ChisaTaki

ChisaTaki is the femslash between Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue from the Lycoris Recoil fandom.

Background
Chisato and Takina are both Lycoris, trained agents and assassins disguised as highschool students. Takina works within Direct Attack HQ. Chisato works in cafe Lyco Reco with a middle-aged African-Japanese man named Mika and a woman in her late 20s named Mizuki.

Episode 1: Easy does it
After disobeying an order in a mission, Takina is dismissed from the HQ and transferred to cafe Lyco Reco, where she now partners with Chisato. She is introduced to Mika, Mizuki and Chisato. Takina and Chisato go on various minor missions, including helping a woman who is accidentally involved in a terrorist's weaponry deal.

Episode 2: The more the merrier
Chisato and Takina begin their mission of escorting a hacker named Walnut, who is hunted for attempting to dig deeper into a client's business. They successfully fake Walnut's death, Walnut reveals to be a young girl named Kurumi. Kurumi decides to live within cafe Lyco Reco and lends them her hacking skills. Takina begins working as a server in the cafe like Chisato. Shinji Yoshimatsu, a friend of Mika, enters the cafe for the first time. Takina learns of Chisato's impressive bullet-dodging ability.

Episode 3: More haste, less speed
Chisato visits Direct Attack HQ for physical tests, Takina tags along with her in an attempt to persuade the Commander into deploying Takina back in the HQ. On the train, Takina refuses Chisato's candy but still tries her lunch. After arriving at the HQ, Takina is insulted by her old partner, Fuki, and some other Lycoris, Chisato immediately tries to defend Takina and challenges Fuki and her new partner to a 2v2 match against her and Takina. Takina is upset for being rejected from the HQ and decides to spend some times alone at the fountain. Chisato follows Takina, trying to console her, she hugs Takina while other Lycoris start laughing at them. Chisato then lifts Takina up and swirls her around, telling her to move on and that she is so happy she met Takina and that she will  eventually get her chance to rejoin DA and if she wants to go back she can but to spend time with her and her coworkers at LycoReco. During the match, despite Taking not showing up yet, Chisato effortlessly gains an upper hand, Takina finally joins Chisato and punches Fuki back. On the train back to Lyco Reco, Takina sits next to Chisato, accepts her candy saying Chisato is “really extraordinary” and decides to join the cafe's board game night, which she previously declined. They take a selfie together and send it to Mika with Takina shyly smiling in the photo.

Episode 4: Nothing seek, nothing find
After finding out Takina wears boxer as underwear, Chisato takes her shopping. Chisato wants to get Takina more fashionable clothes but Takina rushes her to the underwear stalls. Takina demands to see Chisato's underwear in a changing booth, Chisato reluctantly undresses her shorts to show hers and is embarrassed. After shopping, they have a meal at a restaurant, Chisato also helps a foreign couple getting their order, whilst watching Chisato help them Takina looks to the sky and smiles, later in the meal when Chisato takes a bite of her food and looks at Takina whilst eating looking happy, Takina just stares at Chisato with her mouth open. They then visit an aquarium Chisato starts pretending to be a garden eel but Takina is embarrassed by it saying it makes them stand out unecessarily, in front of the fish tank Takina asks Chisato more about her past. When Chisato gets sad when talking about the Alan Institute Takina runs out in front of the tank and poses as a fish to cheer Chisato up even though Takina formerly and likely still did find it embarrasing, when Chisato joins in they both start giggling and after seeing Chisato happy Takina smiles. Noticing Chisato was wearing her necklace outside of her shirt Takina smiles at her and tells Chisato she should wear it outside of her shirt anymore as its “Really cute” Takina says whilst looking shy. They go home in late afternoon, just after a terrorist attack led by Majima occurred. A while later, Chisato plans to discard Takina's boxers and tries wearing one but Mizuki walks in on her. Mizuki proceeds to publicly shame her in front of the cafe's patrons, Takina witnesses it and begins laughing.

Episode 5: So far, so good
Chisato and Takina are tasked with taking a elderly paralyzed man to a sightseeing around Tokyo. They take him to various locations. Takina discovers Chisato has no biological heart, she instead has an artificial heart implanted into her. Takina attempts to touch Chisato's chest to see if it beats, but Chisato recoils, telling her not to fondle her chest in public. They learn from the old man that his family was murdered by an assassin named Silent Jin and discover that the same assassin is currently after the him. Takina fails to ambush Jin and is saved by Chisato. As the assassin is knocked unconscious, the old man demands Chisato to execute Jin. Chisato declines and the man seemingly shutdowns. It's later reveals that the old man is actually already dead and Shinji uses both his corpse and Jin to manipulate Chisato into killing people. At the end of the day, Chisato, lies the floor relaxed, talks to Takina about the earlier events. Takina, knowing that no one else is around them, lays her head on Chisato's chest to confirms it doesn't beat.

Episode 6: Opposites attract
Due to multiple murders targeting Lycoris, Takina moves in with Chisato. They play rock-paper-scissors games to split chores, Takina loses every times and is assigned to do all household works. A while later, two thefts break into their house and are swiftly handled by Chisato. Shinji orders the hacker Robota to turn Majima's attention toward Chisato. At the cafe, Mizuki gives Takina advices on how to beat Chisato in rock-paper-scissors games. In the evening, Chisato goes on a delivery mission alone and is ambushed by Majima and his terrorists. She narrowly escapes with the combined help of Takina, Mizuki and Kurumi. After getting her wounds treated, Chisato wants to continue living together with Takina, but Takina only does so if Chisato wins another game of rock-paper-scissors. Takina finally emerges victorious and joyfully celebrates.

Episode 7: Time will tell
Chisato peeks into Mika's phone and discovers that he has a secret meeting with someone that night. Chisato, Takina, Kurumi and Mizuki discuss who Mika will be seeing. Chisato assumes it is the Commander and she may be trying to get both Mika and Chisato back into HQ. If they go back to HQ, the cafe will be closed. Chisato caresses Takina, saying it would be lonely if they go back to HQ. Four of them decide to go to the meeting to see who the person is. Chisato wears a red backless dress and Takina wears a black suit. Chisato and Takina get in the bar while Mizuki and Kurumi are rejected due to Kurumi's young appearance. Chisato and Takina find out the person Mika is seeing is Shinji and their meeting is rather a date. Having known it isn't an important meeting, they decide to leave. However, Chisato halts to eavesdrop Mika and Shinji, causing Takina to accidentally bump her face into Chisato's butt. Chisato discovers that Shinji is the person who saved her by giving her the artificial heart, she then reveals herself to Shinji and Mika to show gratitude. Both Shinji and Mika are seemingly upset because they wanted to keep it a secret. Takina decides to wait outside. Chisato wants to thank Shinji but he avoids the conversation, claiming it's against their rules, and soon leaves. Takina meets Shinji on his way out, she expresses her gratitude to him for saving Chisato, Shinji simply replies that he has high hopes for Takina.

Episode 8: Another day, another dollar
As Lyco Reco's begins running at a loss, Takina takes over the cafe's financial management. She and Chisato start doing more errands, including defusing a bomb, teaching Japanese. On Halloween, they visit a kindergarten, Chisato dresses up as a pumpkin succubus and Takina wears a cat-witch costume. While Takina is giving the children gift bags, Chisato sneaks in to get a gift from Takina but Takina refuses, claiming it's for the kids. They can see the cafe's finance getting better. Chisato avoids a call from Dr. Yamagishi, Takina grabs her phone and tell the doctor that Chisato will be coming the next day. On the next day, Chisato isn't at the hospital for her scheduled checkup. It turned out Majima broke into Chisato's safehouse, he doesn't attempt to kill her, but rather tries to know what connection Chisato has with Alan Institute, during this time, Chisato answers a call from Takina, assuring nothing bad happens. Despite that, Takina goes to Chisato's safehouse, she sees Majima but fails to kill him on his way out. Takina tells Chisato that if Chisato doesn't answer her call within three rings, Takina will immediately head over. In late evening, Chisato is seen sitting on a bench outside the cafe, Takina sits next to her and hands her a gift bag from their earlier trip to the kindergarten. Chisato excitedly opens it and finds a pug charm, she puts it on her backpack, looks at Takina and thanks her. Takina, looking at Chisato, briefly blushes then immediately looks away and urges her to go to the doctor. Chisato says that she avoids the checkups because she is afraid of needles, Takina begins laughing and teasing her. The next morning, Shinji's assistant poses as a nurse, she sedates Chisato and then tampers with her artificial heart. Takina calls Chisato, getting no answers, she rushes to the hospital.

Episode 9: What's done is done
Takina arrives at the hospital, she sees Shinji's assistant, attempts to shoot her but she escapes through the window. Takina anxiously tries to wake Chisato up. After a while, Chisato regains consciousness, surrounded by Takina, Mika, Mizuki, Kurumi and Dr. Yamagishi. The doctor explains that Chisato's heart is now unable to be recharged, resulting in Chisato's death in 2 months. Takina is shocked and then attempts to go find and murder the nurse but Chisato simply tells her not to, assuring everything's alright, and her heart would fail soon anyway, due to its age. The commander persuades Chisato to return to Direct Attack HQ in order to begin an attack on Majima, Chisato agrees on condition that they re-deploy Takina too. Mika tells Kurumi Chisato's story, in his flashbacks, Shinji watched as a 7 year-old Chisato demonstrated her bullet-dodging ability and collapsed from her heart failure, Shinji got Alan Institute to provide her a new heart that would last until her adulthood, Mika took Chisato in and raised her for Shinji. Takina eavesdrops them and decides to return to the HQ, telling Mika, Kurumi and Mizuki that capturing Majima may help her find Shinji and Shinji is the only hope to save Chisato. On next morning at the cafe, Takina takes Chisato on a date. Seeing Takina not wearing winter clothes, Chisato gets her a sweater in the malls, but Takina rushes her to other locations before she can get a scarf. They hastily go for a meal, play arcade games. They arrives at the aquarium to find it's temporary closed, Chisato then takes Takina to go fishing instead. Takina asks Chisato if she is having fun, she responds that it's always fun when she is with Takina. They then go by train to an empty park on a hill in the evening. Takina starts sneezing and Chisato gives Takina her scarf. Takina wants to see the snow with Chisato but the sky is clear. She tells Chisato that she is returning to the HQ. Chisato says that she had a fun day and fistbumps Takina. Takina decides to leave to prepare for the oncoming operation. Chisato tells Takina to keep her scarf. Just seconds after Takina turned away, it begins to snow. Takina turns around, she and Chisato look at each other and smile before both leaving.

Episode 10: Repay evil with evil
Chisato announces to to Mizuki and Kurumi that the cafe is closing down. Discussing what they are gonna do after Lyco Reco's closure, Kurumi plans to move to Germany and Mizuki wants to meet a man in Vancouver. Chisato stays at the cafe with Mika, she tells Mizuki and Kurumi to invite Takina someday. Meanwhile at the HQ, they presumably locate Majima's location and deploy all Lycoris, including Takina. Chisato sees Kurumi and Mizuki off as they head to the airport. At a prison, Takina interrogates an inmate and learns that Shinji was directly responsible for the weapon deal at the beginning. The commander and Lycoris arrive at Majima's apartment only to find he already left, they conclude that Majima's target is the tower Enkuboku. Back at the cafe, Chisato puts a closure notice up, she and Mika have some coffee while Chisato looks at an album containing their old photos. Chisato suggests hiring people to keep the cafe open. Mika hands Chisato a Kimono. She puts it on and expresses her gratitude to him for raising and teaching her, and be the reason why she had met Takina. Mika breaks down, telling her that he used her heart surgery only for his own benefits and he promised to raise her into a hitman for Shinji. Chisato doesn't blame Mika, she is still grateful to him and Shinji and Mika in response tells Chisato that he is proud of her. During the entrance ceremony at Enkuboku, Majima and Robota hijack the broadcast channel to tell the public about a large amount of firearms were scattered around the city. The commander calls Chisato and urges her to join the operation at Enkuboku, at a same time, the hacker Robota contacts Chisato and warns her not to intervene as he is holding Shinji hostage. Chisato wants to hear Shinji explains himself, she and Mika prepare their weapons to head to Shinji's location, the old radio tower.

Episode 11: Diamond cut diamond
After hearing from the commander that they couldn't contact Chisato and Mika, Takina gets off the operation bus. She tries to call Chisato but Chisato left her phone at the cafe. Takina arrives at the empty cafe, she assumes Chisato is looking for Shinji and then heads back to the operation. On the airplane preparing to takeoff, Kurumi learns that Shinji possesses a new artificial heart for Chisato, she notifies Takina of it, then she and Mizuki hastily leave the airport. Kurumi hacks into Chisato's phone and reveals that Shinji is being held hostage and Chisato and Mika is heading to the old radio tower. Takina decides to abandon the operation for Chisato, knowing by doing so she won't be deployed at HQ again. Majima and Robota continue to hijack the broadcast and show graphic footages of Lycoris, causing chaos among the citizens. Having arrived at the old tower, Chisato wants to ascend the tower alone and tells Mika to go home. On the tower, she eliminates multiple henchmen and finds Shinji being tied to a chair. Majima shows up and closes the doors, making it too dark to see properly, while Shinji seemingly vanishes from the scene. Majima reveals that he can "see" in the dark using echoes, he asks Chisato to go against Alan Institute. Chisato hears three rings from Shinji's phone on the ground, she proceeds to run and blindly fires multiple rounds. From outside, Takina breaks through the metal door next to her and lands several kicks on Majima. They have a shootout before both sides running out of bullets.

Episode 12: Nature versus nurture
Chisato and Takina continue the shootout against Majima. Majima briefly gains an upper hand thank to his echolocation. Chisato manages to fire her gun near Majima's ears to temporarily deafen him and fire several shot at his stomach, causing him to pass out from blunt force trauma. Takina then ties him to the nearby handrail using her restraint device. Chisato and Takina lie on the ground to catch a breath, Takina tells Chisato she quit Direct Attack, Chisato in response calls Takina an idiot. Back at the HQ, the higher command deploys LilyBell, a boy version of Lycoris, to dispose all Lycoris due to their exposure to the public. Chisato and Takina split up to look for Shinji. Chisato finds Shinji on the floor above, he tries to shoot her because she refused to kill Majima. Takina interrupts and holds him at gunpoint, telling Chisato that Shinji used Majima to make Chisato kill and he was the person who tampered with her heart, and there's a new artificial heart in his briefcase. Shinji reveals that he already implanted the heart into him and urges Chisato to kill him and take it. Chisato declines, Takina then attempts to shoot him but is restrained by Chisato. Shinji's assistance arrives and pushes Takina off the platform, causing her to almost fall to her death. Shinji fires several shots at Takina. Chisato is desperate and shoots at his stomach; she tries to treat his wound while both Takina and Shinji's assistance get back on the platform. Chisato is glad that Takina is safe, but knowing she wants to kill Shinji, urges his assistance to get him out of there and prevents Takina from following them. Takina collapses, expresses that she doesn't want Chisato to die, Chisato replies that she should have died a long time ago if not for Shinji. Mizuki and Kurumi arrives on a helicopter. The duo Lycoris joins them to save the remaining Lycoris from their disposal. Takina starts using Chisato's non-lethal bullets. Kurumi manages to slow down LilyBell's advance. The Lycoris successfully give the network control to Kurumi. She locates Robota and calls the police on him, then broadcasts an advertisement, tricking the citizens into thinking that the Lycoris' footages were a trailer for an upcoming movie. The LilyBell are commanded to retreat. While Chisato, Takina and other Lycoris are preparing to descend the elevator, Chisato notices her bag on the floor. She steps out of the elevator to pick it up and tells her friends that Takina gave her the pug charm. Majima suddenly shows up, opens fire on Takina and the Lycoris inside the elevator, they manage to block the bullets. The elevator starts going down, leaving Chisato stranded and Takina helplessly screaming Chisato's name.

Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days
To be added.

Lycoris Recoil: Recollect

 * Chapter 1: Chisato wants Takina to smile more and is determined to make Takina smile.
 * Chapter 2: Mika tells Takina and Mizuki that if you love something, you will notice its smallest changes. Chisato arrives and immediately knows that Takina changed shampoo. She recommends her favorite shampoo to Takina while Mika and Mizuki fondly gaze upon them.

Quotes
"I'm glad I was able to meet you. I'm glad. I'm happy."

- Chisato to Takina, Lycoris Recoil episode 3.

"Please answer calls from me within three rings. If you don't, I'll know that you're in danger, and do a one-ring call to tell you I'm heading over."

- Takina to Chisato, Lycoris Recoil episode 8.

"It's fun when I'm with you, Takina."

- Chisato to Takina, Lycoris Recoil episode 9.

"That's right. My partner. Of course! She's my partner."

- Chisato to a stranger about Takina, Lycoris Recoil episode 13.

Fanon
ChisaTaki is the most popular ship within the Lycoris Recoil fandom. It currently has over 200 works on AO3.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Chisato starts putting her Alan Institute necklace outside of her shirt after Takina telling her that it looks cute. (Lycoris Recoil episode 4)
 * Takina thinks about visiting Chisato's house and cleaning it once in a while. She also tries to get Chisato to eat healthier when they live together. (Blu-ray/DVD Vol. 3 additional notes)
 * Chisato picks a pug plushie from a clawing machine instead of an owl plushie (Alan Institute symbol) after receiving a pug charm from Takina. (Lycoris Recoil episode 9)
 * While waiting for Chisato's surgery to start, Takina can be seen nervously gripping her left hand onto her skirt. (Lycoris Recoil episode 13)
 * Perhaps unintentional, but the sunset and ocean scene has the same colors as the lesbian flag. (Lycoris Recoil episode 13)
 * When Chisato throws away her Alan Institute necklace, she says that she hesitates a little bit because Takina commented that it looked cute on her. (Lycoris Recoil episode 13)
 * Chisato and Takina wear matching bracelets during their vacation in Hawaii. (Lycoris Recoil episode 13)