#i bring it up because

[4lph4kidz]

ok 2 people expressed interest in the (maybe) bro//grandpa superhero AU so i'm going to ramble about it. tbh it's not even my favorite of the other ideas i've messed around with it's just the one that came to mind first as an example of my 'less quality' silly self indulgent WIPs. by which i mean it's overly tropey and not all that 'deep' by my standards so i'm not sure i want to actually spend time developing it. but it's both interesting and funny enough to me for me to humour the idea!

so this is - it's dumb. it started as a gag bc i watched the first episode of that buddy daddies anime with a friend and got bored and tried to see how fast i could write a dirkjake drabble with a similar premise and it somehow turned into a whole thing about the homoerotic rivalry between a superhero who's past his prime (jake) and a supervillain who's maybe on the path to redeption or maybe going even further off the rails (dirk) finding out their children are best friends and go to the same daycare. initially i was playing the whole thing for comedy because the first chapter is them brawling in a daycare parking lot, but if i wanted to i could take it in the direction of something more serious - mainly exploring the fact that these people are pretty terrible parents. how serious i want to get with the exploration of those flaws is the dividing factor on whether or not this is just a pretty far out dirkjake au where they just happen to be parents or its my first actual foray into brograndpa. so yeah. there's a shit ton of lore which ranges from stupid to kind of interesting by my standards, idk, it's a premise i can do a lot with and have fun with.

this is all hypothetical tbh. i'm not sure if i would feel comfortable actually polishing and publishing it because i am slightly uneasy with the subject matter (both with the pairing and with the superhero genre as a whole, which i like but i don't LOVE and i dont want to make any grand sweeping statements about) and it overall doesn't really meet my own standards for an au (because i'm pretentious and i don't like to let myself have fun) - look, i overthink things a lot, but i have my reservations abt putting something like this out there for something as trivial as 'fun'