I’ve got a feeling that Mira has used the “Who died and made you leader?” line on Rumi once. It probably didn’t end very well.
just throwing the brick right at me expecting me to catch it. well i did play baseball as a kid (badly) so hopefully i can.
Rumi: Zoey you are being way too timid, you have to be willing to jump around the battlefield. you are our speed. you have to catch the stragglers and warn us about demon movements.
Zoey: oh. ok unnie. 😞
Rumi: And Mira you have to have a solid stance when you are swinging your gok-do otherwise a demon will knock you over. You are the rock we all stand on and what good is a rock that cracks under the slightest pressure.
Mira, under her breath: pfft whatever, you shouldn't even be leader anyways.
Rumi: What was that?!
Mira: I said you shouldn't be our leader!
Rumi: You want to know why I'm the leader?! I have the most experience and the most training. I've been fighting demons since I was 8 years old!
Mira: Yeah well, who died and made you leader?!
Rumi immediately drops out of "leader mode", her eyes glaze over, she looks like a husk. She just drops her sword on the ground and walks away. She tries not to cry in front of Mira and Zoey as "your faults and fears should never be seen" echoes in her head.
Zoey: What the hell Mira! Why did you say that?!
Mira: I... I didn't... she was being a bitch ok.
Zoey: No its not ok. I'm going to go check on Rumi.
Zoey sprints away from Mira as tears begin to form in her eyes. She stabs her gok-do into the ground pushing wave through the honmoon. "They'll never be your family. You don't deserve one." Plays on repeat in her head as she cries on her knees, all alone, all over again.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
Characters: Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Steve Harrington, Tommy Hagan, Carol Perkins, Kali Prasad, Lonnie Byers
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Nobody Found Out about the Upside Down in S1, except for Joyce (kind of), So Will is believed to be dead and there's no explanation for Barb's disappearance, Suicide Attempt, Suicidal Ideation, Alcohol Abuse, survivor's guilt, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, (Not explicit but it's an ongoing situation), (And not technically a crime in Indiana but in spirit exploitative and wrong in many ways), Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Recreational Drug Use, Generally Bad Mental Health Care, Ableism, Disordered Eating, Minor Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, Minor Billy Hargrove/Nancy Wheeler, Background Jonathan Byers/Female OC
Summary:
A year after the unexplained disappearance of her best friend, Nancy Wheeler is consumed with guilt and bent on quiet self-destruction. Then a strange incident sends her on a new course and inspires her to reach out to a boy she used to sort of know.
(My reworked version of Tonight, Tonight, the Highway’s Bright! Now more succinct, with grimmer situations! Yay?! The first chapter is largely the same, however.)
Hey guys, anyone want to do discussion points or what if scenarios? It might be fun!
Here's one: If Rukia, Renji, and Byakuya got kicked out of Soul Society after the Soul Society Arc, what would their living situation be?
A while back (which for me could be anywhere from 1 to 10 years, lol), I saw a post about this. I believe the philosophy was that the whole Aizen situation was a media nightmare and so they kicked Rukia and Renji out as part of a cover up. Byakuya tried to stand up to them and got kicked out too. Even his own family disowned him for all the "trouble he's caused them over Hisana and Rukia".
So according to the post, their living situation was similar to the Advance Team Arc, with Rukia living with Ichigo, and Renji and Byakuya living elsewhere (I believe they were sharing an apartment?). I think I've seen other posts about this where they actually ended up either living with Urahara or the Visored.
Now obviously this didn't happen and would never happen, so don't worry about taking this too seriously. This is literally just a "What if it had happened?" scenario. Where do you think the characters would have ended up? How do you think it would have panned out?
This is already getting kind of long, so I'm gonna put my thoughts on it underneath a "Keep Reading" tag
Personally, I think Rukia would have stayed with Byakuya. This might sound strange, their relationship was strained at best, but I think her choosing to stay in Soul Society was her choosing to try again. She wanted to try again to connect to the people in her life. So even if they got kicked out of Soul Society, I don’t think she would have given up on this dream. (Plus it means she could teach him all about the living world!)
I think the real question would be Renji. Sure Byakuya and Rukia living together would be super awkward to say the least, but they're at least siblings. But Renji isn't. He's not entirely on the outside, being childhood friends with Rukia. But they've been separated for about 40 years and have a lot of emotional ground to cover!
On one hand, they don't have status to worry about anymore, she's no longer a noble and he's not a lieutenant, but on the other hand they haven't had a chance to properly discuss all that happened between them either. And if they are living together, they might choose to NOT have those necessary discussions in order to keep their living situation stable.
On the flip side, Renji and Rukia tend to thrive in dangerous situations where it's them against the world. So while they may be dancing around those hard but necessary conversations, they are ALSO dancing around all those hollows in Karakura Town and punching them in the face with some SUPER SICK COMBO MOVES!!!
So basically they will eventually be fine, but not as quickly as they would have been if they had just, you know, talked first and punched later.
So here's my final thoughts. Rukia would be living with Byakuya. Where they would be living would be determined based on if Byakuya had been able to hold onto any of his wealth and then been able to trade with Urahara for some World of the Living funds.
Renji I could see still living with Urahara, but depending on Rukia’s and Byakuya’s situation, I can see it taking all three of them getting part time jobs to get by. Also, I doubt Urahara would take all three of them in. They could technically live in his basement, but unless he had a use for all three of them, I doubt he'd take them in. (Although the idea of all three of them doing secret missions together as some sort of mission impossible secret task force is pretty cool!) The visoreds tend to stick to themselves, so I kinda doubt they'd take them in either.
So yeah, maybe all three of them DO get a very stuffy, very angsty apartment together, and are extremely relieved when the Arrancar finally attack. xD
So what do you all think? Do they all stay together? Do they all split up? A combination of the two? Where do they all live? Feel free to comment or reblog to let me know!
As far as FUTURE future plans goes, once me and my guy are married next May, we want to have a little Kelley and I'll be staying home with baby-me. So even if it takes that long (omg I hope not), commissions will be open eventually-ish!
Hey Inny. I've had a stressful week so for your AU 5+ ask please hit me with some JATP Gilmore Girls. Also does Rory = Carrie yes/yes??
I'm sorry you had a stressful week have many wholesome headcanons.
-Okay so if Bobby is Christopher, that means Carrie is GiGi and can you imagine that whole freakout like: HE STOLE THE FREAKING NAME. COME ON. ROR-RY. CAR-RIE. It's not the first thing he's stolen, Rory!!!!1! Also why are the stupid balloons green yes I know gender is a construct Rory your dad is literally trans in case you forgot but the baby can't reveal their gender until they at least learn to talk so the whole point of a gender reveal is stupid and...
-Jess' antics frustrate the shit out of Alex, but Reggie finds most of them very amusing. He does steal back the gnome Jess stole and returns it with like, an envelope full of photographs of the gnome having a wander around town and grabbing a bite to eat at the diner and stuff.
But the fake dead body? He loves it. He asks Taylor all wide-eyed if the town is safe or not. Taylor it happened right in front of your store. Taylor are you secretly a serial killer????
-So nobody is more surprised than Reggie when Jess finally needles him so much that he pushes the kid into a lake. Listen, he shouldn't have said those things about Alex but also Reggie is an adult.
-He goes straight to the Molinas and barges in like: RAY HELP I'M A TERRIBLE FATHER FIGURE.
-Luke and the town troubadour are frenemies.
-Imagine Rory's college friends being so confused about her three dads. Rory is like: No? I have... two dads?
Oh okay so who is your dad dating, Reggie or Alex?
Rory: ... I mean neither of them yet but also my other dad is named Trevor.
