normal life au meme

[elementalherodragonlord]

the normal life AU meme

you wake up in the morning, and something has changed:

Maybe you're a super villain, a superhero, a magician, a knight, a space explorer -- but today, when you pad down the stairs (still half-asleep, still unfocused), you do not walk into your secret lair, your spaceship, your headquarters.

You're now just an average Joe, and you're standing barefoot on a worn wooden floor, smelling fresh coffee.

To boot, there's someone else in this kitchen, leaning on the counter, wearing pajama bottoms and an old t-shirt.

The setting might be new, but hell, you know eactly who they are...

so...why is your worst enemy/co-commander/partner/captain/etc. currently pouring you a second cup of coffee and asking you for pointers on the crossword?

WHAT EVEN?

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Eddie

[vampirefratboy]

i forgot that ryou would be 17 when writing this tag, so maybe high school sleepover...?

[ringaroundyourneck]

[At first, nothing seems too out of the ordinary, or at least nothing Ryou catches onto immediately in his groggy state of having just woken up. He barely remembers crawling into bed at all; whether or not that means the spirt of the Millennium Ring took control before having the rare courtesy to put Ryou's body to bed is uncertain, but Ryou realizes it's unusual to wake up under the covers rather than tangled up on top.]

[Ryou stares up at the ceiling. There's a bumpy texture where he's used to seeing smooth. The weight usually on his chest is gone. He feels through his shirt; there's nothing there, nothing around his neck and nothing sitting on top of him. He bolts up, scrambling into a sitting position. The Ring--it's gone.]

[Ryou clutches his shirt, which is now noticeably no longer a worn t-shirt but a button-down fleece pajama shirt. He stares ahead at him and instead of a Monster World poster on the wall there's a calendar--in English.]

Where...am I?

[As he shifts in bed to get up, he bumps into something...or, once Ryou apprehensively looks down to see, someone.]

[Ryou yelps and rushes so quickly to get out of bed with a stranger he falls to the floor, taking the first layer of sheets with him in his crash to the floor.]

sleepover!!!

[vampirefratboy]

[Eddie can sleep through a lot, especially as a teenager, but a loud crash and the sheets getting yanked, not so much. He jolts awake, momentarily convinced that one of the neighbors is having a shouting match with her boyfriend at 2am again--]

[Wait, no, this is Ryou's apartment. The bed's too nice-- Eddie sleeps on a pullout couch in his grandma's one bedroom, normally. He rolls over towards the source of the noise, squinting in the dark for his friend. He isn't in the bed.]

Dude, did you fall off the bed?

[He leans over the side of the bed, and, yep, there he is.]

Shit, you okay?

[ringaroundyourneck]

[The voice speaking to him is unfamiliar and definitely American. Ryou's English is good, sure, but he struggles to translate in his head immediately, for example he's familiar with the curse words but not "dude" immediately.]

[He stays on his back on the floor, looking up in the darkness at a face he doesn't recognize in the slightest. He blinks a few times to try to get his eyes to focus more clearly.]

What's going on? Who are you?

[Ryou glances around the room, takes in how almost recognizable it is. It's definitely the sort of decor he would pick for himself, but things are arranged differently, there are different posters.]

Is this...my room?