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professor-rye · 3 years

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WIP Wednesday Snippet from Chapter 33 of Dappled Shadow and Penumbral Light

“Have you any plans for the rest of your evening?” “Not yet,” Essek admitted. “I was unsure how long our errands would take. Why do you ask?” Caleb glanced down, one hand lifting up to rub the back of his neck somewhat anxiously. “Well, I thought that perhaps, after the ah… unpleasantness with Lord Ristel, you would appreciate an intellectual challenge,” he mused, lip quirking up in a weak grin. “A distraction, if you will.” Essek’s eyebrows lifted up in curiosity, head tilting slightly as the other man spoke. He was intrigued, to say the least. “Did you have something particular in mind?" “How do you feel about code breaking?” Caleb asked, glancing up at him with a spark in his eyes. For a moment, Essek was surprised at such an offer. Then, with a start, he remembered the coded research that they had found in Ikithon’s dungeon. “Ah, I almost forgot about that!” Essek admitted wryly. He couldn’t help but feel a bit excited at the prospect, now that he was reminded of the possibility. “As it turns out, I do rather enjoy code breaking. It was one of my preferred responsibilities as Shadowhand.” “Then I hope it will be an enjoyable distraction,” Caleb said with a laugh as he began to lead the way up to the library. “Though I do find it intriguing that code breaking was something you were often tasked with. What does a Shadowhand actually do exactly?” “What doesn’t the Shadowhand do, is probably a more apt question,” he said with a grin, dodging the question mostly out of habit. He could probably get away with sharing those details with Caleb, of all people, but it was still ill advised to speak too loosely about them in general. “My responsibilities ranged widely, to say the least.” “Fine then, keep your secrets,” Caleb said, shaking his head good naturedly, a smile tugging at his lips. “Oh I will,” Essek mused with a smile of his own.

Have the boys flirting! And buckle up, this chapter is a roller coaster!

#wip wednesday #critical role fanfiction #cr fan fic #cr fan fiction #my writing #dappled shadow and penumbral light #What DOES the shadowhand do?#Shadowgast

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blazardragon · 7 years

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What headcannons do you have about the Asano's

Hello, anon! Oh boy *Cracks knuckles* I’ve got a few:

Gakushuu:

Ever since reading in Korotan C that he and his friends are oftenbusy practicing as a band for CD releases, I’m convinced that he must likemusic a lot. Since it’s his favorite instrument, he mostly listens to musicwith a lot of electric guitar, like Rock music, but he listens to a variety ofgenres to get ideas. He listens to music in many different languages to try tolearn the language faster, too. For him, finding the balance between havingwide-appeal without being overly generic is an enjoyable challenge.

Since he recommends big cities for Lea to visit while she’sin Japan, I feel that he’s a city person. He likes the activity, energy, and varietycities have to offer. Being able to get to places quickly and conveniently isalso a plus. One of the things he looked for while he was applying to differentuniversities was that it was situated in a city.

His least favorite season is Winter because:

He hates the cold. He spends most of his time studyingindoors anyway, and their house’s heating system is superb, but he likes studyingnear the window of his room and the cold seeps through the crevices.

It’s goddamn Karma Akabane’s birthday in December, and everyyear Karma will use that one week to taunt Gakushuu and demand that he respecthis elders. He will die before calling him “senpai”.

It’s his birthday season. This is the time of year whenpeople he barely knows give him things he doesn’t need with the expectationthat he’ll return the favor. He will, of course, since it’s good for buildingconnections, but people pretend extra hard to be sincere around this time ofyear, and he’d rather they lay their intentions bare.

Gakushuu is not a hoarder by any definition of the word. Helikes having clean space without clutter. His room is the cleanest room ateenager could possibly have. That being said, he can’t find it in him to getrid of the (frankly useless) things his virtuoso friends buy him, so he has asmall shelf on his room dedicated to gifts he receives from them. The onlyexception is a porno mag Seo gave him, which he promptly threw away. His fathergenerally gives him useful things, so he doesn’t need to set those items asideanywhere. He simply uses them. Out of caution, he won’t even bring any unopenedgifts from Karma into his house. He opens them outside.

Like Nagisa, he secretly worries about what he’s going to dowith his life in the future. While his future goal is to have an executive job,he hasn’t yet decided what kind of company he wants to lead. He’s a serious kidwho likes having everything planned out in advance (After all, he had plan F’sand other formations setup in advance for the pole toppling tournament), and he’sused to knowing which school he’s going to, so not knowing which college he’llgo to and which major he’ll pursue is extremely worrying for him.

He’s not Ren-level vain, but he’s a little fussy about hisappearance. He keeps a comb on him to keep his hair neat. Unfortunately, thismakes Gakuho’s teasing about the possibility of him going bald in the future extremelyeffective.

Gakuho:

He likes a lot of English music from the early nineties becauseit reminds him of his time in America as a college student, and he honestly hada lot of fun at college. There were a lot of interesting classes to take, a lotof intellectual freedom, and a lot of room to be an oddball. He also likes reallydark music, which certainly doesn’t help his image as “Education Satan”. Consequently,although he genuinely tries to give Gakushuu good, rational pointers regardingthe music he and his friends are working on, Gakushuu simply cannot follow hisadvice. His advice is too tailored to his own tastes, and it would scare toomany people away.

Since his dream school was up on a mountain surrounded byforest, I think he must love nature. His love of nature is also one of thereasons he likes to jog when he exercises. It’s good for the heart, which isimportant because he likes eating western style breakfasts with a lot of meat(assuming what he was eating in chapter 119 is what he normally eats), but healso gets to look at everything as he runs by. As he runs, he tries to identifyevery animal and plant he passes by, and he takes pictures of anythinginteresting he finds with his smartphone. He’s especially fascinated by bugs,so there’s a lot of pictures of bugs on his phone, which grosses other people,including Gakushuu, out.

His favorite season is Spring because:

School starts in Spring in Japan, and he’s a huge nerd wholoves school.

The weather is very nice, which is especially important whenyou’re jogging at 3 AM. All the plants and animals start to come back to lifeafter the cold of winter, so his jogs are more interesting.

His birthday is in the Spring. Yay, gifts!

He hoards the gifts he receives from students the same wayhe hoards all the random trophies and certificates he has been awarded over theyears. He’s very proud of the random stuff his students give him, and he’s gladthat returning to being a cram school teacher means more gifts for him. Thankfully,he owns a big house, so he has a room dedicated to storing all his junk. Whileit’s kept well-organized, the fact that there’s a whole room dedicated tostoring useless knickknacks drives Gakushuu crazy.

I usually avoid the headcanon of “X’s parents are pricks”because it seems like a common way to make one’s favorites suffer, but I cannotimagine someone naming their kid “Gakuho”, meaning “the peak of knowledge”,without being a total prick. Talk about high expectations :/

The reason why he’s so good with money and management isthat he was raised and groomed to be a businessman or a stock trader, kind oflike Karma’s parents. In fact, he went to the same high school as them since itwas a high school geared toward preparing mathematically gifted students forthe business life. Gakuho’s parents were very money driven, so they raised himin such a way to maximize his income.

He was never thrilled with the idea, and when he was youngand rebellious, he resented all the time and effort he was forced to put into askill he didn’t really want. However, like what many of the other characters inAssassination Classroom eventually learned, he came to realize that it’s askill that can help him achieve his true dreams. To respect his parents’choice, he went to Harvard and studied Economics and Mathematics, but he alsoworked on getting his teaching license. His transcript is filled with all sortsof random classes he took out of curiosity, though, and he ended up graduatinglate because he was too busy taking random classes outside of his major.

He winds up being very glad he chose to go to Harvardbecause he meets his wife there. Also, while he feels a strong sense of ironywhen Gakushuu tells him he plans to study at MIT to become a businessman, he’shappy that he studied business since he’s better equipped to advise his son.

Thanks for the ask, anon! If I think longer, I might remember more, but these are themain ones, and I wanted to keep this post somewhat readable by giving them nomore than one page each. I should probably keep a word doc for other headcanonsI come up with.

#assassination classroom #Ansatsu Kyoushitsu #asano gakushuu #asano gakuho #headcanons

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