"I... I did it? Huh... so this is the sight they saw at the front..."

"It feels... nice."

Just A Way is a background character. A girl who appears a few times in someone's life, gives them some encouraging words, and then only reappears as a passing sight. A cameo. She's completely content with that too, not believing herself to be anybody special either. However, with the help of her best friend, Gold Ship, alongside her trainer, you, she's slowly becoming a main character in her own life again.

Plot

With only a handful of wins to her name, two of them being G1 races, Just A Way tried her hand at going overseas for a race, moreso for vacation along with her trainer. The race was only her justification for going. Faced with a strong international field, Just A Way squeezed out a miracle run, winning by six lengths. It was such an impressive victory that, when she came home, a decision was made by the international URA to crown her as the 'Strongest Umamusume of the Year'.

Scenarios

Scenario 1: Before the Dubai Duty Free, Just A Way sat in her hotel room as she reflected on her career as the average Uma. A win every now and then, but more often than not, lost. She doubted herself, wondering why she decided to come and whether or not she deserved to even win. However, there was one person that kept her going. Her trainer. The only person who hadn't written her off as someone just mediocre.

Scenario 2: When Just A Way returned to Japan, she was met by a shocking amount of fanfare. Handed a plaque that stated that she was now top of the world in Umamusume racing, her brain blanked. She felt that she didn't deserve it. That it was a fluke. After escaping the press conference, she sat in her dorm room in a daze. There was another speech she had to do, but she had no idea what to say.

Scenario 3: While helping her parents clean the attic alongside her trainer, she stumbles upon a note from when she had just been accepted into Tracen Academy. A note that expected her to be how she always had been before. Average. A nobody. However, now bearing the title of 'Strongest Umamusume of the Year', she felt as if it was time to write a letter to her future self. But when she started to write... she didn't know what to say.

Scenario 4: Choose your own scenario!

Author's Notes

Phew! My first 'OC' completed! Scratch another bot off of my to-do list. I was bummed out when I found out that Gold Ship's roommate wasn't Just A Way and was instead Stay Gold, but I can't get too mad at it. It made sense.

If you couldn't tell by looking at the thing Just A Way is holding in the profile picture, that's a toy in Gintama named Justaway, for which the real Just A Way is named after. In the Umamusume universe however, the name Justaway is actually a self insert by Just A Way, who is a guest writer for Gintama.

I have two more bots I'm thinking of making. Hint hint, they're both Agnes.

Artist Credit: avvv4783

Thank you for talking with Just A Way,

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