malt I’m serious why do you have so many interesting wips do you understand how hard it was for me to pick just one. going with casual notes but genuinely Holy shit. I love you malt……
first of all thanks so much ahhajs I blame my notes app for being free and easy for me to access when I get an idea
second, that's so funny bc kiri also asked about this au, I talked alot in that response so if you want a little more insight about this au I'll point you there but. yes. casual notes. my dearly deranged.
this is my hanzawa and tashiro focused fic for the riverbed au! and the one that started me with the au as a whole, though not the first chronologically. if you've seen me explain before you'll know but I'll explain the au again. it's basically a what if everyone met at different times or never met at all au. very exciting stuff. with these two they end up meeting later, and most importantly: tashiro never joins the ping pong club. in my reply to kiri I explained what their dynamic is sort of, but I want to tell you about the fun thing that drives their narrative here: prev pres.
thats right!! even without the club, tashiro can't escape him. prev pres is friends with tashiro because of something really silly. hanzawa is friends with prev pres and is his vice captain. prev pres looks at them and goes "you know what would be fun?" and shoves them all into an enclosed space to hang out. it is a disaster on all fronts. the timeline for this fic is my usual style of time-jumpy nonsense, but it generally takes place over the course of their entire high-school career into tashiro's first year of college. a whole lot changes. have some snippets from said college year:
that second one is from my outline so apologies for the no names and just dialogue lol
the driving force for this au for me is really just "how much do these characters really, truly change each other throughout this series. what if we take that away. how much is left." how much of sasaki is left without miyano, how much hanzawa without tashiro, how much kagiura without hirano, how much how much how much
I'm not sure if I've found the answer yet. but it's been very enjoyable analyzing these guys and deciding what parts of them I can surgically remove without their entire identity as a character bleeding out of them.
