#it'll probably go through a full rewrite. my perception of how to write vegas has changed a lot since i wrote this

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mvp yaai 🥺

@adanima tagging you here!

right! so.

the premise of the fic is mvp goes to visit yaai, which is not a very unique concept in itself. but i've got this very particular idea of yaai in my head, and i've come to terms with the fact that no one is going to magically write her for me so i gotta do it myself 😅

in my head, yaai is not very learned. she's village folk, and she doesn't speak very much, but she's very sweet and she's got this simplicity about her that often cuts through the murkiness of a messy situation. there's a lot of lingering grief about how she let her only daughter / pete's mother suffer at the hands of pete's father, but she's surprisingly frank when it comes to talking about that, and she lives by the idea that there's no point in wishing the worst parts of your life undone, because that would be undoing the best parts, too, and you cannot have one without the other. (she loves pete very very much.)

pete keeps secrets from her, and she knows this, and she knows she's better off not knowing. most of the time her worry for pete is in the background -- something she's learned to live alongside. but pete's disappearance scared her terribly.

anyway! that one canon phone call with her is rotating in my brain 24/7, and i just wanna write lots of words about her. and also about vegas and macau having to live with house lizards lmao. i don't have very much written, but here's a tiny bit from before they get there:

"Don't take this the wrong way," Pete says, which isn't a very promising start. "I didn't think you'd want to come? Or, well. That you'd — have a good time."

"Why not," Vegas says, eyes narrowed. 

"It's just very, uh," and Pete scrunches his entire face, "rural?"

"Okay," Vegas says. "And you don't think we can handle that?"

"I didn't say that," Pete says immediately. "But have you ever been anywhere like that? Or stayed overnight?"

Vegas can feel a smile spreading across his face. "You think we're spoiled, don't you?"