Disinherited child of the eighties. Writer, shipper, crafter, wanderer. Old enough to know better but neurodivergent enough to do it anyway. Currently having my anime phase about twenty years after everybody else.
Yes, this is the same navigatorsghost/Rath from Livejournal, Insanejournal, AO3 and a bunch of other places way back when, feel free to follow me if you remember me or indeed if you don't but want to be here anyway. Over 21 (by a significant margin). Follows/likes from @kitrathenar, also used to be @koenigsideblog on here. Craft blog at @rathenarts. Avatar photo (of me) by Karohemd. Header image found on metalmieze.de.
Current fandoms: Death Note, Naruto, always a metalhead, permanent background Warhammer/40k, occasional Magnus Archives, may pivot to classic Transformers or 90s Ghost Rider without warning. Does many crafts and may attempt new ones at any time. Gender currently on hold for reassessment, they/them until further notice please.
Anti-AI: all my original posts, fic, art, etc are hereby guaranteed to be entirely created by me with my own brain and paws. If you spot me reblogging anything created by so-called AI without calling it out as such, please let me know!
Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.
To the anon who sent me the ask a little while back about the Death Note musical btw: thank you! <3 I'm going to save that for later viewing, since I'm seeing the upcoming UK run live in August, and I'd kinda like to be unspoilered for the English version; but I'll definitely check it out and compare after!
(I will say though, anyone playing Ryuk will have to do a LOT to unseat Kotaro Yoshida in my heart. We shall see... ^_^)
hiii it’s the same anon from earlier!! I’m also an anon that was here a few months ago telling you about how I really love your JasHida writings, they’re my favorites, and how I don’t actually read a lot of fanfiction but I read yours a lot!! I’ve never kept up with a writer before now!! 🫶 I can come off anon if u want I just get nervous is all, it’s really nice of you to offer all that it’s making me shy, haha!! 💛
Oh, yes, I remember you! Hello and thank you again! <333 It's completely up to you whether you'd like to come off anon - I'd be happy to chat in DMs or whatever if you do want to, but I totally understand the nervousness so please don't feel obliged! <3
And I'm sorry it took me a couple of days to reply to this, I had to get to my PC where all my fic files are, but just for you here's a tiny snippet from a longfic I've been working on in which Hidan gets to meet his god face to face, while Jashin is (initially) disguised as a human. I'm nowhere near done with this fic honestly but I'm very invested in it and I really hope to get it finished eventually. So here's the reveal moment, where Hidan finally realises just who it is he's really talking to, heheh. No warnings, SFW.
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Torine turns his head away from the candlelight, his hair falling like a black silk screen, and as his face moves into shadow, a change passes over it. Flesh and skin melt away. His right eye becomes a gulf of black, ringed by moonlight-blue bone. Lips fade to nothingness over long, pointed dark fangs that glint like a palisade wall of iron.
That isn't henge. That isn't even a Jashin-given curse mark. That isn't any jutsu in this realm of existence. Hidan freezes, staring up at him, stricken with awe. "Torine-?"
The face above him smiles, on the side that still can: lips tugging upward, the one remaining eye creasing at its corner. "Hidan," the apparition says, very fondly, sounding almost amused.
Its voice is Torine's, and also not; the same but more, layered now with inhuman bass harmonics and a warping hiss like a failing audio tape, with the drip of black water and the splintering rustle of rotting bones. Hidan shivers as that voice twines its way up his spine, intoxicated by the cold thrill of it. "What - wait - fuck… Jashin-sama?!"
The spectral smile only deepens. "My Hidan," that voice murmurs, soft as the deadly caress of falling snow.
death note AU where L has a dedicated clerk magistrate approving and issuing court orders on a new, randomly-generated name for him multiple times per day at unpredictable intervals in an attempt to make his current legal name impossible to pin down
the fact that he gets gender euphoria from having a constantly-shifting mass of insane, machine-generated names is not intentional but does get noted in the case record for posterity because it improved his efficiency
Just to throw something into the, uh, pot for this: I have a headcanon that in the distant past, shinigami didn't use Death Notes to neatly siphon the life out of mortals - they used to come down to the human realm to hunt and kill in person, and physically eat what they caught. (Ryuk's fangs and claws are not anatomically optimised for eating apples, lbr.)
So just to say I think Ryuk would be incredibly down for this whole idea, because shinigami may be banned now from killing by any other method than a Death Note, but the rules don't say anything about eating leftovers from someone else's kill. And seeing Light taking a share too would definitely be a huge turn-on for him.
