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Whumptober Day 24 - Collapsed Building

There I Met Your Voice Again

MEIKO has a special cabinet in Crase Cafe where she stores the strongest liquor. None of the kids are supposed to touch it, and she keeps it a secret from An and the others.

The cabinet is only opened when all the adult virtual singers— so the versions of herself, KAITO, and Luka from everywhere except School SEKAI— are together and something serious has happened.

If this didn’t count, then who knew what did.

MEIKO had felt it, before Kohane came in tears to tell her what was going on. A new rec center had opened up, a convenient walk from both Kamikou and Miyajou. Both Akito and An’s friend Haruka had been training there when all of sudden, the building just collapsed.

They were the only ones injured, both left in comas and unable to wake up. The effect on the SEKAI when they lose a pillar of it, even like this, isn’t immediate, but MEIKO knew the change in the air.

Her counterpart from the Stage SEKAI clearly felt the same way, wordlessly arriving. MEIKO chased the kids out and opened the special cabinet.

“How’s Minori?” MEIKO asks.

“Distraught,” Stage MEIKO says, throwing back shots of vodka while MEIKO makes herself a rum on the rocks. “How’s An-chan? She was friends with Haruka and Akito so…”

“I haven’t seen her,” MEIKO says. “I haven’t seen them all at once since.”

“The others are trying to see if there’s a way we can call to Haruka, maybe get her consciousness back to her body.”

“You think that’s the problem?” Reportedly the comas they were in were abnormal, but something tying into the SEKAI would be rare.

“It’s worth a try, isn’t it?” Stage MEIKO says. “Besides, it gives them something to do other than worry.”

“Yeah,” MEIKO says. “We should probably head over to Empty SEKAI after this, Ena-san’s probably upset too, it might be affecting them.”

“Miku knows they won’t come over themselves,” Stage MEIKO µtters.

Suddenly, there’s a weird flash of light, and the two MEIKOs are in a different SEKAI, one they haven’t seen before. Standing before them is a Vocaloid they don’t often see around them.

“µ?” MEIKO gasps. “What’s wrong?”

“MEI-chan and MEI-chan!” µ says, tears forming in her eyes. “I’m sorry!”

“What are you sorry for?” MEIKO asks, warily. µ was well intentioned, certainly, but she was… naïve, sometimes. As if nearly destroying the world wasn’t enough proof of that.

“W-well I heard about what happened to your kids,” µ says, “and I wanted to preserve their consciousnesses like I did with Marie-chan–”

“Wait, Akito-kun and Haruka are in comas because you trapped them in Mobius?” Stage MEIKO says.

“No! They were already in comas, this was just to make sure they didn’t suffer any long term consequences from lack of brain activity, it’s just, something went wrong and their consciousnesses… fractured.”

“Fractured?” MEIKO asks. 

“I’m asking Ritsu to work on it, but I think they might be scattered across your SEKAI so someone has to get them all back together.”

“µ, I swear–” Stage MEIKO says, but MEIKO stops her.

“Thank you for telling us µ. We’ll try and find the fragments of their consciousnesses. But in the future, please let us know before you want to help.”

“Ritsu’s working on it! We’re gonna fix it!”

“I know you will,” MEIKO says, before they’re returned to Street SEKAI.  

Stage MEIKO just grabs the vodka bottle and starts drinking. “Why,” she says, wiping her mouth, “does she have to be like this.”

“She’s got more of a connection to the Metaverse-Es than us,” MEIKO points out. “She’s constantly exposed to a µch wider array of human emotion, of course she gets mixed up sometimes.”

“And because she can do that, who knows how long Akito-kun and Haruka will be in comas?”

MEIKO can’t exactly argue with that.

“I’ll go tell the others,” Stage MEIKO says. “And I’m taking this.” She tucks the vodka bottle under her arm and heads back to her own SEKAI.

After locking up the liquor cabinet, MEIKO calls the others to tell them the news. 

Akito arrives first.

“Akito!” MEIKO gasps, “there you are!”

“Akito?! Akito you’re ok!” Len and Rin run up to him and start bombarding him with questions. 

“Where have you been?” “Shouldn’t you be in the hospital?” “Does Toya know you’re ok?”

Akito blinks. “The SEKAI has a hospital now?”

“What?” KAITO asks. “Akito what are you talking about, in the real world you–”

“Real world? We can’t go to the real world.” Akito says. “Did you seriously forget that?”

MEIKO has a bad feeling. “Akito, who are you?”

“Eh? Akito Shinonome?”

“And what are you?”

“A Virtual Singer? Duh? Are you ok?”

MEIKO curses under her breath. 

“Wait, I’m confused,” KAITO says. “Akito, that isn’t funny. What’s going on?”

“I just had a talk with µ,” MEIKO starts, but KAITO’s eyes glaze over. 

“Actually, nevermind,” he says.

MEIKO rolls her eyes. “This is fine, we’ll just take him to µ and–”

“Sorry I’m late!” an unfamiliar voice says. A girl with blue hair and a jean jacket arrives. “What’s the important meeting?”

“Hey, Haruka,” Akito says. “Mostly they’re asking weird questions.”

MEIKO’s mind is racing. Haruka-chan is here, not her own SEKAI, and wearing street clothes. That makes no sense, unless…

Without a word, MEIKO rushes over to Stage SEKAI, and practically collides with her other self.

“I had a–

“--feeling something was wrong,” MEIKO says. Behind Stage MEIKO, there’s something that confirms her concerns. A second Haruka, in her idol outfit.

“They’re Virtual Singers,” MEIKO groans. “So there’s one for each SEKAI.”

“Oh I was scared you were going to say that,” Stage MEIKO says.

“Let’s call everyone.”

Fanfics are a big part of what inspires me to draw fanart, but I have just seen a post saying that some writers might not like fanart based on their fics to be posted and honestly, I'd never considered that, so if you're a fanfic writer:

to me fanart and fanfic have always seemed more or less like a symbiotic relationship and I personally would love it if someone wrote a fic based on art that I drew, so I'd never really considered that someone might not like it

7, 14, 19, 29

7. How many ideas do you have for fics right now?:

So. So many. At all times. A few of them are

-Arata and Akito decide to team up to tease the shit out of one of Arata’s fans that is also Souma’s mortal Twitter enemy

-A certain fic of a certain universe that we’ve been working on

-More Star Trek and MOTW AU stuff

-a baby gets dropped on WEEKEND GARAGE’s doorstep

14. If you could see one of your fics adapted into a visual medium, which one would it be?:

Seasons May Turn, But Things Still Stay The Same. It’s the funniest one and I would love to see Kamui being a moron.

19. Post a snippet of one of your WIPs:

He’s still zoning out when Kuba looks past Arata and addresses Akito directly.

“And who are you?” She asks.

Next thing Akito knows, the chaotic spirit of Mizuki Akiyama overtakes him and he has the funniest idea.

“Akito. Akito Tono.” Akito says, reaching his hand out to Kuba. “I’m his little brother.”

Arata’s surprised for a split-second, but then he smirks and reaches out to ruffle Akito’s hair.

“Yeah, Aki’s such a cutie, isn’t he? He even wants to be a singer as good as me someday~”

…Akito’s starting to regret starting this.

Like, immensely.

But he can definitely turn this back around on Arata.

“Yeah, Onii-chan’s such a good singer. But, hey, you’ve never told me about her!”

“What, am I supposed to tell you about all my adoring fans?”

“Well, you always talk about Gale. Gale this, Gale that, ‘did I tell you what Gale sent me this morning?’”

Arata’s jaw drops open slightly and he turns bright red.

“Aki…!”

“Oh, you and Gale… text?” Kuba says, and Arata’s clearly unable to figure out a response, so Akito smirks and turns to her.

“Oh, yeah. All the time. He’s practically Onii-chan’s internet boyfriend.”

Arata glares at Akito as hard as he can before turning back to Kuba.

“Sorry about him. You know how kids are, Masuyo-chan. Can I call you that?”

He winks at Kuba, and she lets out a breathless laugh. Oh my god, she has a huge crush on Arata.

This is terrible. Akito hates this so much.

29. Post something you’ll never post or a scene that was cut from an already posted fic:

This is something I wrote a while ago for fun that I never posted because it’s just this one scene:

When An walks into WEEKEND GARAGE, she doesn’t know what she’s expecting, but it’s certainly not whatever the hell this is.

Kohane and Toya. Screaming at each other at the top of their lungs.

Arata’s sipping on a cup of coffee with the most exhausted look on his face, and he flashes her a glance that says “Get your partner under control.”

“Whoa, whoa!” She yells. “What’s going on?!”

“An-chan, tell Toya-kun he’s being a moron!”

“No, An, tell Kohane that she can’t possibly be a bigger fan of Tsukasa-senpai than I am!”

An freezes.

Oh. Oh no.

There’s an ooh from the corner, and Kisara, Akemi, Tatsuya, and Kotaro are all watching intently.

“Look. There’s no objective way to solve this.” Arata groans. “Can’t you just agree that you like him equally?”

“There actually is an objective way to solve this, I just don’t want to do it.” Akito responds.

“Then fucking do it, whatever it is has to be better than this!” Arata snaps. “You dragged me away from my partner for this! End it!”

Akito groans, and An shakes her head.

“Oh no, you’re not making me betray my partner like that. You call him.”

Kohane looks at her like she’s crazy, and Toya has the smuggest smirk she’s ever seen on him. God, he takes this way too seriously.

Akito sighs and unlocks his phone, dialing Tsukasa-senpai and putting him on speaker.

“Ha ha ha! Hello there, Akito! What do you need?”

Toya’s eyes light up.

“Senpai!”

“Oh, Toya! Are you calling me from Akito’s phone? Do you need anything, my love?”

Suddenly everyone that doesn’t go to Kamikou just freezes.

“Oh no, Senpai. I just needed to prove a point to someone.” Toya says. “I’ll see you at dinner?”

“Oh, of course! I’m making pasta, and I think Auntie’s making cookies?”

Toya tilts his head slightly.

“Mother’s making cookies? What’s the occasion?”

Tsukasa-senpai freezes.

“…Nothing.”

Toya’s face turns slightly amused.

“Senpai, you can’t lie to me.”

“I’m sorry! Auntie swore me to secrecy!”

And suddenly Toya’s eyes light up again.

“She got it, didn’t she? Her and father’s latest recording just went platinum?”

“AGH! Toya, you can’t tell Uncle! She’s planning to surprise him!”

Toya laughs into his hand.

“I won’t. I promise. I’ll get going right now, I think Mother could use some help with the surprise.”

“Oh, you don’t have to worry! I’m helping her!”

“Please, I insist.” Toya says.

“Alright, see you!”

Tsukasa-senpai hangs up, and Toya finishes up his coffee before throwing some cash on the table.

“Thank you, Ken-san. Fuck you, Kohane. I’ll see all of you later.”

“Hey! You can’t say that about Kohane!” An tries, but he’s already out the door before she can yell at him more.

“So they’re… cousins?” Arata asks, and Akito sighs.

“It’s a long, long story.”

“I think we have time.” Tatsuya says.

Send me an ask with the first sentence of a fanfic and I’ll write the next five.

Saw this on @resting-meme-face‘s blog and wanted to try it.

Which fictional character(s) would be your oc's favourite?

I think I know already cuz she's ur icon but,,, Saki for the ask game?

Hehehe

**For context, when I say she doesn’t get bullied enough, I mean that canon has completely forgotten that she’s chronically ill at this point and I need the game to realize that if she’s that severely messed up she probably can’t be training for a week straight she WILL pass out

lyrical clarity (knocking some sense into you)

Apollo doesn’t pay attention to who’s part of his favorite bands–he just appreciates the music as-is. Of course, this means that he’s entirely caught off-guard when it turns out that the lead singer of his favorite group is none other than Klavier Gavin.

Naturally, he goes to confront Klavier, only to find that there’s still more truths to uncover–and a lot that they’ve still got to talk about.

I promised this would be posted on Valentine’s Day, and as there’s still half an hour before midnight in my time zone, I’ve fulfilled my promise! Hopefully it’s worth the wait–I’ve had this one in progress for several months, and just couldn’t figure out how to end it. But I’m generally happy with how it’s turned out, and that’s all that matters, I think.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Genei Ibun Roku #FE | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akagi Touma & Tsurugi Yashiro, Akagi Touma & Aoi Itsuki, Aoi Itsuki & Tsurugi Yashiro Characters: Akagi Touma, Aoi Itsuki, Tsurugi Yashiro Additional Tags: Mamori shows up for a split second, but it’s really just the guys, Yashiro’s SS3 should have included Touma and I will die on this hill Summary:

Yashiro’s SS3, but Touma is there and they bond over having parental trauma.

hi. im the ao3 user who looked at the wrong blog and thought your asks were off.

here's your anon hate: you made me cry. i love souma. fucj you /pos

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re-reading my own fic because the author has exactly my taste in tropes, ships the same ships in the right way, and also shares my sense of humour. what a find, what a revelation. i hope they write more of this sort of thing.