#anyways-- I need to work on my other WIPs in regards to these two mfs smfh /lh so here's this first /jov
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ooooo Iâve been meaning to do this silly one for awhile heheheâ incorrect quote that lives partially rent free by @fishteatrash
#my art#Star Madness (across the universe)#Star Trek#Star Trek TNG#incorrect quotes#Star Trek incorrect quotes#Jean-Luc Picard#Q Star Trek#Q TNG#qcard#me đ€ picard q đ€ my partners#they will raid the fridge at 3 am for shredded cheese#anyways-- I need to work on my other WIPs in regards to these two mfs smfh /lh so here's this first /jov#reaâs trash
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BY DAY, you attend classes and sling drinks at the campus cafe. By night, youâre known as the Harbinger, an individual with the Gift of shadow and darkness. Your two jobs have never had any reason to collideâŠnot until the appearance of a fellow Gifted by the name of Ace, anyway.
[ read luck of the draw here !! ]
this is an extra post for me to infodump on all the worldbuilding details i never got to fit into my already obnoxiously large fic đșđ»đșđ» its holding my brain hostage so maybe posting this will help!!!
please read luck of the draw before clicking the readmore !! there are spoilers abound (and you probably wonât understand much of what iâm saying if you havenât read the fic LMAO)
ABOUT THE CONCEPT
the very core of luck of the draw isnât actually unique to kenji or to haikyuu in general; in fact, it was originally a part of a superhero!skz series i was planning to write but never got around to. the foundation of this fic -- kenjiâs power and the idea of them being opposing forces that slowly draw together -- was originally given to stray kidsâ hyunjin. i never went past the Thinking Stage with it, so it was fairly easy to hand the concept over to futakuchi when i moved fandoms.
the dynamic of this fic in general was inspired pretty heavily by miraculous ladybugâs âlove square,â but i ... obviously wasnât going to write all four sides of it so i stuck to the civilian identities (the reader and kenji) and the alteregos (harbinger and ace). in the kpop version of this wip, the reader and hyunjin were coworkers, but in moving from one fandom to another and reworking it for futakuchi, i decided to make them friends instead. theyâre not particularly close (theyâre definitely comfortable but not close Emotionally) to start with, but thereâs potential for something to start!
ABOUT THE WORLD
in this universe, the city is ruled by two major factions that control much of the economy: seijoh, who controls the entertainment/tourism industries and has its fingers in most of the smaller businesses around the city (such as johzenji and dateko) and nekoma, who is partnered with the equally large fukurodani to control shipment of all kinds as well as the food industry (among others). nekoma has allies within the local government, and seijoh all but controls the law enforcement.
karasuno, on the other hand, works entirely from the underground to overhaul the way things are run in the city; itâs a bit .... corrupt as of right now, and they seek to change that.Â
at the top are typically individuals blessed with special powers known as gifts. these gifts can be as mundane as the ability to make flowers bloom wherever you walk or as powerful as being able to alter the flow of time. there exist a series of regulations (and a shit ton of paperwork) that come about whenever an individual happens to manifest a gift.Â
however, the cityâs gifted demographic is incorrectly represented; a chunk of the gifted population are instead drawn to the allure of making money by doing illicit deeds for companies like seijoh or nekoma. these individualsâ gifts are never properly documented due to the traceability it lends itself to, should a job go wrong.
the government is supposedly in talks to enact stricter laws on the gifted, despite them making up a comparatively small percentage of the population. the head of the department of gifted individuals, ushijima wakatoshi, is a particularly overwhelming force in support of better regulation of his fellow gifted.
ABOUT THE CHARACTERS
in the first draft of luck of the draw, the sequence of events and relationship dynamics were MUCH different. in the final draft, you see the alteregos being drawn to each other first before you see the civilians come together.Â
in that first draft, it was originally centered on the civilians getting together despite kinda-sorta being attracted to each otherâs alterego? as a result, the kiss scene between the alteregos was still there but it was DRASTICALLY different. the whole idea of it and imo moral ambiguitity (kenji and the reader never went official with their relationship in the first draft) didnât sit right with me at all; it felt a little like i was using cheating as a plot device which ??? no.
to make the long story short, the execution of that (tbh poorly developed) idea was.......less than stellar.
so i took a look at the chronology and basically upended the entire midsection to make the concept something that was less awful morally? thatâs what i hope happened, anyway LJSKDFLSD
in the first draft, the reader (as harbinger) was also much less competent than they are in the final draft as a result of having been affiliated with karasuno for a shorter time. in truth, the harbingerâs origin story didnât surface until i was in the middle of writing the second draft!
when it comes to the other characters:
oikawa doesnât have a gift, which is rather rare for someone with their thumb sitting so heavily on the cityâs pulse point
iwaizumiâs gift is entirely up to interpretation! him and oikawa making formal appearances in the story was something that only came up towards the end of draft two, so i didnât have the space (word count wise) to really give either much thought
kyotani came into his gift without any control over it, and is only given amnesty because he was found hiding by iwaizumi
i really really wanted to talk about kyotani in this fic but ultimately it wasnt revolving around him + i once again didnât have space to even tease an encounter with him (so in the fic proper heâs mostly there as a cameo + to scare you as you read into a potential action scene)
aone and kenji actually come from the same company that happened to come under seijohâs control, so theyâre more comfortable with each other than anyone else!
hinata has the gift of manipulation as long as youâre making eye contact with him; unfortunately, if he wills it, itâs rather hard to break eye contact once youâve made it -- aone made the mistake of glancing at him during the takeover at seijoh hq, leading to his hold on harbinger loosening
kageyama obviously has the gift of ice/hail/snow manipulation to a rather strong extent, considering he can create it where there is none and lower the temperature of the air around him (the reader cannot create their own darkness, only manipulate what is around them)
he also has some beef with oikawa (or is it the other way around?) that involves him formerly working under seijoh -- not one of their many smaller companies, but seijoh itself (much like iwaizumi and after kageyama leaves, kyotani)
in terms of whoâs been with karasuno the longest of the introduced cast, itâs tsukishima/three-eyes > hinata = kageyama > reader (but not by much)
MISCELLANEOUS
following the takeover of seijoh, tsukishima finds himself at witâs end much more often LMAO
there are a good amount of deleted scenes and scenes that were only added in at the very last second!
among the deleted scenes is a scene where the civilians are at the park -- in the first draft, it happened in the middle, but in the second it was towards the end. it got taken out because come the end of the second draft, i realized it no longer fit ...
in terms of completion status, it probably ?? took a little over a month from this to go from Thinking Stage to the 14.2k monstrosity you see now? there were a couple of weeks early on where i did nothing on my ipad and laptop except outline and write, respectively
i definitely got burned out halfway through (which is abt the time i posted the xc2 au .. i NEEDED to work on smth else)
the idea of the clock tower wasnât present at all in the first draft!! i only really came up with it in the second draft because iâd rather have them meet somewhere consistent and identifiable rather than some nondescript building
the running joke (?) of them getting drinks together wasnât present until the third and final draft -- originally the scene where ace asks âdo you remember our last conversation?â had a different beginning
in fact, a lot of the scenes that are a bit more...emotionally charged (see: every scene after aceâs unmasking as well as the movie night scene where the civilians struggle to define what their relationship has become) had to be overhauled dramatically
ummm i love kenji thats it! none of this would be possible if i didnt have the strongest mf brainrot for him so ... ! theres that LMAO
(theres probably more im forgetting to say ........ if any of you want to pick my brain regarding the chronology or the characters or why i had them say something or do something send me an ask! this post tbh is almost entirely for me but i didnt put this much thought into a fic that long to NOT share it with everyone else)
#futakuchi x reader#haikyuu scenario#haikyuu scenarios#haikyuu x reader#futakuchi kenji#i shouldnt have typed this out#i feel like writing a spinoff#i cant tell if itd be another kenji fic or explore kyotani or even kageyama tbh#this universe is literally holding me at gunpoint omg luck of the draw took so much from me but i still want to write fic in the same settin
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