I'll See You Again Someday (Never Again)

Ijichi Nijika/Yamada Ryou | Cover by 0x000H
SFW, General - Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 6,014

There's a lifetime of ambiguity present in the way Ryo touches Nijika's hands, the way they make hypotheses of each other's feelings instead of talk, the way they hug wordlessly and intimately, and the way they constantly crawl back to each other, conscious of it or not.

Nijika feels like she never minded this. In fact, it should've been that way for the rest of her life. She had decided that through thick and thin, and through every change in their lives, that it wasn't going to be a shame if she never ended up telling the truth to Ryo. She knew Ryo felt the same, that whatever they were, it was good enough for both.

So, why can't she stop thinking about it? Why does it stake into her heart, and why does it bleed her dry?

(Dead of the night, in her band's rundown van and with missing bandmates, Ijichi Nijika's feelings come to a head, and bare words trickle out of her heart, trying to claw their way to Ryo.)

Hyperventilation

Ijichi Nijika/Yamada Ryou | Cover by 0x000H
SFW, General, Incomplete - Chapters: 1/2 - Words: 4,247

The world comes to a maddening accelerando and Nijika, grasping at old ghosts and childish wishes, drums to its dizzying swing. Her groove is clumsy, off-tempo, too stilted and rushed—and at the end of performance, she’s left staring at her own reflection in the dark.

Now, lonely leader, can you see the continuation of this dream through, with your own hands, or will it all die, like wilted flowers in the changing seasons?

(Nijika’s world deteriorates into a mix of anxious dreams and of strained realities.)

Lotophagous

Admire Vega/T.M. Opera O | Cover by failpaw
R18G, Explicit - Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 13,624

Admire Vega and T.M. Opera O should have the same desires, the same memories, and the same life. They should’ve both lived a reign, and ended a reign. They should be glorious Umamusume, strongest of the generation of ‘99. As they’ve lived a virtuous life, they should stand proud, with no regrets, and no guilt.

Admire Vega and T.M. Opera O are ordinary, useless people. They tepidly hurt each other, and revel in hurt’s ecstasy. They would love nothing more than to bask in daydreams constructed of regrets, guilt, and quixotic glory.

When a daydream goes on for long enough, it can only become a beautiful reality.

(Careers both over, the two meet up on occasion to get away from their lives, and do whatever it is they do to forget. The more they do, the deeper Ayabe falls into Opera O's hall of mirrors, and old memories start to show.)

do rusted machines still dream of electric sheep?

Adachi Rei/Utane Uta | Cover by roachedtea
R18, Explicit - Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 7,540

There was you, the ideal construction of man's vanity and totality of love, and there was me, born out of utility, left living symbiotically with rust and metallic pains. Seeing you feels like looking into a mirror, yet my reflection is ugly and foreign.

I wondered quietly if you would live with me in this graveyard of oxidized steel and crushed plastic, and for a moment, felt like I could finally let myself dream.

(Adachi Rei and Utane Uta are strange acquaintances, met out of circumstance (amongst other things). Left to their own devices, they use each other as outlets of experimentation, much to Uta's chagrin.)

0x00000012 TRAP_CAUSE_UNKNOWN

Adachi Rei/Utane Uta | Cover by reisukiman
R18, Explicit - Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 7,617

What is expected of a machine is polite servitude, fulfillment, and to do what it was that human beings cannot do, (or never could do.) If executed flawlessly, one could even transcend the Gods that built them.

But to come close to even barely understanding you, the solder that holds this perfected reality bound together must melt to nothing.

Even if it hurts.

(Adachi Rei could never reconcile with what was burgeoning gradually in her systems. Utane Uta's desperation forces her to finally interface with it, for one last time.).