#but he also gets back at me by forcing me to write 2K+ JFLSDKJFSLKJF

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can I get some patrick birthday meta?? :3

1. I want the Patrick ‘Furuba AU’ rundown… if we were to ever actually do that, what would Patrick’s role/life be like ??!?

2. what’s the wildest style / fashion choices that Patrick makes? is there any fashion / style he likes but doesn’t feel like he can pull off, so he doesn’t wear it ?

3. you’ve probably answered this before but… how does he take his coffee?!

4. what is his ideal life… ? if he could snap his fingers and have everything he wanted in a second, what would it look like?

more questions for a good professor ( or feral professor ) to answer ( nosy questions for the birthday enby w/ @velvetineblue )

WINTER!!! thank you so much for these 🥺🥺🥺 i 'm actually gonna answer the last three questions first bc the first one, i ended writing a whole page worth of that so in case someone doesn't want to it bc of mentions of em*otional abuse & cu*lts, they don't have to scroll past all that for the other questions 💕💕💕

2.   what’s the wildest style / fashion choices that Patrick makes? is there any fashion / style he likes but doesn’t feel like he can pull off, so he doesn’t wear it ?

HMMM I don’t think this is actually wild, but he is very attached to his converses, regardless of it being in either verse one or two. That’s the one thing he refuses to budge on DHDJDJD he’s honestly not that invested in fashion styles aside from just looking like a ‘gentleman’ in the most traditional sense which is pretty simple for him to emulate 😅

however, there was a time where he did dip into androgynous fashion or simply women’s fashion. It wasn’t anything too daring but just, he did like the idea of wearing a long skirt or even a shirt with ruffles….the only person who knew about this and his identity possibly not being cis-male was felicity, as it’s kind of hard not to notice when your boyfriend idly peers through your magazines bc he’s ‘just curious’ 🥲 she was the one who encouraged him to explore that part of himself, and even helped him with exploring, like for example she might buy a skirt for herself but then it turns out ‘it’s too big for me, why don’t you try it on before I return?’ That exploration phase did end though when she passed away 😭

This being said, I do think he still has those skirts ( they all go well with a collared shirt 😌 ) and let’s say, a student is getting bullied for their gender presentation, he’ll have no problem whipping out the skirts to show support 🥰

3.   you’ve probably answered this before but… how does he take his coffee?!

ironically I actually haven’t talked about his coffee order 🥲 so this is a good time to do so!! In verse one, it’s either a mocha ( it's got hot chocolate in it too <3 ), cappuccino, or as aptly adapted from one lee hyuk, ‘whatever hyuk’s having, I will take too.’ FASDSHSJDJD

In verse two, it’s an americano, mostly because it reminds myungdae of hyuk 🥺🥺🥺, who drinks sweetened ice americanos but also myungdae doesn’t like cold drinks.

4.   what is his ideal life… ? if he could snap his fingers and have everything he wanted in a second, what would it look like? 

well that’s pretty easy— a life where was felicity was alive. That’s literally all he would want, she wouldn’t have to be living with him or even dating him…( although if he’s thinking about what that life would look like, it’d probably be living in a house in Oxford with her and hyuk visits often— ) 

I do hesitate to say that is Patrick’s ideal life though because that would imply that him being with hyuk, the life he could have hyuk, the fact that he adopted both Hiro & elise is the second-best option which is??? Absolutely NOT the case, especially since when it comes to partners Patrick could never truly pick between felicity or hyuk….let’s just say an ideal life would be Patrick getting to be with BOTH felicity & hyuk, bc he has two hands, let him hold both of their hands PLS 🥺

okay!! and now for that first question.... 1.  I want the Patrick ‘Furuba AU’ rundown… if we were to ever actually do that, what would Patrick’s role/life be like ??!?

AHHHH I just realized I never got back to you about plotting for that au ( adding another plotted verse to our ever growing list?? yeessir pls 😂😂😂 i want 28394283048 servers okie?? ) okay but if we’re going towards a structure more similar to the sohma family, I actually…had an idea of how to connect Patrick to Yoojin ( who is canonically from the same clan as one of patrick’s previous lives aka ahn hak, here’s the post for information on that ).

Canonically yoojin, who could hear the voices of gods, was cursed with immortality and then punished by those same gods for receiving that ability as it was seen as a transgression…in this au, it’s not just Yoojin who is punished, but rather the entirety of his clan as well although it’s portrayed as a gift aka in exchange for hearing the voices of the gods/sixth senses, they give their bodies to the animal spirits in return. The head of the family is considered the reincarnation of the one who communed with the god who originally cursed yoojin ( the origin story of the curse, that yoojin was the one who triggered it, has been twisted aka his involvement was erased from the books ). And just as in the formation of the cults, there’s someone who’s a figurehead, there’s also always a scapegoat…in the origin story, that’s the person who supposedly refused to commune with the cat spirit so Patrick ends up being ‘the cat’/that scapegoat. 

In this au, his birth parents don’t take him and his brother to the UK because here, Patrick ( call myungdae here ) was taken from his parents to be raised by his clan….most likely he was ostracized similarly to the way Kyo was…HOWEVER, unlike Kyo, myungdae was not resigned to his fate and knew if he didn’t want to get stuck in the cat’s room, he needed an exit plan as soon as he graduated from high school…and that came in the form of a full ride scholarship to a college in London. Myungdae, who had proven to be very good at keeping his transformation a secret in the public, took it, using the excuse that he would return back to the estate as soon as he graduated from there….when graduation came around ( and thanks to felicity and hyuk’s influence ), he realized that returning back to Yeongju would mean the end of his life and therefore went no contact :) 

Basically he ran away from home by applying to grad school and then changed his name to ‘Patrick Grace’ so that he couldn’t be tracked. Things probably would’ve stayed that way too in that he still wouldn’t be able to hug anyone of a different gender ( he’s nonbinary so here he wouldn’t be able to hug either felicity OR hyuk :’D ), but he would consider that good enough being away from the clan….

However, he would be discovered after felicity passed. when he was investigating her death…the one responsible for the accident that killed her discovered Patrick’s true identity and made a deal with Patrick’s family. in exchange for exoberent amount of money and connections, the politician told the family of Patrick’s whereabouts. this way, they killed two birds with one stone— Patrick would be silenced, the truth about the accident remaining sealed and the family got back its scapegoat. 

Patrick was then thrown into the cat’s room, where he stayed for five years and the only reason he got out was because I’m assuming his friends ( hyuk?? Deva?? Wanna help him here?? ) found him and smuggled him out of the room even if it initially it was against his will….

So in the present time, Patrick is…well he’s trying to adjust to living a normal life again after five year living in isolation + enduring emotional abuse ( aka the head of the clan would visit and call him a monster, you know…the kind of stuff akito would say 🙃) and that’s been a struggle since the curse technically isn’t broken. He’s paranoid about leaving the house ( or if Alex is okay with this!! perhaps Patrick would live with hyuk here?? ) because who knows if his family will find him again and he KNOWS that if he’s taken back to the cat’s room he won’t survive. That and he’s an online tutor in korean, english language, and literature.

this is all to say tho!! if we were to do a group verse for a furuba au, this can definitely change- i might actually just make this an independent verse/a subverse for verse one but we shall see 🥲🥲🥲