Collage of Sakurazuka Seishirou and Sumeragi Subaru set on top of a postcard image of yukitsuri from Kanazawa tourism brochure used as a cover for Tokyo Babylon/X fanfic Annex: Snow-catcher on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58238905/chapters/148304938 Yukitsuri is the art of tying ropes to protect the pine trees from being crushed from the snow fall weight. Fanfic summary: Seven years after the conclusion of the Bet, Sumeragi Subaru is sent to investigate a case in Kanazawa.
Summary of Sakurazuka Seishirou and Sumeragi Subaru fanfic: Autumn 1997. Seven years after the conclusion of the Bet, Sumeragi Subaru is sent to investigate a case in Kanazawa. Excerpt: How the mind tours the wreckage, over and over again as if its ruins were its own amusement park. Shibuya’s Crossing, Ikebukuro’s Sunshine City, Shinjuku’s Godzilla: still the same youthful faces, walking over his wild-torn heart. Survey the scars: death, betrayal, and take each overturned memory, stones gripped so tightly that Subaru’s palms bled from how hard he held on to them. The smallest details, Subaru knew them all. He’ll practice his pain until each miserable flagellation stops having any meaning. Until one day, Subaru could finally say he felt nothing. He’ll tell that man then, with the same indifference displayed: I don’t hate you, but I don’t love you either, and Subaru would mean every word. Now Subaru has no wish for anything else. The illusory smile, the deadly smirk. Same thing. Same man. Subaru will find him. Subaru will be the death of them both.
realised i never posted Seishirou's birthday fic from last year
❄️ Annex: Snow-catcher ❄️
~ Explicit 🔞🔞 SeiSub
~ Kanazawa homage fic 🌲
~ Fall 1997, Sumeragi Subaru is sent to investigate a mysterious curse
ao3: archiveofourown.org/works/582389...
#SeiSub #星昴 #東京BABYLON #x1999 #tokyobabylon #clampX
![ao3 summary of a fanfic from tokyo babylon/X 1999. the excrept reads: Seishirou has never thought about the meaning of his life. He exists for his duty, and nothing else. Even his name, Sakurazuka, is tied to his occupation, Sakurazukamori. A Sakurazukamori is created and bred to kill. He is fated to die, fated to be replaced, fated to be forgotten. From the moment Seishirou was conceived in his mother’s womb, his soul was already fated to be consumed, buried together with his victims, underneath the very cherry blossoms that give him power.
It doesn’t bother him, this cumbersome fate, and he’s never questioned it. It seems only right and fitting that a Sakurazukamori disappears back to the barrow, just as his mother and all his predecessors did. As for his soul, Seishirou isn’t attached to it either— he simply exists. He thinks of himself as a breathing body, experiencing a life he doesn’t have a choice in, and is indifferent to the rest.
One night in Tokyo, one final soliloquy.
Sakurazuka Seishirou ruminates their past and future the night before Rainbow Bridge. [X-16]
Takes place after Annex: Suzuran but can be read stand-alone.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tcnpi7hg7v7plz65g4ta5v2d/bafkreidvz5ghwkqghktakpe72nzgw23hzklbsmyl7nzirfd675f6svwkly)
