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PULSEFELT : A PRIVATE AND SELECTIVE ROLEPLAY BLOG FOR KARIYA KŌKI OF THE THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU SERIES. HEAVILY BASED ON HEADCANONS AND THEORIES. INTERPRETED AND WRITTEN BY SYD. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 2021.

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a study in: keeping things need-to-know, being so entwined with a place that it's you and you are it, knowing more than you should, a lack of ambition, appreciating the little things, and knowing when things just aren't worth being stressed out about.

#WRITTEN BY : SYD / ANY PRONOUNS / LESBIAN #TRACK : JAPANESE CHERRY BY SHANK #》 PINNED. ✗

hi friends.

i believe i'm going to be moving all my muses to my multifandom multimuse, including kariya. i understand if i lose people this way, but i'm trying to focus most of my creative energy on an original novel i'm already 50k words into; my goal is to get it all written and edited by the end of the year. because of that, i don't have it in me to maintain multiple blogs. as it is, i'm finding myself too stressed thinking about which blog to go on that i end up not going on a blog at all. i'll be crossposting this on all my blogs, and i may reblog it a time or two and add a note to the pinned.

nothing's been transferred over to the carrd yet, but i have quite a few blogs i need to transfer so that will take some time.

give me a follow over there if you're up for it and want to keep writing with this dude. if not, no hard feelings—it's been real.

#》 ooc. ✗#i know i teased coming back but i gotta be a grown adult about this y'know?

let's talk about names and kanji! in particular, let's talk about kariya's name and how it entwines him with shibuya itself.

to start, let's look at the kanji for kariya kōki's name: 狩谷拘輝. let's follow that up with the kanji for shibuya-ku: 渋谷区. notice that bolded one? on its own, the meaning isn't that important. it's just valley. but it's the -ya sound in both shibuya and kariya, written with the same kanji, and it is not the only kanji that can be used for that sound in the name kariya.

now, let's circle back to something i've talked about before, but that was before my genius girlfriend had a brain blast last night i've been thinking about all day: the likelihood of kariya's noise form being a dog.

much in the same way that you can swap kanji components around in minamimoto’s name to get the kanji for lion, you can do a little movement with kanji components in kariya's name to get inu for dog. (another interesting fact from my research: 狗 as a kanji is older and really only used in certain phrases nowadays, having been replaced by 犬 in modern japanese. that's neither here nor there.)

anyway, how is that relevant to shibuya? well, shibuya has a very notable dog figure: hachikō. to make a long, sad story short: hachikō would meet his owner at shibuya station every day after work. when his owner died, hachikō continued to go wait for him at the same place and time every day for nine-ish more years until he too died. hachikō is a symbol of loyalty, and is important enough in shibuya to have a square bearing the name.

i posted the other day about how shibuya is an intrinsic part of kariya and vice-versa, and these observations just... really hammer that in. i'm also weak for the person as a loyal dog trope, and kariya twisting that to have his loyalty be to a place rather than a person is very fun and unique.

#》 facts. ✗#hi. i'm still thinking about this.#his noise form would be an akita inu obvs

going through one of my "so much about kariya makes me feel bananas" phases

his name sharing a kanji with shibuya itself. kubo trying and failing to kill him twice. him and uzuki having parallel hair/inverted eye colors to neku and shiki. him knowing more than he should about taboo noise in the first game. the implication of him knowing what hanekoma is and trying to contact him in the second.

i think about kariya and i literally feel something in my chest, so strong are my feelings about him

#》 ooc. ✗#ok. might not be here today. debating on sleeping as soon as i get home to wake up for tga. we shall see.#now i gotta drive home tho latersssss #gonna blast his playlist!

a big thing to me is kariya as an intrinsic part of shibuya, and it as an intrisic part of him. he's been here so long and has so many connections to the city and those in it. its blood is in his veins. its pulse beats through him. if shibuya went, he'd go with it, and not just because yeah, the whole thing would be gone, but because he doesn't know how to exist apart from it.

#the real love story: kariya and shibuya #even 'kariya' and 'shibuya' have the same 谷 kanji in them. which is no coincidence imho.#》 ooc. ✗#ANYWAY! hi

kariya come pick me up im scared.

He can't hear you over the sound of Otoboke Beaver. Sorry, Neku!

#》 shitposts. ✗#playerlegend

@discomposer asked: well, well — how not even the sands of time can derange your disposition, kariya. you're holding up nicely, i presume?

“Heh. You know me, man. Nothing wears me down.” Kariya grinned. “Nice to see your face around here again. Been a while—was starting to think you forgot all about us.” He was only teasing, of course.

#》 ic. ✗#discomposer #hiiiiiii josh bestie

oh! i did shift my writing style for rp blogs to match my actual prose writing, which means: proper capitalization and past tense. sense i'm getting serious about writing it makes the most sense for me.

#》 ooc. ✗#tbd //#that said: the actual narrative voice will remain different depending on muse bc that's just how i write

did nanowrimo and wrote 50k of an original cosmic horror project of mine. i do plan on continuing it (there is a lot of writing to be done still, and then there are rewrites and edits), but i'll keep most of my work on that for weekends and let workdays be for reading, roleplay, and other hobbies. 🫡 i have other blogs including my multi i want to be on, but with the gang being into twewy... i will also be here a bit!

#》 ooc. ✗#tbd //

happy birthday to a very special old man!!

#》 ooc. ✗#hi i am. not exactly here right now.#making a gradual return to rp after a month away on my multimuse: stillgrows #feel free to check it out #kariya is a singlemuse i will be keeping tho!!!!#i'm just doing like one reply a day rn so haha not much coming out of me

talking to toast about kariya and kubo again and i realized they definitely had a convo we didn't get to see before kubo infected him with the plague noise a second time... you know kariya was exhausted and irritated and very aware he was cornered and fucked but was still very much himself about the whole thing in a way meant to be as frustrating as possible

#》 ooc. ✗#ough #kubo was pissed off ofc

to give a life update: last i posted i got a new job, which i'm still with. it's got me working 04:00-12:30 tue-sat mornings. i'm slowly, with what energy i have, working on deciding which single muse blogs stay and which older muses are getting put on a writing-focused, iconless multimuse.

i also got a second cat i am working on introducing to my current one, and i have my bestie flying down tuesday to stay with me a good chunk of september.

all that said: astro and noir are getting thru twewy and love it and is has the brainworms itching me. kariya will be one of the muses keeping his solo blog, and i'd like to pop on here at least once a week.

#》 ooc. ✗#tbd //#and that's what you missed