For Keith, life was so frustrating.
He had been living alone after Shiro moved out a year ago to go live with Adam. It was quiet and simple. He even got himself a dog, which, still to Shiro's exasperations, went "unnamed". Except Keith did name his new companion, settling on naming him 'dog'.
Plain and simple.
But he stood in his now shared bathroom, tiredly staring at the amount of products on not just the shelf that had been empty before, but the brand new shelf that had been installed above it.
Face cream, oils, cleanser, exfoliation items, masks, moisturizers, sun screen, lotions, and more. So much more that it all made Keith's head spin with questions on how one person could need so much, let alone how a guy could need so many beauty products.
His eyes drifted over to the shower and its pulled curtain, seeing the products that lined inside of it on the newly installed shower wall caddy, including a hanging loofa, and he couldn't tell what else.
Keith sighed.
Shiro had come to him, saying an old acquaintance of theirs needed a place to stay and quick. They would need a place at least until the end of the school term where they would be trying to look for a new roommate or living situation. Only a few months, Shiro had said, face hopeful Keith would agree.
When he asked why they couldn't just find a new roommate now, Shiro made a smile that seemed to be apologizing to Keith for something Keith knew Shiro didn't cause, a whole situation out of his control but still weirdly felt responsible for. And later Keith understood why Shiro smiled like that, in that quiet beg of forgiveness.
For the person who was needing a roommate desperately was someone Keith had tried forgetting about time and again.
And like a rash, somehow that person always came back.
That's how Lance landed back up in his life; how an old classmate from his youth was now rooming with him in college.
Lance was originally rooming with Hunk. But when Hunk and his girlfriend Shae went fully official, the pair had been debating on moving her in or the two moving out to a new place. Keith didn't know the full story, but Shiro told him that Hunk and Shae eventually decided to move out. Which then left Lance a few months trying to find a roommate himself to help support the rent or someone else to move into with. With no luck, it seemed, until Lance ran into Shiro on campus and told him his woes.
Shiro, always the good samaritan, and knowing Keith was roommateless, thought pairing them together would be a good plan… And Shiro believed it would be a good chance for Keith, to keep someone around and keep Keith from isolating himself from the world and activities as he usually would.
Shiro thought it was a good plan.
Lance was just happy to not be homeless or drowning in debt.
Keith was unhappy to lose his peace and quiet.
He looked at himself in the mirror, his inner voice scoffing at his 'despair' for his lost peace.
As much as Keith would never vocalize it, maybe, for a short moment, he could admit quietly to himself that having Lance living with him was nice... and maybe... for a short second, he... liked having the brunet's presence around.
Of course he wouldn't say that, or admit it aloud.
Lance didn't seem to like him any better than when they were kids. Their animosity just... seemed to grow a bit, their bickering almost daily now.
So there was no reason to lean into any emotions for the other.
"Come on mullet!" Lance knocked on the bathroom door, startling Keith from his thoughts. "How much longer are you going to be?"
Keith sighed.
So much for peace and quiet.
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hey pasta! I don’t know if someone has asked this already but is TRT gonna go into Born Again or end at season 3?
So that's where I'm not sure! The current outline is as such:
All Major Arcs (including Cyrus James/Project Beagle fallout arc and psychic abilities arcs): scheduled to wrap up a bit after the end of S3 so that Matt and Jane's arcs/development neatly dovetail together. This will mark the official end of TRT's main fic.
Special Additional Arcs (chaptered fics not attached to main fic but still TRT canon, taking place after end of main fic) in no particular order: Endgame/The Snap arc, Spider-Man: NWH arc, Spoiler Removed arc, tentative She Hulk Shenanigans arc.
Oneshot Arcs: various domestic fluff arcs, interactions with major MCU events, a 'What Their Life Is Like When Old Cause GD It They're Going To Live To Old Age And Will Have Rocking Chairs' arc, a SINGLE take it or leave it 'What If?' fic of something funny with a possible daughter cause damn I had this idea for a hilarious scene and it won't leave me alone
Now, those are what are planned in the outline, and the main event with Project Beagle tie-ins and plotlines and all of that is something I'm still planning to end just after S3 because I really do want to have a finish line for that, and I feel like dragging that all out for Born Again wouldn't work for the... events that are going to happen, without saying too much. Once that's wrapped up, that's when you're going to see TRT finally marked as 'complete' on AO3, though there'll be more fics set in that universe (see special additional arcs and oneshot arcs) that I'll mark as in the Devil and Hound series along with drabbles on tumblr.
Once we're past that official endpoint and those special arcs, though, things get fluid and murky since when I was outlining all the major plotlines, there was no Daredevil: Born Again, nor was Matt even in the MCU officially (which is why Spider-Man pops in way sooner in TRT than he meets Matt in the MCU) and I specifically set up Jane's plotline to bookend with Matt's so their growth twined together and they both finally found peace around the same time. Outside that, I'd planned some shorter chaptered stories in the series post-mainline TRT like the Snap arc that I may now adjust (since it sure is looking like Matt was left behind for the snap) but nothing on the level of TRT's main plotline which is absolutely massive and took me years to fully outline and construct before coming back from hiatus in 2021 and pumping out chapters (Happy six year anniversary to TRT on Sept 15!).
ALL THAT BEING SAID.
I do have plans to write stuff for TRT's take on Born Again because I'm 100% married to writing for Matt at this point and there's no possible way I won't want to do something once I'm being fed Charlie!Matt scenes again. I'm not sure what those plans are just yet - I kinda wanna wait and see what happens in Born Again in case it sparks something. But I also want to make sure that no matter what I do, there's some sort of strong original plotline so that, much like mainline TRT, we'll be able to weave in and out of canonical events (especially since things like the Snap or a wedding or Jane and Matt's friendship with Peter will alter canon). I don't think I'm going to do something quite as huge as TRT's main plotline again, mostly because it takes a TON of time and work, and I'm planning to take the original TRT elements and morph them into an original series fit for publishing (different enough that I can leave TRT up for everyone to read, cause at this point the fic's part of DD fandom culture and I have no plans to take that away) which will also take a ton of time. But I'm definitely rattling my brain around, looking at different plotlines I could do knowing what I know about the ending, hunting for loose ends or canonical threads that I can weave in with TRT's world and create something new!
Then again, I never would have said I'd make something as massive as TRT before I started, either, so who knows.
So in short: YES, there will be TRT events for Born Again even if it's not as elaborate as TRT! I just have no idea what those will be yet. Fortunately, TRT mainline's only a little over halfway done so I've got time to plan!
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