#Hanzo POV

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To the Cassidy who single ulted the enemy Ramattra when we were both emoted and stuck on a boat, I will never forgive u for ruining our date

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Old Kisatori/InventedProductShipping Headcanons - #4

When was the first temptation to kiss? When did they actually kiss?

The first time Hanzo wanted to kiss Kojiro? Well, I already mentioned this before, but during their first meeting, in person and as business, he saw how doting Kojiro was to his son, who he brought with him and was still a baby. It was very cute and he had the thought to kiss him right then and there…which pretty much unlocked his gay awakening, oops. Obviously, he didn't act on it at the time as that would not only be unprofessional but also cause this was the first time he was realizing that he was gay and needed time to process that, and he's not a cheater. As much as it turned out how incompatible they were with their sexualities, Hanzo was still married to his wife at the time, and he wasn't going to go behind her back just to kiss this one random guy he just met. That would just be adding salt into the wound if he ever got around to mustering up the courage to divorce her. (Which he eventually does.)

As for their first kiss…well, it doesn't happen until a couple of years. Almost two decades, even, as Hanzo never had the courage to kiss him until Yamato and Mikako got their invitation to Hope's Peak. When he shared the news to Kojiro, he also revealed that Teruya had gotten his invitation as well, which meant that they'll be attending the same year and class! They were both overjoyed to have their kids go to a prestigious school like Hope's Peak (elitism aside), so after years of simply exchanging emails and collaborating together once, they decided to meet up in person to celebrate together as adults - a.k.a. there's gonna be alcohol. Hanzo was still harboring feelings for Kojiro but didn't want to make the meeting romantic or anything. He didn't even know if Kojiro was interested in men, so he kept it to himself and they met up at a bar. They spent some time catching up, talking about their kids, their business and what they've been up to personally. After a few drinks, Kojiro was starting to get a bit personal in his touch, leaning against Hanzo and saying that he hadn't a friend like him in a long while. Hanzo's heart was pounding, almost painfully so, as he also admits that Kojiro was very important to him. He laughs, saying that he appreciated the closeness. But, maybe because of the alcohol or maybe because he was just so happy that he just wanted to say it, Hanzo reiterates how important Kojiro is, bringing him a little closer. Kojiro was a bit confused, chuckling almost nervously as he doesn't really believe that but Hanzo means what he says. That he finds Kojiro important, admirable, handsome…lovable. It was only then that Kojiro finally realized what Hanzo was trying to say as he leans in to kiss him…

Only for Kojiro to get out of his seat.

"I can't."

"I…" Hanzo stares at him, feeling like he had suddenly been slapped back into reality. He felt the horrible fear of incompatibility rearing it's ugly head, one that he had forgotten in the moment as the alcohol clouded his judgment. He knew Kojiro had nothing against the homosexuals, as the Otori Mart was a safe space for people like him, but that didn't mean he was interested in men. But, he had to know. "Why…?"

Kojiro didn't answer, not at first.

When he turned back to look at him, it was with wide, grieving eyes, his hand clutching his sweater where his heart would be. And his fingers brushed over where a wedding ring would be, speaking in a quiet voice that cracked.

"…I can't." Kojiro looked down. "…I'm sorry."

And then, Hanzo remembers.

He remembers an image of a young woman, smiling brightly at the camera as she's forever memorialized on the Security page of the Otori Mart website.

Tamami Otori, Lovable Wife and Boss, Forever Missed

And he understood.

He understood that the man he liked still held a candle for his deceased wife.

And he felt his heart break in two.

"…Okay." And that was all he could say. The silence between them felt as though they were going to be buried alive.

"…Thank you for the drinks, Hanzo." Kojiro said, picking up his suit jacket. "I'm sure our kids will get along great as classmates."

"Wait." He couldn't leave it like this. And apparently, neither could Kojiro as he stopped and turned around, his guard completely up. Hanzo swallows. "…Are we…still friends?"

Kojiro didn't answer right away.

"I…" The merchant runs his fingers through his hair. "…I'd like that. Just…give me some time. Okay?"

"…Okay." Hanzo didn't stop him after that. And Kojiro didn't stick around to say anything else, leaving the inventor behind to drink the night away.

Maybe he should've kept his mouth shut…

Aaaaaaaaand that's where they left things off in canon, as Hanzo dies a few months after the 79th class was brought into Hope's Peak, leaving Kojiro alone with even more grief and regrets as a part of him wished he did take him up on that kiss.

BUT WE'RE NOT LEAVING THINGS LIKE THAT, WE LOVE NON-DESPAIR AUS IN THIS HOUSE.

Hanzo and Kojiro still exchanged emails, but clearly, things have been mostly professional between them with how curt and to the point Kojiro has been. This hurts Hanzo but he knew that confessing to Kojiro out of nowhere like that was going to have consequences on their relationship. For better or for worse. But he gives him time, like he asked him to, and kept pace with Kojiro. Eventually, Kojiro starts bringing up stories from his past and during his time running the Otori Mart. This confuses Hanzo at first but he listens to him (well, read), and replies with his own stories, from his time at Hope's Peak to the inventions that worked well and didn't work well. It felt like they were connecting again…and then Kojiro asks him to meet up somewhere. The address was something Hanzo recognized was a graveyard but he chooses to go there anyway to see what Kojiro wants. The months had gotten colder, and upon meeting up with Kojiro, it was a bit awkward but not…uncomfortable. It just felt like two friends that haven't met in a long time. Kojiro asks him to walk with him, and Hanzo agrees.

They walk through the graveyard, silent for awhile, until Kojiro starts talking. It was about his wife, Tamami, and how much light she had brought into his world. Kojiro…admits that he wasn't in a good place when they had first met. Neither of them were, really. Hell, he had done a lot of bad things, things that Hanzo would doubt find disgusting with his strong sense of justice. But unlike him, Tamami never gave up on herself or life itself. She always tried to do the right thing, even when her options weren't clearly on good or evil. She brought as much joy as she could to those around her and their banter between each other…it made him interested in her. It made him want to know more. It made him…feel hope again. So when she died to bring Teruya into this world, he felt as though a lot of his world went with him. But he knew if he gave up here, Teruya would be left without a mother and a father. And Kojiro swore to be the best father he could be and tried his best to pick up the pieces. And eventually, he did learn to be happy again…but not entirely. At that point, the two of them stopped in front of a grave, the Otori family grave. Kojiro's breathing was uneasy, clearly holding back tears. Hanzo just picked up some nearby incense and hands one over to him. Upon lighting them for the grave, Kojiro finally falls to his knees.

"I'm…not sure if I'll ever be ready to let her go." Kojiro swallows, covering his face as the tears start to slip by. Hanzo sits besides him, silent. "She was…She was my hope. But I…I knew. I always knew, if she ever saw me like this…she'd slap me on the back and tell me that it's okay to cry but to stop living in the past. She'd want me to be happy, more than anything else in this world…even if it's without her." He sniffles, wiping his eyes. "I knew…but it's hard for me to…understand."

Hanzo hesitates. He didn't want to intrude. Even if there was a hope blossoming in his chest, he didn't want to cross the line if he were to read this wrong. But he slowly, carefully pulls Kojiro into a hug. The merchant leans into it, almost clinging to him as if he was terrified that he'll disappear on the spot.

"I love her. I still love her. My heart will always belong to her." Kojiro looks into his eyes, red and wary…but somehow, committed. "But…I…I want to make room for you, too, Hanzo. If…you're okay with that."

"Kojiro…" Hanzo squeezes Kojiro's shoulder. It wasn't even a question to him. "Of course I'm okay with that. I never met your wife, but it's only natural that you'd still love her, even after death. I would never ask you to abandon that love. But…if you're okay with being with me, too…then I think we can make this work. For not only us, but the kids, too."

Kojiro was silent.

And then, he laughs.

It was a sad, broken laugh. But it was almost light and airy, like he couldn't believe the words he was saying.

Hanzo thought that was the end of it.

But, through his own tears, Kojiro turned and kissed him on the lips.

Hanzo felt his brain short-circuit, his face going red but not from the cold. But it was over before he knew it, and Kojiro was burying his face into his shoulder.

"Can we stay here? Just a little while longer…" Kojiro asked, quiet and small.

"…of course we can." Hanzo said, gentle and, perhaps, a little giddy.

After that, they both agreed to take things slow, testing out the waters before deciding on anything official.

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Based on prev post but I really like morally dubious/unreliable narrator takes on Hanzo and Genji's characters. In fact the whole main Shimada family. I think it's quite boring to portray Sojiro as an evil tyrant to his core. And not a man who himself was most likely burdened by duty shame and guilt he puts his own sons through for the weird ancestral promise of glory and tradition, as well as upkeeping an entire ecosystem of a damn COMMUNITY!!!

I believe that man, as little as we get from him in canon, did have love for his sons and his wife to an extent. Whatever weird twisted way that might have manifested.

Another thing that slightly irks me are the depictions of the boy's mother being some sort of saint consistently in ff I read, it's also a bit boring as well. I can only imagine her and her husband's marriage was one of politics first, and whatever else came from it was a surprise add-on.

Wheres the morally grey depictions of her having some uncontrolled disdain for her kids even though she knows it is not their fault for existing, where the bitter young woman sad that her dreams were cut off because of her 'duties', where the woman who simply got hit with postpartum that never quite left her.

where the hell are the unreliable pov of each of the boys of their parents that are heavily skewed because of the way they grew up. But once they are grown adults they can piece the full thing together.

wheres that i want that please

[tiefworks]

“Thunder” - CHAPTER SEVENTEEN [On AO3]  →

Summary: The year is 20XX. The world has fallen into disarray from the growing threat of vampires. Only one group of men and women are brave enough to slay these monsters and search for a cure for the virus - Overwatch. But it's not always so easy to resist a vampire. Vampire/Vampire Slayer AU. Alternating POVs. Boombox (Junkrat/Lúcio) is the primary relationship, with MercyHog (Roadhog/Mercy) as a secondary relationship and YeeHan (Cassidy/Hanzo) as a tertiary relationship. All chapter art is done by me!

ARCHIVE WARNING: Contains graphic depictions of violence.

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Soulmates and Dragons 1 (Scenario) Yandere Scion Haznzo X Soulmate Reader (Overwatch)

[Hello, My Sexy Muffins! I am here with a LATE Request being filled! This one is off of Archive of our own! I hope that I finally delivered for you! I hope you all enjoy this chapter!]

(Disclaimer: This is Scion Hanzo which means him before he killed Genji or tried. So that is where we are at with him. Hanzo is not yandere in canon. This is just for fun and not to be taken seriously at all. Simping for fictional characters and yanderes is fine, do not be gross or illegal about it! Yanderes are not ideal partners to have in real life. Please remember to separate fiction from reality and headcanon from canon!)

(Hanzo Shimada) (Soulmark: Thank God you are okay. Do you want some water?)

(No One's POV)

Hanzo had been getting rid of someone in the woods. They put up a hell of a fight, and he overdid it. Now he is lightheaded and dehydrated. The sun is beating down on his torn suit. He supports himself against a tree, and then everything turns black.

When Hanzo wakes up, he sees the most stunning woman leaning over him with a damp cloth, Gently pressing it against his face. She smiles at him, and he swears he is in heaven.

"Thank God you are okay. Do you want some water?" She asks him, and his eyes widen.

This woman is his soulmate. He thought he would never find her. "It's you, my soulmate." He says, looking at her and awe and desire, With the smallest hint of obsession.

He sits up and takes her in a kiss. She gasps into the kiss. This is rather sudden. She had given up hope that she would ever meet her soulmate, and now he was kissing her. She does not know what to do… What does she do? She always dreamt of this day. Now here it is, and she is frozen in place.

"Mine~," Hanzo says, pulling away and resting her forehead against hers.

She looks into his eyes and sees the obsession. Fuck, she is so screwed.

(Hanzo's POV)

I thought I would never meet her, I had given up hope, but she was here. She is right in front of me. The first moment I saw her, I thought she was an angel. And she is an Angel, My Angel, my soulmate, mine. She is all mine, and I am never letting her go. I will take her back home, where we will get married and have the perfect life. I will make sure of it.

(This is just part one of how they met, and if you all want to see more, comment below. Also, yes, the reader can summon two blue dragons as well.)

[YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS got another part is done! I hope you all enjoyed this, and if you want to see more tell me, and I will do my best to do it! Stay sexy, all of my sexy muffins!]

[sentine1ist]

pov: 90% of hanzo art bothers you and you realise its bc they're based off his model which is even more bothersome so u just make ur own version based off the official art + added another ten years onto him.

[xodarling]

I don't know a thing about overwatch (other than how it advanced technology through its porn or something), but please rant more.

LMAO NOT THE PORN💀💀

ok so like the entire existence of the game is fucking abhorrent theres so many things to complain about idek 😊 but like since i mainly play dva, widow, kiriko im gonna complain in their pov. so like for tank, roadhogs ENTIRE existence is just hair pulling worthy and if the hog is good good u NEED an ana and/or kiri but SOME 😊 support players REFUSE to switch to someone good and then go cry ab how theyre tank is ass especially since the tank i play is dva and shes a dive/brawl tank u physically cannot dive with a hog cuz he just hooks u AND he can HEAL HIMSELF WTF i hate hog sm i cant even. also mauga AUUUHHH hes so annoying not nearly as bad as his meta (traumatizing) if u have an ana or some tank buster but hes still kinda annoying but vv rarely. also just fucking hate the counter swaps like u cant play tank and not counter if the enemy does

SPEAKING OF COUNTER SWAP OMG as a widow, sombra and genji are the bane of my existence and venture i fucking hate venture. i hate genji cuz im ass 🤭 genji is like so useless hes SO bad rn i just hate him cuz im petty. venture boops SM and they are such an annoying counter to widow its so ass maybe id like them more if theyre voice and face were more fucking pleasing. and sombra… u dont play ow but the best way to explain sombra is if u dont have a kiriko or a brig she is satan himself. she can go INVISIBLE she can take away ur abilities and she’s jsut really ass

and playing support really opens ur eyes at how stupid some people can be. ive had tanks FLY to the other side of the map and then complain i didnt heal them. and dps who have like 2 kills and 9 deaths say im ass when im like 15-5. but like in general junkrat is fucking annoying too but hes easily counterable so its ok HOWEVER 🤯 moira is the easiest character in the game and she does sm and for what?? reapers also annoying, did i mention roadhog, zen’s discord orb is one of the WORST things in the game rn, cass’ nade is so WACK, orisa is kinda annoying but she got nerfed so not anymore, mercy mains who are one tricks are fucking insufferable as well, hanzo’s lucky ass shots piss me off 2, THE TURRETS OMG. torb and sym turrets are so ass, not THAT ass since theyre easy to destroy but still.

AND BAP OMG BAPTISTE, why can a support do so much damage and heal sm at the same time?? and he was damage boost and invulnerability in the same kit?? what was blizzard cooking?? he is so annoying 🙄🙄 anyway sombra, bap, and hog mains biting the curb 4k. I HATE THIS GAME but i love so many of the characters to just drop it😓 the characters are amazing the only reason i havent stopped

i just realized the length of this.😦 i have a lot of hatred in my heart for this game. but sometimes its so fun especially when the entire lobby is silly, plays healthy characters and is good

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🍉 - Do you prefer to write short fics or long fics? Multichaptered works or single ones? Why?

for convenience and publishing/interaction i like short fics (easier and faster to get them out, they're one and done so i dont have to worry about them after like a night or two of writing, and they tend to get a higher popularity:effort ratio lol) but i like WRITING long fics, especially with multiple chapters. i have some kind of beast in me that turns what should be short story ideas into full length novels. i get an idea and oobh baby i just get so excited about naming chapters and engineering subplots and making up some nice Motifs and Themes. vide noir and CHTHONIC are good examples honestly, i originally planned for both of them to be single works--so vide noir got weird pacing and then dropped and picked back up as a result and i essentially wrote CHTHONIC in one night, went "oh god this is too fucking long" and chopped it in three pieces. i just like things to have a slow release arc when writing and plotting, so long works with multiple stages and movements are just extremely satisfying for me to both plot and execute lol

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DOGMAAAA. yeah. sorry everyone who followed me for the url and my early dogma fics. i do have a longfic force sensitive dogma in the works (VERY preliminary works) but i do keep getting distracted lol. i've always wanted to write a hanzo shimada-pov overwatch fic, and i'm really tempted by one day writing a qui-gon or qui-gon-and-obi-wan centric fic.

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i honestly like any au that's real fucking weird or takes a stock au and puts a twist in it (eg i had SUCH a fun time writing chronic illness hanahaki in heavy off a golden hue). even though they usually are my least-read/-commented fics, i also have a huge soft spot for niche fusion aus, like sw in pacific rim dark day/brighter night or sw in overwatch where the stray things go (more coming soon?? perhaps 😌) or the cyberpunk au with empire & the sun .

i usually won't read/write soulmate aus (i did enjoy writing them but both one billion day funeral and give the world away/wake up lonely were both prompt fills) because 1) the base soulmate au contrivance is tedious (IMO. NOTHING WRONG WITH ENJOYING WHAT YOU ENJOY. I SIMPLY DO NOT ENJOY IT) and 2) to me it's simply not worth wading through the oodles of soulmate au to find one that has an interesting "how do you know your soulmate" worldbuilding idea AND handles the whole "soulmate" thing in an interesting manner. i also will never write a time travel fic because i do not like time travel. not really sure what it is but i've always despised time travel as a plot device lol. but i have read a couple that i quite enjoyed (reccing miyaji_08's and back we go and blueberrywizard's i have seen too much (i haven't seen enough) and cjwritesfanficnow's (you were) meant to save them for this) so i'm not the man i once was ....

🍇- What’s your favorite underrated thing in your fandom? (A ship that only you seem to write for, a character there’s almost no fics about, a trope that criminally hasn’t been written yet, etc.)

ouagh i feel like in my time in sw servers and talking to other sw friends that i've gone on and on about stuff that i find underrated but i've forgotten everything i've ever said about star wars now. i'm not really In There but spymaster satine (can't remember who brought this to me, maybe @/deniigi?) e.g. a satine that is a pacific willing to get her hands dirty like, you know, an actual and productive pacifist and not just a "hm .... i simply choose to do nothing" kind of "pacifist." relatedly, and i haven't done much for this so i'm a hypocrite, i'm a padme/satine truther. i also loooooove fics where the GAR structure is changed so the clone commanders have rank over the jedi but criminally i think i've only read like one (GO READ FIRST CHOICE BY SMILEBACKWARDS!!!)

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What are some common writing mistakes you see in fic that are easily remediable? (also, i love your writing a lot & it has inspired me to start writing as well, sending much love!)

Starting from the bottom because THANK YOU. Inspiring other people to start creating too is probably the best compliment a writer can get. ;o;

As for "mistakes," I don't know if I'm qualified to answer, lol, but I guess one thing I see a lot (and deal with when I'm writing too!) would be using more words than you need. I talk about this a lot, but I don't think I've ever gotten specific about what I mean, so here we go. This answer got pretty long!

The first way I see this is in the "turned and went" category. I was betaing for someone who wanted me to help with pacing specifically, and we figured out together that what made it feel slow and stilted was that every few sentences, they'd use "he turned and went..." or "she stood and walked..." or something like that. You just don't need both verbs. Your readers will know that if the character was sitting and now they're walking, at some point they also stood up.

I also see a lot of overuse of modifying words. "Really," "somewhat," "a bit," etc. The banes of my personal existence are "just" and "a little." I have the words "just" and "a little" in my editing list so that I do a search and delete most instances of them before I post a fic, lol. It's a writing tic that I can't get rid of. A lot of these modifiers are unnecessary 99% of the time, and they clog up sentences so they take longer to read for no good reason.

Next would be over-describing. Sometimes you get into a fic, and the first thing you get is an immediate description of what a character looks like. Because it's fanfic, it's probably a character we've met before, so it's not strictly necessary to include at all. But sure, maybe your POV character is cataloging some details when they first meet. That happens, and it can be an easy way to imply some attraction if this is a romance. Still, they're probably not going to make a laundry list, like, "his hair was black and pulled back with one strand that hung in his face, and he had big brown eyes and a bold nose and great cheekbones, and he had a goatee, and now here's the full detailed list of everything he was wearing too." We also don't need to know every single object that's in a room, or what the journey from one place to another looks like, or the "hello, how are you?" parts of a conversation before they get to the meat of it, or where every person is standing if it's a whole group, etc. You only need enough details to ground your readers, and the details your POV character is most likely to notice. For example, I remain obsessed with Hanzo's huge, expressive eyes in the "Dragons" short, and also I'm just partial to brown eyes, lol, so I often have Cassidy notice their color and maybe that Hanzo's really muscular or something. But I don't give you a rundown of every detail of his face all at once, and you probably only get a quick sense of what he's wearing. Obviously, this is not a hard and fast rule. If your character is especially observant or obsessively detailed or something, having them do this can be a way of showing that. For some people, maybe they want the setting to feel like a character itself, so you'll get a lot more description to get people to really know the place. But in general, most of the time, you only need a quick handful of descriptors and you're good to go.

The other type of over-describing would be microinteractions. Fandom lives and breathes these things. This is probably the one I struggle with the most, too, lol. Fanfic writers give us every minor piece of body language in a conversation, and honestly, that can be fun to read and fun to write, but it can also get tedious fast. Do readers really need to know every time someone sighs? Probably not! In fact, a lot of them are skimming past those details altogether, lol.

I'm of the opinion generally that a desire to over-describe everything from characters' interactions to setting to clothing, and using a ton of words in the prose, is actually us as writers trying to control the readers' experience. Like we don't trust them to "get it" or have imaginations of their own, so we're micromanaging every detail. Not only does this not work (I have had readers who did not understand something I took pains to make extremely clear, and readers who picked up on subtle stuff I barely hinted at), but it's also a pain for you and the reader.

You have to know readers' experiences of your writing are going to be different than you intend. It doesn't make you a bad writer or communicator; it means readers aren't passive sponges, but actively bring their own interpretations, backgrounds, and baggage to what they read. You have to trust that most of the time most of your readers will get it and even enjoy filling in some details themselves, and you have to let go of that desire for control.

Anyway, my final piece of advice on this is that if you're worried about any of these issues, challenge yourself to trim as many words as possible from your fic. (You can paste it to a new document so you don't have to lose the old one!) Seriously, delete things until you're afraid the structural integrity is about to crumble. Then see how much of your fic still makes sense, and which parts might need some description put back in either for further clarity or simply for flavor. Learning to write to word maximums is, imo, as important as, if not more important than, learning to write lots of words.

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I believe I was reading through genji’s profile entry And the way it was phrased made it seem the fight between Genji and Hanzo happened almost immediately after Sojiro’s assassination.

Idk if it’s just me but that was very interesting as well as tragic. Especially from Hanzo’s pov.

Losing your father, then killing your brother, and then losing your clan and your home. ( this is coming from the assumption he left during or in the aftermath of the overwatch raid. I’m not totally versed on that part of the lore though, so please feel free to correct me!)

The thing I find interesting about their bios is how contridicting they describe Genji's death;

In Genji's profile it makes it seem like it was a fight that escalated way too far and neither of them stopped until it was too late. It makes Genji's death seem more like an emotionally driven attack then a "if he doesn't comply, kill him" order from the rest of the clan.

Hanzo's on the other hand;

Makes it seem like an intentional attack, what's interesting to note here is the fact that, despite what we assume in canon. The Shimada elders aren't stated to have said "kill Genji" in any way, though since we actually don't know a lot of the context of the Shimada elders. So they could have implied it. We won't really know for sure until the short story comes out and even then we might not get an answer.

Another thing I'd like to point out is that it seems like Hanzo left right before Overwatch attacked;

The word abandoned and the way this is phrased signifies to me that when Hanzo left, the Shimada clan was still there. Honestly that puts into context why Kiriko seems so mad at him. If she knows what happened to Genji and if I'm right that the order to "straighten Genji out" either had an implied "if he doesn't comply, kill him" or it was a heat of the moment thing, then to Kiriko's knowledge Hazo just killed his brother and abandoned not only the Shimada, but Hanamura and the surrounding areas.

I've said this many times but I won't stop saying it, I can't wait for the short stories to release.

[spadeselfshipcorner]

SPADE x HUNTER Chronicles

One-Shot 1: Sleepy

POV: Hisoka🃏

Genre: Platonic banter

Word count: 1.2k

Sixteen hours had passed since the Hunter Exam’s third phase had begun, and although Spade had no way of seeing the situation outside, due to the lack of windows even at the base of Trick Tower, they could tell it must’ve been really late, at the very least 1 AM.

The only other people they were sharing that circular room with were Hisoka, Gittarackur and Hanzo; nobody else had completed the third phase yet.

Spade was desperately trying to keep their eyes open. They’d been playing various card games with the odd magician ever since they’d gotten done having dinner: Poker, Black Jack, Briscola, Scopa… Hisoka had won most of them, though most definitely because he was cheating. Spade refused to accept he could be so lucky for so many times in a row.

Luckily they weren’t betting money during their games, otherwise the poor artist would’ve soon had to hand to him all the contents of their backpack and probably a couple of organs too to make up for their lack of actual money.

“I thought Itarians were supposed to be good at card games…” Hisoka smirked, raising his eyebrow teasingly. Winning over and over would’ve gotten old, if it weren’t for how entertaining it was to watch Spade get upset over losing, and progressively lose more and more of their edge as sleep began to take over their mind.

Seeing them struggle and yet so readily ask for a rematch was great, though he wondered if all that enthusiasm might’ve been an act. They were a very faceted individual, their behavior starkly changing depending on the situation.

Spade weakly shuffled the smooth playing cards in their hand, almost dropping a couple. “Shut it… I am good, I’m just dead tired right now… I can’t think straight.” They pouted, their eyes narrowing as they looked at the magician.

“You’re tired?” Hisoka asked, his smirk widening, “Hunters shouldn’t get tired so quickly, you might find yourself into a situation where you can’t absolutely fall asleep, what will you do then?” He added with a pinch of mockery in his smooth voice.

“Playing examiner again? Ugh, if I ever was in that situation I don’t think my body would let me sleep, too much adrenaline in the bloodstream, y’know?” Spade argued back, their eyelids feeling heavier by the minute as they yawned, not bothering to cover their mouth.

Hisoka chuckled, “You sure about that? I’m not the safest person to be next to, and you know it, so where’s all that adrenaline?” He teased Spade with a small grin. 

The artist looked at him, crossing their legs on the cold stone floor and chewing the inside of their cheek. “If you wanted to kill me, you would’ve done so hours ago,” they replied bluntly, “it’s not like I could stop you either way if you were going for a kill.”

Hisoka bit his lip, suppressing another chuckle, “touché,” he replied, leaning his back against the wall.

Silence fell for a moment, as the blue-haired magician stared at Spade, seemingly waiting for them to do something, until eventually he spoke up again. “Hello? It’s your turn to fish.”

Spade flinched slightly, broken out of their sleepy trance, “oh! right, right… apologies…” They mumbled, slowly reaching out to the neat stack of cards on the floor with half-lidded eyes, before they suddenly felt their body fall forward from exhaustion.

They would have certainly face-planted on the pavement, if it hadn’t been for one hand catching their face unceremoniously and supporting it.

It was Hisoka’s hand.

He lightly squeezed Spade’s face, his stiletto manicure poking their cheeks as he looked at them with his golden eyes, clearly holding back more laughter. “Ready to forfeit yet?”

Spade’s eyes remained closed as they groaned uncomfortably. “Let go…” They mumbled, without answering his question, because it was pretty obvious they were in no condition to continue playing at that point.

Hisoka smirked, giving their face one last squeeze, treating it like a fleshy stress ball and leaving tiny marks on their skin where his nails had pressed, before finally letting it go. His eyes lingered on Spade as they rubbed their cheeks sleepily, and repositioned their glasses on their nose bridge.

“Damn you got some talons on your hands.” They complained, still cracking jokes, though their tone was noticeably flatter than when they were fully awake.

“Would you have preferred it if I’d let your face hit the floor?” The magician replied with a smirk.

Spade stopped rubbing their face, glancing at Hisoka with a furrowed brow, “That’s not…” They stopped, too tired to find the right words at the moment, before sighing and giving in. “Thanks for catching me.” They replied reluctantly.

“That’s better,” Hisoka spoke again in a silky tone, gathering his cards and shuffling them a couple times, before making them disappear.

The artist stretched, arching their back and lifting their arms up, “thank God that’s over…” They muttered, their voice a little strained from the stretch.

The magician lifted a brow, “you wanted it to be over?” He asked, almost sounding perplexed.

“Since my like… third loss.” Spade admitted, scooting back near the wall to lean against it.

He did a slow blink in response. “Then why didn’t you give up sooner?”

Spade shrugged, “I wanted to see if I could at least win one more time.” They said, sounding quite honest again.

Hisoka took note of that. Predictably, Spade’s performative tendencies died down when they were tired, revealing more of their true self. Blunt, stubborn… he wondered what else they were hiding.

“Interesting…” He mused, wondering how much longer Spade could manage to hold his interest, though for now, he considered himself intrigued.

His train of thoughts was quickly derailed as he suddenly felt a weight on his right shoulder. He looked over, only to see Spade’s body had slid off the wall and was now leaning against him.

That was definitely new.

The mere fact that someone blatantly weaker than him could look so calm around him was something unordinary. Hisoka had to physically hold himself back from doing something to scare Spade right there and then. He imagined how their expression would go from calm to terrified in a second if he were to, say… wrap his fingers around their throat.

That would wake them up good for sure.

He almost did it, his left hand slowly reaching out to them, but then he changed his mind, figuring it would’ve been more entertaining to see their face looking like that while they fought. He just had to be patient, knowing that the longer he had to wait for that moment, the more cathartic that sight would feel.

So the magician’s hand changed trajectory and ran smoothly through their black hair instead.

“Are you going to sleep here?” He asked, seeing their eyes flutter open ever so slightly.

“Do you mind?” They replied softly.

Hisoka chuckled, “no…” He said, truthfully.

“Hm…”Spade’s body slowly slid down lower, until it was resting on his lap, the sleepiness definitely making them more confident when it came to physical contact. “Are you going to kill me if I fall asleep?”

He shook his head, “I prefer killing my preys when they’re awake.” He answered, still feeling incredulous, at least inwardly, that Spade was really going through with this, seemingly having no survival instincts.

“Good.” they simply replied, getting comfortable on Hisoka’s lap, falling asleep in just a couple minutes, either unaware or uncaring of the dangerous path they were going down on…

Like a little bug, resting on a Venus flytrap.

“Sleep tight~”

Proship/Comship & Kink blogs DNI

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UPDATE 6/3/2023: Updated to reflect name change and minor punctuation/grammar corrections.

Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Fandom: Overwatch (Video Game) Relationship: Cole Cassidy/Hanzo Shimada

Additional Tags: Asexual Character; Asexual Relationship; Established Relationship; Miscommunication; Making Out; Drinking; Fluff; Tooth-Rotting Fluff; Don’t copy to another site; POV Cole Cassidy

Summary:

In the several months that they’ve been dating, Cassidy has never invited Hanzo into his room or asked to come over to Hanzo’s place. When Hanzo asks to have drinks with him in private, Cassidy thinks he knows where things are headed, and he’s not sure what to do about it.