a little late to the party, but the fact that amidst new york's literal downfall in daredevil born again season 1, spiderman was nowhere to be found is literally hilarious i cant
the implication of mcu!peter parker living through the chaos of born again in the same new york, but having 0 time to deal with it because of his constant depressive state influx of college work.
everything is progressively getting worse by the day, but peter is not having it when he's simultaneously decided to torture himself by going into biochemistry.
sure, he's spider-man, but 1) no one knows who he is and 2) he has 5 papers to finish, no friends, and too much to do for his own good.
peter first encounters it on the news while he's working on an experiment report: wilson "kingpin" fisk elected as mayor of new york city in what is deemed a landslide of an election. sickens him, really – because as if this city couldn't get even worse, the people are suddenly turning to literal criminals for local governance. go fucking figure.
he really should be wanting to be a hero right now. peter swears he's feeling the obligation to stand up for this city and what it believes in, he really does. but between the glare of the headline and the glare of the paper – which is due in about two days – that he's only about a quarter of the way through?
he unfortunately does not have time to be spider-man right now, and until kingpin's either gotten a cat stuck in a tree or a bomb threat on the streets, peter thinks he can leave it to some other perfectly-capable vigilante. one that the general public knows and cherishes.
or knows, period.
and then, a day later, he's hearing about serial killers.
not even the plain kind with regular knives and cliche MOs – no, this guy's draining people's blood for street art and posing their corpses up like mannequins on the street.
as a result, the mass hysteria virus of new york, even more than usual, is becoming a total fucking headache.
peter cannot go one day without someone yapping his ear off about that evil-ass serial killer that's supposedly roaming the streets and turning people into seriously messed up works of art, or another person refusing to finish any group works under the excuse of "not knowing who to trust" amidst such a trying time.
seriously, new yorkers do their homework in the face of giant mechanical rhinos and alien invasions, but they draw the line at one guy making real-time gore art?
not to mention that one time peter himself got accused of being a serial killer for offering a girl a piece of chewy candy on the bus. have people no more common decency?
either way, it should start to feel pressing by now, but the only other issue is that peter has a totally important group lab report due by his next breath, so someone else is going to have to deal with the whole serial killer thing.
peter can do criminal mayors. he can do serial killers. he can hear about daredevil going MIA in hell's kitchen, or whatever the story was. he is just too busy trying to graduate (and get his life back, maybe?)
but i imagine where he would draw the line is when new york's turmoil finally manages to actively inconvenience him finishing the report, and he's forced to directly confront it for the sake of turning in his fucking paper.
naturally, peter's working inside of a sewage tunnel for the sake of his own peace and quiet. he's got his laptop webbed to the tunnel ceiling, he's feeling good about the 3/4 of the work he had done, and he thinks this might have a chance of being done way earlier than he'd intended.
little does he know – that serial killer on the news and daredevil are absolutely beating the shit out of each other just a few turns away.
peter can obviously hear it; he's not stupid. but between finishing the results and conclusion and taking more than 10 minutes to check out the noise? he's perfectly fine where he is.
that is, until one of daredevil's batons go flying straight into the screen of his laptop. and that paper he was supposed to be finishing?
all gone.
all peter can do is blink for a second. gasp. cry, but only internally, because getting tear stains on his mask would be a bitch to launder right now.
that's when peter finally decides: yeah, this new york shit has gone too far.
< mqonlight on ao3 because i may release the fic with this premise wink wink >
satosugu idols au except satoru is in a k-pop style group and suguru is in a k-rock style group (think: txt for gojo and day6 for geto).
they’re under the same company, they were both trainees at the same time, having met at a public audition and having kept in touch with each other afterwards to update one another on their progress.
they know each others’ dorms as if they debuted in the same group. suguru has writing and producing credits on about half of the tracks on satoru’s latest comeback album, and satoru’s done demo vocals for geto’s band a million times. and they’re not exactly private about each other — after all, for a band-style idol, geto does an awful lot of dance challenge collab videos with gojo every time they release a new song.
suddenly, they’re associated with each other in every piece of content they manage — of course suguru’s a guest in satoru’s solo workout day episode. and satoru spotted waving at one of of suguru’s sold-out stadium tours? that was a viral clip for weeks.
silence of the idols? satoru gets caught by the instructor. his penalty sleep item, funnily enough, is suguru. and his group is one of the most wildly clipped fails, for the sole reason that satoru abandons the choreography every single run to ask suguru what he thinks.
and EVERYONE in the company knows something is probably going on between those two. staff kindly suggests that they try going on lives with their co-members instead of each other (which doesn’t work).
pr managers work overtime drafting company statements in case one of satoru’s many fanatic comments about suguru becomes a little too telling. even their co-members have learned that the minute either one steps into the practice room, it’s an immediate take five.
everything turns on its head when satoru has suguru on his next live — a snack mukbang, allegedly. well, it would’ve been, until they opened a box of pocky, and satoru immediately insists on doing the pocky challenge. chat knows suguru’s notorious for hating physical touch in all of his variety shows with other members, with several clips and compilations of him shoving his members away during these types of challenges.
so everyone’s surprised when he doesn’t protest to the pocky challenge.
the aftermath? a well-timed photo of satoru and suguru mere centimeters away from each others’ face from just the right angle.
cue the uprising of dating rumors — fanwars are worse than ever, #STSGKISS trends at 1, a million new compilations (“satoru and suguru being a couple for 10 minutes gay”) spawn out of nowhere, and the pr managers are milliseconds from resignation.
eventually, they force the two to go live again to “prove they’re not dating”, thinking that one boring livestream would deter the shipping.
suguru reads a chat message calling them boyfriends, and laughs. out loud. satoru joins in. and then geto stops, and just shakes his head with a little “no” before moving on. gojo looks absolutely dejected. acts all off and mumbles for the entire rest of the livestream. so obviously glares at staff whenever they faintly tell him to smile.
the best worst part?
the shipping only doubles from here. twitter goes insane. the fans have united, at least, but for one specific cause — getting a hopeless fucking satoru to pull his best friend at long last.
the compilations? satoru is a gameless loser for 15 minutes straight. top 1 trending tag? #PLEASEHELPSATORUGOJO
the pr team? long gone.
(a/n: when i imagine idol!geto my first thought is 100% d-day tour yoongi with the guitar if he was in day6. idol!gojo is more like yeonjun from txt in the sense that he is probably his generation’s “it boy”. please understand 🙏🙏🙏)
I know the class of 09 fandom has taken quite the hit thanks to the flopside but I'd like to propose that these two have very similar energy in my mind
I'd like to imagine an au where jecka goes on to be really successful after college and marries a rich doctor into some scandal and finds Nicole again working in a diner and moves in with her. At this point Nicole has kinda chilled due to weed but is still a raging bitch.