The Alternate Universe Meme

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The Alternate Universe Meme

1. Comment with your character.
2. Others will reply with an AU idea.
3. Thread. Profit.

AUs can be any AU of any kind, but if you need ideas, I have this masterlist and this tumblr to get you started.

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[furtherforward]

[From her spot up high, it's no small wonder that the people beneath her are but little specks with few defining features. But Hajime would be right if she looks for a head taller than the rest – at a solid 195cm, Akira has grown quite a bit taller than the average person.

She's not him, and that's just normal. What he expected her to do with that request is something smart, tactical, thoughtful, and Hajime doesn't let him down. She clicks at her phone and he wonders if she's hanging up all the way up there, but when she holds it away from her and calls out to him, it becomes clear what she's doing. What Hajime will hear is a distance just close enough for her voice to hit the speaker of his phone faintly, so she'll hear it from that end. This also means that her voice is loud enough to turn heads all around.

And faintly, from Akira's end, is the confusion of Tachikawa's citizens that surround the cyclist.]

"Gatchaman...? Did she just say Akira?"

"Look! It's Hajime!"

[The attention on Hajime, however, has Akira slinking back on reflex. He steps away from the crowd of people semi-frozen in their busy tracks, back toward the wall of a surrounding building where his bicycle is propped. And belatedly, he realizes he inadvertently isolated himself... Being mixed with the crowd was the most concealed place to be, wasn't it? The all-rounder groans, and his voice is more of a hiss than before – it seems he doesn't want the surrounding people to get the idea that he's on the phone with their beloved Gatchaman, now that he's realized they all know her and regard her fondly.

Because of course they do.]

Do you have to be so noisy?!

[...Akira thinks to point out that everybody's looking at her now, but somehow, he gets the feeling that she doesn't mind. And he, too, has grown used to audiences... But not off his bicycle and out of his element. At this rate, she'll spot him and come right down to him so that everybody sees who this Akira is – him! Guilty by association, and Akira feels all he can do is await whatever vomit-inducing scene comes next. Vomit-inducing, dizzying, heart-thudding, nerve-wracking... What is with this mess of sensations, anyway? Akira holds the phone away from his mouth so that he can catch a deep breath without it being too apparent. This doesn't scare him.

It just makes him feel. The moment is real around him, as vivid as a race taking place in a sea of sunflowers all facing the same direction, that exhilaration of the moment... That's what it is.]