Having A Bad Day So Time To Write Some Very Very Sad Fanfiction And Project My Feelings Onto Fictional

Whumptober Day 13: Family Curses

A/n: Yoka Tono is @yumizurueleonora and my name for Arata's mom, we've written her a ton of times.

Hereditary

Oh, Arata thinks, I’m actually going to die.

He’s thought that before, when Souma had to leave to go the hospital first and foremost, but now he actually feels it.

Like something has a vice grip on his heart and the rest of him is wasting away. It hurts. It hurts so much.

Taiga was right, he was just avoiding the pain. This pain. And now that he knows he can't surpass RAD WEEKEND, it's going to kill him.

-

When Akito hears a knock at his door, he assumes it’s Ena and after the thrashing they just got from Taiga he doesn’t want to deal with her.

The knocking doesn’t go away after ignoring it, so finally Akito rolls off his bed.

“Go away shithead, I don’t–” the insult dies in his mouth when Akito sees his dad looking at him grimly.

“Akito, I need to talk to you,” Shinei says and hoo boy whatever Akito thought Ena was going to bug him about, he wants this even less.

“Ok?” Akito says, sitting at his desk while his father sits on his bed.

“So, Akito, I won’t ask for the details about whatever happened tonight,” Shinei starts and oh thank Miku for that. “But I’m going to guess something happened at your show, it went poorly, and you’re feeling very dejected right now.”

Understatement of the fucking century.

“But,” Shinei continues. “It’s probably good that this happened now and not when you’re older so you know how to deal with it. And Akito, no matter what happened or how bad you feel, you cannot give up on singing.”

Akito blinks. “What?”

“You cannot under any circumstances give up your creative passions after you turn 20.”

“Who are you and what did you do with my dad?” Akito asks. 

“Akito I’m being very serious right now.”

“Isn’t this like the exact opposite of what you told Ena?” Akito says. “Something about art being super lonely?”

“Ena isn’t cursed.”

“Excuse me?” 

Shinei is deathly serious. “The firstborn sons of the Shinonome family are cursed to die if they lose their drive to be creative after they turn 20.”

“What?”

“We all naturally have a passion for doing something creative, and if that drive is ever lost it will kill us,” Shinei says.

“If this is a joke, it REALLY isn’t funny.”

“Akito have I ever told a joke in your life?”

“Oh shit,” Akito says. Then his brain catches up with everything his dad says and he grabs his phone and starts texting

He sees a news alert before he can get the message out though.

Unidentified male, seemingly in his 20s, found collapsed…

“Crap,” Akito says. “Get in the car we have to go to the hospital.”

“What?” Shinei asks. “Why?”

“Because I’m not your firstborn son

-

Souma has to beg the nurses to let him see Arata. 

The doctors don’t know what’s wrong with him, but they’re doing everything they can to keep him alive.

It was Akito who texted Toya, and since Toya knew Arata was at the hospital a lot, asked if one of Souma’s nurses could confirm his identity.

After that they were reluctant to let Souma see him because of what was going on, but eventually they relented.

Dying.

How could Arata be dying? Souma was supposed to die first, probably should have in the initial car crash.

Arata has a perfect bill of health; he can’t just collapse with some unknown condition!

But there he is, lying on a hospital bed, with vitals Souma knows too well means things are bad, impossibly pale.

He grasps Arata’s hand in his good one and doesn’t let go, even as Yoka arrives and starts crying, and Toya, An, and Kohane show up to comfort him.

An looks like she’s already been crying today, but Souma doesn’t ask. 

Finally, Akito arrives with a man who does kind of look like Arata.

“Hello,” the man with Akito says. “I’m Shinei Shinonome, I believe this is my fault?”

Yoka spins around and slaps him, and Shinei nods.

“I probably deserved that. I’m so sorry Yuma, I didn’t know you were pregnant.”

“It’s Yoka.”

“Oh,” Shinei says. “Just slap me again if you want.”

“What I want is to know what’s going on with my son.”

“Right. Ok so, the firstborn sons of the Shinonome family are afflicted with a curse that hits when they become 20. After that point if they lose their creative drive, they die.”

“Arata… lost his creative drive?” Souma gasps.

“Him, along with everyone else in our group,” Kohane mutters. “Taiga decided to challenge us to show us we couldn’t surpass RAD WEEKEND.”

Souma winces “It went that badly?”

“Yeah,” An says. “Aunt Nagi’s dead.”

“She died at your show?!”

“No, she’s been dead for three years and everyone in town knew except us.”

“What about Arata?” Souma says instead of processing that. “Even if Taiga was tough and Nagi was dead he wouldn’t just give up–”

“Taiga told him he’d never be able to surpass RAD WEEKEND because he didn’t really care about it.” Toya says, “because really all he cared about was keeping his promise to you.”

Taiga… used Souma to hurt Arata? Lead him to almost die (albeit unintentionally on Taiga’s part)?!

Souma takes a deep breath and turns back to Arata. “Hey, partner, I know you can hear me. I’m sorry about what Taiga said to you. He’s a bastard. Anyway, apparently you need to keep being creative or you’ll die, and I know this is selfish, but I need you to live for me, partner. Don’t keep being a singer if you don’t want to, write, or draw, or do anything. I don’t care, but I love you partner and I need you to live!”

Souma repeats “I need you to live” like it’s a prayer, and soon he feels movement in his hand. He jerks his head up. “Arata?!”

“Hey, partner,” Arata says weakly. “What happened?” Arata takes a look around the room and his smile drops. “What the hell are the rest of you doing here?”

“Glad you’re ok,” Akito says. “Anyway, it turns out you inherited a curse from our dad.”

“Oh of fucking course,” Arata says. “God, anything else I need to know about?”

“Please tell me you don’t have a second family curse,” Yoka says.

“No,” Shinei says. “We used to think there was another one, but when I was a kid we figured out that autism was just really common in my family so other than those, that should be everything.”

“What about the allergy to penicillin?” Akito asks.

“That’s your mother’s side of the family.”

“Great well if you haven’t given me any more troubles can you get out? I’m having a moment with my partner here. The rest of you leave too.”

“Excuse me?” Yoka says. “You just nearly died, I don’t care how much you love Souma, you’re not kicking me out.”

“Ok fine, everyone except my mom and my partner get the hell out.”

“Glad you’re not dead, by the way,” An says. “You know the worst day of my life would be even worse if that happened. Still doing shit otherwise, thanks for asking.”

“Oh my god, we’ll deal with that later.”

“I want to point out that I’m the one who realized you might die and rushed over here,” Akito says.

“Thank you, now get out.”

Everyone except Yoka leaves, and Arata smiles the prettiest smile in the world.

“I guess we’ll have to stay partners,” Arata says. “Or else I’ll die. How could I possibly have any creative drive without you?”

“Oh no, how terrible,” Souma says, and he doesn’t hesitate. He leans in to kiss Arata for the first time in far too long.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5, Genei Ibun Roku #FE | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Amamiya Ren & Aoi Itsuki, Aoi Itsuki & Tsurugi Yashiro, Aoi Itsuki & Kitagawa Yusuke, Amamiya Ren & Kitagawa Yusuke, Amamiya Ren & Tsurugi Yashiro, Kurusu Akira & Aoi Itsuki, Kitagawa Yusuke & Kurusu Akira, Kurusu Akira & Tsurugi Yashiro, Kurono Kiria/Tsurugi Yashiro, Akechi Goro/Kitagawa Yusuke, Amamiya Ren/Sakamoto Ryuji, Kurusu Akira/Sakamoto Ryuji, Persona 5 Protagonist/Sakamoto Ryuji, Akagi Touma/Aoi Itsuki, Persona 5 Protagonist & Aoi Itsuki, Persona 5 Protagonist & Tsurugi Yashiro, Kitagawa Yusuke & Persona 5 Protagonist, Aoi Itsuki & Shimazaki Maiko Characters: Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Kurusu Akira, Kitagawa Yusuke, Tsurugi Yashiro, Kurono Kiria, Akechi Goro, Aoi Itsuki, Persona 5 Protagonist, Akagi Touma, Sakamoto Ryuji Additional Tags: Yashiro and Yusuke you two BETTER eat, that’s it. That’s the whole fic., The relationships are pretty background so you can ignore them, anyway I’m starting to ship Akekita and you can blame @a_salty_alto, so that’s why background akekita Summary:

Ren and Itsuki are trYING THEIR GODDAMN BEST TO GET THEIR FRIENDS TO EAT BUT THEY W O N ‘ T!

Should I be sleeping? Yes. Did I write a fic about Itsuki and Ren trying to get Yusuke and Yashiro to eat? Also yes. 

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

Update: Hey, it’s the girl who was having problems with her Ranger Geek classmate. I know it’s only been like a day and a half but long story short I ended up time traveling and spent a month and a half bouncing around and fixing up the timeline with her and a few other kids and met the past versions of my dads before they adopted me? It was a whole thing. Long story short after a month and a half with the past version of S who immediately after realizing that I was his daughter from the future started trying to connect with me I kinda realized that he really did care about me? It was kind of insane.

I also started connecting with Ranger Geek more, and she was… really nice to me. She told me things I needed to hear, and snapped me out of my self-loathing and told me about little things that I never noticed because I was so sure he didn’t care about me, like about how he would smile when I did something right or how apparently he has a picture of us together on my last birthday on his desk.

Long story short, we’re actually dating now! I introduced her to J and S (Who I finally managed to start calling Dad, by the way! He was so happy about it!), and…

Well, J liked her, but S immediately started with the shovel talk. Turns out he didn’t like her as much as I thought and wanted us to be friends because he thought she could keep up with me, but he doesn’t think she’s good enough to be my girlfriend? So I don’t know what to do about that, but… all’s well that ends well?

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lyrical clarity (knocking some sense into you)

Apollo doesn’t pay attention to who’s part of his favorite bands–he just appreciates the music as-is. Of course, this means that he’s entirely caught off-guard when it turns out that the lead singer of his favorite group is none other than Klavier Gavin.

Naturally, he goes to confront Klavier, only to find that there’s still more truths to uncover–and a lot that they’ve still got to talk about.

I promised this would be posted on Valentine’s Day, and as there’s still half an hour before midnight in my time zone, I’ve fulfilled my promise! Hopefully it’s worth the wait–I’ve had this one in progress for several months, and just couldn’t figure out how to end it. But I’m generally happy with how it’s turned out, and that’s all that matters, I think.

I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

Every writing advice ever: If you’re having trouble with a scene, skip it and write a different part of the story.

Me: If I don’t write in chronological order, I will die

ACTUALLY this is my blog I can do what I want anyway here are songs/roles all the ProSeka theater kids would love because I’m a massive theater kid. Obviously not a comprehensive list but I do have playlists for some of these guys.

Tsukasa: ROXIE FUCKING HART. Roxie is his dream role straight up and I will not hear criticism he’s ABSOLUTELY going to kill it as Roxie and he definitely has a whole routine to the song Roxie that Toya and all of L/n know how to help with. Aside from that, he could also absolutely pull off Jack from Into The Woods because Giants In The Sky is such a good Tenor song, and absolutely Extraordinary from Pippin. He should just be Pippin in general.

Emu: Okay this is where things start to go a little off the rails, but ever since I saw that scene on that event in JP where she uses that deep voice for acting, I’ve thought that she would KILL it in roles that Grace McLean performed. So like Marya Dmitrievna from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 or The Queen of Hearts from Alice by Heart. I’d pay money to hear an Emu cover of In My House or Isn’t It A Trial?

Nene: She’s a Disney bitch through and through. The easiest answer is obviously Ariel from The Little Mermaid Broadway, she’d kill Beyond My Wildest Dreams and it’s fitting due to the everything. Aside from that though, her sharp tongue means that I directly associate her with roles like Janis Ian from Mean Girls and Veronica Sawyer from Heathers.

Rui: God. Rui’s so much fun. The biggest role I desperately want him to do is the Leading Player from Pippin. Magic to Do is just his song through and through. A close second place though is Billy Flynn from Chicago, because honestly he just would. Razzle Dazzle is such a good song for him. Also Anatole Kuragin from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 because I KNOW he’d kill the “For PETERSBURG!” In Pierre & Anatole.

Sakurako: Sakurako could do anything she put her mind to, but honestly I think she deserves some villain songs. She’d kill them SO HARD. Stuff like Helené Bezukhov from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 because Charming is brilliant. Also not a villain song, but Lily Malevsky from Anastasia is also a great role choice for her because I can see her doing Land of Yesterday like it’s nobody’s business.

Asahi: Asahi is kind of hard in my opinion because I can see him doing literally anything but also he feels like a more classical role character. Like Jean Valjean from Les Miserables or Raoul from Phantom of the Opera. My funnier option is Vlad from Anastasia because Sakurako and Asahi doing The Countess and the Common Man is very funny to me.

Saki: Saki Tenma, love of my life. She’s a theater kid because I said so she’s literally Tsukasa’s little sister if she isn’t one I’d be more surprised. But anyway, Saki has that youthful ingenue feel that a lot of female leads have, like Natasha Rostova from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Cady Heron from Mean Girls, and Anya from Anastasia. I think she’d kill No One Else, In My Dreams, and Stupid With Love especially.

Toya: See Saki, he’s a theater kid. He’s so funny because he’s got a vibe that’s so different from the others, so I think roles like Pierre Bezukhov from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, pulling off a kickass Dust and Ashes. Other stuff he can definitely pull off are Christian from Moulin Rouge! And Dr. Jim Pomatter from Waitress.

Arata: I don’t know what it is but I feel like he’s bitchy enough to be a theater kid there’s something about him. But he’s definitely got a lot of roles down. He’d be such a good Aaron Burr from Hamilton. Wait For It is just him about Akito. He’d also make a brilliant Orin Scrivello from Little Shop of Horrors. I think he could kick ass at Dentist!

Please someone ask me about my thoughts on the ProSeka theater kids and what their best songs would be. I have whole playlists dedicated to this question. Please.

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