#and meanwhile Kokichi sits there cleaning his busted lip with all the fondness in his heart but the most blank expression known to man

[thelemoncoffee]

if you guys were to make an au where Saiouma have their normal backstories but the key difference is how they react to/cope with their trauma- how would they react and how drastically would that change their present day selves.

by this i mean they obviously haven't become entirely different people- they're still them at heart- but they have developed into different personalities, at least externally. like a Shuichi who maybe became more determined or defiant instead of becoming reserved, or a Kokichi who became heroic or stoic instead of resorting to lies

i like the idea of alternate reactions of their past causing a butterfly effect where they turn out different by the time they meet at teens. this would also of course affect their dynamic as a ship too, which can make for interesting explorations of how these changes affect them