āDude, I know youāre trying to appeal to my bro graces right now but Iāll warn you Iām already bound to Adrien in holy fratrimony. I canāt be bros with another bro,ā Ninoās playful tone returned as he jested. āWho said your number of bros can only be limited to one?ā Chat restored the sarcastic remark. āItās like cheating on him, yo. I canāt do that to Adrien, even if you are a really cool superhero.ā Bro, Chat inwardly sniffled.
ExcerptĀ from: The Countdown to Christmas (Chapter 3: Do You Like Me?)
My whole fic was originally supposed to be just fluff and comedy but then I decided to angst so a lot changes were made.Ā
In my jumbled outline (which I am too ashamed to post on here), the whole āholy fratrimonyā line was part of Alya and Nino bickering. It was supposed to be the day after Adrien revealed himself to Marinette. They had awkward tension between them but nothing to too drastic (*looks at Chapter 4 and sweats because it is kinda drastic*).
But as I was writing beginnings of Chapter 4, having them be chipper and partially ignorant didnāt feel right.Ā
Eventually, I scrapped the idea of having Alya and Nino bicker but I was determined to have that line in my fic. Ā As I was writing chapter 3, I remembered that Chat had to lead Nino to the set and boom. This was born.
The rest of that whole scene came partly from a song called āBromanceā by Ryan Higa and crew. (great song embodies Nino and Adrienās friendship in my head) *starts picturing Nino and Chat doing the iconic āIām flying Jackā scene from Titanic <3*
And the other half of the song came from me observing the way my male friends speak to one another.
Also because I love writing Nino being a dudebro. <3
Hope you could make sense of all this XD Or at the very least, I hope this was fun to read :)
Thanks so much for the ask :DĀ
Send me an excerpt and Iāll tell you what was going on behind the scenes.Ā