#Tanakamura twins

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I’d seen someone talking about an au where Ethan Nakamura and Drew Tanaka’s fathers got married and they were both born on the same day so they grew up together and everyone thought they were twins. Anywho, this made me think of an au where they were born like a week apart and neither of their dad’s told them that they were born before the dads met, so these 2 thought they came from 2 separate surrogates because both of their dads wanted to have a biological child.

But anyways, they grew up saying they were twins, celebrating their birthdays on the exact middle date between their real birthdays, using the last name Tanakamura as much as possible, even though legally they have separate last names, and overall just being super close.

Eventually, they kinda forget that their birthday isn’t on the same day and that they are from different mothers, so when a Satyr comes and tells them they’re demigods, they assume their dads were both blessed by one goddess. Anyways, they get to camp and they both get put into the Hermes cabin.

They’re doing their usual shtick of saying they’re twins and what not and somehow this floats onto Aphrodite and Nemesis’s radars and they just think “that name sound familiar, but I don’t really remember their father- maybe I did give him twins?”

so now it’s campfire song time and there’s a huge bright light out of nowhere. Everyone looks up and sees that Ethan and Drew have been claimed by both Aphrodite and Nemesis.(I am believing that while the minor gods don’t have cabins, they still can claim their children and it will show a little insignia over them. All it does is say “you aren’t leaving the Hermes cabin”)

everyone at camp starts freaking out because “how are you both claimed by 2 goddesses?!” And neither Aphrodite nor Nemesis are freaking out because they just think they claimed their kids, and no one on Olympus is paying any attention either.

so imagine their surprise when Chiron starts a joint Iris Message between all the Olympians + Nemesis.

Zeus: Chiron, what is this about? And why is Nemesis on this call?

Chiron: You are all on this call because there is an issue. Both Aphrodite and Nemesis have claimed a pair of twins.

Nemesis: oh yes! Ethan and Drew Tanakamura! Those are my children!

Aphrodite: Um- no. They’re my children!

and so now as this is all unfolding Ethan and Drew and looking at each other and suddenly remembering they aren’t actually twins.

And now they either have to fess up to the fact that they lied about being twins but in fact have gay dads and are born from different moms, OR decide to see where this goes and be little chaos gremlins. I might actually write something about this… we’ll see.

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would you be interested in reading my au for this when I publish it 👀? I have the first bit down, but my little talks about it are under my tanakamura twins au on my blog. I just really want to know other’s thoughts on my ideas.

coming onto tumblr where theres a whole ecosystem of nakamura & tanaka step-sibling truthers after thinking i was the only one was wild but i love it

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Writing about two queer men deciding to raise their half god children together was not on my 2024 bingo card

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Shockingly(it’s not that shocking) the hardest part about writing my Tanakamura Twins AU is the fact that I don’t know what is normal for a baby to do. When this is eventually released, you will see what I mean.

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Don’t mind me just dropping this line from my current wip.

“Despite Hana’s distance from Paul, her daughter had somehow inherited her family’s love for the quirked up white boy.”

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I didn’t get a notification that this ask had been answered otherwise I would have responded to this sooner. I’m going to try to not spoil everything in this post so some things will be vague.

ok so in my tanakamura twins au, Ethan and Drew are from 2 separate dads who end up dating and raising the twins together. The twins aren’t actually twins, but they were born within the same week and (after learning that they aren’t twin at like age 5 they are told that they came from two separate moms) they start saying that they were planned as twins and this were twins(even though unbeknownst to them they were both unplanned).

the real thing that spurred this au was just the hilarity of them at some point forgetting that they aren’t really twins (like they start thinking it was just a really long labor or something) and so when they get to camp they tell everyone they’re twins.

so the thing is that when Nemesis and Aphrodite hear wind that their children have arrived at camp, they’re both kinda confused. But since Nemesis is all about balance and stuff she comes to the conclusion that she just forgot that she gifted their father twins(she doesn’t have mortal children very often, cut her some slack?). And when Aphrodite is thinking back to when she gifted the baby to their father, she does remember him holding a second one.

This all sort of culminates at the campfire about a week after the twins arrive when suddenly they both get claimed. Nothing strange about that, until they realize that they have both been claimed by Nemesis and Aphrodite.

I have a lot of things planned for this au. My main dilemma is whether since they were both claimed by two goddesses, would that cause there to be a resolve to the unclaimed kids conflict earlier? Part of me wants them to be the harbingers of a new age for the camp, but I also really want to write about how drew ends up being betrayed by her brother and her sister in the end. Throw in some extra angst of people thinking Drew’s the spy because her brother is a lieutenant in the Titan Army. But I also want happy stuff. I might just write both though.

also, I made sure to give them a big family for suppport!

I hear you write nakamura/tanaka family content. I have an au I’m writing that has taken over my brain where Ethan and Drew are raised as twins.

Oh my gods that’s so cool!

In my writing, I’d say they’re a few months apart, 2-6? Not twins but close!

I’d love to hear about your au!!

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Because it was gnawing at my brain I decided to start writing my Tanakamura Twins AU and let me just say it is fun! So far all I’ve written is Ethan and Drew’s dads actually getting the babies, but I am sooooo tempted to just post that. I think I’m going to wait until I actually write at least Ethan and Drew getting to camp before I release anything, because that’s where the drama starts. Anywho, just know that’s coming along!