`·ଓ⁾⁾ heyoyo !!
* -» spoiler rant ahead
funny little thing I just thought about. Thrift store au. It's like post-elimination and Evan goes back to his normal life. He takes up a job at a local thrift store that started hiring for the season. One day he's working and he notices like an influx of clothes from a specific donator and he doesn't think much of it. That is UNTIL he notices a new shopper browsing the store and slowly but surely becoming a regular and he starts to recognize that it's karmen! He can't find it in him to really talk to her at first because of many reasons. (What if she forgot about the whole VR event? What if she doesn't want to remember it anymore? What if their bond is actually not what Evan had thought it was? What if he was just overdoing it with his thoughts of longing for the girl who taught him to have faith within himself?)
He continues on with this thought pattern for days until one time he's hanging clothes on the rack. Karmen casually walks over towards his aisle and they're in the same space until they do the thing where their fingers touch as they're reaching for the same item. Evan frantically apologizes and Karmen is just like " it's fine, no worri- " and then the moment of realization happens that they recognize each other fully
and then bam, relationship starts to redevelop again. Evan constantly inquiring about how everything went in the VR world. Karmen constantly explaining it and over time they start to learn more about each other and even start working at the same thrift shop together and it's just HAIWVEOFHEKWJEKBEF














