#i love seiji katayama

[glowingvenus]

Green Nichoji. What more can I say 💚💚💚

Thank you @johannathemad for this stunningly sweet commission and @supermonkeyball for pointing out the surprising dearth of the color green in the comics LOL. Now we truly have everything 💚

#fence comic #fencecomic #nicholas cox #seiji katayama #nichoji #not gonna lie im extremely overwhelmed w how much i love this #i need to lie down

[pierrehic]

#fence comic #seiji katayama #very sketchy seiji #my art #i just love this moment so much

[angst-iguana]

Aiden didn't need to ask but he absolutely knows I mean who doesn't? Seiji's date is with Nicholas which is why Aiden messes up Seiji's hair because he knows Nicholas will love it.

#I mean #it's obvious they like each other #Aiden called it from the beginning #but I love that he just knows #knows it's Nicholas and knows how to prepare Seiji more #I love it #I love it so much #fence comic #seiji katayama #nicholas cox #fence redemption #fence redemption spoilers #nichoji #Aiden Kane #fence #fence spoilers

[its-ezraaa]

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Next I'll present my 61 slides PowerPoint on why the world would end in absolute chaos if their boyfriends ever met each oth-

Credits for Bruce's pic and Jame's pic! All the others are from the official covers.

Shoutout to everyone who understood all the references.

#it is official i am insane #shitposting #this was definitely not an excuse to put all my favorite fictional characters in one picture #but no really Pacat is great #if u liked one of his book u should read the others too #carry on is great too if u love enemies to lovers #and u are a pacat fan so ofc u love that trope #go watch the new batman movie #i am abusing the tags #fence comic #seiji katayama #nichoji #captive prince #laurent #lamen #dark rise #james st clair #c s pacat #carry on #baz #snowbaz #bruce wayne #superbat

[praline-elegy]

A small crumb of a Fence fic I’m working on :)

“Tell me about your relationship with Jesse.” Seiji asked, walking in step beside Nicholas.

“This again?” The other boy groaned as the two made their way back to their shared dorm.

“…I thought we made progress on how much you trust me.” Seiji grumbled, the edges of his mouth pressed into a familiar frown. 

“And you thought suddenly bringing this up wouldn’t affect your friendship points with me?” 

“Friendship points?” His nose scrunched in the most Seiji-esque of ways. 

Nicholas exhaled slowly, trying to smother the irritation skimming his nerves. “Yeah, Seiji. This is like, a level ten secret and you’re only at level two, maybe three,” he countered.

“Then how do I bring up these… ‘friendship points’ so to speak?”

“You can’t rush friendship.” Nicholas retorted, but there was something left unsaid that made Seiji look him in the eyes thoughtfully. Whether there was a glimmer of irritation or something else though, Nicholas didn’t hold that gaze long enough to see.

Seiji stared for a moment, before pulling out his dorm key and unlocking the door, oddly allowing Nicholas to swoop in the doorway as he pondered his next words.

“But?” He finally decided on—a single word—extending the conversation.

Nicholas dropped his bags, sweatshirt halfway pulled off his body with his hand on the bathroom doorknob. “But? I thought this conversation was over!” He turned around to look at Seiji, who just stood still in the middle of the room with an intense gaze in his eyes.

Seiji slipped his bag off of his shoulder, answering bluntly. “Yes Nicholas, ‘but’ is a conjunction used to combine two or more independent clauses together.”

“What’s with the sudden English lesson!” He cried in exasperation.

“It sounded like you had something more to say,” Seiji shrugged, taking off his shoes and pulling out clean clothes to change into. “I just thought I’d do it for you.”

Nicholas huffed, tugging his sweatshirt off all the way, tossing it on his desk as he considered Seiji’s comment. Instead of reaching for the doorknob, he turned around, crossing his arms as he slumped against the bathroom door. Seiji’s eyebrow raised, waiting expectantly for him to answer.

Nicholas thought for a moment, letting his head drop to the side as he gazed in the direction of his most prized possession, the little scrap of newspaper with his dad’s winning article on it encased in a protective sleeve under his mattress.

This wasn’t the kind of secret where you could say it and nothing would change, because it was life-altering to know; even if the facts didn’t change, Seiji definitely would. There was absolutely no way that this knowledge wouldn’t reshape the way he saw Nicholas—his worldview of the boy would be so utterly changed! Nicholas didn’t want that.

But…

It would be nice. He supposed, to have someone by his side, apart from his complicated relationship with his mom. 

But Seiji was… he swallowed, closing his eyes at the tiny flutter in his chest. Somebody he didn’t want to lose, not after they’d become rivals, and even more so as friends and… whatever that thing was that happened with the tennis ball in the salle. He opened his eyes and shifted his gaze to the other side, earnestly considering what to do. Seiji seemed so pleased that Nicholas was thinking hard about the suggestion, that he allowed him a moment of respite as he continued to get ready for his post-training routine, occasionally glancing at Nicholas’s face as he pondered and bit his dry chapped lips.

Why couldn’t Seiji just let it go? Why didn’t Nicholas do the sensible thing and put up a damn boundary? He lied when he said it was a level ten friendship secret—as arbitrary as that system was—it was a fucking nuclear S-tier secret and Nicholas just knew it’d break his heart if Seiji was let in on the one secret he had and let it intensify his obsession with finding Jesse in him. 

Seiji would never see, “Nicholas Cox, his ridiculously fast rival who almost got Seiji’s fourth”—No! Nicholas would be:

“The Coste bastard child and Jesse’s younger brother.”

He didn’t want that. Nicholas was his own person, and he’d really hoped Seiji would come around to see that. 

His chest hurt. 

But secrets changed people, the longer they were kept hidden. How long could he theoretically keep that up with no one in his lonely corner? It’d be nice to have someone, even with a bright blue and yellow ducky curtain hanging in the middle…

Groaning in frustration, Nicholas banged his head against the bathroom door, rubbing his hands over his face. “Why’d you have to say ‘but’! Now I’m actually thinking about it!”

“So you’ll tell me?” Seiji treaded carefully, as though one wrong word could end the conversation once and for all.

Nicholas should’ve just said ‘it’s complicated’ and ended it there. Maybe relenting and acknowledging the situation would quell Seiji’s interrogation for now.

But no, his dumbass heart decided to dig a hole deeper than that, pulling from somewhere deep inside his chest with the slightest sliver of hope and profound conviction that Seiji would certainly refuse.

“Only if you’d go on a date with me,” Nicholas huffed softly, shaking his head as he got off the bathroom door, ready to dose himself in a nice hot shower and leave this conversation in the past. 

“Okay.”

“Wait—what?” Nicholas whipped his head around, surprised to find Seiji standing right behind him, much closer than he’d expected him to be in their tiny dorm room.

“I’ll take you on a date.” He said simply. He left off the part that said, "The price would be so easy;” that Nicholas would so easily bend for a sliver of Seiji’s attention. He’d be right though, which was why Nicholas tried so hard to resist that. To be as absolutely volatile as possible around him.

But his resolution was wavering around the undeniable pull of Seiji’s presence. Nicholas could still feel the light touch and hot hot burning of where the dark haired boy adjusted his stance over a week ago.

Feelings are dumb. 

But this kind of dumb made him feel good. 

He was weak to that.

“I—what are you saying?”

“Friday,” Seiji decided, in a voice that Nicholas pretended was just for him; the rasp in that single word caressing his ear. The taller boy smirked, leaning around him to put a hand against the door. “Friday I’ll take you out for dinner.”

Nicholas’s mouth parted slightly, speechless, as a blush spread across his face. 

Seiji’s eyes flickered down for a moment before looking up again. “And wear something nice.”

He turned the doorknob and walked past Nicholas, clicking the bathroom door shut.

Nicholas stuttered, frozen at the sudden turn of events. Before finally realizing—

“Hey! I was gonna shower first!”

#fence comic #fence comics #nicholas cox #seiji katayama #seiji x nicholas #seiji katayama x nicholas cox #is this a date? #wait did seiji actually agree to go on a date with nicholas #i love seiji and nicholas bickering #pining nicholas #this is an excerpt of a bigger story I'm working on #fence drabble #fence is my roman empire #comments are appreciated! #praline prattles

[chamallowlover]

( Did this drawing before knowing what outfits they'd wear :] ) I wanted to practice with Seiji because I hadn't draw since May,,,

In my perfect world, Seiji would have phone calls with Koichiro in the comics just like in the novels,,, we might get that later on who knows 😔🙏

#I'm going to be honest I'm not satisfied with it but you have to start somewhere #I drew this before yesterday's chapter btw #fence comic #fence redemption #art #nichoji #seiji katayama #i love them #a few things seem off but wtv #someone motivate me to finish my exercise on blender pls... #nicholas cox #bobby nicholas and eugene in the background being sweethearts

[sensurround11]

Based on what we can see of their hands, it is entirely possible that they were still holding hands through this whole spread. I choose to believe they were. 🥰😍❤️

#fence comic #pink background = romance #nicholas cox #seiji katayama #fence redemption #nichoji #fence spoilers #i kind of love that they were holding their dominant/ fencing hands

[fence-polls]

#fence comic #seiji katayama #i love this pic of him i love his eyelashes

[gummytea]

they had a blast ☆ヾ(*´・∀・)ﾉヾ(・∀・`*)ﾉ☆

#nichoji #i imagine nicholas keeping polaroids of their first moments together #and seiji being embarrassed looking at the collection #the idea was from bobby obv #love #seiji katayama #nicholas cox #fence fanart #nabscribbles

[kori-senpai]

Breaking news - Local moronsexual has an identity crisis

[ 1 // 2 // 3 ]

#poor seiji #fence comic #fence fanart #fence fandom #seiji katayama #nicholas cox #eugene labao #harvard lee #love me some vaguely colored shit #from a twitter interaction I read a while ago #my art

[literary-ink]

Seiji smiling bc of Nicholas is something I knew I needed and now I have it.

Seiji NOT frowning even. I mean I don't think you're aware of how of a big deal that is.

Just for the 4 last pages all the volumes is worth it.

#fence comic #seiji katayama #nicholas cox #nichoji #fence rise #i love them sm #they have my heart #please just kiss already #kiss kiss fall in love

[pretty--in--purple]

Fence: Rise spoilers !!!

so how are we feeling about confirmation that 'rivals' is nicholas' word meaning 'more than friends' ??!??

[ID: Four panels from Fence: Rise.

Panel 1: Kyle says, "Well... you know what they used to say about him [meaning Seiji] and Jesse." Nicholas asks, "What?"

Panel 2: Kyle replies, "That they were more than friends." Nicholas says, "Right. They're rivals."

Panel 3: Aiden asks, "Do you really place 'rivals' in a category above 'friends'? A pyramid appears over Nicholas' head. From bottom to top it reads Strangers, Acquaintances, Friends, and in large glittering font, Rivals.]

and he wants to be seiji's rival so bad!!

[ID: A panel from Fence: Rise. Seiji is surrounded by a pink glow as he asks Nicholas, "Should I be jealous that he [meaning Emmett]'s your new rival?"]

this volume basically confirms that every use of the word 'rival' by Nick and to some extent Seiji is romance-coded!!!! i now need to reread all Fence media with this context!!!!!

#please why is nobody talking about this i feel like i'm going to explode #rivals = love!!!!!!!! #it's right there on the pyramid!!!!!! #please come yell w me!!!! #also sorry for the quality #fence rise spoilers #fence rise #nicholas cox #seiji katayama #nichoji

[innerteenager]

Seiji actually likes being around Nicholas and his bullshit/affections, a retrospective.

#fence rise #fence comic #fence spoilers #fence rise spoilers #seiji katayama #nicholas cox #I love these characters so much

[angst-iguana]

Can I just say that I love a supportive Aiden??

Like he doesn't make fun of Seiji or put him down. He works with what Seiji has and just hypes him up. Aiden instantly drops his mean boy antics and helps Seiji without a second question or thought. I love it.

#he doesn't make a snarky joke or anything #I REALLY love how much Aiden gets involved and him hyping Seiji up?!?! #I just really live for this shit #my entire life #fence comic #seiji katayama #Aiden Kane #fence redemption #fence redemption spoilers #fence #fence spoilers

[its-ezraaa]

Remember that one time in Fence Rise where Nicholas basically confessed his eternal devotion to Seiji in front of the whole team? Because I do.

#fence #fence comic #fence rise #fence rise spoilers #nicholas cox #seiji katayama #aiden kane #nichoji #fence fandom #fence fanart #I FINALLY READ VOLUME 5 #I AM CRYING #THIS IS GREAT #(next volume gonna be SO dramatic and full of epic fencing duels omg) #i loved Rise so much #have you SEEN seiji #he is so cute in the bed scene im dying #embarrassed boi uwu #meanwhile nicholas is just #AAAAAAAAAAA

[cum-angels-of-the-lord]

seiji using his rich boy powers to help nicholas.

#hamilducktrash #fence book #book tag #nicholas cox #seiji katayama #nichoji #fence comic #seiji just calls his dad for money to help nicholas #and his dad is just like okay! #i love seiji