#noi asks

(Disclaimer: these are my personal interpretations of the YHS characters. Canon? Never heard of it. I say it's but a mere of a suggestion)

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Funneh x Alec

They're okay. I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. I used to ship them when I was younger, but as I've grown older and as the Falec fandom grows more toxic, I just can't enjoy it. I do think their dynamic is interesting and I always kind of saw them as high school sweethearts.

If Yumi hadn't happened, I think they'd be a wholesome boyfriend and girlfriend couple, but break up at the end of highschool due to their differing needs.

Like those couples that have wonderful chemistry, but are incompatible in everything else romantic relationship-wise (ex: bad at communication, a need for more emotional support, commitment issues, imposter syndrome, etc).

I think they'd be both selfless but in different ways. Funneh is emotionally selfless, as in she would put her all into making the other person in the relationship happy at the expense of her own happiness (S2 Funneh. Her S1 version was a lot more selfish), while Alec is physically selfless, as in he does things for others without expecting anything in return and without any regard for his own well-being.

They'd be good adventuring buddies, but I don't think they'd be a good married couple if that makes any sense lol.

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Funneh x Evan

(and every other Funneh ship actually)

I don't really care about them honestly. I don't hate them, I just find the ship kinda boring? Don't really have much of an opinion on them lol.

Not like it's a bad ship. If you like it, you like it. Who am I to tell you what you're supposed to enjoy? As long as you're not hurting anybody then it's fine. Great even! This is just what I prefer.

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Funneh x Evelyn

Oh, how I love these two! My sweet girls. I haven't made any content about them in a while, unfortunately. The fire has died down a little bit lol, but I still really like them and I plan on making more stuff for these two idiots in the future. Funnelyn-lings I will make you your food soon, trust. (Edit: <— I said like a liar.)

As immature teenagers I don't think they'd be good together romantically at first, since I headcanon Evelyn seeing romantic love as a weakness, while my version of Funneh is hopelessly in denial about being Bi. She figures it out once she gets older though.

But if I were to ever write a Post-YHS AU, when Yumi is either dead or in jail, Alec is in prison, and everybody else is traumatized and graduated high school; I imagine these two would get together at one point. Probably after a near death experience and they realize they'd rather die from the embarrassment of confessing to each other, than have one of them die before they got the chance to say 'I love you' to them.

They'd also match each other's silly energy and inability to feel negative emotions, except one is a workaholic and the other is an adrenaline junkie. The image of that is extremely funny to me.

These images are how I see them lol:

(If anybody knows who the original creators are please let me know)

Left: Funneh x Right: Evelyn

A: Funneh x B: Evelyn

(for Funneh: by intelligence I mean with how creative/adaptable she is, anything else and she's completely clueless, but it's okay because she has Evelyn for that lol)

Hope this made sense, haha!

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Funneh x Yumi:

Ah yes, my guilty pleasure ship. The one ship that makes zero sense in any canon adjacent context except the alternate universes I create in my head. Saying I have a lot to talk about them would be an understatement lol.

Oh well. Yapping time!:

(PS. Please keep in mind that these are mostly headcanons. "Canon is a mere suggestion" is one of my favorite quotes after all.)

So, something about me is, I absolutely adore it when the hero (Funneh) and the villain (Yumi) are depicted as dark/light inverted versions of each other. Good with a bit of inhumanity and evil with a bit of morality or something along those lines. It's hard for me to put it into words. I'm trying to figure out what I'm saying too lol

It's gotten to the point where I REALLY want to write a POV Outsider fic of characters noticing how different yet similar Funneh and Yumi are, through the lens of an outsider like Gold or Alec.

They both have similar goals, yet use completely different methods to achieve them.

Both want love but have differing views on the concept.

Yumi sees it as something needed to live a successful/perfect life and something to be won. Not something to be given unconditionally, and without a price tag due to the horrible way she was raised.

Funneh sees love as an adventure. Something she has to invest all her time, focus and energy into at the cost of her own well-being and even safety to achieve.

They're also, at their core, very selfish people!

"But, Noi! Didn't you say that Funneh was selfless a couple paragraphs back?"

Yumi also has being needed/wanted as one of her core motivations. But I think that's what makes her such a good villain to Funneh's hero. They both have the same motivations, but what makes them different from each other is their methods.

That I did! But what I mean by 'selfish' is, I mean their motivations at their core are self centered. It just so happens that one of Funneh's core motivations is to be needed/wanted. It just so happens to manifest as a desire to help others reach their highest potential and the desire to make others laugh. It's like her entire identity revolves around the idea that she's "The Funny One." Like a beam of sunshine during a rainy funeral. Yeah, her joking at the worst possible times aren't the most appropriate, but it's all she knows, y'know? It's just how she is.

Funneh believes the moment she stops being "The Funny One" she will lose her chance at living altogether. Yumi believes the moment she stops "Doing It All for Love," she will stop being worthy of being alive altogether.

In an alternate universe, where Yumi isn't obsessed with Kai and Funneh isn't infatuated with Alec, and they're both in love with each other, they'd be freak4freak (in a silly way) but have no idea the other wants them too. I imagine Yumi appreciates Funneh's unconditional understanding of Yumi's imperfections, while Funneh appreciates Yumi's reliability and unwavering devotion to their relationship, romantic or otherwise.

I like to headcanon that they both have internalized homophobia, this makes things so much funnier because if you ask anyone who's seen them together if they're a couple they'd immediately go:

"Yeah, they're in love with each other. I literally saw them picking out rings the other day."

Meanwhile said couple is going: "Oh this? Nah, it's just a friendship ring."

For example:

(Snippet of a fanfic I'm working on. Edit: I gave up. Writing is hard.)

"When Funneh asked to voice call her later that evening, a weaker woman would have said 'no.' But Yumi was not that weaker woman. So she took the opportunity, and with it, the call.

It was understandable, Yumi thinks. Just a day ago, they had the friendship equivalent of what can be widely considered a ‘lover’s spat.’

It was a painfully awkward one. Even for her.

It doesn't make Yumi want to punch a hole in the wall next to her any less, however. But Funneh might get upset again.

Like. My girl.

So, Yumi restrains herself."

YOU BASICALLY ADMITTED THAT THERE'S SOMETHING ROMANTIC ABOUT THIS RELATIONSHIP.

Can you guys tell I'm not normal about them whatsoever? It's basically consuming my life.

I really like YumFun y'all. It's actually scary.

A cool thing I like to do with my YHS AUs is that I try to come up with different reasons for why things are the way they are, instead of just fixing all the issues I see, and making things more "realistic" in my eyes.

For example, most of the YHS characters have unnatural hair and eye colors as main parts of their designs. Instead of saying "They just dyed their hair" or "They just have eye contacts" what if I made up some cool lore for them instead?

For example, in my Divided AU... Similar to how people from certain regions have blue eyes, the people in (Divided AU) Asia tend to have red colored eyes. The reasons for this are still under lots of debate, but the most popular theory is that back in the Crimson times (a made up term for some lore I'll explain in the future) the air and natural environment used to be constantly polluted with Redstone, especially in parts of East Asia and SEA. Due to how versatile it is, Redstone was often used to power machinery, serve in the place of wiring and even be used to treat injuries when medical supplies and potions were scarce.

With its most popular use was to treat temporary blindness.

Using this as an example, I managed to hit two birds with one stone:

1. I gave a reason as to why some of the Asian characters (like Valerie, Yumi and D! Alec) have unnatural colored eyes.

2. I created more world building.

And that's it! I literally just made this all up on the spot. Just start out simple and everything will connect in due time. And when it does, it's going to be magical.