#bllk Reality show au

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BLTV REALITY SHOW

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CHAPTER TWO: grow some facial hair

basket case - h. chigiri x f!reader (band!au) || divider by @roseraris wc (written portion): 377 || tags/cw: 'kys' joke at the end, kaiser is an asshole, oliver is down bad for reader, chigiri is afraid of rejection :((( prev. chap || introducing manshine! || introducing x-gen! || next chap

she’s practically beaming at her phone when hyoma walks in. reo is look over her shoulder from behind the couch, eyebrows raised.

“what’s got you so happy tonight?” hyoma teases.

reo locks eyes with him, wide-eyed. it’s nothing, he mouths.

“it’s nothing,” she giggles. then she covers her face with her hand, squealing. 

well, it’s clearly not nothing.

she hands him her phone. she’s texting oliver aiku, the leader and bassist of the ubers. his name is saved as ‘grrr bark bark bark’, and recent texts show they’ve been… flirting.

him, flirting with her. her, flirting with… him.

it’s like his brain short-circuits, and it’s not until reo tugs on his sleeve hard that he comes back to reality. a reality in which she’s staring up at him, clearly giddy with the unadulterated flirtation in aiku’s words. waiting for a reaction he’s not sure he wants to give. 

because the way she’s feeling isn’t for him, not one bit, and that really stings.

“well?” she prompts, looking at him expectantly, seemingly unaware of his discomfort. hyoma can’t even bring himself to look a concerned reo in the eyes. it just makes him feel so much worse. he doesn’t need pitying. the lead singer of manshine schools his expression into something displaying mild interest - or at the very least, neutrality. 

“he seems nice.” he forces out the words like he’s trying to throw up something foul-tasting. “good for you.”

“he is nice,” she hums, taking her phone back. their hands brush, and he tries his hardest not to jerk away at the contact. “thank you.”

hyoma smiles tightly, walking past her to his room. reo follows, a knowing look of melancholy in his eyes.

“hey, man, i’m sorry about that -”

“don’t be.” hyoma smiles his tight smile again. he loathes it. “it’s not your fault, it’s not her fault, or his, or mine. it’s no one’s fault.” and as he says it, he thinks he might almost believe it.

almost.

he doesn’t know what to do now, as he sits on his bed, twisting a lock of his hair around his finger. but as soon as the feeling of hopelessness comes, it disappears. 

his friends might be across the globe, but still - they might know what to do.

a/n: no words sorry chigi :( (bachira is the ultimate yn defender) (chigiri did NOT find their advice helpful, except for isagi’s but he’s not gonna do it anyway)

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Given that Blue Lock is an in-universe reality show with (apparently) millions of worldwide fans, that implies the theoretical existence of a Blue Lock fandom and, by extension, Blue Lock fanfic.

What kind of mischaracterisations do you think in-universe fans have of the various members of Blue Lock? Which ships would be popular? This is an rpf situation so what sort of drama goes on surrounding the very existence of bllk fanfic? Does the fandom have pockets which behave like other rpf fandoms such as Kpop and streamers? How much does Reddit fucking hate the stans? I NEED ANSWERS!!!!!

Firstly, the fandoms tagged in fics would be a mix of: Football RPF — all media types, Blue Lock (Football RPF), Neo Egoist League (Football RPF) and BLTV (Football RPF).

Common fandom-specific tags include: ‘Referenced Professional Footballers’, ‘No Beta We Die Like Kunigami Rensuke’s Ratings’, ‘Not Safe For Ego Jinpachi’s eyes’ and ‘Author Uses Football Not Soccer’.

Platonic relationships are pretty common in the fandom, with the most popular ones being ‘Michael Kaiser & Alexis Ness’, ‘Meguru Bachira & Lavinho’, ‘Yoichi Isagi & Noel Noa’ and ‘Yoichi Isagi & Rensuke Kunigami’.

Personally I think the most popular ships (as of right now) would be Kaisagi, Kainess, Reonagi and Ryurin. Bachisagi would be practically nonexistent because fans wouldn’t have seen them interact much. Only old fans know they were basically unstoppable together during the U-20 match. Most fans joined during the NEL, after the show started streaming.

Noel Noa gets shipped with Lavinho but only because he’s always the dad in fics who needs emotional support. In these fics, Isagi and Bachira are always the gremlin step brothers who scheme their not-dads into getting together.

There’s a ship war going on between the kaisagi and the kainess shippers. There’s also a third party which is against real-person shipping but is fine with rpf in general so Bastard Munchen for them is a hodge-podge, falling apart at the seams found family trope. The same goes for all the other teams but the Bastard Family TM is the most popular one.

 THERE ARE SO MANY FOUND FAMILY AUs. Popular tags include: “Noel Noa Is A Tired Dad”, “Isagi And Kunigami Are Brothers”, “Kaiser Is The Rich Cousin” and “They’re A Family Of Bastards Your Honour”.

There’s definitely fandom drama around the ethics of reading and writing fanfic. General consensus seems to end up being that non-ship fics are technically fine. Shippers still do their thing though because they’re impossible to get rid of.

The fandom ‘cinnamon rolls’ are definitely Bachira and Ness. Ness especially get mischaracterised as an ‘innocent, fragile flower’ that Kaiser has to protect. Bachira is most;y just characterised as Lavinho’s protege who is a happy lil sunshine with no flaws. Nagi also nearly falls into the ‘cinnamon roll’ category because he’s quiet and gives off ‘uwu’ energy (according to his stans) but slightly less so.

Rin gets the most x readers written about him. He beats everyone else except maybe Kunigami, who is a close second. They’re always characterised as the ‘bad boys’ and are the kings of Wattpad.

Sae gets inserted into Rin fics all the time purely because they’re brothers. Because he doesn’t appear in the NEL, his fandom interpretation is COMPLETELY off. Fans have basically turned him into a completely new, fictional character, he’s that different. He’s always dating Shidou though — Ryusae is a rare ‘it’s probably okay to ship this’ ship because literally everyone is convinced they’re actually dating irl.

If Kaiser is in the fic, his tattoo is usually brought up either as some kind of trauma-related thing or, in fantasy AUs, as a cursed mark. Fans have written whole ass essays about the symbolic meaning of his tattoo and how it can relate to fics.

Some of the more popular fics in the fandom, by kudos, include:

the obligatory fantasy AU where all the teams are kingdoms — 240k words, major character death, hurt no comfort (one of the fandom’s ‘cinnamon rolls’ dies in the third act).

the obligatory university/college AU where for some reason the university uses the US system despite none of the characters being American, each team is a different frat house and the fic is 25/? chapters, 32k words.

A Fluff And Angst, completely unrealistic found family “they all live in one house” fic where Noa adopts Isagi and it’s tooth-rottingly sweet but it’s clear that the author has been through some shit and is drawing from personal experience when writing. All the kids from Blue Lock and Bastard Munchen are like 10 years old. Noa is shipped with Lavinho and people choose to either ignore it and enjoy the fluff or are active shippers — 56k words, 19/22 chapters, hurt/comfort, implied/referenced child abuse, Noel Noa Is A Tired Dad.

Several one-shots involving the ‘brothers/cousins’ Isagi, Kunigami, Kaiser and Ness all doing random shit together. Usually the fics are either from Isagi or Kaiser’s perspective and you can tell which authors prefer the Blue Lockers and which ones prefer the German players — usually 3-6k words each.

A long-distance relationship Kaisagi AU named after a Glass Animals song that gets so popular it crashes AO3 twice- (sry I’ll stop, that would be rancid).

A Manshine City found family AU where Reo and Nagi are characterised as brothers to the nth degree, Chigiri is the golden child and Chris Prince is the uncle who didn’t want to take them in but had to and slowly grows to love them as if they were his own kids. The grown-up mentors all have weekly brunch down at the local diner where they talk like gossiping aunts — 19k words, 5/? chapters, Manshine Triplets, Reo And Nagi Are Twins, Chigiri is also there tho!!! Give Chris Prince A Break.

The aforementioned AU where Bachira and Isagi trick their not-dads into getting together — 16k words, 4/10 chapters, Fluff And Angst, Slow Burn.