modern au stuffsâŠmore info under cut
full âbiosâ:
yasuo:
yasuo grew up in a small mountain village alongside his brother, yone. parentless and illegitiamate, he was treated poorly by other children, and was consequently never able to connect with others very well. he grew up quite lonely despite being very gifted, and his feelings werenât helped by yone, who continuously pushed him to do better at academics and athletics where he attended school about an hour from their home; this made him feel extremely pressured and lonely throughout his childhood, causing him to act out.
he oftentimes did physical labor around the house; among other things, he took care of their houseâs piping system. when he was seventeen he failed to notice a gas leak due to being out of the house after a fight with yone, which caused an explosion that destroyed most of their small home and killed their foster grandfather souma. plagued by guilt and shame, yasuo away from home and didnât speak to yone for several years.
heâs struggling with having yone around again and is uncomfortable with having him in his home, but he feels too guilty to push him away. alongside being much more mild-mannered in recent times, he has period periods of intense, deep depression that debilitate his ability to function; these were alleviated, however, once he met ahri, who he loves deeply but doesnât feel adequate for.
ahri:
ahriâs fun, flirty personality masks deep feelings of insecurity and loneliness; an abandoned child who was ostracized for being both asian and a vastaya, she struggled with substance abuse and an eating disorder later on in life. sheâs only had one real boyfriend, who died in a car accident that she feels responsible for, as she was driving him home from work late at night intoxicated, unbeknownst to him. all of this means she has found it nigh on impossible to form bonds with others, either.
yasuo was one of the first real friends sheâd ever made; he genuinely makes her feel loved, which is why she feels so sad when she sees her own destructive tendencies reflected in him. sheâs immensely grateful for the happiness and communityâin the form of their mutual friends sarah, illaoi, braum, and pykeâheâs brought into her life.
in her spare time, sheâs attempting to track down her birth parents in order to receive some closure on her family status.
yone:
yone was seven when yasuo was born and their mother passed away. though their foster grandfather souma had loved them deeply, he was too old to do much for their small family; thus, yone started working at an early age to provide for himself and yasuo, after having taken care of the house for several years prior to then. the circumstances heâs faced and sacrifices heâs had to makeâas well as his general feelings of inadequacy stemming from never having finished school and, in that regard, feeling inferior to yasuoâled him to develop high expectations for his brother, who was their only hope for getting a secondary education and out of poverty. yone adored yasuo and only wanted to push him to do his best, but had a difficult time expressing that well; as a result, he failed to notice the pressure he put and borderline abuse he inflicted on yasuo, and was always confused as to why he was so irritable and lashed out so often. yasuo acting up only led yone to be harder on him, which made their relationship worse. yone was heartbroken when yasuo left, as he saw himself a failure given that he believed that the accident had been intentional on yasuoâs part. heâd never laid a hand on yasuo until earlier that day, when an argument about yasuoâs behavior had turned physical. if he had done things differently, he believes the situation could have been avoided.
yone was able to move away from the village when he no longer had two others to care for, and eventually got an associateâs degree from a community college. however, a massive stroke of bad luckâin which he got fired in downsizing and his apartment burned downâmeant he was forced to move in with yasuo and ahri as he didnât have anywhere else to go. the situation is quite awkward, and yone isnât quite sure how to start repairing the damage thatâs been done.
taliyah:
taliyah is yasuo and ahriâs upstairs neighbor, though she only met ahri after the two of them moved in together. like the two of them, she feels a deep disconnect from her peers and doesnât quite feel understood by anyone, especially due to the fact that sheâs a trans girl. she feels very well taken care of by yasuo, though, who she sees as an older brother. sheâs quite anxious about going off to college and has an irrational fear of yasuo not caring about her anymore when she leaves, given that she relies on him quite a bit, and especially due to the fact that heâs mentioned heâs considering proposing to ahri.
general stuff:
i imagine this whole au as a comic or a cartoon
everyone is about six or seven years younger (besides ahri) than i think they are in canon since i wanted taliyah to be a teenager. thus, their ages are those of when taliyah was still yasuoâs apprentice; in canon i think that she is about 23, he is about 30, and so on.
iâm not really sure where this takes place? i wanna say wherever bilgewater is based on given that that was where the rk gang all met, so maybe honolulu/hawaiâiâs big island due to the polynesian influences present in the buhru peopleâs culture. as for time, this is probably the mid-late 00s/early 2010s. yone found yasuo through social media.
yone is fully japanese, while yasuo is mixed japanese and pakistani. ahri is korean. taliyah is egyptian and sunni muslim, but not hijabi.
like in canon, yasuo got the scar on his nose from the final fight he had with yone. itâs also permanently crooked from breaking his nose in that same altercation. yoneâs two are from then as well.
though vastaya have some spiritual power and live slightly longer than humans (about 100-130 years), their lifespan and abilities are not nearly as vast as they are in runeterra. like in canon, though, ahri is proportionately about the same age as yasuo.
yasuo and ahri met while yasuo was working at a grocery store.
yone and ahri got off on bad terms when he, subconsciously retaining prejudice from his traditional upbringing, mistakenly believed she was yasuoâs housemaid due to her being a vastaya. she was incredibly offended, almost kicked him out, and refused to speak to him for several weeks. eventually they make up and get along alright, but thatâs only really because she made an effort for yasuoâs sake. otherwise, she probably wouldnât have talked to him ever again.
i think iâll put riven in this at some point, but sheâs still tied to the accident that kills souma. souma kept some small cultural artifacts in his home, which riven was tasked with stealing by the small criminal group she grew up in: she snuck in through the basement, but was caught stealing by souma and forced to leave without her prize; in her haste, she damaged a pipe near where sheâd come in and left. she didnât find out about the incident until much layer and feels horrifically guilty about it, especially because yasuoâs reputation was ruined after it happened (even if he was never convicted of anything).
a lot of other characters are connected to these four. besides the ruined king group, who are friends with yasuo and ahri, a lot are interconnected. some examples are:
sarah knows t.f. (tobias felix) and graves from work. graves is friends with vayne, who tobias is jealous of, and tobias dances on the weekends with evelynn, who graves is jealous of. itâs a whole thing. they live together and work together, but arenât dating. yet. graves also knows the sentinels of light. vayne and sarah have like. a weird lesbian thing going on. and that is pure self-indulgence
yoneâs only friend is lillia, who he also met at work. sheâs incredibly skittish and shy, but their friendship is rooted in the fact that neither of them talks very much. i imagine her having deer legs, but not being a centaur like she is on runeterra.
taliyah is friends with ezreal, lux, and ekko, the latter of whom she has a crush on. ekko knows rell, who knows seraphine, who knows ezreal. theyâre all one big yet loose friend group. sheâs also close with kaiâsa, who student teaches for one of her classes.
usan is yasuoâs ex-boyfriend and i could totally imagine them bumping into each other being a running gag. zed obviously knows shen and kayn, who know akali. akali and kayn are 19 in canon, so they would be pretty young. probably like. fuckass 13 yr olds
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trucy kristoph dynamic had sooooo much potential like. pleeease. you were born bad, werenât you? and i could tell, could see it in your eye. i knew all along, and daddy did too. it was strange to me how at the same time as that your words were so gentle, your hands. you donât mean any of it. i think we both choose parts to play. masks to wear. you werenât my dad, not by a long shot, but you bought me my first homecoming dress, drove me to the first day of seventh grade because daddy was too tired from holding the weight of the world on his shoulders. a modern atlas. daddy never liked you being alone with me. i could tell he got scared. when i left with you, he didnât know what would happen. but you were scared, too, werenât you? scared of not being good enough, of being exactly what everyone knew you really were. itâs hard, looking at people and seeing their hearts beating outside their chests. yours was rotten, but i think it had been that way for a long time. i didnât grow up right, and i donât think you did, either. sometimes it was nice to pretend i had a real family. sometimes it was nice to pretend you loved each other, that the only reason you clung together wasnât because neither of you had anything else to prove to yourselves you had worth. sometimes it was nice to only look at the surface, to let my eyes gloss over, to see you the way others saw you. sometimes it was nice to pretend you cared about me, like you didnât use me just like they all did. your hands were always so soft, after all. your cuticles so clean.
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