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okayokayokay listen. LISTEN. this hc is so stupid but Listen. there's an art from jo where nick is wearing a chicago bulls cap -> someone hc'ed that nick's mom is from chicago -> naturally she's GOTTA be a bears fan -> nick grew up a ct boy BUT ☝️ also a bears fan
anyway my stupid ass hometeam won and i was enabled by @scorp-yo and here we are. go mfing bears. but also i was crying thinking about nick losing something with his mom and finding it again with his homies
Been trying watercolor brushes in ProCreate! Jesse is the victim as always :)
Fencing state championship finals, 2019
(one year after the events of current canon)
Seiji could barely believe his own eyes. It was the fourth bout in the team event finals, the score was 18 to 18, which meant that Nicholas was tied with Jesse.
Nicholas, who had a mere 2 years of practice fencing épée. Nicholas, who still lost to Seiji every time they practiced together. Nicholas, who still hadn’t mastered his parry sixte. That Nicholas. Seiji turned to Bobby and Eugene, just to see if they were seeing the same thing he was seeing.
Eugene turned to grin at him. “Pretty crazy, right? At this rate, we might actually win, bro.”
There were 20 seconds left on the clock. Nicholas lunged, and Jesse got a hit to his wrist just as Nicholas’s blade hit Jesse’s thigh.
The score went up on both sides, 19 to 19.
Bobby’s jaw dropped. “Wha— how did—”
“Double touch,” Seiji explained, a bit breathlessly. He still couldn’t quite believe this was happening. “When two fencers land a hit within 40 milliseconds of each other, both of the hits are registered.”
For a couple seconds, Jesse and Nicholas just stared at each other. Seiji knew for a fact that Nicholas had never gotten a double touch before, and he knew Jesse wasn’t particularly accustomed to them either. Most of the people Jesse fenced weren’t fast enough to match his speed, to land a hit at the exact same time that he did.
(Seiji had managed to score a double touch with Jesse exactly once, during a practice match. It was a moment that he looked back on with far more pride than he should’ve.)
Nicholas attacked Jesse again, using a flèche this time, and as the hit landed, Seiji only had two thoughts running through his head. Nicholas just won a bout against Jesse Coste. And he’d used Seiji’s signature move to do it.
Seiji had spent hours working with Nicholas on that flèche. Practicing it with him, helping him improve it. Seiji couldn’t help the pride that surged through him. In a way, he’d helped Nicholas win the bout against Jesse.
Nicholas pumped his fist, turning back to grin at his teammates.
Seiji found himself thinking back to the King’s Row tryouts during his freshman year, when Seiji lost to Aiden and Nicholas had introduced him to the concept of an “indirect win”. Bobby had compared it to an indirect kiss. It had seemed ridiculous at the time, but now he was beginning to see its merit.
He beat Nicholas all the time. And Nicholas had just beaten Jesse.
Nicholas sauntered over to them and tossed a casual arm around Seiji’s shoulder.
“So,” he said with an easy smile, “does this mean we’re officially rivals?”
day ten: don’t make the mistake of being too predictable
sup bitches. Crisises not averted, but paused. didn’t write anything.
made some collages tho inspired by @rake-rattrap since I don’t normally make those HAH NOT SO PREDICTABLE NOWWWWW
I’m so tired here you go
Fun little details abt each one:
Bobby’s is inspired by the trans flag! I’m sure all y’all know i HC that bobby is on the he => they => she pipeline so yeah it’s also coquette/pink clean girl idk
oh Jesse. King of gifted child burn out. Added the phrase “per aspera ad astra” which means “through hardships to the stars” in Latin (I think) which gives Jesse to me. I made the main focus quotes like “you can’t help but become the sun” (true blue by boy genius) and “destruction is not what I intended for you/but this is what happens to all who follow in my wake” ( a poem from Apollo to Icarus) because I don’t think he means to be a bitch but he’s been raised in the spotlight and hurt so many times that it’s his defense mechanism and he doesn’t mean to hurt people but he’s come to accept it as the consequence of being around him and that sucks poor baby
Aiden. I put so much effort into this. I was going for siren whorecore y2k vibes I think I achieved that. I added a care bear and a teddy bear to represent Harvard paw (aka the best character) I also included a lot of road signs cuz I think he drives to clear his head. And then the song I chose was teachers pet by Melanie Martinez (awful person fire music) because LOOK AT ME AND TELL ME THIS BOY WAS NOT GROOMED AND IS NOW HYPERSEXUAL SAY IT TO MY FACE (haha projecting on characters is fun isn’t it) but seriously. He is hyper sexual he uses sex as a coping mechanism/self harm technique tell me I’m wrong
I made Dante’s mostly soccer inspired since he’s the only non fencer I did add Ronaldo since his treasure is a signed poster of Ronaldo and I think he would drink sprite idk. Whole lot of unrequited love quotes because this boy is PINING. I did add the quote, “may the calm in you win over the chaos around you” because he’s like the opposite of bobby he’s the rock in the choppy ocean like he stays calm all the time and idk we don’t know a whole lot about him so I didn’t have a whole lot to go on.
EUGENE MY BABY BOY I could not find ANY of him on Pinterest (where I make these) like y’all we gotta lock in and post some Eugene to Pinterest anyway I added some orange postage stamps from the Philippines and included the phrase “mahal Kita” which means “I love you” in tagalog i did also add every Eugene image I could find what about it. I made him orange because Jesse already had yellow and I do see Eugene as yellow but I wanted each character to have their own color and he ended up rocking the orange so good for him. Added a goldfish cracker cuz I think he likes gold fish cuz his you get siblings eat them all the time so they’re always in the house therefore he eats them a lot too
Harvard is purple to me. I don’t know why. He is purple. I added some of those aesthetic definition things because he seems like the type to hang those up in his future minimalistic apartment lol. I added fencing elements into his unlike any of the others because I found a pretty stained glass one I liked and then it kept suggesting them and then I found that one picture of the fencing mask on the Christo redentor statue and I added it cuz I think he’s Brazilian idk
ah. Nicholas. I made him a silly little rockstar girlfriend one I did add a lyric from music to watch boys to (I live to love you and I love to love you) that I thought he would listen to while watching Seiji fence and be like “shit why am I listening to this I don’t like him FAH”
Seiji Katayama is old money yacht party pearl necklace striped umbrella summer in Italy. Need I say more? I added a lot of butterflies because they symbolize change and metamorphism and I feel like metamorphosis is a huge part of his character like he goes through a lot of transformations (before Jesse/after Jesse, before France/after France, before Nick/during Nick, etc) also i support suicidal Seiji with all my heart tell me that boy has not stared at knives and his parent’s pills thinking “I could do it. I won’t, but I could” and then convincing himself he actually isn’t suicidal and that thoughts like that are normal
wrote way more than expected and accidentally added a character analysis for a few of them? Also yes, I did add an “admit one” ticket to Eugene (cuz he’s the only one in the actual team who isn’t mainly shipped with someone else on the team) and Aiden (because he thinks he’ll always be alone and self sabotages) what about it
wow I put way too much effort into this lol also feel free to download these I use them as a rotating Lock Screen like feel free I wouldn’t post them if I didn’t want them to be used yk
@fencesummernationals
thinking abt Seiji (non derogatory) and Jesse (derogatory)
SEIJI NOT BEING ROMANTICALLY INTERESTED IN JESSE BUT PURELY PLATONICALLY ITS JS RLLY STRONG PLATONIC FEELINGS BC HE CRAVES LITERALLY ANY HUMAN CONNECTION AND JESSE MISTAKING IT FOR ROMANTIC FEELINGS AND SO HE FREAKS OUT AND PUSHES SEIJI AWAY AND IS CONSTANTLY TELLING SEIJI HE IS “A FENCING PARTNER, NOTHING MORE” AND SEIJI VIEWS IT AS REJECTION OF WHO HE IS AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP BUT JESSE LITERALLY JUST WANTS TO STAY FRIENDS BUT BC OF THIS PROBLEMS AND ARGUMENTS THEYVE HAD BUBBLE OVER AND THEY REPEATEDLY HURT EACH OTHER UNTIL THEY CAN NOT GO BACK TO BEING FRIENDS BC OF HOW TERRIBLE AND BITTER THEYVE BECOME!!!!!!!!!
Seiji has always been rejected by people, he’s “weird” and “obsessive”. Jesse doesn’t care about his fencing obsession. He thinks it’s nice to be with someone who cares abt fencing as much as he does. Someone on his level. Their talent is isolating, but they find solace in each other. When kids are calling Seiji names, when they’re making fun of him for missing social cues, he can go to Jesse and sit while Jesse talks. Jesse doesn’t mock him. When Jesse is constantly being pushed away by adults in his life and dealing with constant jealousy and social isolation from peers, Seiji is there to tell him everyone is stupid for ignoring him. But then they grow up. Jesse desires nothing more than community, he begins changing to fit in with his peers. He’s pointing out Seiji’s oddities more, telling him to lighten up, Seiji is now the butt of the joke. Seiji wants his friend back, so he becomes more intense. More jealous. More obsessive. It gets to the point it becomes limerence, platonic, but limerence. He’s obsessed with Jesse, with not losing what they had. He just wants Jesse to want him. Jesse can’t deal with it anymore. They fight a lot.
Jesse feels stifled by Seiji, scared of him sometimes. He doesn’t feel he can be who he is and interact with who he wants, he’s losing autonomy. Seiji’s been acting different- he asks people, and comes to the conclusion that he has a crush on Jesse. This freaks him out. He doesn’t want anything to change between them. All the while; Seiji feels left behind, lonely, unwanted, and unloved.
Then comes the loss. Coste v Katayama, and Jesse wins. He gloats. He brags. Seiji doesn’t even necessarily mind that he lost at the time, but Jesse ribs it into him. He can hear Jesse, at press, when they’re with others, at parties, shit talking his fencing abilities and saying terrible things about him.
It blows up in one big fight. Jesse calls Seiji an obsessive freak, telling him that yeah, no one loves him and he’s impossible to like. Seiji tells Jesse he’s confident that Jesse hates him, that he’s mocking, that HE’S stifling and unaccepting. Seiji has a shutdown and runs away. He doesn’t stop running until he’s in France.
Jesse misses Seiji after only 4 months. He misses his friend. The one he doesn’t have to pretend around. He’s always putting on a front around others, even his own father. The pressure is becoming too much, he’s not sleeping or eating and is falling into depression. Seiji used to be the one who brought him meals when he was stressed, had sleepovers when he couldn’t stop working. He feels like a terrible person, self esteem at an all time low. He feels worthless and guilty.
Seiji never stopped missing Jesse. Slowly, his limerence turns into anger. He's so fucking angry. He wanted a friend, to be loved, to be wanted. And he was for a while. But the gentle teasing turned into jabs turned into mocking, bullying. He was the expense being paid for Jesse’s acceptance with others. He begins neglecting all relationships he has, even what’s barely there with his parents. All this has done is confirm that he is inherently unlovable and worthless.
They both dive into fencing. Seiji in France, Jesse in Connecticut.
Come Kings Row. Seiji is still angry. Jesse is still guilty. Jesse wants Seiji back. Seiji wants Jesse to fuck off forever.
Who's most likely to drop and break their phone?
Nicholas
Seiji
Eugene
Harvard
Aiden
Jesse
Bobby
Dante
I'm over a year late to this ask, but I want to know everyone's opinion so I'm making the poll anyways. Thank you Anon, if you someday see this.
Who's most likely to drop and break their phone?
Nicholas
Seiji
Eugene
Harvard
Aiden
Jesse
Bobby
Dante
I know Nicholas would never but I need him to be so messy about the “Robert is my dad” thing
Like Jesse has pissed him off one too many times and is walking away from an argument and Nicholas yells after him
“You think I’m not a threat? I want you to say 2 words to your dad. See how he reacts.”
Then he tells Jesse his mums name and storms off. Jesse’s super confused but tells his dad.
Robert goes pale. He demands Jesse make sure that boy never fences again. Chaos ensues.
