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In Pieces (Chapter 6; Work)

Fandom: Durarara!! Characters/Ships: Izaya/Shinra, past!Shinra/Celty, Shizuo/Celty; Shinra, Celty, Shizuo, Izaya, Shiki, more to-be-added Rating: T (NEW WARNING: things get a bit steamy at the beginning of this chapter…)  Length: Chapter 6/?; 3178 words

Summary:

The information broker can’t rest. It isn’t just a matter of supporting himself anymore, after all.

AO3 Link Read on Tumblr: (previous chapter–You Are Here–coming soon)

(A/N) MEANWHILE, in this dysfunctional corner of Ikebukuro….

Izaya was woken by the weight of a body–by Shinra Kishitani climbing atop him, their hips resting against one another’s. Instantly alert, Izaya pushed slightly against his chest.

“Shinra, what’s–?”

“I want to repay you…” the doctor breathed against Izaya’s mouth. “This is what you want most, isn’t it?”

The kiss was hot and passionate; Izaya groaned with longing into it, feeling Shinra’s living body moving against his; his most precious human’s tongue grinding against his own. But he pulled back against his pillow, using one forearm across Shinra’s breast to hold the doctor where he was.

“Orihara-kun?”

“Shinra, I–” Izaya began, his voice breathy. He could see, out of the corner of his eye, the dullahan’s head resting on the pillow beside him–Shinra’s pillow.

“Let me…” Shinra breathed cheerily, his hands pushing Izaya’s nightshirt up. “This is what you want more than anything, isn’t it? We’re already living as a couple, for all intents and purposes… just like Celty and I were. For all intents and purposes, we’re already lovers–just like Celty and I were. Let’s consummate it… like Celty and I never did.

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Shinra about Izaya - Sunset Novel

Interlude: The Man Called Izaya Orihara ①

Izaya Orihara?

This is quite a nostalgic name to ask. Well, I guess it’s not that nostalgic. When I talk to friends and family, his name sometimes comes up in the conversation.

Each time a dangerous or odd event happens it’s ‘what did Orihara-kun do?’ or ‘was the one behind the black curtain Orihara-kun?’ It’s that kind of topic.

You see, just from that you can tell he is a good-for-nothing kind of human being, right?

What type of person is Izaya Orihara?

Even if you say what type.

In terms of occupation, he is an informant. Outwardly he calls himself a financial planner though.

An informant is an informant. He especially gathered a lot of information in regards to humans.

Like the human relations in the city, someone’s opposite side, secret love relationships of famous people. If you ask him, he knows most of those sort of things. He sometimes knew the ordinary person’s love relationships, but he looked into various topics for his hobby. He has also had times he investigated love affairs too.

He’s that type of guy that when he occasionally saw couples that seemed to have an adultery relationship, between intervals of work he would look into that couple and send a picture as proof of the act to the man’s daughter. In other instances, he would slip into suicidal online meetings even though he had no intention of dying himself and listen to their stories before making them fall asleep with sleeping pills and run away.

Don’t you think he’s the worst?

If you thought that, then your sense was right. You shouldn’t approach that kind of person. If you can, it’s better to never get involved with him.

For me, well look, my sense is wrong I guess. I’ve been friends with him for more than ten years. For you to reach me at this point, you should know that I’m not normal, right?

Is he still alive? Yeah, that was a foolish question. He’s still alive and that’s why you’re asking.

It’s just that everyone has said that he may really be dead, so, well, I guess it doesn’t matter either way. Even if he is alive or dead, it won’t really change the feeling of his existence. Ostensibly he is not the kind of guy to stand in front of people.

The first time I met him was in middle school.

We were in the biology club together, but he’s a bit different from back then.

That’s right, he changed just a little bit.

It’s not like he is some cutthroat, and naturally he isn’t even some saint.

Good and evil, strong and weak, love and hate, hopes and despair, capitalism and socialism, conservatives and progressives, aristocracy and democracy…Well, isn’t there many structures of antagonism? Like with love and hate being one in the same, you disregard the difficult of thinking those things out and think of the simplicity of it in the end.

If there is a pendulum that swings between those two extreme ideals, then he likes to watch that swing.

His reason in living…No, if I went with that it would just be one kind of illness then.

Nevertheless, when you think the pendulum is stagnate, he would adequately make the pendulum sway, knock into other people’s pendulums, and after doing those things would then watch the reactions. He’s a guy that cannot live without doing that.

For that, he’s also the guy who would use those logical people or even the police.

As a result, he doesn’t care if he gets arrested, hurt, or ends up dying at worst.

Really, it may be the same as breathing or eating for him.

Yeah, without a doubt it’s an illness.

That guy has the ability to collect extraordinary information, so I think the world really is unreasonable.

Yeah, he’s certainly extraordinary. More than information collecting, that is accumulation. He may look at information as one piece to his collection.

The amount of information he grasps is really, how should I say it…non-standard or sly. It wouldn’t be strange to call it a cheat if you compare it from a game of today.

‘If there is a god in this world, why does he not preempt it?’ is that type of feeling.

God, huh.

If normal people had about the same information collecting and processing as him, wouldn’t they assume the role of god and manipulate various things? I wonder about that.

Just because he outwardly does work with the layout of human lives, he doesn’t like managing all other people’s lives. He’ll manipulate events from behind the scenes, but he’s not that assertive kind of man.

Although, no matter the result he would happily accept it with a face that ‘it was all according to my calculations.’

And everyone gets easily fooled by that.

He sees through all that. Everything up until now was in the palm of his hand.

They misunderstand that and despair arbitrarily. He enjoys seeing those expressions on people.

Only looking at his personality, he would only be an ’evil spirit,’ a ‘mysterious existence the world has not seen.’

I wonder if there are people who remember him with those sort of images. In actuality, it’s not impossible mistake him as such.

I want you to try and imagine it.

The man who suddenly appeared in front of you knows more about you than you yourself.

That fact in regards to the field of information should make him be called someone with an ‘adaptability’ or perhaps someone ‘broad minded and free in disposition.’ If it is something connected with life and death rather than being broad-minded then it is the ‘power of life and death,’ but anyway, if there is a human has been troubled by him, Izaya Orihara has that type of image.

Certainly with that meaning he may be a ‘miscreant.’

But you see, it doesn’t mean he is a villain.

This is the most troubling thing though…

It’s not like he does it with bad intent.

Really, he does it because he loves humans.

He’s the ‘*smoke and miasma’. He is the poisonous mist itself.

Even if he means no harm to his opponent, just by being in the area it’s harmless to humans.

But the troubling thing is…the misfortune for humans is that he follows them.

Love…

That’s right. He loves humans.

He loves, loves, loves, loves humans, so he just wants to see. The various expressions humans make.

Of hurt, of joy, humans that sing of love, humans that release hatred, and in his mind child birth and murder is considered the same. Perhaps when he was a kid he may have admired God or demons.

He likes to prepare a wall on other people’s life rails.

The people who cross over it and come to a happy ending, or the people who crash into the wall and end with a bad ending. He would say ‘either one is a wonderful human life. I love them.’

He said this before.

-”If there is a life no one scorns, then I think at least I have to give them love. I don’t mean to love them out of a sense of obligation. Really, how should I say it….just genuinely like them.”

Like that.

Yeah.

I think you already understand.

If you want to have a normal life, not getting involved with him is the best answer.

There’s been times someone has abruptly been dragged into it by his whim, but that’s not always the case.

Rather than suddenly throwing in a bomb in a peaceful place, it’s originally from the burnt land or incident.

It’s not the proverb “*wanting the mountain rain to come to fill the wind tower,” but in the surroundings where he is involved in, an ominous air swirls around in advance.

If you can realize even that, you should get away immediately. If you do that, I think you will be fine with not getting mixed in with that troublesome love or idiosyncrasy of his.

If you don’t want a normal life…Well, I won’t stop you though. I bet there are a lot of people who get involved happily.

-Selected from listening to Izaya Orihara’s acquaintance, person K.

Translation Notes:

These are all the terms Shinra used. I’m not very familiar with most of these proverbs and idiomatic compounds.

In Order:

魑魅魍魎（ちみもうりょう） - Chimimouryou - “Evil spirits of mountains and rivers.”

妖異幻怪（よういげんかい） - You’i genkai - “A suspicious being not thought to be of this world, something unfathomable and strange to the common ability.” (Source)

Note: You’i genkai was the one I couldn’t find an English equivalent on, so I went off from the Japanese meaning.

円転滑脱（えんてんかつだつ） - Entenkatsudatsu - versatility, adaptability; tactful, suave

闊達自在（かったつじざい）- Kattatsujizai - Broad-minded and free in disposition, large-hearted and not scrupulous about trifles

活殺自在（かっさつじざい）- Kassatsujizai - The power of life and death

蛮烟瘴霧（ばんえんしょうむ）- Ban’enshoumu - Lit. Barbaric Smoke Miasma Mist

Note: I could hardly find any sources of this term even from Japanese sources. It seems to come from Chinese. So I went off more strictly from the Kanji reading. I think the clarification in the following sentence with the “poison mist” makes it easier to understand, regardless.

山雨来らんと欲して風楼に満つ　（さんうきたらんとほっしてかぜろうにみつ） - San’u kitaran to hosshite kazerou ni mitsu - Lit. Wanting the mountain rain to come to fill the wind tower.

Meaning: Before the mountain rain comes, first the wind suddenly blows against the lofty tower. Meanwhile, the situation before the calamity is not calm. (Source)

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My reasons for shipping IzaShin.

-Shinra is “Izaya’s only friend by normal human standards”.

-To Izaya, Shinra resided in a different world, just as Celty also resided in a different world to Shinra(which was apparently one of the main reasons he fell in love with her).

-Shinra loves Celty’s black, and coincidentally, Izaya wears lots of black.

- The idea of Shinra getting hurt was the only thing that ever made Izaya ‘crack’.

- Izaya punches a telephone pole when he was afraid of Shinra being mad at him.

- Shinra is the only one to ever acknowledge Izaya’s fragile heart(or really that he even has a heart)

- Shinra stands up to even Celty, whom he’d do anything for to gain her approval, when she basically says he shouldn’t be Izaya’s friend nor feel guilty for hanging up on him in the hospital and says, “but still, Izaya is one of my only friends.”

-Shinra and Izaya could be considered best friends.

- Shinra can read Izaya better than anybody else.

-Shinra was confirmed as “his eccentric friend, the first person to see through Izaya to his true nature((even before Izaya?))”.

-Izaya obviously gets really bitter about being left out of Shinra’s hotpot party.

-Izaya agreed to found the biology club for the sole purpose of observing Shinra.

- When Shinra tells Izaya to die on the phone in the hospital, Izaya bitterly says, “what a piss poor excuse for a friend” before “trolling” Shinra. And also, despite his earlier plans to leave the hospital, he decides to stay, knowing that somebody would come after him, thinking that he, “might as well go out with a bang”.

- Nothing says that you can’t fall in love with your ‘best(only friend’ by the world’s standards, especially when you claim to ‘love’ all of your other ‘friends’ by your own standards.

“If you use that past guilt as the basis for your actions and your way of life, doesn’t that kind of make it a god in itself?”(“Which means in a way she is your God, but it’s not all that bad, right? After all, you do love her.”)

- Izaya says Shinra is not his pawn.

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GENSHIN IMPACT ANTHOLOGY (DNA) CHAPTER 11 PART 2 better scan but still sloopy lol Part 1 : here

Continuous from previous post since there's limitation upload picture (lol). So, next chapter is last part of DNA book focused around Aether Zhongli !

Like always english never be my liking so just bear with me~

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:D !! Zhongluc, they train together !!

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Zhongluc should be pink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! T_T

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the above is based on an snl skit

below was a meme redraw

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Wanda Koop. 

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kaeya icons!

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there's an actual tear in my eye, holy shit

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Hidamari no Kimi (Your Sunshine)

Circle/Artist: babilingual / Shachi Parody: Kimetsu no Yaiba Pairing: Non-Rom Summary: Cute interactions between Tanjiro and the other characters who adore him. Takes place between the Swordsmith Village and Pillar Training arcs.

¡¡WARNING: As of 12/25/19 this doujin contains spoilers for the manga. If you are an anime-only fan/have not caught up with the manga then please be aware of the spoilers!!

SURPRISE ANOTHER NEW SERIES TO ADD TO THE LIST! Now, normally I try to hold back on posting doujin that contains spoilers for the anime. HOWEVER. My fav has been wronged and so I must now fill the void in my heart with every doujin with my fav character possible. (ಥ﹏ಥ) Enjoy!

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Arena no dorena no docchina no? (Which one is that?)

Circle/Artist: shikugarou / garasu Parody: Kimetsu no Yaiba Pairing: Non-Rom Summary: Funny and heartwarming antics by some members of the pillars and the upper rank demons (respectively). Contains some spoilers toward the end.

¡¡WARNING: As of 6/13/21 this doujin contains some spoilers for the manga. If you are an anime-only fan/have not caught up with the manga then please be aware of the spoilers!!

Mugen Train got me feeling sad, so here’s some fluff (ﾉω･､) This still got me feeling sad (spoiler: especially towards the end), but the cute little moments made up for it. Enjoy~

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some of my favorite little scenes from the manga

just a warning to anime only's, this contains some characters who I don't believe appeared in the anime yet and some out of context story spoilers so if you don't want to see that then scroll past!!

I have more but tumblr won't let me add more than 10

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奈良の鹿 by igu