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Ulumi but make them enemies (to lovers)
He’s tired of hiding it and she’s tired of denying it
What Wouldn’t I Do For You?
“You lied to me” Ulrich said, he broke when he saw Yumi’s digital eyes clearer than usual.
“I didn’t” She knew exactly what he meant, closing her eyes.
“This isn’t you” she took some steps carefully, hiding her fans “listen to me, please”
“You said that because of our jealousy, and you were right” he stepped forward “but right now I don’t know what to think anymore”
“How? How you can remember?” Yumi asked, making him sigh.
Yumi put her right hand on his chest, looking at him with sadness, remembering how she failed when she tried to bring William back. But Ulrich is not William. Her feelings were different. This was more personal. And XANA knew it.
She kissed him. Her eyes starting to form tears. She felt his thumb stroking her cheek, removing her trace of sadness, brushing her hair, dropping the only sword he could keep during the battle, putting his right arm around her waist, deepening the kiss as her left hand stayed between his cheek and his neck. They broke the kiss at the same time, his eyes closed, trying to steal XANA’s control on himself.
“Yumi…” he mentioned, softly.
They were desvirtualized. Remembering everything.
“The only thing that I remember is what we did” they were super close, only listening to their deep breaths “I wasn’t possessed when we kissed. Your words were enough to save me”
His words leaved sector 5 space in silence, knowing by Einstein’s voice that Odd and Aelita’s Replika mission had been a success.
yumi: i think we should just be friends
ulrich: [shows up in a hot new jacket, bit of a growth spurt, deeper voice]
yumi:
ulrich: [is more mature, levelheaded, caring]
yumi:
“Maybe friendship was only a way to escape. We know that our love will destroy us if we take the next step in the middle of the battle. I couldn’t count all the things we did, all the battles we fought side by side, all the times we wanted to say the other the truth. But I can’t risk this, you, because I need you too.”
Yumi during s4:
yumi and ulrich spent the whole time in new mexico flirting and protecting each other and kicking ass and talking about their least favorite monsters and playing rock, paper, scissors to decide who has to go fight william and honestly i couldn’t ask for anything better
nemesisadraste: Emotions aren’t rationnal. Even when they have to devirtualise themself but “killing” each other (unless is for saving someone from the virtual sea) they have to plan it out to fell good about it.
I know. I was more poking fun at the fact that Ulrich and Yumi get so caught up in things here they seem to forget the other will be fine haha. Or they seem to care so much it doesn’t matter that the other will be fine. There are some episodes they react with reason, like in Saint Valentine’s Day when Yumi slips through Ulrich’s grasp and they’re not sure if Jeremie’s going to devirtualize her before she hits the digital sea, or in Franz Hopper, when XANA bugs up the program so devirtualization = death and Ulrich gets hit and both Yumi and Odd cry out because they don’t know that Jeremie fixed the program in time. But in Guided Missiles and Kadic Bombshell there’s no ‘serious’ reason for it.
In the earlier episodes, Ulrich and Yumi don’t react at all to seeing the other non-lethally devirtualized. It’s near the end of season 2 into season 3 that Ulrich starts showing Yumi’s general devirtualization bothers him, like in The Key. He’s holding Yumi’s hand as they’re both hanging off a ledge, and when she’s devirtualized he actually reaches for her hand as it disappears (and her fingers seem to reach for him too). Then his hand curls into a tight fist.
In Straight to Heart, Yumi’s devirtualized, and Ulrich turns and shouts her name, and Odd has to scold him because Yumi’s virtual death is distracting Ulrich that much.
“Forget it! Concentrate on our monster friends!”
In William Returns, Yumi cries Ulrich’s name after he’s blown up by a mine (that sounds really violent written out jfc). I hate to keep referencing Ulrich, but he’s the one who shows it bothers him the most, like in Opening Act, William takes Yumi out and Ulrich growls, “If you’re trying to get a date with Yumi, I’m not so sure that’s the right way.” Or in Distant Memory, similar to The Key, Ulrich immediately notices Yumi’s been devirtualized, and he glances back, glaring.
Then in Guided Missiles and Kadic Bombshell you’ve got the shouted “No!” from Ulrich and Yumi respectively when they see William ‘kill’ the other.
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the way Ulrich’s fingers reach out for Yumi’s as she’s being devirtualized and slipping through his grasp like he doesn’t want her to go. and Yumi’s fingers seem to be reaching for him too, trying to maintain contact with him as long as possible before she disappears completely. then once she’s gone his hand curls into a fist like even the temporary loss of her upsets him. such tiny details that say so much
Ulrich Stern + Yumi Ishiyama
“Award for the most oblivious couple of the century.” - Odd, probably.
they’ve been bringing up the “we’re just good friends, right?” line from Ulrich a lot lately and its interesting how each time Yumi responds she is progressively less sure to the point where now she’s saying nothing
BATTLE ● COUPLE The kind of couple where bullets figure prominently in the story of their early romance. Where “war buddy” and “significant other” are synonyms. Where if you harm either one, the other will kill you as surely as the sun rises. Likely to have a Back-to-Back Badasses moment.
CodeJuly Day 2 → OTP: Yumi & Ulrich
"Thanks. For saving me, I mean.“ Her fingers were already starting to stiffen, peeling each length from the plane of his chest as though he were a board doused in syrup. Ulrich absentmindedly grasped the air behind him; flexing his own hands, as if it would somehow manage to summon hers once more. The mold of their fingers interlocking with one another had been so perfect, and yet… “Y-yeah. No problem,” Ulrich murmured. A faint veil of pink cast over Yumi’s cheeks still, and he fought to restrain the smile stretching over his lips.
