Yes OFC I do!! Bc tbh I feel like with any Yuu x Twst Boy Aus having them be a childhood friends changes their character arc so I had to keep that in mind. And for Leona, I feel some sort of tragedy would HAVE to happen to keep consistent with the moody Lion we know. ART HERE!! (for anyone who didn't see)
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- As Yuu and Leona get closer, bc of their class difference everyone at the palace is wary about them being so close to begin with.
- Kifaji allows it eventually but he was very wary at first, the King however doesn't like it at all.
- Leona is becoming wayyy too emotionally attached and codependent with Yuu as they get older and stay close friends. It's implied (form what we know in canon) Leona didn't have many friends his age.
- Yuu was raised by palace servants and like their guardians eventually work in the palace too as a servant which cements their VERY different paths in life.
- A few years pass Leona is 12 and Yuu is like 11. Leona (who still has the dream of being king one day) proudly and spitefully exclaims to their haters that he's just going to change things when he becomes king, and maybe even "jokes" to marry Yuu when they're adults so no one can keep them apart.
- Needless to say his dad, the king, is NOT cool with this attitude change of his and think that this type of relationship while also not proper, would be distracting to Leona and ofc arranged marriages are preferred.
- I can see Leona giving Yuu some royal jewelry of his, like a friendship bracelet, thinking nothing of it bc material things mean little to him.
- Someone reports it missing and Yuu gets blamed, and its the perfect excuse to get rid of the "issue." And Yuu and get their dads get banned from the palace.
- When Leona finds out they're gonna be separated he...flips out and becomes uncontrollable. So being crafty, his father calls off the banning of Yuu from the palace and acts as if everything is okay. Instead he waits until Leona is asleep to send Yuu away.
- Cue one last cute bestie sleepover and Leona thinking everything's fine, as long as he has Yuu.
- After they are forced to leave him, Leona is heartbroken. And I this is when Leona starts to act more like the "Leona" we see today. He grows more detached and when Cheka is born when he turns 15 and everything else, he feels suffocated. He grows depressed at home , which pushes him to enroll at NRC
- They don't see each other again until they are both at NRC. Being magicless it takes some sorta miracle for Yuu to be at NRC. Leona is a bitter still bc just as in love with them as he once was. Now, even more so, since its not just puppy love anymore.
- But, Leona is Leona and he takes things hard, he sees their absence in his adolescent life as a betrayal still even if logically he knows it wasn't their fault. He still feels like Yuu, like everyone else in his life, has abandoned him in a way.
- And YEAH, we know it's not like Yuu had a choice and they DIDN'T WANT to leave him so they probably get annoyed with him back for being so cold and to how he acts now.
- It would take a while for them to get along bc Yuu is just soooo tied to his past and childhood in this scenario. So now, its like a big open wound walking around NRC of his. Everytime he sees them he feels like that dumb overly-sensitive lil cub again and he HATES IT. But, he could never hate them.
- BASICALLY THE BIG BIG YEARNING. OOF THE YEARNING HITS DIFFFFFFERENT IN AUS LIKE THIS ISTG. AAAAAAAAAAAAAa