#hoping to have something to have for updating about twice per month with about 2-2.5k words per chapter for most of these ideas

[executionerspity]

trying to get somewhere on deciding my next yuzugiri fic to focus on now that Rough Patch is nearly complete (in my drafts, as a very rough first draft) and ill have the time to work on other stuff

ideas under the cut, figured id at least get them out here and let people maybe comment or whatever

Idea 1: Focus on Catching Pop Flies and Feelings, a baseball AU with Baseball Pro!Sagiri and Bodyguard!Yuzuriha. It's already got the groundwork fairly set (and a few chapters uploaded), which allows for ease of transition into it, but I'm not a sports person, so I might prefer to keep it as a semi-sporadic fic to update.

Idea 2: Post-Series fic with a few of the butterflies that Rien planned to use on the mainland having actually reached there, altering things in ways that leave Yuzuriha and Sagiri investigating and handling several unwanted changes. This one could last a while with lower amounts of prep work, and could probably carry on and off until close to the end of the anime's airing, especially if they make 3 seasons with 1 cour each.

Idea 3: Modern AU fic with Cop!Sagiri, who makes a deal with Prisoner!Yuzuriha to get a confession from a different person to prevent a murder case mistrial, and the terms for Yuzuriha's cooperation requires them to interact semi-frequently. I've got a bit of the basics for this prepped, but not as much as the Baseball AU.

Idea 4: Arranged Marriage AU, where Yuzuriha agrees to go find an arranged marriage to get Saya better medical help in hopes of saving her dying sister. Cue Sagiri pushing her father's company needing to prove their diversity statements in order to get a wife, but her father insists on picking someone he thinks will be well behaved. Yuzuriha, of course, knows how to put on a façade. It's a newer idea, but fairly easy to write with minimal prep work.

Idea 5: Chess AU, modern. Nothing too complex or anything, just a meet-cute with some terrible pun title involving the word check or maybe a different chess term. Again, basically zero groundwork has been done for this, but it's a much easier concept to include overall, and can involve one of them teaching the other in order to make the gameplay lower level.

I do have a few different ideas beyond these that I've toyed with, but don't currently feel confident writing. I also could try to figure out another AU that's commonly used, like Band AU, Coffeeshop AU, or Florist/Tattoo Artist AU, and make that work. Probably would have some easy resources, but I'd be starting from square one on even building the ideas. Still down for people to suggest that stuff, in case anything pops out at me, it's just less likely than if I end up working on some idea of mine with some prep already done.

If I don't get any responses on this by roughly the end of April 12th (for at least one time zone), I'll probably end up working more on 1 and/or 3, but I'm pretty open to ideas. The time zone converter for that time is here.