#retribution.fic

[chuuyanakaahara]

to the three people that keep up with retribution:

[therealdeemz]

cars of retribution; michizou tachihara's 1991 mazda rx7 fc3c

HELLO RETRIBUTION FANS

IT IS I

THE BETA

I want to yap about the cars so much with the whys and the hows each character gets to them so I decided to start posting about the interesting ones one by one where I go into a lot more detail than the chapter overview ones AND YES I ALREADY DID ONE FOR CHUUYA but it's old and stinky I neeed to redo that one

Tachihara's RX7 FC3C (pictured is a 3S; the Coupe version. Tachihara's even more insane and picked up the cloth-topped convertible one) is basically... a race car. that happens to have a license plate.

The mod used in these pictures is the RE Amemiya Furinkazan mod which came in the Shutoko Revival Project car pack. Expect to see cars from there since a lot of the cars there follow the rough aesthetic I had in mind for retribution.

The car, pictured, has an RE Amemiya bodykit for the FC, and the rims are Enkei NT03's. The only real difference is that the car is a convertible, but I think he'd do an aftermarket conversion to make it a Targa top to make it look a little more savory to the eye (go look up how an FC convertible looks like......).

The engine in the car is a Mazda 20B engine block, which is different from the 20B-REW used in the Eunos Cosmos through intake placement or something like that... It's the 20B in specific because it was sourced from a former Group C Le Mans race car; the Mazda 757 (although there it's named the 13G).

I should mention that the rotary engine is different from your run-of-the-mill piston engine in many ways, also.

Rotaries are a triangle instead of a piston compressing a chamber, which means that the engine is a closer relative to a dirt bike engine rather than a normal car's engine. Power's high up the revs, and there's not a lot of bite when you first get it off the line compared to a similar conventional engine.

Anyhow, as Tachihara worked from just the engine block, a lot of the other parts are custom and unorthodox, to say the least. For one, the car's twincharged in that it uses forced induction from a supercharger and a turbo. Both modes had their advantages and disadvantages, though twincharging at that point is just a flex and pretty impractical despite the theoretical benefits.

Second also is the fact that the car is hell to drive. The fact that the engine is a race engine and the whole experience is built around race car sensibilities makes the car be infeasible to drive on the daily. The car lurches and jerks forward from a stop light, stalls at the drop of a hat, very low and stiff so you feel every pothole, hot and loud as hell... and I don't need many other adjectives for you to get the point.

However, when the car goes... it goes. It has way more power than you know what to do with in a mountain pass. And when you drive it, it wants you to go faster, like it's egging you to go rev higher, go for the power band and feel the car just overtake you from how fast it's going under your nose.

It's totally on-brand for him.

All in all, the car makes around 550~ horsepower to the wheel. Which, when you consider that the car is a death trap and wants to kill you... is a lot.

Now Tachihara got the car from his time working as one of the few full-time employees in Black Lizard Works. In retribution's verse, it's practically one of the most renowned tuner houses; Human Error and Arahabaki got their cars tuned there, as well as Akutagawa's and Gin's cars, naturally. You'd need a pretty penny to get a car built from the ground up there, but through the hefty fees, it's guaranteed that the cars are worldbeaters behind the right hands.

Black Lizard numbers the chassis of certain cars that they work on, and Tachihara's is #017. For reference, Human Error and Arahabaki's are #005 and #006. It also has a Black Lizard Works badge on the back, which is practically a mark of honor from the tuning house when they know it's good enough that people start asking whose car it was.

The car and engine started off as two different things. Tachihara bought a very ran-through example of an FC, one where the engine's starting to give up the ghost and is not worth it to salvage. It is also Tachihara's First Car. And the reason why it's absolute hell to drive is because Tachi keeps tacking on mod, after mod, after mod, with no regard as to how it's gonna effect everything cohesively. It's always a coin toss whether it's gonna crank up to life, or throw up a problem so obscure it requires scouring factory documentation on how to even begin solving it.

It's practically the monster that embodies many of the sensibilities of the generation of racers he's a part of... which is kind of poetic in that sense, but who am I kidding, Tachihara's just immature.......

If you'd like to know more or nerd out about the car please comment down and I'll be sure to fill in the details on what I have about his car!!! Maybe next I'll do Tanizaki or Gin's since those cars are also death traps

[chuuyanakaahara]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

retribution for the dead

chapter seven

Atsushi tries to shake off his unnerving night through a haze of adrenaline and racing. It goes worse than he anticipated. Everything goes worse than he's anticipating.

71,726 words | sskk | street-racing au | found family - heavy on the found family

[chuuyanakaahara]

to anyone who keeps up with retribution: how on earth did you let me slow burn THIS much. its been 71k. they've fallen asleep in the same car. HOW.

[chuuyanakaahara]

everyone ready for another chapter of retribution?

[chuuyanakaahara]

junichirou retribution is so funny to me. bro's just having a very bad night. imagine you're crossfaded on booze and coke (bad idea) and you're a street-racer who happens to see a body in the middle of the road so you Crash Your Car to not hit them and now the random fucking doctor you're taken to happens to intimately know your boss but he's a doctor so you can't lie that you're crossfaded on coke and booze and, adding to that, you've thrown up thrice on the shoes of the one guy you kinda wanna sleep with

[chuuyanakaahara]

why is retribution-au atsushi having a bad day?

choose from the following:

dazai is meddling in his life and won't tell him how

challenged to THE biggest race of the season (as a rookie) against [ checks notes ] the portside's second-best racer, a guy who hates him

inherited the car and jacket of a living legend who didn't tell him the weight they carried before handing it over

best friend / coworker is the product of a generation that doesn't care about safety whatsoever and sees no problem driving under the influence (and hasn't shown up to work in at least a week)

other coworker / mentor (kunikida) thinks he shouldn't be racing or driving in the first place

pulling people out of retirement who have not raced since before atsushi was like, fourteen

has a car that was last repaired when the owner (dazai) was on acid (and added rit dye to every fluid in the engine)

currently BORROWING a car from the portside that is actually owned BY his rival

still owns zero furniture in his apartment

stuck doing perpetual oil changes because no one trusts him to do anything else

[chuuyanakaahara]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

ninety-five ways to disappoint / five ways to sunrise

Between his debut race and the looming October Races, Atsushi is no closer to fixing up Dazai's mess - and to win a race, he needs to practice, no? The Black Lizard Works, Dazai's surprise reappearance, and Akutagawa's perpetually sour attitude thread him further and further into the bolts and gears of the circuit.

chapter 5 of 9 of retribution for the dead, aka my sskk street-racing au.

have you ever considered that bsd characters would look really cool with lethal and reckless abandon? with cool masks and car shit? retribution is the fic for you ! you don't even need to know how cars or engines work :] (not because it isn't included, but because it's broken down and accurate i swear)