Ueno Reiki is a busy woman. She is one of the youngest directors of Ueno Private, and that means working a lot harder to gain acknowledgment and acceptance. This limited her time with her family, but she don't regret spending so much time on something she loves.
Her Hibiki is amazing, kind and gentle, so willing, so smart. She isn't Suzumi, who is born talented and bright, heir to a global financial empire, has numerous collaboration requests rolling in and no worry for her family's financial situation.
Reiki is merely the bastard child born sickly and mediocre in a disgraced family, no one outstanding and with a quirk that doesn't boost herself by any means. She had to work her way up, up, up. She has to proof herself to Japan that she is not her predecessors, she is unlike her parents, and wipe away what her family did.
And though so many time and moments were lost and that was unfortunate, no. Reiki don't regret working as hard as she did.
Her headband had been her support during her darkest time, nearly disowned and kicked out in the streets, working multiple jobs and studying so hard she'd pass out. He is rough around the edges but caring in his own gruff way, and though they'd drifted apart through the past decade, Reiki didn't give up on him.
Someday she'd be recognized, someday Kenjirō no longer have to worry about Kotarō-kun's university fees, or the rent, or the tax. Someday she can head home in time for dinner everynight, and someday they can play UNO together on weekends and laugh. But for now, one week is all she can do.
She steps out of the elevator, tucking her hair behind her ear when she walks down the hallway, a small, albeit late, surprise visit, that's all it was. It's the least she can do after what happened to Hibiki.
The apartment was noisy, and Reiki smiles, Hibiki always did love yelling and running around the house, and her antics are relaxing and fun to watch. She doesn't knock, and opens the door.
"Tadaima, Hibiki, Kenji-"
She freezes, and screams.
Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 16
Midoriya Izuku: 2
Iida Tenya: 3
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Ueno Hibiki: 3
Bakugou Katsuki: 3
Iida Tensei: 1
Others (Please state in review!)
Hibiki's pairing:
Todoroki Shouto: 0
Midoriya Izuku: 0
Iida Tenya: 4
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Kimura Akemi: 3
Shinsou Hitoshi: 6
Others (Please state in review!)
Yeah! Die, Kenjirō, Die! I've wanted to post this chapter for soooo long. I totally wasn't crackling when I wrote it though (I totally was)!
However, onto more serious topics. Just yesterday, there was over 60 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the city I live in. It's highly likely that an outbreak might happen. I can tell you that I'm alright, but I can't be sure of anything yet. Best wishes to everyone out there, and stay safe.
Now, onto the comments!
To you don't knowme: *sniffles* thank you so much for that compliment! It made my day, and of course I can do a chapter like that, I've been itching to put in some Smudge chapters and that, my friend, is an exellent suggestion.
As for your question of how to write, well, I am no professional, and there are no short cut to instantly improve your writing skills, but there are some things I typically do while creating a story which might help. Normally I'd PM the person who asks, but since you have been using a guest account on FFN, I'll just put it here.
There are several major things that makes up a story, but I'll just cover three here (you can PM me if you have any questions, I don't mind!), which are the characters, the plot, and the writing. (My grammar and spelling sucks since English isn't my mother tongue)
Now let's start with characters. For me, creating a convincing character is vital. As the title of this fic 'Sonder' says, everyone is just as unique and complicated as you are. And creating a character is creating a person, which is every bit as complicated and vivid as you are, and every part of that matters. So when I create a character, I try to make them as vivid, as detailed, and as complicated as possible. Even characters that don't appear much. I try to map out their thoughts, their personality and history before actually writing about them. For example, I planned out Akemi's whole background, her hobbies, her interests, and a lot of her childhood before actually moving on to write this story. (I'm not about to spoil anything here so I won't actually say what I mapped out yet)
Moving onto the plot! The plot of a story is obviously very important, and usually I like to map it out. Create a timeline, a situation, and try to think in the character's mindset: If a person with such a mindset and personality was put into this very detailed situation, what would they do? And how would that affect the other character with this mindset? Try to weave things out, and I just love foreshadowing: repeated phrases and words to describe plot line is something that I always try to do! Don't simply put in one conflict in the story, multiple lines, multiple problems and situations are perfectly fine. Drop in hits and stuff, small, sometimes unassuming lines and descriptions which later links up to something much bigger. For example I didn't put Ueno Private in Hosu by random, that was planned from the very start. In some of my original works, I even map out the entire world and it's cities so things makes sense. Details are important!
Writing. Now this part is tricky— to improve your writing and style there are many different ways, but for me, I do analysis. I read through well written text, analyse their style and see what they did in the paragraph to build up the feels. The pace, tone and atmosphere is very important. Set the scene but keep things brief. Subtlety is something that I'm still trying very hard to master. Try not to tell the readers the character's emotions directly, describe what's going on around them, and their physical reaction. Don't tell people that he's scared, tell them there is bile in his throat and that his breath is quickening. Don't tell them that she's sad, tell them that something is burning behind her eyes and her throat is closing up. It'll sound better. You don't need a lot of descriptions to make the feels hit, and that is something that I'm still learning. TwT
Since I'm still learning how to write better myself, that's about all the tips I can give you, if you are looking for materials to analyse I can tell you that I am currently breaking down the style of Yesterday Upon the Stair, a BnHA fanfiction on Ao3 (That fic is amazing, I read it over 10 times and still cries every time I think about what happened in it. PitViper is amazing), but most important thing is practice. I write daily! Every single day, I'd write something. Even if I have a writer's block and have no idea what kind of story I want to write, I'll just pull up some old text or stories I've written and try to rewrite them, then compare the two pieces of texts. Writing scenes and snippets are also quite fun, so you can try them out! (This reply is getting so long omg) Becoming good at writing is not a short process. I started off absolutely horrible, and I still cringe at those things I wrote when I'm twelve. But just keep practicing, and you might surprise yourself! So Keep Practicing!
