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whitherliliesbloom · 4 years

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[ ffxivwrite2020 ] ★ [ masterlist ] ★ [ prompt #21 - foibles ]

[ illya & laurelis ] ★ [ 1,611 words ] ★ [ shijin au ]

takes place in an au where doma is split into 4 feuding clans who go to war every seven years over an important plot of land. laurelis and illya are part of the smallest eastern clan.

the dawn azalea was known for her worrying recklessness, but it’s made even worse when it came to small, helpless animals

“Laurelis, you’re scaring the cat.”

The gold hues of the setting sun baked the village in a warm glow, reflecting off the luster woven hair of the twilight sakura as she crossed her arms over her chest, watching as her companion a few summers her elder cooed and mewed at the trembling feline as if she were a child. From beneath the ominous grin of the oni she wore, the samurai’s eyebrows furrowed and her lips were pressed into a thin line.

It wasn’t as if Illya was against giving shelter to homeless animals, far from it. But it’s plain to see that the cat, lost and confused as it was, wants absolutely nothing to do with the larger, more humanoid looking cat person towering over it despite her already lowering herself onto her knees.

From beneath the cover of the oni mask, the young samurai lets out a sigh when the cat backs away from Laurelis, only for the maiden to scurry closer to it.

“It’s okay! Don’t be afraid, kitty! I’m here to help you!”

Laurelis rolls up the sleeve of her pink haori and reaches her hand out to the kitten, a little one with matted orange fur and wide chestnut eyes that glances down at her wiggling fingers with some amount of curiosity.. before letting out a meow and turning away to run.

“A-Ah! Wait!”

The young woman stands herself up to give chase, much to the dismay of her shorter, more sensible companion.

“Laurelis! Wait a moment- It’s-” Her voice goes ignored, as does her gloved hand reaching out to her friend, who has already sprinted through the village square and seems intent on chasing the cat all the way out of the safety of the bordered walls. “Sunset...”

She lets out a heavy sigh, tilting her head up to the sky as she watches the hues of the sky grow darker and darker with each passing moment the light of the sun’s rays graced over them. Soon, twilight will be upon them, their last bastion before the moon will rise, and the dark of the night has been known to be far more treacherous than day, especially for those foolish enough to step outside the safety of their clan borders.

She was ever the amaterasu to her tsukuyomi, that Laurelis.. and it was even reflected upon the titles they’d been granted by their foes and peers. It’d felt like forever since the two met, with Laurelis bright extroversion, nurtured in no small part by being spoiled by her parents, standing in stark contrast to her own tense and awkward nature around others.

And though Illya had always been envious of Laurelis radiant personality, and the way she’d effortlessly commanded the attention of everyone around her.. she did also wish she’d be a bit more...sensible when it came to her own safety and the safety of those around her. It wouldn’t hurt to exercise some amount of caution, especially knowing just how dangerous Doma is with the much anticipated war nearing. Laurelis had as much grace as a bull in an antique shop.

It’s made even worse in the presence of animals. Illya has seen Laurelis been reduced to tears at the mere mention of a lost pet. And she’d been completely and utterly incapacitated at the sight of a group of ducklings waddling their way through the city while they had been on their way to an important meeting with the clan heads.. to which the both of them later got sternly reprimanded for their late coming.

Admittedly, Illya had far better rapport with flowers and nature, and she was in no real position to speak when she’d happily spend hours upon hours nurturing the growth of the handful of flowerbeds they had blooming in their village. And had she the time, she’d expand her interests further across the Eastern Clan, cultivating as many gardens as much as time and her age would allow her... were it not for her responsibilities as daughter of the founder.

And it was that self-restraint, that burden of responsibility and obligation to her training that weighed her down, while Laurelis was ever free to express herself, pursue whatever she wished and wore every inch of her heart upon her sleeves.

But thank the kami that they got along as well as they did despite their differences.. and that the sakura of the twilight skies wasn’t nearly as callous as her patron deity of the moon as to leave her friend alone when she needed help. Laurelis’ safety and happiness far outweighed the importance of her obligations.

With a heaving sigh, Illya adjusted the straps of her mask. She fastens the purple sageo of her decorated scabbard, upon which the surface had been painted with a myraid of sakura petals, and tucks it tighter into her obi before sprinting off after her friend.

“Laurelis!”

Her dear friend’s recklessness truly knows no bounds, Illya laments internally as she runs out the borders of clan walls, despite warnings from the guards and all the way up the hill that led up to the treacherous Ryurin fields.

Crossing the war torn fields of no man’s land, Illya finally catches sight of her friend as she climbs up a hill, calling her name but abruptly stopping in her tracks when she sees what was ahead of them.

An orange feline, far larger and dangerous than the one that was mewling and trembling in Lauerelis’ arms, glared daggers at the miqo’te, and more specifically the prey pressed up against her chest. Small though it may be, food was still food, especially within this utterly cruel world - where you either feasted upon others, or are waiting to be feasted upon.

Its sabretooth is bared, and the tiger lets out a loud growl as if in demand for its food to be released, and Laurelis takes a step back.

“D-don’t come any closer!”

“Laurelis! What are you doing??”

The pink haired miqo’te doesn’t take her eyes off the tiger to turn her head back, knowing that doing so would lead to the helpless kitten in her care being put in danger, but she manages a nervous laugh back at Illya.

“I-I um.. may have forgotten my katana..”

“Kami forfend...” Reckless and suicidal, Laurelis’ little foibles were proving to be more than little, unimportant eccentricities at this point.

Twilight bathes preys and predator alike in a rapidly darkening glow, and Illya slowly reaches her hand to rest upon the handle of her katana.

The tiger evidently has no patience to wait for nightfall, and with a loud roar, it lunges towards the dawn azalea with its razor teeth bared. And with no regard for herself, Laurelis turns her back to the tiger, shielding the kitten tightly in her grasp.

“Begone with you!”

A flurry of cherry blossoms circle them, and the wind rises to blow them high into the sky as Laurelis hears but a single telltale sound of metal - the sound of a sword being drawn. And when she works up the courage to turn around, she sees Illya ahead of the tiger, the glow of her katana’s blade as threatening as it was comforting against the orange pink hues of the atmosphere, cutting through fear as if it were but a fine thread. The sakura petals that flew into the air flutter back to earth, each carried along upon the wind as if in an entrancing dance.

And the tiger behind her stood still, before the fur along its side and back falls off. And with a frightened whimper, the predator scurries away back towards the mountains, and Illya finally sheaths her sword.

“Illya! Are you okay?” Laurelis calls out and runs forward, an equal amounts of relief and remorse plastered across her face.

“I’m fine.” Illya responds, running slender fingers through her silken locks. Though her expression was completely obscured beneath the grin of the oni, Laurelis can tell her friend was herself heaving a sigh of relief. “That was a little too close for comfort.”

“I-I’m so sorry... I was.. I was being so stupid and careless.. If you hadn’t followed me.. I-” The miqo’te bites back her words, glistening tears pooling in her mismatched eyes that threatened to spill out and trickle down her face.

Illya’s silence was no comfort, especially not when she could not tell from the expression upon her masked face just how she was looking up at her. Was Illya disappointed? Angry? She’d have every right to be both, and she was almost certain she’d permanently earned her friend’s disdain when Illya finally responds, her voice lowering in volume.

“Don’t worry. I’m just glad you’re both okay.”

It’s a tone of voice she doesn’t get to hear often, especially not in public.. a voice that stood in stark contrast to the pretense of a refined and mature warrior Illya has grown so used to, a pretense that has become wholly a part of her. But Laurelis knew this voice to be the true Illya, one of an unparalleled gentleness and kindness towards her that she believed she did not deserve.

“So what are you going to name it?” Illya asks, turning as she begins to lead the pair down the hill back towards their village, and Laurelis pauses for a moment to contemplate before replying with a sunny grin.

“How about ‘tora’?”

“‘Tiger’? You mean.. like the one I just shaved clean..?”

A girlish giggle rises up into the air, along with an affectionate mewling of a cat.

“Well.. I was already reminded of a tiger when I saw his fur.. that was just a funny coincidence.”

#ffxiv #ffxivwrite #ffxivwrite2020 #illya skawi #laurelis #shijin au #fanfic #mine #kiwisffxivwrite2020 #look i wrote something for this au!!!#this was actually pretty fun to write

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reiranhell · 4 years

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💝🚨💞 (The Utapri questions uwu)

JAJEJCSOCJSOWD THANK YOU ❤️

💝 Tell us your OTP

I mean... Okay, so. My NUMBER ONE OTP is of course the godly RanRei.

Right after my babies TokiOto and RyuRin ;;

I also have a soft spot for VanEiji and YamaKira oof... (YAMASHION TOO THEY ARE SO FLUFFY)

🚨 How did you discover utapri?

I was watching a seiyuu event of Free! and in my recommendations there was "Thank you" by Tokiya. I listened to it out of curiosity and I fell so hard for him... I searched a bit and then found the anime. I still thank youtube for recommending me that song.

💞 Has your current favorite always been your favorite? If not, who was first?

... The previous question probably answered it already. Tokiya was my very first love and he's still very dear to me, together with Otoya. They were my favorite characters before I got to meet QN and they still have a special place in my heart (THEY ARE MY SONS AND I WOULD DIE FOR THEM OKAY?)

#Ask

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kae-karo · 4 months

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2023 fic roundup

phew!!! i wrote for four different fandoms this year, which is utterly wild to me given that most years i am writing for one or maybe two...but no, this year we went wild - bnha, genshin, trigun, and blue lock

so without further ado, my faves from each month:

jan 2023: i've made mistakes (but you were not one) - chaeya, i really hit my chaeya stride by this point and frankly i ADORED writing this fic, which was my first t4t chaeya fic !!!!

feb 2023: everything i ask for (and so much more) - chiluc, based on a scenario that my mom said she 'always wanted to see happen at a wedding' which rly made me laugh and thus i had to write it !!!

mar 2023: don't rush - kaeluc (and dilucest?), i just really enjoyed stretching my skills on this one in the vibes and also just. the mechanics of everything?

apr 2023: oh gods, there's two of them - cynonaribedo, which was just SO much fun after that event to consider how they'd interact and what shenanigans they'd get up to. also the smut was a fun challenge lmao

may 2023: don't be too good to me - vashwood, my first canon-universe fic for these silly guys that let me really explore the angst and also some of the lightheartedness

jun 2023: in your dreams - kaisagi !!!!! my first bllk fic!!! these two idiots make me feral !!!! they're so angsty and silly and i love them so much, i had a blast trying my hand at them!!

jul 2023: dark blue - kaisae, my last-minute final fic for kaisae july and the one that i reread and think about regularly lmao. one of my rare 2nd person pov fics, i had so much fun with teasing out all the imagery and emotions

aug 2023: but i'm losing blood and you're warm - bachisagi, currently my only bcis fic but my god was it SO fun to write, i loved getting to play in the horror genre a little and mixing that with romance and just UGH definitely up there as a fave

sept 2023: consumption - kaisagi, like what can i say except (pun intended) this premise consumed me so bad that i wrote it out of order bc i was so hooked on one particular scene. this whole story rly had me in a chokehold in the best way

oct 2023: pink light - ryusae, this is rly my favorite ryusae fic i've written to date. something about the premise and the gentleness and the second chances of it all just really got to me, i loved writing this so much

nov 2023: KNOCK.ME.OUT - ryurin, oh my god this fic....i reread this fic like every couple days for WEEKS after i finished writing it. more than i've reread any other fic, and purely out of a desire to just. live inside the story again. i loved it so much. up there with pink light as a fave for sure

dec 2023: tie me down (fuck me up) - saesagi, which like i feel like i went on a whole Journey abt saesagi within my brain and this is what came out. i rly enjoyed trying my hand at a new dynamic and taking sae out of his place of control for once !!!!

other stats + honorable mentions below the cut!

452,082 words posted this year across 58 fics, 24 ships, and, as mentioned, four fandoms. ended up around 8.7k kudos + 81k hits

some honorable mention fics:

good directions - vashwood, and a fic concept i've been dying to write for ages, which just happened to work incredibly well with vashwood

kinda complicated - plantwood, which was really just an excuse to write so much porn for them lmao but i had a great time both with that and the complex dynamics between the three of them

a tentative ellipsis - kaisae, cause i can't say EVERY kaisae july fic, but this one also was such fun to think about and write, just like. the premise and the execution were so [shakes them in a pickle jar]

we both got stories (but they're not the same) - kaisae, this premise rly cracked me up i had SUCH fun writing it and getting a little silly with it lskdjfklsdjf especially with kaiser and all his denial

make me love like i want to - kaisae/ryusae, which honestly all manifested out of like. the one scene in the fic where sae writes not dead on his arm. and that ballooned into an entire almost 30k story about soulmates that ended up being unexpectedly cathartic

sometimes i wish she was you - tabieita, idk this one really got me??? i had a blast writing karasu's point of view and his manipulative little shit attitude lmao

#2023 fic roundup #bllk #genshin #trigun #bnha #blue lock #fic roundup

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kae-karo · 2 months

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it's only dark until your eyes adjust - ryurin

it's only dark until your eyes adjust - T - 4.5k

tags: mcd offscreen / implied suicide, past ryusae, hurt/comfort, hallucinations, hopeful ending, getting together, rin pov

Rin doesn’t sleep. If he sleeps, he dreams. If he dreams, it’s about Sae. As though Sae doesn’t haunt him when he’s awake, too - of course, he can’t have peace. He probably doesn’t deserve it.

It's been weeks since the funeral, and Rin's still hallucinating his dead brother. And, in spite of Rin's best efforts, he's also still crushing on said dead brother's boyfriend.

[read on ao3]

#ryurin #sdrn #rnsd #bllk #blue lock #bllk fic #blue lock fic

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kae-karo · 3 months

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This is not much of a question, but a token of appreciation. Your writing makes my day, always. I found you through your ryurin works, they’re works I reread whenever I need a little kick of comfort, and to add on—

when I found your profile and saw your age… I was thrilled. As someone who’s just brinking onto 18, it’s terrifying to see ageism in fandom, people saying it’s ludicrous to like media after a certain age. But to see someone so adept in their craft with writing, and using it to their own enjoyment, sharing it with the world… it makes me so happy. I hope to be like you one day, I hope I can hone my skills in writing and art, and continue to love the fiction that keeps me alive no matter how old I may become. The world seems so bleak and so damp some days, I wonder when my clock of liking fic will run out— I have more than a fair handful of people who already call me childish for my hobbies. This is just a very long way of saying I look upto you. I look upto you so greatly and your work never fails to put my heart at ease, a small token that keeps me alive, the gentle thought of ‘if you die, you will never be able to read Kae_Karo’s works again’ (and that’s such a silly line of thinking! So unserious! But it really is true. Your work truly does keep me alive and breathing).

Thank you, thank you for writing, thank you for sharing, thank you for.. everything. You will never know me, but I will always know you through the work you’ve written.

hey anon dear i am. so unbelievably touched by this, i can't even begin to say how much it means to me that you feel this way

first and foremost, thank you more than i can put into words, it's beyond all i could ever hope for that my stories are a bright spot for you, something to look forward to when you need it. beyond that, though, it is unbelievably humbling and an honor to be someone that you look up to. and i will also add that there is nothing at all silly about having something that helps you when you feel that you need a reason to keep going through darker times!!

i could probably take this as an opportunity to go on some ramble about how star trek housewives created modern fandom or how the concept of fanworks has been around for ages (dante's self-insert virgil fanboy story?? shakespeare's historical rpf??) or any number of other comments regarding the fact that there is (or should be) no age limit on fandom, but honestly...that's beside the point, in my opinion

the truth and the thing that i hope sticks with you as you get older is that you deserve, always, by virtue of being here in this world, to pursue the things that bring you joy. today, tomorrow, and fifty years from now

and if that's fanworks or just hanging out in fandoms, all the more power to you!!! enjoy what you enjoy - and know that there is no age limit, there's no ticking time bomb to signal the end of your enjoyment once you hit 18 or 21 or 25 or whatever the current 'too old' age is these days

i'm speculating a bit as to this phenomenon of perceiving fandom as childish, but i think a lot of younger people, esp on that cusp of 18/early 20s, feel a need to be seen as a True Adult - they've reached the age of freedom from parents/guardians and crave the autonomy and respect they've been promised. i suspect that some people believe that continuing to pursue or enjoy anything that they enjoyed prior to this Magical Age would somehow signal that they aren't truly worthy of that respect or autonomy that 'adulthood' promises. which is so fundamentally untrue, but it's a hard lesson to learn (and i think some folks never really do). i think often of these quotes by c. s. lewis on childhood/childishness:

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. (x)

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. (x)

it's hard to be brave and push back against the idea that finding joy in fiction (in fandom, in 'childish things') is something you'll eventually outgrow, especially when the people around you have bought into it, but i promise that so long as you continue to find joy there, you will find others that understand and share your excitement. there is no expiration date waiting for you, and i'm genuinely thrilled that i can be an example of that for you!!

for you or anyone who doesn't know, i've had a professional office job since i graduated from college eight years ago and i have been heavily invested in fandom and writing fic for about seven of those eight years. i didn't even start getting into the very fringes of fandom until i was in college, and it wasn't til after i graduated that i got invested enough in something to try my hand at writing (prior to this point, i had been told it was a 'miracle that i passed my english classes' bc of my lack of writing skills, and thus the idea of writing as a hobby wasn't even something i had considered)

fandom (and fic) have done more for me in discovering aspects of my identity (mental health, sexuality, gender, passions and skills) than any other facet of my life, not to mention the fact that both fandom and fic have led me to the most important friends and loved ones i have today, including my gf of five years

all of which to say - pursue your joy (in fandom and anywhere else) and it will bring you to wonderful places and wonderful people. the only ones worthy of the term 'childish' are those that seek so desperately to avoid the things that bring them joy. i may not know your name, but i do know that this message will stay with me for a very long time (and i'll probably be deep in fandom for all of it)

again, thank you more than i can put into words, it means the entire world to me that my writing has meant so much to you <3

#ask #anon #puddle on the floor #anon i will literally be printing this out to stick on my wall #if our fandom roads happen to someday diverge #i look forward to our paths crossing again in a decade or two!!!#stick around in fandoms and keep chasing your joy!!!

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kae-karo · 4 months

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i think you'll live without the antidote - ryurin

i think you'll live without the antidote - T - 4.4k

tags: canon universe, denial of feelings, light angst, getting together, rin pov

Rin wonders what might’ve happened if he didn’t stop Shidou. If he didn’t shove him away. Would Shidou have touched him, too? Where? Rin’s head invents hands on his hips, his chest, his shoulder, neck, in his hair all at once, like Shidou’s some monster with enough limbs to touch Rin everywhere he w- Rin bites on that word til he draws blood - he doesn’t want Shidou.

After the failed experiment of locking Rin and Shidou in a room together to try to force them to get along - which ended with Shidou, for some reason, kissing Rin - Rin sets out to prove that it had absolutely no effect on him whatsoever.

[read on ao3]

#ryurin #bllk #blue lock #bllk fic #blue lock fic #monsters in the closet fic #sdrn #rnsd

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kae-karo · 5 months

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Ao3 wrapped thingie

6+9 haha nice. Also 28 and/or 29 :)

HI ANON ehehe nice 😏 for context (x)

6. Favorite title you used

OKAY SO it's gotta be a tie cause i absolutely loved the meaning behind the titling (both for the fic and chapters) that i did for consumption (x) but also getting to use a jacksepticeye reference for the do you have 90 minutes? (x) title rly cracked me up

9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

augh. i mean it should come as no surprise to anyone who's followed me for the past 6mo but i think ryusae became a really comfortable pairing to write? just like. super easy to slip into. close contender would be ryurin though cause that angst and enemies-to-lovers type beat hits really well sometimes lmao

28. Favorite work you wrote this year?

has to be KNOCK.ME.OUT (x) like idk what about it just really got me but i legitimately reread that fic like. at least a dozen times before i posted it (i was originally holding onto it for an event but the event got cancelled last minute, so i posted it on the original posting date anyway) but like rereading a fic once or twice before i post it is pretty standard, so rereading it that much,,,,idk it just had a stranglehold on me in the best way lmao

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

A tiny upturn of the corner of his lip, you knew what that meant once and it's slipped away, the memory of a page but not the words printed on it.

Because you miss laying on the same plane with him, because you kept the taste of being lost together under your tongue while you watched his back grow smaller in the distance.

"I stole your dream," Michael says, and you hear the shattering of glass in his voice. His eyes trip between sky blue and the darkest shade of nightfall - he doesn't mean it, already knew that wasn't the right answer. A throwaway guess. He only needed one, and you thought you were clever.

"I lied," you say instead. "One guess."

"You're cruel, Itoshi." To call you Sae would paint him blue, and he doesn't say it, but you hear it hang off the end of his lips anyway. They curve up, a crescent moon smile.

"Pots and kettles, Michael." This paints him blue too, by your hand, and he can't avoid it.

He didn't, and here you are, weaving blue through your fingertips like it's the ends of Michael's hair and you're fifteen again, and you mean it, that he should've broken you a little better, because you still haven't found all the pieces he shattered you into, and it's growing tedious trying to figure out where they all went.

Maybe Michael held onto a few.

i gotta say that as far as favorite lines/passages go, the absolute first thing that comes to mind is dark blue (x), in which i had a lot of fun with imagery and 2nd person pov and just the concept as a whole. the final bit as well is a favorite, but it requires more context than just the quote itself, so i'll leave that for anyone who wants to read the fic lmao

[send me ao3 wrapped asks from this list!]

#ask #ao3 wrapped #fic asks #anon

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