Izuku vs the Garden Boy Archive of Our OwnRated M (Which means no Crosspost to FFnet)
My Hero AcademiaKatsuki Bakugou x OC & Katsuki Bakugou x Izuku Midoriya
Summary: While taking down a Villain, Katsuki saves a familiar face and finds himself reunited with his amicable-ex, Daiki. As it turns out, neither of them have moved on as much as they’d thought.
You know, I legitimately forgot Izuku vs the Garden Boy was on FF.net. LOL. Which is funny, because it's legitimately pretty popular over there with 200 favorites and 100 reviews. If I would have remembered that, I might have rated the story Teen again...but Daiki wanted a higher rating, so I guess only the folks who have my AO3 get the sequel (I post more there these days anyway...).
What else? Ah yes.
Obligatory Link to my last Garden Boy OC discussion here.
And now I'm going to crosspost my Tumblr post because I wrote a lot of text and I don't feel like rewriting it all again. XD
Content of Original Tumblr Post, July 3, 2020 at 11:15 a.m.:Yeah, so that sequel I started last night? I finished the first chapter at like 2:00 a.m. this morning and Daiki’s “I’m Getting Katsuki Back” story is officially a go. Lol.
There’s like a page worth of author’s notes on the story, so I might as well repeat some of them here (aka just the overall notes, not the chapter notes):
I finished Izuku vs the Garden Boy in 2018, and I kid you not, Daiki has been screaming at me for a sequel ever since I hit “Submit” on that last epilogue chapter. I created Daiki to be a disposable character (someone I didn’t have to feel bad that they “lose” to Deku), but as the story developed and he turned into his own fully-fleshed out character with feelings and agency that ending was much harder to write than it should have been.
After Garden Boy finished, I wanted to write Daiki an “Apology” fic as a sequel to give him a win, too. I considered Daiki x Shouto, but that boy was in love with Katsuki. Truly and deeply (enough to let Katsuki go when he saw Katsuki liked Deku).
I held back because most of the ideas Daiki (or rather, the Muse) gave me were short and sexy one-shots without much plot. He also couldn’t make up his mind about whether or not he wanted to date Shouto instead, get Katsuki back (aka, switch the roles from Izuku vs Garden Boy), share with Deku, seduce Katsuki into cheating, or if they just ended up in a threesome. Heck, I couldn’t even decide whose POV I wanted this story to be from. Ideas lingered and nothing happened aside from little daydreams in my head about heated moments and drama.
However, as I was glancing through Garden Boy again today (it’s still one of my favorite stories), Daiki finally said “I still want my sequel. May I have it please?” And since I’m writing this, I guess 2020 is the year Daiki gets what he wants and this author indulges in some Main Character X OC fic once more.
The year of “I’m writing whatever the heck I want” 2020 continues.
(Though the theme mostly seems to be “resurrecting old stories” lol.)