Recap / How I Met Your Mother (And How I Met Your Father) Intimacy Arc Chapter One: Back at Hope’s Peak! A Man’s Fantasy?

Intimacy Arc Chapter One: Back at Hope’s Peak! A Man’s Fantasy?

Original Release: April 26, 2020 (Fanfiction.net), April 27, 2020 (AO3)

Summary

Now back at Hope's Peak, the girls decide to reconnect by taking a communal bath in the sauna. Left along in the dining hall, Teruteru encourages Makoto, Hifumi, and Hiro to go and seek a peek on the girls while they bathe. Will Makoto give in to the temptations of "A Man's Fantasy"?

Tropes

• Call-Back: Kyoko hands Junko back her camera after she deleted the picture of her and Makoto at the water park.
• Covert Pervert: While he ultimately declines, Makoto's briefly tempted to agree to peep on the girls in order to see a naked Kyoko.
• Mythology Gag: The guys taking a peek at the girls in the sauna is the same as the Easter Egg the player would get in the game if they had the item "A Man's Fantasy". The title of the chapter is even named after the item.
• The Peeping Tom: After being told about the girls taking a bath in the sauna by Teruteru, the guys (Hifumi, Hiro, and an unwilling Makoto) go take a peek at them.