[Hikaru no Go] Plot Bunny Dump: Akira no Go

[flonnebonne]

Here is the Hikaru no Go story that someone should write:



Akira no Go

Just think how insane Touya would become with Sai around him all the time--cute and noisy and demanding and utterly unbeatable Sai. They’ll be great friends but also wary rivals--because Touya is already an exceptional player, already a challenge to Sai, and Sai will look at him the way he starts looking at Shindou later on in the series.

But Touya won’t let Sai play anyone else because he knows people will get suspicious, which doesn’t make Sai a happy Go-ghost. So Touya hides in his room playing Go with Sai and his parents and especially Ogata are suspicious anyway, and Touya naturally lets Sai play on the internet (because Touya has a home computer and knows how to use it, unlike Shindou), and people notice Touya and Sai’s styles converging and they’re suspicious too.

Someone (maybe Waya?) puts forth the theory that Sai is a kid because of the times when he’s online, and Touya smartens up and lets Sai play at different times and with different screen names but Sai’s style is so distinctively like Shusaku’s and so mind-numbingly brilliant that everyone recognizes him anyway. And Yang Hai does an IP trace and notices Sai seems to live in the Touya household and all hell breaks loose and next thing you know Touya changes his name to Yagami Raito and becomes a paranoid killer.

(Meanwhile, Hikaru is totally oblivious about Go and becomes the Prince of Soccer, leading his junior high team to conquer the nation. At soccer.)

I would totally read that story. But someone else has to write it. Someone who can write stories with plot. Preferably Hotta and Obata, but I welcome any other interested party who can string two sentences together to write it.

Makes you realize that most of the comedy and dramatic tension in HnG comes from Hikaru screwing up and letting someone know a little too much about Sai. If Sai had attached himself to someone more careful and knowledgeable (like Touya) it would be a totally different story. Like, er, Death Note.

Comments

[shinra-lackey.livejournal.com]

Erm, might be a totally inappropriate question here, but do you like yaoi? I was going to gush about your story idea here and maybe trade you a crack idea of my own, but that kind of depends on whether you like/are tolerant of yaoi. I sort of presumed you were because you said you liked my journal, but now that I think about it, I do rec a lot of gen, so you could theoretically skip all the shounen-ai/yaoi recs. Hmmm... I am so narrow minded, love of Hikago & DN, does not equal yaoi fangirl. *sigh*

I do like your story idea though and if you're feeling especially mean, you can wave the carrot in front of aishuu of Brightly Burning fame and see if she'll write it. I just love to torment her now, because she's on hiatus and doesn't want anymore fic ideas.

[flonnebonne]

GIVE ME THE YAOI CRACK IDEA.

Ahem. Yes, I read yaoi. Don't often write it, and when I do it's the sort of ambiguous la la stuff that may or may not be yaoi, but I read it like the plague. But thank you for being considerate and asking first. I know that my brothers, who are HnG fans, would shrivel up and die if you threw crack yaoi at them.

Hm, wave a carrot at the infamous aishuu? Am afraid to do so. Would be kind of weird to just pop into lj of person I don't know and throw a fic request at her. Though she would be the perfect person to write the story since she can plot like the devil. I was thinking of posting the fic idea at fic_on_demand, actually.

Unless you want to wave the carrot at aishuu for me?

[shinra-lackey.livejournal.com]

Ack, I never saw your comment, so I never answered. I totally forget what my crackpot idea was anyways. It might have had something to do with Touya Koyou/Sai fic with a side of Touya being dragged to Shindou's soccer game and fallingOMGinlove with Hikaru.

I have no clue now.

*woe*

Maybe the only way that Sai and Akira can coexist is if the two of them grow separate personalities. Akira might purposely try to make friends just to differentiate himself from go and Sai.

/weird idea

I know. No help.

[flonnebonne]

Boy do I feel sheepish. I was a n00b to LJ back then and obviously I hit the wrong button when I was trying to reply to you. My apologies! I feel so sad that some good quality crack has been lost to the sands of time.

I've pretty much plotted out the story (though there are big gaping holes in the middle section) and let's just say that Akira has an emo identity crisis. To Akira it's all about the character of his Go, however, rather than personalities and friends. Even though Sai will have an effect on those things, Akira won't consciously be concerned with it.

[shinra-lackey.livejournal.com]

It's ok, youur idea has been able to flourish and grow without any artificial encouragement on my part, because crack ideas=fertilizer.

Lol, and lj noob-ness is not something to be worried about. Everyone has that phase in their lj lives.