![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Lay in The Atmosphere Extra
Dec. 11th, 2018 07:21 pm Updated LitA this morning with its Extra bonus AU Chapter. I have to say that there's some irony in the fact that the bonus chapter is actually longer than the totality of LitA. But I guess that's just how it goes sometimes, haha ^_^;; Now perhaps my brain will let me finish other things since I am not allowing it to do any more AU shenanigans with my own story >_>
If anyone is interested, I feel like in the AU universe to Lay in the Atmosphere and Not Left to Stand Alone, KAito and Aoko would reach a point where they got along a lot sooner than in NLTSA. With Kaito entering into a relationship, she'd be forced to move on quicker. Shinichi would help Kaito oust his organization of criminals from Japan, but for all that Shinichi could pass on to his network of people in the US, neither he nor Kaito are equipped to globally battle them, so it's mostly a stop-gap while Kaito's still searching for Pandora. He can't quite retire yet, but heists aren't as dangerous, stressful, or high stakes as they were in NLTSA, thus less of a strain with Aoko there as well.
Takumi is both more and less mature. He's more mature in understanding his own emotions and in being responsible for others--he's a big brother in this universe and he has four parental figures to help him through things--but less mature in that he's not as self reliant as in NLTSA (he has 4 parents, he has more people to fall back on and SOMEONE is available at almost all times if he needs them) and a bit more prone to goofing off. Less Aoko and Kaito fighting = less tension in his day to day life + stability of sorts with Ran-Shinichi-Kaito household.
That said, everyone suffers at least a little trauma via Shinichi's corpse-magnet issues. Takumi's not as innocent of how dark the world can be in this and Kaito's family group does have some danger just because Shinichi attracts danger. :/ So it's some trade offs.
As for Hakuba in that AU verse, well I debated on if Mel would even die in that universe and went 'ok, Shinichi and Kaito got JAPAN clear, but that still leaves London a mess' so it made enough sense that he'd still end up dying. (and I would miss Hakuba if he wasn't there I mean story wise it is more fun (for me) to have him there. Sorry Hakuba. You still suffer) So Mel dies, Hakuba goes to Japan as he did in NLTSA, only there is no convenient Kaito-neighbor to latch onto and buoy him up. There's also no Takumi lashing out at him--Takumi doesn't have the same desperate urge to find more about his parents before their divorce because they're more open about things since they aren't always fighting in this universe. He has stability and a loving familial model around him, he doesn't need to try and picture it, so even after he does figure out Hakuba is someone Kaito knew it's more of 'huh, small world' instead of a 'need to test him because I'm frustrated with everything'. They get along fine, and Hakuba tries really hard not to single him out. Hakuba also spends the first like 3 weeks expecting heavy pranking and is baffled when it doesn't come, cuz, like, is this Kaito's child or not??? Then he manages to catch sight of Takumi and Shinemi's prank war on each other and it's like, "Ah, he has another outlet."
Kaito is already happily in a stable relationship and not looking for anything else. He does flirt a but with Saguru, but it's more his usual level of charisma, not anything pointed. Hakuba meanwhile labels him completely off limits because he's clearly in a committed relationship. Sometime he has...thoughts...but he's not going anywhere with them. He ends up dating Hiroto a biiiiit later than in NLTSA (because he's deeper in depression in this universe with no Kaito to start pulling him out of his shell til later) . He still gets a call from Hiroto at work one day and ends up finding more of the people Kaito and Shinichi missed and resolving Mel's death. And Chikage busts in like 'hey, guess what I've been spending literal years doing?? INFO DUMP" and Shinichi is really uncomfortable with 'Aunt Chris' but eh, they're not on opposite sides anymore and she's not currently doing anything illegal. Ish. She's stopped killing at any rate. His morality has gotten more gray as time goes on really. When you're comparing everyone you meet with murderers, your standards get lower so quickly. Hakuba unofficially gets adopted into the family friend fold and is invited to Kudo-Kuroba family get togethers for all eternity. There. Happy.
If anyone is interested, I feel like in the AU universe to Lay in the Atmosphere and Not Left to Stand Alone, KAito and Aoko would reach a point where they got along a lot sooner than in NLTSA. With Kaito entering into a relationship, she'd be forced to move on quicker. Shinichi would help Kaito oust his organization of criminals from Japan, but for all that Shinichi could pass on to his network of people in the US, neither he nor Kaito are equipped to globally battle them, so it's mostly a stop-gap while Kaito's still searching for Pandora. He can't quite retire yet, but heists aren't as dangerous, stressful, or high stakes as they were in NLTSA, thus less of a strain with Aoko there as well.
Takumi is both more and less mature. He's more mature in understanding his own emotions and in being responsible for others--he's a big brother in this universe and he has four parental figures to help him through things--but less mature in that he's not as self reliant as in NLTSA (he has 4 parents, he has more people to fall back on and SOMEONE is available at almost all times if he needs them) and a bit more prone to goofing off. Less Aoko and Kaito fighting = less tension in his day to day life + stability of sorts with Ran-Shinichi-Kaito household.
That said, everyone suffers at least a little trauma via Shinichi's corpse-magnet issues. Takumi's not as innocent of how dark the world can be in this and Kaito's family group does have some danger just because Shinichi attracts danger. :/ So it's some trade offs.
As for Hakuba in that AU verse, well I debated on if Mel would even die in that universe and went 'ok, Shinichi and Kaito got JAPAN clear, but that still leaves London a mess' so it made enough sense that he'd still end up dying. (and I would miss Hakuba if he wasn't there I mean story wise it is more fun (for me) to have him there. Sorry Hakuba. You still suffer) So Mel dies, Hakuba goes to Japan as he did in NLTSA, only there is no convenient Kaito-neighbor to latch onto and buoy him up. There's also no Takumi lashing out at him--Takumi doesn't have the same desperate urge to find more about his parents before their divorce because they're more open about things since they aren't always fighting in this universe. He has stability and a loving familial model around him, he doesn't need to try and picture it, so even after he does figure out Hakuba is someone Kaito knew it's more of 'huh, small world' instead of a 'need to test him because I'm frustrated with everything'. They get along fine, and Hakuba tries really hard not to single him out. Hakuba also spends the first like 3 weeks expecting heavy pranking and is baffled when it doesn't come, cuz, like, is this Kaito's child or not??? Then he manages to catch sight of Takumi and Shinemi's prank war on each other and it's like, "Ah, he has another outlet."
Kaito is already happily in a stable relationship and not looking for anything else. He does flirt a but with Saguru, but it's more his usual level of charisma, not anything pointed. Hakuba meanwhile labels him completely off limits because he's clearly in a committed relationship. Sometime he has...thoughts...but he's not going anywhere with them. He ends up dating Hiroto a biiiiit later than in NLTSA (because he's deeper in depression in this universe with no Kaito to start pulling him out of his shell til later) . He still gets a call from Hiroto at work one day and ends up finding more of the people Kaito and Shinichi missed and resolving Mel's death. And Chikage busts in like 'hey, guess what I've been spending literal years doing?? INFO DUMP" and Shinichi is really uncomfortable with 'Aunt Chris' but eh, they're not on opposite sides anymore and she's not currently doing anything illegal. Ish. She's stopped killing at any rate. His morality has gotten more gray as time goes on really. When you're comparing everyone you meet with murderers, your standards get lower so quickly. Hakuba unofficially gets adopted into the family friend fold and is invited to Kudo-Kuroba family get togethers for all eternity. There. Happy.
