She lowered the volume of the radio and turned around just in time to see a blond man studying her. His dapper appearance contrasted greatly with the worn down, beige room. "Huh, you're in better shape than I expected," he hummed, leaning forward to look closer. The girl, in turn, felt the need to lean back away from the strangers' intense gaze. "Who are you?" she asked. Prosciutto frowned slightly at the sound of her voice. Her speech was a little awkward, but that was to be expected from someone who didn't have someone to speak to regularly. That could be fixed, though. "Your father," he answered, bluntly. ---- In which Prosciutto is the one to retrieve his daughter, not Diavolo. And if you watched the entire season, you know Diavolo's intention wasn't to get a happy family. Neither will Prosciutto's.

tags: magical girl, psychological, surreal Allison has a dream where a fairy warns her of the terrible afterlife that awaits everyone if they do not kill this being called The Emperor. The fairy gives her a crystal which allows her to transform into a stronger version of herself called the Hero of Lavender. Allison begins hunting down this being. Based off of Revolutionary Girl Utena and Serial Experiments Lain CW: religion, ableism, emotional abuse, unhealthy coping mechanisms

The height of the throne calls for those with spine and the distance of its sound will find the ears of those who surface their heads from the blood of both enemies and allies alike. In the first breath of peace, disorder keeps its grip firm on its throat. The Akiyama shogunate has brought a new rule, and with it, a future with gods of metal and fire. Many began to surrender their worship to the divine with a wartime worth of spite bitterly spoken of in insult than in of melody or in rhyme. Though the ignorant proceed in bliss, the clans are suspicious and Takeyoshi is a product of their suspicion. As a shinobi, he knows that the remnants of war still echo through its corpse and its voice only grows stronger. Hired to amplify tensions, he spies on the affluent Tachibana clan only to realize the truth might be beckoning him to a place he no longer understood.

In the aftermaths of the massive hurricane of liquid outpour that shook their entire world, residents of Lake County had never been more pedantic. Amongst those dazed by the plague and in a state of financial volatility, is the family of the Adeiye's consisting of 14-year old math-wiz, Tomi - who is set to commence the first lap of his last two years in highschool. Glamour at its peak, would lie in store for Tomi who wants nothing more than to maintain a low profile all through the school year. But there is only so much low-key he can get when Queen-Bee in the making - Rena Ilori takes a special interest in him. Their mates on the other hand wouldn't be missing out on the Drama, as they would all be injected on board the tumultuous wave of the new session. And maybe, just maybe there is a viable reason for their fears. A terror lurking in the dark, waiting for the ideal moment to strike.

Marianne Brockett wants nothing more than to fit in. As a girl completely unable to use magic, she's locked out of the world of privileges and conveniences that student life at Master Drysdell's Preternatural Arts Comprehensive has to offer. The clouded world of her home life estranges her further, with only a barbaric stepmother and a cat for solace. To conceal her anxieties, she turns to an alter-ego and adopts the alternate name Marion, becoming an almost entirely different person, but soon the term "being yourself" takes on an entirely new, dangerous meaning. ((tag list here: socktopodes.tumblr.com/mm-tag-list ))

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and for these two, their lives have been planned down to a science. For Wylan Olson, being yourself can be very stressful. Since she was young, her emotions have always been backwards. The embodiment of 'tears of joy,' that laughs to keep from crying, not many people understand her struggle. Mostly because she barely understands it herself, but she's making it...barely. All she wants to do is make something out of herself, and she's willing to work for it. Kwame Okari has been raised to be perfect. His parents' strict expectations at son leave no room for friendships, which they regard as frivolous. Their only concern is for him to be Ivy League, and he cannot afford to disappoint. He is a boy on a mission, with a clear objective: be first. And there's only one person standing in his way-Wylan. As the two develop a better understanding of each other, competing agendas complicate their relationship forcing them to decide which is more important: attraction or ambition, satisfaction or success, friendship or fruition, and lead them to wonder if one has to be mitigated for the other.

Jessica Lueaine, by all means a normal young early 1800's girl, who became curios about the origins of the term "Bookworm". To her horror she discovers it's an obscure medical condition she may have contracted simply by means of her research.

Headless bodies start appearing in the streets, so cunning Detective Rashida Heyes and her partner have to stop the killer to prevent the apocalypse ***** After bodies start appearing in the middle of the streets, hollowed and headless, Detective Rashida Heyes and her partner, Travis Virgil, are given the case. However, once they dig deeper, meeting the emotionally broken Victor Eccelstone, and realize how heavily the church is involved, Rashida has to acknowledge that this case might be bigger than she had ever imagined. These crimes aren't the act of one man - they're the beginning of the end of the world [[Winner of the 2017 Wattys Storysmith Award]] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]

This is the story of a mysterious, never-aging woman who followed me my whole life. She always wanted only one thing from me: to take her orange.