It's very different! People have actual, like, emotions! And issues! And they deal with them! Usually I just write fluff where they're all secretly in love, they just don't know it yet.

It's almost exactly like that! Can I borrow your metaphor for my author's notes?

I'm a canon whore anyway, and then I decided to try and make it tie into not just what had happened, but what was happening. Idk, every long fic I write turns into stealth!meta, I can't seem to stop it. It's Common Knowledge all over again.