AHAHA.
I APOLOGIZE FOR THE WAIT OMI DESERVES THE WORLD.
Omi x Reader: Fluffy Kissing Headcannons
- Giving Omi a kiss, phew boy do I think about this consistently…
- Given that Omi was accustomed to a rough lifestyle earlier in his life, I really think that he’s such a sucker for gentle soft kisses from you. In a sense the closed space between you both is such an endearing moment for him. Contrasting moments like these make the boy so grateful for the love that you have for him.
- Small things like grabbing his face, cupping your hands on his cheeks and placing soft kisses on his lips could quite literally end him.
- He’d try to one up you by whispering sweet nothings and cute compliments into your ear, but if you interrupt him with even more soft kisses I’m sure he would melt.
- Giving him kisses only makes Omi want to be close with you all the time, hating the need to have to pull apart from such pretty moments.
- Kisses with Omi are intimate. The type of kisses to make your heart hammer and the type to envision a life in the near future with him together.
- The type to press his forehead against yours or shortly after pulling away gazes into your eyes, admiring your features both inside and out before diving into another kiss that takes your breath away.
- Cannot hide a smile whatsoever after kissing you. He attempts to look off at the side with his hands over his mouth, seeing the corner of his lip curve a little and his cheeks dusting in red.
- He enjoys letting the moment linger between you both by brushing his thumb against your cheek, or laughing as he pats your head.
- Off topic but I’m sure he’s give anything for long, snug hugs from his significant other. After a tired day of cooking or acting all day, or really at any moment of time, being in Omi’s arms is a surefire way of making you feel safe and secure <3.
- But also Omi is pretty playful in an endearing way, and most definitely has a couple tricks up his sleeve.
- Being focused on the kitchen and trying to distract him by leaning in for a kiss, he’ll probably dodge it by touching your nose with some whipped cream and let out a cute chuckle. (Omi would definitely feel bad after a couple of seconds and wipe it off for you, the lad is a m o t h e r)
- He’d also innocently hold a ladle full of soup up to your lips instead.
- “I saw you looking intently at the dish I was making! I was sure you might want a try… no…?”
- All is forgiven for Mr. Fushimi because his stew could make the yakuza cry, and he will shower you with love shortly after your meal.
citron 🍋 the shrimp oneshot, the shrimpshot if you will
it’s my birthday today and so i’ve decided to make my deepest sexual fantasy everyone’s problem, you know, as a gift to myself. it's literally just reader feeding citron shrimp.
[Insecurity sets in.] shut the fuck up shut the fuck up it’s my birthday you can't make fun of me it’s my birthday the fuck did you just say i’ll fucking [WAVE spins around in their seat and wildly throws punches. Despite aiming at thin air, they all miss.]
summary: it’s literally 1k words of reader helping citron with character work while eating shrimp and cuddling idk what you want from me
tags: established relationship, gender neutral reader, fluff, minor spoilers for ssr family play
words: 1084
“I brought you something.”
You caught how Citron’s eyes lit up as you entered his room, and then how they sparkled even more as he lowered his gaze to the platter in your hands. “For me?”
“Nooo, it’s for Citron Jr- yes, it’s for you.”
He placed down his pen and script, and hovered his hands slightly over the platter as you uncovered the clear lid. Inside was a perfect ring of cocktail shrimp, all turned clockwise around quarters of a lemon on a leafy garnish.
He let out a lovesick sigh. Whether it referred to you or the shrimp, you weren’t sure. “Oh, Reader. You’re so kind.”
You bit the inside of your cheek. “It’s nothing. Hey, I’ll get these for you.”
Citron pouted. “I know how to peel shrimp.”
But he still watched you pick at the shell, though. Your nails dug underneath and split the shell, and as you guided it to his lips they parted and bit into the flesh. Then you took a shrimp of your own and ate it as you watched Citron do the tiniest of wiggles. A happy dance?
Regardless, you don’t think you’ve ever seen someone so innocently excited to eat. The corner of his mouth curved up while his blond eyelashes gently fluttered closed, the very picture of joy. You weren’t even sure if he noticed how much his face lightened up at shrimp.
You pushed the lemons out of the way to clear a space for the shells, and gave Citron three more before he held your wrist.
“We’ll share,” he said, and guided your hand to your own mouth, only letting go before you bit into the sweet flesh. It was soft, but the flavor was clean and crisp, and you were starting to understand why Citron always ate with a smile. You didn’t have the heart to tell him you already snuck one while his eyes were closed.
Citron underlined a stage direction and tucked his pen behind his ear as he slid the script into your vision. “I’d like you to hear me out, please.”
You leaned against his body and squinted, still with a half-unpeeled shrimp in your hands. During the memorization process, he’d always ask you to look over the notes he’d written in the margins of his script without fail. They were far more meticulous than a past you would’ve expected, and mostly in a foreign script, but you’ve slowly been picking up the language. You could detect common Zafran grammar and basic stage directions, and the translation for “diaphragmatic-“ something you wouldn’t have known if it weren’t for the one time he taught you how breathing affects voice projection. When the notes were in Japanese, they would be written over in a handwritten bold and underlined at least four times, and above especially long words you could see Zafran letters with large spaces between one another, like sounding out a word.
Where the pen last pressed into the softened paper, Japanese characters asked you a question with arrows pointing at a string of dialogue uninterrupted by directions. His latest role was a two-in-one, a plain young man that secretly lived as a popular VTuber diva online. The VTuber, Ritsu, was gorgeous and graceful, from the words she spoke and the way she walked, and the man behind the screen was, well…
“Ritsuro’s kind of average, right?” You asked as you read back to his dialogue, highlighted in light acid yellow. “He’s has a life, but he’s just some guy.”
Citron nodded, and placed a shell into the pile. “So I thought I would slouch a pit, but his second life is all about Ritsu.”
“Bit, not pit.”
“Thank you. Ritsu is-“ He waved a hand in the air. “Ethereal. Very elegant.”
You didn’t understand how he knew “ethereal” but not “bit”. You didn’t bring it up. “She does have a really composed aura.”
“And really important. So maybe her counterpart also acts like he is all that and a bag of rips.”
“You mean ‘all that and a bag of chips.’”
“Yes, that!”
“So about his posture…” You hummed. “His parents have a good background, but he’s still an everyday guy. I think he’d look up and kind of stride when he walks, but not too much.”
“A normal walk in contrast to Ritsu’s drama.”
“Yeah, but she’s still a part of him. So maybe his body language is understated, but still graceful. You know, like how dancers walk.”
He pondered this for a moment, before placing his head upon yours and holding you close. “My dear Reader is so smart.”
You put on your best neutral face and tried to ignore how you glowed at the praise. “It’s just a thought.”
“A good thought, then.”
“Want me to look over the rest of your notes?”
He brushed a lock of your hair aside. “I would love nothing more.”
You flipped the page as he toyed with your hair, and read aloud the important-looking lines according to the directions he penned in along the margins. Citron would react to them quickly, reconsidering the delivery or nodding at the emotion, before repeating the line back to you, and waited for your opinion.
His Ritsu voice, you realized during scene 4, was annoyingly cute. He pulled off a convincing voice when he lowered the volume but raised the pitch. As an audience member, you made sure to advise him to improve his volume so the audience could hear, but as his partner, you secretly pretended to misunderstand his lines just so he would repeat them to you again in a voice that made your heart pound.
Oh, and, after an especially big breakthrough, he’d pepper you with kisses.
“Reader, my beloved, you’re so clever!” He took your head in his hands and pressed his lips to your forehead. “You understand me.”
You squirmed and playfully made a face. “Shrimp breath!”
He gave you the smallest of apologies in-between pecking your jawline and neck. “Sor-ry.”
“Gah, that tickles!”
“What? I can’t hear you!”
He nipped at a sensitive spot. You howled with laughter, and in turn he laughed as well, a sweet round sound that made you smile long after his tickle attack ended.
You rolled against his warm chest and closed your eyes with a happy sigh. “I love you,” you said.
Citron rested his arms around yours, the script completely forgotten, and laid his head against your shoulder. “I love you too, dear Reader,” he said back. 🍋
I'm glad you're enjoying nanowrimo!! also A3! band AU 👀
well i WAS enjoying nanowrimo but then boom depression. i’m sure i’ll end the month with at least 40k tho
aight so i’m writing this while waiting in line at an einstein bagels. if i’m overly excited it’s because a breakfast sandwich is in my near future
Anyways band au right
a3 but like what if veludo way was the live music capital of japan and has tons of record labels out there for musicians trying to make it and whatever
mankai records is one of the biggest names attached to veludo for being an independent label for independent artists but was so focused on its first breakthrough artists they never hired any new talent and they retired or moved onto other things and it died lol
yeah yukio founded it but i’m a feminist. his daughter izumi bluffs her way into ownership of mankai records and mentors/manages/adopts a buncha dudes with trauma and says “i can fix him” and then she DOES. twenty-four times. she did that. what a girlboss. i’m a feminist.
anyways it gets corny if you name them all spring band/summer band/fuck that noise band/that shit CORNY corny band so i gave them funny names :)
i also don’t have a name for the fic ahaha 😳 this entire time i’ve had my docs titled after that one mashup abt mainstream music 😳 don’t worry about it i’m sure it’ll be fine 😳😳😳
🌸 forward
ok this is spring!! these twee ass mfs do indie pop and twee pop. belle and sebastian type beat, early los campesinos type beat. SLIGHT younger hunger energy. sakuya thought of the name since everyone was born in spring, and then from daylight savings time. spring forward babeyyy
sakuya: the lead vocalist aww that’s so cute isn’t that cute you simply can’t not root for him. working voice claim for him is the guy from los campesinos he sounds just like him. he has tons of lyrics he’s written himself and he’s just a little guy. he’s so set on sharing the content he’s made and deserves so deeply to be a star i don’t know how to word it. he is perfect and i love him. oeugh
masumi: ok so forward is fun because they’re bass led! masumi is their bass! they don’t have a lead guitarist their bass is their lead! my head is just so brrrbfhfb about bassist masumi i love him. this mf 100% believes he’s better than everyone else because he listens to vulfpeck. dude wakes up prays to his Les Claypool altar and then kicks ass. he’s that mf that watches primus music videos and goes “this isn’t weird what’s wrong with you people” and everyone hates him because they ARE weird they ARE and other primus fans know that they will never be able to fully comprehend what’s going on but masumi claims he does even though everyone else knows he’s full of shit. i love him.
tsuzuru: rhythm guitarist he learned how to play from his eldest brother, you know, one of the few times tadoru’s been reliable lol. he’s so so good at supporting that he’s a good steady rhythm guy, doesn’t like to lead the melody lol. one of the worst things about this au is that he owns a weezer hoodie. and that’s why i DON’T love him. OH AND HE ALSO COMPOSES HES A COMPOSER!!! he’s a music theory student! he does a shitton of songwriting and composing not just for forward but also, literally everyone. like literally everyone. sure there’s a few other songwriters on the label and everyone has ideas for music but tsuzuru has a lot of talent with building on those ideas and he’s easily the best guy to bounce ideas off of he has fl studio on his chonky 2014 laptop
itaru: YOO ITARU YEAH WOO GO ITARU I LOVE BAND ITARU I HAVE SO MANY ITARU THOUGHTS
izumi: quit your day job. join my [twee] band
itaru: i will not quit my job but i used to take piano lessons when i was younger. i’ll play keyboard if i get a room + meals
izumi: done
itaru: cool (read as: pog)
itaru: [did indeed take piano lessons when he was a kid but also did not stop playing piano. dude owns so many keyboards. some of them are computer keyboards but that doesn’t matter. the point is that he’s a youtube let’s player/streamer but also releases his own music under the username taruchi and ITS ACTUALLY GOOD? WHAT? HOLY SHIT? he is SUCH a good producer it isn’t even funny. i’m talking ayesha erotica, i’m talking toriena, vague passion pit references. what a fucking chad i love him sm]
citron: would you believe me if i said he was a drummer 🥺 i also have tons of citronny thoughts but they’re spoilerific 😐 but he’s a drummer guy just a little guy he’s suchhh a vibe love of my life. LOVES phil collins LOVES brann dailor because i’m (you say: what?) self indulgent 😘😘😘 his technique is kind of lacking tho 😐😐
chikage: HA U THOUGHT i have plans for him joining the funny twee pop band with the weez*r guy and an otaku greasebin but i’m at 7.5k words and only just getting to introducing masumi he ain’t showing for a while
☀️ summer sun
the most on the nose name i think. but they do jpop! and idol thingz! they all sing and dance instead of play instruments. their style is super edm, super energetic, super in-your-face. i’ve done way more jpop listening in the last month than i have in my entire life to figure out how to write these guys and… are you serious… all of the super recommended boy groups i’ve seen are so tough don’t you ever want to be soft… summer sun has a very madkidz + hey say jump energy but make it more edm and happy to be here
tenma: ya he’s still a movie star. he also knows how to sing and dance because he was the dude from japanese high school musical idk i never saw hsm. anyways the point is he was actually japanese pt barnum from japanese the greatest showman and ever since japanese into the woods debuted with him as [male lead idk i’ve only seen a few scenes from that i don’t think i liked it much] his fans have been begging him to do more music stuff and he said Fine and is the leader of summer sun and for as much as i dunk on him his popularity really does help out mankai records a lot so good for him ig
yuki: uggh yukkuuun you are so cool and for what. onstage his persona is the snarky-but-cute type (basically him but turned to 11 lol) yes king give us nothing. just like canon he does costumes! he’s more of a stylist for the other bands since matching gets kitschy and autumn might actually keel over and die if they all wore the same thing, but for summer sun and a few other performances where cohesiveness is important he’ll sew he’ll do a little sewing he wears skirts even on stage and i think that’s so powerful of him
muku: hehe he’s the youngest… summer sun is easily the most theatrical band or at least the one with the most acting, you know, since all their stage idol personas are basically their core personality over the top. he wants to be a heartthrob idol prince like his favorite shoujo leads and his persona is largely inspired by that, but whenever he gets a chance to be cool and suave he gets flustered but that has his own charm too… also a really good dancer… sonboy…
misumi: misumi is so all over the place it’s hilarious. on game shows and offstage he’s just living his best misumi life but then he slips into his idol persona and he’s SO MYSTERIOUS? SO COOL? he’s the closest thing summer sun has to a bad boy but he’s still so happy to be here and it’s so clear that he has love in him waaa. his style is always changing, his persona is never consistent and that’s one of the reasons why he has so many fans. he’s the designated rapper! he raps! he loves that kinda migos flow when rapping and he calls his style Triangle Beats but tsuzuru’s like “you know they’re actually called triplets” but misumi says No They’re Triangle Beats and everyone else on the label also calls them triangle beats instead of triplets
hold on bagel intermission
you guys i just got my breakfast sandwich and oughfnehbf
oh yeah
kazunari: pansexual king skinny legend a lot of why i love kazuun is because of his actions during the plot rather than his backstory and gimmick, you feel? he’s such an emotional support for everyone even when they don’t realize it and he’s kind of the heart of summer sun if you really squint. he keeps the graphic design thing up, and he’s kind of a jack-of-all-trades that doesn’t do a lot of major parts by himself, but sings with others to fill chords, does adlibs, etc
kumon: funny rapper boy… funny rapper boy… patting his head so hard rn
🍁 the fall
i know god isn’t supposed to pick favorites but if He won’t i will. over the years the fall has the most diversity with subgenres, they start off grunge punk and hardcore and as they continue they dabble into hard rock, nu metal, they get a little fucky wucky and have a bluegrass influence for a sec… if i had to describe their sound at first i’m saying minor threat
banri: lead vocalist. i’m gonna speak to you not as a tumblr x reader blog admin, but as a person. i want you to go on youtube dot com. i want you to look up pyrrhic victory by citizen. you might recognize that band name but i promise this is a different vibe i think idk i don’t listen to pop punk. anyways you’re gonna listen to that. that is literally banri settsu. that is literally what he sounds like i swear, screams and clean vocals and all and the worst part is that he barely even sang before he auditioned i hate him this is the most accurate voice claim in the au.
juza: bassist and backup vocalist. yeah. he’s fun because he does entirely hardcore vocals. yeah he can sing too but you listen to his gutturals and then you’ll get why he sticks to ‘em, they’re monster. the fall’s members have the most diverse music taste but this guy always listens to super savage metal, you know, crowbar, nails, high on fire, he named the band after a gojira song 🥺 his bass playing is also fun because he’s not quite strictly lead nor is he strictly rhythm. a lot of the fall’s discography has these fun wacky cool bass lines in there and he always wants to improve i’m going to sob i love band au!juza so dearly i could cry so hard rn
taichi: TAICHI OMG!!! i love taichi here actually?? he’s a keyboardist which is a strange instrument for a punk band but it makes sense because he [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS] and he originally played because he [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS] which is why he [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS BUT ITS THE ONE WE’RE ALL EXPECTING] and then he also [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]. he also knows how to play the accordion which comes in clutch when [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]
omi: i have such a soft sport for band au!omi because he was really the first concept i made for this au and i have such strong feelings about his relationship to music and how it connects with mankai, his past, the worldbuilding, etc. he’s a drummer and OH MY GOD his bass drum game. immaculate. dude has calves for days and he knows how to use them. one time for a super hot outdoor festival he took his shirt off halfway through the set because so you know how much of a workout drumming is and the crowd roared bc how do you not and omi was totally lost and thought banri did a cool frontman thing but everyone in the fall thought he was just gloating and never explained it to him and he was so confused and forgot about it until six months later when he was making pudding and then it just randomly clicked. also, omi listens to george strait.
sakyo: ohh sakyo is another character that just makes my brain go zzssshzhzhshhwwwoooowowouu *space travel noises* because how do you not it’s sakyo there’s SO MUCH material for him! he’s a guitarist! he gave up on his dream of being in a band years ago but the revival of mankai records makes him play for keeps and WAAAA. and then you think about how we never really meet the other members of the og troupes (artists in this case) and that means i have full creative freedom and that makes my brain go ZHZHSHSSSOOOOOHOHOHOHOWW
azami: the sakyo-azami guitarist dynamic :D >>>> everything else :/
❄️ these freezing lakes
don’t ask me about their genre. trying to figure out their subgenre was one of the biggest production snags writing out this outline. they do rock. i can tell you that. smiths and sting and dead brothers, they’re very dead brothers. rock, but in the way that dust in the wind is rock and also folk but in the way that hotel california is folk (not at all). and then album 2 (master’s mesmerized by mystery) drops and then they have the AUDACITY to be prog. fuck these guys specifically.
tsumugi: but i don’t MEAN IT when i say fuck these guys i think winter has some of my favorite characters and dynamics and i think of them so dearly and so tenderly. tsumugi is a vocalist and a guitarist, rhythm, and doesn’t really sing often but- fuck- god- fuck fudkx you gsuys i had a voice claim for him but i forgoOT WAIT NO NO J GOT IT I GOT IT FLEET FOXES. THE SHRINE/THE ARGUMENT. GO LISTEN TO THAT. TGATS TSUMUGI. THATS HIM RIGHT THERE IFFICER.
tasuku: i know i say it a lot but i think tasuku might be my favorite band au character. i’m so set on it. he used to be a [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS] and then he joined these freezing lakes and now he’s a lead vocalist! not a leader but he does vocals and is a hell of a frontman in the way that he’s so charismatic without trying you just naturally want to get wrapped up in the songs, ya kno? i think a lot about his background in godza studios and how that bounces off not just the mankai crew but also the world of veludo way itself and he’s so talented, and he does so much to do what he can, and i love him, i truly do, i think he’s such an underestimated character in not just canon but also canon narrative and i could just go on about his relationship with taichi, and his relationship with tsumugi, and then his relationship to sakuya and sakyo and izumi, and azami and tenma, honestly, tassun is such a star and i could just go on about him i can’t wait until he gets his time to shine
hisoka: so anyways hisoka washes up on a beach like pokémon mystery dungeon explorers of sky and then learns how to play drums he’s our funny drummer boy he goes ppp pp ppp and i love that for him. gekkagumi is still a thing here. i want everyone to know that, as if gekkagumi in an acting troupe wasn’t batshit enough
homare: homare is such a character that requires actual thought to comprehend because there’s so much going on with him. i can’t think about him when i’m sleepy because i know i’ll forget something and fuck with his outline. anyways he’s still a poet. cool! because he’s a poet he’s also adept at writing lyrics for the gang, and each member of the label ends up writing a song or two at some point, but they do basics and concept and stuff, homare is the guy they go to so it can get refined, because he actually makes his own music, he has a bandcamp, but it never really took off because he’s such a kook and invented prog music, if you ever listened to the art of dying by gojira and counted the opening time signature and got 45/4 that’s because he did that, and then also he’s a guitarist, he’s the guitarist for these freezing lakes, he’s their lead, but then again you remember they’re kind of this very orchestral but folky band, and a lot of their songs use way more instruments than there are people, and that’s because homARE IS ALL OF THEM, HE’S ALL OF THEM AT ONCE, HE PLAYED PRETTY MUCH EVERY INSTRUMENT OUTSIDE OF THEIR MAIN LINEUP, HE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY THE FLUTE, HE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY THE HARMONICA, HE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY THE CELLO THE TROMBONE THE SAXOPHONE PIANO MARIMBA WHAT DOES HE NOT KNOW HOW TO PLAY I HATE THINKING ABOUT HIM. HE’S PERFECT. I NEED BRAINPOWER TO WORK ON HIS CHARACTER AND I HATE THAT. I LOVE HIM BUT I HATE THAT.
azuma: bassist! he picked up bass in high school but he also has a background in piano, so he occasionally swaps between the two during live gigs. he’s actually more experienced on piano than homare, too, so for studio recordings he also records piano tracks. i like azuma here because he’s such a common glue for everyone, you know? i keep looking at my notes and there’s always something that mentions his dynamic with x, especially for winter. it’s funny, too, because he’s such a not-loud character and yet he’s always so present
guy: okay so i said tasuku was my favorite right. i meant that. i mean it. but that’s referring to year 1. and you do not understand how much it pains me that i have to wait until the very very end of year 2 to even look at guy because this guy, THIS GUY is my favoritest ever in the au and i have so many thoughts about him on the daily and i!!!! gotta write!!!!!! so i can talk about guy!!!!!!!!!!!!! last week i literally snapped awake sometime past 3 am because i had a Guy Thought. guy is fucking crazy. he’s so rad. i love guy. band au!guy is quite literally what keeps me going.
there’s so many individual thoughts i have about the past gen, mixed band dynamics, have i mentioned that it has a 4% chance of happening in canon but how much i want tsuzuru, tasuku, omi and azami- soccer club!- to collab and release some super experimental clipping-inspired tracks? izumi’s first outfit in the fic is a giant faux fur coat with oversized sunglasses, a cropped tank top, jeans with only one leg cuffed, granny boots and a leopard-print purse. she accidentally steals a power bank. i just want the fall to go to amoeba records and film a What’s In My Bag?™ episode because banri scoured the bitch for ashnikko and taichi listens to the hamilton soundtrack and juza listens to Suffering Soul by Nails and omi is standing there, arms full of sturgill simpsons and one (1) 2112 by rush and then sakyo comes back with oscar peterson trio. forward karaoke night. THE TIME KAZU SMUGGLED SUMMER SUN INTO A CLUB,
thank you everyone for being patient! i’d like to apologize for being inactive lately. life got super hectic recently. i just came here to confirm yes, i’m still alive, but i likely won’t be publishing any requests until after november. apologies for the delay.
i mean to say that i’m taking on a new project.
this is my first year ever participating in nanowrimo! when i first started @citowon it was the first time in years that i’ve been able to get over my writer’s block, and i’m happy to say it’s completely gone. i’ve always wanted to participate in nanowrimo, and it feels absolutely amazing to finally grasp that dream. i don’t want to be too corny, but i truly don’t think i would’ve been able to take this goal on without a3, and without my readers. thank you dearly for reading my work. it really is what keeps me going! please bear with me as i continue to write.
no one asked but i’m damn well sharing my self insert and you’re all stuck here with me
this is delphia!
her older sister moved from america to japan to compose for the original mankai company. growing up delphia was a talented singer, actor and dancer, but never got casted for productions- there was always just someone better suited to it despite her efforts. so once she heard of mankai company reopening, she dropped by on a nostalgia trip, and reunited with one of her not-quite-close friends, izumi! after seeing the sorry (but promising!) state of the theater delphia offered to act as an assistant director to fine-tune the actors’ skills and... well, izumi’s made worse managing decisions.
to be fair, delphia does hold the actors and their development close to her heart, but she’s a bit of a bastard. she’s a hell of an enabler for a lot of chaos just because it seems fun, and it stems from a belief that you’re never too old to have fun, which is also why she dresses so boldly (yes, these are her casual clothes!). of course, she’ll relinquish her authority to izumi once things get too out-of-hand, but she brings a lot of heart and fun into their little family, and delphia tries to give off an approachable vibe to the other actors as both a role model/authority figure and as a friend.
she’s still a bastard though. she can come across as immature in the same way that itaru does, and she’s versatile and knowledgeable enough about different hobbies to get along with the actors, but it’s hard for her to really feel a deep connection with anyone in mankai- after all, she didn’t get to visit the original company often as an american, and never got the same childhood friendship bond that izumi and sakyo share.
regardless, at her core delphia just wants to see everyone smile as they bloom! that’s really all she wants. everything she does is so the people she loves can see entertainment and fun in every little thing. be unique and unapologetic, and look forward to every day. is that too deep? it might be. she’s a character that still tries to do the trick where your profile picture is the default but with a spider edited onto it to scare people
hobbies: expressive fashion
this is about of covens and magicians, a banger a3 fic that you really don’t need to know the source material to understand
if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be the highest caste of a classist system that serves as the backbone to a modern-day secret society, but like, with magic and swords and shit, this is the quiz for you. 10/4/2021. spoilers up to ch. 50
i asked @f1avovitta like a month ago if i could make an ocam uquiz and they said yes
there’s some out of context spoilers for ocam up to ch. 50 but it doesn’t ask you much about the plot. please enjoy, gang! 🌟
