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On Yashiki and smoking

Never saw anyone talking about this so I just wanted to throw it out there! I read a lot of Death Mark fanfiction, so I've seen a fair few headcanons about Yashiki's possible smoking habits - everything from he never smokes, he smokes for the first time at Mashita's behest, smoking being his guilty pleasure, him openly smoking... People have a lot of different ideas, which is fun! However, I raise you this conversation:

The first time I played through this, I mistakenly thought it was Mashita talking for some reason? But when I recently watched the playthrough, Mashita wasn't even in this scene. This seems to pretty heavily support the theory that yes, Yashiki does smoke, even if he's never seen to be smoking.

Of course, there are still plenty of ways a non-smoking Yashiki headcanon could be maintained. Maybe he just knew smoking to be common and reached for where he supposed Masamune would keep cigarettes, but there were never actually any there. Maybe Masamune smoked and thus kept cigarettes on him, but Yashiki doesn't partake. Maybe Masamune/Yashiki keep cigarettes with them for some other reason, like giving to friends. (If you really wanted to, you could squeeze in a scene where Mashita gives him these very cigarettes for some fun, gay reason).

Also, if Yashiki does smoke, then all those funny drawings of Mashita blowing smoke in his face (from the art book saying he likes to blow smoke in non-smokers' faces) would come into question. Fortunately, the art book never said Mashita didn't like blowing smoke into smokers' faces too, so 🤷 Go make your funny little drawings, I love them so much!

#my personal theory is that he used to smoke but quit a little before he lost his menories #(possibly after waking up from the coma overseas because he probably would have went through the withdrawls while unconscious? idk actually) #cw smoking #spirit hunter series #death mark #spirit hunter #shiin #deathmark #kazuo yashiki

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Keeping these all in one place for my own sake but if you felt like catching up on my Exy Fans On Twitter / in-universe memes series here’s them all so far:

- Neil’s New Look

- the night of the riots + Baltimore

- Nathaniel Wesninski Reveal

- kevin day has never been skiing

- jean is signing with USC live reaction

- championship finals pt 1 / pt 2 / pt 3

- riko, gone but not forgotten </3

- fox tweets

- my og in-universe memes post

#rbing so i can hopefully catch further updates #also these are hilarious omg

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I really don't think we appreciate how feral Renee is. Like, she puts on the front of a good Christian girl, and she is trying so hard, but the second anything goes slightly wrong she defaults to crime immediately.

#some examples include: #beating the shit out of kids from Dan's highschool with her bible #stomping on the back of another players knee to break up a fight on court #planning to full on break into the Nest and only not doing that because there were no hardware stores open that early #i really need to finish reading Son Nefes because Renee's perspective is always a joy #renee walker #aftg #all for the game #tsc #the sunshine court #son nefes #lazarus

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nora going from writing an ace-spec main to a (probably allosexual) bi main, and the difference is so chef's kiss. they're both disasters don't get me wrong, but jean having attraction in his inner monologue even with the trauma he's been through implies to me that neil's demisexuality has absolutely nothing to do with his trauma. hilarious in retrospect because, if i remember correctly, neil in his inner monologue basically blames his lack of sexual attraction on his mother's abuse the few times he kissed girls when he was on the run, but he doesn't have a single sexual thought until andrew lets him in on his feelings in book three,,, meanwhile jean's out here actively fighting his bisexuality like his life depends on it (he thinks it does) (he'll learn it doesn't eventually)

#pretty sure he literally says he only kissed those girls (i think there were two?) to see what all the fuss was about #and goes on to describe it as unsatisfying and not worth it #he just has no reference for attraction or normal human interactions #so he assumes getting beat up is why he doesnt want to do it again and that kissing is just Like That until Andrew happens #and then he just assumes that Andrew being more attractive and better at kissing than everyone else is just How He Is #honestly same #hes so silly #neil josten #justice for jean though he is going through it being sent to the Everyone Is Super Hot & Keeps Giving Him Forehead Kisses team

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If I had a nickel for every time a man in a mascot horror franchise named Henry had to return to the location of his former business to deal with the monstrous creations created by his former business partner containing the angry souls of his victims, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

#five nights at freddy's #fnaf #bendy and the ink machine #batim #henry emily #batim henry

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Time to spread my art major Jean agenda

hc for jeans next book that jean ends up being like gifted at ceramics and it comes so easily to him and jeremy is mad bc hes TERRIBLE at it

#like i know its technically too late for him to change majors or whatever #but what if #he discovers he really likes the pottery class so he takes a bunch of art classes #let him enjoy things!!! #let jean have a safe outlet for his emotions 2k24 #jean moreau #tsc #the sunshine court

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A story titled "Divorce Arc" where the two main characters are in some sort of obligatory marriage (fantasy, mafia, political, etc.) but they hate each other, so the entire book is them trying to come up with ways to get out of it

#the book does not end with them getting together #writing #writing prompt #reverse tropes #enemies to enemies #divorce arc

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so uh. has anyone done this yet

#😭😭😭😭 #jean moreau #jeremy knox #jerejean #tsc #the sunshine court #barkbark von barkenstein #tsc spoilers

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#me 24/7 #everyone: *shocked that i dont know about something they never told me about* it should just be obvious!!! #im just out here sipping my fun little beverage surviving purely on vibes #twitter x #twitter

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Cat is giving Jean the opportunity to have a sister again, you guys don't understand—

#i want to hold them. in the palm of my hands #babies #cat alvarez #catalina alvarez #jean moreau #jean yves moreau #the sunshine court #tsc

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something about jean dying in all the other drafts really gets me like wdym no one would ever have known how soft and caring he was underneath it all or how he had a sister or how he put away the leftovers without asking and cared enough to ask about the safety of someone he barely knew and how he was desperate to love and be loved all along. ofcourse kevin and renee and neil wouldn't have forgotten him but they did not know all the pieces of who he was and what he survived and what he was trying to be, in his heart of hearts. jeremy will know, eventually. but what if he never did? what if no one ever ended up truly knowing him and loving him and saving him? would they piece the deepest parts of his heart by the postcards and magnets and memories of a too soft boy in a too cruel world?

#they wouldnt have even known his NAME #jean-yves moreau and the memory of a 10 year old girl in a duck print dress would have died with him #😭😭😭😭 #my beloved baby boy #tsc #jean yves moreau #tsc spoilers #the sunshine court #jean moreau

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what are the trojans boba orders?? what will jean finally order when he caves to lailas peer pressure to buy one?? will he start by sipping his teammates boba?? who gets teased for having “basic” boba orders?? pls i need the sequel to show them going to a boba shop together

#if i want one thing from tsc2 #its for jean to finally try “unhealthy” food and have a breakdown because its really good and this is what he's been deprived of for so long #as someone who is learning to love food again myself #jean moreau #tsc

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"I will love them enough that it changes the narrative" but it's Nicky's love for the twins finally giving them a stable home where they could heal, Jean's love for Kevin giving him the chance to escape Evermore, the twins' love for each other saving them from their abusers, the foxes' love for Neil making him into a real person, Andrew's love for Neil giving him something to build a life around outside his promises, Renee's love for Jean saving his life, Jean's love for Elodie convincing him that he doesn't deserve everything that happened to him—

#i could go on #how neils love for andrew made him less selfish #how neils love for kevin convinced him to stay and kevins love for neil made him keep his secret #how neils love for jean led him to take out the hit on grayson #the narrative is dark but the love was there #aftg #all for the game #tsc spoilers #tsc #the sunshine court spoilers #the sunshine court

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Neil has this man so fucking traumatized, lol

#neil josten #david wymack #jean moreau #the sunshine court #the sunshine court spoilers #tsc #tsc spoilers

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We really need to bring back webcam horror ARGs. I love analog horror as much as the next person, but there was just something special about some guy with a camera wandering around their house or the woods that made the experience.

#i know a few have come out in recent years #like hiimmarymary for instance #but it feels like everything has pivoted towards series that rely 100% on digital effects and a lack of live-action footage #and all of them require viewers to jump through 90000 hoops to get the story #horror webseries #horror arg #analog horror #like its fun but occasionally i just wanna watch a few people go insane in the woods y'know?

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Working on the first chapter rewrites!!!

#now that the bones of what happens are there #i gotta start adding in personality to these guys #hazel is not girlbossing enough #hayden however is being traumatized and isnt that really the only thing that matters? #i also feel like you can tell who my least favorite farmer is. it is not the one who isnt there either #stardew valley #stardew valley fic

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the most underrated friendship will always be Andrew and Wymack they are like best friends to me

#wymack telling andrew not to leave him alone with them all for too long before he went to easthaven #andrew breaking into wymacks house to complain #they are the same in so many ways #both constantly picking up strays because they know what it's like to have the world abandon you #david wymack #andrew minyard