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it takes a special sort of bravery and even greater naïveté to stay kind in a world made of cruelty.

should I pity you, or envy you? | m.a.w (via dvoyd)

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I’ve updated Akira’s bio! Here is where you can find it. I just made small alterations and tried to make it a little easier to understand. Let me know if you have any questions about anything on his bio.

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Akira’s tattoo on his back looks like a dreamy version of the night sky, filled with his favorite constellations. The first and second constellations are Orion and Canis Major, known for their brightness. The third is Aries, his zodiac sign. The fourth and fifth are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, reminding him of his childhood, looking up at the stars. The sixth and final constellation is Cassiopeia, distinct and beautiful, though he’s sure many of the gods would disagree.

He often likes to light up his tattoo with moonlight, making it glimmer like the stars.

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autumn/halloween sentence starters! 🍂🍁🎃

masterlist of autumn and halloween themed sentence starters! some are original, but most are collected from other posts.

​❝ i made pumpkin cookies! want to try one? ❞

❝ did you cut yourself carving the pumpkin? let me see it. ❞

❝ stay still i’m almost done with your costume. ❞

​❝ let’s paint pumpkins. ❞

❝ hurry up! we’re going to be late for the costume party! ❞

❝ help me decorate! ❞

​❝ let’s open some windows, okay? ❞

​❝ it’s starting to rain… ❞

​❝ bring a jacket! ❞

​❝ do we really need to go to a pumpkin patch? can’t we just buy one at the store? ❞

​❝ let’s go pick pumpkins! ❞

​❝ it’s chilly out here, you need a coat. take mine. ❞

​❝ you sound sick. are you sick? ❞

*sneeze* ​❝ sorry, allergies. ❞

​❝ wanna go out for halloween? ❞

​❝ looks like it’s time to rake the leaves… ❞

​❝ let’s go get hot chocolate then go for a walk. ❞

​❝ let’s go trick-or-treating! ❞

❝ let’s go jump in the leaves! ❞

​❝ come in here where it’s dry! ❞

​❝ it’s dark?! already?! ❞

​❝ ooh it’s chilly out. ❞

​❝ please, enough with the pumpkin spice. ❞

​❝ good morning. no, don’t get up, it’s raining, let’s stay in bed a little longer… ❞

❝ did you hear about the werewolf/vampire/witch roaming around this town on halloween night? ❞

❝ let’s go to the haunted house! oh, please, please, please, please?! ❞

❝ i don’t get scared. i’m practically fearless. ❞

❝ did you hear that? ❞

❝ we have to get out of here! ❞

❝ are you going to hide in my shoulder the whole time? or actually watch the movie? ❞

❝ i’m not going in a graveyard. ❞

❝ what did you get? ❞

❝ want to trade candy? ❞

❝ i got a rock. ❞

❝ don’t blame me! it was your idea to come in here! ❞

❝ what are you going as for halloween this year? ❞

❝ i just can’t wait for halloween! ❞

❝ you should totally buy that costume! ❞

❝ trick or treat! ❞

❝ happy halloween! ❞

❝ happy fall! ❞

❝ i wanna make sure that my jack-o-lantern is the best! ❞

❝ i’ll race you through the corn maze! ❞

❝ that guy in the gorilla costume has been following us for the past ten blocks. ❞

❝ aww come on! it was a prank! ❞

❝ please, please, PLEASE no scary movie marathon! ❞

❝ that wasn’t funny! ❞

❝ i keep tripping over my costume. ❞

❝ i’m not sure we should go down that street. ❞

❝ no fair! your costume is getting you more candy. ❞

❝ faster! we need to get to all of the houses! ❞

❝ forget being ‘too old’ to trick or treat. i’m doing this forever! ❞

❝ i don’t like these woods. ❞

❝ i just saw something! ❞

❝ look at that intestine cake! ❞

❝ i’m a real vampire. ❞

❝ do you think stuff really happens on halloween? like..supernatural stuff. ❞

❝ i made us matching costumes! ❞

❝ i think i just saw something move outside your window…is someone watching us? ❞

❝ you’re not going to make me carve this pumpkin all by myself, are you? ❞

❝ did you hear there’s a masquerade ball this halloween? let’s go! ❞

❝ you shouldn’t go out there! ❞

❝ s-scared? me? i’m not..scared. ❞

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let’s stay soft wherever we go

muse moodboard #2

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I’ve updated Akira’s bio! Here is where you can find it. I just made small alterations and tried to make it a little easier to understand. Let me know if you have any questions about anything on his bio.

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( @mpxbinnie )

Bin glanced between the box and Akira’s face, waiting patiently for him to say something– which was a feat, since he was not the most patient person. The patience was worth it, though; especially when the other boy showed him the photo. He couldn’t help but gasp, a mix of shock and awe.

“I can’t believe you’re a secret badass. This is the biggest plot twist since Snape being a good guy.” Perhaps he should have been a little more somber or delicate, but he was honestly so surprised that Akira had been a fighter. And honestly, he didn’t think it was shameful or anything– he thought it was badass.

He nodded, his expression thoughtful. “So… why did you stop?” And then, he added: “I mean, if you don’t mind talking about it. You don’t have to.” He did feel a little bad, after all, like maybe he had forced Akira into telling him about this part of his life that he may have preferred to leave in the past.

“It’s not badass, Binnie,” Akira sighed, “I hurt people...badly.” 

As he looked down at the photo, he felt an overwhelming urge to run from the conversation, but he knew that he needed to talk about it. He wanted to stop running. His life had been filled with fear, regrets, and self-resentment, and all he wanted was to be able to leave it behind. He was already very aware of the fact that it was impossible to forget what happened, but forgiving himself was something that he could do, though that option was not anywhere in the near future.

“The adrenaline...it’s a good feeling,” he told the boy, “Until it winds down. All I wanted to do after a fight was lay in bed and sleep for days. I wanted to get that good feeling back, so I kept going back and crashing. I kept getting money when I won. You know my tattoo? How do you think an 18 year old without a job was able to afford it? My parents certainly wouldn’t pay for it.”

“I stopped because we all got arrested,” Akira admitted, feeling the memory of that night start to rush back to him, forcing him to have to hold back tears, “When I was in holding, I took a nap in the cell, and I dreamed of Mount Phoenix. My parents were furious when they bailed me out. I tried to tell them about what I could do, and they refused to believe me. So...I thought it was better that they didn’t know. I stole their money and packed what I needed. Now, I’m here.”

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Moonlight Meetings || Akira&Jinah

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While Akira could not go home for Tsukimi, he found solace in the celebrations at Mount Phoenix. It helped with the homesickness; seeing the decorations of the rabbit, the susuki available for moon viewings, and the booths selling Tsukimi dango. He reminded himself to make his offerings to the moon deities when he had the chance.

He felt a frown start to tug at his lips as he got lost in his own thoughts. It happened rather frequently, his emotions taking over for him. However, this time he spotted a familiar face buying lanterns. The sad expression began to fade, and he raised a hand up to wave to get her attention. He called out to her, a smile forming, “Jinah!”

Akira had a positive opinion of the girl, finding her to be a great listener and a good conversationalist. Of course, that meant he was beyond excited to see her. He made his way over to the booth, greeting her happily, “It’s good to see you! Are you enjoying the festival?”

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Cleansing || Akira&Tsukiyomi

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Akira had been spending an unusual amount of time around his father, notebook in hand. He had passed off Tsukiyomi’s questions about the topic, responding with it’s for class a near-suspicious amount. However, that was an untrue answer. His plan made his stomach feel like it was tying itself in knots, but the determination to follow-through made him swallow back his doubt.

He handed a stack of attached papers to his father, as soon as the coffee shop had closed for the day, worrying start to creep up his spine at the thought of Tsukiyomi’s reaction. His voice was soft as he explained, “You waste too much time seeing the bad things that you’ve done, so I wrote down every good deed you’ve done in a whole week.”

He took a small breath to clear his head and he brought his eyes up to his fathers’ before he continued, “It shows every time you made somebody smile, every time you took care of another person, every time you the feelings of others above your own. You’ve done bad things, but you’ve also done so many good things.”

“And...” he hesitated, “If you’ll allow me, there’s one more gift that I want to give you. It’s not going to be easy, but I believe that this is important for you. You can’t ask what it is, but you have to trust me on this, I beg of you.”

He had to admit, he was unsure on how he was going to do a purification ritual for a deity, but the details were unimportant. What was important to Akira was clearing the guilty conscious of his father.

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❝ come here, i love you, mwah!! ❝

After a successful session of working on his moon shaping, Akira was proud of himself. Despite it, he couldn’t help the way that a feeling of shyness flooded over him at his dad’s pride. He shook his head and covered the redness on his face with moonlight, murmuring, “Dad, that’s embarrassing. Stop it.”

He felt a small pinch at his heart, remembering how his mom would act the same way. She would hug him and kiss his cheek, going on and on about how happy she was whenever he did a good job. Suddenly, he was grateful to have such a good father there to guide him. It made the ache bearable.

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☂  GOTHAM SENTENCE STARTERS ; !! (pt. 2)

❝ pretend i’m a boy/girl. seduce me. ❝

❝ i ain’t lookin’ for no boy/girl, i’m looking for a weapon! ❝

❝ my mother wrote that. ❝

❝ i just dont want my parents’ dream to die with them. ❝

❝ innocence will die. ❝

❝ i have a paradox for you! ❝

❝ that’s a nice, handsome bird. ❝

❝ lazy – maybe i just work smarter than you, you ever considered that? ❝

❝ poor little baby girl, couped up in here. you want some excitement? ❝

❝ i’m your secret weapon. ❝

❝ you might be my baby girl/boy, but i’m not your mama/daddy. ❝

❝ even a fool may bite the king if he has teeth. ❝

❝ we need eachother, we’re family. ❝

❝ everyone here calls me penguin, sir. ❝

❝ this isn’t my first rodeo, so to speak. ❝

❝ come here, i love you, mwah!! ❝

❝ i hope you die quicker, you terrorist! ❝

❝ bad things only truly happen when they happen to important people. ❝

❝ — you ever been with a criminal? some ladies find it a turn on. ❝

❝ now after we kill you, we’re gonna kill (name) too, nice and slow. ❝

❝ i love you, (name), i cannot leave you. ❝

❝ you little scaly faced bitch!! ❝

❝ can i have it? i have a friend who would love that. ❝

❝ i wanted to make a gesture. i hope in time, we can be friends. ❝

❝ when i order some food killed, i expect him that way. ❝

❝ good luck, lad. ❝

❝ put a zipper on it! ❝

❝ not the best idea to handle a firearm when you’ve been drinking. ❝

❝ he’s not a monster, he’s just a man. ❝

❝ go. catch some bad guys. ❝

❝ i had a cranberry muffin earlier, saving the rest for later. ❝

❝ i cook for him/her, i sing to him/her, we go on walks – i don’t know whether i’m his/her maid, mother/father, or his/her lover. ❝

❝ true killers are easy to spot. ❝

❝ hello! i am (full name). ❝

❝ knock yourself out, kid. ❝

❝ c’est la vie. ❝

❝ you know who i am. ❝

❝ when you know what a man loves, you know what can kill him. ❝

❝ business must come first! ❝

❝ do you have any peanut butter?❝

❝ sex is a healthy human activity. ❝

❝ you wanna know what i said? i told her/him i trusted her/him with my life. & that i felt tied to her/him in a way that i couldn’t explain. but wouldn’t change ever. ❝

❝ ‘’alive’’ is a very broad category. a man with no hands can still be alive. ❝ 

❝ i want you to go & never come back. ❝

❝ you like magicians, don’t you? ❝

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“I’m not sure what to write in a letter to them. I want to apologize and tell them I’m safe. I want to be honest, but telling my religious parents that my dad is Tsukiyomi seems too easy. I don’t think they’ll believe me,” Akira sighed with a frown, looking up at his father. He wasn’t sure if the comfort that he was being given was working, but he knew he would feel worse if his dad weren’t there.

He felt the urge to ask the one question on his mind, but he wasn’t sure if he would get a satisfactory answer. Despite that fear tugging at his mind, he spoke up anyways, asking softly, “Can you tell me about my mom? I don’t even know her name. She just left me at the hospital.”

He tried his best to recall whatever he could remember as he took a sip of his drink. He had never been the type to get emotional, but he felt his voice crack as he told Tsukiyomi, “She was Korean. My adoptive mom was working at the hospital, and said that my mom was really pretty. She was a younger woman with sparkly eyes. I never asked my adoptive mom much more than that. I don’t know anything else about her.”

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“It is a start. And after all, things have changed…and hopefully circumstances will become better, easier, with time. Plus, it seems you’re trying to make right of things, and that alone is good progress and shows improvement.” Tsukiyomi gently smiles at his son,a hand reaching over to gingerly pat one of his and rest there for a moment.  And perhaps his hand lingers in a semi-hold over Akira’s for longer than originally intended, but the delay was partially due to the fact the Moon god was not expecting the words that came after, and partially because he wanted to turn the assurance into something more of a comforting gesture. 

I wish your mom had never left you, either. The words sit on his tongue, but he doesn’t dare speak them - he had thought over this; never would he regret having intertwined his life shortly with Akira’s mother’s, especially now knowing what it had given him. Selfish as it might seem, Tsukiyomi considered the boy a gift in life - even with all the struggle that had been endured, accompanied by the distance and absence the Moon god had unknowingly put in his own place. 

He was beginning to think way too much.

But what was the proper thing to say?

“No, it isn’t weird at all, especially in this case. I would say it’s a natural and valid feeling.” his hand moves to rest on the boy’s shoulder, giving a gentle squeeze. “But..I am sorry that you have to feel it in the first place.”

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“Do know how to cook?” Akira asked as he switched into speaking Japanese, the tug at the corner of his lips feeling stronger as his smile grew, “I was never good at that kind of thing. Practice makes perfect, though. We should make a meal together sometime!” He remembered very clearly how many times he had failed in the kitchen, but he wanted nothing more than to improve at the things he was unskilled at.

He felt a sense of warmth rush over him as he remembered their adventures. He looked up as he described the memories to Hana, “We would go anywhere we felt like going when we had time to ourselves. As a kid, I felt like we had been everywhere in Japan, just visiting anywhere that seemed like fun at the time. Now, I guess I’ve realized that we didn’t even cover the entirety of Honshu. The beauty of adventures is that you’ll never run out of them.”

“Really? If you’re ever curious, you can ask me anything you want about Shinto shrines and beliefs, but my dad, Tsukiyomi, would know more than me,” he said with a shrug and raised an eyebrow at her next statement. With a small laugh, he told her, “I don’t think anybody is really normal, but that’s what makes us all interesting. Besides, you sound like fun to go swimming with!”

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His tone showed some excitement as he talked. Hana envied that sort of excitement, her voice was small and trembled randomly. Nodding along to his words she reminisced on her childhood. “That’s nice. I’m from Tokyo as well, we did move a bit around though.. I changed schools frequently.” A short pause, “Most of my childhood was spent in the kitchen, I played a lot with my grandmother and we always cook, or well she did and I just watched.” Her eyes went wide for a moment, “What kind of adventures?” Those sounded fun, she bet they were quite interesting. 

The mention of shrines made her raise a brow, “Oh. Well I never really went to those, I know about lot of the folklore though, my grandmother always read me stories.” It was nice to know he had a good childhood. Misfit. He had never felt like one, she wished she could say the same. “I think some of us, in our own ways, feel a bit different. I mean I thought it was normal that I could hold my breath for ten minutes when I was younger but apparently it’s wasn’t.” She joked, unsure of what to say for his last comment. When it came to conversations, Hana was still quite awkward. 

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Akira shook his head slowly and gave himself a few moments to collect his thoughts. When he was ready, he pushed the box back closer to Bin and sat down next to him. He pulled the box back open and pulled out the small stack of photos. He pointed at the boy in the photo and told the boy honestly, “That’s me. I was 18 in this picture, I think.”

He hesitated to continue, but after a deep breath, he pulled together any strength he had to tell the truth. He spoke softly, “I joined a group and we fought...for money. I didn’t really understand my powers then. I just knew that I could protect myself with the moon and nobody could defeat me.”

He moved another photo to the top of the stack and explained, “These are from a day that I won. I didn’t ever lose. I don’t like to fight anymore, but I didn’t want to leave these at home. I didn’t want my parents to see them.”

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Bin hadn’t meant to snoop, he really hadn’t– but when he had spotted the little tucked away box while Akira was out of the room, his curiosity had gotten the better of him and he could not help but take a peek inside. He nearly dropped the box when he heard his friend’s voice, his ears turning red; he was more than a little mortified to have been caught sticking his nose where it did not belong. However, he also wasn’t all that sorry, because the contents of the box were a little alarming.

“Is that stuff yours?” He asked, watching Akira with wide eyes. He probably would have been less shocked if he had found some kind of hardcore porn stash, honestly. Sure, the other boy was tall and probably strong, but Bin never would have pegged him as some kind of– what, fight club brawler? The Akira he knew was gentle as a lamb and was hurt when he even said something too sarcastic.

“Mon ami, should I be concerned? You’re not getting yourself into any trouble, right?”

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( @mpjinah )

Blinking slowly when the guy said the phase of the moon meant that they were in a time for reflection and letting go of the past, her thoughts instantly went to her family back in Ireland. Eyes travelling away from the young man, who had been so kind as to explain what she was looking at, the young woman started to feel homesick.

“I, uh, well…” Being completely caught off guard by his questions, it took Jinah a moment to recollect her wits. After all the guy couldn’t have been more dead-on. “I… I didn’t think there was anything on my mind. But when you said that now it’s a good time for reflection and letting go of the past, I have to admit that I thought about my parents.” Pausing for a moment Jinah tilted her head to the right when something else came to mind, “I’m also thinking back to another, rather embarrassing, situation which happened here in this city actually.” Breathing out a small smile she looked up at the other, “I guess it’s time to let go then, huh?”

“Let go of the strife, but don’t forget the incidents that cause it. You may think that it’s impossible, but trust me, it’s possible!” Akira told her, trying to clarify what he meant, “You shouldn’t forget moments in your life that cause you painful feelings, because you’ll never be able to grow or learn from them. If you were embarrassed, think about the cause and the situation as a whole. Then, reflect and remember it, but come to accept that you can’t change the past and let the feelings go. If you don’t, negativity will eat you alive.”

That last thing was something that he had learned from personal experience. Guilt, fear, and regret were lingering thoughts that he had gotten comfortable with. However, with each new moon cycle, he found it less difficult to let go of those feelings for a short while.

He looked over at the girl and asked, “Would you like to talk about what’s bothering you? It’s easier to understand my feelings when I talk about them, maybe it would help you as well.”

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“What was your childhood like?”

“It was great!” Akira replied, a gentle smile on his face, “I was adopted in Tokyo, and I was raised there my entire life. My parents were really great to me and we always celebrated holidays, went to shrines, and went on our own little family adventures. I don’t think I ever felt like a misfit in my family, but I did suspect that I was different somehow.”

He thought about his words for a moment before stating simply, “I was lucky and I know that.”

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"What's holding you back?"

“I don’t know,” Akira answered, a small pout on his face. He tried again to create a sphere out of the moonlight, but it quickly flickered and disappeared into the night. Of course, he still hadn’t perfected his powers, but he didn’t think he was that bad. The moonlight didn’t seem to want to cooperate with him, slipping from his grip each time he tried to use it.

Akira sighed and laid back on the grass, looking up at his boss. He tried his best to compile his thoughts and told her, “It’s hard to use my powers some days. I feel as if I’m disconnected, does that make sense? Dad says I should focus with my mind on the moon, but my mind gets all stuffed up with other things and I can’t focus at all.”