#td alejandro

Surprisingly, no!

Although I do love both animes!

It was mainly because I wanted to find a way to include the RR cast in the au outside of the school setting so I was originally thinking some kind of drama club, but then the thought came to me for her working for Chef, a known crossdresser, and the idea just took route: Chef's Crossdressing Cafe (or Chef's for start)

However, I do definitely see where the similarities come from because it is a cafe where every server has their own gimmick/archetype (not including the crossdressing) that they play into. Basically the customer gets to choose how they want to be treated during their time

Same goes for skills and entertainment and stuff, so kind of like a courtesan house (which maid cafés originate from funnily enough) where the courtesans are all skilled and have talents in various stuff but taken into more of a modern lens and without the sex aspect- Chef made the place so he could freely express himself, earn a little cash, and maybe do a little hustle on the side, not to force or have his employers be taken advantage

Security is incredibly strict there and Chef takes care of everything personally

And technically, after it's reached a certain time it counts more as a club than a café since the menu shifts up and chef allows the selling and drinking of alcohol. The alliteration still works tho!

As for the cafe itself, you have two options, you can either sit on the ground floor where you can request a specific server for your time/have one randomly chosen, or you can book a private room and specific server

The latter is mainly for whenever someone wants/requires the talents of the server they requested, when the person/group wants privacy, or used for richer clients in general

As for Neha she mainly does ground floor work and the private rooms is usually for the RR D&D sessions where she literally gets paid to play games with them

As for the uniform, yeahhh, it's maid dresses and butler suits, once again crossdressing

And there may or may not be some illegal stuff going on on the side.... (There is, it's basically an info hub for Chef's old military pals and other people who might be involved with that kind of stuff in general, hence the varied talents and the reason it makes so much cash despite being a niche place)

I just thought it'd be a fun place that can translate across different non-TD aus!

And a reason to fit Neha into the story without her needing to go to highschool (or be in the same year/school)

Like imagine and alenoah in this setting where Alejandro is looking for some kind of information that'd finally let him get one up on his brother

Or a fake dating nortney where Courtney hires her to play her 'boyfriend' to make her ex (Duncan) jealous or for a family event with her parents

Or even a nortney where Courtney wants to get revenge on Duncan and Gwen after they cheated and finds out about the place from Eva

Or any ship where the love interest is freshly heartbroken and comes to the café to get drunk and Neha's working the shift and they start visiting during the day

Or going more down the maid-sama route where classmates find out about her secret and forcibly befriend/try to bully her

Or even any of them getting a job there and working alongside her!