this is a yumeship side blog (ocxcc but i'm heavily projecting) with Ruggie Bucchi from Twisted Wonderland. Though technically selective, i'm generally pretty chill about sharing.
I go by he/him. I speak english, spanish, a little of italian and french, 日本語もＯＫ!
I'm an adult(in my twenties) so i'm not really comfortable interacting with minors. Please also dni if you can't properly separate fiction from reality or if you think it's okay to harass people over fiction. I also might discuss "problematic" subjects and generally discuss nsfw. i don't like drama or discourse please just block
This is a side blog so i don't think i can follow back properly. Im open to dms and asks in fact id live interaction but i might be slow to reply. im a uni student so i might go inactive during exam seasons and such.
i'm a digital and traditional artist. i dont care if you reupload as long as i get some credit DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE AI ON MY ART OR USE IT TO TRAIN AI I FUCKING HATE AI
feel free to drop doodle requests on my askbox or strawpage!
(here's my strawpage)
im a fudanshi and veteran otaku.
interests:
some animanga:
dungeon meshi
dr stone
one piece
dandadan
mob psycho 100
aggretsuko
kekkai sensen
hellsing
durarara
dakaichi
charlotte
gekkan shojo nozaki kun
ouran highschool hostclub
hidoku shinaide
black butler
hikaru ga shinda natsu
yamada kun and the seven witches
full metal alchemist (+fmab)
miss kobayashi's maid dragon
devilman crybaby
given
cherry magic
+ so many others i just got tired of listing them (do ask!)
some games:
twisted wonderland
project sekai
hades
botw
little nightmares
undertale/deltarune
ace attorney
fran bow
little missfortune
professor layton
stardew valley
investigraves
faith the unholy trinity
mouthwashing
horror rpg makers
+others i can't think of rn
miscs:
the magnus archives
hyp mic
urbex
tags i'll use
scavenger shipping - yumeship stuff
ss lore - in depth information about my yumeship
ss yap - fun facts and silly tidbits of information about my yumeship
ss art - illustrations of my yumeship
ss koma - small comics of my yumeship
ss rkgk - yumeship doodles
ss templates - any templates i fill about my yumeship
ss songs - about playlists, lyrics or music in general that i associate with my yumeship
nssfw - nsfw posts about my yumeship
hyde lore - in depth information of my oc
hyde yap - little fun facts and misc silly tidbits of my oc
oh sea - any art (illusts, comics and doodles) of my oc
kura - whenever a darker or "problematic" topic comes up
they both part time at mostro lounge fairly often. hyde works as a cook so when they share a shift he'll sometimes purposely mess up orders so that ruggie can have them/take them home instead
ruggie keeps extra pens on him because hyde will steal them and chew on them. ruggie has joked about getting him a chew toy but that's a waste of money
sometimes hyde stalks ruggie for fun. ruggie is fully aware but figures confronting him will only be a hassle and not change anything so he lets him be (sometimes even takes it as an opportunity to mess with hyde)
during winter ruggie discovered the infinite warmth glitch of hyde's coat. hyde spends all the season catching colds and narrowly escaping hypothermia but he refuses to ask for his coat back
dumpster diving dates!! if they do it separately then they later leave a little trinket they found at each other's desks like they're crows
hyde sucks at animal language so he constantly pesters ruggie to tutor him
hyde is indefinitely banned from savanaclaw but he'll still sneak in from time to time
ruggie's favourite move to pull is "why are you hitting yourself" using his UM he'll also just randomly trip hyde if he's walking by
Hi Mitsu!! I hope you’re doing well and having a lovely day, for a request how about a platonic Ruggie and reader? Whatever setting or storyline is your choice :D thank you again for opening my eyes to how good a duo they can be!!!
ruggie as a friend — thoughts
hi lottie! thanks for the ask! this admittedly wasn’t easy to answer especially when i have so many thoughts for ruggie’s character, but for the sake of simplicity, i choose to create hcs of ruggie—specifically how he would be as a “friend” of yuu post chapter 2
as the only character to grow up in poverty from the main cast, ruggie has a much different life from his peers. as a result, there is a level of disconnect. while not discussed about, i wholly believe it is there and thus, impacts how he interacts with the world. ruggie makes lots of connections, being described as a “shark sucker” by floyd for how often he clings to others for their wealth. considering his background as a student from poverty, it makes sense. 4 years in a prestigious college to the rest of his life is really not all that much time. he’s got to make the best of it. so, ruggie appears friendly and amiable but these relationships are not friendships.
the closest thing we see to a friendship is with his dormmates: leona kingscholar and jack howl. however, whenever leona or ruggie refers to each other as “friends,” it is meant sarcastically, with both parties using the other for their purposes (leona using ruggie to do his chores, ruggie taking leona’s $/jewelry/notes). as for jack, he is shown to earnestly want to help ruggie (jack’s dorm vignette) & admires the hyena for staying by leona’s side even after the lion’s betrayal (chapter 3) yet ruggie seems to distrust jack’s motives, believing the wolf wants something from him. this makes me believe that ruggie views most of his relationships in nrc, at least, as transactional
so, being ruggie’s friend, especially chapter 3, is admittedly transactional. he will not call you friend—most students at nrc won’t, at least not genuinely. but i do see him willing to put up with certain things more, especially if he feels the need to repay any action. the most prominent example is in chapter 3, where he offered yuu savanaclaw as a place to stay. although this is primarily depicted via the savanaclaw npcs, the group seems protective of their space and don’t want outsiders to join. so the fact yuu is offered that space is telling. i think he’d do the same for food (TO SOME DEGREE) especially if he thinks your food options is better
he WILL take advantage of you. throughout his time in nrc. like i said, he doesn’t view his relationships in nrc as friendships—or at least in the traditional sense. he even remarks in his relax in room vignette that his roommate scratches his back and he scratches his. so i believe unless you ask for things, it will be unequal. but he does try to help you when you need it, straining as little effort as possible—especially if there seems to be no benefit. he doesn’t work for free but he does help out. it’s his way of caring—as much as he can for his relationship in nrc
like how leona views the world as a chess game, with ppl as the pieces, i ultimately believe that ruggie is always thinking of how he can best utilize the connections in his life. if the world is a lion eat lion world, then he wants to make the connections to the right lion, say the right thing, that best benefits him. and if he’s actively seeking out your connection the most, thinking of ways he can best be benefitted from you… thats the closest sign from ruggie that he likes you. he does the same with leona, sucking up to him specifically because he admires him so much as a leader. despite all the flaws of one leona kingscholar, ruggie looks for all the reasons he can stay just so he can be by his side. the same goes for you: the more you’re being used… weirdly enough, the more he likes you. strange, isn’t it?
i genuinely believe you need to be willing to understand ruggie and his desperation—specifically his amorality, to see his perspective and become close. the closest is leona because to some degree, leona understands ruggie’s position in life. ofc, it’s certainly not a 1-1; despite leona saying a second prince is the same as being a commoner, their struggles couldn’t be more different. but it’s their desire, their desperation, their need to seize the chance, even if it exists just for a moment, that unifies them together. it’s why ruggie is allowed to get away with so many things that leona wouldn’t tolerate with others (making leona eat veggies, taking leona’s jewelry, going through leona’s items, taking more $ from leona than needed/handling his wallet etc). it’s leona’s understanding (esp of their shared desire to “turn the world upside down, seeing their dorm song, diadem) that causes ruggie to care about leona past an employer/employee relationship. the same goes for you.
a friendship with ruggie is. extremely difficult and far from easy. but so long as you’re willing to let him take advantage of you and understand why (rather than being upset—which, admittedly, is a valid thing to be, bc ruggie’s standards of friendship isn’t healthy! but it’s truly what he believes in) then i think you can be friends. it’s not traditional and it’s not the friendship you see in media but… it’s true. to some degree it is true and thus, worth protecting
