Currently, from March 20 - 26, there's a Shoka Sonjuku Week going on in Gintama fandom, set in motion by
this account on Tumblr and
this account on Twitter. There's a set of three prompts for each days which can be seen in
this pinned tweet on the Twitter account - except for the last day, the 26th, which only has the prompt "Big Brother", as that day is also Oboro's birthday.
There's been some wonderful stuff written and drawn already, and the organizing accounts do their best to reblog/retweet it, so please check out those accounts if you like to read such content!
I've taken part so far by drawing for
Day 1, choosing the prompt "Chores", and for
Day 2, choosing the prompt "Magic".
I'm afraid I haven't had any ideas for the prompts for Day 3, so I skipped that one and went directly to Day 4. I picked the prompt "Dream" from Competition/Sacrifice/Dream and this time went for text instead of image.
This is a ficlet from Nobume's POV from some point in time before the Farewell Shinsengumi arc, but after the canon starts and maybe after the Courtesan of a Nation arc. There are some things in it that are informed by Shôyô's and Oboro's backstory, even though it doesn't seem like Nobume fully knew all of those things -- but she certainly knew more than the readers/viewers did before that arc started. I'm assuming her she guessed at some of it, at least.
Working title: Another Way Is Possible
Word count: 463 as I post this (I won't do a recount if I polish it)
Characters: Nobume POV (1st person), Shôyô and Shôyô's other students mentioned/alluded to
Spoilers/setting: you should at least have watched Farewell Shinsengumi before reading this, and probably Battle at Rakuyo as well
flavour: pensive
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