changing no transmeds no terfs -> no transmisogynists in my dni cuz its less cluttered and gets the point across

already read coanda twice and prob will again and im just sitting here like. man. i wish suguru had things easy back when he was racing. it makes me so fucking sad to know he had so much potential but life just kept fucking him over. i wonder if things were easier. his dad not dying/having enough money to compete etc etc if he would have kept going. kept winning. or if he was just meant to quit no matter what 😞 my poor darling. i also lowkey thought of suguru being satorus race engineer. wonder how that would have worked with them working together towards the same goal. but yea anyway sorry for the lil yappin lmao thanks for sharing ur work!!

vaguely spoilery authors notes on getou's character bc im going insane trying to update all these chapters lmao

we rly can't separate getou from his struggle to fit into the world he's thrust into in both this fic and in canon because without that struggle he's a fundamentally different person... so the what ifs are. insane. (and something ill go into in-world in the coanda sequel, if i write it)

i think without certain things that happen in 2014, getou could hav continued maybe two or three more years, especially after his wdc making him feel a bit more equal to gojo (because he definitely has a complex about it, lol). the final straw in that narrative, the final blow that makes him leave, is yet to come. getou is contracted until the end of 2015! he leaves early! without those final blows its my hc getou and gojo would probably have continued to swap the wdc between them in JTR's period of dominance, leaving them even on championships.

however. the final blows as such were inevitable. if they hadn't happened in 2014, they would have happened eventually. getou is dealing with an immense amount of grief and a serious eating disorder and a massive level of disillusionment from the sport. hes seeing corruption in real time with toji, hes seeing it with haibara... two of his closest friends, two friends who HE SHARED A CAREER PATH WITH have met the ends of their careers in the worst possible ways, through no fault of their own. eventually he wouldve retired early. he couldnt handle it like gojo could, and ultimately that's what makes gojo slightly stronger than him.

suguru being satoru's race engineer i feel would be so fucking funny, maybe ill write it as a oneshot with driver!shoko on the other side of the garage???? but the angsty person inside of me feels that that would also end badly: getou bitter about missing the opportunity to win and playing a supporting role because of his background, and being relegated to a demanding role that he recieves less glory for. i think it depends how you interpret getou's character and his disillusionment, it could go either way

thank u anon!!! might write that oneshot over summer