MAIN ROUND 1 SUBMISSION: Team Kuramochi Youichi/Miyuki Kazuya

[tripsh]

TITLE: Time Is Nothing
SERIES: Daiya no Ace
SHIP: Kuramochi Youichi/Miyuki Kazuya
RATING: T
CHARACTERS: Kuramochi Youichi, Miyuki Kazuya, Kuramochi Youichi’s Father, Miyuki Kazuya’s Father
SIDE PAIRINGS: None
MAJOR TAGS: Violence, Blood, mentions of death/dying
ADDITIONAL TAGS: dreams, nonlinear narrative, war, mentions of mental health issues
SUMMARY: It’s easy, finding each other in their dreams. Waking up makes things a little more difficult.
WORK COUNT: 3630 words, 5 images (1 title card and 4 comics)
SCRIPT: Script || Image List
NOTES: This entry was made on Twine and is best viewed on a computer. To move to the next page, please click the colored words, or the image if it is a page with an image on it. Our title and the quote in our title card are from The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, and the title card image itself was created using the app Word Swag.

We hope you enjoy this!



it's dark now, and i am very tired.

Comments

guess i'll die

[transmiyuki]

YOU ALL KILLED ME

this was so lovely and evocative, i keep rereading it and making sure i didnt miss any details bc i want to appreciate it fully as it deserves. the final fucking art piece shattered my heart and i want to look at it for 5 years. god damn. i love this so much

pls don't die

[kazuyas]

see subject line

(the whole team is glad you enjoyed it enough to reread—thank you for commenting, jea!!)

Re: guess i'll die

[tripsh]

this is such kind praise and wonderful to hear!! we're thrilled that you liked this, especially enough to reread it :D thanks so much for your comment!! it means a whole lot to all of us!

[cherrysalmon]

dude holy shit

no seriously Holy Shit this was so lovely, the blurring of dreams and reality is so!!!! good. like, just how cohesive the art and writing are together, and how it's jumping through so many different time periods (i just about lost it when i saw the 1944 one and afterwards) yet they all still tie the narrative together...aaaah, man. yall did a great job on this!

[kazuyas]

thanks so much for commenting, we're really glad you enjoyed it!

[tripsh]

these are such wonderful compliments ahh! thank you so much!! our whole team is so happy you enjoyed this!

[wino]

god you guys ;; this was so beautiful, and it takes us to so many places and times. i love the way the colors change with each section and delivers the mood of each piece, it felt so much like watching a movie even with just text -- and then the illustrations gave off so much light that i was loathe to leave them behind when i clicked through the rest. this was such a journey and i'm so grateful you guys shared it with us <33

[kazuyas]

thank you, bent! we're glad you enjoyed it, and super grateful for this wonderful comment <3

[tripsh]

ahh !!! thank you so much for your amazing comment! our team is really glad you enjoyed this!! it means a lot to us :D

Y'ALL

[intricacies]

I LITERALLY HAD TO SIT HERE, CURLED UP IN MY CHAIR WITH MY FACE IN MY HANDS, WHISPERING "OH MY GOD" LOUDLY TO MYSELF OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AND I DON'T EVEN BASEBALL SO THAT MAKES ME EVEN ANGRIER NOW THAT I'M WRITING THIS COMMENT. I'M TRYING TO KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE AS I'M TYPING THIS SO MY FAMILY THINKS I'M DOING WORK BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH.

i don't daiya at all so i don't know this ship well, but man. holy shit. there were so many parts where i felt the tears about the well up in my eyes. the prose was so, so, so gorgeous. i felt like i was trapped/suspended in that dream space very often, watching them from the outside as the two of them try to figure out how to make their desires meet. miyuki being trapped in a time where war is inevitable and kuramochi just helplessly trying to keep himself going in the face of miyuki's possible death. i loved, loved, loved reading the prose. it was so stylistically beautiful that i couldn't stop myself from continuing.

the art was also really, really well-toned. the muted colors, the concepts of them coming together and being pulled apart by space and time. AND WHEN THEY MEET AGAIN IN THE PRESENT. oh my god, the art made me gasp. those shared gazes as they reunite. i almost lost it there.

this take on the theme!! i just!! this was just so, so beautiful. thank you so much, team kuramiyu.

:D

[kazuyas]

i'm beaming so wide right now

i can tell you on behalf of the whole team this means so much, xy—thank you!!

Re: Y'ALL

[tripsh]

this comment has me yelling into my hands oh my goodness!!!

really, on behalf of our team, thank you so much for your kind words!! we are so ridiculously happy that you enjoyed this! that means so much to us!!

[hyalinee]

wehs softly

this is lovely. i love how you guys blur the dreams together, a shared dream space for them to exist in, and that it's not constant, possibly not real. just yells softly and with feeling. then tying it to present canon Y E L L S MORE

this was very well executed guys, great job!

[tripsh]

!!! thank you so much for your comment!! we are all really glad you enjoyed this! :D

[earlgrey_milktea]

the prose in this piece is so... it's so easy to get lost in and i started tearing up without even realizing it? the tragedy of the war and the subtlety of the dreamscapes and the familiarity/comfort they hold in their dream place with each other, the longing was almost tangible. that scene where it was like "prove to me you're real" and they're leaning in anD THEN POOF GONE i screamed that was so. ajsdklf; idk man but i'm feeling Many Things
the art, too. i love the colours used, it fits in so well with the words and the storyline, like i'm leaning in furhter to read it all and then comes a beautiful art piece so i'm leaning back to take everything in again and just, wow.
this was beautiful!!

[tripsh]

i'm smiling so much at this comment ahh

thank you so much for your kind words and these compliments! we're so glad you enjoyed this! it means a lot to all of us !!

[kazuyas]

thank you so much! we were in fact aiming for some screaming and feeling Many Things, so, mission accomplished!!

[bakamvra]

THIS WAS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN OMG??

one of my favorite entries so far! seriously, you guys did an amazing job!!! i'm laying here so numb and caught up in my feels right now like wow i loved every bit of this fic-- the intense emotion, the colors, the dream concept...trust me; i will be rereading this <3 and the artwork? PERFECTION. there's so much talent in this team <33 i appreciate the hard work you all put into this. my heart is so full!

[kazuyas]

ahhhhhh thank you so much from the whole team, this means a lot!!

[tripsh]

!!!! thank you so much, on behalf of our entire team!! ahhh we are so happy to hear this! it means a lot to all of us!!

[ryekamasaki]

this is really good! i like the changing colors, and the writing was really nice, too. great job!!

[tripsh]

thanks so much from our entire team!! we are really glad you enjoyed our entry!!

[nautilics]

I'M STUFFING MY FIST INTO MY MOUTH AND YELLING VERY VERY LOUDLY!! oh my god team kuramiyu, i left this entry for last to read because i /knew/ it was going to destroy me once i saw that title card, and it absolutely, absolutely did. the prose is /beautiful/ and deeply immersive, building up each time period/setting really well and also painting the dream spaces in a lovely way. the poems also act as really good markers for moving between each sections!! and made me cry. and the art is simply, simply stunning. i love the use of colours for each artwork and the motifs of the diamonds (hah), and their expressions are honestly. amazing. clicking through to the last image and seeing the look on each of their faces made me honest-to-god stop breathing for a second, what an EXCELLENT effect and use of pacing. and i love how the bg colours of the text cycle through and come back full circle to the title card's colour, so i can just endlessly loop through this beautiful story and enjoy it, over and over. fantastic, fantastic work y'all!!! ;;;