HOME | DD

Description
...Even if I can't be what you need me to be.

Have some World Ends With You stuff about a thing I'm working on with a friend.

Also, a human. Weird world. I have mixed feelings about how he turned out. Advise and critiques would be HIGHLY appreciated. I tried to meet my usual semi realistic style with TWEWY as seamlessly as a I could.

...Alright, this ones going to take some explaining, so if you care, buckle up. Also, some heavy discussion about some issues in the world.

Neku: Is a Nekotoma (Japanese mystical death demon cat) Caracal Noise. Because reasons that would spoil the story we're writing. The important thing is, it'll be awhile before he can be changed back, he's got more of a animal intelligence, and, given how powerful he is Josh doesn't want to risk having around anyone less powerful, because how volatile Noise are by nature. Joshua has been more open about caring about him, and without Neku's human ability to hide away from the world they slowly become closer and closer friends. However,

Josh: has had a hard life, and a hard death. In my head cannon, he's fairly years old, though mentally frozen as a teen, and grew up gay in a world where that wasn't a pleasant experience. (This isn't your average 'he looks girly so he must be gay' fangirl excuse either. Especially in Another Day, they sort of shove several 'queer' stereotypes in your face and enjoy doing it. Not the best way of addressing the issue, AT ALL, but I enjoy the headcannon it helped me create.(Though Neku is definitely interested in Shiki, so he's most likely alone in this. This is *not* my excuse to ship them. I don't.) He saw the UG every day, a place without the oppression he faced, and he learned how it operated from MR. H. Finally, he grew to sick of it, and as is a common problem in the GLBT community, committed suicide in order to send himself to a place where maybe the pain would not reach him anymore. At least, so he thought.

And so he fought to become the composer, thinking that he could make the world a better place for people who were "sick" as he was told he was. And he succeeded. However- I believe that the Composer and Shibuya are linked more intimately than that. By this time he was bitter, brattish and confrontational, and liked to force his identity on a world that could no longer try to chain him because of his differences- the Joshua we know and love. And, being integrally bound to it's deity, Shibuya reflected that. It became a loud obnoxious place with people focused on their own story, and trying to put out others. Neku was a product of this Shibuya.

Joshua, sick of seeing the world he wrought and unable to see the beauty that still existed, both in Shibuya and in himself, decided to scrap the project like many artists who have totally lost faith in their craft. This kicks off the game.

During their week together, Joshua, though he hides it well, grows legitimately fond of Neku. He sees him become a better person, and break from the insecurities that drove him to become the withdrawn cold person he began as, much as he once wished he could do himself. Still, he continues to follow his plan to a T, because he doesn't know what else he can do. However, by the end, he begins to rethink things. He begins to think Neku would be the better composer. One who would reflect something good, and one who could grow and change both himself and Shibuya more than he ever did.

And so he tries to make that happen. The only way to be the new composer is to kill the old one- and so he tries to make Neku do it, fully believing he will. Neku, as we all know, does not. And so Joshua is left shocked, until MR. H appears to help him fix things.

And yes, Joshua fell in love somewhere along the way. However, that cannot change the fact that Neku is strait, and with his scanning, it was never even a question for Josh. He always knew as much. However, he still yearns for the support of a relationship. And Neku can't give it. Meanwhile, Neku has his own problems, is in a horrible state from the transformation and missing the people that matter. He needs support that the cynical and cold Joshua has no idea how to give.

So, they both need something the other cannot give them. But their is still friendship there, one they both hold to as it feels like all they have left anymore. And they both want to help the other, and don't know *how.* So, this picture of them both being clearly upset, and seeking comfort in the presence of a friend, but unsure how to actually help.

So... anyone actually read through that?

Description
...Even if I can't be what you need me to be.

Have some World Ends With You stuff about a thing I'm working on with a friend.

Also, a human. Weird world. I have mixed feelings about how he turned out. Advise and critiques would be HIGHLY appreciated. I tried to meet my usual semi realistic style with TWEWY as seamlessly as a I could.

...Alright, this ones going to take some explaining, so if you care, buckle up. Also, some heavy discussion about some issues in the world.

Neku: Is a Nekotoma (Japanese mystical death demon cat) Caracal Noise. Because reasons that would spoil the story we're writing. The important thing is, it'll be awhile before he can be changed back, he's got more of a animal intelligence, and, given how powerful he is Josh doesn't want to risk having around anyone less powerful, because how volatile Noise are by nature. Joshua has been more open about caring about him, and without Neku's human ability to hide away from the world they slowly become closer and closer friends. However,

Josh: has had a hard life, and a hard death. In my head cannon, he's fairly years old, though mentally frozen as a teen, and grew up gay in a world where that wasn't a pleasant experience. (This isn't your average 'he looks girly so he must be gay' fangirl excuse either. Especially in Another Day, they sort of shove several 'queer' stereotypes in your face and enjoy doing it. Not the best way of addressing the issue, AT ALL, but I enjoy the headcannon it helped me create.(Though Neku is definitely interested in Shiki, so he's most likely alone in this. This is *not* my excuse to ship them. I don't.) He saw the UG every day, a place without the oppression he faced, and he learned how it operated from MR. H. Finally, he grew to sick of it, and as is a common problem in the GLBT community, committed suicide in order to send himself to a place where maybe the pain would not reach him anymore. At least, so he thought.

And so he fought to become the composer, thinking that he could make the world a better place for people who were "sick" as he was told he was. And he succeeded. However- I believe that the Composer and Shibuya are linked more intimately than that. By this time he was bitter, brattish and confrontational, and liked to force his identity on a world that could no longer try to chain him because of his differences- the Joshua we know and love. And, being integrally bound to it's deity, Shibuya reflected that. It became a loud obnoxious place with people focused on their own story, and trying to put out others. Neku was a product of this Shibuya.

Joshua, sick of seeing the world he wrought and unable to see the beauty that still existed, both in Shibuya and in himself, decided to scrap the project like many artists who have totally lost faith in their craft. This kicks off the game.

During their week together, Joshua, though he hides it well, grows legitimately fond of Neku. He sees him become a better person, and break from the insecurities that drove him to become the withdrawn cold person he began as, much as he once wished he could do himself. Still, he continues to follow his plan to a T, because he doesn't know what else he can do. However, by the end, he begins to rethink things. He begins to think Neku would be the better composer. One who would reflect something good, and one who could grow and change both himself and Shibuya more than he ever did.

And so he tries to make that happen. The only way to be the new composer is to kill the old one- and so he tries to make Neku do it, fully believing he will. Neku, as we all know, does not. And so Joshua is left shocked, until MR. H appears to help him fix things.

And yes, Joshua fell in love somewhere along the way. However, that cannot change the fact that Neku is strait, and with his scanning, it was never even a question for Josh. He always knew as much. However, he still yearns for the support of a relationship. And Neku can't give it. Meanwhile, Neku has his own problems, is in a horrible state from the transformation and missing the people that matter. He needs support that the cynical and cold Joshua has no idea how to give.

So, they both need something the other cannot give them. But their is still friendship there, one they both hold to as it feels like all they have left anymore. And they both want to help the other, and don't know *how.* So, this picture of them both being clearly upset, and seeking comfort in the presence of a friend, but unsure how to actually help.

So... anyone actually read through that?