Tennochi has to be one of the BEST SatoSugu fanfic writers on AO3 and deserves ALL of the recognition!
I need to talk about TenNochi on AO3 for a second because I have somehow ended up reading through her ALL of her SatoSugu AUs and I genuinely cannot remember the last time I was this impressed by a fanfic writer.
If you haven’t read her stuff, she’s the author of The End of All We Know, Duality, and Lilies at Their Feet.
And I’m not exaggerating when I say these feel like actual novels.
The End of All We Know is the Victorian naval/pirate AU with Commodore Gojo and pirate Geto, and it is MASSIVE. There are ships and naval battles and politics and cursed energy lore and this huge adventure happening around them, but somehow the heart of the story is still just… Satoru and Suguru. Two people who keep colliding with each other no matter how much history, ideology, anger and sheer angst and drama they put between themselves. I just finished this fic and was worried that I wouldn’t like the AU they were placed in but TRUST ME, it WORKS! It is ABSOLUTELY amazingly well-written and their love story contains beautiful parallels to actual JJK. I laughed and cried while reading this.
Then there’s Duality, which is vampire Gojo/priest Geto, and the atmosphere in that fic is CRAZY! The SLOW BURN! I don’t know how she has the patience to build relationships this slowly because I certainly don’t have the patience to READ them normally, and yet somehow she has me thrilled over the smallest scraps of intimacy.
Lilies at Their Feet is detective Gojo/hacker Geto and once again it’s an entirely different universe with its own tone and plot and somehow they still feel like them. This specific plot line literally has me CLAWING at my inbox everyday waiting for a new chapter drop. It is INTOXICATING how she is writing their love story and extremely addicting.
Tennochi as a writer has such a rich understanding of world-building, dialogue, and the actual CHARACTERS of JJK (especially Satoru and Suguru). She seems to actually think about who Satoru and Suguru would be if they had been born into completely different circumstances. Their decisions shift accordingly, their histories change, their relationships to the world change, but there’s always something underneath them that is unmistakably Gojo and Geto.
And her WORLDBUILDING! INCREDIBLE!
So basically this post has two purposes:
Has anyone else here read her work?? Because I desperately want to know which one is everyone’s favorite and/or discuss her works with ANYONE! As well as raise awareness around how utterly FABULOUS her works are!
And PLEASE give me other SatoSugu authors writing at this level!
I don’t necessarily mean similar plots or even similar AUs. I mean writers who make you sit there afterward thinking, how the hell did I just read that for free?
I want the huge stories. The insane worldbuilding. The slow burn that actually earns the burn. Beautiful prose without everyone sounding like they’re constantly delivering poetry at each other. Characterization that understands Gojo and Geto beyond some of the surface-level fandom versions of them. Stories where the author clearly had a whole vision and committed to it.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk lol