“Dude, I know you’re trying to appeal to my bro graces right now but I’ll warn you I’m already bound to Adrien in holy fratrimony. I can’t be bros with another bro,” Nino’s playful tone returned as he jested. “Who said your number of bros can only be limited to one?” Chat restored the sarcastic remark. “It’s like cheating on him, yo. I can’t do that to Adrien, even if you are a really cool superhero.” Bro, Chat inwardly sniffled.
Excerpt from: The Countdown to Christmas (Chapter 3: Do You Like Me?)
My whole fic was originally supposed to be just fluff and comedy but then I decided to angst so a lot changes were made.
In my jumbled outline (which I am too ashamed to post on here), the whole “holy fratrimony” line was part of Alya and Nino bickering. It was supposed to be the day after Adrien revealed himself to Marinette. They had awkward tension between them but nothing to too drastic (*looks at Chapter 4 and sweats because it is kinda drastic*).
But as I was writing beginnings of Chapter 4, having them be chipper and partially ignorant didn’t feel right.
Eventually, I scrapped the idea of having Alya and Nino bicker but I was determined to have that line in my fic. As I was writing chapter 3, I remembered that Chat had to lead Nino to the set and boom. This was born.
The rest of that whole scene came partly from a song called “Bromance” by Ryan Higa and crew. (great song embodies Nino and Adrien’s friendship in my head) *starts picturing Nino and Chat doing the iconic “I’m flying Jack” scene from Titanic <3*
And the other half of the song came from me observing the way my male friends speak to one another.
Also because I love writing Nino being a dudebro. <3
Hope you could make sense of all this XD Or at the very least, I hope this was fun to read :)
Thanks so much for the ask :D
Send me an excerpt and I’ll tell you what was going on behind the scenes.