CURRENTLY UNDERGOING MAJOR EDITING REVISED CHAPTERS: 2 "human relationships." he explained, a small chuckle leaving his throat, "i don't care about people's hearts. i don't want to know how people work or how they think. they're all selfish anyways." you didn't interrupt him, despite how you wanted to disagree. people weren't selfish, at least not everyone. and like chishiya had told you before, wasn't being selfish sometimes a good thing? shouldn't you be allowed to want certain things for yourself? once more your thoughts paused and the feather light touch of a hand against yours could be felt, not quite finding purchase but enough for you to feel that he was there. or maybe it was meant to reassure himself. his throat moved, perhaps his attempt to clear the tightness and arrange the words evidently playing on the tip of his tongue. "but then i met you. and it was weird. i had never been so interested in a human being before. and through time i found that..." he paused, glancing up for a brief moment before holding your fingers more securely, "you're the only heart i want to learn more about."

"it is strange, huh?" she mumbled absently, her attention returning to the fireworks. this time, she looked thoughtful, her smile gentle, "people see them as a wish, or a promise, or even a confession. to me, they are nothing more than an innocent phenomena. hopelessly addicted to almosts and maybes," she glanced at him from the corner of her eyes, tilting her head ever so slightly, "do you know what i mean?" there were hundreds of things chishiya wanted to say in response to her question. no, i don't know what you mean. what are you, a child? fireworks are fireworks, nothing more. then, there were other things that ran through his mind. do i know you? do you know me? why do you haunt me in my dreams? in my life? what happened to me when i almost died by that meteor? what did i forget? why did you let me go? i love you, you know. i should've said it before. he wasn't sure where those last thoughts surfaced from. but rather than feel repulsed by the idea, it felt right. like he had known all along and now that the opportunity presented itself again, he didn't want to let it go. he turned his body to face her own, scanning her features more closely. her hair lay messily around her face, her clothes ordinary, and her eyes were bright. expectant, soft, knowing, and chishiya thought of the sun. and grinned, "i'm starting to." inspired by tangled

𝐘𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐀... wasn't the smartest woman you'd ever meet. I mean sure she ran away at 17 without anywhere else to go but it was for a good cause... right? Reina never knew her dad, and her mom wasnt the brightest. She could barely get a job anywhere else but the cafe down the street from her tiny apartment. But it wasnt like she went to college to pursue in something she wanted to do. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐃. An uncanny abandoned version of Tokyo filled her vision. She didnt exactly know how she got there. But it wasnt like she was getting out of it very soon. And games... she had to play games in order to survive? Indeed she did. Rewritten ~ 07/10/26

꒰ 𝓜𝓎 𝓫𝑒𝒶𝓊𝓉𝓎 𝓲𝓈 𝓽𝒽𝑒 𝓼𝒾𝓃 𝓲'𝓋𝑒 𝓭𝑒𝓋𝑜𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓯𝑜𝓇 𝔂𝑜𝓊 ꒱ 𝓔𝐋𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝓜𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐈 was that doll you never wanted. A porcelain beauty left to rot in flower pressed graves that simply took the skin of a beautiful, human psychiatrist. Her beauty was one that bloomed in blossoms- playing the role of the dearly resident, and carefully curated center-piece to her lonely dollhouse. She never minded seeing her porcelain skin covered in blood and maiden tears if that meant to know the answer to the meaning of love and life 𝓣hen, she looked into the mirror 𝓢𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎 𝓒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 was an apathetically grey heart surgeon who didn't understand love. Didn't need love. An empty soul bearing the skin of an alike empty human. He worked with careful precision and emotionless strategy that didn't require feelings, nor did he believe in finding the answer to love or humanity. He didn't understand hearts, he learnt to fix them- Only theirs and never his own. He says he only lives only to show others how empty a human can be 𝓣wo morbid souls who could never truly accept each other- or maybe just their own, distorted reflections. Despite theoretical differences, they see each other embodied as their own selfish desires. The same gaze, the same porcelain body. The same emptiness 𝓕or eternity, they simply live to follow each other, falling down into the absolute, wonderland rabbit hole- just two heartless, empty dolls, one born to save, and the other to heal fractured hearts. Suffering from a consuming, elysian desire, making both impossible to change unless someone finally takes an interest in them 𝓣here there is no room for morality, nor principles, let alone for judging what is good and what is evil 𝓟erhaps that is what makes humanity so beautiful to people who already lost theirs

𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐊𝐎̄ 𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐀 walked without purpose. Her steps carried her- not her will to live. And it would only plummet from then on. 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎̄ 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀- unlike Sora- walked with purpose and precision. He always had a purpose for what he was doing. As they say, 'opposites attract'. With the 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒 now at their fingertips, what will they do? Betray each other, fall in love. Or both? Alice in Borderland Chishiya x oc

𐔌 𝓤𝖘𝔢 𝖒𝔢, 𝓘 𝖍𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝖔𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝖆 𝓓𝖔𝔩𝔩 𝓗𝖊𝔞𝔯𝔱 𐦯 𝓨𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐈 𝓜𝐈𝐔𝐑𝐀's daily life focuses on taking lifes, living off every stolen breath. She more enjoys the view of a rotting, empty corpse than an alive, warm human. Assuming she's even capable of feeling. She finds it nothing else but an unefficient disgrace. Unefficient in terms of her 'work', where being an empty, perfect doll is actually an advantage. To the point that she doesn't see a place for herself anywhere other than as a doll-like savior from digression. 𝓑ut what if the curtain blocking her finally rises on its own, opening her eyes to see another porcelain filled with organs and blood? 𝓢𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑Ō 𝓒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 focuses on saving lives, trying to find out if his own is worth saving. Ever since he started college and even as a surgical intern, he hasn't been able to find the answer to his question. He claims that he lives only to show others how empty a human can be. Findings emotions as a weakness, something suited only for pathetic humans-so not someone like him. 𝓑ut what if instead of a beating heart, he meets an empty, maybe non-existent one, just like his? 𝓞ne born to take lives, the other born to save them. A world in which there is no room for morality, nor principles, let alone for judging who is good and who is evil. An absolute rabbit hole, where anything can be an advantage, but also a deadly weakness. 𝓓espite theoretical differences, they see each other as their reflection. The same gaze, the same body language. The same emptiness. 𝓑oth unaware of the meaning of life. Both empty as porcelain dolls sitting on your shelf, covered in old dust. Both impossible to change unless someone finally takes an interest in them. 𝓑ut are even two identical, morbid souls eeven capable of tolerating each other? started: middle of May '25 I assume?

𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐘𝐀 YASASHĪ -----» has been burdened with survival her entire life. Being constantly surrounded by crime and violence meant she had to be cautious. Not a single hair could cross a line, otherwise she'd be killed. She learnt to read people on a whole other level. She knew what people wanted before they even wanted it. She could practically hear every emotion going through a persons head, her only problem was that she could feel every emotion too. 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 SHUNTARŌ -----»is the opposite. Emotions are a foreign concept. Selflessness is a weakness. The only way to stay ahead was to make sure that other people were behind. So, he ensured that he was in front by using others to protect himself. He didn't care who got hurt. Self-preservation is his key to survival. Now that they are stuck in the borderlands together, Katya has to survive with him and face the darkest moments in her life. And Chishiya has to watch as Katya does the thing he is incapable of doing. Care.

when the world turned upside down.

𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐨 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐤𝐢 was raised to be the queen on the chessboard. With brilliance in her blood and the weight of a medical dynasty on her shoulders, she spent her life calculating every move,winning over every room, and crushing her every opponent. All except one. 𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐲𝐚, her mirror and her opposite, the heir to a rival empire. Their rivalry was a cold war of perfect scores, stolen glances, and a game neither could afford to lose. A lifelong match of white versus black. But when the world shatters and they're stuck in the Borderlands, their endless match is interrupted by something far more dangerous. Now, stripped of privilege and trapped in a new world, Rin and Chishiya must face the one thing they never prepared for: Each other.

𝑨𝒀𝑼𝑴𝑰 𝑹𝑬𝑰𝑵𝑨, a young girl studying forensic psychology, had a pretty normal life. That was until her brother, 𝑵𝑨𝑶𝑲𝑰 𝑹𝑬𝑰𝑵𝑨, was diagnosed with coronary artery disease at the age of twelve. She was at the hospital more than she was at home. Her life only got worse when she found out that her parents had died. She was sixteen and alone. Now at twenty-one, she dedicated her life to forensic psychology, in hopes to solve the cold case of her parents deaths. 𝑺𝑯𝑼𝑵𝑨𝑻𝑹𝑶 𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑯𝑰𝒀𝑨, the surgeon who told her that he could not preform surgery on her brother, has a darker story. His childhood was full of neglect and abuse. Growing up, he had learnt to not feel, until he met Reina, who showed him how. Will they work as allies or as enemies? Will she finally find the man responsible for her parent's deaths? 𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑴𝑬 - a tail of two faltering hearts. GAME START.