GDI
I know I said I’d swear off LL and thinking about anything remotely associated with it, but lo and behold, I’m here sitting at a net cafe talking about random headcanons with @athyrabunlord. -flips table!
There’s just something that tickles me about a Genderbent AU in which:
1. Ayase Ellis is a university professor, who is also a single father to a seven year old Mari. He is tasked to teach in Japan after his year-long sabbatical to mourn his late wife. Though stern and less happy than before, he absolutely adores his crazy little daughter, who... has him wrapped around her tiny pinkie. He tries very hard to be both mom and dad to the little girl, but she always--always-- outsmarts him somehow. He is perpetually worried that Mari is masking her own grief of losing her mom by pretending to be happy-go-lucky all the time. In reality, Mari is just worried about her papa so she tries very hard to be his little beam of sunshine everyday.
2. Nishikino Sonoda Umi is a college dean also readjusting her life. A mom of two and recently divorced, she is still reeling from her failed relationship with her ex-husband and trying her darn hardest to cope with the fact that she only has custody of one of her daughters. Always tired and stressed, she finds comfort in re-establishing her relationship with her oldest friends, Honou and Kotori, who she had inadvertently neglected during the last few years due to her strained marriage. Slowly, she is recovering, but she hopes that her firstborn, Kanan, is faring better as well. The little girl always looks forward to seeing her little sister, the six-year-old Riko, twice a month when the younger girl is allowed to stay with them for a weekend.
3. Yazawa Nico and Nozomi are the university favorites. They are always on the top profs list because of their shenanigans. These two have known Umi for a long time, almost as long as the latter’s career in the university, and have supported her in trying to patch things up with Macky, to no avail. Now, when they’re not teaching nonsense and shit during their classes, they look after Kanan and Riko whenever Umi needs babysitters. The two Nishikino girls adore playing with the Yazawa’s five-year-old, Yoshiko Yohane.
4. Nishikino Macky is Umi’s ex-husband. He has always been a person of conflicts. He has been forced to make very difficult decisions in his life, such as choosing between his passion for music and his family’s expectations, as well as his sexual orientation. Macky is gay, but he had tried his best to fit in a heterosexual world, marrying Umi out of genuine affections and respect. However, it affected him so profoundly inside that even with two beautiful children, he decided to dissolve the marriage. He cares for Riko the best he could, but being the head surgeon in his family’s hospital, he has very little time for his youngest daughter. He still strives to be a present father for both girls though, as much as he could.
5. Uh... KotoHono is married of course, with a tiny Yosoro You running around. Nothing about RinPana has been decided yet.