#izuna mid-having to use a lobster as a fork: do you want to go on a date after this.

[doveywovy]

tobiizu au where madara, hashirama, izuna, and tobirama all are professional chefs who go on a competition cooking show. its the kind where you can sabotage your opponent throughout the process *or* just focus on your work and try to make the best dish possible.

madara and hashirama go for good clean competition, no cheating, no sabotaging. it ultimately ruins their real-world friendship because they're hypercompetitive and prone to emotional outbursts. madara loses in the second round and immediately starts yelling about how it's rigged because Hashirama's food is overcooked, hashirama loses in the third round and starts talking shit about madaras "deconstructed plating, as if any of that mess was intentional". around the last round they do both use a sabotage against eachother, thus destroying any remaining trust they once had. they don't speak to eachother for ten years after the episode is filmed.

izuna and tobirama both go all in on the sabotages. as tobirama puts it, they're basically equally skilled as chefs, so the deciding factor will be how much bullshit they have to cook around. izuna's own talking-head statement is just that if he wanted to cook normally he wouldn't be on the Insane Sabotage Cooking Show.

Never before have two chefs spent so much time and effort on messing each other up during an episode. There's over ten sabotages per round, each one piled on top of the last. They barely manage to plate for judgement, and neither of them come out looking great to the judges. To be fair, how good a meal could you make if you had to cook it with your non-dominant hand using only a rice cooker with all of your ingredients in unlabeled bags, and having to use children's scissors instead of a knife? it's edible and thats an achievement.

this ultimately means neither of them are taking the cooking aspect to heart, so the competition is less personal and a lot more fun. it's not a judgement of their actual skill. Plus, because they're both going equally ridiculous with how many sabotages they do, it doesn't feel personally targeted.

they start dating before the episode ends (while continuing to sabotage eachother, of course) and get married a few months later.

[rendiamberspirit]

Why does this just make perfect sense? This is in the top 10 Modern AU's for me

tobiizu au where madara, hashirama, izuna, and tobirama all are professional chefs who go on a competition cooking show. its the kind where you can sabotage your opponent throughout the process *or* just focus on your work and try to make the best dish possible.

madara and hashirama go for good clean competition, no cheating, no sabotaging. it ultimately ruins their real-world friendship because they're hypercompetitive and prone to emotional outbursts. madara loses in the second round and immediately starts yelling about how it's rigged because Hashirama's food is overcooked, hashirama loses in the third round and starts talking shit about madaras "deconstructed plating, as if any of that mess was intentional". around the last round they do both use a sabotage against eachother, thus destroying any remaining trust they once had. they don't speak to eachother for ten years after the episode is filmed.

izuna and tobirama both go all in on the sabotages. as tobirama puts it, they're basically equally skilled as chefs, so the deciding factor will be how much bullshit they have to cook around. izuna's own talking-head statement is just that if he wanted to cook normally he wouldn't be on the Insane Sabotage Cooking Show.

Never before have two chefs spent so much time and effort on messing each other up during an episode. There's over ten sabotages per round, each one piled on top of the last. They barely manage to plate for judgement, and neither of them come out looking great to the judges. To be fair, how good a meal could you make if you had to cook it with your non-dominant hand using only a rice cooker with all of your ingredients in unlabeled bags, and having to use children's scissors instead of a knife? it's edible and thats an achievement.

this ultimately means neither of them are taking the cooking aspect to heart, so the competition is less personal and a lot more fun. it's not a judgement of their actual skill. Plus, because they're both going equally ridiculous with how many sabotages they do, it doesn't feel personally targeted.

they start dating before the episode ends (while continuing to sabotage eachother, of course) and get married a few months later.