burn a picture update #1

hai nobody asked for this besides one person but hai!! i wanna make lil updates for smth im working on ^_^ and yk go into my process and stuff. i also overall wanna make blogs more so this'll be fun

logline: akane kurashiki struggles to adjust to life without the guidance of red strings. or: akane opens her eyes to the strain of her relationships and the ways in which her trauma has affected her. 

yes its a zero escape fic ghfdhfdj spoilers for all the games btw . i am cringe but i am Free

so basically when i was playing thru ztd i had this idea of a post-ztd fic where junpei meets aoi without pretenses (bc in 999 he just knows him as santa and not aoi) and yk. insert haha funny shenanigans. but then i realized thats Boring so i scrapped that. then i wrote a fic abt akane and aoi's strained relationship post 999. though i didnt finish it. and THEN i had an idea where the kurashiki siblings, the klim family and junpei go on a roadtrip only to witness a murder. but never wrote it. so this fic was born, basically combining all those ideas (akane and aoi's strained relationship, aoi and junpei meeting, and the kurashikis interacting w the klims also junpei is there). the idea of focusing on akane's trauma was bc i was reading someone's analysis post abt the subject

akane as a character is someone i resonate with a lot but i wont go into that bc thats Personal! and it sucks how canon barely acknowledges her trauma and how she struggles and maybe even comes to terms w it. 999, in essence, is abt the cycle of trauma. its abt akane regaining agency, recreating the environment that traumatized her. which makes sense as to why she acts the way she does in ztd (rlly unstable, panicky, doesnt have a plan despite usually calculating and in control. like she literally got kidnapped Again and isnt around sigma and phi who she initially planned with, why do u expect her to act like she usually does. i wish ppl understood this abt her character). 

so in a post-ztd scenario, where she's supposed to be in a safe environment without planning any nonary games or saving the world, she feels like she's lost control which she feels she desperately needs to stay on top. so she dives herself into work and controls every aspect of herself and her relationships to the point where it makes her physically ill fhdjhfd but i promise theres a lighthearted aspect but i wont cross that bridge till we get there 

"hey vio why's this fic called burn a picture" 

great question random hypothetical person!! i asked a friend if he could help me w titling this fic that fits w The Themes and they gave me this ^_^ based off the song of the same name by red vox. 

one of the themes of this fic is of destruction, particularly destruction of relationships. maybe even urself. so i felt that was fitting yk? 

anyway have a small excerpt as ive recently finished chapter 1 and currently drafting chapter 2!! i plan on posting it to ao3 but not yet

2028 came and went like leaves in the wind. The year was spent preparing for Dcom, putting the war against Delta to rest. A festive energy radiates throughout the Kurashiki residence. Guests chatter amongst their friends, excited for what the new year will bring. Although Crash Keys has another enemy they need to locate, they don’t need to worry about that amongst pleasantries. 

Akane Kurashiki is an exception to this rule. 

oops ignore the highlighted parts thats for a specific reason but idk how to explain

okay bye hdjghf play zero escape