The More I Learn About No Sleep For Kaname Date The More Upset I Get, Like What Do You Mean This Takes

Here is a little promotion for my KotoUmi fic. It’s quite short but I have a couple of KotoUmi drafts that I am working on, although who knows when they’ll ever see the light of day. In this fic I wrote it through Kotori’s perspective and tried to lean a bit towards her characterization outside of the Love Live anime. In other words, I took a bit of inspiration from some of her “yandere-like” aspects that the writers toyed around with but never fully committed to. As mentioned in the notes of the fic, I do like the concept of “Yandere Kotori” in a comedic sense, but am overall glad that it was never confirmed in canon. I would certainly consider portraying her as such in a less serious fic, and honestly it would be a fun writing challenge for myself. Also as mentioned in the notes of this fic, the yandere character trope tends to stem from an exaggeration of BPD, which I then attempted to deconstruct and then present in a less distasteful way. Personally, I am unsure if I have BPD myself, but I hope that my portrayal of BPD in my fic was accurate or at least inoffensive. If anyone has any comments for my work, please feel free to leave it on the fic!

Please note that the fic has some negative self-talk and has some sudden intensely emotional tone shifts (in other words, “well, that escalated quickly”). Overall (spoiler alert), while this is mainly resolved by the end of the fic, this could be potentially triggering for some, so please keep your own boundaries in mind before you read.

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Love Live! School Idol Project Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Minami Kotori/Sonoda Umi, Minami Kotori & Sonoda Umi Characters: Minami Kotori, Sonoda Umi Additional Tags: Introspection, Self-Reflection, Self-Acceptance, Possessive Behavior, Obsessive Behavior, Abandonment Issues, BPD Character | Borderline Personality Disorder, Happy Ending, Character Study Summary:

A look into Kotori's love for Umi and her gradual self-acceptance of her own personal relationship issues.

genshin sumeru arc would've been one act if they just gave sleepwalking layla a gun or something. her and twirly-whirly would've handled the fatui before the sun even came up.

Hitomi, post Mizuki Route: Iris... I don't know how to tell you. But the truth is your attempted killer, So Sejima, ... is actually your father.

Osiris:

omg gaylinda and Alphaba getting freaky

the desire to be a part of a zine so bad ooooooo I know my empty portfolio hate to see me coming

Fluttershy and Kotori Minami have the same energy in how they are both really cutesy characters that the fandoms love to see act a little crazy sometimes

cursed Kotori with no brim from the Love Live school idol diary manga

speaking of silly Love Live crossover fics, I want to write a NicoMaki crossover in the Dandadan universe and literally the only thing that I have planned is Maki getting telekinetic powers and Nico getting her pigtails stolen by Turbo Granny and the thought of it is so stupid but it has been making me laugh nonstop. She just looks so stupid without her pigtails.

there is actually something so devastating when you find someone who posts a lot of a niche character or ship that you like and then their other stuff is like... nasty or triggering stuff. like no you're so talented ahaaa please don't post that other stuff ahaaa...

aitsf spoilers regarding my love for B-set. huge rant!

Unpopular opinion perhaps but I find B-set significantly more unsettling than "Boss" and "So." I wish we got more time with her because it so suddenly shifts from her being a HUGE suspect for both murders (and tied to the previous) to her suddenly being dead. With "So" it was uncomfortable but not at all unpredictable, most people figured he was hiding something so Saito's behavior in the Mizuki end route was not at all jarring. With "Boss" the build up was absolutely fantastic, but depending on the order in which you play the routes it seems impossible for her to be the actual killer. Assuming that is not the first route you do, highly unfortunate if so, then Boss's actions in Annihilation are highly out of character and therefore suspicious, making Saito's reveal highly satisfying but not at all out-of-nowhere. Her (his?) somnium is unsettling but not scary in the was B-set's was, and the answers to the chain murders are basically solved before the interrogation itself. In other words, "Boss" is a fantastic end-point, or Boss lol, to Saito's murder trail, but I do not find her genuinely unsettling or scary, just pure cold calculation. If I were to liken it to Danganronpa, it would be like a satisfying Mastermind reveal that makes perfect sense when all the pieces fall into place.

Now, continuing with the Danganronpa analogy, I would liken B-set to the Danganronpa 2 plot-twist, mainly with the chapter 3 killer. To keep it vague since this isn't a Danganronpa post, the reasoning and buildup for the death in that chapter becomes darker after the completion of the game since it provides more context; this is how I feel about B-set. Yes, Iris suddenly becoming a MAJOR suspect literally a day or two after hinting that she may be Date's adoptive daughter is extremely jarring, but it propels the story forward significantly and is very attention-grabbing. Her being a suspect (and, well, the killer) shows the fuckery of the game itself, yet I wish the game cooked with B-set a bit more before chopping her up. Yes, I know that we get all those Youtube videos on her channel and that there are bits of her on the Ota route, so this is of course coming from personal bias since I love her, but god I wanted her to be disturbing. Realizing after the completion of the annihilation route that Iris was dead since practically the beginning, that "she" was the cold uncaring killer all along, that was one of the most disgusting parts of the game to me. Because, that easily could have gone in a significantly different direction had Saito confronted Date at the end of Annihilation in Iris's body rather than Boss's. Imagine. Saito can imitate Iris pretty well. Imagine how disturbing it could have been had it led up to Iris being the overall killer, had her mind-fuckery of a somnium been the last one with the screaming, children's pictures, and blood? Had the face that stared at Date's been his daughter, of whom his memories were just starting to return, had Saito called him "Uncle"... that would have scared me to hell and back if I am going to be so honest. The juxtaposition of the two siblings staring at one another knowing that their previous lives and identities are dead, that could have been some powerful imagery.

In this AU-of-sorts, I would imagine that the plot builds up to Boss being the overall killer with Saito acting suspiciously as her, but ultimately Iris killing her on livestream (her personal stream and not in that stupid polar bear costume). Of course, disturbingly, I would imagine that Hitomi would not end up alive in this AU, but I love her too much to imagine what cruel things B-set could do to her. That, coupled with the fact that Saito killed her biological mother too, damn that boy would be going for 2/2 on the mother murders.

There are too many loose-ends to really solidify this as an AU fic that I'd write, but it most definitely is something that I would be interested in outlining and potentially working on in the future. I can just imagine the following:

"Oh why am I doing this? I want to see you suffer, Kaname Date. Awwww, Mr. Date, why can't you understand! Or, should I call you UNCLE? How about Big Brother? hahHAHhhahHAhh, you REALLY didn't know?! You don't even know who you are and now you want to know more about who I AM?! I'm the brand new star of the net world, A-set Tesa Iris the cyclops killer, of course!"

I could go on and on, how she'd talk with punctuated cutesy gestures, mocking the actual Iris, how she'd reference all the previous flashbacks that Date has had, how she'd speak in a (practically) flawless impression of Iris. To play the entire game and to realize at the very end that the person you needed to save is already dead, and in her place is a vicious murderer in a body that you swore to protect, that would've been something alright. If the body swap happened then Date would've been absolutely fucked as Iris afterwards since the livestream would've revealed her as the killer, and he would likely die in his daughter's body in the same prison that had his true body, unable or unwilling to bodyswap with him and "return home" himself.

That route is the absolute worst of the game, and yet sometimes I wish it was even more disgusting.