My collection of Chainsaw Man one-shot fan-fictions.
SPOILERS FOR THE MANGA WITHIN THIS CONTENT (Please read with caution if you have not caught up yet!)
Rated M for 'mature' for some sensitive themes
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WARNINGS AND INFO: - Some mentions of sexuality - Swearing - Mild angst, happy ending - Scene depicting semi-panic attack
A/N —> Hi! I'm popping in to say a Happy New Year to any potential Chinese readers or anyone that celebrates a different Lunar New Year somewhere else in the world. I didn't know much about the holiday but it is ongoing—I believe for around fifteen days total—so I wanted to try something inspired by the event since the characters are Chinese. This is just a disclaimer, I myself am not Chinese, nor do I celebrate this holiday. However, I wanted to use a scenario that would be significant to the characters' culture and I thought this was fitting. I did my research as I wrote, but that only can do so much for a foreigner like me. Please be understanding if I made any mistakes, and just let me know what they are so I can fix them! : ) xoxo, your author Lavender.
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Final disclaimer* this prompt is set in the Chainsaw Man, part one, timeline of 1997! I usually forget it's the 90s for them when I write these, please forgive my struggling memory.
Also, there are two male characters mentioned in the story who you're unfamiliar with—that's because I just made them up when I wrote this! (^_^;)
"YEAR OF THE OX"
Quanxi had taken a day off work to spend her coveted hours of free time preparing origami dragons for Chūnjié [Spring Festival] instead of the usual devil slaying, which generally occupied the better hours of most sunlit days. It was dark outside, and the windows being open had allowed a cool, evening wind to flow in. The girls were scattered in the living room, each with an origami animal of their own. Cosmo was creating herself a lion, for strength. Long made herself a dragon, just like Quanxi's, which symbolized her good fortune for the Lunar New Year, although she guessed Quanxi intended hers to be about power. Pingtsi and Tsugihagi were sitting together on the rug, struggling to figure out which animals they wanted to fold next.
"En. I could make a boar, for trustworthiness!" Pingtsi gasped, suddenly so proud of herself for the idea.
However, she was quickly shut down by Tsugihagi's gentle hand, which guided her away from the photographed instructions of folding a boar shape.
The patched fiend shook her head, taking the boar instructions and folding them up neatly, placing them down beside herself and raising the same manicured hand to a frame on the wall. It was a photo of the women together, the first one they took as a family. Pingtsi was tasked with finding a frame suitable enough. She found the frame just fine, but when she was trusted with the task to carry it to the wall for Quanxi, the resident carpenter, plumber, mechanic, maid, and interior designer, Pingtsi dropped it.
The fragile thing shattered; each of the million pieces of the new, acrylic frame lying on the tiled floor represented the fragments of Pingtsi's soul splintering.
