Hmmmmmm how uncathartic would it be if a character brewed tea and poured themself a cup and everything, and then just... didn't drink it. And had to throw it out the next day. That sounds fucking terrible but the bleakness of it might be what I'm looking for.

Looking up "stove anatomy". I guess this begins my journey of researching garbage for the sake of fanfic-writing.

Chapter 2 is when it kicks off but first I need to add some random fluff at the start to pad the pacing out. I've decided Ichika secretly feeling gay about Saki works out.

Outline is done. All the necessary details are in place so I can start writing.

Ichika is going to be kind of messed up and bizarre in this AU because, as canon posits, it's because of her friends that she's so healthy. I think she'd be a very...... idiosyncratic person if she had no friends whatsoever in person for her entire life and only just recently found some on the internet. Especially if then something threatened that friend group's being. This is all heavily projection as 1. Literally Ichika 2. Someone with a ton of abandonment-related problems acquired from this exact kind of situation, but promise.

Time to outline the "L/n as Niigo" main story. However, first I need to give them usernames. Honami, Ichika, and Shiho cannot use their real names in their usernames for plot reasons.