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hugs 6. and. i couldnt decide so either eizen & rokurou Or spirit & stein (its been a whole YEAR SINCE WE GOT OBSESSED WITH THOSE GUYS) the prompt made me think of them

6. hugging and gently holding the other’s head

“looks like the big bad reaper’s just a big softy, huh?”

eizen sighs, quiet but heavy. “you say this every time. do you have any better insults?”

rokurou grins, relaxing more into eizen’s grip and letting out a sigh of his own, much more content. “nope! but we do have some pretty interesting new conversations to have, if you ask me.”

“you first.”

“ouch. you don’t wanna have a heart to heart with me, eizen? i’m wounded, truly!”

eizen rolls her eyes, but one of her arms pulls closer, the other hand going up to comb fingers through rokurou’s hair. “your experiences are much more recent. and relevant.”

“they happened at the same damn time,” rokurou emphasizes, mock exasperation filling every inch of his voice. “but fine, fine, i can go first, so you’ll go next.”

“i never agreed to—”

“backing down from a challenge, huh?”

rokurou tilts his head back so eizen can see the glint in his eye, determined and knowing. eizen averts his eyes, steadfastly ignoring the obvious jab.

it lasts for about three seconds before he caves.

“you win,” she mutters, and rokurou hums, letting his head fall back so his head could rest beneath her chin. eizen cards his fingers through again before settling his palm against the back of rokurou’s head and keeping it there, a light but constant point of contact. “go ahead, then.”

“if you’re sure!” the tone is teasing, but he knows without a doubt that rokurou has backed himself into a corner too, the illusions a heavy weight on both their shoulders.

that’s alright. even with the malevolence passively seeping in, eizen will stay for as long as it takes. he’s not losing, either.

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tell me as many or as few things that you want that you literally just made up about any strawhat of your choice

i have no concrete thoughts i can throw together on canonical strawhats right nyeow... call again later my darling and i will have more but here are some little ones!!

- sanji & zoro have made several, very awkward attempts at dinner dates in the sunny's aquarium bar, none of which have worked out for increasingly comical reasons (the latest of which includes luffy somehow falling into the aquarium from the hatch outside & both zoro and sanji's "retrieve idiot captain" instincts going off, which is in fact a date killer)

- chopper & robin are reading buddies :] sometimes usopp also joins in, & sometimes nami parallel plays by drawing her maps in the library while they're in there. both chopper and robin are often reading incredibly dry and long medical/historical books respectively, while usopp is often doing research on plants and mechanics and such. they all, however, have a little reading club for fiction books that doesn't meet often (chaos of the grand line) but has fun when they do (stocked w food and drink by sanji, who occasionally recommends those cookbooks w intricate stories inside. once recommended a romance on accident & then didnt speak to usopp for 2 days about it)

- nami will occasionally drag zoro along with her onto an island and then order him to lead them around, which either gets them to a bar eventually or gets them to some backwater nowhere part of the island w fascinating geography/shops/etc. that she never would've found otherwise. she has an instinct for when it'll happen and zoro is just content to get so fucking lost bc nami'll lead him back

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12. and one piece!

12. is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? why?

i actively avoid the one piece fandom so i don't actually know what arcs are unpopular at all! the fic scene is a carefully curated nightmare in my browser & so i also don't know from there. i have seen people complain that wano is too long, and therefore bad—the thing is. they're right about it being too long, however every fucking arc post-3d2y is too fucking long, and therefore it isn't bad because its long dressrosa shouldve been shaved down by like 50 chapters you fuck (and also its good)

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fic title no. 1 : sunlight in a spider den

a researcher dies. in an attempt to tell her loved one what happened, a prison at the center of the world begins to crack.

(“i don’t think my bones could survive another trip down there,” she had told her niece, wry and still smiling. it doesn’t reach her eyes. sometimes it felt like every moment her aunt spent outside that mine was killing her, more than her age was. “but when i go, someone has to tell it. someone. it’ll understand.”

the niece does not know what it is. her aunt grips her hand tightly and closes her eyes and she does not have the will to ask.)

there is something growing up from the research point.

the first researchers to go down into the mine don’t come back. it was a year, after their head of operations died—she was old, and maybe should’ve retired sooner, but her notes were clear and her love for the work brilliant until the very last trip she made. she had left her journals down there. somebody had to retrieve them.

(there are reports of harvests growing with purple tinging them in nearby towns. some see it as a blessing. others as a curse. those who eat it get sick. they do not die. not yet.)

the second team to go into the mines—this one a security-based group, focused on retrieving the bodies and identifying the threat—doesn’t come back, either.

(there is something bubbling beneath the stone. it isn’t firm, as usual. there is a give to it. there shouldn’t be a give to it. deep beneath the bubbling, a guard sleeps, heart beating in tune with the banging of nonexistence against bedrock.)

the mines are abandoned.

(something gives.)

the mouth of the world opens, and no one ever steps foot into it again.

(where is she?)

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🏵 vooooloooo !!!!

EVERYTHING RIGHT IS WRONG AGAIN—is it cheating to talk about a sequel fic to my own fic series. my rules now. anyways the in-development-hell arceus vessel au fourth fic is meant to be a fic about volo & ingo, and specifically, like. realizing that he fucked somebody up big time on almost an equivalent level to what arceus did to him. buddy you gotta wrestle w the consequences of your actions sometime

“rei told me everything,” ingo says, with a sort of neutral-calm that volo doesn’t understand. “do you have anything to announce?”

“... you should be yelling at me.”

ingo shrugs. his frown doesn’t change, but volo figures that’s the one thing that never will. “i keep my voice quiet for the sneaslets.” a loose gesture down at his pockets, where volo notices a tiny sneasel slumbering. “and i am not fond of raising my voice in anger.”

volo narrows his eyes. “i don’t feel sorry,” he lies, because there’s something aching, “not for opening the rift that sent you here.”

“i wouldn’t forgive you for it yet, so i suppose we’re even.” is... a hint of amusement, there? volo bristles, but ingo keeps going before he can snap at it. “you certainly felt sorry enough to not end the world.”

well. volo has nothing to say to that.

(and that’s only slightly because it’s true.)

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🏵 ad - a - man !!!

HURRY, HURRY—adaman fic about overworking yourself so hard you get sick. something, something, he values time and not wasting it above all else & he's an important leader for the diamond clan. usually he's pretty aware of his own self-care needs (a break is not time wasted), but one thing leads to another leads to another and he's too busy to really think about it until he collapses. something, something, because i could not stop for death / he kindly stopped for me, except i'm not killing adaman he's just a little bit bedridden. as a treat. the diamond clan wardens rotate turns on taking care of him until he's up and ready to lead again (and knows his limits now, stop worrying so much, mai.)

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fic title no. 5 (probably the last one! these are fun hehehee!!): we are rebounds of stardust (so we will never truly die)

i know i said ocs + one piece. i lied. this is a luxu fic. specifically hearts intertwined luxu, YOU'VE heard me wax poetic about this one before but it's just so. fic in which there is a star who is a heart who is dead. and it's been a while since they've ever had to think about what being dead was going to be like, and man this kind of sucks actually. but the star is not moving on because the star is waiting, and if they have to wait forever for their better half to get here and bring them home already thats.... fine. he won't make them wait long. (why is there a stuffed animal here.)

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fire spirit and/or madeline cookie!!! also ex my absolutely beloved :]

i like madeleine cookie a lot as a character with potential to be really fun to write, i think. he's very ex-catholic, there's something wrong with him, and i muse on him occasionally because guy w a complex that he refuses to acknowledge even as he hurts other people and kind of fumbles his interpersonal relationships is really fun! what kind of complex is not seen by me yet but probably a hero complex. he's a paladin which in cookie run, with the ONE established religion-that-is-not-great, is (breaths in through my teeth making a hissing noise) oh buddy. bud. i would probably think about him a lot more if i didn't get constantly a little annoyed at how the fandom treats him and espresso but (loudly shrugs) i can't help having good and correct takes all the time and also high standards. i think he's an asshole and that's FUN

FOR A GUY WHO LOVES GHOSTS I ALSO DON'T THINK ABOUT FIRE SPIRIT ENOUGH his idle ovenbreak sprite reminds me so deeply of hades, but specifically like. hades from hercules from kingdom hearts 3. bet my money on a stupid ghost i lost that. also (pointedly looks at wind archer) love a guy who gets homoerotically hunted for sport. i also really love that his two costume modes are a) i am slowly dying, lonely, and miserable and b) I'M GOD FUCK YOU. what's wrong with him. audy used this metaphor for two other guys earlier but i think him and wind archer are like. fire spirit gets fifteen espresso shots and wind archer gets a black coffee with a single blueberry shot. neither of them are normal. i think he eventually stops being so wary of being extinguished by sea fairy and they become friends :) me and THE bestie. sea fairy can't exactly hide fire spirit super well w/o extinguishing him so she just blatantly lies to wind archer's face when he comes by looking. (sea fairy, mid-tea with fire spirit voice) no i haven't seen him go ask my wife

EX ex ex best for last. so i think he's kind of a jack of all trades in an odd way because he hasn't exactly brushed up on his skills hands-on in a couple years but also he hasn't had much to do but stare at the void and think about them. he built zed, presumably also programmed his ai, which is. bonkers to think about don't even get me fucking started. he captained a ship. i think he was a very good cook, mostly with savory stuff since it seems the tetris world is missing a lot of the sweeter palattes (i like to imagine puyo puyo and tetris are pretty evenly split on the taste palettes so that they can share.) he was good at charting out space and navigating it. he wasn't the best at anything EXCEPT. YOU KNOW. TETRIS. like. he picked the one thing where being the best at it would essentially kill him. where he would become atlas. and i don't think he knew, but i don't think it was a mistake either. not quite fate. ex was always the right one to put the world onto