Introspective Narrative
This tag belongs to the Additional Tags Category.
Parent tags (more general):
This tag has not been marked common and can't be filtered on (yet).
Works which have used it as a tag:
-
Slippery Slope by crystymre
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
07 Aug 2021
Tags
-
Tags
Summary
When he was five, he met a boy at the playground. When he was six, he met a girl who said she was a boy. When he was sixteen, when he was eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and so it goes on.
Shirota Tooru dreams about the milestones of his life.
-
Tags
Summary
Purely inspired by a dream I had one night.
After Hijikata dies protecting her, Chizuru is taken by the enemy and forced to endure cruelty her Oni blood can’t erase.
Just when ethics and morals fade, Sakamoto Ryouma rescues her and what follows is a quiet journey from grief to healing, and the slow return of love.Notes: writing a sequel for this. I just found it so heartwarming while rereading it.
On hiatus: Focusing fully on very difficult medical exams.
Will be back once I’m through this intense period. -
Tags
Summary
Kaoru ha sido consciente de ser un astro desde que tiene memoria. Veintiocho días de ciclo lunar entre recuperar y perder sus recuerdos se sienten más eternos de lo que deberían.
Hasta que lo ve, y recuerda.
Y no sabe si alguna vez, aunque duela, querrá dejar de recordar.
- Language:
- Español
- Words:
- 4,925
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 7
-
Tags
Summary
Sakuya manages to move his eyes and doesn’t flinch when they’re reflected in the alarm clock radio. Score one for him.
4:34
A breath escapes his nose, one of those almost but not quite laughs you make when something is almost but not quite funny.
Ten more minutes and it would have been dead or dead or dead, as Belkia liked to put it. Ten more minutes and he would have taken it as a sign.
***
Sakuya experiences what it's liked to be loved by a parent, for the very first time. For the very first time in a long time, he also experiences what it's like to trust someone to love you. -
Re:Echoes by Siroveron300
Fandoms: Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime)
30 Jan 2025
Tags
Summary
After an unexpected accident in one of his loops, Subaru begins to experience something deeply unsettling: with every death and revival, he hears voices in his mind. These aren’t fleeting thoughts or temporary delusions; they are fragments of alternate versions of himself, distorted reflections of what he could have been under different circumstances. Each voice represents an extreme aspect of his personality, like shadows that have been waiting for the right moment to emerge. One urges him to seize control over everything, claiming only domination can fix the world. Another feeds his rage, pushing him to destroy anything in his path, regardless of the consequences. Some voices mock his failures, amplify his envy, or tempt him to give up, convincing him that nothing he does matters. As the cycles repeat, the voices grow louder and more persuasive, offering tempting solutions at a terrible cost: his humanity, his hope, and even his sanity. With each new loop, Subaru struggles to discern if these voices are his own thoughts or something darker, feeding off his deepest fears and desires, leading him down paths he never would have considered before.
-
a familiar stranger by LittleSunnyApple (hairu)
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
10 Feb 2025
Tags
Summary
you’d always believed you could lock away your grief, tucking it into some hidden corner of your heart where it couldn’t touch you. but caleb’s return has blown the lid off everything you thought you’d buried. the boy who died in front of your eyes—consumed by fire, stolen from you in an instant—is standing here now, alive and unchanged, as though the years apart never happened. yet the emptiness he left behind lingers, stubborn and raw, refusing to be erased by his presence. as he moves through skyhaven with a quiet distance, carrying secrets he won’t share, you can’t help but wonder;
is this reunion a gift or just another kind of loss?
because the man before you feels like a stranger wearing caleb’s face.
or;
in which he’s alive, breathing, standing right in front of you, but the caleb you knew might still be lost somewhere in the skies.
-
Tags
Summary
Історія людства — це історія помилок. Століттями емоції керували цивілізацією, приводячи до воєн, економічних колапсів, хаосу та знищення. Ірраціональність була вірусом, що роз’їдав основи прогресу. Але людство навчилося лікувати свої хвороби. Нейроімпланти стали вакциною, Раціональний Індекс — мірилом істинної цінності індивіда. Завдяки цьому ми досягли ідеальної системи, де немає місця слабкості. Світ став чистим. Ефективним. Ідеальним.
У цьому світі не існувало страху перед емоціями — лише огида й жалість до тих, хто заражався. Їх не боялися, бо вони не становили загрози фізично. Вони просто… ламалися.
Їх називали СОЗами — носіями Синдрому Емоційного Звороту.
Спочатку вважали, що це аномалія, дефект окремих імплантів. Але коли кількість випадків почала зростати, вчені зрозуміли: це було більше, ніж збій. Це був вірус.
-
Tags
Summary
Lihito ha comenzado a sacar cuentas. Los números se han transformado en una herramienta fundamental para mantener el control, pero también han sido la causa de una exploración profunda acerca de lo que siente.
-
Fern's Thoughts by EpicProportions
Fandoms: 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Anime)
18 Apr 2025
Tags
Summary
Fern's thoughts during the fight against the Frieren clone.
-
khaos; settled by ywjxn
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions
25 Apr 2025
Tags
Summary
On routinary existence and more. Perhaps the end of it
Series
- Part 14 of candyappleshipping
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 276
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 55
-
The Price of Power: My Observations from the Abyss by rxchelle90
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
03 May 2025
Tags
Summary
In this introspective narrative, Natsume Sōseki offers a personal, first-hand account of his observations of six powerful factions that shape the criminal and ideological underworld. He dissects the ruthless control of the Port Mafia under Mori, the fragile idealism of the Armed Detective Agency led by Fukuzawa, the greed-fueled exploitation of the Guild, the authoritarian brutality of the Hunting Dogs, the apocalyptic nihilism of the Decay of Angels, and the quiet, cerebral manipulation of the Rats of the Dead led by Fyodor. Each group, in Natsume’s eyes, mirrors a different facet of humanity's darkest tendencies—be it ambition, chaos, ideology, or despair. Despite their differences, they are united by one tragic truth: they are all born from the same human desire to control a world that resists control.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,440
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Bookmarks:
- 1
- Hits:
- 9
-
Tags
Summary
Fragments of forbidden magic are surfacing. And so are the secrets buried with them. While Hermione Granger unravels the truth behind ancient bindings and dangerous names, she finds herself entangled in more than just cursed runes and concealed artefacts.
Lines blur. Loyalties shift. And somewhere between obsession and strategy, desire takes root.
Some locks were never meant to be broken.
Some people never meant to look back. -
Tags
Summary
Una mujer despierta en una casa que responde sin palabras.
La libreta escribe sin ayuda, la puerta no termina de abrirse.
Y la lluvia… parece tener algo que decir.
No es una historia sobre recordar.
Es sobre aquello que todavía espera ser escrito.- Language:
- Español
- Words:
- 1,408
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 9
-
Tags
Summary
A woman wakes up in a house, responding wordlessly.
The notebook writes without help, the door doesn't quite open.
And the rain... seems to have something to say.
This isn't a story about remembering.
It's about what's still waiting to be written.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,402
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 5
-
Flight risk by uninspiredwriter16
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types
21 Sep 2025
Tags
Summary
She would never trust a god. Even if this particular one made her look at him, and wonder.
When a quiet, sharp editor with high walls, strong boundaries and heavy trust issues is assigned to be the editor to the new guy at the Daily Planet, she doesn’t expect to get entangled with someone like Clark Kent — or the larger-than-life figure he’s secretly writing about. Set against the backdrop of Metropolis, Flight Risk is a slow-burn story about trust, power, morality, and the terrifying ordeal of being truly known.
-
Tags
Summary
People are always afraid of disappointing others—siblings, parents, teachers. But it seems that, most of all, they’re afraid of disappointing themselves. And sometimes, whether young or grown, they just need a hug, they just need… a little understanding and forgiveness. From themselves.
-
Tags
Summary
There’s a kind of loneliness that feels like home — and Olivia Benson has spent years decorating it.
When Elliot’s return begins to disturb the quiet order she’s built, Olivia is forced to confront the walls she’s lived behind for decades. Not the professional ones, but the ones carved deep within her — the kind that keep her safe and unseen all at once.
This isn’t a story about rescue. It’s a story about recognition — about learning that strength isn’t silence, and that sometimes, letting someone stay is its own kind of bravery.