#shikiritsu

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Not gonna lie, Shiki is my favorite guy from Dance with Devils anime and when I got to know that he’s the main male character and Ritsuka’s endgame in the manga, I knew I’ll have to read it somehow. It’s a bit sad it’s hard to find the majority of manga online in the language I know, but I don’t give up %)

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Endless list of fictional crushes (8/∞) - Shiki Natsumezaka (Dance with Devils)

Yay, another reverse harem anime and another weird guy to my fictional crushes collection XD A dark haired sadomasochistic fallen angel definitely sounds as my type of fictional guy.

My ships for him: with Ritsuka (two-sided canon in the manga and potentially in the games, one-sided attraction/lust in the anime) and with Azuna (mutual hate/loathing in canon; Shiki even almost killed her and was mocking her dead body after she was killed by someone else... well, it’s definitely not the most problematic of my ships XD).

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Shiki (& ShikiRitsu) playlist 🥀🌒

Danse Macabre

Adelaide's Trap - Over The Garden Wall soundtrack

Puppet Loosely Strung - The Correspondents

Bernadette - IAMX

The Night - Aurelio Voltaire

Nightmares / Nightmares In Paradise - Palaye Royale

сердце получает нож - Ploho

The Bomb - Florence + the Machine

In a Week - Hozier

Insomnia - IAMX

Mercy - IAMX

It Will Come Back - Hozier

After Dark - Mr. Kitty

Destroy Me - Mr. Kitty

Church - Fall Out Boy

Beloved - Beware of Darkness

Oleander - Mother Mother

FOR YOUR LOVE - Måneskin 

Blood In the Cut - K.Flay

Stalker's Tango - Autoheart

Sex with a Ghost - Teddy Hyde

Welcome to Paradise - Grandson

[narakunonish]

Ritsuka: Shiki, come over.

Shiki: Can’t right now. I’m busy trying to make Roen suffer.

Ritsuka: My brother isn’t home...

Shiki:

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I want a ShikiRitsu childhood friends AU

I know it doesn't exactly work with the angel/human age difference, but I've got a few ideas and a playlist

Mostly, I watched this movie, The Living Dead Girl I think it was called?

And the main characters are childhood friends and when they were kids, one of them said that if they mix their blood together and say an incantation, they'll be friends forever / together forever

And the other girl is hesitant because she wants them to be together forever, but you know, bloodletting. But she agrees in the end.

And I think Shiki would do that. ShikiRitsu have such a vibe of "little girls playing together" sometimes, I don't know how to explain it

And later in the movie, when they're adults, one of the girls turns into some vampire-adjacent creature. And she needs blood. So the other girl, as much as it hurts her, kills a bird and brings it to her friend. But that doesn't work, so in the end, she offers her own blood

I'll expand on this eventually, but do I have some ideas and a playlist

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Very normal about them tonight <33

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I wanna put ShikiRitsu in a music box <3

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ShikiRitsu devil route, but it’s actually Ritsuka succumbing to Shiki and indulging in the most depraved shit known to man

Or better yet, Blight ch8, the freedom of choice under the guise of corruption

Ritsuka: Roen and the vampire called me "the devil king's daughter". I'm not human. That’s why I hurt everyone. I can’t go back.

Shiki: Hey, Ritsuka, let's go somewhere far away. With my wings, I'll take you anywhere

Ritsuka: Will you stay with me?

Shiki: Yes, because you're my bride. That time, you took my hand, didn't you?

Ritsuka: I did.

I've been going through Rem's route with a friend and I think it's such a shame that she's allowed so much agency, even in his devil ending, but not with Shiki, when she and Shiki are first introduced as equals. She becomes the devil queen in 3 goddamn routes, but isn't allowed to hold Shiki in place?

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A simple haircut, but nothing is ever that simple with Shiki

Rated T | 1,091 words | established ShikiRitsu, post-canon, post Shiki's human end 1, hair cutting and light sadism, second person point of view

One thing I never ever thought I'd write is "hair cutting as an act of sadism". There's a first time for everything I guess

Read on Ao3

Actually I encourage you to read this on ao3. I did my best to keep my handwriting neat, but I did it more as a piece of art, than for the fic to be read this way. And the ending is slightly different in wording, but honestly I didn't want to go through the trouble of scanning it again for a few words that were rearranged lol

The drawings don't really mean anything, I just decided to keep them in cause I drew them in the drafts and liked them

Summary

"Cutting your hair like this…" you comb your fingers through it with ease, curl it, release it and repeat. Her hair that she entrusted you with, soft and fragile and split to the ends, that's why she let you.

"It's also a way to hurt you. Did you know?"

Ritsuka huffs a laugh and shakes her head. "No," she decides and pushes her head further in your hand. "You're not."

Or: That one time Shiki cuts Ritsuka's hair and it goes as well as you'd expect it to

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Got emotional over ShikiRitsu tonight so I made something in picrew (link)

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Rem/Ritsuka/Shiki domestic headcanons

(good-human-ending Shiki, Ritsuka officially dating Rem and Shiki, the boys don't have a name for their relationship yet)

Rem seems like the type to sleep with pajamas on. Maybe a long pants + long sleeved button-up combo

Ritsuka has sleep clothes in canon, but I think she sleeps with whatever. She'll even take one of Rem's day shirts

Shiki canonically sleeps naked, but I think he'd try on Rem's shirts once in a while. He seems to like looser fitting shirts

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Lindo gets mad at Shiki for sleeping in Ritsuka's bed? Well one time he finds Shiki in his own bed. Obviously he kicks Shiki out, but Shiki gets a good chuckle out of it

I think Lindo would accept Shiki before Rem due to their rivalry over Ritsuka. When he finally does, Rem is (begrudgingly) welcomed as a guest for lunch with the whole family

Rem helps Maria set the table, while Shiki and Lindo bring the food

Rem eats a little out of politeness, but Maria is the first to catch on that he's still a devil. I think she'd keep the conversation going after everyone starts eating, so he doesn't have to sit in silence

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Rem adjusts pretty well to living a more "human" life, but there's still some little moments where it's obvious he's not. Shiki ends up being a comforting presence, by just existing as a human, unintentionally guiding Rem

And even when some things become normal habits to Shiki, he still remembers when he wasn't like that

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Human-ending Shiki lives with Ritsuka, but I feel like if Rem is in the picture, he's gonna spend some nights at Rem's place, since he doesn't have his own room at Ritsu's

And sometimes Ritsuka spends the night at Rem's

Rem would be the least likely to spend the night at Ritsuka's, partially because of Lindo, but also because I don't see them having more than 4 rooms (living room, Ritsuka's, Lindo's and Maria's)

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Rem and Shiki at Rem's place, in his bedroom doing whatever. Ritsuka walks in, her overnight backpack over her shoulder and says "I'm home" with a sweet smile :")

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I feel like Rem is a light sleeper

Shiki tends to wake up if he feels he's left alone in bed, but once he's entered deep sleep, he tends to stay asleep

Ritsuka sleeps like a log until she's had her 6 hours of sleep

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Late night, they're all together at Rem's place and Shiki can't sleep. He accidentally wakes Rem up when he gets out of bed

Rem blinks at him, too tired for words, and Shiki just whispers that he's going for a walk

When he comes back, Rem wakes up again, either with the sound of his clothes rustling, or when he gets in bed again. Rem just groans a little and gets more comfortable. Ritsuka doesn't wake up

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Rem coming home later, Shiki and Ritsuka already asleep snuggling in his bed

Going back to what I said before: Rem watching them softly while he changes. Maybe one of them wakes up and waves their hand to tell him "Come to bed already". Or maybe no one wakes up. And in the morning they all wake up together

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Shiki proves himself a wonderfully annoying alarm. Good thing Rem wakes up before him. Ritsuka is not so lucky... Maybe Rem wakes her up before Shiki can, just to spare her

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It's canon that Rem plays shogi before school, right?

Shiki and Ritsuka making themselves breakfast and coming to sit with him

Or maybe he finds them in the kitchen/dining room when he's done and it's this sweet "Good morning, Rem" with a soft smile on their faces

Rem up playing shogi, Shiki comes up to him, still groggy, and plops his head on Rem's shoulder from behind. Ritsu comes afterwards with a blanket around her and takes his other shoulder

Heh. Shiki and Ritsu getting breakfast in bed thanks to Rem's servants

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Chapter 7, but it's Ritsuka reluctantly allowing Shiki to stay in her house before he starts his "woe is me I'm lonely" charade

I keep thinking about how Ritsuka tries to stay strong and not cry in Rem's route. How he tells her not to cry, and even when he accepts she needs to cry, he'd still rather not see her sad

Devil Route Shiki could've been Ritsuka, for the first time, not feeling like she has to hide her pain for others' sake. Getting the push she needs to be honest with her feelings, the good and the bad. Because with Shiki, she doesn't perceive the same risk of alienating him if he finds pleasure in it

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Earlier he said he wants to put a collar on her. I, personally, think they should both be collared together. It's what he would want.

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Congratulations to Mirnatius x Irina fans

Mirnatius/Irina won with Shikiritsu in my one true ultimate shipping tournament and advanced to round two!    

Shikiritsu fans, don’t weep, because your ship remains awesome!

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I'm obsessed with the line "I'm the child that you just didn't have time to conceive" from Farewell Wanderlust as a Shiki and ShikiRitsu concept