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sukuna is a coat hanger.ย
yes, you heard that right. among his growing resume of boyfriend-slash-manager-slash-walking tripod-slash-ring light technician-slash-makeup guinea pig, he now holds the highly coveted position of personal wardrobe scaffolding.ย
see, sukuna listens. which is dangerous and terrifying. because when you date a man who listens, remembers, and is also annoyingly perceptive, it means youโve basically handed your entire closet into the hands of a fashion demon with opinions.
โyou said the grey top rides up when you raise your arms,โ he tells you flatly, not looking up from his phone. โdonโt wear that if weโre filming.โ
โyouโll get pit stains in the sage green one again,โ he adds.
โthe beige set makes your hips look good but the pants wrinkle like shit.โ
youโre standing there, half-naked, sock half-on, blinking in slow horror. โhow do youโ?โ
he finally looks up. slowly. knowingly. โi watch you get dressed every day. do you think iโm blind?โ
and yeah, maybe you tease him and slap his ass when he holds up six different jeans for you like a tired little scarecrow, arms out, expression blank, eye twitching every time a hanger digs into his wrist. โleft arm is for low rise,โ he mumbles. โright is mid rise. pick one and hurry the fuck up, this shit is poking me.โ you grin, walking a slow circle around him, inspecting like youโre at a boutique.ย
โmmm. this one gives me a bubble butt. thoughts?โ
his eyes flick downward. heโs silent for a beat. thenโ
โmakes me want to bend you over the bathroom sink.โ
โexcuse me?!โ
โyou asked, babe.โ
but his input doesnโt stop there. sometimes he lays out full outfits for you before youโve even opened your eyes, muttering, โthe brand wants clean lines today. youโre filming that serum demo, right? go with the mock neck and leather pants.โ
sometimes he gently tugs a hoodie off your shoulder, deadpan: โyou cannot do an unboxing video in a bleach-stained zip-up. we have a reputation.โ
sometimes he just walks up behind you in the mirror, straightens a strap, tucks a loose thread, kisses the corner of your jaw and says, โperfect.โ
and sure, he grumbles about it and pretends heโs burdened. but heโs the one who bought extra closet racks, the one who arranged your color-coded drawer system. the one who says, โif youโre doing soft glam today, wear the boots that make you look tall. your followers eat that shit up.โ
heโs the one who catches your hand every time you reach for something last minute and murmurs, โnah, thatโs not it. not today. go with the mauve one. thatโs yours.โ
because he sees you. every version. every era. every phase. and he just wants to make sure the world sees the best of it, too. and if that means becoming a human coat rack, so be it.ย
just donโt tell him heโs sweet. heโll bite. probably. unless youโre wearing that skirt.
Youโre zombie Sukuna is written so well and itโs just so heartbreaking, I lowkey want to see that one day, reader managing to just hold him and hug him tight, missing that warmth sheโd feel every morning before the out break when sheโd latch onto him while he made breakfast or at night when theyโre cuddling watching a movie, not caring that heโll bite or eat her (he wonโt, he refuses)
thank you
i did write some lore about them here
you remember the morning too clearly, in that irritating, needle-under-the-skin kind of way, like your brain wants to replay it over and over just to remind you of how wrong everything went. sukuna had been annoyed โ surprise, surprise โ grumbling like a pissed-off old man because the atm by the station was busted and he had to go all the way to the bank. โi could go,โ youโd offered, voice light, teasing, half expecting him to say yes just to get out of it. but he just shot you that look โ brows twitching, mouth tugging down โ and muttered something about how youโd probably get distracted petting cats and forget the card pin again.
you had rolled your eyes, called him an idiot. but you still stood by the door, brushing imaginary lint off his jacket like you were sending him to war and not just five blocks down. he let you, only half-complaining, letting you tug the zipper up all the way even though it made him look like a sulky middle schooler.
โbe safe,โ you said, pressing your palm to his chest. โdonโt risk anything. i mean it.โ
โyeah, yeah,โ heโd muttered. โthe outbreak isnโt even here.โ
but it was.
you didnโt know until your neighbor down the hall started convulsing and gnashing her teeth at the building security guard. you were halfway through packing an emergency bag, wondering if you were overreacting, when the evacuation order hit. everything after that felt like a blur โ a storm of boots pounding down stairs, screams, fire alarms, gunshots maybe, youโre not sure. someone grabbed your wrist and dragged you into the street. you donโt even remember locking the door.
and sukuna โ where the fuck was he?
you called. a hundred times. messaged, left voicemails, tracked his last location until the signal dropped. you waited a day. then two. then a week. scavenged food, slept in shelter lines, still waiting. nothing. you had to accept it. the place you built together โ your little apartment with its paint-chipped walls and mismatched mugs, the couch that dipped in the middle, the stupid printed adoption paper for a dog you wanted so badly (he had even signed it, after weeks of refusing, just to shut you up) โ you left it all. you lost it all.
and the worst part? not knowing.
not knowing if sukuna had turned, or fled, or bled out somewhere alone with your name still in his mouth.
until exactly thirty-three days later, when you cracked open the door to a half-collapsed gas station for supplies and found him there.
standing still, half-wrecked, eyes locked on you. and still โ somehow โ his first instinct wasnโt to bite. it was to reach.
sukuna had never been the sentimental type. not really. sure, he let you hang on him like a weighted blanket and roll your eyes at his crass mouth, and maybe he didnโt hate it when you fussed over his jacket zipper like you were tucking him into battle. but he was never one to linger on things like goodbye kisses or notes or promises. so it shouldnโt have meant much, the way your hands had clung to his shirt that morning, the way you smoothed his collar down twice even though it wasnโt wrinkled.
intimacy wasnโt even a thought you let yourself entertain for more than a second โ didnโt have the time, didnโt have the headspace, didnโt have the luxury of still feeling human enough for it. the world had gone to shit, and your priorities were skewed toward ration counts and boarded windows and whether that distant groan was just the wind or something more sinister creeping through the brush. and anyway, itโs not like you and sukuna were ever all over each other even before he turned.ย
sex had never been a routine checkbox. it wasnโt a chore or a filler or a coping mechanism for either of you. it was something earned โ slow, rare, real. something built on tension and trust and that weird way he used to look at you like you were the only uninfected part of the world even when everything was intact.
so now, with him in his current state โ sitting shirtless and pale and partially torn open, gnawing on something you refused to look at โ it felt impossible, obscene, even, to think of sex. not just because of how he looked, or what heโd become, but because you could barely manage a moment alone without thinking a shambler would burst in and rip your throat out.
still, some nights, it wasnโt fear that had you up.
some nights, youโd wake slick with sweat, heart hammering, but your hands werenโt grasping for weapons. they were clutching your thighs, your sheets, the hem of your shirt. dreams that werenโt quite nightmares but definitely werenโt innocent lingered behind your eyelids โ him, the weight of his body, the way he used to growl against your throat, the rawness of his touch. your brain didnโt even try to make it romantic โ it was just the desperate feel of him, heat and roughness and the way he used to make you forget everything else.
and you never acted on it. you couldnโt. it would feel wrong.
but sometimes you wondered if he still felt it too.
he still looked at you like that, sometimes. when the room was quiet, when the bloodlust had dulled down to a low ache, and he was just watching you clean a blade or patch a wall. eyes low, jaw tense. like he wanted, even if he wasnโt sure what that meant anymore.
and sometimes his hand would twitch. like his body remembered the way it used to settle on your waist or sneak up under your shirt while you slept.
maybe that hunger was still in him too. maybe not the same kind. maybe worse. but it was still there.
and even in a world like this, you couldnโt help but think about it. ache for it. ache for him.
whatever version of him was left.
https://www.tumblr.com/ryoflix/780410717506584576/zombie-sukuna-in-the-apocalypse-au-implied-f
Iโm just going to imagine reader begging him to stay right there before running off and coming back while dragging a body she found laying around for Sukuna to feed on. Once his appetite is satisfied enough, they just stare at each other, both of them just recalibrating and thinking what to do next before reader gently tries to speak to him, and seeing how much he understands and can communicate back, which I suppose mainly in body language. And then, it starts their journey as a revealing human zombie couple. I like to also imagine reader feeling safe enough to sleep around him with him being tied up or locked away somewhere where he wonโt get to her while sheโs asleep (but at the same time, if he bites her in her sleep, then at least they can roam around as zombies for however long they live), and he ends up sitting beside her bed and just staring at her while brushing her hair from her face, reminiscent of the times in which he did so before he outbreak
thank you, wrote about it here
you weren't even sure what compelled you to do it โ maybe the stupid, reckless guilt of watching him suffer without making a sound, the way his muscles twitched under ruined flesh from the sheer force of restraint, or how his eyes had started to flicker with something darker than hunger โ something desperate. either way, youโd grabbed your blade and slipped out, ignoring the growl he let out the second he saw you reaching for the door.
it hadnโt been easy. your hands were still trembling, covered in the slick, coagulated mess of it. it had taken three slashes to bring the infected down, and by the time you were dragging its heavy body back across the broken road and into your rickety safehouse, your knees felt like jelly and your stomach was doing flips.
sukuna had been pissed.
not at the corpse, not at the blood or the door creaking open again. at you.
he was already rising to his full, looming height, a thick snarl twisting out of his chest as he stomped toward you, but youโd snapped before he could get closerโ
โyouโre not the only one allowed to be stupid,โ you had barked, hand still pressed to your knee, panting from the exertion, โnow eat it.โ
his nostrils flared. he was shaking with fury, probably wanted to scream something about how he didnโt need your pity, didnโt want your scraps, didnโt want you bleeding out for him while he sat on his decaying ass doing nothing. but you stood your ground, eyes locked with his until he finally snarled again and grabbed the thing by the neck.
you didnโt look. you couldnโt. the sounds alone were enoughโthe squelch, the tear, the snap of bone that echoed a little too clearly in the tiny room.
but thenโฆ silence.
and when you peeked? sukuna had turned around, his massive, corpse-twisted back shielding the carnage entirely from your line of sight. he was crouched like a damn toddler in time-out, hunched over, facing the corner like he was sulkingโbut you knew him. you knew he wasnโt ashamed of the feeding.
he was shielding you.
the slurping started up again, quieter this time, like he wasโฆ trying to be subtle? you sat down with your back to the opposite wall, still clutching your blade, and closed your eyes. you could feel the nausea crawling up your throat, but the corners of your lips tugged upwards just the tiniest bit.
it was ridiculous. it was horrifying. it was him. and somehow, through all the rotting flesh and unsaid words, you knew: sukuna was still here.
justโฆ facing the wall. like the worldโs biggest, angriest zombie toddler. ย
hii just here to tell you i absolutely love your work. i love sukuna sm but i find it so hard to find modern aus of him since thereโs a lot of heian era ones. so finding your blog genuinely made me so happy. i love the way you write him and i love the scenarios you come up with!! keep up the good work๐
some people really have the audacity.
like, unironically, out-loud-in-the-comments audacity. typing with their whole chest: โdoesnโt your boyfriend literally live off of your influencer money?โ like they werenโt just watching your GRWM for the third time in a row, seething. and sure, maybe sukuna doesnโt clock into an office or wear a badge or fill out tax forms labeled โdepartment of soul obliterationโ anymore, but that doesnโt mean he doesnโt work. he works. oh god, he works.
you think your brand deals just materialize out of thin air? that your inbox isnโt an absolute hellhole filled with subject lines like โhi dear!!! collab proposal uwuโ and โhello sexy want be brand ambassad?โ sukuna filters through all that. he filters ruthlessly.
heโs basically your manager, except meaner and hotter and allergic to bullshit. he reads every email like heโs reading a death sentence โ mouse in hand, furrow between his brows, muttering things like, โwhat the fuck is a micro-essence water serum?โ and โwhy do they spell โnaturalโ with a zero?โ
he doesnโt just care about the check. no, no. sukuna cares about the feel. youโre not about to promote some face mist that smells like melted crayons just because it pays well. but also? youโre not about to let some fake-smiling oatmilk start-up guilt you into a collaboration just because they think their font is soft enough to disguise their shady labor practices. sukuna reads everything. everything. he has spreadsheets. color-coded folders. PR schedules. blackout dates.
he once emailed a skincare CEO back with the words: โwe are declining. your tone is weird. fix that.โ
you didnโt even know about it until the brand retracted and apologized two days later. youโd be lying if you said it didnโt turn you on just a little.
and look, itโs not like sukuna is heartless. heโs just selective. his whole system โ this whole fortress of precision and firewalls and well-timed posts โ has made you desirable. youโre not just a face, youโre a brand. brands want you. they beg for you. you have exclusivity now, and you have him to thank.
but sometimes, the walls soften. like that one time, after three straight rejections in a row (โtoo generic,โ โbranding is off,โ โare they serious with this pastel goat mascot?โ), sukuna opens a new message from a gmail address with no signature and a tiny subject line that just reads: hi, um...!
and the email. oh man. the email.
itโs all over the place โย typos, weird fonts, some high-schooler somewhere explaining nervously that she makes loom band bracelets in her free time and thinks youโre really cool, and she just wants to send you a couple because โyour energy reminds me of the purple & pink color combo :)โ
you glance over his shoulder mid-read. โrejecting that one too?โ
but sukunaโs quiet.
then he snorts. โ...what kinda business plan is โvibes onlyโ?โ
you lean into him, grinning. โthe best kind.โ
he clicks archive. and then โ quietly, way too casually โ โtell her to send the address. weโll post next week.โ
a few days later, youโre lounging in bed with your feet up, phone in one hand, sukuna tangled around you like the worldโs angriest oversized cat. youโre both wearing those bracelets, matching purple and pink, the ends frayed, one of them too tight around his wrist but he refuses to take it off. your caption is something like: โsupport small creators ๐ (even the really small ones)โ and the post has half a million likes by morning.
you tell him the response was sweet. you say the girl messaged crying because she was so happy. you lean into his chest and mumble, โsee? you are a softie.โ he tugs the blanket over your head and grumbles, โshut up. iโm still rejecting that dumb oatmilk brand next week.โ
softie or not, heโs still got standards.