RE: Beyblade Burst Sad/Angst Stories - PinkRose - Jul. 10, 2021
Okay I have to admit I got a tiny bit spooked at the end. What the fook Phi?
RE: Beyblade Burst Sad/Angst Stories - BurningSands - Jul. 10, 2021
(Oh yikes, currently having the glitch where I cant see the new reply even though Latest Posts clearly says theres a reply. Looked through your profile and found what you said, so thats okay at least)
Haha, I wrote that on the whim. Didnt expect to actually spook people xd. Its loosely based on this horror story I read as a kid: its about a letter from a man, and then its implied that it was actually written by someone else. Poor man
RE: Beyblade Burst Sad/Angst Stories - Kiryu Kazuma - Jul. 10, 2021
(Jul. 10, 2021 12:51 AM)BurningSands Wrote: Chapter 6: Hyde
This one is a WBO and soon-to-be Ao3 exclusive! Not on Wattpad because Wattpad doesn’t support a lot of font/text editing choices
Tonight there was a piece of paper that was not pinned to the board.
Instead, it was on the ground. It was somewhat dirtied and with a couple holes poked through it, but you hoped that you could still try to make out its content. Obviously, with its still-fair condition and whatnot, the paper was probably quite recent. It did not look like it went to the underworld and back.
Odd as it was, it seemed to have quite the same tone as the pinned works: Sad, dreadful, sorry... But something about this work made it not like the others: You felt a horrible aura radiating from it.
And for the record, who was Hyde? Doesn’t sound like someone who lives in Japan. Unless they were a visitor, that is.
Maybe you could find out if you read this piece of paper.
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My brother is a huge pain. Even now, I resent everything he did to me and all that he ever done. I could repeat it over and over again. He did that, he did that...
He was the better Blader than me. That was him, Phi, with his flair and talents and all. What a bully, too. Even years after that Aiger kid, he still manages to get on my nerves. Even after we made up. Or whatever.
But I still have to care about him, don’t I?
It was unfair to say that I hate him. That was not very kind of me to say. Especially since it is quite obvious that I have no power or actual reason to even dislike him. Phi was always the one with more power, how could anyone oppose him? As far as I knew, I was considered petty for turning over my feelings about him. My feelings don’t matter.
Phi always gets what he wants. That’s what having an obnoxious brother is like. He is always one step ahead no matter what. Even in his Blading persona, I do not put a dent in him.
Which is why not a lot of things matter to me anymore. I always try to be upbeat and confident. But no matter what, all that faking and trying won’t amount to anything. It’s easy to pretend — it’s hard to actually grow the emotion you want to feel. I simply feel like I don’t amount to much.
I always try to be confident. I always try to act like I am in the moment and I am sure of everything.
But should I keep trying? No.
I tried enough to best Phi and be the best in this world. I cannot move on from anything Phi did to me, from fun things like Blading to actually petty stuff. And simply put, I do not matter anymore.
I should have felt better when I wrote this. They say writing eases your mind.
But no. I’ll leave this, maybe to tell the world where I have gone.
Don’t find me. Only Death has permission to do that.
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Your heart felt like it was stinging. It also seemed to be weighed down by rocks, locking your emotions into place and leaving you breathless. But nevertheless, you gathered the will to frown and stare sadly at the paper.
Whoever this Hyde was, the writing here was quite polite. It was evident that this Blader stayed calm in the face of sorrow.
You turned the page over.
It was nearly unreadable, save for a few comprehendible words.
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STOP THIS IS NOT ME. LIES LIES IT’S ALL NOT ME
IDON’T KNOWWHATI DID. HE’S COMING TO-
SOMEONE STOP PHI. HE’S COMINGTO KILL M
Sorry about the unexpected horror turn LOL
Man this was very depressing.... yet great chapter.
RE: Beyblade Burst Sad/Angst Stories - Demon Belial - Jul. 11, 2021
(Jul. 10, 2021 7:05 PM)BurningSands Wrote: (Oh yikes, currently having the glitch where I cant see the new reply even though Latest Posts clearly says theres a reply. Looked through your profile and found what you said, so thats okay at least)
Haha, I wrote that on the whim. Didnt expect to actually spook people xd. Its loosely based on this horror story I read as a kid: its about a letter from a man, and then its implied that it was actually written by someone else. Poor man
Can you try Jin Aizawa. I wonder what ge will write..
RE: Beyblade Burst Sad/Angst Stories - BurningSands - Aug. 14, 2021
Chapter 7: Ken Midori
I remember when writing was a place where my real voice was heard.
Yeah, that seemed a little too dramatic on paper. Obviously, I talked. I talked at home and I talked to my puppets. I also talk to my Beyblade, Kerbeus, when things are rough. It seems that a lot of people still think I am a shy person. That was until Valt and his friends helped me warm up.
But even then, it doesn’t change what others saw in me.
It wasn’t that I had no talents. I do ventriloquism just fine. But I think people are cruel.
People dislike others for no reason. They dislike others for the simplest things. You don’t even have to do anything to them — they already dislike you for something that doesn’t hurt them.
My case? Being shy. It happened over and over again, every time I moved to a new place. I guess those types of people are everywhere.
As a ventriloquist, I try to add personality into whatever I am playing as. It doesn’t have to be my personality, even though I am technically the one talking. That’s what ventriloquism is — making it seem like an object has life in it.
My puppets, for example. I like to pretend that they are very social and funny. They are like my friends to stick up for me. Although I don’t show it through my talent, I had also imagined Kerbeus as my bold side. I imagine Kerbeus to be a righteous spirit who would stand up against anyone.
That’s Beyblade, right? Where Bladers can show their fierce and bold selves, and try their best against their opponent.
Okay, hold up — I nearly trailed off what I was going to say.
As I was saying: I try to add personality into things. And thus, I try my best to see things through others’ lenses. Because people aren’t 2D drawings on paper — they’re just as abstract as I imagine my puppets and Beyblade as.
So what’s going on? Before I ever met Valt and co., why would people dislike me for being quiet? It happened from school to school. It’s universal.
There’s this unspoken rule where being quiet and reserved is “weird.” Some people seem to think something is wrong with quiet folks. Some think that shy people cannot stand up for themselves or something is wrong with their heads.
I wonder what people actually think aside from that. I sometimes look at a person and wonder why they think the way they do about me. Something that isn’t just the generic “shy is weird.”
Maybe they were upset that I didn’t answer their question? Or maybe they took offense at my lack of eye contact? Maybe they didn’t understand that I was too shy to have a Beybattle with them? Or my puppets unsettled them?
I know that outgoing kids are not used to handling more-quiet folks.
Worst-case scenario would be the idea that they hate me for no real reason. It happens. Some people are just like that.
Years now, I still wonder why people treated me this way. People treated me like I was a goner: Someone who couldn’t be in a group project, a Beyblade team, etc. because I rarely spoke for myself. I was always the one picked last and not a reliable choice for anything.
Even now, I still wonder if I truly matter. The obvious answer is “yes,” but I think so many people would live on knowing I was their unresponsive classmate.
But Daigo said it doesn’t matter. He felt sorry for me back when I mentioned all of this. Nevertheless, he said that Valt and the rest matter the most.
I am not as shy as I was back then, but I really did wish that I could have spoken a little more. I’m not saying being disliked is my fault — being shy is not anyone’s fault at all. But I wish I could have made life a little better for myself if I spoke up.
In the end, that was years ago.
Whereas I would’ve been picked last for anything, I would be the one of the first people our Blader, Valt, would think of.
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