#d-pc

I did plan on writing the karaoke scene, at the time I was writing d-pc. The idea is still there, somewhere, in the back of my head. But it’ll be a while before I return to bnha with any seriousness. Unfortunately, that fixation has passed. I’ll come back to it, I know how my brain works, but I don’t want to make promises of it in the future. I can tell you it involved a very cute moment where Toshi shifted from “I really like Silver” to “I’m going to marry this person.”

As for Toshi and Silver’s wedding, no. I didn’t really plan on writing that. Weddings, I think, should be incredibly personalized. And that really can’t be done with an open-to-interpretations character like Silver. I would write the wedding and half of the readers wouldn’t like it, since it wouldn’t fit their idea of a beautiful wedding. That isn’t to say that those readers or any other readers are wrong, or that I write exclusively for the sake of my readers (I mostly write to entertain myself) but it’s still not something I’m interested in doing.

Other scenes I had in my brain at one point or another for d-pc were things like Inara and Midnight’s first date, or Silver going shopping for a wedding ring. The readers didn’t really get Silver’s “I’m going to marry this man” moment from Silver, because it was slow and over time. The appearance of a wedding ring was a surprise, and I meant it to be. But it’d be cute to see Silver shopping for one, I think.

Toshi would describe Silver as “soft-spoken, kind, and an unwavering personality”, all of which he appreciates. Toshi’s spent too much time with people loudly fawning over him, or only faking their kindness for the sake of a camera. I think it’s refreshing for Toshi to meet Silver, who shows how much they care with little touches and soft smiles instead of loud announcements. And who proves that they care about people with actions rather than words. An unwillingness to change because others think you should is a good virtue in anyone, I think, but it’s especially appreciated by Toshi because he knows they’re not going to play some character for him. It’s all genuine, and Toshi can trust that.

Shouta describes Cherry as “a troublemaking, hard-headed but good woman”. He’s seen her at her worst and her best, and he loves her anyway. Her willingness to bend - or even break - the rules for the sake of her own rules is something he admires, and something that reminds him of his younger years as a pro hero. (If you haven’t read Vigilantes, you definitely need to. Shouta is a chaotic good little troublemaker in that and I love him dearly). Cherry doesn’t always follow Shouta’s idea of ‘logic’, but she usually gets the same results he was looking for so he lets it slide.