IT DIDNT HAPPEN

IT DIDNT HAPPEN ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

How… do you feel about rikai?

On the earlier days of September I will have been hit by a horse transportation truck, sending me into a depressive spiral. In recompense sends me to their countryside stable filled with failed racing horses. Accepting this meager attempt of compensation due to the deterioration of my state of being in the busy and impersonal nature of the city life, I quickly leave on an extended leave.

Most days I fail to leave my room instead choosing to stare out the window as time passes. Until one day I notice the pained whinny of an anguished horse. Not wanting to be responsible of the death of a likely high-bred horse, I leave quietly after making sure no one would see me. What awaits me is a skittish horse who has gotten his head stuck in a fence that had broken slightly in an attempt to graze outside the boundaries.

Looking feeble and a bit emancipated I quickly run to the shack nearby where they keep extra supplies and grab a handful of oats. Running back I offer it slowly to the no longer fighting horse and he eats it gently from my hands with no energy to fight back. After eating his fill from my hands I help him remove his head from the fence and watch him neigh noisily at me before retreating back to my room.

From then on Rikai would neigh at precisely 6 am in the morning to wake me up and insist on eating breakfast forcing me into an early morning routine where I leave my room. After a while I start to get determined to get out of my funk and start to go on walks with Rikai, learning that he was not qualified to be a show-horse due to his skittish nature and his hard headedness. However because it was my last chance to earn money to chase my own passions, I start working with Rikai to enter a novice’ show horse competition with rudementary knowledge. (Also to keep Rikai at the shelter because he’s an older horse who couldn’t be used for much and probably a plotline about the rescue running low on funds)

As if sensing how it was what was getting me out of bed Rikai starts trying to learn to be a proper show-horse despite his many incompatibilities and despite not winning attention comes to the rescue and the countryside stable is saved. I leave feeling determined to face the city life again and Rikai is a horse. We have the normal love a horse girl movie protag and her horse typically has. Which is to see is wildly romantic.

Which you would understand if you saw my presentation “THE HORSE IS THE TRUE MALE LEAD” where I defend my thesis statement that a lot of horsegirl movies are not romances because the horse fulfills the male lead’s role

Rewatched BTP recently, and had some new feelings on it.

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You can thank chase for those ^

I'm such a talented person I have such range

Ioriku AU + ramble down below:

Au ramble: It's a mixture/touch and go of some stories I liked and wanted to dabble in with Ioriku:

-Riku and Tenn are children who were born with an odd amount of divine/spiritual power. However, Riku couldn't handle that level of power both because of his own health + because his power was focused entirely on his voice

-Tenn, because of his better control and because he didn't want Riku to be the one to go, enters the temple. Because of the "divine" nature of it, Riku hasn't seen him since

-Riku was given a prophecy as a child that he would die from his singing/voice, which Tenn had overheard. However, on the other end, Riku would be overwhelmed if he didn't get the release he did from singing.

-Iori is from a music obsessed bird clan, but would constantly visit the human world. Initially he did for his music loving older brother, to help him pursue furthering his music, but eventually started going because he enjoyed human things.

-Iori then finds Riku one day singing and becomes transfixed.

-At first, Iori is similar to other spirits who want possession of the voice, but as Iori listens, he realizes that while It was wearing riku's body down, the only person who can properly bring the power out of Riku's voice is riku himself.

-Iori then, properly runs away from his clan and fully pretends to be human, sealing away his bird characteristics. Becoming friends with Riku begins as an accident, because he truly just wanted to listen to Riku sing properly. (Which was difficult when the temple/exorcists kept watch over Riku outside of the forest)

-It's inevitable, but Riku's voice finally over takes him, and while Riku was recovering a stray god takes his singing voice.

-Riku falls into a depression because it was both the one thing he had shared with Tenn, and also something he had genuinely enjoyed. (Also he felt phantom pains, with it missing.)

-While without it, Riku's life would be extended, he cannot sing again.

-Iori had actually stolen a small part of Riku's voice before he went undercover as human, but struggled to return it (but had felt guilt for taking that small part in the first place.)

(This preserved part of Riku's singing was one taken from loneliness.)

-Because of this, Iori would be able to track down the stolen voice... but only after crossing the boundary to the spirit realm ... and with Riku in hand.

-It is the most extreme of extreme taboo to let a human see a spirit's true form, and can cause disaster (either for the spirit or the human). However, It's borderline impossible for just a spirit to pretend to be human in the spirit's boundary.

-Because of this, he makes a deal with Riku, that Riku cannot look at him if Riku wanted his voice back. While at this point Riku kind of vaguely knows what's going on (both because of the impossibility of events and because of tenn), he decides to trust Iori.

-Iori only partially transforms in the spiritual boundary. This makes him both weaker... but also harder to track down.

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-Iori also wants Riku to still consider him as human, as fruitless as that is.

-They're being pursued both by the temple and by other spirits (those who wants the remnants of Riku's voice and the servant of the god)

-Iori's clan wasn't one of fighting, but he collaborates with Riku to create a song that can keep at least the spirits off their back.

-Iori plans on leaving Riku permanently, once his voice is retrieved.

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