There will be little scenarios after my rant, BUT FIRST OFF:
IM A LITTLE ANGRY BUT I ALSO ADMIT I WAS kind of stupid at the same time but IM STILL ANGRY and you'll understand why in a second.

So me, being the person I am, was like "well I could work on my next fic... or I could make an animatic for the one I just finished!" So I decided to make an animatic.

Now obviously this was going to be a very long process, with story boarding, physically drawing out the entire thing, and editing it to the song, etc. But I was dedicated. With what took ~27 hours of pure digital drawing (not including the part where I roughly sketched this all out on paper), I was finally done with the 70 pictures I would use for my animatic. Now I worked through a few problems of my editing software being fine with any song BUT the one I wanted, and almost having everything shut down on me, but whatever.

And lo and behold, after two to three weeks of drawing and editing and hard work, I finally get it complete! A miracle! Nothing went wrong!

And so I export the entire thing and it takes crazy long because I'd edited it all on my old cracked tablet (apparently the song didn't work for the exact same app on different devices??? I don't know anymore), and I had to save all my hard work at a very low quality, but somehow I'm able to export it to photos!

Exporting it messed the video up in so many ways... but I'm done. My eyes feel dead and everything is far from perfect and the way I want it to be, but it's finished. I just finished an animatic on my fic, so I decide to share it with you all on Wattpad.

Everything should be perfect, right?

So

apparently you can put photos on Wattpad, and videos from YouTube, but you can't put your own videos from your photo library. For whatever reason, you just can't.

Which means I worked on this whole thing for hours on end, spent weeks on this project, got through all the tech problems and the frustrations to make this animatic, all for NOTHING BECAUSE I CANT SHOW IT TO ANYBODY NOW.

I just... at this point I'm not even angry anymore. I'll kick my stupid butt for not checking beforehand.

Maybe Wattpad is punishing me for everything I did to Rein, I don't know.

Thank you for listening to my rant. Check out the art I made with the lyrics of the song in four parts in my art book (Nekoturtle's art book). It's about Phinks and a song that's totally not about love.

And now here's a little collection of small scenarios.

(If you haven't read the book I advise you stop here because you literally won't understand or feel any joy from what's happening)

*This was written casually and mostly as a joke.*

First Date
*Machi arrives at Lucky's place, where they agreed they would be meeting up*
Lucky, running around frantically: IM SORRY THE PORCH IS ON FIRE JUST GIVE ME A SEC
Machi: ok

First kiss (cuz why not)
Lucky: *leans in, pauses*
Lucky: I'm sorry, I should've probably asked first whether you wanted to kiss but so uh do you want...?
Machi: ok
Lucky: *leans in, pauses*
Lucky: look if a bird suddenly attacks to ruin the moment, see, I, uh...
Machi: ok
Lucky: *leans in*
Lucky: *pauses* so like um I had lemon flavored chicken earlier and if that bothers you we can schedule another time for this just tell me when you're free-
Machi: no
Lucky: what
*Machi kisses him*

Proposal (lol)
Lucky: Will you marry me?
Machi: ok
Lucky: ...wait what
Machi: ok
Lucky: are you sure? This is a very important topic, you don't have to agree-
Machi: I said ok
Lucky, grabbing her by the shoulders: NO think VERY CAREFULLY ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE THIS IS MARRIAGE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE YOU CANT JUST AGREE TO PROPOSALS LIKE THAT ARE YOU NUTS-

Later, Machi: what are you doing
Lucky, sobbing: I DIDNT THINK YOU'D SAY YES!

Zushi's dad
You: Hey Zushi, who's your dad?
Him: ...like biological or... emotional...
You:
Him: honorary...? or in terms of who took care of me financially...?
You:
Him: I mean you really should be more specific

Therapy
Lucky: Hey have you heard of animal therapy? I'm planning on testing something out but are you free on the 15th?
Killua: why
*two weeks later*
Lucky: so tell me what's been bothering you
Kurapika, petting Killua's fluffy cat head: Well-

Lucky: Rein, you're next! Oh, you've brought your own cat for the session?
Fei: I didn't hear about any of this

When Rein was small and annoying:
Chrollo: Rein why are you not chewing your food
Rein, swallowing pieces of lettuce whole: chewing is for losers

Shalnark: Rein why are you drinking milk off the floor
Rein: spill. clean up

Phinks: If you can't deal with dead bodies then... pretend to be Shizuku's vacuum. Blinky? Yeah, be Blinky for the day.
Rein: *looks at dead body*
Phinks:
Rein:
Phinks: NO DONT LICK IT-

Feitan: She's touching me!
Rein, holding her finger an inch away from Fei's shoulder: I'm not touching you.
Feitan: AAGH! You're touching me!
Rein: not touching
Feitan: TOUCHING ME

Nobunaga, being held back by Machi: LET ME GO IM GOING TO KILL HER
Rein, lounging around after chipping his sword: that's illegal
Nobunaga: ILL DO IT I SWEAR
Rein: swearing is illegal
Nobunaga: AUGHHH
Machi: my bad I shouldn't have taught her that word

Everybody, at any given time during the miserable year Rein was six: NO DONT TOUCH THAT-

The Author:
Me, rereading what I wrote: *suddenly stands up* YOU CANT DO THAT TO [character]!!
Me:
Me: oh *sits down*
Me: oh I did that to [character]

Me: haha a Machi and Lucky ship would be funny because their ship name would be "Mucky" lol
Readers: *call it "Luchi"*
Me: *throws phone across the room*
Me: ...
Me: I mean I'm happy you all unanimously agree they should be together but still, c'mon

Nightmares (special!)

Rein taps at Feitan's door, lightly. "You're awake, right?" she whispers to the dark room, and she knows it's enough to wake him up.

"What you want."

Her fingers grip the doorframe as the words tentatively leave her lips. "I can't sleep."

As soon as Feitan tries to retort with 'I can', he hears her add on, "Bad dream." Feitan does his best to ignore it, knowing the best course to ensure a night well rested for him, at least, would be to show indifference and let her deal with her own feelings. It's stupid, after all, to be worked up over something that hasn't even happened. It's a dream, for Meteor's sake, she could get over it.

But Feitan finds himself sitting up. "Dream?" he asks roughly, pressing for details.

However, Rein somehow finds this as an invitation to come in, of all things, and sit down right next to him. He frowns at the sudden company and is in the middle of contemplating whether he should scoot to the left or push her off his futon, but she starts talking before he can reach a decision.

"You... you didn't..." She struggles to explain her dream, and goes quiet. "You didn't come back."

Ah. He's finally awake, and he remembers now. It's only been two days since he came back, and while to him it felt like he'd only woken up from a nap, everyone else is still reeling from the effects; of struggling, of pain, of loss. And—not that he's weak to any of these, no, not at all, but—he does kind of understand those feelings. He decides that now is not the best time to push her off the bed. Maybe later.

"I'm not like you pathetic mortals," Feitan says, only half-meant as a joke.

"I know, but..." Rein's head droops, a clear sign she's starting to nod off, which is horrible because Feitan wants her out as soon as possible, and have his sleeping space all to himself. He's once again wondering whether to kick her off when another small voice disturbs him.

"Feitan-san?"

Oh great, another one. Feitan freezes up still as a rock, pretending to be asleep so Zushi will just leave him alone.

"Feitan-san?" There's panic in the young boy's voice now. He slides his foot forward at Feitan's silence. "I-I don't know how to check someone's pulse," he mumbles to himself, tone strangled.

Oh. He's worried.

"Ka-Kalluto... maybe Kalluto will know..."

"This better be important," Fei grumbles, to let him know that yes, he's indeed alive.

Zushi jumps a little, but calms down. "Oh. Oh, good..." He wipes his eyes, and, in some other turn of crazy events, also finds this as some sorry excuse to settle down in Feitan's blanket, snuggling up on his other side, much too close for comfort.

"Zushi?" Kalluto's voice calls from the door.

Now this is too much. "What," Fei snaps angrily.

"Alive?" Kalluto mumbles, sleep once again entering his eyes. He catches glimpse of Zushi by Fei's side, and despite his obvious glares to not come closer, sits there anyway and promptly falls back asleep.

Feitan is now angry. He's stuck in a sitting position in the middle of the night, Rein crushing his right shoulder and two boys on his left, one of them drooling onto his clothes and another making his pelvis scream for help. He's on the verge of sleep-deprived explosion when misfortune strikes again.

Lucky walks in, and just as Feitan is about to speak his mind, he hears; "Fei?"

Lucky is using his real name.

Feitan gives a heavy, heavy sigh in response and puts his bottled up feelings away. He can get his revenge on them when he heads their training again later.

"This isn't all just some sick dream, right? You're here?"

"Pinch yourself," he suggests in bitter sarcasm.

"Can... can I..." Lucky doesn't bother to finish his question or wait for a response and instead climbs into bed along with the rest of them, and Feitan wants to scream.

At least your legs are still free, he can hear Shalnark's annoying voice saying in his head, but he has the most horrible feeling-

Ah, see?

There go his legs.

Lucky is fast asleep and pulverizing his legs. Of course, Feitan is protected by his muscle and he can flick all of them away like flies at any moment, but for some reason, he... doesn't? He endures this uncomfortable position, for... for what? Why? Because they're sleeping? Absurd. He doesn't get anything out of this except horrible posture and inconveniencing pain, so why...

...

Is this what they call masochism?

Thanks for reading this far and I hoped you enjoyed the book (I mean if you've read this far, I'm going to assume you did...)
If you have any other scenarios in mind, comment them and I'll be happy to make and add them, or even make them and comment them here yourself!