idle thought #620
Dec. 4th, 2024 10:51 pmOkay, yashiki made me splutter. With all the other Mark-Bearers, it’s like, it’s too dangerous, please, leave for your own good. Mashita shows up and suddenly it’s ‘everyone can live’. Yashiki is head over heels for this man. He is worshiping the ground Mashita stands on. This is such an 180 and I was not prepared for the whiplash.
Main Points:
Death Mark/Shiin
Chapter Summary: There might be a general conspiracy to take care of the old man.
Word Count: 780
Rating: Teen
Mashita has a crush he hasn't acted on yet (which means it doesn't follow directly from my previous stories)
Spoilers: Spoilers for the first and second game are mild but do exist.
( a shared purpose )
Two of a Kind
Feb. 18th, 2024 04:49 pmI wasn’t expecting the ending, but it’d threatened to get too sappy and Mashita decided to opt out at that point. (He also would rather die than ask out loud but he actually is paying attention and if Yashiki seemed uncomfortable he’d back off and let Kujou do the talking.)
I don’t think it was happening on the sites I was on, so...but I’ve put it in the calendar for next year so I don’t miss it next time. (It is kind of on-brand for me to import everything and get ready for International Fanworks Day...only to forget to look up what day it happens on. Whoops.)
Main Points:
Death Mark/Shiin
Follow-up to Food for Thought
Chapter Summary: It takes some work, given that they're both prone to just talking around issues, but they finally say a few things straight out. It's not going to be perfect, but things might actually work out.
Word Count: 1589
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Yashiki/Mashita, confession
Spoilers: Post Good Ending, so identity spoilers, ending spoilers, general game spoilers...
Warnings: touching on game concepts (Mashita's accusations) and generally for Mashita
( moving on )
Food for Thought
Feb. 11th, 2024 09:19 pmThis isn’t where I thought the chapters would be broken up but it works better this way I think.
Main Points:
Death Mark/Shiin
Follow-up to How to Live
Chapter Summary: Mashita, unfortunately, is left to his thoughts while they eat.
Word Count: 650
Rating: Teen, ish, Mashita is all but dancing around the fact he has a crush
Spoilers: Post Good Ending, so identity spoilers, ending spoilers, general game spoilers...
Warnings: touching on game concepts (like the child predator implications and bullying/neglect implications) and generally for Mashita
( memory hauntings )
Lack of Progress
Oct. 16th, 2021 11:23 pmDeath Mark/Shiin
Chapter Summary: Mashita just wants to be helpful and instead continues to be tsundere. At least he's stopped lying to himself.
Word Count: 240
Rating: def. shippy
warnings: mashita is really bad with the ableist language
“I’ve dealt with three spirits so far and nothing’s happened, so why?” Yashiki rages, and Mashita’s actually struck dumb for once. He’s never known Yashiki to get angry, and is almost convinced that this is the work of some spirit. Not quite, though, and it’s almost a relief, because he’d been half convinced the man wasn’t human, with how little he’d reacted to the news of his oncoming death.
“Well, Mary mentioned something about spirits playing with their victims, didn’t she? It seems like this spirit has more control over the Mark than the others.” Mashita toys briefly with the thought of offering to come help before dismissing it. Whether it felt unnatural or not, Yashiki’s own cool head was the one thing that had kept them all alive so far. “Serial killers do that too, and given the amount of victims they’ve probably taken so far, it’s probably not too far off to describe them that way. At some point, they usually want to gloat. It’s the most dangerous situation because they’re coming after you personally, but it’s an opportunity too. You better take care of yourself. I’m not consoling the brats if there’s a funeral.”
The pause this time is longer, as Yashiki considers that, before he states warmly, with no thought as to how embarrassing his tone is, “I’d miss you too, Mashita.”
He hangs up before the ex-detective can even yell at him. Stupid sexy man.