#wwte

hgfhgfhfh💗 thank youuuuu

I haven’t thought about it for one simple reason: wwte has been in the works since June 2018, and by the time Two Heroes became accessible worldwide, I had about 70% of the fic’s plot drafted and one or two chapters written! :D

I never ended up watching the movie, for the same reason I stopped reading the manga (well, the anime caught up too by now) early into the Culture Festival Arc: I know what point I wanna deviate from canon, and knowing myself, I think it would annoy/stress me to know if/how certain things in canon go against what I’ve headcanoned for the fic. 

I know the very basics because, well, tumblr😆 I’m looking forward to watching it at some point! I thought it was sweet that Toshi immediately thought to bring Izuku with himself to the States and I’ve heard there’s kacchako dancing👀 But I probably wouldn’t have incorporated it into wwte anyway, since they weren’t really talking between the end of the term and the summer camp in my fic. Dave might have been a nice addition, though.

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we walk this earth at the same moment

Pairing::  Midoriya Izuku/Yagi Toshinori “All Might”

Rated::   E

Status/WC:: WIP (200k so far and counting)

Genre::  Angst, Drama, Angst, Slooooow Buuurn Romance, Canon Rewrite, Angst

Warnings::  so many. sooo many. read the header on AO3.

Summary::  If Izuku hadn’t fallen in love, they would still orbit around each other. They would have gone on growing closer as mentor and protégé, confidants, friends; the easy bond between them brimming with trust, care and devotion. With time, Izuku might have come to view him as a parental figure.

But Izuku fell in love.

And so he tugs on that bond—not to pull him in by force, but to show him that he is wanted.

The bond twists out of shape, and the Earth keeps turning anyway.

x

* * *

“I’m afraid.”

Oh Toshinori.

“I have no idea what happens tomorrow,” the man continues. “After All For One was detained, I was taken directly to the hospital, and nobody was allowed in outside of a select few people. Today, Tsukauchi-kun arranged a private ride to take me home. So far, I’ve only spoken with people who knew about me already. But what now?”

He is shaking so bad. His voice is breaking on the words.

“I have to go to Might Tower and deal with the fallout. I have to explain myself to the general public and the students. I have to face my colleagues, acknowledging that I’ve been lying to them this whole time. I… I knew this was coming, but I wasn’t ready. I was supposed to have a plan in place—for the agency, for the school, for the Hero community. For you. But nothing was ready and it’s too late now and I have no idea how everyone’s going to react.” He ducks his head. “I’m afraid."

* * *

Toshinori sighs. “I wish I could turn this off for you. Redirect it to… Todoroki-shounen, or any of your peers.”

Somehow, that’s the cruelest, saddest thing he could have said.

“I don’t.” Izuku’s voice is as firm as his chocked-up throat allows. He gulps several times. “Can I… Can I hug you? Just for, just for a little bit?”

After a moment of hesitation, Toshinori nods.

Izuku pushes himself up from the floor, circles the bed and crawls in behind Toshinori. As he slides his arm around the man, he discovers that his skin is smooth at his stomach, turning raised and ragged nearing his chest. He is very warm, and the scent of him from this close is nearly overwhelming.

Izuku wishes he could curl around all the aching parts of him. Pick at his doubts and fears like one would pick at weeds in a garden. He wants to shield him, keep him close and safe… but Izuku is small, and Toshinori is a giant. He might as well try to contain a supernova.

It’s unbelievable that Toshinori doesn’t see this. That he doesn’t see he’s marvelous and infinite like the universe itself.

“You are so amazing. The bravest person I’ve ever met. I’m so glad you’re alive, and I love you so much. No, hey, it’s—I told you: I just need you to hear me out.” Izuku pushes his forehead to the base of the man’s neck, willing the sudden tension in his shoulders to bleed away. “I love you, Toshinori-san. You are amazing.”

Hi!♥ No no no - thank you for asking!! I’m always happy to ramble😄

I do follow an outline! When I’m writing a longfic, I start with basic ideas and plot points, and as I develop them, I end up with a pretty detailed chapter plan. Those documents includes all scenes I want to have in a chapter (I don’t plan chapters by word count - like, I don’t do “ok, we reached 6k, time to wrap up” - but by themes. For me, that means: “I want Character X to go through this mini-arc” or “this is the point I want Character X to get to by the end of the chapter”; these are the scenes I need to make that happen), bits of dialogue, sometimes a very rough first draft of a scene. For WWTE, I have about 20k of outlines, plus another 5k for future timestamps. Ah, and a timeline that covers events across *checks* uh, 89 years xD even though WWTE only covers a bit over 1.5 years (I might actually share that one day, but not any time soon; it’s too spoilery)

Not all of my outlines are super detailed - the Overhaul arc in particular needs a lot of fleshing out - but overall, I’m pretty confident about where I’m going and what I need to get there.

That said, even though I currently expect the fic to need 23 chapters, that doesn’t mean I might not end up adding more. One of the reasons behind why I prefer holding off on publishing until the whole fic is written is that I often end up with new ideas while I’m writing, then go back and add tidbits to previous chapters for foreshadowing or just to make the new thing blend in more seamlessly. 

(Frankly, I’d have preferred not publishing WWTE until the first draft was completely written... but I’ve been working on it for 2 years by the time I put up the first chapter, and I worried I might lose interest if I have to go without any interaction for another two years ^^;;)

Another thing that might happen is that despite me wanting specific scenes in a chapter, sometimes they grow and change too much. (I follow outlines, but I’m not rigid about them and let the characters take me to new directions “as the magic happens”.) The chapter might get super long, and I actually find a decent closing/resting point earlier. For example, #6 and #7 were originally meant to be a single chapter, but the kids interacted more at Hosu hospital than I had expected, and Izuku did the thing, and I figured, ok, this is actually a good place to end; I’m splitting the chapter after all. 

In comparison, #10 grew to be over 23k, and yet I kept it as a single chapter because everything really goes together thematically and splitting in two would hurt the overall effects on the reader imo.

That’s basically it? In general, I’m more of the “plan to the last detail” type of writer rather than one who knows the basics but wings most of it =‘)

Man, tumblr decided to fuck up the formatting on the original answer post big time whyy. Anyway, here’s a repost

Hullo! Yesss, absolutely; I don’t plan on sitting on this for eternity xD But due to life-stuff and then COVID-19, I haven’t touched the story since late February, plus my beta couldn’t take on the project in the end, so it kinda went on a hiatus. (Not her fault, and she did an awesome job on the first two chapters, but then the world exploded and... yeah.) 

Suddenly struck by a muse, I wrote a 10k NatsuYuu fic  last month, and that brought me back into writing mood, so that’s promising. =) Work has piled up, but I’m itching to get back to WWTE. Right now, I’m re-reading it from the start and editing the already existing stuff to the best of my abilities. Then I wanna finish chapter 13 where I’ve left off. That’s pretty much the mid-point of the story, so once that’s done, I’ll feel good about starting to post. 

I’m hoping that’s going to happen by early August. That would be the 2nd year anniversary since I (on-and-off) started writing this beast, so it’d be neat =)

tl;dr  YES, I absolutely plan on posting to AO3 at some point. I’m so glad you’re looking forward to it! I hope you’ll like it =D 

Y’know what, I’m putting another excerpt under the cut because I get overly excited when people ask about this XD. It’s from ch8, after the practical exam:

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I hope you don’t mind I published this, but I want it saved and easy to find so I can come back and look at it if I ever feel down😭💖

Thank you so much - I’m so happy you’re enjoying my content. :3 Have a lovely day!!