#it's going to be a process to relearn that despite how much general writing I've been doing

[littleragondin]

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Oh that one got lost in the fray I'm sorry. Thank you so much for asking tho! =D

Let's go with one from an obscure fandom (I think) but one of the oldest I have. In very early 2010 I watched “Mei-chan’s butler” (メイちゃんの執事 ) from Fuji TV, adapted from a shojo manga I've never read.

The story goes: after a tragic accident high schooler Mei loses her parents and her home, and discovers that her paternal grandfather is actually obscenely rich & wants her to take the role of heir and successor to the Hongo family - she reluctantly accepts because he threatens to have her parents buried separately. She gets sent to a very posh Lady Academy where she also obtains a (of course handsome and sought after) butler who lives with her but with whom she is specifically forbidden to fall in love. All kinds of hijinks ensue, obviously, and she gets herself a powerful enemy in Lucia-sama who, it turns out has been adopted very young and groomed to become the Hongo heir, and is now losing everything to Mei (including the butler who she's madly infatuated with). Cue rivalries and over the top schemes to get rid of Mei until the dramatic climax where Lucia-sama, heartbroken and desperate, tries to kill herself. Mei saves her, holds her and thanks her for being the reason she got to have a normal, loving childhood, and they cry in each other's arms. Mei and her butler kiss, Lucia-sama goes away to heal and falls for her current butler, they keep writing to each other, and Mei is named heir despite still having none of the necessary skills. The End. 

Of course in canon, all the romances are between the ladies and their butlers because that’s the kind of story it is. BUT. In my imaginary second season, after a long period of rest that keeps them apart, Lucia-sama gets to come back to team up with Mei and become a powerful duo that takes the lead of the Hongo family together (and kick out the awful terrible no good grandfather because frankly, fuck that guy).

The fic I really want to write one day is the epistolary exchange between Lucia-sama and Mei as they are separated. About how they find support in each other during their respective journey - Lucia-sama in relearning healthier ways to love herself and others as well as finding who she is outside of The Heir, Mei in becoming the accomplished woman she can be to take the head of the family without losing who she is in the process. About how they learn, and change, and slowly but surely fall in love with each other. I've never really written anything epistolary, but I love the idea of it and I think that would work really well for those two, giving them the space and the time to grow, both apart and as a pair.

(side note, while I do enjoy most of the lady/butler pairings in the secondary characters, and I'm usually very prompt to go the polyamory route, here I would just ditch both butlers/boyfriends - I do not like them for an extensive list of reason but let's keep it at: I think they suck in general.)

#thanks again for the ask! #Mei-chan no shitsuji #Mei-chan's butler #the series did not age gracefully and it was not that good to begin with objectively lol #(also the fatphobia is shameful in there) #and yet #I hold it in my heart since my first watch #is it because when I watched it back then I had the biggest crush on like 3 out of the 5 main characters? #... yeah probably lol #(in my defense tho!!) #(Eikura Nana - Sato Takeru - Yamada Yu are just. that lovely ok.) #ANYWAY #the ragondin answers #words