Alright. I am… fairly certain I have what I need to consider The DeLorne Mystery solved. However I have enough doubt that I’m hesitating in writing it down just yet, so…….
ATTENTION ALL CHRISTOPHE ENJOYERS!!
If you know of any fic with Christophe in it that was published on ANY platform between June 5, 2004 and January 10, 2005, please bring it my attention.
I am preferentially looking for Christophe/Kyle fics (or fics that contain that ship) because I believe folks who shipped that are the ones who passed around the DeLorne surname, but any fic could help. What I’d love most of all are links to these fics or a scanned PDF, if it’s an old, now-deleted fic you have a hard copy of, however if you just have a title and a platform, I can try and make that work (shoutout to the Wayback Machine, which has been invaluable in this research).
I have done a lot of combing through FFN so fics that are from elsewhere (deviantArt, livejournal, yahoo groups, quotev, etc) would be best but I’m not perfect— I may have missed something on FFN (especially if it’s been deleted and exists only in others’ memories or old hard drives). So honesty don’t hesitate to send anything in!
Thank you so much in advance to anyone who sends to stuff in and to anyone who’s supported my research quest so far 🥰 I believe I will have the answer very soon 👀
Kystophe whump or hurt/comfort headcanons, 1, 2, 3 go!!!
omg HELLO HII thank you for leaving an ask1!! <3 im sorry it took a while to answer, as you can see im a certified yapper and had to edit this so it made sense cause i basically write down my thoughts as they come lol
anyways so here' a few kystophe hurt/comfort headcanons!
christophe being the only other person who gets kyle:
kyle and christophe have a lot in common. they are both outsiders though for different reasons (kyle is excluded for being jewish, christophe is a foreigner but also rejects “the system” on his own accord).
kyle has always been different because of his beliefs (religious or political) and ostracized for it. In later seasons we've seen him become more exhausted, almost like he is slowly being broken down. Most recently in “world privacy tour” Kyle is afraid he's being left out by his friends, so he tries to change his "brand" to ensure this wont happen.
what i'm trying to emphasize here is that Kyle internalizes his otherness. He doesnt realize he shouldn't be ostracized for it and instead tries to hide what makes him different (it's a jersey thing) or change it (world privacy tour). He doesn't change the system, he changes himself to fit in it.
so I feel like at first Christophe would think Kyle is spineless because he unknowingly endorses the system that oppresses him. However, he’d quickly come to realize that kyle is anything but that.
the reality is that kyle is only obedient as long as he is ignorant. take, for example, the end of obesity special where kyle was unaware of the flaws of the american healthcare system and genuinely believed that all it took to navigate it was willpower. but after finding out the truth, he quickly takes to action and even violence.
Christophe and kyle react angrily to injustice but believe in very different solutions to it. While Christophe is almost nihilistic and believes that the system is broken and corrupted (and therefore has to be overthrown), kyle is more hopeful (lawful even). kyle would opt for reformation rather than revolution (which is the perfect catalyst between him and christophe, heck this could even lead them to face each other in opposing factions)
despite this I think christophe would still try to push Kyle towards rebellion (I mean he’d do that with just about anybody who’d listen lol) christophe might get kyle to realize he doesn't have to change himself to fit in but I don't think kyle would ever become radicalized like christophe
in short, i think the hurt/comfort (or rather comfort and then hurt) would come from the fact that christophe is possibly the only person who could understand and believe in kyle’s ideals but he would never get kyle to fully convert to rebellion (this could even parallel gregory who ig tried to get wendy to pick him over stan, thinking she was like-minded and liberal only for wendy to turn on him at the end lol)
2. kyle inevitably having to choose between the m4 and christophe
i think this would be like a kip drordy situation where the other boys dont want to hang out with christophe and, in turn, wind up avoiding kyle because christophe just won't leave his side.
i hc that, despite his cool facade, christophe is very socially awkward. not "shy" awkward but "says weird shit" type of awkward. He'd definitely put the other kids off. i'd actually go as far as to say he is homeschooled (which is why we never see him again after bigger longer and uncut safe for that one time in "two guys in a hot tub" and totally not because mattrey forgot about him) and so kyle, ever incapable of ignoring others misery, would try to get christophe to open up and socialize more even though christophe doesn't really care to make any more friends than kyle (yk typical extrovert/introvert trope)
Christophe also seems lonely tbh. Other than Gregory I don't think he has any friends, and even gregory only really talks to him for missions. Christophe seems to be grounded often too so he cant even hang out with gregory that much. As a result, i think kyle would probably be christophe's only real friend for a while.
eventually, christophe would become a little "clingy" towards kyle (tho he'll never admit it and it would be really hard to notice because christophe would act like he is putting up with kyle lol) and this could create tension between the m4 or even at a larger scale between kyle and the rest of his class.
kyle would definitely take his time to make a decision which i think would hurt christophe but ultimately kyle wouldn't drop him. he’d maybe force christophe to talk to the other boys so he isn't at kyles side ALL the time
some kids I think Christophe could hit it off with: TWEEK (both government skeptics, they would totally enable each other's paranoia), craig, jimmy, wendy and stan (with some initial tension tho).
3. kyle patching up christophe
so far i think i've mostly done angst and not so much hurt/comfort so im gonna go for the most literal example of the trope.
kyle has actually patched up a few kids before (like blanket) so i dont see why christophe would be the exception. with christophe's whole "mercenary" thing i think it's just bound to happen lol.
i also had this au where kyle is a nurse working the night shift and christophe keeps getting brought into the e.r. for very suspicious wounds that he refuses to elaborate on how he got. so yeah lots of kyle having to literally nurse christophe back to health and snarky comments here and there (dont get your hopes up this au will never see the light of day, but i thought i'd share it here anyways)
im gonna stop here because this is already wayy too long and im sorry i got carried away i just really love this ship lmfao theres also a few more things i wrote but decided to not include here as to not make this post any longer than it already is but if you want more hc's you can send me another ask! <3
out of all the main four I think ze mole respects Kyle the most because he’s the only one he hadn’t insulted without insulting the others as well and Kyle was the one who was there with him when mole was dying and like yeah Kyle was mad when mole died but that was because they were lost not because of ze mole so yeah (also I ship Kyle x mole)
