#and i thought this was a fun variant on getting isekai'd into your fave trashy series

[kingofanemptyworld]

i saw a commercial for some random hallmark movie the other day and since then i've been batting around an idea for a fic. it could frankly apply to any of my ships but the one I was having the most fun with was grimmichi (if you see a similar post for another ship later it's because i like this idea too much to limit it to one fandom, shhhh). so, set up: human!grimmjow has exactly one guilty pleasure -- this old-as-balls manga series that focuses on shinigami striving to bring lost souls to peace. it didn't sell well, was never adapted into an anime or a live action series, it didn't even finish properly, just got axed one day with a messy, rushed ending that left all thirteen of its avid readers unsatisfied. so why does grimmjow like it?

the protagonist is hot as fuck and swings around an oversized sword, cleaving bad guys in two with that permanent scowl on his face. grimmjow has thoughts about the guy, okay, daydreams, wet dreams, what the fuck ever. he's hot, and grimmjow found the series randomly when he was going through a dry patch in terms of relationships.

it's been a few years since he got into it, and he knows it's rare to ever see it mentioned online or at cons, let alone to find fanart or -- god forbid -- cosplayers. which is why he's so surprised to see the orange-haired guy in the black robes wandering the seedy streets grimmjow generally spends his time at. especially because this cosplayer is on some god-tier shit, he couldn't look more like kurosaki if he'd gotten plastic surgery to look the part.

and, look, nerdy hobby aside, grimmjow's never one to pass up the chance to score with someone who ticks all his fucking boxes and then some, so he goes to hit him up.

only for the cosplayer to call him by name before grimmjow even gets to open his mouth. the fuck is with that?