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FEATURING: zenin naoya x fem!reader
SUMMARY: you are six years old when you’re betrothed to zenin naoya. you don’t believe in love at first sight, but he has proved to you that hatred at first sight does indeed exist. you have ten years to get out of this arrangement—the clock is ticking.
WARNINGS: fem!reader. canon compliant (MCD accordingly, not in this part tho). i took some liberty with 1) zenin clan relationships and 2) cursed energy lore for reader’s technique. naoya is his own warning—he’s gonna give you a lot of whiplash. heavily implied abuse (naobito->naoya). toxic relationship (i stress, toxic relationship). misogyny (obviously). moments of misandry from reader. reader & naoya are quick to turn to violence when they’re kids 💀 they fight a lot. liberal use of bitch (naoya to reader). asshole 4 asshole (naoya sucks, so does reader—the crux of their relationship is that they’re both so intolerable they can only tolerate each other). as always with my fics, reader has personality & background. I think I’m missing some warnings, pls tell me if you catch anything I missed, there are a lot LOL
- AUTHOR’S NOTE: guys get this man AWAY FROM ME!!!!!! This is gonna be a 3 part fic: this first part is set from ages 6-15, part 2 will be ages 18-20, part 3 will be 21 to canon. Sighs so heavily ………… I hope you all enjoy, I did have a lot of fun writing this, they were quite fun to write for me. I took some liberties with Naoya’s childhood because as we know, the Zenin’s suck, and even being their golden boy, I highly doubt he was totally exempt from all of it when abuse is so engrained into the clan the way it is. Anyway, I unfortunately doubt this mini series will be the last of my fics for him, because I do want to explore a dynamic where reader meets him when he’s older, because it would be MUCH different. almost everything about their dynamics/relationship is the way it is BECAUSE they met when they were so young, and I’d like to explore a more “canonically accurate” naoya (not to say this one isn’t, but it’s obviously very different circumstances). Here is a post I made about reader’s cursed technique—it’s described in the fic as well, but if you’re interested to read!
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