#emijulisuba

[sapphiim]

gentle embrace

a gift for @mysticalbirdkoala !! hello emijulisuba nation <3 you can read the fic here!

[mysticalbirdkoala]

happy birthday julius, emilia sure have interesting ideas how celebrate it :3c

[kumanyak]

Real

+bonus

[zlobonessa]

my writing jumpscare, re zero, (implied/pre-) emijulisuba, acr 6 spoilers

"Subaru, listen," Emilia begins, catching herself fidgeting with the fabric covering the entrance to the cart, "have you ever missed people you don't know?"

"I'm afraid it contradicts the definition," Julius replies: even for a moment, pain and acrid bitterness appear on his face, and shame immediately penetrates Emilia to the bottom of her stomach. "You can't remember someone you don't know, and that's why you can't miss them"

"Hey, hey, since when have you become Subaru? Just because your name got eaten does not mean that you can take mine away!" Subaru elbows Julius: Emilia decides to decide that that was an accident due to the lack of space. "And also, stop with this traumadumping on Emilia-tan."

"Subaru!"

"Stop with this what?" Julius raises an eyebrow and smiles strangely: as if he is not offended not because he knows Subaru is joking, but because he agrees with him. Emilia doesn't like it at all.

(Although maybe she's overthinking it. How could she know how Julius smiles usually? She doesn't remember him. Subaru remembers, but she doesn't. Maybe Subaru knows what he's talking about, maybe Subaru knew Julius before like no one else, and that's what sets him apart from everyone else, he did what Emilia couldn't do...

No, she's still thinking nonsense.)

"Stop what needs to be stopped", Subaru snorts with that recognizable expression on his face when he himself does not know why he just said something — nope, still a dunderhead. Julius seems to notice it too: the corners of his lips twitch, and he rolls his eyes — Subaru elbows him again, and Emilia no longer manages to defend him.

"Subaru! That was a serious question, actually!" She stops herself. "Probably."

Immediately Subaru howls and wrings his hands:

"Emilia-tan! Everything you say is more serious to me than the law, fate, and the words of the great prophetess Hatsune Miku! My heart is broken that you have even doubted it!" He presses his hand to his chest dramatically, but after a couple of moments, dropping the pretense, he rests his chin on it. "I don't even know. Probably, yes? Most likely, yes."

"Most likely?" Emilia repeats, feeling really like a huge fool, hoping absurdly.

"Well, yeah, you know... Don't get me wrong, like... It's not anyone's fault, okay?" He raises his hands in warning. "Neither yours, nor even," he glances at Julius, "his, although with such a big head, he could... I'm kidding, okay, okay, just kidding. I, well... I miss people who know what a phone is."

He rubs the skin under his eyes and fidgets in place.

"Well... and yes, I guess I... I miss people from the country where I'm from, yeah. Very... It's a great place, you know. Good people. You know, it's hard to be a foreigner in a foreign country and all that."

Emilia allows herself a mirthless laugh.

"Don't tell me."

A splinter sticks out from one of the planks lining the bottom of the wagon. She pulls on its edge: it breaks off entirely with a soft crack. Emilia throws it out of the cart with a snap of her finger to not prick Rem with it, sleeping peacefully on the floor at their feet.

"But I'm not really talking about that, I guess," she frowns. "I mean, at least you know what they really are like."

Subaru blinks uncomprehendingly. 

"What are you talking about?"

Emilia can't help but sigh. She suddenly becomes nervous and ashamed — she worries about trifles, such selfish trifles, thinks only about herself, and at a time like this, no less, — and besides, Julius's attentive gaze makes her uncomfortable, and that makes her even more ashamed.

How well did Julius and I know each other, she asked Subaru furtively before leaving Pristella, embarrassed by her own words to the horror of herself. And Subaru didn't like them — he looked at her painfully in response, almost like when she talked about Rem.

How should I know, he said sullenly, well, pretty okay, I guess? You've known him longer than I do. He nagged me, you know, like, I'm embarrassing you with all my clowning.

What a horror, Emilia replied then, covering her mouth with her palm, and it's not true at all, you've been promoted from a clown to a knight for a very long time.

Subaru then shouted "Hey!" and they changed the topic of that conversation, but Emilia remembers it now, shivering: How well did Julius know her? Would she embarrass herself in front of him with such nonsense, spoiling the good opinion she had earned from him by no other than a miracle? Or, on the contrary, will she be rude, refusing to share something she would have undoubtedly shared in the past? Isn't opening up again the best way to bring back a past connection?

"Well, it's just..." Pulling on a strand of hair, she winds it around her finger restlessly. "It's probably stupid."

"I think I'll go check on Anastasia-sama." Julius stands up, having understood Emilia perfectly, having understood her flawlessly, and she becomes so unbearably ashamed that she grabs him by the edge of his cloak:

"No! So... I mean, there's nothing special there, y-you can stay."

Julius raises his eyebrows:

"Okay," and sits down.

Emilia takes a deep breath to catch her breath.

"It's just... When I lived in the Elior Forest, there were... when I..." Swallowing a lump in her throat, she stares at the floor and blinks often; Julius moves again, trying to get up, and she puts her hand on his knee.

"The elves I froze — they stayed there," she says, unexpectedly loud and firm, and shudders at the sound of her own voice. "Frozen just like they were a hundred years ago. Someone is standing, someone is lying down. Someone did not have time to understand, someone..." Emilia exhales shakily and pulls a strand of hair down until her skin aches — Subaru takes her by the wrist. She smiles at him weakly.

"I talked to them. Every day. I was brushing the snow off them. I... imagined things. What they were like. It must be terribly stupid. And rude. I don't know anything about them. Maybe they wouldn't want me to like them. Maybe they wouldn't understand me at all."

"Wow," Subaru says, chewing his lip. "Damn, it's kinda like Pompeii."

"Like what?"

"Uh. Well, it's a city... was a city... It's kind of a famous story in my homeland — do you have volcanoes here, by the way?"

"Northwest of Kararagi," Julius responds immediately. "In the middle of the Crimson Hills, with the town of Zesperga at the foot. It's quite a peculiar place."

"Mmm," Subaru mumbles meaningfully. "Here's the thing with Pompeii, it was also at the foot of the volcano. And then after the eruption of the volcano happened — well, in general, it ceased to be."

"Oh."

Subaru is silent for a while, staring at one point. 

"Yeah. My point is... They were covered in ashes — people of Pompeii, I mean. We found them later, thousands of years later, and... there were casts of their bodies. The way they were when they died.

"Must be an impressive archaeological find," Julius remarks, pursing his lips. Subaru laughs in surprise:

"Nerd. Yeah, sort of."

"Sort of?"

"Do I look like a historian to you? I have no idea. I mean, actually, that..." He shrugs helplessly. "There were just people there. Their animals, their paintings, their food. A thousand years apart, and we're still the same.

Subaru smiles at her out of the corner of his mouth.

"I think a lot of people think about what they were like back then, Emilia-tan. I mean, me too, I guess, since I'm talking about it. And... people like us were in Pompeii, and people like us live in my homeland, and people like us live right now, so, well, these people from Elior — I don't see any reason for them to not be like us? And you took such good care of them — maybe they miss you too.

Emilia smiles shyly at Subaru in response, and she feels a little like crying very hard.

[suffarustuffaru]

julius keeps collecting twinks that are secretly / not so secretly jealous of him but the difference in how different guys are jealous of julius is that reinhard would keep a photo of him and julius in a frame on his nightstand (has had it there since he was 14) (staring longingly at it is part of his daily routine), subaru would say he hates julius but his entire room head to toe is plastered with pictures of julius and new pictures keep popping up everyday, joshua would keep cutting and then retaping a photo of him and julius together depending on how upset at julius he is that day (we’re talking like theres a cut down the middle between photo julius and joshua ok. joshua dont play around), and then otto would have a designated julius photo that he drunkenly throws knives at (hes had to get his fingers healed multiple times)

[sufferu]

What's your thoughts on emijulisuba

Not usually a huge fan tbh: I have the same problem with emijulisuba that I have with most three-person ships, which is that it often feels less like an actual relationship dynamic and more like a situation where whoever’s shipping them couldn’t choose between two ships involving one character (in this case emisuba and julisuba — both of which are top tier, don’t get me wrong, but…) and the result is often that the third ship that wasn’t part of the original two pairs kind of gets…sidelined. Like, I don’t think I can think of all that many emijulisuba posts where Emilia and Julius’ relationship was given equal spotlight to both of their dynamics with Subaru — and for me to get on board with a three person ship like that, I feel like all three dynamics need to be given equal attention.

Also, any three-person ship that includes Emilia runs into the same issue where, canonically, Emilia is not on board with polygamy: it’s the main reason emisubarem isn’t really considered a likely endgame scenario by most of the fandom. Making the polygamous relationship include a third guy instead of a third girl doesn’t really change that — UNLESS you’re going in a direction where Lugunica has different cultural interpretation of gay relationships vs straight relationships, in which having one of each would be considered as fulfilling two different roles in one’s life rather than as a person have two functionally identical romantic relationships, which is an option that I personally would find genuinely really interesting but which most fandom goers don’t really take.

Though, expanding on that a bit: I think it could be kind of fun to write an emijulisuba fic where, like, Subaru ends up developing what looks to be a VERY typical “comrade romance” or whatever Lugunicans would call it with Julius, to the point where even Emilia considers them to be romantically involved, completely on accident. And then the different cultural values of Japan vs Lugunica could get some humorous spotlight. (Hmm…kinda wanna write that now.)

Though like — all that aside, that’s just as an answer to like, SERIOUS ship analysis. As a fluffy three way pair I mean, I like all of those characters. So I think it’s fun to read now and again.

[mysticalbirdkoala]

[mysticalbirdkoala]

okay. So thanks to my bestie I'm trying to write a whole ass essay about emijulisuba because Them. So.

why I fucking obsessed with them and chewing on walls.

One day I just decided to continue my web novel experience and started to read arc 5. With was um. Fun. You know, new horrible deaths for subaru and stuff. But also julisuba flirting-annoying-each-other stuff, which I love so fucking much. And then julius name get eaten - and that's how he became one of my favorite characters.

and. This part.

I read that and All of That Entire Dialogue and like "hm. Very interesting." But then fucking came arc 6 which is still my favorite-

But that like. So much emilia / julius /subaru interactions and how they parallel each other and how they help and support each other and

2. So. As a ship.

God. There so much. First of it's interesting dynamic even when they think about themselves and others Appearance. Subaru have issues with his, Emilia have giant fucking issues with her and.... Julius lucky at this part at least, but also Subaru adoring Emilia and falling in love particularly because of how she looks, and. you've seen all that screenshots how he describes Julius. On other part Julius (thanks teppei q&a) first thought about Emilia was that 1) she's pretty 2) she obviously have problems because of her appearance and the fact that she smiles make her strong and he admires that. Also Emilia loving Subarus unusual facial features. So that's already makes them Interesting.

About their personalities and parallels tho-

How they all think that they not strong enough on personal level, when. They kinda are. Subaru with his return by death stuff, Emilia because of her similar appearance to Satella, Julius, because jokes how much of a loser he is Are funny, but imagine you family, friends, ALL people how you knew just suddenly forgot anything about you? They all dealing with all of that and when things go wrong blame themselves because they not strong enough, and at the same time looking at each other and admiring how strong others are? Insane.

Also the funny dynamic of himbo (Emilia. She is canonically a himbo) a himbo-maybe-a-jock but also nerd (Subaru) and a nerd with biggest shoulders you possibly seen? Modern au can be so fun, and their interaction again already so fun because of that. Like:

They cute!! And funny!! I love them.

Also honorable mention of the part where Emilias name gets eaten too.

Look at that. Look. Parallels between her and Julius is insane, and I'm chewing on walls-

also others Important moments:

This?? My favorite type of dynamic right there.

I can't describe how This makes me feel.

This. Why Do You Need To Ask That Julius. Especially why do you need Subarus opinion on your lips. And there's so many other interesting moments but it would be too long.

3. Conclusion.

There's funny and cute interactions. There's beautiful story of three people who struggling to accept themselves. There so much fucking potential for aus. I fucking love them they are my comfort ship even though they destroying me as I'm writing this-

Yeah.

[mysticalbirdkoala]

*screaming in emijulisuba*

[zlobonessa]

well since the coup thing here just kinda sorta ended i guess i think this is as good time as ever to tell yall about my silly little modern au because why the hell not. i had this au for a while as a source for jokes but it just kept growing and growing untill. well I'm actually writing fic about (parts of) this but again it's in russian so i just want to outline the ideas. this is totally went off the rails but i like it that way

so

the catalyst of all is regurein of course

i have several variations of why the hell are they dating but one of my favourites is the one where they engage in passionate fight about twilight saga on the internet

joke about twilight saga belongs to koa. thanks koa.

the second favourite is about coffeeshop au set in two rivaling coffeeshops with questionable work practices and with money laundering probably happening in the background (or something worse?) of one of them

but anyway

reinhard's friends are taking the news very well

which means they are not, in fact, taking the news very well

julius is heartbroken

he has that wlw experience where your infinitely pretty incredibly smart unimaginably cool friend (homoerotic undertone) starts dating a guy who can be characterized only as Human Garbage

out of Friendly Concerns he and the others start the secret operation of Breaking Your Best Friend Relationships

they are not very successful

observing disgustingly sweet and/or horrifying dates with binoculars from the bushes does not bring any results

ferris suggested poisoning several times already

somewhere along the line felt is involved

she is neither the participant nor regurein's matchmaker but a secret third thing

(not entertained by any of this bullshit but forced to observe it)

probably is blackmailing julius

lye is also here

he is tagging along with regulus for some reasons idk i never thought it through

he and felt form unexpected friendship based on common annoyance of being forced to third wheel all this mess

perhaps they start the punk rock band???

the music is terrible

joshua thinks soo too

yes he is also here

he desperatly pretends to be a big fan

that's his late teenage rebellion

felt and lye do not like him anyway but it's not like they have a lot of fans so they keep him to buy them alcohol or something

when julius finds out he almost has a heart attack

and also regulus had some malicious plan all along! oh no!

but oh well he is not the smartest guy yknow

certainly NOT GOOD with being subtle

also has very Weird relationships with feelings

and accidentally catches them for reinhard for real

his mental stability: destroyed

but it's fine and reinhard keeps him anyway because he is absolutely bonkers

again julius is very close to an emergency room

but also in the (failed) attempt to stop this shitshow he Finds His True Love

emijulisuba happens! yay

bonded by spying and perhaps discussion ls of common crush on reinhard

so it's fine. it's totally fine. it's so fine he swears.

IN THE MEANTIME

the subplot happens. it involves wilhelm.

reinhard informs him that he has a boyfriend and plans to introduce him at the family dinner. in the desparate attempt to repair their broken relationships wilhelm decides that it's time to be An Ally

i'm giving him a lot of credit here but that's also a bit of copium for Me Personally so it's okay

so wilhelm googles "who are.gay people"

accidentally ends up on gay dating app

as an ally

matches with petelgeuse there

as an ally

has sex with him

as an ally

tries to think how exactly he is gonna tell reinhard that he has a new grandma now so he is forgiven

(that was a joke)

so reinhard comes to the manor/apartment/penthouse with regulus

and regulus and petelgeuse recognise each other because of course they do! they are colleagues! (or were something more? who know)

well now this is awkward

do you think somebody gets murdered here

credits roll

scene after credits: emilia finds out that her dead aunt and her somewhat-uncle who went out for milk years ago are actually both alive in complicated relationship and working in the coffeeshop-slash-money-laundering-scheme-slash-sect

[mysticalbirdkoala]

something something felix being hater to emijulisuba relationship, and acting slightly annoyed because he didn't like subaru and don't care about emilia and he's like "what did you even find in them" but also felix seeing julius and subaru and emilia being in love and HAVE a chance and maybe it's actually was envy. Because it's three of them, and they kinda different (for him) and it shouldn't work, they shouldn't be together because it isn't fair. Because he almost had that too, and he was honest much more then subaru about his feelings so why subaru has them but felix lose fourier AND crusch?

[mysticalbirdkoala]

a little something for julius's birthday,,,,

[mysticalbirdkoala]

finally, Finally made a playlist for emijulisuba

Again, it's kinda switching povs between subaru emilia and julius, and showing their dynamic in the end (or something like that)

[sapphiim]

there needs to be more emijulisuba content in the world. subaru has 2 hands he can have both a wife and a boyfriend

[mysticalbirdkoala]

God I actually need that moment between subaru and emilia in arc 2 where she's comforting him but. Between emilia and julius.

Actually thinking how subaru be like "I'm gonna hide my feelings because there's more important things going on" until he's having a panic attack in a forest or. Throwing his head against wall until he's bleeding. And julius being an absolute emotional mess but hiding it until That moment with reid.

[zlobonessa]

so i just woke up and looked at the reblogs of my ship tier Iist. um hieeee everybody i am the one who wrote 3 out of 4 emijulisuba fics on ao3. yes they're all in russian no i probably will Not translate these in any near future because every time i look up the difference between russian and english punctuation rules i start screaming and tearing my hair out. but also google translate does a pretty decent job like.... 96% of time? It sometimes forgets about the difference between russian amd english formatting of dialogue and mixes up a few words here and there but for most of the time it perfectly readable. also i am a good writer. just saying.

anyway here is my AO3. and here are all my emijulisuba fics. and since i got asked here is the link to that one ramilia fic in post-pride if where reinhard is actually Just A Good Friend but i accidentally straightbaited myself so i have a sequel in mind that i will write. someday. it's really underappreciated fic of mine for understandable reasons but i quite love it actually.

(also i have around 12 drafts with regulus/reinhard.... and i will finish few of them ehhh Soon.... just saying)