master of none.

indie kuki shinobu

[al-hazen]

ACCOUNTS CLOSING.

To preface this, I know this might come as a surprise for people, but I've been mulling this over these past few days and have come to the conclusion that it's the right time, for the right reasons. Let me explain below:

To begin, this isn't because of anything anyone has said or done. Aside from blowback from issues others have faced, I can resoundingly say that I haven't had many issues with drama or the like in this RPC. If anyone has been in doubt, just know that I always approach people with serious problems, and any problematic people have all been cut out by now. So, there's genuinely nothing wrong on that front.

This is 100% a personal decision largely because I've doing RP for over a decade on this site, and while it's been fun, I will honestly say that I created conditions for myself to become overwhelmed, and borderline addicted to what should be a fun hobby. I used it as a crutch to distract me from life, and the few weeks I've been distancing myself have made me realize that RP is something I'm (mostly) ready to move on from, hence this decision. To put it simply, I have a lot of goals outside of RP like writing novels, expanding my skills, and finally attaining a degree I've been struggling to get for the past 2-3 years (if you don't count Covid causing a 3-year-long hiatus). I want to continue down that road.

It's going to go like this:

Firstly, I'm going to be closing all of my Genshin blogs (@al-hazen, @kanedoji, @toradoji, @lowenzahhn, and @naviy) starting today. All threads will be dropped, and inboxes will be deleted.

I'm going to remove all except the people I've been friends with outside of RP from discord. I won't be totally unavailable, though. (If you'd like to get re-added, please contact me at the following contacts below.)

If you'd like to contact me, I have the following out there:

My socials

My Sypha Belnades blog (panfandom & has a Genshin AU)

My fandomless OC (cyberpunk + has an HSR AU)

Again, I just really want to thank everyone who made my experience here really fun. While I've loved every second, I hope you all can understand and I wish you the best! <3

[kanedoji]

Hey guys, so I added this to the rule pages of my Genshin blogs, but it basically goes like this:

I've decided to confine the interactions with my Genshin muses to fellow Genshin canons and OC's, those with Genshin AU's (canons & OC's), and other Hoyoverse muses (Honkai series, Tears of Themis, etc.). The main reasoning behind this is that, while the majority of my blogs have been largely panfandom in the past, I have an incredibly hard time trying to think of crossovers for my Genshin muses and have decided to forgo it altogether.

The exception to the former is OC's that have compatible mainverses I already follow/interact with. If I follow you/follow back, you're all good!

I won't interact with people who solely use real-life FC's/FC's that are photorealistic. I'm not a fan of mixed-media interactions, and never have been. It just looks goofy to me and I have no plans of hunting for RL FC's for my muses.

[toradoji]

Alrighty, same drill as my other bloggos, but if we've never interacted before, feel free to hit the heart!

[kinokare]

原神　ファンアート　久岐忍

[toradoji]

Shishi looks so cute he l p—

[toradoji]

The fact that 2/3 banners Shishi has run on has been with Sumeru characters... Love this disloyal bitch--

[toradoji]

I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world--

[toradoji]

(Super huge thanks to @fxmiliarity for the line-art/coloring <3)

Following the civil war in Inazuma and the events of the Chasm half a year later, Shinobu makes the decision yet again to travel abroad. With dozens of certifications under her belt, she decides to test her mettle at Teyvat's most prestigious academic institution, the Akademiya. Yet, knowing full-well the often years-long dedication most scholars pour into their studies and how much Shinobu despises commitment or long tenures, she instead makes a compromise: negotiating a streamlined course of study to graduate in a year, she narrows her focus to ethnobiology and local pharmacology in the Amurta Darshan with some mathematics courses taken in the Kshahrewar. For her thesis, Shinobu combined her past specialization as a shrine maiden to work towards developing a series of herbal remedies for Tartarigami using flora found in Inazuma that mimics the curative effects achieved by suppressants previously utilized for Eleazar sufferers by studying the Consecrated Beasts of the Desert of Hadramaveth.

While in Sumeru City, she worked for Lambad in Lambad's Tavern as a line chef, usually taking late night and closing shifts.

With her tailoring skills, she created two outfits specifically for her time there: the left a customized variant of the Akademiya's uniform, while the right is what she dons while traveling or studying in the desert.

[lupusmatra-deactivated20240520]

@toradoji ( ⚖️ )

❝ is your boss going to be ... alright ? ❞

Cyno asks out of genuine concern. he too, admits, TCG can spark a passion in his heart, but losing a game usually inspires him to try again or rework his strategies. not. pout and yell and throw a tantrum. it is a funny sight however.

❝ would you like to avenge him ? ❞

Cyno asks, turning to them and holding up a deck of cards. any chance to play with new challengers is always worth shooting.

[toradoji]

"To be expected. I mean, you did take out Arataki "The Ultimate TCG Champion" Itto."

Though she always did appreciate Itto's visits to Sumeru through her term at the Akademiya, she had to admit that sometimes... his enthusiasm for Genius Invokation in the country that conceived it got a little over the top, sometimes. Case in point, but she wasn't there to put a damper on the Oni's fun.

"Why not? Best 2 out of 3?"

[inavagrant-a]

@toradoji / starter call.

He can tell he's becoming more patient, more tolerant even, and he's not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. The straining of his old habits glare at him, telling him that is not a good thing, but he's not about to enter an internal self on self war with himself right now. There are other matters he's to attend to.

"Are you done?" He asks, some annoyance soaking up the delivery of the word done. "Choking on your alibies, I mean." He clarifies. "I don't care if you killed this Fatui agent or even later decide to dismember him when I'm gone. I just want to know if he was with anybody else." Where there's one cockroach there's an infestation of them usually.

[toradoji]

The moment the man started speaking so dismissively, the line in her shoulders slumped lazily as her feigned damsel act dissipated into that of a woman who truly didn't care. "Oh good, so I don't have to pretend around you, huh?" the kunoichi lilted with a monotone in her voice, glancing dispassionately at the dead body laying facedown on the leafy underbrush. "Ran into my wakizashi one too many times, you know how it is."

"He was, but I have to ask--should I be concerned? Not some buddies of yours, I hope," she continued with a cocked hip, perching her hand on it. Usually, Fatui never went without their uniforms as they were too powerful to bother with precautions. Nevermind the endless amount of shit they pulled, and how she never regretted terrorizing them whenever the opportunity presented itself.

[toradoji]

"Legally, I can defend someone in a case concerning things like tax evasion or accidental manslaughter, but if you like pineapple on pizza, you're on your own."

[onskningar]

@toradoji liked for a starter

" ahem " kaveh had already made sure there was no else around ( not that is was hard when it came to kshahrewar, due to how unpouplar the school was. ) -- but it still didn't stop him from looking around once more after getting on with the reason he was approaching her for. " - i hear you might be a lawyer? "

[toradoji]

"Depends on who you're asking." It was an odd thing to preamble with, but considering how Shinobu wasn't exactly known for operating on the bland and legal side of the fence, people usually came for legal advice when it wasn't the most inconspicuous or could jeopardize them socially. A job for someone who operated in shades of gray, essentially. "So, what is it? Accidental manslaughter? Tax evasion?"

[dakrolak]

Guys this is the true crime story of the decade:

Yesterday a friend told me what might well be the best story I’ve ever heard. She had caught the train in from Frankston. And while she was waiting for the train to come, she noticed a man sitting down on the platform with a bag of fish and chips. But he wasn’t really eating them. He was just sort of letting them air.

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[pyrtui]

❝  So  hostile  ━━━━  you’d  be  wise  to  stand  down.  There  is  only  so  much amusement  I  can  find  in  this  bravado,  before  it  becomes  annoying.  ❞   Smart girl.  They  should  see  him  as  a  threat;  be  thankful  he  has  no  reason to  attack.  On  assignments  like  these  even  he  would  rather  stick  to  the  side lines,  if  only  to  get  a  good  strike  on  his  target.  Sumeru  was  such  a  ...  delicate place.  The  mere  ground  could  burn  with  a  single  step.   ❝  Would  you  attack someone  who  doesn’t  have  their  weapon  raised?  That's rather dishonourable.  ❞   @toradoji

[toradoji]

"Huh, someone's light novel is missing its stock villain stereotype," Shinobu quipped as she allowed her wakizashi to disappear in a brief shower of fractals. Though surprised by the Fatuus' appearance, the shock faded into a drollness. Shinobu hadn't been clear of everything that had occurred, but a radical regime change had occurred a few months ago and had changed everything, like the termination of the Akasha System she didn't exactly miss. Though it hadn't been disclosed, she'd a feeling the Fatui had been involved. Maybe her suspicions hadn't been wrong. "Sure is. Slit throats, back-stabbing--the fun stuff. Can't say I've ever given a rat's ass about being honorable."

[bitterseadrop-a]

"  ...  henchmen  ?  "  milou  raised  an  eyebrow  at  her.  the  idea  of  people  being  regarded  as  aunt  miko's  henchmen  wasn't  outlandish  to  her  in  the  slightest,  though  the  proposition  of  being  roped  in  with  them  wasn't  something  she  expected.  "  no  thank  you,  i'd  rather  not.  escaping  that  kind  of  fate  was  one  of  the  reason  why  i  left  inazuma  in  the  first  place.  "

[toradoji]

"Somehow, that doesn't surprise me. Lady Guuji has a knack for driving people away with her bullshit," Shinobu replied dryly, though her hackles lowered. Somehow, the woman's predicament didn't surprise her much, as even outside of Yae Miko, many Inazumans had fled for the docks of Ritou just to see the world again and she was one of them. And she still had plans to travel after that. "Kuki Shinobu. You are?"

[toradoji]

One of my favorite ship dynamics is shipping the mean asshole with the deadpan snarker, always—

[gosutm-arch]

with silence endowing seirai island, hannya wasn't particularly used to noise. even the simplest strike for conversation would took her off guard, which wasn't usual for the one who once hailed over inazuma for the shogun. as she looks over to her masked companion, the shorter of two only pondered for a moment or so before humming and crossing her arms. ❛ ...i've got no reason to leave. ❜ is all she says, eyes looking back to the skies, painted in magentas and plum colors. ❛ ...i belong here, not with the world. ❜ yet another, long pause...truly, hannya wasn't the best with socialization. how on earth can itto handle this? ❛ why...do you wonder? ❜

[toradoji]

"Easy. I hear the bullshit excuse that us Youkai don't belong in human society, and people like myself, Itto, and Sara defy it all the time. If people are going to claim every inch of land, we deserve to be part of it, too." Admittedly, Shinobu knew she was being a bit of a hypocrite. All her life, she'd fallen back on her humanness and hadn't lived with nearly the same level of pride as someone like Itto did, if only because she could. She didn't have many outward reasons to display herself as a Maneki Neko, and part of her preferred it that way. Prideful or not, people like Itto were often judged for being an Oni and she treasured her professional life to jeopardize it. "I doubt anyone even remembers that you exist. You could make a new life for yourself if you wanted."