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face the music

Summary:

“So, you have to mentor an underclassman?” Iwaizumi asks.

“Yeah, and get this — it’s Tobio. Tobio!”


Oikawa feels exactly three different feelings when violin prodigy Kageyama is assigned to him in his graduating year of the conducting program: incredible amounts of salt, alight with challenge, and deeply, horrifyingly gay.

Notes:

Written by: chronology, horchata, sumaru
Art by: hachi, ikandingin, eris
With help from: kiyala, chiharu

(oikawa voice) HIS FINGERING TECHNIQUE IS SO GOOD I KNOW IT I KNOW IT’S GOOD OH GOD MY HEART HURTS

A playlist to accompany you.

This was created for the Sports Anime Shipping Olympics (prompt: idioms) for the second main round. Face the music is probably the easiest and most obvious idiom. Less obvious but just as important: keys to the kingdom, for unlocking Mahler’s beautiful half-step from the key of c# minor to, finally, a triumphant D Major.

(Please note that Chapter 1 is the work in its original form with all the art; Chapter 2 is the text only for those who prefer to read it that way.)

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