Side Plot Bunny
February 27th, 2023 21:17![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceruleanmorningsYeah I haven't really started writing the main fic and I'm already getting taken over by a side plot bunny. Great! Just what I need. I blame my thoroughness in setting up the relationships that I think I started shipping another pairing unintentionally haha. I definitely 100% should NOT write this until I'm way through my main fic. Otherwise things will get too messy.
So, what is this? Well, during the main, still unnamed Hyoga/Shun fic, I decided Hyoga and Shiryu would no doubt have a deep friendship through the entire aftermath. Mostly because they had to take care of Shun together. I think I drank too much of my own kool-aid or something, because I was then like, hmm, so there was a period of years where the two were super stressed over everything and leaned on each other (because there's literally no one else; no, Athena does not count or care, she's beyond human affairs like this). I wonder if they ever slept together? 🤔 Just out of pure stress relief. Hmmmmm, I wonder if they've decided to stop because Shiryu learned Shunrei's pregnant and Shun's getting better so he and Hyoga are becoming the destined pair. Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder what would happen if, say, neither of them wants to stop sleeping with each other despite their silent agreement after all. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I wonder if Shiryu just may have been a bit more invested emotionally than Hyoga and............you see what I'm saying when I say this'll really mess up the original fic's dynamics? But the idea just gnaws at me haha. I love messy relationships because human hearts are so complicated! And so, this side idea was born.
I'm gonna have a hell of a time writing Shiryu "correctly." But I do think most fics with him in it writes him terribly lackluster. They just give him a proper style of speech and make him kind of dumb. I mean, what? You can do so much with him! By the way I looked up the Shiryu/Hyoga tab on AO3 and, uh, there's like 10 fics total in 4 different languages lol. So one brave soul PER COUNTRY tried out this pair - that is hilariously sad. I really want to add to this just out of principle now.
And I've kept on adding more scenes with Nachi. I don't know why haha. He's becoming so smart and savvy it's endearing. I'm just giving all the comic-ish relief to him. One line I definitely thought of him is that he's a lousy Saint, but not a lousy anything else. He's doing okay for himself in his studies and he's one of the very few that actually figured out Shiryu and Hyoga had a thing (by pure accident, because Hyoga has absolute zero poker face). And Nachi's just like 'well fuck my life now that I know this for a fact!' He speaks his mind and does what he wants, and that's necessary sometimes in a fic. (Notice almost no one does both. Hyoga doesn't do either. Ikki doesn't talk but does what he wants. Shun is polite/positive all the time, does what he wants mostly, and same with Shiryu, mostly, minus the positive part and add in some sarcasm. Who would tell Ikki he deserves to be punched for abandoning his brother and then also actually punches him? Only Nachi.)
I just added a lot more depth to my timeline again. Yuck, better get to work!
So, what is this? Well, during the main, still unnamed Hyoga/Shun fic, I decided Hyoga and Shiryu would no doubt have a deep friendship through the entire aftermath. Mostly because they had to take care of Shun together. I think I drank too much of my own kool-aid or something, because I was then like, hmm, so there was a period of years where the two were super stressed over everything and leaned on each other (because there's literally no one else; no, Athena does not count or care, she's beyond human affairs like this). I wonder if they ever slept together? 🤔 Just out of pure stress relief. Hmmmmm, I wonder if they've decided to stop because Shiryu learned Shunrei's pregnant and Shun's getting better so he and Hyoga are becoming the destined pair. Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder what would happen if, say, neither of them wants to stop sleeping with each other despite their silent agreement after all. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I wonder if Shiryu just may have been a bit more invested emotionally than Hyoga and............you see what I'm saying when I say this'll really mess up the original fic's dynamics? But the idea just gnaws at me haha. I love messy relationships because human hearts are so complicated! And so, this side idea was born.
I'm gonna have a hell of a time writing Shiryu "correctly." But I do think most fics with him in it writes him terribly lackluster. They just give him a proper style of speech and make him kind of dumb. I mean, what? You can do so much with him! By the way I looked up the Shiryu/Hyoga tab on AO3 and, uh, there's like 10 fics total in 4 different languages lol. So one brave soul PER COUNTRY tried out this pair - that is hilariously sad. I really want to add to this just out of principle now.
And I've kept on adding more scenes with Nachi. I don't know why haha. He's becoming so smart and savvy it's endearing. I'm just giving all the comic-ish relief to him. One line I definitely thought of him is that he's a lousy Saint, but not a lousy anything else. He's doing okay for himself in his studies and he's one of the very few that actually figured out Shiryu and Hyoga had a thing (by pure accident, because Hyoga has absolute zero poker face). And Nachi's just like 'well fuck my life now that I know this for a fact!' He speaks his mind and does what he wants, and that's necessary sometimes in a fic. (Notice almost no one does both. Hyoga doesn't do either. Ikki doesn't talk but does what he wants. Shun is polite/positive all the time, does what he wants mostly, and same with Shiryu, mostly, minus the positive part and add in some sarcasm. Who would tell Ikki he deserves to be punched for abandoning his brother and then also actually punches him? Only Nachi.)
I just added a lot more depth to my timeline again. Yuck, better get to work!
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