💫 🌟 ⭐️ TELL ME EVERYTHING I LOVE READING THESE
SOUL GIRL ILU
I’m gonna give you somethin from Stains On Me (Chapter 3), since you’re the reason this fic exists in the first place:
“It’s nice to meet you, Yuki. I’m Kaori Yonamine,” her tone is pleasant, and her voice has a firm richness to it. Her face is bare of make-up, unlike many of the girls Yuki encountered on campus, but her smile is sincere and pretty. Her tall, skinny form boasts toned arms, and her casual dress make her look clean and neat, but not overtly feminine.
Yuki approaches the table, sitting down adjacent to her to ask, “Are you from Kyo’s class, Yonamine-san?”
“Oh, well…”
“She’s my soulmate.” Kyo’s voice rips through the strange air of the apartment, and Yuki looks up at Kyo trying not to look as confused as he felt. A cold sweat breaks down Yuki’s back as he looks up to see Kyo lingering by his bedroom door. His expression is serious and firm, and maybe even somewhat embarrassed. Kaori seems to be in the same boat because her cheeks tint red.
“Excuse me?” Yuki asks, before his throat crumbles completely.
When you plopped this idea in my head, I was so in love with it that I actually ended up writing out almost all four chapters in about two nights. I thought the idea of a Soulmate AU with these two would be hysterical -- mainly because the moment they meet in the manga is everything. And Kyo’s words really stick with you!
Meanwhile the translational options for what Yuki says back were between, “um” and “hi.” LOL.
But! The thing is, what I had written of Stains didn’t initially include Kaori at all (and at that point I had written all the way to the beach scene). Stains sat unfinished in my folders for ages, but I liked it so much that I didn’t want to give up on it--but I just really felt like something was missing.
So months later, I revisited and Kaori was born! Kyo’s mark saying “hi” left open too good of an opportunity, which is kind of how I got the idea for there to be a “mistaken soulmate” in the first place. From there, I had a lot of fun trying to create a character that on the surface would look very compatible with Kyo.
She’s actually kind of precious to me now - and I’ve had so much writing her. But I do think it’s funny that when I was younger I would really (unfairly) rag on all the OCs this fandom had. Now the joke’s really on me because between Pursuit, Stains, In A Panic, and one other oneshot of mine that hasn’t been published yet, the amount of OCs I’ve contributed to Furuba round up to about 50 (I had to count,,,).
