Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

thank you so much! I’m so happy you enjoyed your time with our dear wounded friends. I loved my time with Izhari and Tomita and cherished their journey. this story is one of two submissions I wrote for the contest, both of which deal with hope and healing. Revolutionary Songstress is about what happens when both of those things are allowed to occur. Salaryman Familiar is about what happens in their absence. Tomita’s suicide. Izhari’s life and existence of grief. the somber brutality of the world. people’s indifference. Mathael’s fall from noble ambitious idealism to tyranny. Izhari’s destruction of everything. and a flicker of hope at the very end. all of it ties together. thank you for the read and comments! also, if you enjoyed the Japan specific references, Our Last Summer will intrigue you. I wrote it last year. it’s about a road trip across Japan between six friends when it’s announced that the world will end in a year. very dark. very sad.

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

yay!! that’s lovely to hear.

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

it was a fun chapter to write and I thought it would be horrifyingly jarring to be not from our world then suddenly assaulted by the realities of corporatism and overwork!

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Mara

Maybe… or maybe not…bittersweet melancholy hangs over every moment for them for sure. What comes next will only further expand on that bittersweet melancholy!

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

Get ready! Izhari’s true power is coming! And yep I wanted it to feel like the metro doors opening into a storm!

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

Tomita’s truest and most deadly weapon!

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

I’ve been a few times! Our best friends live in Shinagawa in Tokyo!

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

Yep! She’s said all along: she isn’t holy.

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

Tomita finally got to feel like a super hero!

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

Get ready! It’s the antithesis of a usual onsen episode. I wanted to take the trope concept and flip it on its head for the saddest, most bittersweet chapter.

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

Yep I thought a good, terrified Fuuuuck that! was a realistic reaction!

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Moon

Poor Izhari’s entire existence has been defined by despair.

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

Well he ended up kinda showing her so that works too!

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

Crap! Just an error on my part! I will correct when the no edit period is lifted! Thanks for the catch.

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Oct 30, 2025

To:Crys Meer

thank you friend! this one is going to be quite intense! and I’m glad you caught the G.A.K.I. name!

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