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2025-09-03
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2026-02-12
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One True Pride

Summary:

“Elemental magic and were-creatures - those humans who have the ability to shapeshift into an animal-like form - are deeply ingrained in the history of our society. But now, in the modern day, these abilities are mostly arbitrary, and possessed by a minority. Those of you who have these abilities face the same challenges as everyone else - school, homework, sports clubs, getting into college, getting a job - with neither advantage nor disadvantage...Or, at least, that’s what I wish I could tell you.”

Annette, a werewolf who runs a bar in the heart of the city, slowly adopts a gaggle of volleyball-obsessed teenagers in need of a safe place to exist. Because growing up “different” is hard, and the best way to face down challenges is together.

Featuring everyone’s favorite parents, Daichi and Suga, Noya but with the ability to shoot lightning out of his hands, Asahi as a werebear with anxiety, Kuroo and Bokuto as college roommates, Ushijima with too many potted plants, and many more!

Note for transparency - despite the use of were-creatures, this is not an A/B/O fic, and there are no “animal-based” relationship dynamics. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up (up? down? idk...)

Notes:

This was NOT supposed to turn into a novel-length project - just an idea I got after watching Haikyuu, needing an outlet for my sociopolitical-related stress, and thinking it would be really cool if Noya could shoot lightning out of his hands and Asahi could turn into a bear. You know, for the ~aesthetic~. But then I kept getting ideas and kept writing. You know how these things go.

This story deals with some serious stuff, but parts of it are lighthearted, too. Because, ultimately, I want to write a good story, a success story, not a depressing one. Real life is depressing enough already.

The story is pretty much written in its entirety - just some pieces in the middle are missing, and I need to re-read everything to make sure it flows okay. So, hopefully, I can release new chapters regularly and won’t let it go unfinished. If you’re enjoying it, please comment/kudos/etc…it will give me motivation…

Chapter 1: Prologue

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

-New Message from the Queer Volleyball Alliance:-

-Bokuto: Hey Kuroo, do you remember how it all began?-

-Bokuto: Like, before this group chat was made and everything-

-Bokuto: When it was just a bunch of idiots who liked to hang out at this one bar in particular-

-Kuroo: I mean, I remember where it began for you and I-

-Kuroo: But we weren’t there from the actual beginning-

-Suga: Yeah, if you want to talk about the beginning, you have to talk to us-

-Noya: Me too!-

-Suga: You are a part of “us”, Noya-

-Suga: “Us” as in Karasuno-

-Tendou: We were there pretty early on, too-

-Suga: Not as early as Karasuno >:( -

-Suga: Karasuno is the OG bar squad-

-Suga: Or rather, restaurant squad, since when we first started going to the Den after practices and games we were too young to sit at the bar-

-Suga: But you know what I mean-

-Suga: Why are you thinking about it now?-

-Bokuto: Sometimes I just like to Think you know-

-Bokuto: Like, how would all of our lives have turned out if we hadn’t met each other-

-Kuroo: Don’t think too hard. You’ll blow out your only braincell-

-Bokuto: I will have you know, Kuroo, that I have more than one braincell-

-Kuroo: Yes, you have two. One for volleyball and one for Akaashi-

-Bokuto: EXACTLY-

-Bokuto: But really. Isn’t it crazy to think about?-

-Bokuto: Sometimes I wish I could witness those moments again. But as, like, a passive observer-

-Suga: Well, if you want a retelling, you should ask the one person who was there for all of it-

-Kuroo: Except that Annette dropped her phone in the dishwashing sink yesterday and bricked it-

-Kuroo: #RIPAnnette-

-Kuroo: And Lionelle is camping in the middle of buttfuck nowhere with her crazy junior high schoolers AND without cell signal-

-Bokuto: I guess it’s up to us, then-

-Bokuto: I’m sure between the ten of us with cell signal and unbricked phones, we can remember everything that happened over the last few years-

-Suga: I guess that’s our cue, then-

-Suga: Noya? Asahi? Daichi?-

-Suga: Let’s tell this story from the top-

-Suga: It all began in September of our 3rd year at Karasuno High School…-

Notes:

This is absolutely a story about the Haikyuu kids, but my OCs, Annette and Lionelle, are the lenses through which I tell the story, and the agents that give it motion, if that makes sense. I've always had trouble writing through the POV of a character that someone else created, so I like using OCs. But! The kids are ALWAYS part of the story, their relationships are very important parts of the plot, and there are parts of chapters that are written through the POV of some of them, especially later on in the plot.