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After his parents were killed by vampires, a young boy nicknamed Bandana followed his brother into the army to wage war against them. He hated them, and never saw them for anything but the monsters that they were. After humanity was victorious, Bandana rose through the ranks of the Kamunabi to become one of their best vampire hunters.
But fifteen years later, everything changed. Bandana's been given new orders, and following them will be harder than any mission or any battle he's fought before.
Instead of killing vampires, he's been charged with protecting one.
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23 Mar 2025
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Chihiro copes with two different injuries, in two very different lives.
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16 Mar 2025
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For the past two years, Iori hasn’t known her father exists.
For the past two years, Samura has been alone.Bookmarked by simbay
23 Feb 2025
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You were just a Kamunabi agent. You were content with being one face among thousands, one recruit among hundreds. Nameless and ordinary, in a world of legends and heroes and weapons that could darken the sky and burn cities to ruins.
Then you met Uruha Youji.
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Set before and during the three years the wielders were in hiding.
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- Part 2 of kaleidoscope
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05 Jan 2025
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You made your choice, Seiichi Samura. Now, face up to what you've done and accept the consequences.
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01 Jan 2025
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Chihiro had beautiful hair. When she was a baby he and Azami had both remarked on it, a thick mop of straight black hair which had stuck up in tufts. When she got a little older they’d both privately worried about it; did Kunishige know what to do with hair? Shiba and Azami were both vain and both had what they referred to as signature styles. They were sure that they could help.
But as it turned out, they didn’t need to.
When Kunishige did his daughter’s hair – whether that was combing it, or braiding it, or tying it up with ribbons – he didn’t do so with the clumsy hands which had once sent an entire pot of soup careening off the stovetop. No, he did so with the hands which had crafted such delicately balanced and unmatched blades; the hands of an artisan.
Or - Chihiro's hair, and grief, and getting better.
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26 Dec 2024
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There’s a man on Shiba’s bed.
There’s a man on Shiba’s bed and the man isn’t Shiba — his hair is dark and his exposed torso is soft unlike Shiba’s familiar bulk and his eyes are shut, carved in two with grotesque scars and yet his head is tilted towards the door like he can see every inch of Soya’s suddenly shaking body nonetheless.
“Take a seat, Soya-san.”
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- Part 20 of #624
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24 Dec 2024
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It makes for a good story. The master and his disciple, rising from ordinary origins to become saviors to the nation.
The six wielders slashed open a new era built on deceit. Now Samura Seiichi has to live in it.
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C62-compliant.
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- Part 3 of kaleidoscope
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20 Dec 2024
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derives not from any notion of bloodthirstiness or aggression by anattemptatalliteration
Fandoms: Kagurabachi (Manga)
18 Nov 2024
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A truth you learned long ago is that a corpse reeks like the person smelled, but it's almost surprising that you recognize Uruha’s scent but don’t hear the blood running through his body.
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The stench of death has been lost to you for 18 long years. That’s been called, in an irony as twisted as the wrap around the hilt of a katana, being nose-blind.Samura Seiichi made his decision long ago, but the heads are only rolling now. It’s a pity you can’t teach an old man new tricks.
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- Part 1 of see how they run, see how they run
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18 Nov 2024
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Snapshots of the life of Uruha Youji - student, war hero/murderer, actor, lover - as he tangles with fate.
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C58-compliant.
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- Part 1 of kaleidoscope
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17 Nov 2024
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A few months after Kunishige’s death, Chihiro sees a stall selling goldfish and freezes in the middle of the busy market street.
When Tougo brings this up, days later, Chihiro claims not to remember. He is not surprised by this. In the same period of time, since he found himself too late, he has yet to find the words for the series of events that has brought him through every day since.
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03 Nov 2024
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Chihiro doesn’t know how long passes, when he starts to drift—the dregs of battle focus slipping through his fingers—remaining lucid only for the stark sensation of Hakuri smoothing a thumb over the tacky trail of drying blood beneath his left eye.
Or: the gentleness that comes not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.
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25 Oct 2024
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The blade wielders are likened to gods in most tales the soldiers tell, but after meeting one for himself, they seem alot more like humans after seeing them whimper painfully while sprawled out on a camping cot.
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23 Oct 2024
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In his final moments, Genichi Sojo can only think of one thing: Chihiro Rokuhira.
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07 Oct 2024
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Sometimes a time travel fix-it (or something along those lines) includes you, your good but childish father determined to hug you again, your not-uncle-but-uncle, and the legion of found family members following after him because you’re part of that family too.
It is not a rebellious phase. Even if your dad and Shiba seem to be telling everyone they encounter it is. Stop showing random people his baby pictures.
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26 Sep 2024
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Shiba and Azami broke up a few weeks ago and with that, Shiba has been living like a king. He doesn't get any sleep, smokes a pack a day, and he becomes so paranoid that it nearly kills Chihiro. But it's fine! Great, even.
It's even more incredible when Azami is the only functioning adult Chihiro has left, so he has to come back to take care of both him and Shiba.Bookmarked by simbay
19 Jul 2024
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The war enters its third year. Kunishige forges; Shiba watches over him and fights and desperately believes.
He thinks he does not miss Azami the way he used to; it was but a long summer in another lifetime. When one is just trying to survive, nostalgia is a luxury.
Until it is real.
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A Seitei War-era sequel to neon dreams.
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Edit: Now with its own playlist!
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- Part 2 of the fifth season
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Tougo thinks he’s heard this story before. Boy loses father. Boy learns to fight. Boy goes on a quest. Boy falls in love. Something like that.
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04 Jul 2024
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Chihiro doesn’t get tagged. Chihiro only blinks at him blankly when Hakuri asks for his arm so he can register him. His tag is bound to have already been burned off in the aftermath of the fight with his father. Energy is energy, but the existence of another’s person’s energy inside of you—no matter how small it is—feels weird when you can pinpoint it. The tag doesn’t mesh with the person’s spirit energy. Instead, it lays on top, like a bandaid. An itch to never be scratched until you burn it off.
And yet—
“Still have mine.” Chihiro says bluntly.
“Huh.” Hakuri spills it out before he can reign himself in, confusion evident in his face.
“Look closer.” Chihiro’s tone edges somewhere towards amusement and exasperation. Hakuri looks closer and—
There it is.
Or a look on Hakuri, after his family.
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01 Jul 2024
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Azami first met Shiba when they were both seventeen.
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A pre-Seitei War imagination loosely inspired by a cacophony of (corny) tropes, aesthetics, and 1980s Citypop music.
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Now with a playlist and a sequel!
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- Part 1 of the fifth season
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26 Jun 2024