#didn't mean to disappear like that

[wiria-lae]

A Yuu Masterlist

To help keep track of all the Yuus I've thought of.

I've been playing around with different Yuus bouncing around in my skull, so I thought it might be appropriate to get them all down somewhere.

Disclaimer: In Japanese, kanji characters may have multiple pronunciations, which can especially odd with nanori names (for example, Hatsune Miku's name miku is a nanori of 未来, meaning distant future, and typically pronounced mirai). There's no singular way to correctly pronounce a character if it's used as part of a name (afaik it'll depend on the name in a case-by-case basis), so I took some liberties with trying to make Japanese names. Apologies in advance.

Not every Yuu will be of Japanese origin. This list will exclude any second-person Yuu stories (we can pretend I will write stories), since I treat those Yuus as nameless and refer to them by “you” (or named Yuu, if necessary).

Xiao (霄)

The Yuu-equivalent for a specific re-imagination of Twisted Wonderland (the version tagged as wiria’s cosmos). Doesn't know anything about Disney, which is how I assume Yuu in-game is like. Prior to Twisted Wonderland, Xiao didn’t have many close friends, but given some time to settle at NRC, they slowly realize that as much as they want to go back home and actually go to their intended college - they’ve formed friendships with people here and they don’t want to let that go.

霄 is pronounced xiao in Mandarin Chinese. It means clouds, sometimes referring to the sky or the heavens.

Haihiro (俳優)

A Yuu who catches on that the world is based on pre-existing fairy tales and myths. As a result, he makes many assumptions about NRC, and occasionally, he’s right about them. He blends into the world mostly seamlessly, with the exception of a few hiccups along the way. Haihiro comes armed with no knowledge of the movies and knowing vaguely only of the original source material. This also means no expectations for Savannahclaw (as The Lion King was an original movie) and that he is very confused why Hercules isn’t pronounced Heracles when all the other Greco-Roman gods are going by their Greek names.

俳優 is pronounced haiyuu, and means actor/actress/performer. It contains the characters 俳 for haiku/actor, and 優, meaning excellence (in terms of academics), elegant, or skillful. I doubt any Japanese parents would name their child haiyuu (it's the equivalent of naming your child Actor), so I changed the pronunciation to something I thought was more fitting.

Yuusuru (悠越)

The Yuu who throws everything into trying to go home and keeps getting jump-scared by Mickey Mouse and the ghosts. It is a futile effort. He’s been trying to walk through a lot of mirrors lately (targeting anything that should have a surface), and Yuusuru gains a reputation around campus for being odd around cameras. If this does get written, the story will be told from various perspectives who aren't Yuusuru.

悠 is pronounced yuu. 悠 means permanence, distance, or leisure. 越 is pronouned yue, which can be used in verbs to mean to get over (distance/hardship), to exceed, or to pass time, among many other meanings. Placed together, the meaning would be something along the lines of "to continue for eternity".

Yarona

Yarona accidentally brings back home an Ace and Deuce. She has to deal with housing them, feeding them, and her everyday life beyond them. She is 24, working 9-5, and does not have the time or money to play family. Features reverse transmigration, taking place sometime after Vil’s overblot and branching off from the Tanabata-inspired event.

Chose Yarona because it sounded nice. Apparently it means “she will rejoice” or “she will sing”.

There’s more that I’ll add as edits to this post as I think of them, but for now, this is what I’m willing to share.

[egophiliac]

oh, uh, this...this isn't Silver's backstory after all.

[ducks-love-peas]

meanwhile, Crowley:

Good Omens 2 | ⭑favorite moments⭑ 2/?

[tapakah0]

I see you👁

[lizardlicks]

I've been having this thought that I haven't been able to really articulate? And I still don't think I'm going to do it right, but here goes my attempt anyway:

BROADLY SPEAKING, yes, the trope of everyone gets hetero married and has lots of kids at the end of the story is over done, and YES we absolutely badly need other versions of happily ever after because there is no one path to life fulfillment, and no one true way to find or build a family, or even one definition of family!

HOWEVER: it rings a bit hollow to me when I see other people taking this bit of generallized story crafting advise and applying that to katara and sokka specifically. Because they're not the ethnically dominant race or culture in the AtLA setting, not even close. They're based off circumpolar native populations. Their people have survived a century of genocide. Their story repeatedly echos themes of family, community, tradition, being forcefully stripped of it by imperialist colonizers, and the trauma there in. There's pieces of themselves they lost before they were even born, and both siblings are acutely aware of that, though they choose to deal with it in different ways.

I'm not saying that they DEFINITELY ABSOLUTELY must get hetero married and have a million babies to have a fulfilling ending, I hope no one reads this that way. I'm only saying that I think there has been a gap in the critical analysis responses of the broader fandom when they start reflectively sneering at stories that do have them content to stay home and raise the next generation, or whenever anyone laments about post show canon/LoK seems to neglect mentioning sokka having any family at some point it gets push back on with that exact argument.

Consider that it might be better applied to people for whom getting to raise the next generation in some way isn't itself an entire victory fanfare.

[redrobin-detective]

So watching the newest Spy x Family, I see everyone squealing over Uncle Franky (don’t get me wrong I am too) but I also think his outsider’s perspective is kind of sad. When Anya is waiting for Yor and Loid to get home, the line he says there struck me.

“Hey, do you like your mom and dad?”

Like that’s a weird question to ask a young child who, hopefully, should love their parents. But Franky I think is acutely aware that they aren’t Anya’s real parents and the Forger family is fake. Franky has worked with Twilight for years, knows him very well and has presumably seen him make and drop identities like one would an article of clothes. We’ve even had Franky directly accusing Loid of being too clinical, focusing only the mission. I think Franky believes that once Operation Strix is completed, that he’ll leave and Anya and move on to the next assignment.

 I think that idea has colored a lot of Franky’s interactions with Anya. Yes, he’s also a big kid and wants to run around and be silly. But I also believe he’s trying to give this girl a sense of happiness and family presumably before she’s dropped off at the nearest orphanage once her usefulness is outlived. Like we all know Loid is catching feels but he’s a Good Actor and it might not be readily apparent to his coworker. Idk it must be so sad for Franky to watch this little family interact, to sweep up a child so clearly desperate for love and family in a spy operation, only to realize it won’t last.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

well. did you fucking miss me.

[cherubchoirs]

i think taking a little social media break revived me...thank you to everyone for their patience <3

[thenothing17]

Happy Birthday

[longagoitwastuesday]

Every day I wake up regretting getting emotionally invested in Jujutsu Kaisen

[blujayonthewing]

SUPREMELY frustrating that we found something actually really cool and intriguing and plot relevant in tonight's session but I'm still so constantly preoccupied with whether the DM is going to 100% kill us with sheer poor game design that I barely have enough brainspace left over to even enjoy it

[inkperch]

Hmm mm not a fan of the way the fandom saw the vaguest hint that a mother might be morally grey and jumped to her being the worst character in the show no, nope, nope, not a fan-

[impala-dreamer]

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[thenwethrowitonthefire]

Shout-out to everyone who survived a "fun" easter with the family

[quietwingsinthesky]

Hiiiii! So, a few days ago you were talking about the whole thing with Amy, Rory, and River. And when I saw those posts a thought arose in my head and I wish to share it with you.

Since River grew up with Amy and Rory as Mels. And Mels was Amy's best friend do you think that they ever talked about children? Since I know that it can come up when talking with friends, and like... do you think that Amy might've ever expressed whether or not she wanted children?

And if she didn't, that Mels would've had to listen to her mother say that she doesn't want children? The idea is so heartbreaking and sooo interesting.

What do you think about it?

no, no, see, you're so right and this drives me wild.

because, the way i see it, i don't think amy wanted children. she's somewhere on the 'hasn't thought about it' to 'vaguely negative feelings about it happening' range to me, which falls sharply into 'Not Happening Ever Again' post-s6. (specifically, in terms of having a kid herself, even if she could, i really don't think she would. i do love that she and rory end up adopting a kid later, because that does make sense, for amy pond who grew up alone in one universe with her family swallowed by cracks in time before the doctor helped her set it right again, for her to want to make sure another child won't be alone in the world like she was. getting off-track here.)

and that's so. because the first real memory river/mels has of amy is of amy shooting at her. and depending on how well the silence fucked up the rest of her memory, it might be one of the very first memories she has at all. that's how she met her mother, crying for help and getting a bullet instead. her mother tried to kill her, so of course, you have to think. she must have needed to hear that she was wanted, right? even if she was taken away, even if amy shot her, at some point, melody must have been wanted?

river is good at getting people to do what she wants, but she is very, very bad at subtlety. and mels is younger, has less practice, so when she wants to know this, she's just going to ask. blunt and quick, easy enough because amy's used to the way mels will open her mouth and you just have to be ready to roll with what comes out if you want to keep up. it's why they're such good friends (like mother, like daughter.)

they're nine, and mels asks if amy wants kids, and amy wrinkles up her nose and says she won't have time for children, obviously, once her raggedy doctor finally comes back. they're fifteen, and amy and rory dance will they-won't they in a way that makes mels twitchy to watch, and taunting amy about wanting to have rory's babies is a good way to get on her nerves. but amy calls her gross, tells her she's got more life planned than children would leave room for, and besides, imagine her, a mom? it'd be a disaster.

mels does. a lot. she looks at her mother and just sees her best friend instead. she's not even sure what she wishes was there, but. maybe amy's right. and besides. imagine her, a daughter, instead of the ticking time bomb she really is? it'd be a disaster.

they're sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and on. mels stands on the outside of a love story that births a universe. and her. how do you compete with that? not that she would know, not yet, she hasn't been there. but it doesn't make her feel any less alienated when amy and rory talk in whispers about a half-remembered world that's bled through to this life, about roman soldiers and boxes and the big bang of belief.

all these memories, they never mention children. on amy's wedding day, she's different, not like someone remembering a dream but someone who lived it. rory stands straighter, won't leave her side, and they're both so much older than they were yesterday. maybe now, right? a wedding's as good a time as any to decide you want kids.

mels not being at amy & rory's wedding is such an obvious lazy way of them trying to explain why they totally didn't just throw this plot twist together at the last minute that i'm not even going to acknowledge it. of course she was at their wedding. she's their best friend. there's too many people around the doctor, and she wasn't ready today of all days, so despite this horrible burning need under her skin to strike, she stays her hand. doesn't let him dance with her because she might just tear his throat out if he gets too close. stays with amy and rory as the maid of honor should. she must have been there for the awkward questions that always gets asked, 'so, any plans for a baby?' 'when am i getting grandkids?' 'oh, you two are going to have gorgeous children together.' standing a few feet from amy in her wedding dress and watching her mother tense and grit her teeth and brush off the questions. watching her look nervously at rory but never ask if he means it when his mom asks him if he'd prefer a son or a daughter, and rory answers 'either one, some day, not anytime soon.'

god i'm just going on and on, aren't i. but really, what's it like to know that amy never changed her mind. the next time she sees them, she's already been born and stolen. i don't like let's kill hitler for. so many reasons. but there is something compelling about how recklessly river lashes out at the world, at the doctor. even her sacrifice at the end is almost suicidal, throwing all her regenerations into this man without knowing if that will even work or if it might kill her to do it. but it makes more sense in the context of someone who has reached the end of a long, long wait for some kind of indication, any kind, that her mother wanted to have her. and finally been told, no. she didn't choose melody.

[lovef0ols]

scrolling through simplyplural is like:

"Oh a new alter."

keeps scrolling

"wait a minute."

"OH. A NEW ALTER??"