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idk man they are just very important to me

b&w/no ink version below the cut + mista as felindra and you have to imagine that the pistols are the fort's tigers

for those of you who are not familiar with french tv game shows, fort boyard is basically a show where a team of 6 celebrities comes to the fort, takes on challenges, and ultimately tries to grab as much money as they can within a limited amount of time; and the money collected is then given to the charity organisation they came for. (i won't go into all the gimmicks of the show because it'd be too long but. yeah. it's very entertaining to watch.)

now imagine this, but it's a game organised by passione, and whoever wants to can form a team to come and try to steal money from them. except that in that version of the game, you can very much die. there is also a bunch of characters on fort boyard, some of them more or less antagonistic towards the team, some of them mostly helpful to guide them through the fort or even give them advice. while thinking about this, i told myself that giorno should definitely have an in-between role like those: he is a member of passione, but he also wants someone to take down the boss. so, he should be the one who guides them around the place and explains the challenges the team will face. the help he can offer is very limited but hey, he is trying?

now the team. first thought was to bring in a bunch of joestars, jobros etc, but 1) how do i choose only 6 of them, 2) at this point i might as well keep it vento aureo cast only, 3) if i have to kill them i ain't putting caesar through that again. so second option, and probably final choice, la squadra. there are 9 of them? it's okay, risotto can sneak in in secret, gelato and sorbet can already be dead anyway, bam, only 6 of them left for the main team. technically they are members of passione but you know, they can have defected because of the way they were treated here and are coming back to get revenge. or whatever. if i ever write or do something out of this idea it's gonna be crack so i'm not about to think too hard about lore and coherence and give myself an headache. i'm half-assing this and i'm having fun.

now for the rest of bucciarati team, i haven't entirely thought this through, but as i said earlier there are a lot of different characters that have appeared throughout the years in fort boyard. bunch of inspiration to be found, i'm not worried. there is sort of a princess that they face at some point if they have prisoners to give them a chance to escape (or to get the last few items they need, and if they fail they are made prisoners), so yeah i'm thinking trish there because she has the aura for it. also i'm pretty sure they had a narrative for her character one year and it was like she too is a prisoner of this place and you know, aren't we all a bit prisoners to our own families? i think it fits trish.

the animal that's very associated with fort boyard is the tiger: the coins they have, the boyarts, are engraved with a tiger head, they used to keep tigers on the fort and would let them out when the time in the courtyard where the money was was over (obviously after the team had left and the door was closed. except that in this version if they don't make it out on time they dgaf and let the tigers out anyway. yeah), and near the end of the game the team faces people wearing tiger masks/helmets. mista and his tiger-stripped pants definitely gets to be one of these guys idc.

how does giomis happen in the middle of all this? i don't know tbh. if i actually write this, the giomis is probably going to be very minor. they are going to catch each other around corners and kiss a little when no one is looking. at the end of the game mista will come pick giorno up and he'll be like 'so they didn't make it?' and giorno is going to be 'sighs, no' and then he will need mista to comfort him a lot while they wait for the next team to arrive. i don't know gang, but it will be here in my heart. and that's what matters to me.

and it makes me so so sad for him and for the both of us, because i think that jiang cheng feels like he isn't anyone's first person in their heart, and that he craves that. he wants to be as important to the people he cares about the most as they are to him, and he feels like it's not the case. he is just no one's first.

and something that makes it kind of so much worse is that i think that he was the most important person to wei wuxian at a point, because i don't think wei wuxian would have given up on his golden core for anyone else. and maybe it was a choice he made because he felt guilty for what happened to lotus pier, maybe he did it because he felt some sense of duty, because ultimately jiang cheng was supposed to become sect leader, his leader, and wei wuxian would have been his right hand man and second in command. but it's still there, he still did something so huge for jiang cheng, and i don't think he would have done it for anyone else. and it only drove them apart.

and jiang cheng never knows it, never knows that he was the most important person in wei wuxian's heart and life, only understands that at the very end, when there is already an immense gap between them, when he is not wei wuxian's first anymore. and it's so fucking tragic.