The first chapter of my Senku x OC fic To the Moon and Back is almost done. Have a treat
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It's not the first thing he does. It's not even the second or third. No, Senku has to wait until he's at least vaguely able to survive on his own first and foremost. No point in doing extra work if he couldn’t feed himself.
He considers for a long time how best to make it work with his limited skills and usable materials. He wasn’t especially strong, nor did he have the time to spend hours upon hours on something like this. In the end, he decides on carving tablets out of leftover wood that would otherwise be used as tinder for a fire, which he knows he’ll have plenty of as soon as the oaf finally wakes the hell up. The biggest problem would be preservation and weight, but he’d deal with that later.
It was nothing new to him to stay awake well into the night working on something, but this task was particularly gruelling. After all, what did you say to someone after taking a 3,700 year long nap?
Some idle thoughts about our super nerd and his feelings for the OC I wrote for him while I work on the fanfiction I dreamt about
The thing about Senku that I think gets ignored due to his...winning personality, is that while he seems uninterested in relationships, he's really...not. He's just focused on making sure humanity can survive in the new stone world, a task he has given himself for a multitude of reasons. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Senku doesn't feel romantic/physical attraction to other people, I think he's just currently hyperfocused on things he deems more important.
Which, lets be real here, saving the world is a little more important than getting with the love of your life. He'll save that sappy shit for Taiju for now, and once everything is said and done, then he'll worry about it.
It's a very logical thing to do, and Senku is nothing if not logical. Most of the time, anyway.
Now, with those thoughts out of the way...
Senku knows he's not bad looking.
I mean yeah, he's not perfect, but he's handsome enough. He's had girls confess to him before, but he's always turned them down for one reason or another.
"Sorry, I don't have time for stuff like that," Is his usual go-to rejection. He tries to let them down easy, but not give any room for hope. Plus, it's 95% honest, which is the best he can do. I mean, he's running all over the world, studying any and everything he possibly can! Who has time to text, call, or write letters to someone every day , I mean come on. In order to do that, he'd have to have memorized the time differences between all the places he's been, and the person he's contacting. Who in their right mind-
“What time is it for you?”
“9:30 PM.”
“That puts you, what, sixteen hours ahead of me?”
“Something like that, yeah. It’s Friday night for me.”
“Lucky.”
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Odie is the exception to every rule.
She's bad tempered and mouthy, but she's also always willing to sit and listen to him talk for as long as he wants without complaint.
She likes to hear him talk, likes to lay in her bed in the wee hours of the morning, and listen to him explain some of the most complex subjects ever conceived while he's having a late dinner at his desk. There are even days where she asks him to just pick a subject and go, regardless of whether or not she understands a single piece.
He knows, somewhere deep down, that she does things like that as a distraction from what's happening to her on the other side of the world (he can hear it in the way her voice shakes), but hey, he likes to talk about science and she's an active listener. It's a win-win in his book, and she's never once argued with him on it.
It's a comfortable platonic relationship, one that comes shockingly easy. Even in the beginning, when it was just one or two sentence letters passed back and forth over hundreds of miles when they were just thirteen years old.
When he realizes he might like her in a more romantic way, he just kind of accepts it. It's one of many natural progressions of human relationships. It happened with Taiju and Yuzuriha, and with plenty of other pairs he's known through the years.
However, being in love is still kind of a big deal, and he spends an embarrassingly long time thinking about whether or not his realized feelings will change how he acts around her. He genuinely worries, for a solid 2.765 seconds, that he's going to end up like Taiju.
But when his phone pings with a text, he realizes that all his worrying was useless. Odie was his friend, his confidant, and someone he trusted to an almost insane degree. Who cared if he was in love with her? It barely changed anything for him. He was a scientist first and foremost, and she was his friend. Plus a researcher in her own right...when she wanted to be, anyway.