Beneath The Surface
The closet feels darker than it should be. Like Yusuke should be able to see some outline of the door or some light fluttering in through the window, but no it’s pitch black.
He can’t see the walls around him, but he can feel them, he can’t stretch out his arms or legs without hitting them.
When he was younger the closet felt bigger, but now that he’s in that awkward part of puberty where Madarame is constantly complaining about having to buy him new clothes, it’s suffocating in a whole new way.
Yusuke would have thought claustrophobia was based on being able to see that you’re enclosed, but apparently not.
He steadies his breaths. Sensei will let him out soon, right? He can’t be that mad.
Yusuke had only wanted to keep a painting for longer, put on some finishing touches, it wasn’t ready for Sensei to display.
So what if he screamed, Sensei hadn’t been listening and–
And now he’s in this dark closet that’s both a void and much too small.
Yusuke leans his head back, and at some point falls asleep, because his neck is sore. Now that he’s had some time to calm down, he can admit to himself that he was lying.
Sensei’s real talent was his eye for appraisal; he'd been consulted on identifying forgeries before he became a big artist. Of course, he could tell Yusuke was lying, that he didn’t want Sensei to put it on display under a different name.
Yusuke didn’t care all that much the first time it happened, the twinge in his gut and being kept awake for nights thinking about what this meant for everyone who’d come through notwithstanding.
But, this one had been special. It had been a dream or a memory of going to the aquarium with his mother.
There was a touch tank, full of creatures the other kids were gathered around, and Yusuke was scared to go up for some reason.
He can’t remember anything more than the hazy outline of his mother, not what she said, just that she helped him calm down and slowly guided him over to the tank.
And… he thinks he remembers her laugh.
A manta ray had come up to meet Yusuke’s hand and splashed him a little, and Yusuke can picture in his mind her laughing and saying See, it likes you! but he doesn’t know if that really happened or if it was something he made up to cope with the fact that other kids could remember their moms.
It was a stupid thing to base a piece on, not with more and more students leaving and Yusuke having to pick up more of the slack. If he hadn’t wanted Madarame to take it, he shouldn’t have made it in the first place.
Yusuke pulls himself tighter and takes in a shaky breath. When Sensei lets him out, he’ll have learned his lesson.
Don’t tell Sensei “no.”
And don’t think about his mother when making art. Not if he wants what fleeting memories he has to stay his.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Power Rangers S.P.D. Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sky Tate & Original Character(s), Sky Tate & Officer Tate Characters: Sky Tate, Officer Tate, Katherine "Kat" Manx, Original Characters, Sky Tate's Mother Additional Tags: I am here getting obsessed with my own OCs, Again, Kidnapping, Human Experimentation, This is kinda fucked up but we don’t go into too much detail about the experimentation, Newtech City’s school system and child services infrastructure sucks Series: Part 8 of Power Rangers S.P.D: The Morpher Project Summary:
Sky gets kidnapped, and his powers go haywire.
This is for @badthingshappenbingo for the prompt “I have your loved one!”
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 3 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kirijo Mitsuru & Sanada Akihiko, Aragaki Shinjiro & Sanada Akihiko, Aragaki Shinjiro & Kirijo Mitsuru Characters: Kirijo Mitsuru, Sanada Akihiko, Aragaki Shinjiro Additional Tags: A sequel to Pictures…, I’ll be making them into a collection because they’re connected, PLATONIC. SENPAI. SQUAD. Series: Part 2 of Aki & Shinji & Mitzi: Friends in life and death. Summary:
Even when one of them is in a coma, they’re still the closest friends you’ll find.
…I made a sequel to Pictures…
Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Genei Ibun Roku #FE | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akagi Touma & Yumizuru Eleonora, Akagi Touma & Minamoto Mamori, Minamoto Mamori & Yumizuru Eleonora, Akagi Touma/Aoi Itsuki, Oribe Tsubasa/Yumizuru Eleonora, Aoi Itsuki & Oribe Tsubasa, Aoi Itsuki & Yumizuru Eleonora, Minamoto Mamori & Aoi Itsuki, Minamoto Mamori & Oribe Tsubasa, Minamoto Mamori & Tsurugi Yashiro, Minamoto Mamori & Kurono Kiria, Kurono Kiria/Tsurugi Yashiro Characters: Akagi Touma, Minamoto Mamori, Yumizuru Eleonora, Aoi Itsuki, Oribe Tsubasa, Tsurugi Yashiro, Kurono Kiria Additional Tags: THEY ALL ON MICROWAVIN GAMERS Summary:
You think only Yashiro and Ellie were on Microwavin’? Not anymore! They all were!
And I finished this!
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“Which canon character does your OC respect a lot?” And “Which canon character does your OC not respect at all?” For Cerise Landors-Tate and “Which canon character would be most likely to get a crush on your OC” for Fuyune Shimizu?
For Cerise the answer to those are both her dads. She respects Jack a lot for taking her in and his charity work, while does not respect Sky at all because he's a cop and a rule following nerd (she loves both of them dearly)
For Fuyune, the funniest answer IS Kotaro because we love giving him unfortunate crushes but as a bonus based on Fuyune's pre-being arrested for murder status as the girl all the sapphics at Miyajou are into I think if Minori was told she had to pick a girl she'd date that isn't Haruka, she'd say Fuyune
You know guys there’s really no need to publicly shame fanfic writers in a forum they can see and mention them by name.
How many BTHB prompts are you planning on doing?
Aiming for a blackout, baby!
Or, in other words, hopefully all of them! And my progress is going pretty solid, I think!
Current progress:
Completed and Posted: Comatose (posted here), Power Fatigue (posted here), Shot with an Arrow (posted here)
Completed and waiting to post so I don’t do two in a day: I Have Your Loved One
Currently in progress (this one’s gonna be a doozy): Mercy Killing
Solid plans for: Defiant to the End, Misaimed Blame
Vibes for: Don’t You Dare Pity Me, Blood from the Mouth
Hope you enjoy all of them, lol!
you have to be your OC's number one otaku because if you dont who will
Adding my own pool of asks about video games because I always like to talk games and asks are fun. Send numbers, reblog for yourself etc.
Last game you finished
Game(s) you’re currently playing
1-3 games you’ve played in the past 12 months that you really enjoyed
Do you like to get 100% achievements/trophies?
Game(s) coming out that you’re looking forward to
A series you’ve enjoyed since your early days of gaming and still enjoy to this day whether it still has games coming out or is one you return to
A series you’ve lost interest in
A series you haven’t played but are interested in trying
A game you played completely blind with no prior knowledge of and enjoyed/loved
A console and/or handheld you’ve never played but would like to try
Do you prefer ‘blank slate’ main characters you make yourself or otherwise project onto, or characters with a set personality and backstory?
A character you particularly like in the game you’re currently playing
Quick, name the first song from a game that comes to mind
A song that’s sure to hit your nostalgia buttons
Do you have a backlog and do you keep track of it? If so, how?
A game you’d like to replay that you haven’t
A game you didn’t finish but would like to get back to or restart someday
A game location you really like
A game you started up for the first time and you knew from the start it was going to be great
A boss you think is really cool
A boss that was disappointing
A game ending that’s really stuck with you
A “Wow” moment of awe
A game with a cool art style
A game’s art style that had to grow on you
Realism or stylized?
A game you love the atmosphere of
Pick a series you like. What was the first game you played for it? Was it a good starting point? Would it still be a good starting point now?
On average do you have one game or multiple games going?
Game you think you’ll finish next?
Someone has never played a video game before but is open to trying any genre. What game would you recommend as their first?
A/N: Brought to you by @yumizurueleonora saying I should be mean to Saki.
If I were to step out of this thin white line I'm tugged by
It isn’t even noon. They’d only had their first few classes, it was an hour and a half before they all took a break for lunch, and then after that Leo/need was going to try recording their first demo album and practice for their live show!
So Saki cannot already be in pain. She cannot be in so much pain before noon she wants to go home and lie down in her plushies and not move.
It’ll get better, of course it’ll get better, it’s early! She can just push through it, Saki just has to make sure that no one notices, because if the others heard she was in pain now, then they’d cancel all their big plans for today even if she went home and felt better later.
Her back’s the worst by the time lunch comes. Each invertebrate disk feels like it’s creaking, and it’s making it hard to stand up straight but Saki Will! Not! Give! Up! She’s had worse at the hospital, and that’s why she’s not there anymore!
She could ask to go to the nurse’s office to get her pain medication but Miyajou’s full of gossips. No way that doesn’t get back to Ichika and the others and then they’ll be like “just to be safe, let’s put it off for today!”
No! Life isn’t about playing it safe! Life isn’t about being cooped up in a small boring hospital room where people constantly check on you and you’ll never get hurt but you’ll feel dead inside!
She can get pain pills after they record the demo.
When the final bell rings, Saki’s head hurts. God a migraine. She grabs an energy drink that’s supposed to have extra Vitamin B2 and hopes that’ll work. Save her, Riboflavin! It won’t matter though because she can play the songs that’ll be on their demo in her sleep.
“Saki-chan?” Honami asks. “Are you ok, you seem pale?”
“I’m great! We’re gonna have a demo!” Saki says. “Have you been working on the album art?”
Honami’s hand goes to her notebook, and Saki smiles, reaching for it. Instead of pictures of lion-like creatures like Honami did for their flyers, there are pictures of the old playground they used to walk by, with doodles of shooting stars and constellations overhead.
“I… I thought maybe it would be bad if I drew our first album cover from scratch, so I’ve just been thinking of what kind of layout we can do with images?” Honami says quickly.
“Oh!” Saki says. “I love it!”
“Love what?” Shiho asks, walking up with Ichika.
“Our first album cover!” Saki announces, showing them the sketchbook.
“It’s not exactly an album,” Ichika says, “it’s a demo, it’s only going to be a couple of songs to give to agents.”
“But!” Saki says, wiggling her eyebrows. “Soon we will have an album! Just after we record this. Now what are we waiting for?” Saki spins on her heel and runs off.
The studio they’re recording in looks totally cool, like the kind they have in movies. It’s so professional! So real! This is it, they can–
Saki wakes up in the hospital. Ichika is sitting across from her, and notices as soon as she opens her eyes.
“Saki!” Ichika gasps. “Oh my gosh, are you ok? We were so scared when you passed out we didn’t know what to do, Honami was freaking out and Shiho called the ambulance and I kept trying to wake you up and I wasn’t sure if I should do CPR or something.”
Saki frowns. “We didn’t get to record the demo.”
“The demo?” Ichika gasps. “Saki you fainted, I think that’s more important than the demo!”
Saki coughs. “But it’s not just the demo, you’re going to say we need to practice less because I might get tired.”
“W-well we were talking about it but–”
“That’s the problem! Do you know how much professional performers practice?” Saki asks. “Professional Broadway actors do eight shows a week, I heard Tsukasa-nii talking about it! If we wanna go pro, we have to keep up with that now!”
“If we want to go pro, we need you alive!” Ichika snaps.
Saki stares at her, at a loss.
“I- I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to yell,” Ichika says. “B-but you really scared us, and if going pro means pushing you so hard you could get seriously hurt, then I don’t want to go pro.”
“But then Shi-chan would leave us,” Saki says.
“You seriously think that?” Shiho says, entering the room with Honami and hospital donuts.
“It’s your dream,” Saki points out.
“Well maybe it used to be,” Shiho says. “But right now, my dream is going pro with you guys.”
“It wouldn’t be the same without all of us,” Honami says. “So please, Saki, let us know when you need a break.”
Saki thinks she’s going to cry if she hasn’t started already. “Fine. Yeah. Let’s just get out of here. I hate the hospital.”
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