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Round 2: Alternate Universes
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Status: Closed
Seventeen Holidays
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Sometimes its the characters that move us, but sometimes we fall in love with the the world behind the story. Something transformative occurs when we place the characters we love in an unfamiliar world, like the light has shone on a new side and we're seeing them anew. Run to the classics; revisit the magic of Harry Potter, the heart-punch of a Pacific Rim drift, the warmth of a Coffee Shop AU. Or maybe dig your fingers into a story that blew your mind - Battle Royale, The Raven Cycle, Interstellar - or demand better from a book that let you down (The Poppy War fin- mmph). Perhaps! You might combine two of your fandoms for maximum joy (Haikyuu and Tennis adjacent mutuals, I'm looking at you.) The possibilities are literally endless. Do it for the aesthetic, do it for the drama. Examples
Wonhui x MDZS/Untamed
Wonwoo as Lan Wanji, Jun as Wei Wuxian (Minghao as Jiang Cheng?). I want a cast that feels betrayed and shocked at Junhui's demise but then gradually learning his reasons behind it.
Mingyu/Seungkwan Debating AU
Imagine them as third speakers in the high school circuit. Rivals! Mortal Enemies! Prepared case summaries derailing into personal attacks, and then when their coach calls them out on it they become passive aggressive e.g. "there are major flaws in the opposition's arguments..."
Jeonghan as Mal from Inception
Any Jeonghan ship will do. I just want him to chaotically haunt a person while being sexy about it.
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[FILL] fishing the sun out of the sky
Major Tags: Oikawa!Jeonghan, Hinata!Seungkwan, Post-timeskip arc
Additional Tags: N/A
Permission to remix: Yes
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Part One is about Time.
Part Two is about Space.
The Last Part is about the Sun.
i.
Jeonghan chuckles. “Goddamn. That kid really did it, huh.”
He sits on the hot sand, a fair distance away from the makeshift court and watches Seungkwan play beach volleyball for the first time.
How long has it been? Years. It has been years since he’s seen him. And yet a part of Jeonghan still stings when he remembers their loss, when he remembers not having been to the Nationals when Seungkwan, that little shrimp, had gone and had lost. It should’ve been Jeonghan who had defeated the crows, he thinks bitterly, he should’ve been there instead of watching their match play through his stupid phon-- damn, and then he whoops, cannot help but whistle in awe, when he sees how Seungkwan flies, the sand spilling from the balls of his feet as he soars and the ball flies in a beautiful arc.
“God...” Jeonghan laughs louder, feels his eyes grow wider. Watches intently how Seungkwan moves his body, so differently now, a far cry from when he had been opposite him at an indoor court. Jeonghan watches, watches and observes Seungkwan’s limbs, no more of the boyish callousness that thrilled Jeonghan so much that it irked him, but now with the simple assuredness that, this is where my feet will land and this is how it will make me fly.
Jeonghan lifts a hand up to his forehead to shield his eyes from the sun but really, something in his chest pinwheels forward like a topspin serve when Seungkwan smiles like an idiot after he hits a good spike that leaves his opponents’ mouths open.
He had forgotten how endlessly alluring it is watching Seungkwan play.
The day after, Jeonghan comes to the beach again.
This time, he makes himself seen. Halfway through the game, Seungkwan catches sight of him and lets the ball hit him square in the chest in favor of turning his whole body towards where Jeonghan had been standing and practically yelling, THE GRAND KING?!
His hands fly to his mouth, as if he wasn’t intending to scream that out loud.
“The grand king,” Jeonghan repeats, lifts his shoulders better, and grins back at Seungkwan who is still looking incredulously at him. Time passes and Jeonghan had forgotten just how ridiculous his orange hair is. Forgotten how small. How alluring it is to watch him play and also just how Seungkwan can make him feel -- him, the grand king -- feel so fucking big simply with the way he regards him.
“Play with me,” Seungkwan says, still small and already nineteen, sweaty and shining like the sun, and suddenly Jeonghan feels himself pivot back to Miyagi, that first game, hundreds of eyes on him, but it’s only Seungkwan’s hunger on the other side of the net and the ball on his hand that grounds him to place.
ii.
Volleyball is a sport where you are always looking up. This, of course, Jeonghan knows. He’s the grand king for god’s fucking sake. But it’s a whole matter entirely when you look up and you don’t see the roof of the gymnasium but the brutal sun high up in the sky at noon.
Jeonghan makes the same mistake again and feels his field of vision flood with the hot white of the sun and then with black as a sharp pain shoots deep in his forehead. He cannot get used to this. How does Seungkwan do it?
He faintly hears the ball thud behind him and then feels Seungkwan rush to his side.
“Hyung, are you okay? Told you to wear a visor or some sunglasses. There is no roof here, it’s just the sky!” He nags, then fiddles around with the hat in his head and velcros it into Jeonghan’s.
“This looks stupid on me, Seungkwannie. Look, the girls are already laughing,” Jeonghan whines, still with his ass on the sand.
“Who cares about the girls, hyung,” he says, and he’s suddenly so closely standing over him that he’s momentarily blocking the sun. “I think it looks cute on you.”
Time passes and Jeonghan had forgotten if Seungkwan had ever been this close to him. There had always been a court and a net and several bodies between them. Right now, his face is only a few inches away from Jeonghan’s nose that he can feel Seungkwan’s excited breathing ruffle tufts of his hair poking out of the visor, tickle his nearly sunburnt skin on his forehead.
Time passes and Jeonghan says, “You have freckles now.”
Seungkwan pauses. Then he smiles a bit, only a little bit like a secret but brilliant all the same, only for Jeonghan to see, his own private sun, before he lets himself get pulled up by the arm and they lose to another set against the locals.
iii.
“Seungkwan, what would you be doing if you weren’t playing volleyball?”
“Hmmm. Maybe coaching?”
“That’s still like playing volleyball, stupid. What if there isn’t volleyball at all?” Jeonghan insists, the visor still sitting funnily on top of his head.
Seungkwan laughs, loud and ugly and absolutely irreverent. His skin rendered gold by the sun setting. “What do you mean there isn’t volleyball? What kind of world would that be?”
This one, this part of Seungkwan, Jeonghan had also forgotten, and he's grateful to bask in it right now and to remember.
Re: [FILL] fishing the sun out of the sky
(Anonymous) 2021-01-18 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)SJDSJDHJSADHJADJASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OHHHH THIS LINE JUST. BLEW ME AWAY. how they were so close that yjh could see this detail in his face. oh wow. and the little details! the visor! seungkwan nagging! and jeonghan whining he doesnt look cute! this is such a unique pairing but u write them so well! and also the oikawa/hinata dynamics too, its also very palpable here! the grand king reference!!!! the game they lost to the two locals (i forgot the nickname they have but i remember the chapter where they had to buy them beer or something??) >__< aahhhhhhh i have never imagined seungkwan as hinata (though i shouldve! i shoulve!) so thank you for putting this in my head i will forever now trasure it....
and the last scene: Seungkwan laughs, loud and ugly and absolutely irreverent. His skin rendered gold by the sun setting. “What do you mean there isn’t volleyball? What kind of world would that be?” --the contrast in the description of his laugh as ugly and the stunning imagery of brazil's sunset. only jeonghan can think that. and then the last line: This one, this part of Seungkwan, Jeonghan had also forgotten, and he's grateful to bask in it right now and to remember.
OH THAT'S SO ABSOLUTELY OIKAWA AND JEONGHAN AND SEUNGKWAN AND HINATA. i dont rly know how else to say it but you captured them both so well here dear writer... and i will be thinking about this for so long. i wish i prompted this myself so i can claim this fill as being for ME but dang. just. thank you. this was so lovely and tender and im smiling as i write this. <<<333333
Re: [FILL] fishing the sun out of the sky
those lines you picked out were my favorite when I wrote them down too. I'm so glad you also enjoyed this. thank you so much for reading and leaving this really sweet and endearing comment! i, too, am smiling as i write this!
Re: [FILL] fishing the sun out of the sky
(Anonymous) 2021-01-20 06:58 am (UTC)(link)and... oh my gosh. oh my heckin gosh i love this so much!!! oihina and the entire brazil arc is so dear to me anyway, and this is overwhelming! the choice of seungkwan as hinata in this scenario is so amazing, firstly seungkwan does have that protag energy about him, that quality of protean self-perfection and his friendliness, but the specific way you've written him is so dear. to me. he has freckles. him as hinata trying to get better, hinata with his seemingly bottomless hunger, seungkwan with his ambitions. and who's doing the seeing here? it's jeonghan. looking outwardly at seungkwan, at the gold-speckled boy he is, feeling anchored to this blazing presence, this whole... this whole dynamic. watching someone else progress, watching someone else share the same space you do, but knowing they've defeated you once and here you are trying to get better and here they are. how does seungkwan do it? what would they do besides volleyball? there's nothing else for either of them. AND YET THAT'S A QUESTION JEONGHAN WOULD ASK.
ALSO THE WAY SEUNGKWAN YELLS GRAND KING IS. i can hear that happening.
i am buzzing with excitement this is such a treat to read i can't thank you enough!! much love!
Re: [FILL] fishing the sun out of the sky
tbh I saw this prompt earlier on but only got around to writing it some days ago because why the hell not! and when u mentioned seungkwan in the prompt, I was also like, why the hell not! I agree with seungkwan protag energy, to me he really exudes hinata energy, the way he takes everything he does/the world throws at him so seriously, and just getting better and better, and just doing it! I didn't get to read HQ while it was ongoing, but even in that chapter right before the timeskip, I held my breath and yelled when I saw where the hell hinata had gone. it was just.. yeah, he totally would do that. so I'm very happy that sort of, somehow, a little bit, came through here.
thank you so much for this prompt and for reading this little fill. much love back at u!