TRAGICOMEDY.

affiliated allen walker

[isolaradiale]

i'd like to request a hiatus for allen walker from d gray man. the date is 2/28 thank you

Noted!

– mod altair.

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baddestdangerboy‌:

He absolutely shouldn’t support such a destructive and rambunctious plan but here they are. Badou’s grin turns absolutely shark-like in turn as he smirks. 

The people of this school are in for it….

His own question, probably teasing, makes him pause, considering. 

“I guess. I don’t want anyone to think I’m stingy,” He is stingy. “Contacts are  important anyway.”

     “ Contacts are always important to have when enacting business endeavors. ” Allen agrees wholeheartedly. After all, there’s a reason why he can get away with getting paid under the table for most of his jobs. “ Not to brag but I am good at this sort of things, making money especially with high schoolers involved since they tend to be so gullible. I can help if you ever need it, basically. ”

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betrayou‌:

❝  Yeah, I’m just curious about them and wondered if they’re man made. ❞  Surely if they can create living weapons that so happens to look like animals then half-organic and half-mechanical creatures are a thing they could do too —– maybe they’ll be a bit more durable.  Shoichi picks up a dog-look-alike & the creature allows the treatment despite the ginger’s bad luck with animals in general.   ❝  But I suppose you can’t dismantle them  huh ? ❞  & with that curious inquiry the beast finally leaves his grasp, for a moment frigidting dangerously in his hands before finally jumping right into his face and to sweet escape, glasses falling in the processed rendering the poor inquisitive boy partially blind.  ❝  Ack !  ❞     So now at least they know those things are very, very aware of possible danger —- even from nerds that just so happen to wonder if you can mess with them a bit. ( not like he’d do it… but still ) 

     It’s a bit like watching the steady fall of dominos or the collapse of a tower of cards, watching as the almost-dog effectively make its escape as soon as it’s able to. Allen feels a surge of sympathy for the other mixed finely with amusement. He swallows down a bubble of laughter in order to help, his own four-legged companion gently placed down so that Allen may have proper use of his hands. It must be curious since it stays, expression hard to parse and non-existent with a monitor replacing it. 

“ If they are man-made, they’re done very well. They act very dog-like. ” He mentions, stooping down enough to pick up the fallen glasses and holding them out once he’s able. “ Maybe dismantling them isn’t even a thing you have to do. ” Allen himself doesn’t like the idea of it, the word leaves a bad taste at the back of his throat. “ I’m sure there are other ways you can examine them. If they’re animal enough, a vet might do. There may even be a person that specializes in them since they seem native to the area. ” 

[lifeinpoetry]

“All I want is for someone to remember my name. / So will you remember my name?”

— Hasheemah Afaneh, from “Remember the Name,” published in Warscapes

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you better watch out ! you better watch out ! you better watch out ! you better watch out ! you better watch out !

allen walker found dead in spirale. tune in for more news at 11!

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ifreanns‌:

❛ That sounds familiar. ❜  

Without the traveling, that is. The idea of a guardian who didn’t want to cook for themselves, that was what resonated with Rin’s memories of his father.  ❛ I taught myself how to cook as well, mainly because nobody else in the Church was particularly invested in food. Instant meals got old fast. ❜  Certainly convenient, but horribly bland. ❛ Plus, cooking is a pretty good way to relax. I had a nasty temper when I was younger. ❜ That isn’t to say he doesn’t have a temper now, but at the very least, he had learned to control it. Still, even talking about food was comforting. ❛ Oh, it’s tamagoyaki ! I was sort of cravin’ eggs, and I used to eat it a lot back home. You want some ?  ❜ 

     Allen looks surprised for a moment before his expression settles on something close to amusement. “ You grew up in a church? My guardian was a priest of a sort, an exorcist technically. ” The technicalities and hierarchy of the Order mattered little to Allen in the end; they were all fighting the same war, after all. He never understood why some got more say than others especially when they weren’t even doing the fighting. “ I wonder if it’s just common for those types to not bother learning how to cook or spare enough energy to want to anyway. It does having calming factor though, must be all the stirring and chopping you need to do. ” That and the reward of food at the end. 

His attention is further caught and interest piqued at the idea of actually getting something to eat. After all, he had only wandered over to investigate the smell, but if it’s being offered, Allen has trouble saying no. “ If you don’t mind and have enough to share, I wouldn’t mind any. Though I wouldn’t want to be an inconvenience if you don’t. ”

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oritsuru‌:

“Well, if we can’t get Takoyaki, Dango does sound good, too!” She’s had it when she got here. First time, just like Takoyaki. There’s no Dango or Takoyaki where she’s from. They are both equally as delicious! “Apparently there’s a song about Dango, too! It’s super cute.” It was the whole reason why she even got into dango in the first place.

     “ Really? ” Allen cants his head to the side. He’s heard all manner of songs in the past, a byproduct of being brought up in the circus and as a traveling performer. There are all types of music in Spirale as well, genres he’s never even heard of before. 

“ We’ll find a dango place. ” He says and begins leading them away from the shopkeep. “ I’m curious now though; what are those lyrics? ”

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onihanas‌:

❁ / ; @hallowboned !

          SOMETHING ROSE-COLORED AND WARM HAD ITS HOLD ON HER ! Their walk had been for leisure but the pair had managed to accumulate quite a bit of snack food from the vendors they had passed. It was a lull neither of them fought against or hoped to in the near future. Conversation usually flowed without hindrance when hey shared each other’s company but this afternoon the halfling seemed distracted by some unknown force. 

         Every so often the girl’s phone would chime and a most curious grin would stretch across her features. Beaming and flushed       Her response came instantaneously with a fluttering of her fingers across the screen. The light in her eyes only dimmed when she caught the ivory-haired exorcist raising a questioning brow at her. Unprompted she begins, already defensive in her tone yet accused of no crime       Yet ❛ What is it… Why are you looking at me like that ? Do I have something on my face ? ❜

     Allen is glad that in the months he’s been here that good company was not hard to come across. Frequently, he has spent enough time with Zakuro to notice shifts in her demeanor, easily spotted from his habit of reading people. It also helps that her actions and attitude are quite obvious, and Allen gazes at her curiously as she once again taps away at her phone with more speed than he’s ever seen her utilize. 

Curious as her behavior is, he wasn’t going to point it out, but he defensiveness to words not even spoken pique his curiosity further. It’s all fair game now, seeing as though he didn’t initially draw attention to anything. 

“ You’ve got a look I haven’t seen before as if you’re practically on cloud nine. ” He answers, corner of his lips curving into a smile and eyes gleaming something dangerously close to mischief. “ Who has you looking at your phone like that? Anyone I should know about? If it’s a secret, I’m good at keeping them. ”  

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lotusword‌:

there isn’t a long list of people who would wake up, out of their pure heart and soul, at 7 am; much less people who would wake up so early to visit kanda yuu of all people. so when allen walker announces himself and greets him a good morning, propped up on the kitchen counter looking like a king in his throne room, kanda knew there is something wrong.

said wrong takes in the form of a box of cereal, a jug of milk, three empty bowls and another half-full one sitting primly on allen’s lap.

all things that aren’t kanda’s to begin with.

          “ fucking beansprout—! ”

kanda grabs allen by the collar with both hands and lifts him off his seat. “ STOP RANSACKING OTHER PEOPLE’S FRIDGE, YOU FUCKING LEECH! ”

     Allen knew that making an unannounced appearance at Kanda’s place wasn’t a good idea, probably the worst decision he could make right now. However, boredom and the instinctual need to pester one of the few people could is a large enough driving force. That, and Allen has very little sense and even fewer self-preservation instincts, though he’d be harder press to admit that part of it.

He dimly thinks he ought to have thought this through better seeing as though he’s backed himself in a corner by sitting on the kitchen counter. Of course Kanda would lunge on sight and Allen’s protest immediately die in his throat as he’s lifted into the air. 

“ The cereal. ” Allen first mutters softly, eying the spilled mess on the floor before turning a glare at the other. “ My name is Allen. ” He then hisses and promptly kicks his leg out hoping to connect with something. 

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lotusword‌:

@hallowboned continued from here x

[text] you’re the one who should thank me, idiot. [text] these chocolates won’t eat itself.

[txt] who even gave you chocolate???? [txt] i’ll eat them though since you’re ungrateful and don’t want them. [txt] keep the ones with liquor in them if you have any. i don’t like those.

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[text] hey, fucking beansprout. come over later. have something to give you. run away and i'll hunt you down.

[txt] because this is exactly how you get someone to come over[txt] you’re lucky i’m curious about whatever this is

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     Valentine’s Day is a strange holiday, all opulent showing of romance and people frazzled because of it. Allen understands it in the barest of sense—that’s it’s for couples and love confessions and chocolate, things he doesn’t really have an investment in. He likes the chocolate better around this time of year though when all the limited-edition flavors and cute shapes start to show up. Spirale’s changed too with brightly decorated shops and advertisements of seasonal foods at most the places Allen likes to go eat at when he’s lazy enough not to cook. 

Inviting someone out to lunch with him isn’t new for Allen; food is better with good company, after all. However, it is the first time he's actively invited Nico out rather than their increasingly frequent and somewhat awkward run-ins they’ve been having with each other. Interacting is a lot easier to deal with this way when Allen can blame well-placed concern about Nico never eating anything decent and wanting to get food at a cheaper price because of the holiday. 

“ I come here often enough to know for a fact that what they have on the regular menu is good. ” Allen says and keeps the door held open once he gets to it. He’s a bit bright eyed; the idea of food always makes him a little excited. “ I mostly get pastries when I come here; they always seem fresh. ”

( @stygianking )

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oritsuru‌:

“Mmmm,” she’s thinking about it. A lot of people would think Yuffie was down to trying NEW things. For the most part, she is, but she’s pretty picky with her food. Okay. Maybe coming here won’t do them any good. This may be her favorite spot to get takoyaki, but maybe Allen would like to try some weird new flavors if there is one. “Alright! Let’s go.” Looks like the vendor is out of the woods. Wouldn’t want to taste Yuffie’s furry!

“Cotes ward has a lot of places we can eat. SO it shouldn’t be hard.” IT shouldn’t. 

     “ It really shouldn’t. ” 

Allen agrees. Though Cotes isn’t where he prefers to spend his time, he’s been around the ward enough to know that there are more than a few good places to eat, and more always seem to pop up when he visits. Spending the day searching for and eating food is as good of a way as any to spend it, and it seems as though Yuffie knows what she’s doing, or at least knows what she wants better than Allen does. He’s never picky, as long as he gets fed in the end.

“ Anything else besides takoyaki that you wanted? I’m craving dango myself, but that’s one of my favorites so I’m always craving it. ”

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      “ I could have handled myself. ” Allen complains, arms crossed over chest and mouth pulled into a frown, somewhat childish for someone ensuring that they’re not. However, it was just the regular disturbance tonight, a stream of poker games that went south; he won a few too many hands in a row, and the group he was with got heated rather quickly. It was an almost brawl, and Allen would have let it happen if this stranger didn’t diffuse the situation. “ But I guess you’d like a thank you regardless. ”

(@insaenia)

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     “ I traveled a lot when I was younger, so I got good at making stews and whatnot very quickly. ” Food is an easy middle ground to talk of, the personal information flowing freely with an ease that other topics may not have. “ Learned which types were good during what seasons, what would last longer, and actually be a decent tasting meal. I also make a pretty good steak since I had to learn how to do that too; grew up with a very picky guardian that didn’t always want to cook his own meals. ” Or wasn’t sober enough to do so, but Allen shrugs instead of divulging that information. “ So, what are you cooking exactly? It looks really good. ”

(@ifreanns)

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“You’re not alone.”

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS TO BE SENT ANONYMOUSLY

     “ I know. Thank you for the reminder. ” 

It’s hard not to when they’re so insistent and caring in ways that Allen has trouble fathoming. It’s hard to properly wrap his head around the concept of others truly, truly caring for him in ways he doesn’t deserve despite all the trouble he’s caused. So, yes, he knows he has friends and people that care when they more than likely shouldn’t, and that’s why it’s better if he distances himself occasionally, inevitably at this rate.  

He can’t help but think that it’d be nice to be able to stay by their side.

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What Shape Does Your Pain Take?

MASK

You hide your pain behind a mask,. Maybe you feel you can't be helped, maybe you think no one cares, maybe you don't want to hurt anyone else with it, you're afraid of being judged, or maybe there's another reason. 

But whatever the reason, you fake a smile and try to function normally even though you're one step away from falling apart. Secretly, you wish someone would notice it's a mask, ask you if you're really okay, see right through and make it be okay somehow. You're hurt and a little angry that no one's noticed yet, but you'll never admit it. 

White lies, not that bad... Are they?