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thenightshiftcomic · 2 months

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Soo Monkey inspired some Battle Nexus angst, and who better to get it than our fave angsty lil octopus Ink!

Tw: Friend death, heavily implied murder, mentioned coercion (is that the right word for what Big Mama does here?), I don't have braincells to tw correctly rn sorry

Ink considered himself a peaceful yokai.

It had always preferred healing over hurting, being a medic over a fighter. Of course, in the Battle Nexus, it didn’t matter what you preferred – just what you were good at.

And Ink was good at fighting. It was a curse as much as it was a blessing. Every time he’d been put in the arena, he’d protested to the best of his abilities, and when he’d went mute he’d gotten more creative. Stopped eating, made himself sick, taken on the most injured of patients so he’d have to constantly monitor them.

That only worked for so long though. If there was one thing Ink had learned, it was that Big Mama didn’t take well to being undermined, and was creative enough to force it to listen, one way or another.

For every trick Ink came up with, Big Mama countered with a very simple one: fight, or your friends will.

Calling her bluff had proven a bad idea.

Dead, and it’s your fault, and if you’d just fought they’d have lived, he’d have lived, he’d have lived. Ink’s mind sang. Quiet but forever thinking. A hundred thoughts always running through his head at once, and normally, that was a good thing.

Right now, though, they were all singing the same song.

Your fault your fault your fault your fault It sang on repeat, no matter how hard Ink tried to ignore it. It wasn’t its fault. It was Big Mama who had put Riu in the fight, and Akuji who had dealt the killing blow.

Of course, that meant little to the thoughts running through his head, but maybe if he repeated it enough it would sink in.

Right now though, he didn’t have access to Big Mama. She would sit in her luxury box watching people fight and die for her entertainment, like every other yokai watching and cheering from the stands. Who didn’t see the arena fighters as people, who thought they may as well have just been flutes played for entertainment and amusement.

Ink had never been a particularly wrathful person. But when it thought about it, the satisfied smirk of the shapeshifted spider as Riu’s blood spilt on the sand, the audience erupting into praise at the sight of its friend’s death…something in its blood boiled hot before icing cold.

If Big Mama was so eager for a fight, Ink would give her one.

Akuji was in a bad place too, some part of Ink tried to remind him. Ink ignored it.

“Ink?” Hearth’s voice was soft and gentle. Ink didn’t answer, simply shoved an amulet away in its locker as it took an assortment of various packs out.

“If I…” Riu’s voice had shook and wobbled off, eyes glistening with tears. The start of antlers was poking out on his head, spots dappling his fur that hadn’t quite faded yet. So young. Just like the rest of them.

“I…t-take this amulet.” Riu had practically shoved it into Ink’s chest. “I…” He inhaled shakily and rubbed his eye. “My Mother…if – it holds memories.” His voice was gradually getting thicker with tears. Ink’s stomach had twisted as it stepped forward, one tentacle moving to its chest to sign.

“Don’t –“ Riu pressed his lips together, trembling in a rapidly degrading attempt not to cry. Water swelled up in his eyes and slid down his face, darkening his fur as he took shaky breaths past his tears. “Please. I-if – just –“ He swallowed hard, and Ink couldn’t do it. A stone weighed heavy in his chest as he wrapped Riu into the tightest hug he ever gave, and he never, never wanted to let go.

Ink wished it hadn’t let go.

“You’re not trying to resist the fight.” Hearth said. Ink’s chest tightened with grief, with rage, with pain, and he could feel Hearth’s concern leaking into his soul. Hearth stepped closer and reached a hand out to rest on Ink’s shoulder. Ink tensed, its spine prickling. “Please. You know this isn’t worth it.”

“Why should I!?” Ink’s signing came out large and snappy as it snapped to look at Hearth. Its heart twisted as its gaze met Hearth’s sad one. It couldn’t afford to be empathetic right now. “There was a choice to let Riu go, or kill him for Big Mama’s favor! He chose to kill him!”

“You don’t know what it will do to you.” Hearth reasoned, voice gentle, voice level, but Ink could see the sadness in her eyes.

“I don’t care!” Ink mouthed as it signed. “He could’ve let him go! Riu should be here!” Ink breathed heavily, rage boiling hot under its skin. “If it was so determined to choose to kill, then maybe he deserves it!” Ink’s chest was tight with the effort of restraining itself from slamming something, from throwing something, tentacles trembling.

Hearth’s eyes widened, then her expression fell into something Ink couldn’t quite explain. “You’re angry right now. You’re grieving.” She said. “Please, Ink. I want both of you to come back alive.”

Ink had come to realize that that expression it couldn’t explain had been grief. Ink hadn’t realized it then, but it was Hearth realizing the stubbornly moral little boy she and countless others had raised was dying in front of her.

Ink couldn’t say if it regretted that day. Blood smeared across the sand and fear pounding in its own veins as clear as Akuji’s own. There had been no release, no satisfaction, no reward. Just the feeling of a weight larger than what Ink had felt before settling deep into its bones.

Ink couldn’t say the weight had ever really gone away. Just sunk deeper and deeper, until it was as much a part of Ink as its blood and magic.

And now, as Ink prepared to fight the Hydra, there was no Hearth at its back telling it not to. There was no Big Mama looking down with a victorious smirk, no friends asking Ink why it was fighting.

No doubt that Ink would end it.

Ink always ended it.

#nightshift ink #tw grief #tw death #tw violence

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heyitsyn · 3 years

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RANDOM SEIJOH HCs ACCORDING TO GIGI

a/n: this is a thing i cooked up between doing trig exam and ap gov review akdsjfldskfj

IM PRETTY SURE I ALREADY USED THIS GIF BUT IM WANTING TO RE-DO MY ENTIRE PAGE AND MAKING BANNERS SO THIS IS A TEMPORARY THING AJDJDJJD ALSO I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO THE KEEP READING THING ON THE APP BYE

oikawa def listens to indie music just bc he wants to feel unique and the 'iM diFfErENt fRoM oTHeR gUrLs' vibes

i FIRMLY BELIEVE IWAIZUMI HAJIME IS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO CHOMPS ON HIS ICE CREAM BC HE LIKES TO FEEL THE COLD ON HIS TEETH AKSJSKSKSK

meanwhile kunimi eats a kitkat like its pizza just CHOMP

makki caNNOT sleep without a pillow between his thighs LIKE LISTEN he has 2 sisters and they all told him its so comfortable and at first he was like,, ??,, then he tried and now cant sleep without it

bUT MATTSUN LIKES TO SLEEP WITH PILLOWS SURROUNDING HIM bc it makes him feel safe and like there are two body pillows on either side of him and hes kinda trapped in the middle aksjskdk

when kyo was younger, he was really short and although he had other pants, he loved this one pair but they were really long on him and he wore it all the time and the part of the pants that touched the ground is torn in shreds

kindaichi steps on the sofa before sitting LIKE puts one foot on the cushion then the other until hes literally standing on the couch before folding to sit with his knees up to his chest (i do this)

watari sniffs his food before eating it no matter if its something he eats all the time or something new, he still sniffs it either way

yahaba is really particular with his feet and he likes to get a really big tupperware (duh one only meant for his feet) and fill it up with warm almost boiling water and he just soaks them

oikawa has sleep paralysis and he oftens hallucinates about aliens in the corner of his room

kunimi does this thing where he makes weird noises with his mouth like sounds of his mouth opening LIKE when youre tastinf something new and you do that sound with your tongue (I DUNNO HOW TO DESCRIBE IT AJDKSKKD)

makki bends his knees just to crack his ankles

iwa sneezes a ton but he has those sneezes where theyre quiet that you dont even notice or really loudly that it just echoes throughout the gym

kyo sleeps with one sock on bc his feet gets cold easily but both socks make him feel really hot so only one sock is perfect

for a tall and hunk of a guy, mattsun is a very light walker like his footsteps are very light and if he wants to, it can be practically silent

watari actually hates vegetables ajssksksk he particularly hates zucchini, eggplants, any vegetables that are that shape

kindaichi likes to stick or lean against walls because to him, they feel cold and can decrease his body heat

oikawa stands and places his feet at V position like \/ instead of ll because his sister did ballet and he was taught that was the right way of standing and it was considered graceful

yahaba has a fear of cactuses

mattsun does so badly in the heat because his body temp runs so high and the hot surroundings make him feel so uncomfortable and so he takes a lot of cold showers

iwa cannot swim like he freaks out immediately when his toetips can no longer feel the bottom and he panics with thoughts of drowning

watari has really small feet that he still buys big kids shoes to save money

kyotani considered playing baseball because he thought baseball bats were cool but he got angry and threw tantrum after missing his first pitch

iwa chomps on a whole raw chili while eating ramen akskksks

oikawa actually hates sweets bc when he was younger, he had cavities and iwa showed him a cartoon of cavities eating his teeth and will make him toothless

kindaichi really really likes hugs but hes too awkward to ask them even from his parents

yahaba chomps on mints so he goes through boxes of them in a week

i feel like theres a boy in the team who doesnt brush their teeth everyday and rubs a towel on their teeth to make it look clean and take mints to hide their bad breath

iwaizumi is actually iron deficient so he bruises super super fast and he even developed iron defiency anemia when he was younger bc his parents didnt catch on which caused him to be put on strong medication for months and still takes it now

WAIT,, OIKAWA IS LACTOSE INTOLERANT BUT HE LIKES MILK SO HE EATS MILK BREAD TO MAKE HIM FEEL NOT SO BAD OR GUILTY OF CONSUMING STRAIGHT DAIRY

seijoh four bonding time is watching gordom ramsey shows and yelling and screaming 'YEA! EXACTLY!' as if theyre also cooking genuises

watari used to eat grapes all the time until his mom got worried and told him if he doesnt stop, he will eventually turn into one. he only eats it every few weeks

when he was younger, kunimi cried because he had befriended a chicken on a trip to a farm and his mom took him to eat fried chicken after and he thought it was Chicky (his chicken friend :"))

kyotani used to stick out his tongue when it was raining so he could taste the raindrops. they taste better than bottled water

one time, during a seijoh sleepover, they dared oikawa to wear his sisters old uniform, skirt and all, and it backfired so everyone turned red and couldnt look at him in the face

their pregame ritual is touching each other's shoe tips

they tried doing yoga at yahaba's house before by watching yoga youtube videos but everyone ended up having to go to the chiropractor after (how did makki even turn into the human pretzel?)

the local gym gets so scared when they see the team coming through the doors bc these men are so LOUD like they HYPE EACH OTHER UP SO MUCH THEYRE SO ANNOYING AKSKSKDK

also never take them to an all you can eat sushi place. if you do, bring them earlier of the day like 30 mins after opening time so the cooks can cook enough for them without running out of ingredients (even then sometimes they still run out)

oikawa used to eat his mom's roses from her garden because he thought it would make his farts smell good like roses

takahiro is a surprisingly good artist like he draws really cool action fighting scenes in the corner of his papers and stuff

in my work: it's canon that iwa is half filo and his nanay used to dress him up in a barong all the time during halloween bc she wanted him to showcase his heritage

yahaba drinks a lot of milk because he hopes to one day grow strong and bulky like the 3rd years instead of being seen as a pretty boy

kindaichi's mom is a hairstylist and she always scolds him for using a lot of gel bc she's always the one who washes his hair

makki never learned how to do taxes and hes had the government knocking on his door a handful of times (BOKUTO AKKDJSKKS)

kyo has a dog: a chiweenie

there's someone on the team who wears those socks with individual pockets for toes

their pinterest is so different from what they look like for example, mattsun has a board of different flower decorations and arrangements

kunimi throws up during intense horror movies

watari's celeb crush is emma watson

the team alternates from different music genres like from ateez and bts to mxmtoon and beach bunny

they still dont know how to pronounce camila cabello's name

theyre all active in social media but only oikawa is on it 24/7 and in all platforms while the others have insta and snap

mattsun has twins as little siblings and he used to get them mixed up all the time that he used to draw a sharpie dot on the girl's forehead to determine she was his sister

watari hates sitting on the floor bc his butt bone hurts really easily so he can only sit on cushions for long periods of time

the team was supposed to have a party but everyone didnt know what to bring so they proved they shared the same braincell by bringing the same thing: a box of pizza

makki's an old soul and prefers to play records on a record player or watch old movies

kyo is surprisingly good at giving massages because he really pushed hard on those tense muscles

kindaichi knows how to crack necks so everyone goes to him a lot to do it (a friend of mine does this and can i say its terrifying yet so good?)

the only one who has a license is matsukawa and thats because granny needs to go to the doctor a lot and he hates her walking by herself and cabs are expensive

kyotani and yahaba are actually,,, lowkey close,,, not like best friends but theyre nice to each other and they got a stick and poke together (yahaba's was: :) while kyo's was: >:))

watari has a collection of mangas (some bl maybe 👀)

WARNING SAD: mattsun’s future job is a funeral person right? he ends up taking care of granny’s funeral free of charge and he had to take a week off because it was really painful for him

oikawa learned spanish SUPER fast to the point he forgets japanese sometimes but there are moments where he forgets both languages and hes just,,,, ???

makki’s unemployed yea but he rooms with mattsun in exchange of cooking because makki’s surprisingly good at cooking

iwa is practically the nutritionist of the team because he knows everything about proteins, carbs, iron, and needed vitamins so they all go to him to know what to eat and what they need

kunimi has lots and lots of shoes but usually only wears 2

kindaichi has a habit of pretending hes chewing gum even though he doesnt have gum, his mouth just chomps and moves with air akasldfjkf

there was a clown phenomenon in america but in their city, they had a mascots and seijoh 4 went around scaring kids :”(

oikawa never manspreads he gets too insecure to spread out like that akdjfkd

kyotani can easily sleep anywhere like he would be standing and just fall asleep or he sleeps with his eyes open

yahaba’s parents own a restaurant somewhere in the city and he works there sometimes

IM REALLY GOING TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS YALL AKSDJFKL

SORRY IM WRITING TOO MUCH I FEEL BAD THAT I HAVENT UPDATED BUT IM IN A CAR RIDE RN AND I WAS ABLE TO WRITE AGAIN AND MY EXAMS HAVE FINISHED THIS WEEK IMMA CRY

PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO REPLY WITH ANY OTHER HCS YOU GUYS KNOW OF SO I CAN PUT IT IN HERE AND CREDIT YOU WITH IT SO WE CAN HAVE LIKE A HCS BOOK FROM EVERYONE BUT THIS IS WHAT I STARTED WITH

oikawa screams a lot according to gigi but he’s actually a really quiet guy and not easy to scare

OKAY YOU GUYS DONT KILL ME I SWEAR IVE BEEN SO TERRIBLE AT WRITING BUT YOU KNOW WHO TURNED ONE TODAY? THIS PAGE!!! MY BABY IS ONE ALREADY 😭😭😭 ANYWAYS, HOPE THIS CAN MAKE YOU GUYS SMILE TODAY AND SCHOOL ENDS NEXT WEEK AND IM ALREADY AT 132 DRAFTS AMSJKSDKSK SO OH MY GOD THERES GOING TO BE SO MUCH COMING AND IM SO EXCITED TO GET THEM OUT 😩😩

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