#kiri.wip

[kirider]

[06/01/2025]

Also have this, it's very messy but I don't think I have the ability to do it justice yet

[aranarumei]

kiri's wip wednesday: "smokestacks"

this week's wednesday is thursday. the extra time was so worth it, though, because i really like this one. what is it, you ask? well. it's adult au hanzashiro because ever since i learned that hanzawa grew up to be a smoker in the adult au, that detail has never left my head. wip title is taken from smokestacks by layla because i like the song.

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On a night like this, he couldn’t help craving heat. At first, the cold snap had brought him sharp comfort, the air almost like a mint as it cleared the taste of alcohol from his tongue. Miyano’s taste in beer was sophisticated, but the drinks hadn’t done much for him aside from settling bitterly in his stomach. 

The open night and dead starlight had set his body back to rights. It had been a while since he’d gotten this drunk—not many paces past tipsy, but Hanzawa Masato was a man possessed of an unusually high tolerance and a hatred of tipsy. The ugly, heady feeling that swamped him when he was too many shots in, like his limbs were treading water… if it had to hurt, he preferred other vices. 

Clarity kept him sharp, armored, but it couldn’t shield him from the elements. A deep, trembling chill was burrowing under his skin; his fingers twitched. 

A sudden gust rattled behind him. He flinched, moved to shove his hands into his pockets, and found himself immobilized. Warmth had encircled and engulfed his right hand. Hanzawa turned to meet the source, and came face to face with one Tashiro Gonzaburou, lips set in unsmiling determination. 

“How’d you find me?” he blurted out. Immediately he began to will the flush from his skin.

“Saw you slip through the door.” Tashiro’s gaze was alarmingly clear. ”I followed.” 

Perhaps the wind hadn’t quite chased away his intoxication. He’d been thinking of the door as a jagged pass, not a wooden thing with hinges and knobs. Distances were funny like that—hard to judge, with walls. 

Even now, he had half a mind to take umbrage with the state of Tashiro’s hair: bleached blond recently enough to be without roots. But the man before him was no longer an easily-conned first year; he’d outgrown Hanzawa, who now had to look up to meet his eyes. There were new lines under there, though he wasn’t sure if they were from age, irresponsibility, or insomnia. With Tashiro, you could never tell. 

“Smoke break?” Tashiro asked, deceptively casual. He was intertwining their fingers, slotting the warmth of his grip between Hanzawa’s shaking flesh. 

His answering laugh shook, too, escaped out of his mouth less like humor and more like noiseless exhale. “Is this an intervention?” His left hand fingered the lighter in his pocket. Cool metal, hard edges, pressed against his palm like the night. 

[kirider]

[24/04/2024]

Here, can you keep an eye on him for a sec? Thanks

[aranarumei]

kiri's wip wednesday: "something here"

well. i said I'd do it, so here I am. I've shown a snippet of a sasaki pov for something there before, so you might recognize a bit of this. for those who need context: something there is an alternate take on ch 51 of sasaki to miyano, where shirahama ends up visiting sasaki & miyano in the nurse's office. this is sasaki's pov. the title, like the fic, is a work in progress.

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When he first catches sight of Shirahama, Sasaki’s mind pings with instinctual disappointment before any real thought coalesces: It’s Miyano’s friend. With that in mind, he says, “Close it quietly. He’s sleeping.”

“I just… came to check in on him,” Shirahama explains.

“Thanks for looking out.”

Sasaki isn’t sure how to handle him. He’s tall—almost Sasaki’s height—but gangly, with limbs graceless enough to remind Sasaki of middle school growing pains and botched dye jobs. He wavers at the entrance like a legless deer, his presence weighty enough to tell Sasaki he should be doing something, but too frightened to communicate what.

Kuresawa or Tashiro would be much easier—they wouldn’t be here. Kuresawa would have been tactful enough to leave them alone, and Tashiro would’ve been too busy flitting around everywhere to pop into the nurse’s office. But Miyano attracts good people—people like him, with open, careful hearts—and so Shirahama is standing here.

He thinks of Miyano, his face scrunched up but peaceful in sleep, and the flitting nervousness threaded through Shirahama’s body like a live wire, and suddenly remembers the way he’d flinched when Sasaki had caught that basketball.

“Ah,” he says, mostly involuntarily. “You're on the basketball team.”

Shirahama jolts in recognition. “You remembered that?” he asks, skin reddening, and then adds, nonsensically, “Sorry!”

He shrugs. “Just happened to.”

Basketball was a curse that came hand-in-hand with growing pains. Whenever you reached a certain height, it was like an obligatory question: you’re so tall, so why don’t you play basketball?

Hirano was different. Hirano believed that playing basketball meant you needed focus, and drive, and spirit, which Sasaki sorely lacked, he'd said.

“Harsh,” Sasaki had said, and only after Hirano was appropriately sheepish did he add, “True, though.”

The way Hirano had looked at him then, and the way he looked when talking about that “Kagi-kun” of his—they were worlds apart.

[aranarumei]

KIRIII these are all so incredibly tempting but I am nothing if not a predictable creature. dating sim au (ver. kiri) for the ask game if you would

ask me about my wip list?

considering that harusono's been tweeting about game routes isn't this just. serendipitous. anyways yah dating sim au. malt you were here through that saga but here's a primer for those who weren't.

(my response is about to get very long so I'm adding a readmore. the tl;dr is that we're in shiramiya territory)

okay. in july of 2023 @sunnnfish posted asking what thoughts people had re: a ssmy fantasy au. and also like other aus too. I write an excessively long response where at the tail end of it I mention that a ssmy dating sim au would be sooo good. this is because i feel like so much of ssmy and hrkg deal with Love as Expectation vs. Reality and a dating sim au is like. a perfect situation to highlight that. also I've always wanted to write some kind of dating sim au fic bc back in 2015 I wanted to write a fic version of the tomoda-kun fan manga that nozaki and mikoshiba create in gsnk. for those who have not seen that scene: happy pride month.

this is not really about me tho. because a day later @dirtbra1n read the words "ssmy dating sim au" and ran with it like a rocket. miyano gets isekai-d into a dating sim au world with the characters of ssmy and hrkg, and then shirahama follows him from the "real" world into the dating sim au world, because he is in love with miyano. and thus his hell of unrequital begins. and also the hell of like, being trapped in a dating sim au.

(side note: in august 2023 shiramiya was like. a total novelty to me. these days we have vol 10 to fuel the speculations but at this point all we really had is shirahama being Kinda Strange abt ssmy in chs 42 and 46. so i am always impressed by dirtbra1n just like. making such a good Called Shot)

anyways. i got invested. this was, in some respects, my tomoda-kun dreams from all those years ago. so now We Play In The Space. dirtbra1n's version of dating sim au is gonna differ from mine bc we're different people, but there will be shared elements bc we love discussion. @kagiura-akira's also done some dating sim au fic posting (ao3) which is awesome to see. i love a group sandbox.

this was actually a hard ask to answer bc i've kind of. posted all of my dating sim au stuff on tumblr already? here's my stuff in chronological order. and here's my ao3 series link (my fics on ao3 are slightly more cleaned up compared to the original tumblr posts). i use the #die over ? tag for stuff thats like. Me specifically. and #dating sim au for the general sandbox stuff.

so that's what dating sim au means, and that's what ver. kiri means. the rough plot I've got right now is like so: miyano gets isekaid (dies) and wakes up in a dating sim. he is comically trying to get out of all of the routes and ends up stumbling into Hidden Route sasaki who is not really a route and actually everyone in this game is kind of a real... Person, aren't they? strange. hijinks happen but miyano and sasaki get their happy end.

shirahama is in hell. shirahama is in a hell of his own making because he is partially fueling this dating sim world. through Reasons. a lot of it to do with the all-consuming nature of unrequited love as well as his stupid self-denial. he is kind of god and also kind of needs to kill god. admittedly I haven't fleshed this part out fully but structurally the idea behind dating sim au is that shirahama's living out his time looped nightmare trying to get miyano to the end. and i have a lot of things to say about love.

one of the very fun things that i've been playing around with is shirahama meeting up with ichinose during his first year and them developing a friendship bc they both have big unrequited feelings. and then what happens is that route-wise, the second year is the Big Deal for the dating sim, and thus when he's time looping it actually starts from when ichinose has already graduated. which kind of feels like he's dead? so so awesome. and i feel a little smug about this because this was before we knew ichinose was into video games. so obviously now it is way more fun. i'm so going to violeta fantasy this up.

uh i promised snippets didn't i. so i have to um. write something. right. righttttt.

Ichinose picked at the strands in front of his eyes. "You know you're not supposed to be here, right?" "How did you know?" Shirahama blurted out. No one had ever questioned his existence before, in the game world. Tashiro had remembered him in his middle school. Kagiura hadn't asked why the basketball team had suddenly hallucinated another member. Miyano had looked at him funny, but he hadn't said anything. Ichinose was the type of guy who smiled with his eyes, it seemed. "I'm the dorm head—I know which members are and aren't in the dorm." "Right," Shirahama said, heartbeat settling, but Ichinose was still standing there, smiling, inviting. "...Are you going to chase me out?" "There's a lot of things the dorm manager doesn't need to know," Ichinose replied, and that was that.

[aranarumei]

the word game for your ask game :)))

give me a word and I’ll post a paragraph containing it if it comes up in one of my wips. if not, I’ll write another paragraph for one of my wips (and. well. honestly I’ll write more even if I find the word. i am just trying to write.)

hey malt! heard abt the spoilering. Sucks. "game" shows up in many a fic wip for me (six of crows wip, mdzs/tgcf crossover wip, dating sim au outline) but i thought you'd appreciate hanzashiro the most, so here they are. this is part of the adult au hanzashiro wip i posted a while back

“Not a fan of beer?” Hanzawa asked. “You’re missing out on some drinking games.”  Tashiro shrugged. “Just didn’t feel like it tonight.” He lingered, and added, “If I had to pick, I prefer cocktails.”  “Cocktails,” Hanzawa repeated. “That could mean anything.”  “You know… mixed drinks,” Tashiro said. “Something fun.” He grinned at Hanzawa with a slick, private brightness. “I like to experiment.”

[aranarumei]

kiri's wip wednesday: "random encounter"

listen. um. wednesday is like... like a state of mind. i'm trying to right myself back into proper tumblr posting. and we all gotta start from somewhere.

let's see... context. i was playing more of crisis core recently and wanted to write some cloud & zack bc i just got to their first meeting. hardest part of posting this stuff is coming up with an okay enough wip title

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“Tseng’s such a stiff, isn’t he?”

There’s a first-class SOLDIER looking at him. Cloud almost can't believe it, but something in his body must move before his mind, because he shrugs and says, “I don’t know. I’ve never talked to him before.”

Zack smiles, white teeth, bright eyes, kind, first-class SOLDIER and the type of guy that would have fit into Nibelheim, in any small town, only anyone with eyes would have then seen him and realized, he's too good for this place. “Well, he’s such a bore it’s no wonder,” Zack says, as if the reason Cloud’s never spoken to Tseng is a conflict of personality and not opportunity, “Plus, I’m way cooler.”

“Sure,” Cloud huffs, and is rewarded with a bark of startled laughter. “So, um... this is normal, for you?”

[aranarumei]

I was gonna go with "star" but I fear that's perhaps too specific and damn predictable on my part

So let's go with "spark"

give me a word and I’ll post a paragraph containing it if it comes up in one of my wips. if not, I’ll write another paragraph for one of my wips (and. well. honestly I’ll write more even if I find the word. i am just trying to write.)

it's so funny to me that you've implied "spark" is somehow Less Specific than "star"? anyways I first searched for the words and then realized I'd messed something up with my custom css snippets for obsidian (writing program I use for One Fic... because I felt like it) and spent hours messing around with that. it was really fun honestly.

back to the actual writing part of writing. I'm allowing plurals for this because otherwise I'd get a goose-egg for results, but here, a double feature:

for "spark", i got 2 results, and picked an excerpt from my mdzs/tgcf crossover fic (wip title is aromanticism, which you may recognize):

“That’s not—cover your mouth,” Jiang Cheng snapped. “Don’t move. Or talk. Or do anything unless I tell you.” The kid shut his mouth and threw his sleeve over it, eyes wide. He also looked like he was trying to hold his breath, but Jiang Cheng didn’t bother to correct him. There was no poison in the mist before him, but he would have to be an idiot to not sense the power radiating from it. Zidian burst out of his ring and crackled in the air, sparks brushing against the cloud of black. “Show yourself!” Jiang Cheng demanded.

for "star", I got 7 results, and picked an excerpt from the same fic as above when I realized I was meant to be rewriting that part. and I actually rewrote it! wow this ask game is helpful after all. here is that:

“In that,” Hua Cheng drawled, “we are in agreement. You, Jiang Cheng, are nowhere near my level—not in strength or smarts. Still—” “Still?” “I’m giving you another chance,” Hua Cheng concluded, and then he leaned even closer, until there was nothing to look at but the black of his eyes, glittering like there had been stars placed inside. “There is a question I want answered: how brave are you?”

[kirider]

Im having fun with my pokemon au :3

Other options were grovyle and gallade, I like servine but I'm not opposed to changing it if something better comes up 👀

He started out as a Burst warrior, but I wasn't sure if i liked his more humanoid design 🤔 I'll keep it as an option tho

[kirider]

Send help he's occupying my brain nonstop

[kirider]

...I was not planning to sketch a whole animatic tonight but. Oh well. Have a teaser I guess?

[kirider]

o|-(

[kirider]

Also, I was considering giving Gira and Jeremie a more casual outfit but idk if he's recognizable with a different hairstyle

[kirider]

Finished this too late to post, have a tiny preview

[kirider]

Tiny

[kirider]

Finally managed to watch the latest geats today, you can have a wip from a few days ago since it's relevant