this idea was from eons ago but i was discussing this with a friend recently and decided some changes(tm) were needed
also just dumping it here for now bc if i do end up writing sth it’ll be far into the future...
main premise:
kuroko tetsuya, a recent college graduate hailing from an obscure village in the country, comes to the big city at the behest of a former teacher who runs a cram school for gifted kids. but between the building collapse that greets his first day, meeting a strange redheaded kid and gaining a sullen, mysterious roommate, he seems to have gotten himself into much more than he’s bargained for.
characters etc. under the cut
main characters
kuroko: a japanese-language cram school teacher with unremarkable and forgettable features and little presence. lived with his grandmother for most of his life in a tiny village in the mountains until he went off to college in the city.
mayuzumi: kuroko’s roommate. does he have a job?? nobody knows. mysterious, grumpy and perpetually annoyed that kuroko keeps unwittingly attracting supernatural trouble. seems to have weird powers (?) or maybe it’s just his lack of presence...?
other characters
nijimura: kuroko’s former college teacher who invited him to come teach at the cram school he runs. rumored to have a delinquent past.
generation of miracles (aomine, midorima, murasakibara, kise): a group of (gifted? who knows lmao) students who were friends and used to go to the cram school together 10 years ago. during the time of the collapse they were having a reunion inside the building which kills everyone but them and a few other people.
murasakibara: gets his leg hurt during the collapse and stays at the hospital, but sees the ghosts of some of his former classmates haunting his room.
aomine: a divorced ex-basketball player turned salaryman who is raising his kid on his own after a long custody battle. things start going south when he starts suspecting there’s something up with the legal processing...
kise: a rising actor who was supposed to be auditioning for a new horror film but ends up thinking he is possessed after attending a funeral service.
midorima: a reclusive doctor who shows up at the reunion after he gets a strange invitation, only to start remembering disturbing things he saw while at the school.
momoi: aomine’s childhood sweetheart who later broke up with him and went abroad for her studies. initially stayed in america while all of this was happening, only to come back after hearing about her friends all starting to die horrible deaths.
akashi (ore): a high school student in the class kuroko teaches who warns him about danger following him and then mysteriously disappears after the building collapse
akashi (boku): ? (it is a mystery)
initially i wanted to have kuroko meet kagami and himuro instead of akashi(s) because of Plot Reasons but then i figured this actually works better bc in the original work the protagonist does meet a strange pair of twins...
