#(very long tag ramble incoming oops)

[shoechoe]

im not particularly into romantic ships !! (but i like contributing 2 ask games) sooo hmm... whats ur favorite canon friendship or dynamic ? or one u'd like to see in jjba?

Don't worry- I like this ask too.

I wouldn't say I have one canon (non-romantic) character dynamic in particular that I would consider my favorite, but I can list a few of them in no particular order:

-Polnareff and Abdul (I also think the ship is pretty cute)

-Diavolo and Doppio (I find this one the most fun to think & talk about for obvious reasons)

-Trish and Bruno

-Yasuho and Josuke (8) (this one was sort of implied-romantic, but I'll count it)

-Josuke (4) and Okuyasu

-Jolyne, Foo Fighters & Hermes

I also really would've liked to see what an interaction between Doppio and Trish would've looked like- both of them were criminally underused and it's a shame.

I get very excited about character dynamics, but I don't really care much for romantic ships myself either. When I say I "like" a ship, most of the time what I mean by that is if a mutual or friend is into it, I'll nod and give a thumbs up from the sidelines or maybe think "oh, that's kind of cute, sure". The only times I get the "shippy" feelings that I assume are the main appeal of shipping is if I care about one or preferably both characters very, very much, which just doesn't happen often. (Also, I get kind of irrationally territorial about characters I care about to that level, so I'd probably only trust ship art from me and a few people lol.)

[yukipri]

Random text HCs for the YOI Future!Verse ABO AU - Adults 02

Exactly as stated. Self-indulgent rambling headcanons around themes/questions on the five main charas of the YOI Future!Verse ABO AU. Most of this is generally assumed to be post living together, though not necessarily after everyone’s married.

(in other words, a text post bc did not have enough time to art it all oops)

New to the AU? Basics here, rest of the posts HERE.

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Financial background/Money spending habits/Careers

No really, it sounds boring but it’s really important to having a functioning family so hear me out yeah?

Financial contributions of the adults to the family kind of go two ways here: People who bring in money from the outside, and people who do things that they otherwise would have had to spend a lot of money on, therefore saving a lot of money. Both are equally important.

Some of this info will be a bit redundant from other posts but I’ll put it here again so it’s as organized as it can get...

Yuuri - Comes from a lower middle class family that sometimes had to be careful with money (due to decreasing business in Hasetsu) and did struggle a little with Yuuri’s skating fees and sending him abroad. As a result, even though he’s never quite been poor, he’s very conscious about money and how even if you think you’re doing alright, sudden unpredictable factors out of your control can put you in a financial pinch. As someone who also grew up in an inn, he also puts immense value on doing proper house-keeping and absolutely refuses Victor’s suggestion that they hire a maid for their rather spacious house(s) (he grudgingly accepts Phichit’s cleaning assistant robots though).

He’s alright with spending a little extravagantly once in a rare while, but in general will look for bargains and other ways to save, and tries to be the voice of reason. Likes hoarding and puts a lot of sentimental value on objects and may insist on continuing to use them long after it is perhaps practical. Is a bit anxious about the kids’ futures and wants to have hefty savings so they’ll never be limited because of money. Doesn’t like when his husbands spend on things he feels are really unnecessary (especially when it happens frequently). That being said, he’s also very much a stress shopper and when his anxiety’s running high, he can spend more than even his mates (and sometimes but not always regrets it afterwards).

After retiring from professional figure skating he focuses mostly on the kids. It seemed natural, given that Yurio was entering the peak of his career and Victor needed to be at his side as his coach and Yuuri needed to recover from his pregnancy. Later, he’s technically coaching Minami full time, but given that Minami was living with him at home and also more or less spending all of his time and money on their family anyway, it gave him far more flexibility than coaching an outsider would have. After Minami retires, Yuuri continues to focus on the kids and is busy training them.

Yuuri was pretty convinced that his skating career was over the first time he became pregnant, but Phichit convinced (read: begged) him to guest in his ice show once it was started and Yuuri couldn’t turn him down. He took part in it seasonally for several years. The Nishigori triplets are also in charge of running the now annual Onsen on Ice Hasetsu Exhibition, where he’s also performed in lower stress environments, often doing ice dancing and other collaborative programs with his mates and later his kids.

Victor - Rich, and has always been rich. Has a ridiculous inheritance, considerable savings from his prime as a skater, and is also still making more than your average middle class income. Money’s not the thing he’s ever struggled with and he used to drown his loneliness in buying quality but empty-feeling material goods. Now he likes to spend a lot less on himself, but a LOT on his family. He gets that love =/= money, yet he also feels very strongly that those he cares about shouldn’t have anything but the best, and he can be pretty snobby about what he considers acceptable quality. Also feels that if it’s damaged/old, they should throw out the old and buy better new things, because again, nothing but the best.

He especially likes splurging on the kids and frequently gets into huge spats with Yuuri over buying them excessively expensive things when they’re younger because, “They’re children Victor! They don’t care if it’s plastic or swarovski crystals! And they’ll also grow out of those in a few months!” The family technically has a, “You do what you want with your own money, we try to split all the shared things/kids necessities” rule so Yuuri can’t exactly prevent Victor from buying things with his own money, but he can death glare and give him the silent shoulder for days...Money is probably the main thing Victor and Yuuri fight over given how strongly their opinions on it clash and how stubborn both can be, but usually the rest of the family can coax a resolution.

He considers his main job to be coaching his kids, but his reputation as the Living Legend has never faded, and given his success and fame with both Yuuri and Yurio, he still gets tons of requests from outside for coaching. He hasn’t accepted any full time coaching offers but occasionally teaches extremely expensive group and solo classes, often at the St. Petersburg rink when he’s in the country (where Georgi is now the main coach, having succeeded Yakov, long retired), but also at the Hasetsu Ice Castle, which he now owns. Nishigori and Yuuko are therefore technically his employees, and he pays them very generously.

Yurio - Grew up poor and heavily dependent on his grandfather and money was scarce even with the limited financial aid his mother threw their way. He considered himself a relatively money-conscious child who tried not to ask for too expensive things and preferred to just focus on working hard, but as an adult he appreciates so much more how his grandfather never left him wanting. He realizes now that paying for all of his skating training, boarding school education, and never skipping out on giving gifts and an allowance that let him buy whatever he wanted was probably a lot harder on his grandfather than he was aware of when he was younger, and possibly why his grandfather had lived so far from the city and in a pretty barren house with an old car. Yurio does his best to support his grandfather while he’s alive, although Kolya is as cheerful as ever and doesn’t seem to be particularly lacking in anything in Hasetsu, where he now lives with Yuuri’s parents, playing with the kids and taking daily soaks in the hot springs.

As a parent, he’s very much on Team Save Money with Yuuri. He agrees with Victor that buying quality things is good, and he wants the kids to have things that he never had. But at the same time, he also feels very strongly that his childhood wasn’t lacking in any way because he didn’t have anything brand-name, and if it’s all the same he’d prefer to buy used or bargain. In other words, if the kids are conscious of something and want it, sure they can buy, but if it’s just the parents’ whims wanting to buy it for them and the kids don’t care, they shouldn’t. As a figure skater with a career easily comparable to Victor’s, he could easily have supported his family even if he were the only husband, but he agrees with Yuuri that savings are important. Rarely actually starts fights over money himself but will stand solidly at Yuuri’s back as he rages at Victor.

While he was quite the money maker while an active figure skater, after retirement (which wasn’t until his mid 30s) he focuses on training the kids, specifically the one kid he decides he’s going to personally coach. He really wanted the close, personal coaching experience that he and Victor, Victor and Yuuri, and Yuuri and Minami had, and it seemed the right path for this particular child and Yurio’s experience. He also continues his side job as a model and has several clothing lines in his name, though most of those in his adulthood are much tamer than the first line he was given artistic control over in his late teens.

Phichit - Comes from a wealthy family that was able to give him expensive training and lessons in a country where figure skating is far less accessible than others. Was sent to study abroad at fancy boarding schools multiple times in his youth to both grant him better access to skating and to further his extremely advanced academic potential (as a result, he skipped grades and was a college freshman at 16 when he met Yuuri). Yet despite having always had the best of the best, he’s much more aware of money than Victor, and has also never used it as an emotional crutch like Victor either.

But at the same time, he also just genuinely loves splurging on his loved ones and has a very alarming habit of never caring about price tags. He likes buying nice brand things, but unlike Victor, he also likes buying weird, fun, and quirky things too regardless of price, all in a haphazard mish mash that makes it very hard to tell whether the gift he’s bringing home is reasonable or outrageous. He’s very much on Team Spend with Victor, but at the same time he’s empathetic to Yuuri and Yurio’s concerns and can usually spin some excuse why it’s a good idea. As such usually can avoid getting into fights with Yuuri on the same scale as Victor. If he’s around, tries to nudge Victor into choosing his words wisely, which Victor follows if he’s smart about it (he’s not always). Is usually the one to wisely point out that given the set up of their very unconventional family, they have five adults and therefore far more disposable income than most other families, plus they also have investments in multiple countries so one economic crash could never break them. Yuuri trusts him a lot more with money than Victor.

Despite Victor having the largest inheritance, Phichit’s the one actively making the most money from his multiple successful careers and it’s clear that he’ll be the richest by far in the long run. He has his super successful ice show in Bangkok and its sequel which he personally ran for years before leaving it to his successors. He also opened a skating school to give students in Thailand more opportunities to access figure skating. Outside of skating, he picked up acting while studying to create his ice show and while he doesn’t consider himself a full-time actor, he’s been in enough cult hits that he’s one of the more internationally recognizable Southeast Asian actors. Given his talent in connecting to his audience and his varied entertainment production training, he’s received a lot of requests to write and produce for platforms other than ice shows, especially in ways that showcase Thai, Southeast Asian in general, and even Asian in general talent on a more global stage, so that’s also something he dabbles in. He also accidentally and unintentionally created a social media platform which he meant to keep as a hobby/side-project, but it ended up appealing to more people than he thought and sort of blew up. He’s technically CEO but Leo and the Nishigori triplets run it more. His busy careers means that he tends to have to spend the most time away from family, and while money can’t replace his presence, it is something he can provide while across the globe. Whenever he comes back home he brings really extravagant gifts, and though Yuuri tries to stop him, he regularly drops enormous checks into Yuuri’s account “for the kids and you when I can’t be there.”

Minami - Comes from a relatively big name family with ties to the local medical industry, his parents both famous doctors, but is also the youngest son with an older brother so he doesn’t have any pressure to continue the family legacy. Had a fancy education (attended an Ivy League school in the U.S. during the 3 years between the end of canon and Yuuri’s first pregnancy) and access to the best training, but in the end he’s never been particularly ambitious outside of skating. He admits that if their family had been more conventional and he was Yuuri’s only husband, he’d have to go find a full-time job post retiring, perhaps related to skating, perhaps related to medicine which is considerably more lucrative and which he isn’t untalented in. As it is, there’s so many other adults working full time and bringing in a ton of money, so he doesn’t feel any particular guilt mostly focusing on the kids with Yuuri. He regularly goes to take specialty classes when he feels he could learn a skill or get certified in something that will be useful to their family, which is how he ends up with a teaching certificate and tutoring qualifications. While he doesn’t have a medical degree, he’s picked up a lot of things from his family and after Yuuri becomes pregnant the first time he studies prenatal care, especially the more specialized omega prenatal care pretty intensively, and arguably knows more than many general medical practitioners. While he’d never treat anything serious himself, he can provide sound advice and keeps a very close watch on Yuuri, plus they can go to his family for most things without worrying about medical fees. His knowledge and constant presence by Yuuri’s side gives the other mates tons of peace of mind.

Minami still contributes somewhat financially by occasionally tutoring people on the outside, but his primary focus is on Yuuri and the kids. Him waiving almost all medical fees is already a considerable contribution, but he also personally covers all of the kids’ academics when they’re not actively enrolled in school and can tutor them in all subjects. And that’s not even mentioning skating, he wasn’t Japan’s top skater for years and considered Yuuri’s successor for nothing. He was most of the kids’ first introductions to the ice. He also considered himself the full-time live-in babysitter long before he was officially married into the family, watching over the kids whenever he and Yuuri weren’t at the rink for his training. Yuuri and the others were so dependent on him looking after the kids that Yuuri tried to waive Minami’s coaching fees, as it seemed to him a perfectly reasonable exchange of services if not lacking on Yuuri’s part, but Minami very firmly refused. The one time Yuuri tried to refuse payment, Minami splurged extravagantly on the kids, more than Yuuri was due, so Yuuri quietly accepted the money so he could at least funnel it into useful things. Minami was smug, his point made.

Minami likes nice things well enough, but also considers himself very average and would prefer to buy ice cream over fancy brand name clothing any day, and a magazine clip out of Yuuri over any museum art piece. Given that there’s two adults on Team Save and two adults on Team Spend, when it’s a clear split and neither side is budging Minami tends to be the deal breaker. He can swing either way depending on the situation and can be trusted to always prioritize what’s best for the kids, even setting aside any personal bias to give Yuuri whatever he wants.