This Is Totally Unnecessary, But Here! Have A Wooohan!

This is totally unnecessary, but here! Have a Woo’ohan!

Oiran x Maiko

An ABO AU where omega!Ryunosuke and omega!Kosuzu are an oiran and maiko in love

(A big thanks to my friend on Discord, Paullsia, who helped me with this!)

Ryunosuke’s backstory remains relatively the same. He’s still the son of a samurai who sold his status to pay off his debts and a mother who refuses to acknowledge that the glory days are over. He also has his affinity for art and works peasant jobs to put food on the table. His fate diverges when his mother decides to sell him to a brothel in Kyoto’s red light district since, in her own words, “he might as well sell himself for that, too.” He’s seven at the time. 

Kosuzu is the daughter of a geisha, who raised her to love the arts just as much as she did. Her training starts when she’s seven, as well. 

The two are fueled by very different things. Where Ryunosuke is motivated by a need to spite everyone who thinks he can’t be cultured and charismatic, Kosuzu simply wants to share her love of song and dance with everyone. 

When they first meet at lessons, it’s a rivalry at first sight. Ryunosuke doesn’t understand how someone can be so enthused about putting on a show in these gilded cages, and Kosuzu fails to see how such a grumpy and half-hearted boy can be so good at everything he does. They fight for the top spot in every class they share, pushing themselves to excel far above their peers. Everybody in the district knows their names. 

Ryunosuke, running (almost) entirely on spite, shoots up the ranks after his debut and achieves oiran status at the age of sixteen. 

Kosuzu is not yet a full-fledged geisha, but she’s why her senior sister has the most recurring customers out of all the geisha in her okiya. 

The cream of the crop, everyone is vying for them; however, right under their noses, the pair’s heated rivalry is blooming into a forbidden romance born from mutual respect and a shared love for art. 

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Afterthoughts:

In this universe, omega men are just one step above women in the social hierarchy, and that means all women: alphas, betas, and omegas. An omega man will be deferred to before an alpha woman, even if the world has similar expectations for them. Being male just affords them a few more privileges. 

As a male, Ryunosuke is allowed to leave the hanamachi unlike his female counterparts, and typically, this would mean he’d need to disguise his scent and obscure his face. However, he dresses so casually and speaks so crudely outside that he only needs to alter his scent because there’s no way this boorish young man could be a refined courtesan. 

When Ryunosuke can’t accompany Kosuzu outside, she might bring back things that she passes onto him at lessons. 

Ryu’s professional name is Shuugetsu (秋月 / “autumn moon”). It’s said that the moon is best seen during autumn when the sky is clear, and the weather is neither too hot nor too cold. It’s a beautiful scene, and that’s what he told his ageya when asked why he chose his name. Secretly, it was inspired by Kosuzu after she made a comment during a secret nighttime outing. 

In his early years, Ryu was very familiar with irate patrons, earning himself tongue-lashings and resounding slaps, thanks to his poor attitude. One particularly cross man kicked him with drunken rage and would’ve beat him more had his senior brother not quelled the situation.  When his senior brother took the ageya’s punishment on his behalf, he realized what consequences could follow his actions, and that in the future, he must also be willing to shield those under him. 

Those of Ryu’s patrons who bring large parties often ask for him and Kosuzu’s senior sister, who’ll bring Kosuzu along as her junior, to work their banquet. This means the pair get to work together a fair amount. 

When they’re older, sometime after Kosuzu becomes a full-fledged geisha and has paid off her debt to the okiya, Ryunosuke has a son sired by a young lord who rejects responsibility for them. 

Through letters and other means, the omega/omega pair arrange for Kosuzu to become the baby’s guardian after he’s weaned off his mother’s milk, and each of them picks out a character for his name: Kotetsu. 

Ryunosuke chooses “ko” as in 琥, referring to his son’s amber eyes; while Kosuzu chooses “tetsu” as in 哲, meaning “sage.” 

Ryu actually procrastinates and doesn’t come up with anything ‘til after his child is born, and Kosuzu makes fun of him for choosing something so unimaginative. 

The sad part of all this is that he can’t openly be a mother to Kotetsu since his pregnancy was kept secret to preserve the reputation of his ageya. He has to watch him grow up from a distance with barely a hand in his life through Kosuzu. 

If “Wings of Goodbye” had Been an ABOverse

Just imagine if omega!Alto had gotten pregnant after an unbridled night with alpha!Sheryl, and when he returned (from wherever tf he was taken), Sheryl woke up to see him at her bedside with a small child in his lap.

Also imagine if Alto died when their child was eight or so, and they grew up wanting to be a pilot just like their mother, but Sheryl disapproved, fearing that she’d lose them, too. 

This just makes me so happy! It’s so cute!

BABY

I want this.

I need this.

It is a necessity.

Good!soft!WRH? Sign me tf up. 

(1/14) What if an Alternate Universe Wen RuoHan was sent to another Alternate Universe Far Different than his own, in his Universe The Lan Clan are the Wicked they Cultivate Demonic Cultivation, Lanling Jin are the Reckless Bravery who suffers Qi Deviation, QingHe Nie are the Rich yet Cowardly, Yunmeng Jiang are the Righteous with thousands of Rules and the Qishan Wen are the Tame Ones. Everything Changed in his Universe when Gusu Lan

wow, this is so cool, first of all, y’all thanks a lot for sharing these cool aus with me, i enjoy and appreciate them a lot. 

But qinghe nie as the cowards?? nmj as a coward?? I canNOT accept this jk haha. wrh as a nice guy!!! you clenched my thirst anon,, also according to this, we have two wwx and two jcs. One wwx is our local chaotic bi and the other is a lan type of wwx I WANT MORE OF THESE TWO AHHH. And i can’t even begin to explain how much i like the idea of lans as demonic cultivators. Although i don’t really like yanderes but give me any lwj and i’ll gladly accept it,, also why did you have to kill wen zhuliu like this;-; And your last ask is haunting me hhhh,, look wrh is strong okay?? give the man love, even if wen zhuliu isn’t there, he has atleast some people from his world who can comfort him and then there is jiang fengmian as well. So i’ll just live in my happy bubble and assume that wrh overcame his anxiety and lived happily with his new found family 

So, I was reading tokio-fujita’s translation of Hakuouki Reimeiroku, and the story of Kiyohime was brought up in one of the routes. I didn’t know a thing about it; so, I did a quick Google search and read the Wikipedia article on it. 

As I looked at it, I couldn’t help but see the story of Kiyohime vaguely referenced in Ryunosuke and Kosuzu’s names: Kiyohime became a dragon (or a serpent), and Anchin was burned alive beneath a bell. 

Now, ofc Kosuzu is nothing like Anchin, nor is Ryunosuke like Kiyohime, but hear me out:

What if Kosuzu and Ryu were the reincarnations of Anchin and Kiyohime, and in this life, the cyclic game of cat and mouse comes to an end. Ryunosuke decides to not see Kosuzu anymore (as per Harada’s route) and, as Kiyohime, lets go of someone he cannot have rather than dwelling on the hurt and letting it consume him. On Kosuzu’s side, she as Anchin is hit with the realization of how much she wants Ryunosuke when he walks away from her, never to be in her life again, and confesses her real feelings. These changes of heart allow them to live this life as lovers and happily ever after.