After your horror post I though what if during the sailing to america KoS met up Sirens that started to lure others into the sea but they fail in the end as Senku doesn't give even one millimeter interest to Sirens and barely manages to save his companions!
Oh but you see
Senku can be affected. He very nearly is.
They offer him answers. Not love, not sex, answers. They sing that they know the secrets of petrification, that they can tell him anything he wants to know. They sing that if he just took their hands, they'd show him all the secrets of the world.
But that's also what saves him. Because Senku does want those things, but he wants to discover them for himself. He doesn't want to take the easy way out, because then he wouldn't get to have fun, he wouldn't get to do the one thing he loves doing most.
That's what snaps him out of it, milliseconds before one of the creatures can convince him to fall into the water.
When he lays eyes on a Siren for the first time, he has no idea what he's even looking at. He'd never considered the idea that something like this could happen. But then again, Sirens and Mermaids have been in human mythology for thousands of years. They had to come from somewhere. And though he'd prefer if they were just drunken hallucinations from ancient sailors, there's nothing he can do about it now.
Because he's looking a scientific anomaly in the face, and she and her sisters want to eat him and his friends.
His mind races, digging through memory after memory, trying to remember all those stories, searching for the way to defeat them without killing them.
Senku ends up running down to where their radio is, and uses it to shout across the ship as loud as he can, hoping to drown out the sound of the incessant song in the air, and manages to startle Taiju out of his reverie. Senku tells him to plug his ears, and help him herd the rest of the crew into one of the lower parts of the ship that didn't have windows.
That's where he gets his hands on Ryusui, who he literally has to shake until his eyes snap back into focus with one of his trademark laughs. The captain of the Perseus tells Senku that Sirens are tricky. That, assuming the things outside were the same ones from ancient myth, getting out of this wasn't going to be easy. Just because he broke free of their spell once, didn't mean they couldn't entrap him in another.
These things worked outside the realm of science and fact, so the only way to defeat them was to play the game by their rules. So Senku clogs his ears with some spare wax, and leaves Ryusui and Taiju in charge of looking after the rest of the crew.
He heads up to the deck, only to find the world silent.
No more singing, no more pretty words and false promises. His eyes scan the horizon, searching for the wing-ed women who had been attempting to lure him and his friends into the depths.
"I know you're still here," He says. "No way you gave up that easily."
Something like a laugh, muffled by the wax, then a body drops in front of him, crouching on the railing of the ship.
It's easy to ignore her nakedness when she's covered in feathers.
"There you are." Senku can't stop the grin that spreads over his face. She was frighteningly beautiful, all sharp claws and birdlike eyes.
The Siren mimics his grin, showing off equally sharp teeth.
She leaps from the railing to stand at her full height. She was his size, maybe a handful of centimeters taller. Her hand lashes out, grabbing his face and tilting it to the side, eyes narrowing at the wax in his ears. Her claws dig into the softness of his cheeks, drawing blood.
"Cheat." She spats, shoving him away hard enough to make him stumble, and before he can fully steady himself, she's closing the small distance again, her wings folding neatly behind her.
"Let's play a game," Senku says quickly, backing up more. "Things like you like games, right?"
She pauses, tilting her head.
"What game?" She asks.
"A question game. Whoever can't answer the others question first loses."
"What happens to the one that loses?"
"Easy," He says. "The loser has to do what the winner asks."
She lets out a thoughtful hum, head tilting the other way not. She truly looked like some kind of humanoid bird.
"Fine. Your question." She says finally.
"What are you doing here?" Senku asks.
"We have always been here," She says, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world. "My question. Where did you go?"
He blinks, then understands.
She and the rest of her sisters hadn't been affected by petrification because they weren't human. So as far as she knew, humans just suddenly disappeared for thousands of years.
"We turned to stone," He says. "How have you survived without humans? If I remember my stories, you usually eat us."
She rolls her eyes.
"Humans stopped being good food long before you 'turned to stone'." She says. "How did you come back?"
"Science," He says. When her eyes narrow, he continues. "The stone I was trapped in was eroded through contact with nitric acid, which came from the caves near where I was stuck." It was best to keep it simple for now.
"How do you convince humans to jump into the water?" He asks.
"By knowing what's in their hearts." She says with a shrug. Of course, it was something totally natural to her, just like breathing. She probably has no other way to explain it.
It was her turn now, but instead of shooting off another question quickly as she had been, she takes a moment to consider.
"What is your name?" She asks, finally.
"Senku," He says. "I'll ask the same question. What's your name?"
She gives it, but it's in a language he's never heard, spoken with an accent that makes him dizzy. He doesn't try to repeat it.
"Where are you going?" She asks.
"America, to get what we need to start saving more humans from their stone prisons." He catches the way her expression shifts, just slightly, at his words. She seems pleased.
Senku sucks in a breath, it was time to end the game, and he had the perfect question.
"Why did the Why-Man turn humanity to stone?"
"Cheat!" She snaps, baring her sharp teeth at the question he knew she couldn't really answer, despite what had been promised to him in the songs.
"The rule is that you have to answer until you can't anymore. I never said the questions had to be something you should already know," He grins at her.
Her eyes widen, her feathers puffing out and he knows he's pissed her off. She makes a noise, something similar to an angry trill.
Then, she laughs.
"You win." She says. "I do not know why your Why-Man took humans away."
"That means you have to do what I say now," He reminds her.
"Tell me, Se-en-kuu. What you want."
"To study you. I want you to stay with me and my Kingdom of Science, and let me learn everything about you."
Her eyebrows raise.
"Is that your true desire, Se-en-kuu?" She asks. "I know you want more."
"Sure, I want plenty of things. But this is what I'm asking you for," He says. She makes another trilling noise, this one less angry but still annoyed.
"Fine. I will stay with you and your people."
"No trying to eat anyone," He says. "I need every person in good health."
"That is more than you asked for."
"Wanna play again?"
She scoffs.
"No. You cheat. I will not harm your people."
"Good Siren."
"You are, as I have heard it said, treading on thin ice."
I saw about the s/o being the only one unpetrified if it helps 4 of those years were in stone, while the other 3 was spent trying to make the revival fluids ;-;
Helpful, but I'm still sad about it
Like, Senku only went at most six months by himself. But three years? Imagine what that would do to your psyche. You wouldn't be the same after that. It's a miracle that Suika came out as well adjusted as she did :')
I read that stan xeno gn!reader asexual fic you wrote and I legit cried how beautifully you wrote it!!!! đĽš
I'm so happy I found your blog as your texts are a true treasure đ
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Me reading this:
OH I'M AN ARIES TOO!!!!! NOICE!!
Happy late birthday
(do you know your moon and rising and all of that?)
Thank you! You as well!!
I'm a Taurus moon and Cancer rising, I believe. I'll have to check though, I never was one to keep track of all that very well.
To the Moon and Back is out right now on AO3, chapters are posted pretty regularly.
Dear Senku,
I think itâs cool that your dad works for NASA. Mine doesnât do much of anything.
I have a big brother in the Marines, but he doesnât come around anymore. Heâs too busy.
Do you ever miss your dad? Are you scared to be by yourself all the time?
APOTHECARY DIARIES???? OHHHH THE IMPERIAL đ¸ NATION!!!!!!
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MAOMAO SUPREMACY
Dabi x Reader MDNI
You catch him out of the corner of your eye barely a breath before his hand slides around your neck. He doesnât squeeze, doesnât threaten. He just holds it there, rubbing the column of your throat with his thumb lightly while staring down at you.
He tilts his head to the side when you stare up at him, lips slightly agape. His hand is cooler than it had been before; you think he must have taken a cold shower to soothe his constant feverishness. He doesnât look angry, not in any way that makes you worry about him causing harm. But he does look annoyed, perhaps at being ignored for too long, almost like a cat.
âEnd the call.â His voice is too low to be caught by the microphone, the tone of it sending shivers down your spine.Â
âIâve gotta go,â You say immediately.Â
âWhat? No, Iâm not done-â The way Dabiâs eyes narrow tells you that he can hear your ex complaining from where he stands, still holding you by the neck.Â
âI donât care,â You pant, face burning red.
âBaby-â The hand around you twitches, fingers closing slightly to squeeze you ever so gently, fiery blue eyes narrowing even further. Dabi hadnât liked hearing that word.Â
You donât say anything else, refusing to give any more attention to your ex when it was clearly aggravating the man in front of you. Instead, you just hang up and let your phone clatter to the floor, uncaring as to if the screen cracks.Â
Dabi lets out a low hum, pleased, but doesnât release you. He slides his hand up your throat to hold your jaw instead, tilting your head back slightly, humming again at how easily you let him handle you.Â
âBoyfriend?â He asks, leaning down to ghost a kiss over your lips.Â
âEx,â Your panted correction earns a real kiss, his lips pressing firmly against yours.Â
âGood. I donât need the competition,â he murmurs.
You want to tell him that he has no competition; that your ex was your ex because heâd cheated and royally screwed any chance of recovering the relationship, but youâre not really sure Dabi cares. Not when he kisses you again, even harder this time, his hand falling from your jaw to join the other in grasping at your hips, pushing you backwards. You dare to reach for him, fingers finding purchase in the front of the borrowed t-shirt. You cling to him when the backs of your legs hit the arm of the couch, almost falling onto it.Â
He tugs at your shirt with a mumbled demand to take it off, hands groping at your chest the moment youâre exposed to him. You hadnât considered having company when youâd foregone the bra this morning, but you were happy you had. His palms are rough, staples scraping across your much softer skin. His touch has you panting, knees parting so that he can slide himself between them, pulling you both impossibly closer to each other. It would occur to you later, that he kissed you like he needed you to breathe. Like you were his only lifeline, and he had no plans of letting go any time soon.Â
At the moment, however, youâre easily distracted.
*cough* *cough*
May I humbly ask who you would see best with willow?
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Hello Moon~
You absolutely may humbly ask that, however I have a couple quick questions of my own to make sure I answer this properly.
Am I correct in assuming you mean @whydoyouwatchmeweep, and is there a specific fandom you have in mind?
Simon "Ghost" Riley doesn't have a family, not one that anyone knows about. But an unexpected event has him leaving base for the first time in a long time.
"We could all use a little break."
If only John knew that he'd end up wrapped around you.
Ryusui x fem!Reader
This is honestly just for me
When he meets you, as a scrappy teen angry at the world, he's immediately intrigued. By this time in his life, he was already one of-if not the-greediest young men, and he was determined to add you to his collection.
Not because you were a thing to him, no, he wasn't so shallow to treat other people that way (despite what several others whisper behind his back). But because you were so...you.
You had a sharp tongue and an expression that was either bored or annoyed at all times. You ignored him when he spoke to you, waving off his words as if they were nothing, as if he wasn't trying to offer you the whole world on a platter made with whatever precious metal you wanted-be it gold, silver, or platinum.
Your family and his family ran in the same circles, so you met often at fancy black-tie galas and the occasional brunch party. He always sought you out, eager to get his hands on you, to covet your attention and keep you from everyone else.
But to you, he was just another bored rich boy, another person seeking you out for the sole intention of entertaining himself. However, your harsh words only served to make him want you even more.
"You can't have everything, you know." Oh, you loved to say that to him. It always made him laugh, accepting your challenge over and over again.
With the passing of time comes a certain closeness, yet no matter how much ground he gains in the race to your heart, you always stay ahead of him.
He was the only one-other than your own loyal butler who could give even Francois a run for their money-who was allowed to stand next to you. He was the only one who's invitations you accepted, albeit with a long sigh and muttered "Sure, whatever, Nanami." And he was the only one who could make you laugh so hard you snorted.
Yet, even though you never gave him any more than that, he stayed. He got to know you, learned why you were so angry, why you were so sad. He learned the things you liked and hated, and that one day, you wanted to get on a plane and disappear. Though, when you say as such, he informs you that it wouldn't be possible, because he was going to go with you.
He always wanted to go with you. To be with you. He'd follow you and your perfect scowling face to the ends of the Earth and back.
By the time you're both 18, his want for you has become a strict need. He doesn't just desire you anymore, he loves you.
But no matter how many times he tells you, you wave him off. You run, starting the race all over again. But Ryusui Nanami never gives up on the things he wants, and he refused to give up on you.
Even after being trapped in stone for 3,700 years, the one thing he wanted above all else. Above the oil, the Perseus, and Senku's abilities, was you.
He just had to find you, first.
Watching this interaction on my post has honestly made my day I'm dying
RP blogs are everything I love when you guys pop up
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