#erika time

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Name: Erika

Position: Furin Student

Birthday: July 8

Height: 5’2

Weight: Learn some manners.

Likes: Fighting, video games, dad jokes, all animals ever, fashion

Dislikes: Cold weather, needles, matcha

Backstory:

Erika lived and spent the first part of her childhood in the US before her family was moved to Tokyo thanks to her dad's job when she was 11.

Her home life wasn't...great.

At 16; after years of abuse at the hand of her younger brother, she left. Packed up what she could and took the first train she saw. She didn't really care about where she was going as long as it was away, and ended up finding a cheap apartment with a landlord that had no problem renting to a 16yr old with no job. Which is how she ended up being Sakura's neighbor.

While she was moving in, the ceiling light came crashing down suddenly, and she screamed. Sakura, both annoyed by the loud noises and concerned about the scream, dashed over to look into the open door of Erika's apartment, yelling about "What the Hell is going on in here!?"

He back peddles HARD when he saw that Erika is american, and slowly, in english, he asks "what is happening?" (Sakura knows a decent amount of english thanks to a LOT of time watching bad american movies.)

Erika quickly explains in japanese, though thanks him for the effort of speaking english. Seeing that they're similar ages, she asks him about the schools in the area - she hadn't even put a thought towards her education when she bailed home.

Sakura really only knows Furin, but tells her that he has a friend who knows the area really well and will ask him. S l o w l y he types out a text to nirei, and then helps pick the glass from the light off the floor while shooing her away.

Within minutes Nirei is calling Sakura, ready to infodump on the schools. With a scowl, he puts the phone on speaker and lets Nirei and Erika talk as he leaves them to setting up the apartment best he can.

Eventually the squawking between Erika and Nirei comes to an end and she returns his phone to him, helping him help her finalize her new home. She thanks him and promises to thank him with lunch sometime soon.

And quietly, she applies as a transfer to Furin under her brother's name.

Needless to say a week later when Erika shows up at Furin, Sakura nearly falls out of his seat.

Class 1 is full on shouting when she shows up for homeroom, explaining that it's a boys school and what is she doing there and wait how do you know a GIRL sakura?

Erika shrugs and finds a seat. She explains that she applied with a male name, but doesn't really anticipate a delinquent school throwing her out based on gender, so as long as the paperwork looks ok she's just going to. Stay at Furin.

Kiryu and Suo are both deeply amused by the turn of events, but Sakura is annoyed as HELL. Asks her if she can even fight.

The wicked smile and bright eyes surprise him when she asks if he'd like to find out.

She's not properly trained, but she's angry, fast, and an instinctive fighter. The fight is quick, she is definitely out matched by Sakura, but there's no question she can hold her own after a powerful kick to the chest sent Sakura thrown back into the desks. Unfortunately that's about the only hit she manages to land, unable to keep up with Sakura's speed and agility. Instead of conceding defeat, as she's sitting on the ground with a split lip and a bloody nose, she insists that Sakura teach her how he moves so well. "You're like an acrobat!!" She delights in english.

"ARE YOU SAYING I BELONG IN A CIRCUS?!" he shouts back, answering instinctively in the same language.

Literally no one knows what they're saying but the vibes are already having them laughing and the question of Erika's suitability to Furin is put to rest.

Fun Facts:

Erika and Sakura love to chat in english to mess with everyone. Sakura appreciates the practice and the chance to say things without someone (Suo) teasing him. Erika likes that she can speak her native language and also make fun of everyone without getting caught.

Kiryu and Erika get along like a house on fire. They both love fashion and games, and immediately swap info when they find out they both have accounts with a few mutual games.

When Nirei finds out Erika is Sakura's neighbor, the info quickly jumps from him, to Suo, to Umemiya, who quickly make plans to invade her apartment and improve her conditions like they did for Sakura.

Umemiya cries when he finds out that she never replaced the overhead light and has been using her phone flash light to get around at night. She falls over laughing because he has "big fat baby tears".

Loves to torment Suo specifically with really dumb dad jokes. She strongly believes he is too clever and "must be dumbed down". You'll know if she's going to say a bad joke when she begins with "Hey. Hey hey Suo. Hey :)"

He indulges her every time and literally no one knows why.

She makes Umemiya cry again when she tells him she doesn't like tomatoes.

When her nightmares become too bad, or memories creep up, she will break into Furin and make her way to the rooftop and spend some time with the plants. Umemiya finds her asleep one day on the roof and promises that if she needs to talk, the plants are great at listening.

"everything is TERRIBLE if I talk about it the plants will WILT"

Ume tells her to tell the tomatoes then.

He also leaves a blanket in the stairwell for next time.

She once teased umemiya by calling him Papa Ume and he cried (again).

Walks with Sakura to school every day - neither of them are morning people so they usually look like miserable ghouls haunting the streets until nice people feed them bread.

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i wish I would get questions about my self inserts and my self ships /cries it looks so fun for everyone else

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Have you ever read a fic that just like. Exhausts you?

Like it’s really great and enjoyable

but you are just. emotionally DRAINED by the end of it. Just like. “I want to read more but there is just. so much. there is so much and every chapter is so much and how can I make it through”

Cus like lemme tell yah 116k has never felt so long but also pretty damn worth it. I’m really glad I’ve finally read it!!!! 

But now it’s almost 4am and I...have no idea when I started reading it but definitely before midnight. I need rest.

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matte, sunrise, messy bun ;)

matte: if you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living?Well I’d stop going to school after this semester, no need to put myself through that stress. I’d travel, whether my friends wanted to come or not. I’d probs be a lot more impulsive XDsunrise: pick a quote and describe what it means to you personally. Ummm. “Do no harm but take no shit”It’s sort of what I *try* to live by?? I’m getting much better at the take no shit part lmao

messy bun: the world is listening. pick one sentence you would tell them.I’M A VEGETARIAN AND I AINT FUCKING SCARED OF THEMnah like, if I was gunna gives age advice or some shit, I guess. “Don’t let yourself break to protect someone else, no matter how much you love them.”

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lmao lovin that real twitchy flighty feeling you get when you don’t take your meds and your exhausted and you haven’t eaten and everything is so very interesting and you need to be loud at all times???

that’s a fun feelin I’m good here

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To all the ppl I've been planning to commish - PLSS FORGIVE MEEEE

Last month it was con tickets and concert tickets

This month it's an ER visit/ambo ride, 3 days missing pay, and a flat tire, hahaha. Hopefully April will be cheaper and I can get my good good fic commishes from you lovely ppl.

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Erika's Time in Liyue

When Erika finally meets a friend of Childe's

She doesn't know anyone in Liyue really, but Childe writes her letters, and she knows that he's very...interested, hah, someone in Liyue Harbor that he describes in various letters as "tall/handsome, good voice, historian(?), poor(?)" and unexpectedly "I left liyue with betrothal chopsticks HAHA" with a little doodle of him freaking out in the corner. It was actually pretty adorable.

So she knows there's someone here that at least her brother likes and trusts, so that's good.

Her first night in town, she books her hotel room and just sort of wanders around, taking in the sights of the harbor, and decides to get a late-ish meal. She eats in relative quiet with a cup of tea she's never had before and some delicious noodles.

And wakes up in a bed. She's bleary, a headache pounding, and just dazed enough that her instincts and teaching from Childe don't immediately kick in. She just sits up and looks around, brainfog making it hard to put things together.

Dr. Baizhu walks in, and that's when she properly wakes up, she tenses, prepared to keep her mouth shut and her feet moving. The room is small, with only one entrance, she'd have to get past him. But Baizhu sees, and laughs gently, assuring her she's in no danger. That she was found on the street, face down drunk, and was brought here by a kind passerby. She's simply hungover.

But she didn't drink anything alcoholic. She's clearly troubled and Baizhu asks why, but she's still wary, so instead he offers to allow the kind stranger who helped her to say hello. She agrees.

A tall man with a long pony tail and golden eyes walks in, not tense, but his posture is rigid. When he sees she's awake he smiles gently. He says it's good that she's awake, it was alarming seeing a stranger passed out in the middle of the street. When she asks why he helped her, he admits "You look very much like a good friend of mine, one not very well liked here in Liyue Harbor. I worried someone would mistake you for him and do you harm." She admits to him, and Baizhu, that harm may have already been done. That she did not drink anything alcoholic that night. She knows she looks very much like Childe though, and asks after it. "Your friend" she asks "Is he fatui?" Questions and answers go back and forth until it's determined that yes, he's talking about Childe, and yes, it's possible that someone spiked her drink due to her resemblance.

Zhongli offers to walk her home after Baizhu confirms that she's fit to leave, or, if it's not too forward, offers to let her stay with him. She'd prefer to stay with Zhongli, she admits. There's unknown hostiles at this point, and she doesn't know if the hotel staff is among them. But, although he seems kind and knows about Childe, it could still be a farce. So she asks. "My brother left Liyue with a unique set of chopsticks, apparently. Do you know anything about them?" I mean, Zhongli fits tall, handsome, and nice voice. sooo worth a shot. And he blushes. Just slightly. "Ah - he told you about them, then?" With this she confirms that she can trust Zhongli and accepts his invitation to stay with him. She does as she wishes during the day, knowing she can sleep safely the night after, but Zhongli invites her to a late night walk the next evening - he says he doesn't want her to fear the nights of Liyue Harbor, as they are beautiful as well. He mentions how he and Childe would often take walks like these, sharing ideas and stories, and asks if she has any of her own. "I have plenty of stories and none to tell" she laughs. "But Childe said you're a historian - do you know anything about the history of language?"

she tells him all about how different cultures in teyvat use language - Mondstat and shneznaya primarily speak common teyvat. There are pockets of shneznaya that still speak shneznian, but those are primarily very traditional places, she explains.

Fontanians are split. Common teyvat is taught in schools. The upper class speak fontainian as a form of elitism and othering those that weren't wealthy enough to receive education in the language. She herself is frankly terrible at Fontanian, but can fake the accent rather well. She declines to show Mr. Zhongli that particular talent when asked.

Erika continues, remarking on how Liyue is split as well, but more equally. Most know common teyvat, and most know at least conversational liyuan. The languages mix in most households as liyue holds on to their culture and traditions with both hands, but with so many tradesmen and commerce, picking up common is essential to work in the teyvat of today. Zhongli is enamored with his new sister-in-law. Her knowledge is fascinating, but what truly endeared him was how she saw Liyuan people. That their love of tradition was not a shackle but something to be shared with loved ones.

She explains that while she has yet to visit, she believed Natlan primarily used Natlanese due to their isolation. She's also heard they use a lot of visual art in order to share thoughts, opinions, and stories - something very similar to the Sumeru of old. Erika admits that she hasn't found anywhere reliable to learn Natlanese, so she'll just have to "wing it" when she eventually makes her way there. But she grins at him as though it's an exciting thought.

Zhongli really likes his new sister-in-law.

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when bad shit happens to bad people but its the sort of shit nobody wants anyone to go thru except you don't....think you feel that bad abt it.