FV1: The Road to Being a BNF
Original Prompt: Ivan participates in Hero TV fandom online, where he writes terribad fanfic about his fellow heroes.
Note: Somebody suggested in the comments to this that this story should be 20 chapters. HERE YOU GO, SIR.
The house was pleasantly quiet. Ivan was alone tonight, which meant another fabulous night in his room together with his computer. He unzipped his jacket and tossed it onto the floor. He grabbed his laptop from his desk and rolled himself onto his bed where he intended to spend the rest of his night.
It took his laptop a couple minutes to boot up and he spent those minutes anxiously wondering what kind of messages he would find in his inbox. It felt like his browser was taking too long to open - although maybe it was his own fault for leaving at least thirty tabs open all the time. He needed at least half of them and the other fifteen were just videos and other pages he hadn't gotten to yet.
His mail tab decided to load the slowest, but once it was up, he grinned from ear to ear, noticing the unusually large number of messages he had waiting for him to read. He clicked on one of them and could barely hold back his excitement as he read it. He deleted it and moved on to the next and with each message, his confidence grew.
I can't believe people really enjoy my fics, de gozaru! At this rate, I'll be really popular! Or... am I already popular? No, no, not as popular as HeroLove, but I'm getting there. Just wait... Just wait, I will be more popular than her, de gozaru!
Yes, if there was a goal that Ivan had in life, it was to become a BNF. There was one lonely internet whale who stood between him and his goal of becoming the internet's most beloved writer of Hero TV fanfiction and that was HeroLove. But he would show her. He had inside information and he was about to blow everyone's mind by introducing them to their new favorite pairing. If there was one way to shoot to the top, it would be to quickly write stories about the newest, hottest interest.
Tiger and Barnaby.
He'd worked hard on a twenty-chaptered fic about himself and Blue Rose. Rather... about Origami Cyclone and Blue Rose. His character was exceedingly popular in the fanfic world, featured in almost everything until Barnaby came along. Once Mr. Handsome showed up, he noticed that everyone was starting to pair him up with all the other heroes - except for Tiger. It made sense, in a way. Tiger was a pretty terrible hero as far as everybody online was concerned. The fasted way to get yourself flamed was to try to defend yourself as a fan of Wild Tiger. It was like admitting that you like Naruto.
But when Ivan looked at him now, he realized that Tiger was actually his ticket to fandom fame. Tiger was the perfect uke. Ivan wasn't very experienced with writing about two guys, but it wasn't too hard when he tried. As far as he knew, the people online thought he was a girl, so it wasn't so embarrassing to post things like that for him, but the only yaoi pairing he had experience so far as Rock Bison/Origami Cyclone.
The character, okay? It wasn't like he was pairing himself with Antonio or anything... He had the twenty-chaptered fic about him with Blue Rose to prove it!
Anyway. Tiger just had that innocent, down-on-his-luck thing about him. That really earned him some moe-points. Not to mention, underneath that suit, he knew the guy actually had a pretty decent body and a cute face. He'd look totally adorable with Barnaby, and his old fashioned sense of doing things would be a great compliment to Barnaby's more modern outlook.
Odd-couple, de gozaru. The fujoshi will love this!
He quickly opened up a new text document and started writing.
It had to be something simple and convincing enough to pull in new fans to the pairing, but something good enough to hook in even those who already had an OTP. He had to think carefully about that.
It couldn't be porn. Or... maybe it had to be porn? Some people only skimmed to get to the good stuff. Then again, there were people like himself who enjoyed reading things with a good plot. But he was also guilty of skimming for porn. That was a tough decision.
But he decided to go with something PG for the start. He chose to write something where Barnaby and Tiger could learn that they had a lot in common, while working around their differences.
Wait... But what do they have in common? ...A-Absolutely nothing! Those two are always fighting, aren't they! O-oh my god, de gozaru. Okay, Ivan-san, calm thyself. Focus!
So he spent the next hour writing. He entirely erased his first attempt about ten minutes in and then started all over again and kept going until he felt like it had reached its conclusion.
I may as well commit seppuku now. This is terrible. But... But this is the kind of thing fujoshi would like, isn't it? Even if it's a little rough for now, they'll probably read it and love it anyway. I hope. Maybe I'll get points just for posting an unpopular pairing for a change.
For now, he decided to post to the Hero TV community to see how they would react to the B/T pairing. The rest of his night would be spent watching AMVs and clicking back to the inbox to see if he received any new comments. He just hoped that this wouldn't ruin his reputation.
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Title: It Takes Two To Tango
Author: _origamically
Pairing: Barnaby/Tiger
Rating: NC-17, nsfw
Summary: Tiger's bad luck leads him to another failed mission and the loss of tons of points. Seeing how down his partner is about his failures, Barnaby decides to do something to “cheer him up”.
Disclaimer: Hero TV, its characters, and all related things are at the mercy of their sponsors. I won't challenge that!
I don't think I've seen this pairing around here yet, but I just started shipping it myself! I think they actually make a really good pair, if you think about it. Oji-san is pretty moe in a way... Put on your goggles and you'll see what I mean. Hope you like it, minna-san! ＼（*＾∀＾）ノ
INDEX
Note: Somebody suggested in the comments to this that this story should be 20 chapters. HERE YOU GO, SIR.
The house was pleasantly quiet. Ivan was alone tonight, which meant another fabulous night in his room together with his computer. He unzipped his jacket and tossed it onto the floor. He grabbed his laptop from his desk and rolled himself onto his bed where he intended to spend the rest of his night.
It took his laptop a couple minutes to boot up and he spent those minutes anxiously wondering what kind of messages he would find in his inbox. It felt like his browser was taking too long to open - although maybe it was his own fault for leaving at least thirty tabs open all the time. He needed at least half of them and the other fifteen were just videos and other pages he hadn't gotten to yet.
His mail tab decided to load the slowest, but once it was up, he grinned from ear to ear, noticing the unusually large number of messages he had waiting for him to read. He clicked on one of them and could barely hold back his excitement as he read it. He deleted it and moved on to the next and with each message, his confidence grew.
I can't believe people really enjoy my fics, de gozaru! At this rate, I'll be really popular! Or... am I already popular? No, no, not as popular as HeroLove, but I'm getting there. Just wait... Just wait, I will be more popular than her, de gozaru!
Yes, if there was a goal that Ivan had in life, it was to become a BNF. There was one lonely internet whale who stood between him and his goal of becoming the internet's most beloved writer of Hero TV fanfiction and that was HeroLove. But he would show her. He had inside information and he was about to blow everyone's mind by introducing them to their new favorite pairing. If there was one way to shoot to the top, it would be to quickly write stories about the newest, hottest interest.
Tiger and Barnaby.
He'd worked hard on a twenty-chaptered fic about himself and Blue Rose. Rather... about Origami Cyclone and Blue Rose. His character was exceedingly popular in the fanfic world, featured in almost everything until Barnaby came along. Once Mr. Handsome showed up, he noticed that everyone was starting to pair him up with all the other heroes - except for Tiger. It made sense, in a way. Tiger was a pretty terrible hero as far as everybody online was concerned. The fasted way to get yourself flamed was to try to defend yourself as a fan of Wild Tiger. It was like admitting that you like Naruto.
But when Ivan looked at him now, he realized that Tiger was actually his ticket to fandom fame. Tiger was the perfect uke. Ivan wasn't very experienced with writing about two guys, but it wasn't too hard when he tried. As far as he knew, the people online thought he was a girl, so it wasn't so embarrassing to post things like that for him, but the only yaoi pairing he had experience so far as Rock Bison/Origami Cyclone.
The character, okay? It wasn't like he was pairing himself with Antonio or anything... He had the twenty-chaptered fic about him with Blue Rose to prove it!
Anyway. Tiger just had that innocent, down-on-his-luck thing about him. That really earned him some moe-points. Not to mention, underneath that suit, he knew the guy actually had a pretty decent body and a cute face. He'd look totally adorable with Barnaby, and his old fashioned sense of doing things would be a great compliment to Barnaby's more modern outlook.
Odd-couple, de gozaru. The fujoshi will love this!
He quickly opened up a new text document and started writing.
It had to be something simple and convincing enough to pull in new fans to the pairing, but something good enough to hook in even those who already had an OTP. He had to think carefully about that.
It couldn't be porn. Or... maybe it had to be porn? Some people only skimmed to get to the good stuff. Then again, there were people like himself who enjoyed reading things with a good plot. But he was also guilty of skimming for porn. That was a tough decision.
But he decided to go with something PG for the start. He chose to write something where Barnaby and Tiger could learn that they had a lot in common, while working around their differences.
Wait... But what do they have in common? ...A-Absolutely nothing! Those two are always fighting, aren't they! O-oh my god, de gozaru. Okay, Ivan-san, calm thyself. Focus!
So he spent the next hour writing. He entirely erased his first attempt about ten minutes in and then started all over again and kept going until he felt like it had reached its conclusion.
I may as well commit seppuku now. This is terrible. But... But this is the kind of thing fujoshi would like, isn't it? Even if it's a little rough for now, they'll probably read it and love it anyway. I hope. Maybe I'll get points just for posting an unpopular pairing for a change.
For now, he decided to post to the Hero TV community to see how they would react to the B/T pairing. The rest of his night would be spent watching AMVs and clicking back to the inbox to see if he received any new comments. He just hoped that this wouldn't ruin his reputation.
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Title: It Takes Two To Tango
Author: _origamically
Pairing: Barnaby/Tiger
Rating: NC-17, nsfw
Summary: Tiger's bad luck leads him to another failed mission and the loss of tons of points. Seeing how down his partner is about his failures, Barnaby decides to do something to “cheer him up”.
Disclaimer: Hero TV, its characters, and all related things are at the mercy of their sponsors. I won't challenge that!
I don't think I've seen this pairing around here yet, but I just started shipping it myself! I think they actually make a really good pair, if you think about it. Oji-san is pretty moe in a way... Put on your goggles and you'll see what I mean. Hope you like it, minna-san! ＼（*＾∀＾）ノ
INDEX