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(This is from an ask meme from ages ago, about what gardensverse you would write by picking out a line from a given song as the title of that verse/fic.) 

God, I’ve been sitting on this for how long now? Like a month? I’m sorry. The problem was that you were so right to pick this song. This is SUCH a me song. Or at least the types of things I write. Honetly, I had trouble narrowing my thoughts down because every single line was at least one Mood of some kind. Especially Uchiha and Warring Clans era. Like. 

“Cut out your heart to make being alone easy” is such a Tobirama or Kakashi mood. Ninja in general, ofc, but like. Those two in particular. Maybe a verse where Kakashi has outlived his team. Kakashi’s only pushing on because he swore to one of them to Finish things, so he took up the Hat and has been having to lead post-war to get that peace his kids died for. Or because he got trapped by Rule One, or something like that. But he’s just. Pushing on, leaning on Anbu Hound, and maybe Tenzou or Gai if they’re still around. Kako showing up, even just temporarily to affirm that he’s doing a good job and is allowed to be happy is. SO important to him.

“Crushed what you’re holding so you can say letting go is easy” is like. Every Uchiha ever. But would definitely be good for a verse like my Walk The Line fic or that Dark!Konoha I once suggested where Team seven (and extended allies) kinda go evil after their Shikako dies, and then the tension is in Gardens!Kako slowly figuring out how fucked up this Konoha is and how to get away from them when all they want is to keep her locked up and alive and with them.

“You break the bridle to make losing control easy” is probably another crazyObsessive!Uchiha mood, but also a jinchuuriki mood. Maybe a verse where naruto succumbs and just. Lets the kyuubi take over? Lean in full Edgelord with that dark!Naruto trope.

“Burn all your things to make the fight to forget easy” could basically go for canon Shikamaru. He and Kako are SO much at the point where they’d each just like to forget what they used to have and how that’s changed and become a fight between them. But for gardens!verses this is SUCH a Jerk!Shikaku verse. The Nara’s daughter is DEAD, and this interloper with her face is not welcome to swoop in and make them all remember and grieve again. Shikaku and/or Shikamaru just. Shove their feelings about it right into their shadows, leaving just cold calculation that this thing that upsets them needs to be gone, whether that’s run out of the village or hidden away in Root. They just. Don’t want to see it, don’t want to be reminded.

Yeah, so none of those are really coherent verses, but my mind kept running after squirrels of different meanings for those lines, because they’re all such ~feels.~

math-is-magic:

(This is for an ask meme from ages ago: what gardens verse would you write if you had to pick a line from the given song to title it?)

Okay, I have even less of an idea with what to do here than with the other, as far as verses go, but like. There are at least two lines in here that just Grabbed me so I thought to at least point them out, even if I don’t know what gardens verses they would go with.

The chorus, “slowly lie to me” is like. A Shikako mood all the time. That’s literally her life. Just. Slowly building up lies about how she knows what she knows, and lying about knowing things until she can.

“if I split in two you will be to blame“ is like. A genuine worry I have for Shikako. She’s gotten better, but we know if she shadow splits, she leaves, basically, pieces of her soul in both of her selves. What happens if one of her halves gets destroyed? Does she only have what was in her current half left of herself? 

And that’s not even the metaphorical meaning, of Shikako being pulled in so many directions, especially between Shikamaru and her team. Maybe a verse where the native Shikako died because she had an accident trying to split herself into two? Let Shikamaru have the scared, childish shadow he loved growing up, and give her team the warrior she becomes. And instead all she did was shred her spirit, and she died. Something like that.