Can’t Stay Away’s Fic Rec Friday #2 (04.28.23) - Every Sunset by @theeblackmedusa
Title: Every Sunset (ao3) | every sunset (Tumblr)
Author(s): theeblackmedusa (ao3) | @theeblackmedusa (Tumblr)
Fandom(s): Black Panther Wakanda Forever
Pairing/Ship(s): Attoye (Okoye x Attuma)
Type: College AU
Rating: Mature
Status: Unfinished
Updated: 04.12.23
Summary: every summer has a story.
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Why I Love It: I’ve said this before, but AU’s are my absolute favorite. They give the writer so much room to play. College AUs are my new favorite flavor of alternate universe fics. There’s the playfulness (and naivete) of youth to play with and the possibilities are endless. Here, Attuma is smitten, being himself, indifferent to the gaggle of young women vying for his attention when a certain hard-to-get Okoye is doing everything she can to resist his charms. The thing is, he’s such a sweetheart as written here and Okoye can sense this. But some nugget of a distorted truth about Attuma’s playboy nature has her hesitant to trust him. It’s such a cute dance they’re doing around one another, especially because, despite herself, the more she gets to know him, the more she likes what she discovers. And I just love reading their interactions with one another. Written so well it feels like the writer is penning episodics for a rom com TV series we'd run to catch after school ala those CW joints some of us were obsessed with in our youth back when it was the WB, black af and worth tuning in. Each chapter is an episode that pushes our favorites toward each other only to yank them back apart again. We're being edged but it's so much fun!
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every sunset