so i’ve been turning over the dabihawks pharmacy au in my brain some more, and i wanted to update y’all on my ideas.
as a refresher this is “pharmacy tech hawks x frequent flyer dabi” and we just pretend not to see any ethical concerns okay. hold my hand
rather than anything to do with burns, i’m going more allegorical re: “body attacking itself.” touya is gonna have mcas!
he will also be trans because i said so
keigo will also be trans t4t 4ever
there’s lots of comorbidities and things with mcas as well (and, obviously, it’s possible to have two conditions totally unrelated to each other lol) so i’m not 100% sure yet what else touya has going on but there will be others
thus the touya backstory basically remains intact—golden child turned black sheep due to disability, pushes himself past his limits and almost dies….etc. still working on the specifics but i think the best analogy for hero-ing here is going to be Sports
now i’m thinking about touya taking up adaptive sports or just something easier for his body to handle and actually enjoying it wahh
on the request of my partner, indulging in stereotype to make touya + the league run a tattoo shop together
he and keigo will meet outside of work for the first time when keigo comes in to get a coverup of some scars. probably
speaking of keigo. it is very hard to translate “child soldier slash pop culture icon” into the real world, but i think i will go with him going into the foster system and being pushed to succeed academically/financially while also being abused
still working out the kinks there because while “pharmacy tech” is a pretty good gig, it does not require college (i mean, you can do a degree in it, but it’s widely considered a waste of time and money). and i don’t want pharmacist!keigo. maybe i can set this a little bit later in their lives (like mid-20s instead of early) and have keigo be a burnt out med school dropout?
the sports thing does remove keigo’s connection to the todoroki family but i’m trying to think of ways to salvage that in some capacity just bc it’s cool
oh yeah and all of this will be set in america because lovingly this country’s healthcare system is enough to learn and the point of this is projecting my silly job onto my blorbos, okay
and yeah i think that’s it for right now! i’m still trying to decide what i want to focus on beyond just the romance bc i will get bored writing just straight romance. i don’t know. hm
happy to hear thoughts and suggestions on this, i still don’t know when i’ll get around to writing it but i feel like i’m getting closer!
