#ladyseychelles

[nezumiva]

Best and worst Hundred line character?

I'm a Hiruko girlie. I would throw Gaku into a field of landmines, sorry Gaku fans.

[tangledinink]

For the humanish Au: I have to wonder what what April thinks of all of this.

Well right now she just thinks these are her cool, normal brothers who she loves to hang out with. After the whole 'mutant turtle' thing comes out...

honestly she'll lowkey take it better than they do.

[phantomrose96]

Just out of curiosity, have you seen Tiger and Bunny?

Yep! Just recently. (Well, mostly yep)

During quarantine my IRL anime friends have been doing anime watch nights over Discord twice a week. As a result I’ve seen way more anime in 2020 than I have like any year prior. We just finished Tiger and Bunny about two weeks ago. I wasn’t 100% paying attention during it since I was moving at the same time so I was distracted figuring out Life Stuff but I was mostly paying attention.

We’ve also watched (gosh let’s see...) Avatar*, Gurren Laggan, Brand New Animal, Angel Beats*, Japan Sinks, Hinamatsuri, Dororo, Promare*, The Great Pretender, Dorohedoro, Made In Abyss, Aggretsuko*, Millionaire Detective Balance Unlimited, Golden Kamuy (s1-2), Tiger and Bunny, and now Gravity Falls*

(* = I’d seen it already)

...It’s been a long quarantine wow...

[crystalelemental]

“ladyseychelles: I don’t think that’s actually a boss, But don’t quote me on that.”

Man, if she wasn’t even a significant character that’d be even more on point for his style, goddamn.

[bleachbleachbleach]

One of my biggest frustrations with Bleach is that Kubo teased us with the loaded gun of Yumichika’s secret shikai and then either never had it go off or had it happened offscreen. I just really want to know what would happen. Do you have any ideas.

I think I might need some clarification here, because we do get to see Yumichika's shikai? While we only get a glimpse of his "real" shikai in his fight against Hisagi, we get to see the full thing in his battle against Charlotte Chuhlhourne (around chapter 321). Are you perhaps referring to his bankai (which I don't think is ever suggested that he has attained, but I know lots of people enjoy theorizing about what bankai might look like for various characters). He does have a more complex shikai though, in that there are 2 "versions" of it. Since you asked about Yumichika's shikai, I will use this as an excuse to talk about one of the (many) reasons why I think Yumichika is so amazing. (mild spoilers ahead, I guess?)

He has two versions of his shikai release-- one which is only capable of physical attacks (Fuji Kujaku) and the true form (Ruriiro Kujaku), which is kidō-based.

Since 11th prioritizes physical strength over everything, Yumichika uses Fuji Kujaku like 99% of the time, and keeps the true form a secret from his superiors. And he must know how to use it damn well, because he's 5th seat (technically 4th) in 11th, which is a stupidly overpowered division filled with the likes of Zaraki, Ikkaku, and Renji (at one point). Before Renji was took the position of VC in 6th division, he was only 6th seat in 11th, meaning Yumichika was (is?) stronger than him, based on Fuji Kujaku alone! Somehow Yumichika has managed to hack it in 11th for all this time, while not even using his full strength. I think Charlotte said it best:

Honestly, I don't know how Yumichika does it. Adding to that, how the heck did he even figure out that he could "hack" his zanpakutou like that, and that using a different name for it would make it take a different form (but a form that was still usable and believable as a legit shikai).

Getting to Ruriiro Kujaku, like hot damn, it's one of the most magnificent shikai. I understand his motivations for not using it (I don't agree, but I get it) but it's so glorious and terrifying I think more people should be able to recognize its power.

(bonus beat up blobby Hisagi because I also love him)

Unlike real peacocks with their Fisherian runaway selection, I think Yumichika is much more than just a pretty face! Although, I'm sure he'd also like you to admire his face.

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Uhh Ryoga and Yukito from Abaranger either romantically or platonically with Shuffle.

I love romance, so romance it is! I really like Doja Cat's "Kiss Me More" for being a surprisingly sweet jam about asking for romance in what's previously been a casual relationship, and this isn't quite that, but it's close enough for jazz. ^_^ I hope you enjoy it!

Song: "Kiss Me More," Doja Cat feat. SZA (Spotify) - warning, song is NSFW

can you kiss me more?

"Yuki-san! What are you doing here?"

Yukito crouches, only pretending reluctance, and manages to brace himself right before Mai runs into him. "Ryoga got delayed at the park, a group of hikers got a little lost and he's helping with the first aid. So he asked me to come pick you up."

A sweet-faced woman who he assumes is Mai's classroom teacher is approaching, and he stands with difficulty, Mai hanging around his neck. Mai says, "This is Miss Suzuki!"

Nodding, Yukito shifts his grip so that Mai's balanced and holds out a hand. "Sanjou Yukito. Ryoga sent me, he got held up at work."

"Of course you're Dr. Sanjou!" Miss Suzuki shakes his hand, beaming. "It's nice to finally get to meet you!"

He blinks. "What do you mean, finally?"

"Well, we and the kids all adore Ryoga, of course, but I’ve been hoping to meet the rest of the family. Mai talks about you all the time, you know?”

Bewildered, Yukito nearly says, I’m sorry, the rest of the family? and then bites that back and just nods. “It’s nice to meet you as well, Miss Suzuki, I’ve heard a lot about you from Mai.”

Mai, recently gap-toothed and in exuberant good cheer as usual, nods vigorously next to his ear before saying, “Did you drive here in the new car? Can we put the top down? Please? It’s really nice out!”

“I…sure, why not, we’ll drive home with the top down.”

--

It had seemed only natural to invite Ryoga and Mai to stay with him when they returned from America. They had nowhere else to stay but in the room they’d shared over Dino House, and Yukito’s house was far too big to house just himself—he’d bought it several years ago, when he was still buried deeply in the need to spite his father with his financial success. There had always been the unspoken assumption that eventually Ryoga would probably want to find an apartment that he and Mai could call their own, but nothing firmly discussed. At this point they’d been living with him for nearly a year, and it hadn’t ever struck him how much he liked that until he’d spotted Ryoga reading the classifieds and circling rental listings in red pen.

He pulls up to the house, and as the car roof’s going back up and Mai’s making a slightly disorganized attempt to get her hair back in its barrettes he says, “Does your teacher think Ryoga and I are together?"

"You are together! We all live together!"

"No, not like–" He takes one of the barrettes out of her hand and clips her hair back, very gently and carefully. "I mean, does she think we're dating? Does she think I'm Ryoga's…" he hunts for a word, finds several that seem not quite right, and settles on what seems the least wrong as he's fixing another barrette, "boyfriend?"

“Oh. Maybe!” She blinks up at him, nose wrinkling as she thinks about it. “I do talk about you a lot. And we live with you! I drew you in my picture when we were doing pictures of where we lived last week.”

“Ah…that’s…good, thank you.” He reaches into the back seat and retrieves her backpack. “We should get inside.”

“Can I watch cartoons?”

“Not until you’re done with your kanji homework, I know you have some.”

“Only a little, though.”

“You still have to finish it first.”

“Ok!”

--

Yukito and Ryoga aren’t dating.

Not that he’s never thought about it, not that he’s never wished—

One of the first things that Ryoga had done upon returning to Japan was visit Nakadai’s grave. However much Yukito had disliked Nakadai himself, Ryoga had clearly felt something about him, and it would have been worse than tactless to ask Ryoga to dinner when he was still grieving his…his whatever Nakadai had been to him. And after that, of course, Ryoga had been living with him, and Yukito prefers to remain silent if the other option is possibly making Ryoga feel like he owes something.

Except that now Ryoga’s looking at apartments, which means he’s thinking about moving out. Yukito’s not sure how he feels about that.

No, scratch that, he’s terribly, agonizingly sure of how he feels about it. Which in turn means he needs to talk to Ryoga, and despite the fact that Ryoga is one of the easiest men on the planet to talk to, this is terrifying.

--

Of course, first Mai has to finish her homework. Not that she has very much, just a couple of kanji to practice, a few simple math problems, a short diary entry about the day's weather. Yukito checks the math problems for her and lets her read him the diary entry aloud. Then Ryoga gets home, and he's busy in the kitchen making dinner because he actually enjoys cooking and was horrified to learn that when Yukito's living by himself he mainly eats takeout. Dinner, and after dinner there are dishes to do and Mai wants them to watch a show with her and everyone needs to bathe and by the time Mai's gone to bed Yukito's had far too much time to think everything over and get more and more stressed about it.

They're in the living room now, and Yukito's trying to read a well-reviewed new novel but mostly staring at one page without processing anything. At the other end of the couch, Ryoga's got some journal in hand and is busily making notes all over the article he's reading, clearly very absorbed, but when Yukito finally puts the book aside he looks up and grins and says, "Hey, I meant to say, thanks for picking up Mai today, I know it was really last minute."

"Of course, I couldn't just leave her at school. And my afternoon was open."

"How'd it go? The teachers didn't give you a hard time, did they?"

"No, not at all, ah." Yukito stares into space for a moment. "In fact as far as I can tell, Miss Suzuki thinks I'm your. Partner."

"Oh, I…you know, I can see where she'd think that, we do live together. I hope it wasn't too awk–"

"I noticed you were looking at apartment listings this morning."

Ryoga blinks, clearly a little thrown by the apparent change in topic even though in Yukito's mind it had seemed like a perfectly logical transition. "I, yeah, I mean, we've been here almost a year, and it's been wonderful of you to have us, but I figured maybe it was about time we got out of your hair."

"I, ah. No, I don't think—I would like you to be. More…in my hair?" Yukito frowns. "That didn't come out right. I'd like it if you stayed here as long as…as long as it suits you."

More surprised blinking. “You really mean that? I mean, I know Mai would love to stay here, she’s very happy here, but we wouldn’t be too in the way?”

“No, not at all. Not at all. I also, I’d like it if, please don’t think this is conditional in any way, but.” Yukito stares forward at the wall, nearly blanking on the words he wants to say. “Would you have dinner with me?”

“…I’m assuming you mean in a date way and not in the way where we have dinner together nearly every evening already?”

“Yes. Yes, that.”

There’s a silence, and Yukito is genuinely terrified that it’s a lead-up to Ryoga saying no and then he’ll have worked himself up like this for nothing, and then when he glances over Ryoga’s looking at him thoughtfully and saying, “That’s sort of new and unexpected.”

“It’s not new, really, it’s just never seemed like the right moment before now. Since I wouldn’t want you to think that I was putting some kind of, of pressure on you because you’re living here. And before that there was…” Vague gesturing in the air. “You know.”

“...I was still kind of hung up on Nakadai for a while there, yeah.”

“I thought you might be.” Yukito swallows hard. “In any case, as I was saying, you and Mai staying here isn’t at all conditional on your—”

Ryoga reaches over and pulls him closes, leaning their foreheads together. “For one,” he says, very softly, “I have a better opinion of you than that. And for two, you need to give me a chance to say yes before you start assuming I’m going to say no.”

“…ah.”

A soft grin. “You’re such a pessimist sometimes.”

“I—it’s just what I’m like, you know that. Can I kiss you?”

They stop talking.

[sleepinglionhearts]

Who’s your favourite TR sword boi.

I have like, two entire asks about which sword boi is my favorite sword boi, and tbh? hard to pick.

[zenonaa]

Getting snowed in with Souda/Gundham for the winter prompts?

Soudam +  Getting snowed in

***

A snowstorm pummelled the island overnight, trapping the rehabilitated Remnants of Despair in their cottages. With little else to do, Kazuichi insisted Gundam open a gift early. One in particular.

When Gundam shakes the present, to his surprise, nothing rattles or clanks.

“Careful!” Kazuichi hisses. “There could be a kitten inside!”

“Is there?” asks Gundam, glancing up.

“... No.”

So Gundam has no qualms letting the Dark Devas of Destruction tear the present open. It turns out to be a jumper. He holds it up and the top droops toward him, revealing two head holes.

“I made it,” says Kazuichi proudly. “Koizumi helped, but yeah!”

And yet...

“It has two head holes,” says Gundam.

“Because it’s a cuddle jumper!”

Gundam squints. “A... what?”

“I’ll show you!” 

Kazuichi pounces. After a lot of flailing, both are wearing the orange jumper, each allocated one sleeve.

“If we get cold watching a movie, we can put it on!” announces Kazuichi with a toothy grin.

“Or we could wear separate jumpers.”

“But this is cute and shit! Here...”

Kazuichi steps toward the couch; Gundam does not, and they tumble to the floor together. 

Gundam shifts slightly, feels something, and blushes.

“That’s my phone,” Kazuichi blurts.