#i mean im not extroverted by a longshot

[soggypotatoes]

i cant believe i spent years of my life rotting away in my room at my parents' place, spending weeks, sometimes months, not talking at all to another human either online or off. and now my housemate takes the dog for a walk and im like 'why isnt someone here rn so i can show them this meme. where is the human in my residence i can throw a dirty sock at because im bored.'

wild. and i thought i was such an introvert

[milf-harrington]

hii i promise I wanted to reply to your answers to the two ask thingies i replied to but tbh other than saying that i'm now actively keeping an eye out for the poetry cave ™, that i didn't actually follow your main and only your vibes gave me gender envy, BUT NOW that I HAVE SEEN I'm respectfully envying your gender wholeheartedly 👀, also my memory is shit so I don't remember what the music asks were about and wow this whole ask here is a mess.

I am once again on my balcony but this time it's more of what I like to call "nausea day", which means that I feel not really here or good at any capacity. Soooo i wanted to share an idea I had because I'm trying to clear my thoughts and because I'm still not sure if it's good enough to add to my WIP pile.

okay. so. Longshot.

He moves to a new city to pursue med school after graduating. He searches for months before finally finding a place, and it's all very rushed, and he moves in on the first day of the Semester, having maybe texted twice with his roommate before actually doing so.

Surprisingly it all goes as well as it can, considering that moving is always stressful and that the place is kinda old and disgusting.

He actually gets on pretty well with his roommate, a girl that introduced herself as smellerbee. (Bonding over their awful family or lack thereof, over their love of nature, and other things)

As months of online lectures go by, smellerbee invites a lot of people over,( and gets laid a couple of times), all the while having Longshot in the room next door, slowly discovering that yeah... Maybe he's a bit aspec (spoiler he very much is an aro king)

And we just follow Longshot, how he copes, how he kinda looses his sense of self, how being far away from the only few friends he had pushes him out of his comfort zone, how he struggles with his dreams vs. the amount of work he has to put into them, the humiliation and competitive nature of the peeps in his semester, how smellerbee- always the extrovert- tries to make him more social and introduces him to the freedom fighters and the gaang, how he sees smellerbee's love life evolving and documents about it, and about the other relationships slowly forming in her friend group.(all the while questioning if it's normal to not feel like that and having a hard time navigating these thoughts)

and one day he just realises : he talks now. A lot.

he talks a lot with them all, and when did he become the friend people go to for advice ? Actually when did he become a friend to this group of wonderfully unique individuals?

did he really get adopted by a bunch of extroverts, get involved in their drama, get the title of group dad, when he never felt secure around more than 2 people before ?

he then has an oh moment and yeah-

there's more to it, zukka getting together and almost causing the group to split up, yue realising she doesn't have a lot of time to live anymore, katara facing the struggles of always having been the best at everything and now being overwhelmed and doing less good, toph kicking ableist ass, jet finally realising that he has awful coping mechanisms and fighting his addiction, haru-longshot bonding times, pianjeong the only good and understanding Profs, trans smellerbee and a whole lot more.(everything from Longshot's pov)

yeah so I hope that wasn't too annoying to read, I know that my thoughts are all over the place, but I'm getting more and more attached to this found family au, it's pretty personal :) and yeah, hopefully i'll get to write it ?

feel free to ignore or tell me what you think (and now I'm kinda scared someone will steal a few ideas here but hey :) )

sorry for flooding your asks again, sending you a lot of hearties

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hello dearest anon, i am exhausted rn and lack the brain power to fully convey how much i love that idea and how interesting and detailed it seems already but,,, im love so much and am exited that you shared it with me

never apologise for flooding my asks, i love reading them <3