Izaya has a habit of asking Shizuo if he likes him all the time. Have some of Shizuo’s go-to answers:
Izaya: Shizu-chan. ~ Do you like me?
Shizuo: Against my better judgement.
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Izaya: Shizuo, do you like me?
Shizuo: Most of the time. I dunno about when I’m sleeping.
Izaya: >:(
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Izaya: Shizu-chan, do you like me?
Shizuo: No.
Izaya: >:(
Shizuo: *staring at him, probably eating or drinking something* …you’re okay, I guess.
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Izaya: Shizu-chan?
Shizuo: Hm?
Izaya: Do you like me? :(
Shizuo: Sometimes. Maybe most times. *takes a long second to pretend like he’s thinking about it* Like 95.0971 percent of the time.
Izaya: And the rest of the time?
Shizuo: I’m coping.
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Izaya: Shizu-chan?
Shizuo: No.
Izaya: You didn’t even let me ask what I was going to. >:(
Shizuo: Fine. What?
Izaya: Do you like me? 🥺
Shizuo: I could throw you in a dumpster for the rest of my life.
Izaya: :(
Shizuo: And also kiss you maybe. Not at the same time.
Celty
again and again and again
2020 is about feeling nostalgia for shows that you watched during middle school
“Hey, Shizu-chan, what can I say. I lost, you won.”
I love ji-yeoung and I love Izaya so…
born from a conversation I had with @ciaran a while ago but I’ve been thinking about it lately SO:
based on the popularity of that one glib tweet I made once, I think that it’s not that uncommon for people to acknowledge that hua cheng probably would love to sub. less talked about but no less fun is how well I think xie lian would fit into a dominant role
xie lian has for so long been beholden to the whims of Literally Everything causing him misfortune that I feel like he would really enjoy discovering the experience of dominance, specifically with hua cheng. having these continuous little realizations of how much everything he does genuinely affects hua cheng, and how vulnerable another person can be to him, and then being able to take a little it of… lovingly malicious glee in just letting go and doing whatever he wants, even if ‘whatever he wants’ is not being very nice.
xie lian already has a habit of lovingly bullying hua cheng in canon (see: every time hua cheng pretends to be anyone other than himself and xie lian inevitably figures it out long before he lets hua cheng know that he’s figured it out, occasionally for the sole purpose of teasing him), and it would be a natural and likely positive experience for them both to bring that into their intimate life as something they both enjoy… but also as a way for xie lian to experiement with and test out the range of power that he is finding he is delighted to have over hua cheng, especially knowing that hua cheng is on his own an extremely powerful individual that is so emotionally beholden to xie lian that he willingly lays himself out. burn his mansion down again, gege, it was trash anyway!
and meanwhile hua cheng gets to indulge in the complete submission that he genuinely wishes to give xie lian, which xie lian typically has very little desire for because so much of his life has been couched in unequal relationships and having the genuine good will beaten out of him under the guide of “hubris”. hua cheng being delighted at xie lian being comfortable enough to act a little selfish and a little unkind to him because he’s so reassured that hua cheng wants it with full sincerity.
"He didn't feel anything when Izaya tried to kick him in his stomach. It only made the flea drag his back slowly up towards the broken screens. Right up to where Shizuo saw his own face in the recording. Splintered thicker than the strands of a spider's web was his own enraged expression.
There was blood all across his cheek. A second later he realized it came from the screen. He really did look like a killer. Like everyone else on this island. He deserved to be here. He was something cruel, ugly, and loathsome."
observe!! i commissioned the lovely @rosa-maltz to draw that scene from a cheap imitation by @spoontasti, because the imagery bangs and i just had to have it actualised in their style,,, if you've yet to see either of their work before now go check it out it's as awesome as it looks.
day 3: monster, but affectionate
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