#especially since i'm still not sure what hyakkimaru would call nui

[rin-the-shadow]

One of these days, I’m going to write an angsty AU for the stage version of Dororo in which Nui manages to crawl under the pillar before Jukai collapses. Especially because Hyakkimaru doesn’t respond to her when she meets him in the play (though that could be at least partially because he was overloaded from losing his brother and growing his eyes) and because Tahomaru is definitely already dead by the time she arrives (indicated by Hyakkimaru suddenly being unable to figure out where he is and flipping out over it).

But it could potentially be interesting to explore that shifting of roles, what that would look like or if there would even be one. Would she still want to act as a mother figure to Hyakkimaru? Would he want her to? How is she dealing with acting too late to save Tahomaru? How is Hyakkimaru dealing with having lost his mom and his brother in the same day? And where does Dororo stand in all that? Does he want them to reconcile? Where does he fit in that picture? Do they go back to Sukeroku’s village or do they travel somewhere else?

Though, at the same time, I have no idea when or if I would ever write this, given my less than fabulous track record with post-canon fics.