Like Rats Fleeing A Sinking Ship, Pt. 4

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

New ask game:

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.

I'm awfully curious about this and I really need to know.

like rats fleeing a sinking ship, pt. 10

Whumptober 2020 Day 15: Into The Unknown

Prompt: Possession

TW: guns, fight scenes, canon typical violence

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Only the tips of some of the tallest buildings are visible from where Kasumi stands on Shido’s ship. Akira had warned her about this, but it’s still off-putting. The rest of Tokyo was still normal in the previous two Palaces she’d seen.

Kasumi doesn’t want to think about what that means about the ruler.

“Are you ready to go?” Akec- er Crow asks, tapping a boot against the deck of the ship.

“Sorry!” Kasumi says.

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Got tagged by @memietroubadour for this tag game! Thanks!

Rules: Make a poll of your favorite female characters, as many or as little as you want, and see who your followers like the most!

Tag List: @yusuke-of-valla @princekirijo @latenitewaffles and anyone else who wants to do it! No pressure if you were tagged!

So, without further ado…

(I ran out of slots there are too many women I like…)

Whumptober Day 21: Spirit Possession

A/N: This is a Caligula Effect crossover, but you don't have to have played it to get what's going on.

this feeling of love for you

Saki finds Ichika on the roof of the school, humming a song she’s never heard before.

“Hey, Ichi!” Saki says. “Hona and Shi-chan said you were acting weird during class?”

Ichika keeps singing the song under her breath. “Even if it is distorted, even if it is rotten, even if it is stagnant, it’s still happiness!” 

“That a new song you’re working on?” Saki asks. “It’s uh, darker than usual but–”

“Saki, do you love me?” Ichika asks. 

“What? Of course!” Saki says. 

“Really? Truly?”

“Why are you asking?” Saki says, and Ichika spins around and takes her hands.

“Would you do anything to prove it to me?”

“Yes! Absolutely!”

“Promise? Anything?”

“Yes, Ichika, I’d do anything for you, I mean I’ve been in love with you since we were kids!

“Would you die for me?”

Saki stops. “Ichika, what are you talking about?”

“Tell me!” Ichika snaps. “Would you die for me?”

“Yes, of course, but tell me what’s–” Suddenly, Ichika pulls Saki in for a kiss, but something feels wrong about it.

“Finally,” Ichika breathes, a manic glint to her eye. “An Ichika with someone who loves her enough.”

“Ichi…” Saki says, “you’re starting to scare me.”

“Don’t worry about that Saki, if you love me, you’ll die with me!”

Saki’s heart stops. She doesn’t know how this is possible, but she feels it in her bones. “You’re not Ichika.”

“I am,” Ichika says. “I’m Ichika Saotome. A long time ago, my boyfriend broke his promise to me, so I’ve been floating around trying to find an Ichika with someone who loves her enough to do what he didn’t.”

“Get out of Ichi!” Saki snaps at the ghost, but Saotome shakes her head.

“No, not until you fulfill your promise!” Saotome says. “I’ve waited so long.”

“What promise did this boyfriend break?”

“We promised to die together, at the top of Landmark Tower, but he abandoned me at the last second,” Saotome says. “I died all alone, and I’ve been stuck here, in this hell of an Earth, waiting for so long.”

“So that’s what you want me to do? Go with you to Landmark Tower and die?” 

“You promised Saki, anything.”

“I promised to do anything for Ichika Hoshino, not you.”

“We’re the same now, and either way, Hoshino will die. The only thing you decide if I continue on to find another Ichika with someone who actually loves her. Someone who’s not a coward.”

Saki doesn’t say anything, and Saotome frowns. “If you do actually love me, then I’ll be at Landmark Tower at sunset.”

Saotome runs off, and Saki starts shaking as soon as she’s gone. She raises her head to the sky and screams until her voice is hoarse.

This ghost was puppetting around her Ichika to fulfill some twisted fantasy. No way can Saki let that happen. She’d do anything for Ichika.

Without hesitating, Saki texts Honami and Shiho.

We have until sunset to perform an exorcism.

Hi! Not sure if this counts but maybe Fuyune for the character thing?

Fuyune ABSOLUTELY counts

She is a character I love, a character I hate, and a character that I love to hate. She’s so perfect.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hoshino Ichika/Tenma Saki, Kamishiro Rui/Tenma Tsukasa, Aoyagi Touya/Shinonome Akito, Aoyagi Touya & Tenma Saki & Tenma Tsukasa, Background Ootori Emu/Kusanagi Nene, Background Shiraishi An/Azusawa Kohane Characters: Hoshino Ichika (Project SEKAI), Tenma Tsukasa, Kamishiro Rui, Aoyagi Touya, Shiraishi An, Kusanagi Nene, Ootori Emu, Azusawa Kohane, Mochizuki Honami, Tenma Saki, Hinomori Shiho, Shinonome Akito Additional Tags: Akitoya and Ruikasa attempting to get their sister a gf, also Shiho and VBS are friends I don’t take criticism, Wonderhoy!, rated T for Swearing Rui’s… Ruiness and the existence of Pomp and Circumstance, Fake/Pretend Relationship Summary:

When Saki is finally done with her brothers being absolutely fucking insufferable, she brings something up. She has a girlfriend, and she’s going to make them see how annoying they are!

Only problem is, she doesn’t actually have a girlfriend. Well, time to call up her friends and beg for help!

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Genei Ibun Roku #FE | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, Persona 5 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akagi Touma & Tsurugi Yashiro, Akagi Touma & Akechi Goro, Tsurugi Yashiro & Akechi Goro Characters: Akagi Touma, Tsurugi Yashiro, Akechi Goro Series: Part 3 of The Misadventures of the cast of Masqueraider Ouga Summary:

Touma and Yashiro read fanfics of their characters in Ouga being shipped. Enough said.

Day 23: Broken Pedestal

how many times have I conceded?

“When you were a kid, did you look up to your dad?” An asks, suddenly.

It’s their first day back at school after the confrontation with Taiga, and Akito’s busy during lunch, so it’s just the two of them, alone in a crowded cafeteria.

“A few months ago, I would have said no,” Toya admits, between bites of lunch. “But if I’m being honest? There was a time when I was young I would have called him the best musician in the world. I looked forward to going to his shows, seeing him play in crowded concert halls for thousands of people, bring them to tears, it made me proud.”

“When did it stop?”

Toya closes his eyes. “I think, I was at a concert of his with Mother, and he performed, and Mother was driven to tears, and I felt nothing. He’d always called classical the greatest gift to mankind, the best way of expressing emotions, and here I was not feeling anything. All I could think of after that was how stiff and rigid I was. My father called me perfect as always, and I wasn’t, and that was the moment I let myself think ‘father is wrong’ for the first time.

“I’d thought I didn’t want to practice, or wished I could be more like the Tenmas, but I never thought he was wrong until that moment. From there it just…”

“All fell away?” An says. “Like now all of a sudden you’re only seeing the dark parts of everything he did?”

Toya nods. “Exactly.”

“Yeah,” An says. “I’ve been thinking about it, trying to come to terms with the fact that Dad never told me about Aunt Nagi, that he didn’t let me know she was sick, that he let me think she was coming back.”

Toya doesn’t offer her any hollow sympathies, he simply motions for An to keep going.

“He was wrong,” An says. “They all were, I mean. Why would you want to spend the last moments of your life lying to your niece? Why would you want to hear your daughter talk about everything she’s going to tell someone she’s never going to see again? Why would you take your sister’s dying wish to support the next generation and just shatter it?”

“Yes,” Toya says. “They were wrong.”

With those three words, An feels a weight she didn’t know she was carrying come off her chest. “You know, when I was little I thought Dad didn’t love me because he was so busy performing. And after I ran away, everyone talked about how much he cared about me, and how happy he was to hear me sing. They made a point of it. And they all did it while knowing he was keeping me in the dark. So how could he love me when he can’t even be honest with me?”

“I wish I had the answer to that.” Toya says. “How can they love us when they don’t listen, how an they love us when they don’t consider our feelings?”

“He does, though,” An asks. “Right?”

“He does,” Toya admits, “but it never makes it better.”

“Yep,” An pops some chicken into her mouth. “It never makes it better.”