ANONYMOUS ASKED:
i really like mwot and was wondering, do you wanna talk/loredump/etc about mwot during this blessed month of pride? (if not that's totally cool!!! i really like the au and am curious about it!)
REPLY:
YES!!!!
umineko spoilers below and LONG POST KSDJDKSKD i really went infodumping......you got me right in an infodumping mood....
also im being very casual in this post so if something is like weird or vague its probably because i got tired of thinking about it and skipped ahead. SKJDSJD
mwot is an umi au and its very gay and very trans because i, a gay trans, decided it was TIME to INDULGE
LIKE A MOUNTAIN WIND FALLING ON OAK TREES also known as MWOT, MW/OT, Mountain Wind + Oak Trees, MW+OT, or literally any combination of its parts, is an eva/natsuhi au, set in a vague modern big city setting
https://rontra.tumblr.com/tagged/mountain-wind-oak-trees
itâs a comedy, mostly? it has elements of backstory transphobia and  stuff like that but thatâs not really the story i want to tell with it, so  i donât go too deeply into it in the main fic. itâs mostly comedy and Self Care: The  Story (once these nerds get around to acknowledging that self care is  good, anyway!!!!) Â
Eva is 20, nb lesbian (though she doesnt know half of it to begin with). generally a bitchard at the beginning but also deeply craving that Validation. Invested in making the fic harder to write due to pronoun shenanigans (shoutout to the lengthy section of intimate emotional scenes that uses no pronouns at all for eva but is narrated by them in 3rd person)
Natsuhi is like 21 i guess because im a sucker for her having like an annoying 1-3 years on eva bc eva would get mad about it. Also sheâs trans, gray-ace, hopeless romantic, generally full of âquickly raising your eyebrows and looking away while sipping your drink and thinking Yikesâ energy. weaponizes indifference but is no stranger to harder means. sheâs a smart cookie
Sayo is also 20, gender clown car living her best life. Presents differently depending on mood and whim
krauss is like 22 or whatever. for housekeepingâs sake, rosa and rudolf are too young to matter (8 and 10, or something like that). dont even worry about it
honestly the weirdest part of the au is eva and sayo being the same age
also this au is the origin point of me & my friends using akikaze as natâs maiden name. the more you know!
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USHIROMIYA GOLD dishes up that yellow metal like you wouldnât believe. led by kinzo whos so fuckin good at sniffing out that sweet sweet gold people are half convinced the man has psychic powers. Any piece of land heâs got his eyes on, he WILL get his hands on, no matter who owns it right now.
the land kinzo wants At The Moment is owned by the AKIKAZE FAMILY who have been notably on the decline recently. theyâre in the economic shithole so this land is basically all theyâve got right now, so when kinzo wants it and it suddenly Has Value, theyâre like âoh, shit,
anyway the deal basically shakes out that like, he gets the land and all the gold that may or may not be in it. he offers his eldest son in exchange for this land, to marry their daughter: in the bonds of marriage graciously ensuring a part of the winnings will spill over on them, while keeping them under his control without money coming into the picture.
Everythingâs working out great and coming up kinzo. the deal is closed and everyoneâs happy (i guess). until ONE DAY, just a few narrow weeks before the akikaze girl is set to move in with the ushiromiyas,
KINZOS
OLDEST
SON
DISAPPEARS
!!!!!
Krauss dislikes being told what to do, and his fatherâs ideals never lined up with his own. He thinks this entire thing is sort of fucked up and canât live under his dadâs thumb anymore. That's why, immediately following Kinzoâs agreement with the Akikaze family, Krauss disappears. Heâs just kinda left for greener pastures, to unfold his own life and pursue his own interests independent of the Ushiromiya name. He leaves behind a letter explaining it & basically he forfeits both name and inheritance, and Kinzoâs incredible deal is suddenly in jeopardy.....
obviously this is kinzo though, and all of his solutions are like, 20 times more complicated than they have to be? heâs DETERMINED to have this land so heâs like âi need an eldest son. shit rudolf is only like 9. fuck. well okay i have an eldest daughter with a deeply complicated need for validation and success entirely driven by her overall neglect at my handsâ and the rest. as they say. is history (???)
Ushiromiya Eva always saw Krauss as unworthy of the inheritance, and to her, his disappearance confirms this. She grew up always being made to feel inferior to her older brother, usually being ignored in favor of him, and it's bred a complex need for validation in her. Her values and strengths are more like Kinzoâs than her brotherâs, and Kinzo recognizes this in the wake of Kraussâ disappearance.
basically he concocts this really wild scheme where eva has to pretend to be his oldest son and marry this girl or whatever so he can seal this stupid gold deal and sheâs like âwell lol if i get to be family heirâ and hes like âyes thatâs what im sayingâ and shes like âawesome letâs do itâ
all of the servants are in on it too of course. specifically kinzo enlists SAYO who works there as normal staff and isnât otherwise tangled into this familyâs mess in any way whatsoever. sheâs just here to serve tea and looks. anyway heâs like âyou work on this with eva--i mean evan, my son, you must have misheard--and eva you have to listen to whatever yasuda saysâ and eva is like âthat last part will not be frustrating for me at allâ.
Yasuda as reigning Household Gender Presentation Expert is like âi think i just got orders from the master to bully eva?â and eva is like âi wish i could fire you but my dad just banned me from doing thatâ and then gradually...over the course of the project......they become....friends.........
(the au is tagged eva & sayo for a reason. they become FRIENDS!!)
mostly its just various combinations of shkanon dunking on eva and its all VERY good.
during all these shenanigans we make some startling realizations like âgender euphoria is a hell of a drugâ and stuff, which is extremely harrowing for everyone (note: not for everyone. just for eva, who makes 10,000 realizations every day, and should not have been counted.)
(ok sidenote did anyone else put on their first binder & go like âhmmm. i live here nowâ because. mood. im projecting entirely into this fic)
Gender Clown Car yasuda (currently as lion) is like âyou know thereâs like more than 2 gendersâ and evaâs like âyou fucking wehatâ.
i also make a REALLY INVOLVED JOKE ABOUT CASTIGLIONI GOLD, THE RIVAL COMPANY, and how BEATRICEâS KID LOOKS A LOT LIKE LION, and EVERYONE thinks this is all VERY funny
(i would like to see it. also kinzo owes beatrice castiglioni $20 and sheâs never let him forget it.)
now wrapped up in this stupid impostor scheme AND full of big wild nonbinary energy AND!! WITH AN INFURIATING NEW FRIEND!! IN THE STAFF!!! this one funky ushiromiya is all ready to get in on an arranged marriage or whatever. provided NO ONE EVER FINDS OUT that theyâre faking it and replacing the Actual Heir, which would no doubt ruin the scheme AND bring kinzoâs wrath on everybody involved, of course.
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AKIKAZE NATSUHI IS READY TO PUNCH HER FIANCE IN THE THROAT IF HE EVEN LOOKS AT HER but she understands whatâs happening here. she knows she didnât have a say in this from the very beginning. that the deal was sealed for her as soon as the name âushiromiyaâ was said. she knows her family married her off quick in a bid to get rid of her. if sheâs humiliated by this ordeal, she is far too proud to show it. she packs her bags and walks into the mansion with her head held high........and immediately has this exchange with her fiance
and this one
so thatâs kind of the energy weâre going for with these two.
(natsuhiâs line in the second cap was going to be removed for being Way Too Intense, but everyone i talked to said it was too hot to cut, so i decided to indulge us all. blame the lesbians)
they IMMEDIATELY donât get along but they kinda agree to like, mind their business, since neither of them are interested in playing house here. if they can get the wedding to go off without a hitch they can basically go back to never talking to each other again.
natsuhiâs entire angle here is essentially: her family was not that good, and this family likely wonât be better, BUT here she has a chance to build something new for herself. sheâll be out of her parentsâ house. She needs this deal to stay for her own sake, but she has to get out ahead of her husband and set up a dynamic that favors her. when she meets evan she essentially gauges the kind of person sheâs dealing with and picks her approach accordingly: this is not a soft man, and she has to be hard in turn to avoid being steamrolled.
and its VERY hot
anyway some stuff happens and it eventually they both sorta get each otherâs secrets. eva is not the firstborn son and natsuhi is not the card kinzo thought he was pulling from her familyâs hand and theyre both toast if word hits the public. directly after the wedding they establish a tense alliance of keeping each othersâ secrets....
and then they.....fall...in l
thereâs some fun tensions and realizations. eva is like âso im quickly catching on that no praise i ever received from dad was on my own merit and heâs kind of a dirtbag all around and his validation is kind of not worth itâ and nat is like âword our parents are chainsâ & they run kinzo over with the down w cis bus. itâs fine. they get postcards from krauss sometimes. he has a motorbike now.
DID I MENTION THE PRACTICE KISSING
BC THEY HAVE TO PRACTICE! FOR THE!! PUBLIC WEDDING!!!!
and thats mwot i guess. itâs my au where natsuhiâs accent color is red and some other stuff happens too. happy pride month
