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2n2n · 9 months
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What do you hope will happen in chapter 110? Do you really think Akane is going to die? Or will we see Minamoto or Hanako-kun interfering?I love your posts ❤️
Thank you for love my posts..... 110 ... !!
I don't think so, no....! For one thing, Akane has already had a hole punched through him in his Clockkeeper form, and he survived that just fine, even despite being outside of his boundary, in a DIFFERENT boundary, attacked by creatures owned by the boundary keeper, and then lying in a puddle for however long in the far shore...
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besides, Tsukasa isn't out to murder him, or anything... only find the yorishiro. I don't think the plan is to like, rip him into 1,000 pieces, no more than he did that to Kako... I have no idea what would happen if he went straight for the heart at all! While I suppose we don't know Tsukasa's lawless capabilities what with killing No. 3 so easily, I haven't imagined it would get that grim for Akane. I think Tsukasa is being playful... much to pry apart.
Hmmmm... it feels so chicanery right now honestly... Teru is in a fussy baby mood, he's all butthurt about Akane... Akane is now being targetted... mostly I am thinking about Teru being all like, "oh I'm sorry, I'd help you but apparently I'm a criminal :/ well :/ maybe if SOMEONE hadn't HANDCUFFED ME and taken my strength, I could be out here defending you but I GUESS I'm nothing but a suspect so...." .... I dunno, maybe Teru would want to hear Akane beg for help, or something. Grovel. It is so hard to imagine him wanting to help Akane right now!!! Teru is petty, sensitive, reactive, big baby lol...
Teru also doesn't support the existence of the mysteries at all....
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so I have no idea how invested he is in yorishiro destruction? Why WOULD he care, if some guy is trying to find and unseal their yorishiro? I think Mirai could get popped like a grape and he wouldn't care whatsoever... don't imagine he cares about Kako being punched through. He could stay relatively useless, that would also be funny, especially if it is half by choice...
Akane getting gravely injured WOULD motivate Teru to need to keep the yorishiro from being peeled however, even if he doesn't give a fuck about the system, since being stabbed + turned back to human COULD kill Akane, specifically those events, lol. In this way, we should worry about Akane, wwwww....
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While things cannot die in a boundary, the yorishiro destruction ejects you OUT of the boundary, soooooooooo....!
... I'm still not thinking much about it, but those are the facts to mull over.
It is interesting to ever think about Akane being un-mystery'd though.... I've always liked the idea of, down the road, ONLY Aoi being left with kaii-seeing abilities + memories of the far shore... but that's so far off as a thought haha. Just something I like to imagine, if Akane were unseated. Maybe Aoi would have to look after him...
I'm interested in Akane having implied the Clockkeepers are the party most responsible for endangering students... I don't really know how much Akane, WANTS, to fight for, the Clockkeepers, earnestly. He doesn't LIKE them. I do not think he would really lay his life on the line for them... but I also don't know how much freedom he has right now, or how he is functionally controlled or kept in line, by them. He isn't acting like he has agency in this.
I guess it could go either way, for Hanako. He could surprise us by suddenly teaming up with Tsukasa, or, with Teru. Whatever the case, very exciting, right? All thrilling options.
I don't think it will happen... immediately.. but my biggest wish is for Tsukasa to possess Nene-chan, after he locates the yorishiro ♥♥♥ from what we've seen, Tsukasa and Amane share all their abilities, and there must be a REASON we were so FRIVOLOUSLY shown he can possess Nene-chan way back in the CLOCKKEEPER'S ARC... it would be too perfect for that to come back around ♥ and soooo cute if Tsutsu could be in LITTLE Nene-chan specifically, and really wonderful if Amane had to deal with that ... ♥♥♥ though I've also fantasized about Amane simply instructing Nene-chan to peel the yorishiro, despite everything... could be so grim, so dark, so haunting!
I guess most of my thoughts are further along! The immediate situation is pretty hard to conceptualize, I do not have a brain for... like, fights, play-by-play. I'm mostly excited for what's to come later, I'm not really into altercations....!
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the-terukane-archives · 11 months
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(Reply to Princess Carry: STAWP 😭 I know my post was nakey! I didn't know how to colorcode that 🤧)
Anyway actual reason I'm here 🤧
Terukane red string soulmate brainrot (w/ some Aoinene b/c I like it too. Hope you don't mind)
(let's say you can finally see the string at 15 or something)
Akane definitely cried and whined for a few days when he realized his soulmate wasn't Aoi. He was inconsolable and insufferable. (He definitely took a few days off of school) Imagine the pure horror he felt when he realized who his soulmate was.
He follows the string curiously, half expecting to see Lemon on the other end (because so obviously fate is laughing at his expense. Why not that as well). Well it the string leads to the student council room, and Akane realizes that whatever deity is watching over them is DEFINITELY laughing their ass off.
Teru has known his soulmate was Akane. He was in heavy denial about it for a while (because he felt like he didn't deserve a string) and tried a lot to distance himself from Akane. It didn't work, so he resorted to having fun with it. He definitely enjoyed the horrified look on Akane's face when he found out.
Teru definitely started being more cringe about couple stuff. Because well, Akane didn't run away or start throwing things at him when he found out. More than anything he seemed to just accept it and curse to himself as he sat down in front of Teru.
They reached a weird homeostasis (after a few days of antagonizing each other) and we're both weirdly okay with it. They still fought tho. They aren't Rivals and to Lovers for no reason.
(Aoinene b/c I think they're cute)
Aoi was expecting Akane to be her soulmate. She was buffering for a moment when she saw her string connected to Nene. Then, she found herself rather happy with the outcome. Because her feelings towards Nene were definitely "Would fall in love with her, if I let myself". And she let herself. Aoi definitely got a tiny bit more cuddly with Nene when she found out, but never explained herself.
Nene had a crisis for a minute because she expected to end up with a dashing prince. Turns out she got a beautiful princess. She definitely turned really shy about it, much to Aoi's amusement. For a while she tried to tell herself that their string was just platonic (it was not).
Their relationship was much slower and had small baby steps.
— Colorcoding Anon (there my post ain't nakey)
the urge to write this is OVERWHELMING (i haven’t wrote in half a year & frankly i may have forgotten how to)
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mari-lair · 2 years
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I am still processing chap 94,
But hey! Crumbs of my favs, I’ll take it
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magioftheseas · 3 years
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The Captivating Voice That Is Not Yours
For @badthingshappenbingo
Prompt: Compelling Voice taken from here.
Rating: T
Warnings: Talk of kidnappings. It’s a Phantom of the Opera AU, so...
Notes: Yeah baby, Hanako of the Opera fic finally but it’s also AoiNene because not only do I love them but I also thought Meg/Christine deserved WAY BETTER. This isn’t all that happy of a fic though. More tense and a bit experimental. I wasn’t sure what I was doing and it shows.
***Alternate Ao3 Link***
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There are enough rumors of the phantom of the opera to fill a book. Some said he kidnapped young girls to force them into being his bride. Others say that he lured in unsuspecting folks with a honeyed voice before drowning them in the sewers.
(“Like a mermaid,” she said in the flattest voice imaginable. Nene burst into laughter when she followed it up with puffed cheeks and exaggerated glub, glub, glubs.)
The only certainties of the phantom were his talent for music and his dangerous temper. They had just remade the chandelier broken from years ago, the last time the phantom had been so angered. Supposedly, there had even been talks of people discovered hanging from the rafters. It was recounted with chilling fright. Bodies or no, the Phantom was nonetheless deemed a force to be conceded to rather than fought. To raise a sword to the Phantom was to raise a sword to a storm.
(“Or to a rat,” the manager had chuckled with such a serene smile. “It just so happens that this rat composes truly beautiful pieces.”)
Well, because Aoi was a dancer, the Phantom was little more than the subject of gossip. He notoriously only paid attention to singers and orchestras. Everyone else was left alone. She had no reason to worry for herself, so she hadn’t.
That changed when Yashiro Nene arrived.
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What would you call it? Infatuation? Love at first sight?
She and Nene had known each other long before all this. A more innocent time when they were fellow schoolgirls and close as close could be. She was a dancer, Nene was a songstress. Nene’s singing was rough and clumsy, but her voice was bright and earnest.
Aoi could listen to the other girl speak and sing for days. She had truly been deeply enamored.
So much so that even when she was scouted, she wanted so dearly to bring Nene along. But with the competition so aggressive and passionate, Aoi’s earnest little songbird had been stamped out and shooed away.
Nene still watched her performances, lovelier than any bouquet and always with such a shining gaze. That shining gaze often turned to the stage with such longing.
(As sorry as Aoi felt for her, she also had a sick sense of satisfaction for being the only one Nene sang for.
And then that changed.)
When Nene arrived, Aoi was struck by two things.
Joy: happiness at Nene being where she had always wanted. Smiling the brightest she ever had.
Terror: fear at Nene being at risk of the phantom. Smiling so brightly, unknown of the snake that curled around this opera house with a deathly grip.
(And imagine how she felt when she realized the phantom had already wrapped around the little songbird, his maw open wide to reveal the sharpest fangs. Just imagine.)
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“He’s not what I’d call an angel, but he is a good teacher,” Nene had explained, and whatever bit of irritation flickered through her expression was drowned out by her beaming with pride. “Because of him, I’m good enough to share the stage with you, Aoi!”
“Nothing makes me happier to hear besides your singing,” Aoi murmured in return. That was genuine, even as caution crept back into her tone. “So, that teacher of yours… How did you find him?”
“It’s more that he found me.” For some reason, Nene got flustered. Despite how adorable she looked, a chill settled on Aoi’s shoulders as the songstress went on, “He heard me practicing. He said...that I had a lot of potential.”
Aoi had known that from the start. Yet, she hadn’t been able to help Nene at all.
It’s such a terrible feeling.
“Nene-chan,” she says sweetly. “Can I listen to your singing once more?”
Nene lights up like a supernova. Her rosy mouth opens, a deep intake of breath into her delicate throat, and she sings.
She sings and Aoi is captivated.
(The phantom truly was potent. Nene’s singing was definitely improved from before. Whereas she once could only take hold of Aoi, now… Thanks to the phantom, she could hold the whole world in her hands if she so wished.)
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Which of course means that the phantom’s grip is even greater. Aoi’s never heard the phantom sing, but even she could tell that no words could do such a siren’s call justice.
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Yashiro Nene is to be the next star of the performance. Mitsuba Sousuke throws quite the fit. The manager is quick to calm him down, and the manager’s brother, a patron, is quick to reassure him.
Nene fidgets uncertainly, flinches when Mitsuba turns to her with a tearful glare. Aoi tightens her grip on Nene’s hand. They watch him stomp off, and Nene releases her breath.
“It’s normal,” Aoi said. “You deserve to be a star, Nene-chan.”
(Even if as a star, Nene would be shining for someone else.)
--
Nene’s singing was beautiful during the show as expected. It was ephemeral. Really, she was perfect.
Aoi watched her face from the shadows, distant from all the applause.
However...
While it was Nene’s voice in the darkness, those words were not hers.
However, it was nonetheless captivating.
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“It’s as if the songbird has become a spider,” Aoi said to the mirror in the dressing room. Nene stiffened up, but she relaxed when Aoi’s hands rested on her shoulders. “The audience was trapped in your web, Nene-chan.”
“Geez, Aoi, that’s an exaggeration,” Nene griped good-naturedly, with a face twisted away from Aoi, her reflection, and the flower bouquets she had received.
“Nene-chan,” Aoi hummed and peered into the mirror. Her eyes narrowed. “Your face is pale.” She reaches down, taking Nene’s hand within her own. “And your hands are cold. Are you sure you’re alright?”
“I…” Nene recedes from her. A flower closing as if in anticipation for the night. Perhaps, Aoi should have realized then. “I’m feeling a bit faint, Aoi. Can you get me some water?”
“Oh! Right away.”
As dutiful as she was adoring, Aoi had obeyed without question.
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There were many ways it could have occurred.
Simply sneaking up on the girl and taking her away.
Using threats and other forms of intimidation.
The likeliest: using that heavenly voice to lure that girl into the catacombs.
The end result all the same: an empty room.
“Nene-chan…?”
The flowers are untouched, even the makeup is in the place last set aside. Aoi still looks around. The candles are still lit. The mirror reflects her uneasy expression.
When she reaches for it, however, she is stopped by an elegant shadow in the entryway.
“Akane-san, may I speak to you?”
That shadow moves through until it looms by her side, subdued yet encompassing.
“It is important,” her teacher says with an expression so stoic yet beautiful. “Please, do not worry about Yashiro-san. She will be returned momentarily.”
“Nanamine-san…” Aoi blinks up at her. She strains, not out of any physical need. “What do you know?”
“Much more than you need to,” Nanamine says simply. “Please, do not worry. Yashiro-san will be fine.”
“The phantom...he took her, didn’t he? Is...is Nene-chan really going to be stolen away?” Aoi asks, wavering as she begins to grow frantic. “Is that phantom her teacher?”
“Yashiro-san is a rising star in this opera house. Thus, she will not be taken away. Will that assuage your fears, Akane-san?”
How am I supposed to answer that?
...
Once upon a time, Nene-chan was mine and mine alone. At least, that’s how I could perceive things. I can’t pretend any longer. At the very least…
Aoi nods, turning from the mirror.
If she really can no longer be mine...
“I don’t have any intention of letting her be his, either,” she murmurs.
There isn’t a response from her teacher. There is, however, a soft meow from the floor. A peculiar black cat is wrapping itself around Aoi’s ankle, chirping up at her with a bright, knowing gaze and an open, fanged grin.
The teacher leads Aoi away, but the cat follows them with a carefree trot.
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just-a-tiny-ghost · 4 years
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The "tip of the hair” thing from anime characters.
We all know these characters who have funny hair color ranging from bright pink to sparkling white, passing by mysterious purple. It’s almost an unspoken rule not to ponder too much on the color of characters’ hair, because it’s so cool!
Here are some theories/possibilities on the reasons behind the tip of the hair!
(Please do not take any of these seriously)
Warnings: please do not take this seriously, fight scene, 5 scenarios within the theories, last scenario being just plain mean… (~4k words)
Characters: Kita Shinsuke, Kocho Shinobu, Yushiro, Tokito Muichiro, Yashiro Nene, Ishigami Senku, Akugatawa Ryuunosuke, Zenin Naoya
1st part: It’s naturally like this. “The ‘natural’ hair color”
It’s just like childhood blond people.
The people who are born blond, live through their childhood being blond and then, treason. Their roots start to darken, spreading the brown over the blond and they are no longer Primrose but Katniss. And it’s difficult, you know, to explain that they are blond because they are going through a strange phase where they no longer know the color of their own hair (*sniff*, just kidding).
So, it’s just like this, the roots are brown but often the tip of the hair is of a lighter color (blond, even ginger in certain places). You take this, and you reverse it, making so that the roots are lighter, and tips are darker.
Example: Kita Shinsuke, Haikyuu
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Here you have baby Shinsuke, with the same natural hair color as when older.
(psst, imagine also if during summer his hair darkened more, just like people have them more blond).
It’s a new kind of molecule. (Part 1)
There was a mutation, the melanin mutated help! Other than the eumelanin (dark/brown) and the pheomelanin (red/yellow), another one appeared giving people crazy (cool) hair color! What’s more is that this one actually moves.
Example : Kocho Shinobu, Demon Slayer
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Notice first, this beautiful purple. What do we also notice? The ratio and the defined line, just as if all hair should go from black to purple at the same exact point.
This is NOT a coincidence; this molecule can travel. I will explain that; so, we notice that younger Shinobu’s hair are shorter than when she is 18/19. However, as her hair grow longer there is more purple that is appearing? Shouldn’t there be lesser purple? No and we can thank this new, heroic molecule.
New systems developed inside the follicle, and they can sense, perceive the ratio of the colors. As the hair grow longer, more of this molecule will be created and sent to the extremity of the hair, allowing Shinobu to always have the same black/purple ratio on all the affected hairs, which explain the clear line as they are roughly the same length.
It’s a new kind of follicle. (Part 2)
And a lazy one at that! While working efficiently at the beginning, it soon becomes so lazy that it thought about just letting the regular black/brown/ginger/blond color instead of continuing working hard to color the hair a beautiful shade.
Example: Tokito Muichiro, Demon Slayer
(In his case, the follicle just forgot)
The Marie-Antoinette syndrome
The Marie-Antoinette syndrome is when someone hair suddenly turn white due to an intense stress.
The name came from folklore about the hair of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France (1755-1793), who during the night before her execution by guillotine, had her hair turn white in her cell due to stress.
The Marie-Antoinette syndrome could have had another name as Thomas More in 1535 also had his hair suddenly whitening the night before his execution, there were several cases of the syndrome throughout history, but no research suggests that we can lose hair color overnight. Yet, stress do cause hair to whiten, not overnight, but progressively.
Example: (well, might as well go with the same manga) Yushiro, Demon Slayer
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I’m actually pretty sure this is due to stress as before meeting Tamayo he was sick and he may have had a time where all his hair were black, but the stress just came back when he realized how much he loves Tamayo and how many potential rivals he could have (lol). (assuming his hair continue to grow, but we know it’s not *sigh*)
So, this was all for now for the “natural” hair color part. Now, just imagine them just after they cut their hair.
You tilt your head sideways, examining Shinsuke’s hair while sipping your juice from under the shadow of the peach tree.
The sun was scorching, obliging him to wear his hat while gardening but not preventing you from taking sneak glances at his new hairstyle —diligently cut by his grandmother— the missing black color at the tip of his hair still slightly disturbing you.
When you saw him that day, your accustomed-to-seeing-him brain went into a frenzied panic assuming a non-existing threat from the sudden change in the pattern of his hair. You, without having a choice, followed behind this archaic brain of yours, metamorphosing into a stuttering, eyes-avoiding mess when your heart won the fight with your brain and decided that this would fluster you.
The day was spent in his bedroom, playing with his hair sometimes brushing them in the opposite direction, their straightness prickling your palm sometimes just rolling a strand between your fingers, eyes prying for even the tiniest spot of black leading you to conclude that they had all been cut off.
Your view of your boyfriend is suddenly blocked… by the face of said boyfriend. The blank stare on him was too much, as it was all he saw whenever he turned around to check on his resting girlfriend, leading him to come nearer.
“Hey, are you feeling all right?” He approaches his hand to you head, brushing your baby hair out of your face. “Even with a hat and sunscreen, maybe the sun was too strong? We can go inside and rest if you want to.”
You pull him to sit next to you, taking his hat off by the process and raising your head to scan the sky through the branches and leaves protecting you both.
“Nah, I’m okay,” you reach behind you and dive your hand in the cooler, grabbing a cool bottle of water, “you should drink a little though and we have to go back soon granny is going to worry, and I don’t want her to come outside to search for us in this kind of weather.”
You battle a little bit and screw off the cap to hand the bottle to him, which he takes and grace your fingers with a kiss right after.
“I am still not used to not seeing the black tips in your hair. Sorry I was staring,” you apologize.
He laughs it off, internally relieved that you were not mad or rehearsing a prank forged with the twins in your head.
He still had some influence on them and intimidating them was not a problem. He also could retaliate without an ounce of guilt.
But while he could scold you —it is fun to see you being apologetic and trying to be forgiven, your pranks were rather mild too—he could never be mad too long, as your pranks were just, well kind. If the twins are not involved.
“I can understand. Look at me as much as you want, I’m here for this as well after all.” He stands up and pulls you up after closing and putting the strap of the cooler on his shoulder.
“Let’s go home.” And you follow him, carefully placing both of your hat to protect you from the sunrays.
“Wait a little bit and you will see; the roots will grow black at first and it will soon be as usual.”
“Really?!”
Three days later, his hair was green, courtesy of the twins giving you ideas.
2nd part: It is not natural.
Well, we could just say, it’s the power of something that made it like this bla bla bla (well, I mean it’s the author who chooses).
But nah, it’s no fun if we do not make theories! Because the world is… *whisper* conspiracy. Let’s forget the wig too for now.
Well, let’s start with something basic: it’s simply dyed.
Maybe the characters just thought it was cool to have them dyes like that and this could work for a lot of them, even in the less recent times as people started to dye their hair even 1500 BC. 300 BC prostitutes in the Roman Empire already dyed their hair blond too, using ashes of burned plants or nuts and in 2014 artificial-looking hair color became a trend! (https://www.byrdie.com/hair-color-history)
Exemple : Yashiro Nene, Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
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Nene-chan obviously is a hopelessly romantic teenager, and I am sure that she wants to follow trends just like she wants a boyfriend for the sake of, well, having a relationship at the beginning of the story.
So, pretty sure that with Aoi’s influence (she has the real power… help) they decided to dye the tip of her hair green in middle school.
(psst, PS: Aoi also tried to dye one strand green but her hairs were too dark, we can only distinguish the color when focusing)
(re psst: Akane directly noticed it).
Okay, a little funnier now. It’s because of an experimental failure, so a new kind of chemicals.
Example: Ishigami Senku, Dr Stone
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So, we know that he is a science nerd. And we know that he experiments a lot. Let’s just imagine mini-Senku, seeing his father and wondering why the hell does he resemble a radish? 
Then, mini-Senku trying to synthesize a greenish hair dye (because he wants to look like a leek), but failing, not because it doesn’t take the color, but because it stays.
Do you know what’s even funnier? He failed it when he was young, like ridiculously young (he is in first grade here, so 6/7 years old and already a fan).
So just imagine 5/6 years old Senku, just having his hair up and green one day and he understands that they will always be like this.
It’s due to their power <3
Maybe kind of a side-effect of their power, we could think of Todoroki (Shoto) whose fire side have red hair and white in the ice side, so simply a cool consequence of cool powers.
Example: Akugatawa Ryuunosuke, Bungo Stray Dogs
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Okay, so this is cannon, I’ve decided so. We all know he was poor, but like slums poor so he could just not afford to buy hair dye also there is no point in doing so.
BUT! During one of his fight, it happened. Rashomon ate the melanin at the tip of his hair. And since then, he decided it was cool and will keep it like this forever.
Scenarios! (・ω<)☆
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“A-are you sure it’s like that?”
“Of course, it is, just trust me Nene-chan~”
They were clearly messing things up. The shower curtain laid there, ripped off its place, soppy and stained green at some places.
The sink, crowded with various face products, hair accessories, nail polish and a myriad of different-colored eyeshadows from just as much different pallets. Clothes lingered on the floor, creating little mountains of fabric and you were wise enough to avoid stepping on one in fear of being stabbed by a lost hairpin.
In the middle—rather the left corner—of this mess stood your two friends, the stool having been knocked off by a panicked Nene made you worry about her tripping on it. Facing her was a smiling Aoi hands stuck on too-big plastic gloves and a bottle of hair dye in her hands.
“I thought I told you both to wait for me,” you sighed. “Here Aoi-chan, gimme the bottle and the gloves. Nene-chan, catch this.”
You threw your package to her, which she missed, and the cloth unfolded revealing the cape you borrowed from your father’ barber shop. You hanged the curtain up again and went back to the now wearing the cape Nene— you just named teepee-Nene.
You slipped on the gloves and verified the mixture they prepared. Deeming it good and usable, you began to separate the strands of Nene’s hair, clipping some up and untangling some burdensome ones.
Then, as she already applied the protecting product, you began to spread the dye on her tips, visualizing the lovely ombré she wanted.
From the corner of your eyes, you noticed Aoi growing bored by each new stroke of brush.
“Do you want have a dyed strand too? Though it could not take well because of the color and the washing you just did,” you offered.
“Yes!” she eagerly accepted, immediately pointing at a random point on her head. “Plus, we can trust you at one hundred percent!”
“Of course,” you chuckled, “I am used to do this.”
“You did most of your colors by yourself, yeah?” Nene asked.
“Yup,” you confirmed. “But my parents were okay with it, were almost encouraging me to do so, bleh. Contrary to some middle-schoolers I know.”
You yelped, escaping from Aoi’s traitor finger that just poked your side. Nene grinned, “Well, as miss high-school first year helped us, you are an accomplice. Don’t think you can escape being punished with us, (Y/n).”
Shaking your head, you went back to her, lightly pinching her arm through the cape and focusing on your task with the girls’ chatting serving as your background noise.
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“We should dye your hair too, (Y/n)!” The girls’ eyes sparkled.
“No do so kids.” You discarded the dye bottle in your hand. “The dye doesn’t work anymore, should have requested this sooner.” Ignoring their complains, you walked out of the bathroom, walking to the kitchen for some snacks.
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It was an ordinary day at the Ishigami household. Byakuya had checked his list, little shoes at the entrance, check. Clean living room and table, check. A walking Senku-sized mop, check. Groceries for dinner, check.
Byakuya turned around, checking again. Ah, he forgot the yogurts. Would it be weird to go back to the convenience store? They could skip yogurts for once, it wasn’t essential. What was important, however…
“Senku!! What happened to your head?!” He dashed to his son, grabbing his shoulders. “Did you get hurt? Wait you didn’t actually dive into a suspicious liquid right?” He paused. Then thought. He stared at him. “No, even if you want to test something you can’t just bath in it.”
Senku stared right back at him. And bonked his head.
“No I didn’t, I’m not stupid,” he reassured his father. “It’s hair dye,” he pointed out.
“Aah, I see…” He patted his hair before standing up. And tossed the child on his shoulder while ordering, “We are going to wash it away, immediately.”
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It wasn’t right. It didn’t go away.
“Why is it still stuck?!”
“I don’t know!! But stop, I’m going bald!! Help! He is trying to age a child! Human experiment!”
“I’m not, it doesn’t want t-oh, it’s disappearing.” Indeed, the water was now tinted a green color after streaming through Senku’s hair.
Byakuya sighed in relief. “Luckily it’s going away,” he started, “though it’s seems the tips already took the color in.”
Head down, Senku wrung out his hair and broke in a smile while confirming by himself Byakuya’s affirmation. “Yeah, I started by dyeing them first. Wanted to look like you.”
Byakuya froze. ‘He wanted to look like me?’ He glanced at his reflection. ‘I do have two hair colors.’ He grabbed a towel and spoke, “But you know, it’s not good to dye your hair this young. Come here, I’m gonna dry them.”
The child’s hairs were still thin, but the long strands would thicken later with no doubts. Byakuya was wary of his own strength too, as a child’s head remained fragile looking, Senku was still five after all. But this wouldn’t prevent him to mess with it a little bit.
Taking the hairdryer and a hair comb, he disentangled some knots here and there, added hair wax at each strand he lifted up until they were all up and with a radish-like form except from a tiny seaweed at the front.
“Tada! Here is my masterpiece. Keep it will you?” He ran away. “I’m going to the convenience store; I forgot the yogurts!” he shouted. “Tidy the bathroom up for now, thanks!"
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“What they didn’t know though,” the narrator started, “is that the chemicals would keep him looking like that, proudly wearing the same hairstyle 3,700 years later, a unique hairstyle, a relic from the modern era they knew.”
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Akugatawa was in a dire situation. A kind of situation he had been in plenty of times but could be the last one he lived through just like all the other ones.
The enemy was strong, not physically exceptional, but having grown enough muscles to defeat three or four kids like Akugatawa attacking him together.
It wouldn’t be a problem, for he was blessed with Rashomon, if only the man he was fighting wasn’t an ability user as well.
The worst, being that he didn’t underestimate him nor was he stupid as he cleverly used all the aspects of his ability, taking each openings Akugatawa dropped by inadvertence, creating numerous opportunities from them and further damaging the child’s body each time.
Akugatawa was certain now, that his enemy couldn’t be taken lightly and though it was pointless to ponder on this now, as he didn’t know if he would survive this fight, he was concerned on why someone this strong would be going after him.
The answer to his questioning could be a threat to his relative safety, as well as his sister’s and the other children’s.
He dodged, the outline of the shadow almost piercing through his head, its razor-sharp edges flaunting death in front of his eyes.
After many failures, he finally began to uncover the trick to resist the unknown ability. The man had been sending his shadow after him for some gruesome minutes now and Akugatawa recognized some patterns, his body learned to dodge and bend to escape even one blow.
But his knowledge stopped there, he couldn’t pinpoint how to stop the enemy, how the ability worked.
All kind of ability had some king of mechanism, he learned. His depended on his clothing as the beast was formed from it. If put naked in front of an enemy, he would be dead meat; separated from any kind of fabric he was just as vulnerable as he was as a newborn.
Yet, even when having Rashomon by his side he was struggling against the stronger, the more experienced ability user.
While the origin of the enemy’s weapon was his obviously shadow, he had no ideas how to make it disappear nor did he know how to stop the connection between the user and his shadow.
He blocked an attack—at least Rashomon could touch it—and the beast’s fangs tore through the black foggy blade making a bee line to the enemy’s neck.
From under him, the man defended himself. This action cost him his life as Akugatawa found his long-awaited solution.
Another attack, not from the ground—he learned that when closer to him, the enemy could raise his shadow as he wanted—but from above him.
He lifted his head; the tip dangerously close to him.
It allowed Rashomon to successfully break the crystal hidden underneath the layers of shadow, the blade shattering apart the moment the crystal was damaged.
Now that he found out the way to get rid of him, Akugatawa could unleash his beast and let it freely destroy the destabilized enemy in front of him.
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The enemy was gone and Akugatawa staggered to his home, the distance being longer than what he recalled. Having reached the entrance, he collapsed on the ground after seeing his sister quietly waiting for his return.
He woke up some hours later, the night had installed itself in the sky.
Something was strange however, as his sister was staring at him, eyes sparkling. He wondered why until she pointed at a strand of her hair that was framing her face and taking it, pushing him to mirror her actions with his own.
Indeed, where the black melanin was supposed to be, was now hairs devoid of color and white like an old man’s. His gaze trailed up to find out only the tip lost its color, the pattern where the colors met looking like sharp teeth.
“Big brother,” Gin started, “could you do the same for me? I want white tips too! And you must do the same at the other side, it would be prettier if it symmetrical.”
Did his sister just ask him to chomp her with Rashomon?
Bonus: Zenin Naoya <3<3<3, new technique
Hang him head down.
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First, you lure him into the garden, being a submissive, obedient and sweet wife, you want your dear husband who is finally at home to relax and you have prepared a surprise for him <3
So, you lead him to the garden, where you prepared a magnificent, grandiose gallows!
Not understanding the reason why it’s here but being arrogant enough for at least a hundred men; he asks his silly wife why something so grotesque was in the garden she adored to take care of
You smile sweetly and lean in to kiss him (him allowing you to do so of course, you couldn’t do this if he was not spoiling you but he was really good with you), wrapping your arms around his neck
Then, you let go of his neck, watching him slowly fall back.
“Oh, dear!” You chuckle after hearing the loud bang his head produced after kissing the ground
You grab the collar of his cloth with one hand, the other one patting the back of his head, fingers finally grazing the little bump, consequence of his fall.
You slam it. (´꒳`)♡
Then you drag him behind you, playing a little bit among the moist grass and zigzagging to admire the pretty flowers you took care of during all the times you had an affair with boredom behind your husband’s back.
1st step. You tightly tie the rope around Naoya’s feet, slipping his sandals in his trouser for him to be able to find them later, how thoughtful you are
2nd step. You get the basin you already prepared and then, you pour the hair dye inside of it
3rd step. You use your delicate arms to lift him up, pulling on the rope with the mechanism you prepared, only do this now or he could die from having too much blood going to his head. Again, you are a model for all wives with your thoughtfulness.
4th step. Let the tip of his hair soak in the hair dye and you can even use it to decorate your husband’s clothes ( ´ ▽ ` )
5th step. Let him dry here, he will take the dye in and have beautiful hair tips. When he wakes up, he won’t be calling the servants because of his pride but then take a little time to come off the gallows. And then, he will be so thankful towards his wife he might want to kill you without ever divorcing! (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄)
But you leave the garden before he wakes up, you want to surprise him.
You take your luggage, join the man/woman (dear boredom) you are actually having an affair with and get out of the house. You want him to fully experience his marriage after all, you will offer him the experience of being cucked.( ◡‿◡ *)
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