A fnc fic where they met as kids, either by Chip obtaining a way to the under sea and meeting Gil some how or Gil running away to an above sea island and meeting Chip, where they know each other for no more than a month, but fundamentally change the course of each other's lives.
Where Chip shows Gil that it's not always black and white, that life is colored in shades of gray, that the Elders approval isn't everything.
Where Gil shows Chip how to allow himself to be, where he doesn't shave to chance his adoptive father's legacy, he can just be himself.
Where they sob in each others arm for hours knowing it'll likely be the last time they meet.
Where Chip, as he grows, learns to dream for himself, be himself, not chasing a shadow of a time long gone.
Where Gil, as he grows, learns to live for himself, be himself, not trying to fill impossible shoes for a Prophecy that could never be for him.
They do meet again, many years later, when each other is barely a wisp of a memory.
Chip in that boat with Jay, sure of himself and his own journey.
Gil floating in the open tide, having left his home to be free.
They don't recognize each other. They remember the person they met in their childhoods. But names and faces were lost to time.
They become crew, they become family.
One night, in an emotional conversation brought on by feelings of longing for a person long gone, they tell each other about the friend they had in their youths.
About the friend that forever changed their lives.
And maybe they realize, maybe they don't.
But regardless, they're together now. And forever.
Also! I just wanted to say I’m so happy to have a mutual that knows and likes SF9!!! They’re my ults and I love them so o get excited when someone else knows them 😂
NO BC I WAS LITERALLY THINKING ABOUT THAT THIS MORNING. i was like bro i need to talk to u abt sf9 bc no one ever knows what im talking about 😭 who is your bias
I've officially started on the prep/writing for my newest fnc Fic, it'll be modern au, crack treated seriously, mayyyybeee 5+1? Depends if I wanna do more or less than 5 of the funny moments
And for additional context, the Fic will be called "Chibo's Guide to Self Defenestration"
Where Chip, after embarrassing himself horrendously in the first meeting, proceeds to jump out a window everytime he is in close proximity to Gil, also because he is having major Gay Panick™, as Chip tends to do
Funny silly goofy screenshots about fic down below
With @cant-think-to-save-my-life as a frequent pop-up
The very start of this whole thing, a passing 1 am thought, simply throwing out a funny thought, unknowing to the amount of brain power that would soon be dedicated to this
Then slowly adding things to the universe, until I have the overwhelming urge to actually compile this into a fic
Perfectly cut off reply from my enabler friend who was the one to suggest 5+1, which is still up in the air
Panic *Jazzhands* (writing human interaction is hard v-v)
(I made them neighbors)
I then proceeded to ask my friends about embarrassing things that chip would do that'd cause him to dive out a window, got any great suggestions, but brain came up with one that was way worse than anything they said 💀
And then, at like 4 am, I saw this tiktok, and got called out so bad I decided to start writing the fic 😬
Then I sent my friends a mostly blocked out screenshot of what all I've written for who and what, to emphasize how little I wrote for Gil lol
Like, thats all that needs to be said for me to understand how I wanna write Gil XD