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totally-correct-shenanigans · 1 year

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(the same psa as my little reason why applies here: it's late; i'm not medicated and very autistic; and my lines between canon and my fanon get blurry sometimes . incomprehensibility ahead!)

aha ! more musical rambling . i'm very full of brain about these songs so i hope you are ready for at least 3 of these , possibly more . i said i was going to go backwards from strangest to most sensical but arbitrary rules put in place by myself aren't real or legally binding so you get this, which makes the absolute most sense to me of everything ever:

rule #23 - birds of a feather ; fish in a birdcage

this is THE sly cooper song. (it also applies to fa.bian seac.aster and prince sid.on and also possibly ste.ven un.iverse because those four are all the same character in different fonts and i will DIE on that hill.)

now this song is quite a bit longer and as such the breakdown/analysis will be quite a bit longer. i would apologize, but this is the most sly cooper song to ever sly cooper song (/j, so i will not.

another preface before we really get into it 3 is my favorite of the three and i like the full found family of the cooper gang so that's certainly influencing this lol. just keep in mind that most parts that i'm like "this is about the cooper gang!" could probably JUST be about bentley and murray if you wanted! it's all up to interpretation <3

"She was born by the sea / Her father bounced her on his knee / While he shared past stories of grandeur"

okay so for the sake of lyrical clarity i'm not gonna change the pronouns BUT the she really should be he bc it's sly the 'she' is sly <3 literally sly says the words "it all started when i was just a kid, bouncing on my father's knee" like. (i should clarify i don't know fi that's the exact phrasing but i know he says that he was bouncing on his father's knee so that's what's important yknow.)

the past stories of grandeur are presumably a mix of connor's misadventures/whatever old wive's tales he told and the tales from the thievius raccoonus. i know sly techinically didn't inherit the book until he was 8 (and then he really didn't get to until he was 18) but i think it's said/shown that he had at least read some of it before then and just bc he didn't own it doesn't mean connor didn't tell him stories y'know.

"That would dance inside her head / Every night while tucked in bed / Same tales, different actor"

i think this is pretty self-explanatory lol . i suppose i don't remember it being said that sly always wanted to be a master thief like the rest of his family but i'm pretty sure it's implied and by the time we meet him he's dead-set on living up to his family's legacy so. i'm sure he had his fantasies about being a master thief !!

"There were costumes on the floor / She'd use a wooden stick and board / To vanquish the foes that were after / All them stuffed-up toys"

please imagine sly with a fake child-proof tiny version of the cooper cane beating up stuffed animals while connor watches proudly .

"All them stuffed-up toys / That were sticking 'round by choice / They were family, in this together"

(note: the "all them stuffed-up toys" line isn't sang twice it's just written twice because i couldn't decide on where i wanted it to go)

desperately trying to figure out what this line means even in a non-sly cooper context lol. why are the stuffed-up toys that were playing the role of foes sticking around by choice and being family in this together. or perhaps the foes are after all them stuffed-up toys that were sticking 'round by choice?

anyway. in a sly cooper context, please consider these two options:

either it's about sly's actual family e.i. connor and sly's scarcely spoken of mother (we get a cutoff family photo and sly saying "[the five] caught up with my parents" (parents plural) and that's about all we have of sly's mom lol). perhaps if my "the foes are after the stuffed-up toys" theory is correct, the foes could be the fiendish five, and the stuffed-up toys that were stickin' round by choice are sly's parents.

i read a really good fic once where connor told his wife that she could escape bc she wasn't technically a cooper and her response was "fuck that i'm staying." maybe that's the "sticking 'round by choice, they were family, in this together" thing. that's kind of sweet.

or option two it's a preface to the next line, and the ones that "were sticking 'round by choice" are bentley and murray. my gay heart of found family sings for this, but i think i prefer option one, because there's plenty of found family-ness to be had as the song continues and also the idea of sly's mom very willingly sticking around to defend her husband & her son makes me Feel Things .

"Well she grew like a tree / She sought out bonny company / Built the finest crew you could ask for"

note: bonny means attractive or beautiful

sly grew more like a twig than a tree but that's okay /j

presumably this bonny crew is bentley and murray, but if you'd like to place this in sly 3 it could also be the whole cooper gang! i imagine the extended cg were a little more "sought out" than bentley and murray were, but the brothers were the first two even if they weren't exactly sought out. it's important to keep your roots in mind ! either way i'm sure they were the finest crew sly could ask for, so.

"They were brave and sturdy lads / That reminded her of Dad / Back to back, birds of a feather"

okay this one makes me moreso think of the full CG because i cannot imagine just bentley and murray, esp. in sly 1 times, really reminding him of connor. though maybe in part they do bc it's implied in the comics* that sly didn't know connor had a team until mcsweeney contacted him so maybe bentley and murray remind sly of his father in ways that may or may not have actually applied to his father.

to be fair, i'm sure they'd have reminded sly of connor in some ways, even if they weren't like super major. this post is already so long that my post editor is lagging lol that's not related just funny to me.

again, either way the last line applies; be it with just bentley and murray or with the full gang, they are back-to-back, and they are birds of a feather :]

"(Ah di ah, hi di oh) / A voyage for the soul / Back to back, birds of a feather"

(notes: this is the chorus so i'm not gonna rewrite it every time lol. also i just went with the spotify lyrics for the ah di ah, hi di oh because i'm not sure how else one would spell that so . ah di ah hi di oh yknow)

my aforementioned sly 3-loving heart says that the voyage for the soul should be the one for the map, but really i think all 3 game's Voyages tm count, so ! take your pick. again, they're all back-to-back birds of a feather regardless.

"With a scaled-down graph / Her husband did the math / On a course to have the advantage"

two options ! we replace husband with brother and say it's bentley, because he absolutely would have a scaled-down graph and he's usually the one making courses so they can have the advantage. and doing math.

OR you can say it's carmelita during one of the times they're working together. i highly doubt she had a scaled-down graph during Krakarov, but she DID set a course so they could have the advantage... if you consider shooting lava slugs and deathray supports "setting a course," that is. and if you consider sly's cane The Advantage. which to be fair it kind of is so.

again, take your pick ! a very flexible tune we have today :]

"'Cause the British, they were smart / But they didn't have the heart / Of our strong, Irish companions"

okay this is the "swept in with the throng" of this one bc i do not have any like solid brain thoughts about this BUT this is yet another one that can apply to all three games but that i like applying to the third:

for thievius raccoonus, "the British" could be the Fiendish Five, in which the "strong, Irish companions" are bentley and murray

for band of thieves, "the British" could be the Klaww Gang, and the companions are once more Bentley and Murray

or for honor among thieves, the companions are of course the full Cooper Gang, but "the British" could be all of the miscellaneous sly 3 villains or it could be- if you stand at a distance and don't look directly at it- read as referring to the Klaww Gang and the Fiendish Five! looking back at my little reason why you should be able to tell that i have strong opinions about the dysfunctionality of the villain teams lol. anyway it's like the panda king and dimitri being like "yeah you guys were good at being evil but you all hated each other. and now we've got a team that's good at bieng good(?) AND love each other." y'know? y'know.

"They can write shoddy laws / And try to buy her off"

this is the REAL swept in with the throng but something something interpol and cops and sly being seduced by or seducing carmelita and neyla and eventually giving up his thieving life for the former something something "buying him off" something something

"But they'll never own what we have here / A solidarity, within familiar seas / 'Cause we are one in a thousand"

back at it again with the found family <3 i think this one's mostly self-explanatory; the cooper gang is superior bc they're not just a team of thieves, they're a family, hence the "solidarity within familiar seas."

"She defended her name / As the cannon-shots and flames / Tried to deter what she is after"

glancing back at thievius raccoonus where sly is literally defending his name and getting said thievius raccoonus back while the five are constantly trying to kill him. the "cannon-shots and flames" specifically reminds me of clockwerk which tbf he really did try and deter sly so.

however, throughout all three games sly is defending his name and dealing with "cannon-shots and flames" (literal (looking at you Dead Men Tell No Tales) or otherwise) so once more the flexibility comes in lol.

"And although she lost her love / She's never giving up / To these tyrant dirty ol' bastards"

gotta admit i'm not entirely sure what to make of the "although she lost her love" in this context but sly 4's angry ex plotline (derogatory) comes to mind. or maybe it's just about him not being able to be w/ her throughout the trilogy bc they're on separate sides of the law, who's to say.

anyway sly never gives up to tyrant dirty old bastards and in fact frequently makes tyrant dirty old bastards give up instead. once more reminds me specifically of thievius raccoonus but i'm not 100% sure why. something about the spite and the spark that only cocky sly 1 sly has, maybe

"We would charge as a pack / You could never hold us back / We are fierce and grew with each battle"

and back to the sly-3-ness :] they don't really "charge as a pack" until the big heist at the end but they do charge as a pack so i think it still counts. and they really aren't held back, with the exception of sly's near-death experience- and even then they DO still get into the vault so really i just don't think they can be held back. and they are certainly fierce !

and they literally grow with each battle in sly 3. like that's the whole reason you fight half the battles, so the crew can grow. now that i'm thinking about it i think Dr. M is the only one you don't fight to grow the crew and that's hilarious. and fitting !

"'Cause it's etched inside our veins / The hardships that we've gained / We've become a myth unraveled"

i wanna say bentley getting chomped is a prime example of their hardships being "etched inside [their] veins" and i'm sure the others (sly included) have a lot of scars after all their misadventures.

also there's no way the cooper gang isn't like a legend in the criminal underworld, all things considered. i don't think you take down not one, but two prime contenders in said criminal underworld and not be considered a legend, hence the becoming a myth thing.

i have a fic wip that's literally just about the B team learning that the brothers are in fact not the untouchable legends they'd heard of. that's only vaguely related but it feels close enough, considering they've "become a myth unraveled." if you want like an actual Thing for them being unraveled, just consider the unraveling the disbanding of the crew post-heist, which leads into the next part fairly well i think.

"In those final days / In the castle she had claimed / She drew the sword that had brought her / Through countless victories that she survived to see / In the tales of her own grandeur"

the castle is actually carmelita's apartment /j

presumably "the sword" is really the cooper cane, all things considered. i think the full-circle-ness of this is really sweet in a sly context; several times, sly mentions living up to his father and his family's legacy, and now he can say he's got a "tale of [his] own grandeur" and has officially made his father proud :]

*i think it's in the first one; sly says that his dad would have been able to pull the heist alone, which therefore implies that he thinks his dad did do it alone. it's 4:20 am (nice) and the incomprehensibility is TRULY starting to sink in so i'm not sure this makes any sense to anyone else but it makes sense to me i swear.

if you read all of that, two things:

one! you're my hero and i love you. /p

two! are you OKAY. /j

#okay it's 5:15 am now which means eepytime for major lol #expect more of these later tho they're so much fun <3 #[toe tappin']#sly cooper #okay now this one is DEFINITELY a long post but most of it is below the cut #which i THINK means i do not have to tag it as such #[soliloqueue]#fish in a birdcage

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oh-my-damn · 1 year

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I’m glad you are saying something to that chris/seb blog. I noticed that they are so rude for no reason to other blogs. If they personally don’t agree then they are negative to that blog or people. Everyone can have their opinions but to actively make fun of others and their beliefs is unnecessary. I see them go hard against tarot pages but for what? Don’t believe it or it’s not your thing then move on. There are actual cultures that take it serious and it’s ok to not understand it but let’s be respectful of one another.

I guess they also believe that we can’t be curious about anything or else it’s stalking. Especially when there are people that won’t believe something unless there are pics and now this video shows proof and now it’s an issue.

omg yes thank you anon!!

let me just attach a screenshot that the brilliant @illcomeupwithsomethinglater wrote on that blog

like her shitting on tarot but also being the person who did a handwriting analysis makes absolutely no sense

Neither of them are actual science, all of it is pseudoscience, and she made so many assumptions in that analysis, it was baffling

What bothers me is the way she speaks of others or allow her anons to speak of others - there's no reason to be rude to/about other blogs that are literally doing the exact same things at you.

Techinically, we're all stalkers on here, bc we all spend our days watching what's going on and trying to figure it out. That they cannot see how "disturbed" they are themselves is baffling to me.

#we're all disturbed here #like legitimately #none of us should be obsessing over this man or his relationship #so do not be rude to others who are doing the same shit you are #thats such a double standard #mandy no likey

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a-student-out-of-time · 2 years

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Mod isn't the only one dealing with techinical issues as when I've uploaded my New Year Cheer Arc Review + Patient 8702 guess onto Google Docs, I discovered that Google has changed how outlines work so all my old outlines on ALL of my previous documents have been removed. I've worked out the new way of doing it, and in hindsight its actually better then the old version but still this means I need to go through ALL of my previous Reviews/Analysis to fix them, not fun >:( - Review Anon

//Ugh, unannounced format changes are the worst U_U

#mod talks #a student out of time

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sys-garden · 1 year

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Constanely torn between wanting to follow aromantic blogs so i can see interesting analysis and stuff and knowing that will bring a smidge of discourse to my “discourse and politics free social media”...except that techinally my tik tok also doesn’t have discourse on it but thats videos , so its not a real social media if it has only videos. my logic makes alot of sense

#I need social media that is actually relaxing

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warmmice55 · 2 years

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apompkwrites · 3 years

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reader impact || first meetings: liyue boys

series masterlist characters: chongyun, xingqiu genre: fluff summary: a game has been released entitled genshin impact, consisting of otherworldly abilities relying on the basic elements of nature. the game follows the story of an interdimensional traveling twin in search of their other half. along this journey, they meet different characters that live in this world. including you. notes: ahhh my boys <333 they're on my team rn and i love how well they work together. also, chongyun was kinda hard to write a meeting for because you don't really meet him??? we just recently got the hangout events so,,,

chongyun's playthrough -

chongyun tries to keep his love for supernatural things lowkey.

he does a terrible job at it, though.

his overlay is spirit themed so-- :)

his streams are very laid back.

when he first started, he didn't talk so much.

but then he started getting used to it and his viewers love how dorky he is.

he's very talkative once he's comfortable streaming :D

i'm not basing this on beau bridgland on zach's stream what are you talking about?

his chat makes fun of him sometimes because he can't stand the heat.

(they love his popsicle breaks during streams though--)

they've definitely tried to make him eat hot peppers, each one increasing in scoville units.

he fell for it once and is now very cautious about what his chat asks of him.

^^ what happened was they told him eating it with something else would make it less hot. it didn't.

the only requests he'll take now are game requests ://

anyway, a lot of people request for him to play genshin impact simply because of one character they want him to roll for.

unfortunately, he isn't able to find any trailers of this mystery character :((

he does see some things about your friend that likes to read, though!!

since he can't find anything about this character his chat is excited about without spoilers, he throws caution to the wind and uses all of his free rolls.

his luck must be god-tier at this point because he manages to get you in his first ten roll.

he will definitely pause everything he's doing just to look at your splash art.

you're so calm and poised but so forceful at the same time like?!?!??!

hOW?!?!?!?!?

you have all these floating charms around you and you're just so?!??! cool?!?!?

he hasn't even gotten to a fourth of this game and you're already one of his best characters.

he'll give the best weapons and artifacts, replacing them with better ones the more he plays.

during his popsicle breaks, he'd normally watch some videos or something while talking to chat.

until you came into his life :D

now all of his popsicle breaks include you in some way.

playing genshin? man he'll put you on his screen and just play some of your voicelines or let your idle animations play.

he's doing literally anything else??? too bad, you're right there in the form of fanart he's seen or videos of you.

if you have the same issue with heat that he has, he won't be using large scale pyro users.

characters similar to diluc or klee? nope. only small pyro users thank you very much.

and when that happens, he probably has them built up for physical damage instead of elemental.

his chat will beg him to build up the other pyro characters better please they're so good at elemental damage--

"no."

dang.

he knows for sure that it won't techinically affect you game wise.

but does he care? no.

at least 90% of the time you're paired up with a character that pairs up well with you, in both game mechanics and story.

(kinda like chongyun and xingqiu, you feel me?)

he just can't let you two part :((

he's one of the players that desperately want a story quest for you.

please he just wants to learn more about his favorite comfort character :((

xingqiu's playthrough -

xingqiu does a lot of reading streams.

he'll just sit there for hours and read books to his viewers.

they can span from children's books to full on novels.

he does requests too!!

like, if enough people request a book, he'll read it to them.

mainly streams at night so that people who need something to listen to while they sleep can listen.

(of course that only works if they're in similar time zones).

but he's a smart boy so he'll sometimes do streams in the middle of the day for people who are in different time zones.

sometimes he'll do analysis streams where everyone can discuss the book he read in the past stream.

he's another person who likes games with stories because, obviously, he likes reading.

when he's recommended to play genshin, he's a bit hesitant on it.

there isn't a whole lot of reading involved since it's voiced but then he learns about all of the books you can collect.

that's pretty much the main reason he plays the game.

he spends a lot of time in the mondstadt library.

he takes a while to actually get to liyue because he's reading all of the stories from mondstadt.

his chat is practically begging him to continue the story because... you know.

he finally gets to liyue after months of playing.

of course, he doesn't actually meet you in the main story.

he's very confused when his chat tells him to unlock one of the story quests.

honestly, he just wants to get back to reading the books in genshin.

but he unlocks it anyway.

of course, he's very excited to see that this quest takes him to liyue's bookhouse.

"did somebody say out-of-print books?"

softvoicesoftvoicesoftvoicesoftvoicesoftvoice

aND THEN THE PAN UP THAT HIDES YOUR FACE.

"is there a chance that volume six of legend of the shattered halberd is also in his collection?"

"who are they...?"

"apologies, my liege."

and he's down.

you're so soft and calm and adorable.

please you've snatched his heart in an instant.

he's on board once you invite him to qingce village.

and then you take the book and run.

when he finds you reading, he takes a hot minute before he actually talks to you.

the way you're standing is adorable please--

if you stand similar to how he does in the game, he's smitten.

you're so graceful and poised and just so,,, ADORABLE PLEASE

#genshin impact #genshin impact x reader #genshin x reader #genshin impact headcanons #genshin impact imagines #genshin impact scenarios #genshin impact fluff #genshin impact chongyun #zhongli imagines #genshin chongyun #genshin chongyun x reader #chongyun x reader #genshin impact xingqiu #genshin impact xingqiu x reader #genshin xingqiu #genshin xingqiu x reader #xingqiu x reader #reader impact

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Third time is indeed the charm as we have our results at long last! And barely winning with about 46.94% of the vote is Nikei Yomiuri! Congulrations he won a poll for once in his life. I say this as he lost to Mikado in the offical SDRA2 popularity as the most popular male character by 6 votes. Techinically Teruya won but as he’s a returning character I don’t count him.

And just barely trailing behind him with 40.82% of the vote is Chiaki Nanami! I honestly expected her to win due to her getting much more character focus but I guess you guys just want me to talk about Nikei a lot eh? Fine by me.

Kyoji Nakamura, poor, poor Kyoji he only got 12.24% of the vote. I don’t know if it was lack of interest or the Mod skrewed the results by saying ‘Don’t do a Kyoji analysis until the season finishes’ Well given how long it’ll take until he gets done the wham arcs about him might come out before then!

So what does that mean? Well first thing’s first, Nijiue Spoof Arc will come out next. Hopefully I have that out before New Year Cheer finishes but if it finished before I’m done like with the Season 1 Retrospective, the Spoof Arc will take priority. Then I will do New Years Cheer and after THAT will be when Nikei gets his character analysis as with our boy getting a bit of character development in this current arc I wanna include that. Afterwards…it should be Chiaki’s analysis next but I kinda want to include her role in the Charity Arc. Its hard because given how pivotal Chiaki is, picking the right arc to start her analysis on her gets extremely hard.

But either way the people have spoken and they said Nikei first, Chiaki second and Kyoji third and so that’s what I will do. Nikei’s character analysis won’t come for a while as there’s bigger fish to fry then him, but when I do get around to doing him, evacuate Iroha from the premises as she will cower before its word count!- Review Anon

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Kinktober 2017: (9) Edgeplay

I Would Walk 500 More

What’s this? A love story over a year in the making?

Voltron Legendary Defender, Sheith, Item Check Love AU

It’s embarrassing as all hell, to go “I knew it was love when you handed me a hot cup of coffee and I dropped it all over myself because I forgot I have a crap prosthetic where my right arm used to be but you didn’t even blink and just got me a bunch of tissues and made me another cup.”

Convenience store clerks don’t deserve the harassment of having customers coming in and falling in love, especially not at 2:30 in the morning, especially especially not when the customer is Shiro and spilling the coffee has his nerves so on edge he’s on the verge of a panic attack.

(It’s a rough night).

Keith, blessedly, is at least semi-familiar with Shiro’s trials and tribulations. Being inadvertent neighbours for the past month has helped; Shiro being forthright and bringing a little fruit basket to his only immediate neighbour in the tiny apartment complex to apologise in advance for any strange noises that might come. Keith had said it wouldn’t be a problem;

He’s acting like Shiro isn’t a problem now. Shiro has a death grip on the fresh cup with his left hand (his only good hand), and that seemed to inspire Keith into action. Keith pulls up the divider and tugs Shiro behind the counter, through a door, and to the informal little office space. He forces Shiro into an old, squeaky office chair, and goes to rifle through his locker.

Shiro tries to focus on what he can see, tries to control his breathing, tries hard to not lose his mind. The soft whumph of something landing across his shoulders startles him a little, but it’s just Keith, laying his motorcycle jacket on Shiro.

It looks ridiculous, probably; Barbie trying to dress an Incredible Hulk doll, but the weight is reassuring, Keith’s intense stare even more so.

“Just take your time. I’m going to go restock the instant ramen, but I’ll leave the door open.”

It’s been a while since someone’s idea of helping him didn’t involve making him talk things out.

Feels warm and rich and a little strange; tastes like hot, freshly-brewed coffee and fits like an undersized jacket on an oversized man.

Barely a month into their acquaintanceship, and Shiro’s mildly overcome in the first throes of a crush.

They meet in spring, and a season full of Shiro stopping by the convenience store on Bad Nights and Keith stopping by in the mornings with just barely out-of-date cooked foods and theirs is now quite the admirable friendship.

Keith’s got a bit of a temper, a bit of a bite, but he is unwavering and he is honest. He doesn’t ask for more than Shiro will give, doesn’t really ask for anything at all, so Shiro’s not even sure what he gets out of this relationship aside from homework help and the (questionable) privilege of having Shiro relaxed enough around him to go without his prosthetic when Keith comes over.

No looking a gift horse in the mouth, though. It’s a sweltering hot summer’s day, vacation in full-swing for most students, but Shiro’s a beleaguered graduate student. It’s noon and his room is boiling hot as he stares at his laptop and prays for some insight from the statistics gods re: some sweet, sweet data analysis.

Our Lady Of Variance chooses to answer with a different kind of variable; there’s a knock at his door, and it’s Keith.

“You haven’t left your flat in 2 days,” the man announces matter-of-factly. “Get changed, we’re hitting the beach.”

It takes way too long for Shiro to understand what’s being said to him, and when he does it mildly horrifies him (no big deal, he’s spent much of his adult life in a constant state of mild horror). “Keith, no, buddy, I can’t get my prosthetic wet in the sea, it’s gonna rust.”

The reply is pretty much instantaneous. “Then don’t take it with you.”

That mild horror? It’s escalating. He has to be shirtless, and armless? It probably doesn’t show in his face, he’s way too good at a poker face, but his heart is pounding right there in his throat, for all to see. “But... My arm. It’s. It’s the only arm I’ve got left there.”

Keith shrugs. “I can be your right hand man.”

It’s only been 3 months, Shiro yells in his head, face completely neutral. And being his right hand has a terrible fuckin’ track record.

Breathe, Shiro, breathe. “I can’t.... Not now. Sorry, Keith.” He mourns it, mourns what might have become an almost-romantic beach date.

They stand in silence facing each other for a while, before Keith seems to figure something out. “We can break into the school swimming pool. I have a copy of the keys from when I used to work in security, you can bring your arm or you can leave, and you can dress however you like. I don’t give a shit, but neither of us are staying in our rooms in this shitty heat. Your brain’s gonna melt right out.”

Oh, geeze. Shiro swallows a few times, because it feels like if he opens his mouth to talk right now, he’ll hurl up his heart, and not even Keith could possibly be willing to deal with him after that.

It’s a hell of an option, and Shiro finds it more and more appealing. “Would you mind if I kept a shirt on in the water?”

Keith flashes a sharp grin. “My only rule is to at least move further away if you’re about to pee in the pool.”

Shiro’s offended. “I would never!”

“That makes one of us. Now just go change already.”

It’s agony and bliss; Keith in just broad shorts, the cool chlorinated water in the heat.

Yearning’s a soppy word, but floating on his back in the pool, prosthetic safely tucked away in his bag and occasionally bumping into Keith who’s doing the same, it’s about all that Shiro can do to yearn that this easy, easy friendship continues.

Autumn comes, dragging in her wake his second semester. It’s off to a better start than spring; when it’s not too hot and not too cold, his stump aches less, and now that he’s gotten used to his advisor and school itself, his stress levels aren’t at ceiling-height.

He still stops by the convenience store pretty regularly, laptop in tow. He knows all of Keith’s co-workers by now, and the 3 night-time managers are all mothers trying to fit in work amongst looking after their families, and oh, how they dote.

Shiro’s not super used to it, has always been brought up to be fiercely self-reliant. Sometimes it’s a little overwhelming, because they can get really rather touchy when they’re missing their kids and Shiro’s there on a rough night looking like a soaking wet puppy, but those times Keith runs interference as best he can, once even spectacularly pulling an entire shelf’s worth of potato chips to the ground to get attention away from Shiro.

“It’s no big deal,” Keith had said. “You would have done the same for me.”

This is true, of course. They’re both students at the university nearby, and Shiro makes an effort to meet up when they have empty slots in their schedule; Keith’s finishing his undergraduate thesis and he’s still undecided between furthering his studies and getting a job, so Shiro shares what he knows as someone who’s done both. Once, when Shiro had followed Keith to the administrative office to help Keith book a meeting with the career guidance counsellor, things had gone a little bit south with a clerk insisting that Keith wasn’t eligible for the service since he was a scholarship student, and Keith getting increasingly agitated as the clerk harangued him in front of the entire office for not even reading the fine print in the student’s guide.

It probably wouldn’t have come to blows, but it might have come to words that could land Keith in hot water, so Shiro does the only thing that without a doubt can de-escalate any situation.

He’d reached under his coat with his left hand, fiddling with straps and ports, and just as the arguing voices reached their peak, he unhooked his prosthetic and let it slide right out his sleeve, landing on the ground with a heavy whump.

Shiro hadn’t freaked out, not even a little. The thick fabric of the coat kept the sleeve’s shape; as long as he tucked the end into the pocket, he wouldn’t even need to re-attach his arm before he can get out of here. So making a face that was mildly aghast, he had looked down at his prosthetic and convincingly warbled his voice as he exclaimed (way too loudly even in his own opinion), “Oh my god.”

The clerk had echoed it, but Keith was already bending down to grab Shiro’s arm (oh, were it but attached to his body!), turning around and brandishing it like a club of guilt at the man on the other side of the counter. “Are you just going to let me schedule the meeting, or would it be better for me to take my friend out of here,” he growled as he waved the arm a tad dramatically, “but then leave him one hand down just so that I can come back and argue with you some more?”

Paler ‘n a ghost, the man had handed over a form to Keith along with a time slot, and Keith just barely deigned to thank him for it. Keith had filled it in and slid the paper back, before tugging Shiro out, still techinically holding Shiro’s hand.

They’d gotten as far as the low-key haunted and consistently empty bathrooms on one of the upper floors before Keith had let go of of Actual Shiro, to then fully wrap his arms around Arm Shiro and proceed to laugh so hard Shiro actually got worried.

“What the hell was that? You some kind of gecko? Sense danger and then drop a limb? Fuck.” Keith had had tears in his eyes by then.

Shiro had smiles, still a little jealous of his prosthetic. “Guess that’s my Halloween outfit all figured out.”

In summary, there is not a detachable limb nor a bag of junk food that they would not drop to the ground for each other. Shiro’d take a hit for Keith, probably. This close to the edge of his terrible, all-consuming feelings that he’s been skirting for months now, Shiro thinks that for Keith, Keith who’s always got his back and will always hide away one 4-cheese macaroni gratin for him to have for a late-night snack, there isn’t much he wouldn’t take for Keith.

He’s a hopeless man dancing on a thin wire, Shiro thinks, and he’s a terrible dancer.

Hopefully, desperation can keep him going so that Keith doesn’t find out that Shiro’s a barely-controlled no-good hound dog, and oh, the leash is fraying terribly.

Winter is rough, cold, unpleasant, all the usual adjectives used by people who aren’t her biggest fans. Shiro knows that logically his joints can’t possibly be getting iced over, it’s not even dipped below 0 yet, but it’s miserable.

He’s miserable, and not a heavy wool scarf and warm gloves and long johns under his pants help him leave his winter funk. His therapist says it might be Seasonal Affective Disorder, but Shiro’s got enough regular sad on his plate that unless pushed, he won’t be admitting to having SAD on top of it all too.

It drags on him like the night keeps hold of the sun; lingering, holding him down long enough that everything’s off-kilter. In a distant sort of way, Shiro knows he’s getting stressed over due dates, and that he’s fundamentally a man who needs sun on his face to feel that everything’s going to be okay.

Shiro’s as calm and measured as he can manage on his convenience store runs, but this is his first winter on his own sans his right arm but plus hideous scars, and he’s just constantly on edge.

Keith had kept his silence through November and most of December, only insisting that they meet for Christmas day.

Shiro’s grateful, because the holidays are frankly an extra type of awful when you’re alone and unpleasantly sad, but Shiro’s irritated because he just wants to lie under his heated blanket in his room and stare at the ceiling.

Keith had kept on insisting, and it’s such a rare sight that he finally relents. Keith was usually happy to support Shiro even through bad decisions, but he had put his foot down when in a fit of all-encompassing misery Shiro had said he was going to quit school and maybe just work at the convenience store too until he died (Keith had called up Shiro’s therapist after ‘comandeering’ Shiro’s phone, and that was how Shiro had a 2 hour long conversation with Doctor Takizawa in the backroom of a 7-11 at half past midnight), and he’d put his foot down now too.

So Shiro had forced himself to clean and neaten up his house, good enough for company, and even makes the effort to pick up a little Christmas cake, with a log house made of chocolate. The candles cheer him up, even if the dark sky outside at just 5 damn p.m. gets to him. He’s making tea when Keith lets himself in with the spare key, holding a large box in his hands. “I have a present for you,” Keith announces, before he’s even taken off his shoes.

It’s a sweet enough a moment that Shiro manages to pull up a smile, all the way from who even knows where, to tell Keith thank you. They head to the main living space, and Shiro pours them teeth.

Music plays in the background, Shiro leaving his Youtube playlist playing. It’s mostly soft folk, good for meditation, good for winding down when he comes back from exerting himself at the gym. They both just listen in pleasant silence, getting through their cake, before Keith starts getting antsy and none-too-gently starts poking Shiro’s leg with his present.

“All right, all right,” Shiro relents, finally, pushing over his own gift to Keith. “I’ll open it now, okay?” It amuses him to find that the gift appears to be wrapped in about 2 dozen flattened paper packages that were meant to eventually house nuggest. He tears it open, to find..... a massive.... light.....thing.

“Keith?”

“It’s a light therapy box. I checked the internet and it said if you’re sad, uh, S-A-D SAD, getting more light might help. The site said you should figure out how to use it with advice from your doctor, but it might be good for you.”

Shiro doesn’t know what to say. Keith’s a goddamn star, and he’s gotten him a literal box filled with light. It’s hard to resist cradling the light box like a sweet, awkward puppy, and he only barely manages to ignore his urges. “You shouldn’t have, Keith, this looks really expensive.”

Keith just rolled his eyes, tearing open his own present and making a deep, rumbly satisfied sound to find a pair of beautiful leather driving gloves, so that Keith can have a winter-version of his go-to fingerless gloves that always threaten frostbite at this time of year. The gloves are jet-black with red trim, made of leather so soft Shiro had almost wanted a fair for himself. “I wanted to. If I thought it would help, I’d buy you light every year in winter.” He pulls on the gloves to see how they fit, and it’s some Excalibur-and-Arthur bullshit, honestly, how perfect they are.

Keith reaches across the little table they’re seated at, to hold Shiro’s jaw between his leather-clad. “You’re worth doing these things for,” he says slow and clear, like Shiro’s a little dim and Keith’s just trying to make him understand.

He’ll beat himself up for it later, Shiro really will, but his reaction to the stern/soft touch on his face had left him so painfully keyed-up it made his head spin as he leaned more heavily into the touch.

Keith is so close, and so far. The light box is heavy in his lap, but a Keith’s touch is so gentle he’s quite sure he’s losing his mind.

Shiro’s going to do it, he’s really going to do, he’s going to tell Keith now and settle it once and for all.

Dancing man’s sick of the edge.

Shiro pulls Keith’s hand further up his face, so that he can press it against his cheek and take pleasure in the touch.

It feels like something’s on the edge of happening, and Shiro just...wants to lean in and-

Suddenly Keith’s pulling away, cursing and patting himself down for his phone. He’s brusque, borderline-rude to whoever’s talking, and when he hangs up, his scowls are deeper than trenches.

“You okay?” Shiro asked, having swallowed his confession.

“3 people called in sick today, and they wanted me to come in half a shift earlier to deal with the rush of people doing last-minute shopping. I’m sorry, Shiro, I have to go.”

Keith looks as mournful as Shiro feels, but Shiro just shakes his head and smiles. “Don’t worry ��bout it, I can put the cake in the fridge and we can have the rest of it when you have time. You should go and get ready, Keith.”

Keith still looks conflicted, and if this were a romance novel, Shiro would’ve described it as a man torn between desire and duty.

But it’s not a romance novel, unfortunately, and really is a face touch that much weirder than their frequent shoulder pats?

Shiro shouldn’t put Keith’s actions into romancin’ words. It’ll be okay if all he can manage is a quiet long-lasting unrequited love as Keith’s friend; he refuses to be selfish.

So he smiles and waves as Keith heads to the door, almost late, but not so late that he can’t duck in to give Shiro a hug.

“Make sure you talk about that light thing with your doctor. And don’t work so hard, it’s Christmas.”

“Tell that to yourself, bud, I’m just going to be hanging out under the kotatsu and eat instant ramen.”

Keith snorts, wrapping his scarf around his neck. “Don’t go too wild.”

“No promises. I get wild when I eat too much salt.”

Shoes on, Keith’s got his hand on the front door. When he turns to look at Shiro, it’s with an expression so ridiculously fond Shiro reflexively tries to fold his arms.

(He can’t, he hasn’t actually let go of the light).

“Come by later. I’ll make you the last Christmas special peppermint latte we have in the store.”

Great, and also could you please touch my face again? Shiro does not say. He just goes “I will. Thanks for everything, Keith.”

“Embarrassing,” Keith says, but he still springs for another hug, and Shiro figures that like it or not, if Keith keeps on being this unbearably good to him, the confession’s going to happen. He can’t really hold it in anymore, regardless of his intentions.

It’s gonna happen.

Just not today.

They come full-circle on one day in early Spring, more or less. Shiro’s stressed with reports, and the stress agitates him into, funnily enough, even greater heights of stress, and he just needs to get out. So he stumbles out of his flat, still in pyjamas because at this point there is nothing left to him that could surprise anybody on the night shift.

When the chime rings to announce that a customer’s come in, nobody looks surprised that it’s Shiro in fuzzy fleece pyjamas and a warm overcoat. Shiro heads straight for Keith’s counter, and they don’t even say ‘Hello’, because Keith’s already turned around to get him a cup of coffee.

“Here,” Keith says. “You’re not looking good.”

“Do I ever?” Shiro asks, reaching for it-

-and knocking it all over the counter with the goddamn hunk of shitty plastic that’s supposed to mean that he’s okay that he’s lost his arm but obivously it’s not because he can’t really even type with it and he can’t even grab a cup of goddamn coffee without spilling it like some child and-

Keith clapping Shiro’s face between his hands bring him out of mid-spiral, and Shiro comes back into himself, unpleasantly slow. “Sorry,” he forces out, because he really is. The counter’s going to smell of coffee again, and there’s already a little bit of a stain on the cash register from the last time (has it actually been a year already?)

Keith doesn’t let him go. “3 days ago, a drunk office worker came in here, asked for help looking for the hangover meds, and then threw up on my shoes. Coffee’s fine. You’re fine. Okay?”

He really isn’t, Shiro knows he isn’t, but Keith does make him feel better, that one’s beyond a shadow of a doubt. Keith’s still holding his face, in a death-grip but gentle, and the only sound is the steady drip-drip-drip of coffee on counter becoming coffee on the ground.

Keith has that frown on his face, the one that means that he’s unsatisfied with something and he’ll be working to make it better some way, somehow.

Keith already really helps to make Shiro better, that’s also something Shiro doesn’t doubt. He settles a little more into himself, into feeling Keith’s warmth leeching in through his cheeks (boy always runs so warm, even in the dead of winter), and he controls his breathing until his panic isn’t controlling him.

“Thanks, Keith.” Shiro figures he’s as good as he’s going to get for tonight, and tries to move back from this half-lean across the counter.

Keith doesn’t let go.

“Uhm, buddy?”

“What?”

“I’m all right now, and we’ve gotta clean up this mess I made.”

Keith doesn’t even glance down. “That can wait, and this is nice anyways.”

That certainly is true; it’s so nice that Shiro’s beginning to suspect that if there’s a kink for having one’s face touched, he’s definitely got it. This is way too nice, and he sighs a little, settling lower and closing his eyes.

They startle open when he feels something gently bump against his head, to see that Keith’s also leaned in, now insistently pressing their foreheads together even as he continues to stare at Shiro, trying to figure out if Shiro’s really okay or not.

All at once, it’s too much. His hand’s shaking, as Shiro rests them over Keith’s, nerves shot to hell and flying on adrenaline. He’s terrified, but he’s hit his limit and there’s nothing left to give. “I. I’ve got something I need to tell you, Keith, and I need you to know that I don’t have any expectations, or anything, just, I won’t hold it against you if you turn me down. Okay?”

Keith nods, mashing their bangs together. “You can do it. I’ve got you, so c'mon, just come on.”

And Shiro does.

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A/N: Lord fuck this was a struggle and a half. Edgeplay..... where it’s sorta just Shiro..... edging himself. What a mess. Hope you like it anyways!

#vld #sheith #kinktober 2017 #takashi shirogane #keith kogane #shiro/keith #item check love au #i'll read over this to check for mistakes #but hand on heart i was barely conscious through autumn and half of winter #it's gonna be a ride for everyone involved

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