#citron a3!

[lcs-library]

Sakuya bolted out of bed, his eyelids snapping open.

His heart racing, he looked around in the darkness, trying to search for any form of familiarity before realizing he was home.

Sighing, he patted his body with his clammy hands to check for any damage before lying down to try going back to sleep.

That was, until a familiar, though sleepy, voice called out to him.

“Sakuya?” Citron whispered, beginning to sit up.

“I’m fine.” Sakuya replied, trying to keep his voice hushed and a smile on his face. The comment was mostly reassurance for himself, anyway.

Yet somehow, Citron saw through it.

“Are you sure about that?” This time, Citron’s voice came out laced with gentle sympathy, the tone feeling familiar on his lips.

Sakuya didn’t have time to even think of a reply before his body came up with one for him. His eyes welled with tears, and he wordlessly crawled over the partition into Citron’s bed.

“Sakuya’s a liar.”

Citron gave him a kind smile, opening the covers for him to come in.

Again, as if he were possessed by a being starved for comfort, Sakuya complied, allowing Citron to drape them both in the soft warmth of the blankets.

“Would you like to talk of it?”

“Mm-mm.” Sakuya shook his head, attempting to hide the wetness beginning to pool on his cheeks.

“Okay.”

With that, Citron reached up to comb his fingers through Sakuya’s hair, each stroke more tender than the last. Each movement felt familiar to him, as it was the same way he used to comfort Tangerine when he came to him like this.

Sakuya closed his eyes, trying to concentrate on his roommate’s hands running along the back of his head in an attempt to fall asleep.

Sadly, it only made things worse.

The softness and familial nature of the touch just added an extra loop to the emotional roller coaster he had taken a trip on. The tears only continued to spill over as Citron made soft shushing noises in an attempt to calm him.

This continued until the soft near-silence was broken by Citron’s whispers.

“Have I told the tale of the lion and the leopard?”

Sakuya shook his head, looking up at a blurry Citron.

“Ah, it is one of the tales I was raised with, so I will tell you. Once in a time…”

The entire time Citron told his fairytale, he held Sakuya close, continuing to stroke his hair; pushing his bangs out of his face, carding through the hair in back of his head, and generally running his fingers all over his head. He dried some tears, managed to get a wet-sounding giggle out of Sakuya, and soon enough, lulled him to sleep.

Once he was sure his child was asleep, Citron’s grin grew just a little wider as his eyes softened.

“Good night, Saku,” he whispered, “sweetest of dreams.”

[greyxly]

Harugumi!

[rateelism]

Hello! I had posted about this a loooong time ago here on Tumblr to get as many participants as possible...and it's completed now! Coming up to the stage is...

A Bouquet of Spring: a Spring Troupe-centric fanzine!

The URL to see the PDF is typed at the end on a separate line for easy copy-pasting!

Thank you so much to the contributors for participating and waiting out the long haul for this zine. It means a lot to me, the head mod, that people had faith till the end!

tinyurl.com/2p84kwcm

[winter-spark]

And if I say Gitchee Gitchee Goo by Phineas and the Ferbtones is a CitoIta song (Itaru pov obvi), then what?

[reddoransu]

SSR Citron <3 Check out the full art: https://at.tumblr.com/reddoransu/citron-from-a3-all-dressed-up-and-ready-i-really/g6mkp7evqd31

[timeskip]

Borrowing Oxygen

Citoita fic about them kissing, ft. some Citron introspection!! 1,631 words!!!

Summary: It’s enough just for Citron to love Itaru.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41735127

[saltmilea]

Insert funny joke

[fleuraward]

MANKAI TRAIN ★ SEVENTH ANNI GIFS

[rainbow223posts]

"It felt so real..."

[jujumin-translates]

★ Main Story | Act 13 - Budding Spring | Chapter 3 - One Step Up

*Door opens*

Kumon: We’re back~!

Juza: We’re home.

Taichi: I’m starving~.

Tenma: Looks like Omi-san’s in charge of dinner tonight.

Tsuzuru: Smells like it’s something with a demi-glace sauce…

Omi: The beef stew will be ready soon.

Kumon: Woo~! I was hoping to eat some meat~!

Kazunari: The Yosei Uni Gang’s really building up their forces~.

Muku: Kyu-chan’s the only new one, though.

Yuki: But he’s got the presence of about two or three people.

Tsumugi: How’s college life been going, Kumon-kun?

Kumon: It’s super interesting! Unlike with my classes in high school, I actually feel motivated to study on my own.

Kumon: Plus I get to be with Nii-chan!

Banri: I figured you had had that planned from the start, but you actually didn’t decide on where you were gonna go for school until much later, right?

Kumon: Hey, I thought about it a lot, y’know.

Kumon: And I didn’t just think about Nii-chan, I also made sure to think about the best college for me to go to.

Azami: The growth of someone with a brother complex.

Yuki: They still ended up at the same college, though.

Kumon: That’s ‘cause Nii-chan and Tenma-san seemed like they really liked it there!

Tenma: Well, you are right about that.

Juza: Glad ya got accepted in.

Taichi: You’ve been doing great with writing essays and doing job interview prep~.

Kumon: Hehe. That’s thanks to you, Nii-chan, and Tenma-san for teaching me so much!

Chikage: It’s so touching to see Tenma becoming the tutor.

Tenma: Thanks for that.

Kazunari: Yawn~…

Tsuzuru: You seem tired, Miyoshi-san.

Kazunari: I had a deadline for some urgent work yesterday. Hardly got any sleep~.

Tsuzuru: Good work.

Muku: You suddenly seem like much more of an adult, Kazu-kun.

Kazunari: What I do is kinda just an extension of what I did in college, but once that label of “student” is gone, it makes you a little more conscious of it.

Omi: It’s a lot of work and responsibility, but it’s also a lot of fun.

Tsuzuru: Is that so…

Kazunari: You’ll get what we’re talking about in a year, Tsuzurun~.

Izumi: Omi-kun’s right, your impression of things changes once you graduate from college.

Azuma: I enjoy seeing these changes every year once spring comes.

Homare: Yes, however, there are still some of us that haven’t changed much at all.

Azuma: It’s thanks to everyone that spring is nice like this.

Tasuku: Well, even though some of us haven’t been through any major changes, I’m sure we’re all busy with something, right?

Guy: It appears that you’ve been getting more and more requests to do guest appearances, Takato.

Sakuya: Ah, actually, I’m about to get an offer to perform on a slightly bigger stage too--.

Tsumugi: Really? That’s great.

Tasuku: That’s probably the result of steadily building up your experience. Shows how much you’ve become recognized as an actor.

Sakuya: Thank you so much!

Citron: I have started getting pressured to do arts and culture-related work from all over the place~.

Itaru: And I’m still annoyed that I’m stuck being treated like some mid-level NPC…

Chikage: That’s normal for having worked there for five years.

Guy: Speaking of that, I’ve been entrusting Mikage with more work, too.

Hisoka: I know how to make a few appetizers now…

Tasuku: What, like toasted marshmallows and marshmallow pizza?

Hisoka: Well, yeah, but there’s other stuff too.

Homare: To be dabbling in dishes other than ones with marshmallows… that’s quite remarkable progress!

Misumi: Speaking of new things, my friend Mii-chan just had a litter of kitties~.

Muku: Congratulations!

Yuki: Why are you congratulating the Trianglien for it?

Izumi: Seems like everything’s going smoothly for the company while each of you is moving forward and changing in your own ways.

Izumi: That reminds me, the kid we met today also said he was going to be a new high school student starting in the spring.

Kumon: Huh~, what was he like?

Tsuzuru: He was an interesting one, for sure.

Masumi: He wasn’t interesting, he was annoying.

Itaru: He was an avid Masumi fan.

Izumi: He said he used to live in a rural area and that he’s been supporting us for quite some time via our streams.

Sakyo: Is that the power of MIZUNO Enterprises…?

Sakyo: We’ll have to keep up our efforts to reach an even wider audience.

Izumi: He said he was really looking forward to seeing one of our performances live.

Tasuku: There is just something different about seeing a play in person.

Sakuya: There really is. He was really looking forward to seeing it, so we’ll have to do our best not to disappoint.

Izumi: Ah, right! The idea came to me when we were talking to that kid, but--.

Izumi: How does a workshop aimed at beginners sound for the upcoming event?

Izumi: When I realized that people were interested in theater because of MANKAI Company’s performances, I thought that maybe promoting theater as a concept could be necessary too.

Izumi: And I think it’d be a good experience for us to share the joy of plays with them more directly and to have fun together.

Sakuya: That’s true, that could be a really good idea!

Citron: It sounds very fun!

Chikage: But wouldn’t people who have more experience with theater, like Tenma, Tasuku, or Tsumugi, be more suitable for teaching people than us Spring Troupe members?

Tsuzuru: He’s got a point, most of us are still pretty inexperienced actors. I mean, almost all of us were complete amateurs until a few years ago.

Masumi: I can do it.

Itaru: You’re probably the least qualified to teach.

Izumi: That’s the point. You all still feel like amateurs and remember how you felt when you first stepped on stage just a few years ago.

Izumi: I’m confident that you guys will be able to convey theater from a perspective that’s closer to a beginner’s.

Izumi: It’s not a workshop for actors, and it’s definitely not just for teaching like Yuzo-san’s workshops…

Izumi: I think it should be about just trying to enjoy theater together, just like if you were reminiscing about your old selves. That’s the best we can do, I think.

Izumi: And it could be an opportunity to expand our fan base too…

Izumi: I think it’s only because of how everyone is now that we can try to make people more aware of theater.

Sakuya: Yeah… I get it. Up until now, we’ve just been doing our best in regards to ourselves, but now…

Itaru: Exactly. Maybe we’ll be able to have some fun together.

Chikage: We could be our own motivation.

Tsuzuru: Maybe I’ll even be able to get a hint for our next play.

Citron: I will take on any challenge!

Izumi: Alright, it’s decided!

Izumi: Once the date is decided on, can you take care of the flier design, Kazunari-kun?

Kazunari: You betcha!

Izumi: I’ll take care of the printing and distributing myself then.

Masumi: I’ll help.

Itaru: We’ll also need an announcement on our social media, right? Leave it to me.

Chikage: It’d be a good idea to also put something on the theater noticeboard, right?

Izumi: Alright, I’ll leave all the announcement-related stuff to you two, and then… Sakuya-kun and Citron-kun, can I leave outlining the workshop to you guys?

Sakuya: Roger that!

Citron: We will think of an eggciting workshop that will eggcite everyone~!

Manager: Ah, everyo~ne, it’s almost time~!

Kumon: We gotta turn on the TV!

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[mxddyhero]

Since it's Wednesday.

[ashipiko]

ALL NIGHT TENPAI FEVER ???????

this song BANGS bro IT GOES SO CRAZY HARDDDD ITS LIKE ALL MY TROUPE FAVES (aki is complicated) WE STAN MAHJONG CLUB!!!!!!!!

PFP CROPS UNDER CUT 🫶 free to use w credit!!!

[greyxly]

Happy Pride from Harugumi! 

Natsugumi / Akigumi

[itstaruchi]

A3! Mankai Stage Bromides Spring 2023 Part 1

Curry Duo Shot (Itaru Full Set)

[winter-spark]

Do do you think Citron has vague memories of a time that he and his brothers weren't fighting?

Because because Citron wasn't officially/publically Crown Prince until he was six and and like while we don't have ages for his brothers Orange and probably Navel were likely already born. Looking at my ages for them means if Citron was six, Orange was 3 and Navel was 2. (so Tangerine might not have quite been born yet.) but like kids play with kids so seeing as before this they wouldn't have had real reason to fight, maybe maybe Citron was able to play with them like kids do.

OR or do you think they were never able to play together? Citron may have within the castle been announced as Crown Prince already and while teeny tiny kiddos don't fully understand that stuff, they mamas do. And even if if he wasn't already set to be Crown Prince (I don't know when it was officially known that the Queen wasn't gonna be giving birth to any kids or why. I just know she's not.) what if if Orange and Navel were with their moms more as teeny tiny kiddos and they moms were already judgy of Citron because his mom was a commoner.

My brain is like which is it which is it?

What if it's both?

[marchingspace]

2023 Spring Troupe birthday illustrations!!!