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Selfish (Shadow Yukari) - 1/4 anonymous February 23 2011, 18:35:14 UTC
She would show them, she thought. She would show all of them, and give them a reminder of just why they asked her to join them in the first place.

Yukari Takeba stood at the foot of Tartarus, alone, with her favorite bow in hand. Her breathing was heavy; and she wasn’t so proud that she couldn’t admit she was scared. But she hated it: she hated how her senpais treated her like a child, just because they were a year older than her, just because she had only just learned about her potential. Just because she was too scared to pull that trigger on the evoker they gave her; just because he had to save her. And she had to do something about it, if she was going to live with them ( ... )

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Selfish (Shadow Yukari) - 2/4 anonymous February 23 2011, 18:37:33 UTC
“God, this place is so creepy,” Yukari murmured to herself-quietly, so that she wouldn’t attract any of the Shadows’ attention. She had done an admirable job of avoiding them thus far, and it would be awful to blow her cover now.

“Creepy-so creepy, and yet here I am, all alone…whatever am I going to do now?”

That same laugh from before filled the air, and it was getting harder and harder to tell whether she was just imagining things or if something really was waiting for her, somewhere up there. Her eyes widened at the sound of that voice-that painful, familiar voice-and she placed a hand over her chest, feeling her heart race.

“W-who are you?” she asked, aloud. “Is someone there?”

She looked around, suddenly feeling like she was in some horror flick where something was going to jump out at her. She still saw no one, and the voice seemed to be coming from all directions.

“Someone?” the voice repeated. She sounded close all of the sudden, though she still saw nothing but darkness. “Someone? No way. It’s just me, myself, and I. But ( ... )

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Selfish (Shadow Yukari) - 3/4 anonymous February 23 2011, 18:40:42 UTC
“Only one more floor. One more floor, until you get answers to the million questions running through your head. And look! I even took out all those pesky walls that were in your way…” She was giggling, like she was proud of herself. Removing the only obstacle, the chaotic maze that was keeping her from making progress-and also the very thing that had kept her out of sight of the Shadows. “Can you make it ( ... )

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Selfish (Shadow Yukari) - 4/4 anonymous February 23 2011, 18:46:09 UTC
“Of course, I was angry… I… I hated her!”

“You wanted her to miss you!” she corrected, with a smirk.

“No!”

“You thought that maybe if you were gone for a while, she’d finally stop. Stop throwing herself at other men, stop ignoring you-finally be a mom again, like you needed her to. Like you wanted her to. You, you, you!“Shut up, shut up ( ... )

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Selfish (Shadow Yukari) - 5/5 anonymous February 23 2011, 18:47:59 UTC
She felt her knees give out from under her, even with everyone holding her up. They were soon forced to let her down gently, leaning her against the wall, where she was sure she would pass out, and hopefully not wake up again. But instead, she remained awake. No matter how desperately she wanted to just sleep and turn a blind eye to everything that was happening, she remained awake. Forced to watch, forced to accept the part of herself that had appeared before her.

She assumed it was the tower’s doing. Some deep power within Tartarus, making her face all of this, keeping her conscious. It was showing her that she had the power to end it-to end all of the torment she was putting on both herself and her friends. And she would.

Because, yes: Yukari Takeba was a selfish high school girl. But that’s not all she was, and she would prove it here tonight. She could and she would accept every part of herself, even those she tried to deny, if it meant she and her friends could go home safe. And though she obviously needed a little help doing ( ... )

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random anon anonymous February 24 2011, 04:38:07 UTC
...LOVES THIS!

I could hear Shadow!Yukari's voice so clearly, it was so on spot. <3 And I like Yukari too. <3

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Re: random anon anonymous February 24 2011, 22:01:08 UTC
Writer-non here,

Thank you so much! I was actually really nervous posting this; I've never written anything quite like this before. ^_^ I'm really, really glad you liked it (and I hope others & the OP do too). ♥

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not the OP anon; just adoring fangirl anonymous February 27 2011, 15:00:16 UTC
This was excellent. I love the slow reveal of Shadow!Yukari, so alike and then so un-alike Yukari herself. It rang completely true -- a great character study!

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Re: not the OP anon; just adoring fangirl anonymous February 28 2011, 07:41:44 UTC
(writer-non)

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked it. Finding the balance between how like or unlike Yukari I should make her Shadow wasn't really easy, but I'm glad what I went with worked! :D

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