pairing: frat boy!satoru gojo x digimon nerd!reader
summary: Party animal, star player of Jujutsu Tech's men's soccer team, and president of Alpha Theta Satoru Gojo has a secret he guards with all five security cards—he's a Digimon nerd. So, what happens when his secret gets found out by the pretty girl who sits next to him in Electromagnetism III?
or, you catch Satoru Gojo at a DTCG tournament.
tags: fratjo, nerdjo, university au, friends to lovers, forced proximity, fluff, gojo!pov. teaser wc: 380 ( + projected 10k)
a/n: to explain the title, XROS is pronounced "cross" and is in reference to Digimon XROS Wars, the seventh season of the Digimon anime. in XROS, Wizardmon casts a shapeshifting spell on the characters, which is meant to mirror how gojo "shapeshifts" in this fic between his frat persona and his true self
this'll just be a oneshot pls don't ask me for more after this it physically hurts to write fratjo (bc i only want nerdjo) but it should end up about 10k. if you want to be tagged for this lmk ^^ anyway enjoy this very short teaser!
Everyone knows that Satoru Gojo is completely unavailable on Saturday nights.
Well, not everyone—the #1 public university in the country is far too big for anyone to be recognizable to the entire student body—, but enough people know that if you need the president of Alpha Theta on a Saturday night, you’re better off waiting until he returns the following morning than trying to find him.
Now, why, you might ask, is Satoru Gojo missing-in-action on Saturday nights?
. . .
Well, honestly, no one really knows, but he’s so in-demand that rumors pop up to explain his weekly absence from the frat house anyway.
One rumor says that he has a secret sugar mama in the next city over and that he’s busy warming her bed for cash he doesn’t need. He’s got enough of a playboy persona that it makes sense to most people that he’d find a way to capitalize off all the sex he oozes, but nobody can say for sure that he’s sugarbabying when he’s gone because he doesn’t seem to ever come back with hickies on his neck or scratch marks on his shoulders.
Another rumor says that he’s at weekly dinners with his parents to help prepare him to take over the family business. A little more likely considering he’s the heir-apparent to Gojo Enterprises, but anyone close to him knows well enough just how much he despises his family and that he wouldn’t ever spend time with them on that frequent of a basis if he could help it, so there goes that theory.
A different rumor says he’s got a terminal illness that he needs to go to a specific hospital that’s hours away to treat. He brings a too-full backpack with him every time he leaves the frat house and doesn’t ever let anyone else touch it, so it could be a bunch of medical equipment that he doesn’t want people messing with, right?
Honestly, Satoru’s heard it all, and while he doesn’t quite appreciate people assuming he’s either selling sex, working for corporate devils, or battling stage four pancreatic cancer, he wouldn’t ever disprove any of the rumors.
As long as none of them are the actual truth, he couldn’t care less about whatever rumors people make up about his weekly adventures.
if you'd like more nerdjo, check out my nerdjo longfic!
part one of XROS MY HEART here!
i changed the title of nerds do it better because it's been bothering me for fucking months that it wasn't a digimon reference when literally everything else in this fic is a digimon reference and i just couldn't take it anymore
new title is The Fanboy Nerd and The Princess which is in reference to several things:
gojo calling the reader "princess" (which is already a digimon reference)
the reader calling gojo "nerd"
the 4-star case in chapter 19 digimon story: cyber sleuth where Fanboy Nerd commissions the player for help collecting the stamps to get a signed CD from Princess
the ending of this fic (which i'm obviously not going to spoil but the title is related to this)
this new title also just suits the fic better imo, it reads like a fairy tale, which ties back to gojo's favorite digimon being cendrillmon (whose design and story are based off of cinderella)
chapter 8 next week, probably, but it's my birthday on the 14th so i might also not get it out in time because of that. obviously is going to be very digimon reference-heavy, but this fic is basically just a digimon encyclopedia at this point so i don't know how you would've expected any different. also very long, should end up 35k words or so (and chapters will only continue to get longer and longer from this point forward)
i love how there's literally only one scene in jjk where it's implied gojo is a digimon fan and everyone just agrees that he's a huge nerd about it. i've been having the time of my life writing digimon fan!nerdjo like i'm literally so obsessed with him having a vital bracelet and caring about his crest assignment and collecting memory markers OTL
at first i was rly unsure about how much digimon info to put in nerds do it better because like i thought it would've been hard to understand if you didn't have any prior knowledge but i'm glad i just went for it because i do really love writing him like this and i feel like it's my duty to portray digimon accurately
i'm getting too attached to the copper color my hair is rn between bleaches. PLEASE TELL ME TO GO THROUGH WITH BLEACHING IT AGAIN SO I CAN DYE IT PINK!!!!!!
chapter 8 is up on ao3 right now, but i'm gonna take a short break before posting it here bc formatting the references took me literal hours and i'm very tired. sorry for taking so long to write this, but it is VERY long, so please don't be too mad at me >.> but it's 70k words, so have so much fun!
fair warning tho, i did cry writing a lot of this chapter, so feel free to take breaks as necessary
