Give Meaning to the Tears

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Hi! I go by 64 or 64K. My pronouns are he/him. I'm a writer, occasional musician, and I do a bit of art here and there!

new Ao3 here and old Ao3 here. I write Danganronpa (mostly Komahina) on my new Ao3 and have Professor Layton and Fullmetal Alchemist stories on the old one (mostly Clive Dove and Clive/Flora for PL and Kimblee/Envy for FMA)

Main fandoms and interests:

Professor Layton, especially Clive Dove, Flora Reinhold, and the Clora ship

The Hundred Line

Danganronpa: especially Komaeda, Hinata, and the Komahina ship. Other favourite ships include (but are not limited to) Mahiyoko, Tsumioda, and Kiibouma

The World Ends With You, especially Joshua Kiryu

Precure, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, Madoka Magica, and other mahou shoujo

Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and Rune Factory

My own OCs

Crystar and Crymachina

Visual novels in general, especially yuri VNs

Writing (I never shut up about it)

Yuri stuff in general!

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LAFF

komahina as parents short multichapter

island mode oneshots

body swap short multichapter

kmhn week short multichapter

kamukomahina "the kamukura project failed" AU

I'd never thought about this kind of situation before, but I saw this ask right before I went to sleep and got so many ideas that I couldn't fall asleep dfjkhfd thank you for the really interesting prompt!! I almost want to write a fic about this now, but I'll just write out my initial ideas here! Sorry, this is really long...

My first thought was that the body swap would happen due to the NWP. Maybe Hinata and Komaeda would re-enter the program together for some reason, but when trying to exit, there's an error and they exit with swapped consciousnesses. Because of whatever happened, they can't go right back in and re-switch, they have to fix the program first, which for plot reasons will take some time and be difficult...

I feel like a really juicy time for this to happen is when they are developing feelings for each other but aren't together yet and haven't explicitly revealed their feelings. They've been growing more and more attracted to each other and have been fantasizing in secret, and suddenly, here they are; they can and could see everything about each other that they've wanted to. But it's just not the same--it wouldn't be right to look closely at each other's bodies without permission! and more than that, each other's minds and understanding each other is one of the most important things to their relationship and what attracts them to each other as well. So there's a lot of guilt for both of them of "having something that isn't theirs" and a lot of longing/anxiety to return to normal since their previous relationship dynamic is pretty upended now.

I think one of the most interesting things that will happen is that now, Hinata is going to have the dementia and cancer. This is going to change things a lot for everyone and make things very difficult, as Hinata is one of the island's leaders and normally is always pushing himself. But now, he is way weaker and doesn't have the stamina to push himself in the same way as before, nor does he have years of coping and strategies to deal with dementia symptoms the way Komaeda has. Not only that, but I think that he's going to realize that if he does push himself like normal, if he and Komaeda manage to switch back, then he's going to have made Komaeda's body even sicker, so it's going to force him to try to take it a bit easier. But he also can't take it easy because he needs to figure out how to switch back, plus all his normal responsibilities don't just go away. Lots of guilt and anxiety opportunities.

Komaeda meanwhile has switched into a body that is a lot healthier and stronger than he's used to, and he now doesn't have his illnesses (although I think his brain is still kind of the same from the trauma that dementia would cause + everything else from his past, it just wouldn't be progressing anymore). If his body just became like this without it being a swap, he'd think it was amazing luck. But this leads to lots of Guilt too, because now someone as wonderful as Hinata-kun has to deal with living in such a pathetic disgusting body that is actively deteriorating. He dedicates lots of his time and energy to trying to help Hinata cope with all his responsibilities and deal with all of his symptoms, since he's used to it.

I really want some kind of scene where one of them accidentally hurts the other's body in some way, or gets sick or something, but feels massive guilt over it. Like for example... Hinata doesn't have good systems of remembering stuff yet since he's not used to having dementia, so he forgets to take some medication and triggers some kind of flare up. And he doesn't feel bad that He's sick, he feels bad that he made Komaeda's body sick. Meanwhile Komaeda is just upset that Hinata is suffering and is blaming himself for having such a "worthless" body.

I think that once they eventually manage to switch back, there would be some really weird feelings about it. I think the way that both of them tried to treat each other's bodies so carefully while they were borrowing them would make them feel like they have to continue to be careful now to honour each other's efforts. I also think that Hinata would feel a lot of guilt for making Komaeda go back to his old body and would try really hard to treat him really well. Maybe they'd finally get to do to each other what they wanted to all this time but couldn't... my dirty mind...