I think I'm going to release my plans for Which Partner? (ChibaHaya, AssClass x Miraculous Ladybug crossover), a fic I haven't really touched since... 2019? It'll be a really long AN, but I want to give that fic closure :) And I did promise to do so back in 2021 (and forgot about it):
"And if I do ditch it, I’ll post the fic outline. I think it’s only fair to anyone who’s still following it… although idk who still is lmao."
I still have a lot of thoughts about WP but those will be in the super long AN lmao. I'm sorry for all the unfulfilled promises, and a sincere thank you to everyone who read it ♡♡♡
It's quite detailed. And when I say it's detailed I mean the thing is like 7k words long (to remain true to artistic integrity). You can skim through it if you want. It was a nice trip down the memory lane for me :D
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Giving closure to my whimsical teenage mess of an Assassination Classroom x Miraculous Ladybug ChibaHaya fic <3 Thank to everyone who ever read and supported this fic :D love you lots!
Hello! No pressure to answer, but out of curiosity, what were your plans for dealing with Terasaka in Which Partner? I've always been curious, cause I got the impression based on your posts that Chiba was going to do something different during the Island Arc. Once again, no pressure to answer, and sorry if this question bothers you!
Hi! Omg I'm actually so stoked that you sent a Which Partner ask in our year 2022, it makes me super happy that people still think of that fic! :DD Thank you for the ask!
Honestly at this point I'll just go with the full spoilers route XD Note that 14yo me was absolutely ridiculous with plot and was religiously following Miraculous Ladybug's way of plot and development (...which now that I look back, it's not the best, is it?). So uh keep that in mind :P (even though 14yo me thought the plot was a banger)
Island arc happens as usual, Chiba and Hayami fail the shot, half the class falls ill, they go to the hotel to confront Takaoka etc etc. Chiba and Hayami don't use their miraculouses to do stuff because technically Ladybug and Black Cat are only supposed to be active in Kunugigaoka and they don't want to jeapordize their identities.
Nagisa goes and fights Takaoka, Chiba tries to help him just like he did in canon (with no miraculous). Nagisa manages to win the fight although Kayano was close to exposing her tentacles to defend him (little NagiKae for my soul :3), and both Chiba and Hayami were considering risking their identities for Nagisa. It all seems calm until Kochou manages to fly his akuma to the island (the Kochou plot is even more convoluted the last I checked lol).
Takaoka is akumatized and is therefore back to his full strength. Takaoka seeks revenge on all of 3-E due to the humiliation he suffered. He goes crazy and starts destroying the cockpit and raises up debris to crush the students. Karasuma attempts to help, but alas he’s still recovering from the poison gas. A piece of debris crushes Chiba, Sugaya, Karasuma and probably a few others. They all try to lift the debris but they’re not strong enough. Meanwhile, the class is in a panic. Something needs to be done IMMEDIATELY. Chiba makes eye contact with Korosensei and knows what he has to do- he has to transform.
Major plot point 1: Chiba exposes his identity
Chiba transforms into Black Cat and uses Cataclysm to destroy the debris and save his class. Also uhh for plot’s sake akumatized Takaoka isn’t looking in his direction so the villains don’t know. Everybody is naturally shocked, and Hayami especially. Hayami almost goes through a crisis right there (her classmate and friend is her superhero best friend and crush) but forces herself to fight the akuma first. She sneaks off and transforms, her identity is not revealed.
At the scene, there are two guns (the ones ChibaHaya used against Gastro). The first is with Karasuma, the second with Chiba/ Black Cat. Takaoka grabs Karasuma’s gun and everyone is instantly alarmed. Guns haven’t appeared in akuma battles before. BC and LB duel with Takaoka for a bit. LB is fully aware BC is Chiba, but BC doesn’t know why LB is here (she probably comes up with some excuse later).
Takaoka is a particularly tough akuma bc 1) he’s naturally strong already, imagine being supernaturally strong 2) Kochou is exhausted from flying that akuma and isn’t able to control his akuma as much (Kochou might want miraculouses but does he want to kill innocents?). Korosensei and Karasuma can’t really help as well because their only gun was taken by Takaoka. Takaoka excels in close combat so their hope lies in BC’s gun.
In the middle of the fight, Takaoka shoots BC in the head and he falls down. Everybody is shocked.
Major plot point 2: Chiba dies (temporarily)
A hysterical LB grabs BC’s gun and tries to shoot the akumatized item, but misses. BC, losing consciousness, thinks LB looks like Hayami due to similar shooting pose (he forgets about this later).
Takaoka gleefully laughs about how he killed BC. LB is horrified and going through a silent panic attack in front of everyone. How can she save the day when Chiba just died in front of her and she missed THE shot again?! Everyone notices her turbulent emotional state (in particular Nagisa) and shout encouragements. This keeps her going. Korosensei shouts out advice, and Karasuma’s well enough to provide distractions. Meanwhile, BC just lies their silently in his pool of blood (lmao), his ring beeping away because he used his Cataclysm earlier.
LB goes all bloodlust and fights against Takaoka. She summons her Lucky Charm, which gives her a pistol (the type that Hayami is skilled at using). LB finally shoots the akumatized item and defeats Takaoka. LB is drained as hell and once she cleanses the akuma, she immediately rushes to BC. The rest of the class hurriedly restrain Takaoka before checking on BC / Chiba.
There’s an emotional scene in which LB breaks down in front of an unmoving BC (note that she lets her guard down bc she’s in front of her friends and classmates, she probably wouldn’t do that if they were strangers). LB focuses on using Miraculous Ladybug to heal him, which miraculously works!! BC is alive, but just barely. BC is about to transform back, which Hayami doesn’t mind, but LB isn’t supposed to know. BC shakingly stands up and claims he’s fine, and he and LB part ways. LB hurries away and comes back as Hayami. Once LB leaves the scene, BC immediately collapses and transforms back (he’s trying to be strong in front of LB).
Everybody’s gathered around a weak Chiba. Plagg used his and his owner’s energy, and combined with LB’s powers, they managed to save Chiba’s life, but now Plagg and Chiba are both completely exhausted. Plagg trusts Hayami to take care of him and Chiba and asks her to feed him cheese. Of course, it’s because Plagg knows she’s Ladybug, but it also makes sense to everybody else because she’s Chiba’s best friend.
So the class now knows Chiba is BC and he Risked It All For Them. Hayami doesn’t know what to do because BC doesn’t know LB knows, plus she would reveal herself if she tells him he knows. So Hayami keeps it all to herself.
This is the beginning of Hayami’s trauma and long-lasting guilt complex in true MLB Chat Blanc fashion (🤡). After the fight, Hayami’s in a daze. She sends Tikki to be with Chiba so she can help him regain energy faster with her healing powers. Karasuma immediately takes Korosensei (who’s in his ultimate defence form) to try and kill him, so the only adult who knows what she’s going through can’t comfort her. Hayami is isolated (damn, I was so mean to her 😭) and terrified from earlier events. To make things worse, during her Miraculous Ladybug earlier, Hayami focused so much on BC that she didn’t heal herself, so Hayami now has a myriad of bruises and scratches on her body (that would usually be healed post-fight).
Everyone’s exhausted, so they sleep. Hayami can’t sleep. She goes to the hotel washroom and finds Irina there. We get an Irina-Hayami scene that is actually quite precious to my heart. Irina doesn’t question Hayami’s wounds (remember she’s playing the piano downstairs during the whole fight) and takes care of them. Like Hayami, Irina can’t sleep. Hayami can’t fully tell Irina what happened but she does confide in her a bit. (I forgot whether I make Karasuma and Irina realize their identities but I think I planned to make it ambiguous at this stage)
On a lighter note, people start debating whether to ship BC with LB or Hayami lmao, and Yada knows of Hayami’s crush on BC aka. Chiba. Chiba accidentally overhears Yada saying to Hayami “I didn’t know who would be better for you, him (BC) or Chiba..” and Chiba thinks his crush Hayami likes someone else lmao (very MLB bs of me, I know).
Later, LB starts going through a self sacrificing arc during akuma fights bc of Island arc events and BC is having NONE of it. They address the self sacrificing and work together instead of throwing themselves out to save the other.
Chiba also made a great risk bc his entire class knows his identity and they can’t be akumatized. Except in my fic outline, a ton of them do get akumatized anyway and they never reveal BC is Chiba lol (there are a lot of plot holes).
Also according to my notes, I was planting foreshadowing as early as Ch 2. I think Island arc was one of the main plot points I came up with initially? Also I forgot where I put the foreshadowing so I had to reread lmao. Oh no the cringe XD
Chapter 2: Plagg scowled. "I'm not like you, lucky bug. I bring bad luck. Sometimes, my holders just…" Plagg choked a bit. "You know, die. That's why… that's why I can't get too attached to them."
Chapter 5: It is, Plagg agreed mentally, green eyes trained on the screen as he gobbled down the last bits of cheese. A bitter feeling stabbed him through his chest, as he remembered the past holders he had looked after, the countless Black Cats vowing to protect their Ladybug with their life-
Chapter 9: But, Plagg wasn't as shallow as he seemed. He was concerned, because in the history of the duos of ladybug and cat miraculous holders, there had to be one that was more self-sacrificing. That was usually the cat, being madly in love with the ladybug. Sometimes, they even died to save their love's life. But this time, it was Ladybug who liked Black Cat. The entire scenario was flipped over.
So yeah lol, Island Arc supposedly marks the midpoint of the romcom saga my 14yo self was dead set on. Thanks again so much for the ask and for an opportunity for to finally talk about Island Arc spoilers :DD
And ohh it’s not a bother at all! I had a blast trying to remember what I wanted to do lol (ahh, nostalgia..) <3
So, with the discourse and you change of view on HayaChi dynamics, how do you feel about Which Partner? Did that spoil your interest in this story? Is it a "It was fun while it lasted but I'm not coming back to it"? "I would like to come back to it but there's just too many things to write first"? (Basically, consider this ask a free thought dumping coupon, haha)
Hi Green 💚💚 thanks for dropping by! :DD
To be honest, the discourse didn’t affect my motivation to make HayaChi content hahah (it kinda propelled me to write out of spite tho hah). But yes, it’s about time I talk about Which Partner lol.
I still love Which Partner. It’s through that fic that I made many of my tumblr friends <33 and the fic itself is just really important to me.
BUT-
I don’t really... agree with the fic anymore. At least, not the 100k ish words I posted. Not because it’s bad, per se, even though it does have mildly problematic elements that I picked up from Miraculous Ladybug (and my immature view of romance). It’s a high school classmates to friends to lovers, romantic comedy, fantasy/action fic. It’s exactly something my 2018 self would love and write. But not what my 2021 self would enjoy enough to finish the entirety of the fic (since it’s 1/3 done now).
It’s not an issue with the ship or the fandoms, I just kinda grew out of shipping in general lol. (If anything, I’m growing more attached to HayaChi because it’s different from the fics I usually ship and they work well platonically lol.)
Which Partner’s writing style is the fluffy romcom blushy UwU style that I’ve used so many times that it’s practically muscle memory, and there’s nothing wrong with that style. It’s just not what I would want to write now. It’s not something I identify with now. And yes, I grew out of that style and that attitude towards romance, so my view on the HayaChi naturally dynamics changed.
So, what am I going to do with Which Partner?
Upon rereading the fic, I’ve realised that I currently view WP! HayaChi very, very differently from canon HayaChi. I can separate WP! HayaChi from canon HayaChi and continue with it merrily, but it’s not going to be how I would write canon HayaChi lmao.
... it would be fun to incorporate character + relationship growth in WP according to how I feel now, but the tone and continuity of WP is so established that changing it suddenly would feel... weird. And it won’t align with the original vision or sth.
But despite this whole relationship mumbo jumbo, I have some scenes that I desperately want to write even now. I’m just tired of the build up and the mutual pining.
And I’ll be frank: the fic has no plot. None. I tried making lore but it just doesn’t fit. The only plot is the love square. Who’s Kochou? A poorly written one dimensional villain with only a name to his character. (jk)
SO I think I’ll at least write the scenes I want to write. I’ll be skipping character arcs and plot points, so it won’t have as much of an impact as it should, but I sure as hell am not gonna ditch a fic without writing the scenes I started the fic for lol.
And if I do ditch it, I’ll post the fic outline. I think it’s only fair to anyone who’s still following it... although idk who still is lmao.
I’ll do something about it later when I have time lol. Maybe I’ll continue but with a drastic change. Maybe I’ll continue like how I wanted to in the beginning. Maybe I’ll just post the scenes I want to write. Maybe my views will have changed by the time I’m free. I don’t know.
But this is what I’ve got now. And if you’re reading this, thanks for reading up till now <33
Hey so I just recently read your "Which partner?" au on AO3 and I really enjoy and like it a lot. (I found your tumblr by total accident btw so yeah) While scrolling through your tumblr page, I notice that you have updated the story on fanfiction. net. I want to ask if you will ever update the story on AO3 since fanfiction. net is blocked in my country and I really would like to read more of your works. (No pressure though, it's fine if you don't want to)
Hi! Glad that you enjoyed reading Which Partner! Sorry I haven’t really been updating, and yeah I’ll post the chapters to ao3! UwU Sorry I haven’t done so before aha
In Which Partner? I can imagine that since Korosensei canonly had done stuff that disturb the peace of the town (like a weird giant yellow octopus like thing was seen by multiple people,him going stores to buy things) and people and police complaining at LadyBlog and asks the heroes to investigate about it. So LB and BC finally talk to him and telling him why they have to talk to him. Sensei gets worried and asks if they're mad and they pull the "I'm not mad,just disappointed" on him. Opinion?
Oooh! Interesting ask, thank you anon UwU
I can see this happening because Korosensei does act like that in AssClass canon, and it would be reasonable for people in the Which Partner universe to ask the superheroes for help.
A few things to note:
1. Korosensei knows both of their identities
2. Hayami knows Korosensei knows her identity as Ladybug
3. Chiba knows Korosensei knows his identity as Black Cat
4. Ladybug and Black Cat do not know each other’s identities
Hence, they’ll act like they don’t know Korosensei personally. I think them talking to Korosensei as superheroes is pretty reasonable since they’ll want to maintain peace in Kunugigaoka (they also suspected Korosensei might be affiliated with Kochou but they trust their teacher now). And it would seem suspicious if the superheroes decided let it slide just because Korosensei is their teacher (which no one else knows).
However, I don’t think either of them will pull the “I’m not mad, just disappointed” because that feels like a way an adult would reprimand a child. Chiba and Hayami are serious kids who have respect for practically everyone, especially their teacher. I feel they would be the type of people to respect seniors even if they suck. Sure, they may disapprove of something, but they won’t act like they’re better.
They’ll probably tell Korosensei to stop acting so suspiciously and maybe mildly threaten him as superheroes (like, just for show, since Chiba and Hayami trust Korosensei). And Korosensei would definitely feel bad that he’d been a “bother” to his students.
