An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Name: The Maiden
Word Count: 4,733
Chapter: 33/40
Pairing: Madasaku, Hashisaku
Rating: M
Warnings: Blood & violence, mentions of past abuse
Summary: After a night celebrating the new year and Madara’s birthday, the day of the prison riot finally comes. With members of the Ryūha Armament Alliance fighting at her side, Sakura, Madara, and Suigin begin their desperate gamble to bring the witnesses for the upcoming trial to safety.
the incel Gengo: war is BAD so I'm going to make a ninja-dictatorship where everyone is mind controlled and miserable and NOT allowed to kill anyone
the chad Garyou: war is BAD so I'm going to make everyone mindcontrolled and HAPPY and if they don't want to then we do, unfortunately, have to kill hundreds
garyo! AND I WANNA PICK THEM ALL SO YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO PICK ONE FOR ME!
Pick a trope: (um.... I just did them all?)
bodyswap
They're on the road and don't want to freak out the managers so Ga In does her very best to be articulate and present during events and interviews and Miryo finds that it's not actually any more comfortable to be the teeny person clinging to a giant as it is to be the giant. The other girls do their best to deflect during events and smother them with treats at night. Also, Ga In takes to falling over a lot and the International fans speculate that Miryo has a twisted ankle - or was secretly a klutz all along. The divide is intense and lasts years.
pretending to be married/fake dating
au - both land on an apartment in a really nice development and are told by their real estate agent that they don't have the credit to go alone. so they pretend to be married to make nice with the co-op. Miryo is roped into jogging with the neighbor's husbands in the morning and Ga In is dragged off to Zumba and yoga in the afternoons. They're the only lesbian couple in the community and are treated like special snowflakes. Often manhandled into hosting book clubs and wine tastings which lead to so many last-minute clean-ups that they agree to sleep in the same bed just for the ease. (and then there's sex obvs) (lots of sex after a wine tasting night and they both worry for MONTHS that the other one is ashamed and hates the other and that angst leads to many bro-jogging moments with the husbands and ADORABLE yoga-scenes with the wives) (at some point a gay couple moves in down the block and they find garyo equally adorable as all of the straighties and play along that they are the pets of the neighborhood) (possibly this couple buys them a fluffy dog) (possibly)
high school/college AU
Miryo had to take some time off between high school and college to help out her family after her mother died. Finally able to clear herself away from the constant pressure at home, she's looking forward to relaxing (even if she is a couple years older than most freshmen). The first year is horrible. Complete with the worst relationship and roommate ever and she's just about to consider going back home and giving up when she gets a job on-campus as a resident adviser. On the first day of her sophomore year, a shy knock wakes her up from a mid-afternoon pity-nap (that turned into a passive aggressive boycott on life because it's nearing one in the morning) and standing at her door is the most adorable freshman, crying and holding a ratty old pillow who says, "Unnie? Do you ever get homesick?"
telepathy
Somehow even though Ga In can read all of Miryo's thoughts (don't ask how, she stopped after the third month) she still feels like a burden on the older girls' life and tries to make her presence as un-intrusive as possible. Meanwhile, Miryo is struggling with the fact that she's head-over-heels in love with the girl in her head, who keeps rejecting her, and her ensuing depression over the matter is causing both of them to get near-daily lectures from Jea regarding their performances.
handcuffed together
Miryo swears it'll be fun. Ga In is the only one laughing when they have to call for help.
snowed-in
Ga In insists on cuddles and hot chocolate with marshmallows. Miryo wants sex and chocolate syrup. Miryo wins. And afterwards roast the marshmallows while cuddling in front of the fireplace
next-door neighbors AU
Miryo listens to her music too loud. Ga In is always vacuuming in the middle of the night. Their friends get tired of them complaining about each other and insist they get hobbies. They meet at a grocery store in the fruit department and comment that the other looks tired. They complain about terrible neighbors. They bond so much over packaged baby carrots that by the time they get to the check out they have a coffee date scheduled. They spend the better part of three months drinking coffee and bitching to each other. Until they talk themselves into confronting their terrible neighbors. A pajama-clad run-in happens one night and they both get very confused. Their friends are still annoyed and team up to get them laid. Only the blind dates they are set-up on are with each other. Everyone eventually agrees that the only way to fix this is if they both move. So they move in together and become the adorably-obnoxious-bickering couple. Their friends give up.
secretly a virgin
Miryo is secretly a virgin. Ga In is secretly not*. They both try to pretend that they (don't) know what they are doing. Miryo reads up on cunnilingus online. Ga In does her best not to act too forward. The first time they have sex it's so awkward and silly and Miryo ends up bruised in ridiculous places. Of course, someone spills the beans over coffee or shopping and then there's the inevitable awkwardness on both sides until it all combusts in not-perfect but totally-hot sex. (They still giggle a lot but Ga In assures Miryo that that's perfectly normal.)
*note: in this 'verse there's no "well I was with a guy, but this is different" bullshit "lesbian-virgins" nonsense in an "omg I'm GAY?!" scenario. Miryo has no experience. Ga In has experience. Period.
be careful what you wish for
They are on a beautiful island shooting a music video and Ga In wishes they could stay there forever. They get totally stuck and no one else is there and time seems to have stopped. Shenanigans.
accidental baby acquisition
Noona-verse - a baby-Potential is found by one of the Muses. Sera and Minha go to Sunnydale to coerce the Summers to take her in, leaving the baby with Garyo. They oscillate wildly between ignoring the baby and spoiling it rotten. The girls are only gone 48 hours. Garyo insist that the next time there's this kind of a problem, they have to take the baby with them because "NEVER AGAIN."
truth or dare
They actually play truth or dare all the time in Miryo's hotel room to pass the time when out of town. They never play at home. Until the night Miryo invites herself into Ga In's room with a bottle of bad liquor and a case of the mean reds and they end up naked and tangled in the sheets and no way to say that it was all just because they were lonely and on the road anymore.
sharing a bed
seeing as that it is canon that Ga In throws temper tantrums if Miryo shares her bed with anyone else - I refuse to answer this one
road trip
They have some spare time so they decide to take advantage and visit Europe for a while. Somewhere between one hotel and the next, the wind flying through their hair (or the rain beating down on the windshield) (depending on who you ask) Ga In decides to test out Miryo's concentration as she drives, stroking her hand gently up and down Miryo's bare thigh. (They pull over to the side of the road as soon as Miryo finds a bush large enough to be justified as cover.)
groundhog’s day/time travel
Miryo gets into an accident and while sitting beside her in the hospital, Ga In finds herself living the day over and over again - never able to help or change the events enough to protect them both. Miryo wakes up and Ga In is the one in the hospital bed.
curtain fic/domestic fic
Something where Miryo is trying to make the bed and Ga In keeps stealing the sheets or sitting on the bed and refusing to move and then finally strips down and skips through the house singing like a dork until Miryo gives up on chores and tackles her in the living room. And then sex. And then they order pizza and bicker about what to get on it (and Miryo orders what Ga In wants but complains about it the rest of the night) and they drink cheap wine with their pizza and make lame jokes in bad Italian accents. Also giggling,
