youve mentioned before how you hc kotone to have her hair down only when her guard is lowered..... consider: yukari running her hands through kotone's hair and kotone leaning into her touch like a cat
Can't help but appreciate how well the body language translates through VR.
The frantic head turning while looking for a place to stash the grenade, the double take as they realize the drawer they chose was FULL of grenades, and the "WTF" hand gesture as they point in disbelief at the drawer full of grenades? Chef's kiss.
Oh by the way, @flocksis did some rough sketches for the two outfits in Two Sides, Same Coin! The altered Akechi outfit, as well as Joker's Sataneal one!
hi have my dissociative identity disorder akechi au. more notes under the cut
the crow system originally split after finding their mom's body into kokoro, akechi, and ko-chan. it took them years to become aware of each other. kokoro was the obedient good little girl, akechi was the bad kid who constantly got them into trouble, and ko-chan is essentially frozen in the moment before they found their mom and doesn't age or understand what's happening to them.
akechi came up with the plan to take down shido when they originally awakened to their powers. he's generally not invested in being a good person because he views himself as The Evil One anyway.
kokoro isn't aware of the details of akechi's plans with shido. she dissociates and forgets whenever he tries to tell her about them. she knows he's up to Some Shit and has decided to assist him in his plans she just tries her best not to think about the details and deludes herself that as long as she doesn't have to do anything morally dubious it's fine. she's extremely invested in being A Good Person and living up to her mother's ideals so she can't tolerate anything that isn't aligned with that.
ko-chan generally does not front bc their body is distressing and confusing and they don't know what's going on at any time. they mostly just hang out in the background and talk to kokoro and akechi when they're bored. they ask where mama is and that it's been a long time since they've seen her and kokoro and akechi have run out of answers for them.
akechi and kokoro have both tried to explain to ko-chan what happened but they're incapable of retaining the information or truly understanding it. eventually they both decide their primary job is to do whatever it takes to protect ko-chan. both akechi and kokoro are trying to achieve ko-chan's dreams, just in very different ways.
crow sys have existed publicly as a man ever since shido enabled their transition and they started t (still haven't gotten any of the surgeries mostly bc they don't see the point (they'll be dead in a few years)).
because of this kokoro can't act as the detective prince (talks way too girly) and akechi's Absolute Shit at being nice or emoting in general. they originally plan on working together to perform (not an easy thing to do) but instead on their first show they both panic, dissociate, and detective prince forms (he is initially nameless). detective prince views himself as an extension of akechi and he's generally treated as a fake persona with no independent will by the rest of the system.
maruki erases all the alters except for detective prince. yay! what do you do when you're a mindless puppet who existed only to enact the will of another but you're the only one left and for the first time you're alone and have to make a decision of your own! third semester is a fun time.
no one is aware of ko-kun's existence and no one knows when she first showed up but she split from kokoro shortly after they partnered with shido. ko-kun gives no fucks and the only reason she doesn't get them into more trouble is that she likes being a secret. ko-chan discovers her first when they're looking for the others and ko-kun has sworn them to secrecy. (ko-kun is their cool secret big sis best friend.)
I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.
Also, I can say this for certain as somebody who's played rythm games. Wired headphones are just better. There is a delay with wired headphones. You don't notice it normally. But oh boy. You play one rythm game and try and ensure note synch is right? It is gonna be suddenly, very painfully obvious. And wired won't have a connection issue or die out unless they actually just straight up break!
Also, Wireless is more annoying to keep track of. Because you have to keep track of your actual phone separately from the phone itself! That's double or maybe even triple the things to keep track of!
And on the point of the port itself, switching devices is such a pain! You have to fully re-pair the device each and every time, where with wired, you can just unplug and replug. One movement!
And like. Sure, I can label one or two edge cases where wireless is helpful. But not enough to justify removing wired!!!
So since I already started writing This Idea and made it's own fic, which is Right Here, I might as well mention the other AU idea I had that likely isn't gonna be written (since I think I'm gonna mix the two, going off the one that's already got a chapter out). I'll leave out the details for what would happen after, since I probably will still be using several of them. Without further Ado,
"To Be Thou"
So, the basic premise of the other one is that, After the events of third semester, Ren Amamaiya would be heading back to their home in Inaba. But part way through, they black out, and Akechi wakes up, finding themselves suddenly back to life yet again in the worst way possible.
After a very tense first day, Akechi manages to talk to Joker within the Theives Den, which Joker has as his mindspace. He mentions he got Hereward as a persona as soon as the false reality collapsed, and didn't have any idea this would happen. But, Ren can set Akechi up. His freinds here happen to be used to split personality, due to an older event, so it's a believable excuse for Akechi to have a second shot at life, and Joker won't mind. Mutually beneficial, after all.
Said group, which happens to be the investigation team. Of which in this timeline, Ren is a member of.
While Ren doesn't mention any of this, this is the catalyst that led to all of this.
A young, 11 year old Ren got thrown into the TV before Mitsuo's ark could happen, because in a desperate bid to get some kind of love and affection from his parents, he performed self harm on elementary school grounds. It made the local news. The parents were more upset at their reputation then for Ren. After all, they always saw Ren as maybe corrupted by some kind of demon. True Silver eyes are very rare, and they were a little on the superstitious side.
When Ren ended up in the TV world, his shadow took the form of a demonic thief, greedy and manipulative, willing to do whatever it takes to have the hearts he so desperately wants, to fill the void of the one he clearly doesn't. He's a Demon, plain and true.
While the team did rescue him, and Ren did come to terms with his shadow, awakening Arsene, he may have internalized that a bit too much. But he didn't mind. He could enjoy being a demon, especially when people who aren't his parents are willing to give him pieces of their heart so easily. Simple deals, that was all it took.
For many years, he pushed the desire to have a 'soul of his own' to the side. He could manage just fine without one, as far as he was concerned. And as a gentleman thief, even as a demonic one, he should never take a life.
But then Came third Semester. And Ren knew Akechi was going to die. So he made a deal.
After all. He couldn't take a soul. But one freely given? That's a different story. And Akechi's soul was Perfect for Ren. Clever, manipulative, but oh so humanly ambitious. So Ren promised Akechi. Whatever his soul yearned for in his care, Ren would grant it's every desire. He would be his heart, and one should claim what one's heart desires, right? Perhaps the soul would not still be 'Goro Akechi', but it would be a legacy.
Akechi accepted. And they made a pact.
That the Akechi who woke up afterwards couldn't remember. Even as Arsene would always call him the same thing. "Mon Coeur". My Heart.
this is my everybody lives/nobody dies fix-it AU where ivy successfully frees vanessa but berserk!vanessa sticks around as original!vanessa’s alter
at first berserknessa acts like she hates ivy and wants to kill her, and is very very difficult to deal with, always raging and starting conflict
ivy can’t even talk to her because berserknessa will start slinging death threats at her and generally destroying things. ivy tries to be patient throughout this but it really does hurt
berserknessa: this f-f-feeble body w-w-won’t hinder me much longer, i sw-w-ear—
paff: i just asked what activity you’d like to do
berserknessa: DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
paff: i was thinking more like if you’d be into playing a board game
after paff (& probably a couple of others in a small capacity) talk to her enough, berserknessa admits that she cares for ivy and is pushing her away out of fear
“ivy makes me vulnerable, she has to be out of the picture for me to stay safe”
“i’m scared of ivy hurting me by leaving”
“i need to push her away before she has a chance to hurt me”
“this entire world feels hostile and like it was made to hurt me”
berserknessa was created to hold nothing but fear and rage and pain but over time as people treat her with respect instead of antagonizing her she’s kind of at a loss for how to behave
it’s mostly paff driving the effort to help berserknessa but cherry also tries to help by socializing her like a feral cat and neko tries to help by inviting nessa to hang out and play video games or watch anime with her
oh god gamer berserknessa
she plays first-person shooters
sore loser who gamer rages
she gets muted for screaming through the mic and then spams zalgo text in the chat interspersed with insults and misanthropic diatribes
people start leaving matches as soon as she joins and she’s like “THESE FOOLISH HUMANS REFUSE TO CHALLENGE ME”
neko: “you’ve been hogging the controller for like 6 hours straight”
like neko, berserknessa gets into a lot of fights on the internet. unlike neko who is just trolling for shits and giggles, she’s genuinely getting ragebaited in arguments
would you like to hear more about berserknessa alter au… i could edit and post the outline i have written about it…
Absolutely! We have to see more Cytus stuff, I know I at least am gonna eat that stuff up! (And also plurality things are so fittingly thematic to Cytus as a whole. It's identity shenanigans!!! That's like, half the themes!!!)
this is from my fix-it AU where everybody lives including berserk vanessa, who sticks around as vanessa’s alter. she hates everything besides the violent video games that neko lets her play
On a side note, I'm glad I can still write the Cytus x FF14 fic with relative ease. Considering my brain had a rapid and very sudden restructuring of it's everything (new function: Plurality!) midway through writing it, I wasn't entirely sure. I know the ISAT fic has been put far on the sidelines from that for now, and I'd hate to have that happen to both my existing fics.
On the plus side, we got the Persona 5 fic from it, so not a complete loss.
So I just simultaneously did, and possibly didn't lose my job today :)
Very much did in the sense that I literally do not know where my job is at the moment. But, for the time being I haven't been let go because nobody else including the store owner knows where it is either.
So, I don't wanna risk doxxing myself by posting pictures but goddamn am I tempted because this is not a believable event. This is a cartoon problem. For looneytoons.
But yeah, so, I work(ed?) at a kiosk selling boba tea, right? Freestanding kiosk in the mall with full water and electrical hookups and multiple fridges and sinks and a mini kitchen and the works. Fully functional tea shop. Very important to note that it was there last night, The work chat was discussing another issue last night at closing time. I'll get back to this.
It's been showing signs of being on the way out with how business is being handled lately and I've been considering other options, which is probably why I'm not as torn up about this as I should be, but maybe it just hasn't set in yet, but that's not the point. The point is there's been a lot of shit breaking and not being replaced and nobody mentioning anything about it until I walk into work in the morning and have to figure out why shit like the fucking cash register isn't there today. So I'm kinda used to having to ask questions about big things that nobody bothered to update me on. I was out for two weeks recovering from a surgery, so I came to work this morning assuming there'd be some kind of bullshit, yeah?
So, the question I had to ask the chat this morning was:
Not a text I ever thought I'd have to send in sincerity, but there it is. Because what I found instead was a fenced off patch of discolored tiles and a few holes in the floor where my entire place of employment used to be.
And the answer? Nobody knows! It was there last night when the mall closed, and every single trace of the structure and all its contents including drink making supplies and our safe and cashbox was gone when it opened again. And when I say nobody knows, I mean everyone from last night's closers to the actual (former?) owner of the store jad no fucking clue about this until getting that text from me this morning. For once I am actually the first to know. 🎉.
So. I guess I didn't so much lose my job as had it stolen. Not by AI, but good old fashioned hands-on human beings picking it up and carrying it away somehow. All mall security would tell me was that they were instructed not to tell me anything and have us contact our management. Who also don't know anything. And later on I came across some construction workers around the gravesite of the kiosk discussing filling in the holes, asked them about it, and was told that they "weren't at liberty to say".
So, not only is my job gone in the most literal physical sense of the word, but it was taken in some kind of super secret kiosk extraction in the dead of night without any warning or witnesses and nobody is allowed to speak of it. The store owner said she was gonna figure it out 10 hours ago and still no word back.
I don't know what else to say aside from I've been laughing all day and I'm gonna have a hell of a time explaining Schrodinger's Unemployment to the benefits office.
Update that is not an update because I'm basically certain this isn't what actually happened:
My mother in law thinks the FBI took it.
Not any of the other stores around the state. Just the one little kiosk.
Why? Because she loves a conspiracy and is just a little bit extra.
Also because she was around for the massive crackdown on Yakuza-owned businesses in Waikiki (in her homestate) that did actually involve the FBI seizing stores (no confirmation of making kiosks cleanly disappear in the middle of the night though).
Still no word from my job on what's actually going on, but the most likely theory so far is that maybe the kiosk was on lease and got repossessed? The mystery continues
(also shout out to the person who proposed Carmen Sandiego)
According to the owner, based on what she's been able to find out, the kiosk was not removed legally and they're starting a potentially long process of legal action. I hope she gets to sue the shit out of whoever did it but for now at least I know for sure I'm unemployed.
Really hoping for more details in terms of who/why/how, so I'll keep updating if I learn anything.
For now the summary is: An unnamed entity that is most likely mall management (on account of mall security cooperating with them) stole an entire kiosk and all the contents including money and machinery with barely a trace in the middle of the night grinch-style, with zero warning or explanation, and ensured the silence of both security and the construction crew, in an action that was definitely preplanned and illegal, and as far as I know nobody knows its whereabouts.
So now I'm officially out of a job. Because my workplace was literally stolen in the night.
Actually fuck it let's share some photos cause I wouldn't be inclined to believe this myself. It's not like anyone can stalk me at my job now and I'm not gonna have to see any coworkers that might find my tumblr.
Enjoy the unintentionally funniest text I've ever sent in my life
Aaand a close-up:
The last remains of a once Very Much Solid And Immobile Workplace
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