FINALLY !! After months and months of working, I finally finished this :D
Hope you all enjoy it :)
So I’ve been working here and there on bits and pieces of a reaction fic of my own, and here’s a bit of a ficlet that kinda shows what I’m going for lol.
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“This is it! This is my chance!“
In the present moment, Subaru’s face turned scarlet.
Julius snorted loudly, quickly moving to cover his mouth with his hand as Subaru’s antics quickly escalated onscreen. “Sorry,” he apologized. “I just— forgot about that part of what you are like.”
“Shut up,” Subaru muttered.
Ferris was making no such effort to hide his mad cackling. “I didn’t forget!” he crowed. “Aw, this is gonnya be so much fun. I’m nyever letting nya live ANY of this down—“
“Shut uuup—“
Ferris was having fun teasing him. Many of the more naïve members of the audience were giggling right alongside him — but on the other side of the theater, Wilhelm had a darker look on his face.
Beside him, Rem was sporting a similar expression. “Wilhelm-san, is it?” she said quietly.
“That is correct,” Wilhelm said, not unkindly. “How may this old man be of service?”
“That boy…” she chewed her lip. “He got dragged into an entirely different world,” she clarified. “Without his knowledge and against his will. He was left entirely alone on the streets of a strange city where he did not know the language, with no understanding of the world around him, no means by which to defend or provide for himself, and with nobody willing to help a stranger like him out of the goodness of their hearts.”
“That…is correct.”
Rem didn’t say anything more. She didn’t need to: Wilhelm had already come to the same conclusion as her — as had most other individuals throughout the theater, if the looks on all of their faces was any indication. Even Ferris had a subtle air to his movements that hinted at his teasing being more of an attempt at a distraction from that horrifying revelation than a genuine source of amusement — though perhaps it was both.
Emilia was not one of those individuals. Neither were Beatrice or Garfiel, both of whom she was attempting to shush. “It’s reeally not nice to laugh,” she scolded. “Subaru didn’t even want us watching any of this, so be nice. And we promised not to make fun of him for anything embarrassing we see here, remember?”
“Subaru makes it difficult not to laugh, I suppose,” Betty giggled.
“N-Nah,” Garfiel sucked in a breath, his mouth twitching. “Princess’ got a point,” he agreed. “This is already — kinda private. My amazing self wouldn’t want anyone laughing at my memories either, no matter how embarrassing. Captain deserves — at least a little grace —“
Everyone watched as onscreen Subaru was gently shoved away from a demihuman-only bar, somehow tripping over his own two feet and falling over the railing and into the river of the Capital.
Garfiel burst out laughing all over again. This time Emilia gave up on trying to make him stop.
“Is this really how it was supposed to be?” The Subaru onscreen muttered to himself, sitting in an alley, absolutely drenched. “Wasn’t I summoned into a parallel world?!”
Anastasia watched with interest as Subaru rifled through his things, grumbling. “That’s the metia you used to find the White Whale, ain’t it?” she pointed out, eyes flashing greedily. “How did that work if it was from another world? Did ya have a bunch of mabeasts there, too?”
Subaru shifted nervously, embarrassment being taken over by something resembling unease. “N-Not exactly,” he admitted.
“Hmm…” Anastasia watched the caged Subaru for a moment longer before turning back to the screen.
“The truth is,” onscreen Subaru was saying, “I have no idea what to do next, and I still have no idea how or why I was summoned. I don’t remember stepping into a mirror or falling in a pond —“
“Wait, so.” Julius frowned. Oddly enough, he seemed to be relaxing at the sound of this statement. “Is this sort of occurrence normal, then? For castaways from beyond the Great Waterfall.”
“…N-No,” Subaru admitted, his face burning. “I kinda just — i-it was a popular book trope back home, so…” He hunched in further on himself. “I just assumed things were like that?”
“Oh.” Julius looked uncomfortable all over again, perhaps even moreso now than before. “I see.”
“— and if I’m to believe this is the otherworldly summoning format I’m used to, where is the beautiful girl who summoned me?”
Julius choked, hastily coughing into his fist. Everyone else had no such restraint. The room burst into laughter once again.
“I think I knyow what kinds of stories Subaru-kyun likes to read!” Ferris teased.
“Can it!” Subaru retorted, face almost as red as Reinhard’s hair.
“You know,” Julius attempted to soothe, the corners of his mouth twitching. “I do have a number of romance novels in my collection. If you would like to borrow—“
Subaru buried his face in his knees and screamed, the sound muffled.