Azure's Fic Journal

Rating: G

Fandom: Great God Grove

Characters: Click Clack, Thespius Green (mentioned)

Relationship: Click Clack/Thespius Green

Words: 932

Tropes: Internalized Homophobia (Click Clack), Autistic Character (Click Clack), Character Study, Denial of Feelings, Unconventional Format

Summary: Click Clack carefully edits his thought process (lest it leads to something he's not yet ready to face).

He can't let his mask fall off, after all!

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Rating: G

Fandom: Pokemon

Characters: Bede, Opal, Chairman Rose (mentioned)

Relationship: Bede & Opal

Words: 3,201

Tropes: Banter, Character Study, Domestic, Families of Choice, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort (light), Seasonal, Worldbuilding

Summary: Bede seems inherently avoidant to discussing both his past experiences with the holidays, and learning about the Fairy-types he's supposed to master. However, he, notably, does not seem to avoid the subject of food — and Opal can work with that.

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Rating: T

Fandom: BAD END THEATER

Characters: The Hero, The Underling, The Maiden (brief)

Relationship: The Hero/The Underling

Words: 960

Content Warnings: Dehumanization, major character death

Tropes: AU - Canon Divergence, Developing Relationship, Relationship Study, Major Character Death

Summary: The Hero valorously returns to the demon castle alone when the villagers don't believe The Maiden's story! He is then not-so-valorously captured.

(An alternate ending which focuses on The Underling and The Hero, written in the style of canon.)

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Rating: M

Fandom: MILGRAM

Characters: Muu Kusunoki, Rei

Relationship: Muu Kusunoki/Rei

Words: 2,467

Content Warnings: Bullying, slut-shaming, cannibalistic urges

Tropes: AU - Cakeverse, Internalized Homophobia (Muu), Metaphor, Angst

Summary: Nobody would think she was cute if the word got out that Kusunoki Muu wanted to eat her classmate.

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Welcome to my Pearlina manifesto! In this essay, I will be introducing you to Splatoon, as well as the characters, Pearl and Marina. I will be going over their lore, their coding, and I hope that I will be able to make you understand their appeal as a romantic pairing.

First, though, I must get you caught up on the not-inherently gay lore of Splatoon. What you need to know is that, around 100 years ago, Octarians and Inklings coexisted in harmony. However, rising sea levels made it so the two had to battle over remaining territory. The Inklings came out victorious, and forced the Octarians to live underground and in much worse conditions. Nowadays, most Octarians are a part of the Octarian army, trying to regain control of the surface.

Also, for clarification: an Octarian is any octopus-like creature, but an Octoling is specifically the intelligent humanoid creature. All Octolings are Octarians, but not all Octarians are Octolings.

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Rating: G

Fandom: Delicious in Dungeon

Characters: Kabru, Laios Touden

Relationship: Kabru & Laios Touden

Words: 300

Content Warnings: N/A

Tropes: Autistic Character (Kabru & Laios Touden)

Summary: In an effort to help Laios' struggles with social interaction, Kabru explains one of its less-talked-about aspects.

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Rating: T

Fandom: Danganronpa

Characters: Gundham Tanaka, Gundham Tanaka's Mother (mentioned)

Words: 4,635

Content Warnings: Implied bullying

Tropes: Nonbinary Character (Gundham Tanaka), Autistic Character (Gundham Tanaka), Gender Dysphoria, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort

Summary: There were ways to die that didn't imply permanence. The lonely boy that Gundham Tanaka used to be died long ago, and was reborn as a demon. Despite this, Gundham was cursed with having to be raised amongst the mortals present on planet Earth, and, more specifically, the expectations of a mortal placed upon them.

(Or: middle school-age Gundham Tanaka explaining their gender dysphoria and neurodivergence through the lens of their grandiose self-image.)

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A lot of people in the MILGRAM fandom (especially English-speaking MILGRAM fandom) state that Haruka is autistic-coded, as if it's fact. Most recognize that Haruka is coded as disabled. (If you didn't recognize that, I hope this essay will help to explain why.) However, to state that he is coded as autistic specifically is incorrect. Haruka is coded as intellectually disabled.


Now, there are likely two things that contribute to this issue. One is the invisibility of intellectual disability as a whole, and another is the fact that a lot of this has to do with things that only someone who speaks Japanese would understand (such as complex vs non-complex words in Japanese).


In this essay, I plan to lay out what an intellectual disability is and how it differs from neurodivergencies such as autism or ADHD. After that, I want to discuss the way Haruka speaks and uses words, the symbolism in his MVs, and how this lends to him being coded as intellectually disabled. Finally, I want to discuss why this even matters at all. Because, in truth, viewing Haruka as autistic instead of intellectually disabled leaves the viewer misunderstanding his story in a huge way that seems far too common in English-speaking MILGRAM fandom. So, I hope you listen to what I have to say.


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Rating: G

Fandom: Sonic the Hedgehog

Characters: Rouge the Bat, Shadow the Hedgehog, Knuckles the Echidna (briefly), Amy Rose (briefly), Sonic the Hedgehog (briefly), Miles "Tails" Prower (briefly)

Relationships: Rouge the Bat & Shadow the Hedgehog

Words: 1,500

Content Warnings: N/A

Tropes: Autistic Character (Shadow the Hedgehog & Knuckles the Echidna), Slice of Life, Misunderstanding

Summary: Rouge took to this new "having friends" business much easier than Shadow seemed to be. Although how rude Shadow could be at times certainly wasn't helping his case.

(Or: Rouge tries to grow closer to Shadow, who is autistic, and finds that all of her attempts to bond with him trigger his sensory issues.)

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