#Hayato Gokudera

[lemorgo]

i don't care what year it is

[akkariynn-tries-her-best]

Another Hayato Gokudera drawing. This man made me go so insane in middle school thanks to his fashion sense xDD

It feels nice to remind myself of all the shounen series I used to love and reborn still holds a special place.

[yarrayora]

reborn isnt the only mentor who gives his apprentices daddy issues

[skullmotif]

To be the nucleus that attacks relentlessly, never resting. The tempestuous storm!

[incorrectkhrquotes]

Gokudera: You can’t make everyone like you, you’re not Tsuna.

Yamamoto: What? Not everyone likes Tsuna.

Gokudera: What- who doesn’t like Tsuna?

Yamamoto:

Gokudera: Names, Yamamoto. I need names.

[yacchannanamin]

Happy birthday Gokudera - September 9th

[jounouchis]

khr op/ed 1+2

back in 2020 I was going some redraws from the reborn openings and endings.... this is as far as I got but I should again some day lmao

[hendrickcreates]

Gokudera Hayato: 10th Vongola Storm Guardian

[nereisi]

You want a non-cliché male (shounen) protagonist? I got it!

Something that I literally can’t get out of my head recently is how I constantly see discourse about the staleness of male MCs - especially shounen manga protagonists - always so ready and accepting of being the Chosen One. Always so ready to discard their “mundane” life and embark on some dangerous mission. Outspoken, fiery and with unbeatable charisma.

And while we are beginning to see (minimal) change with recent books/manga, do you know who was literally the antithesis of this a lot of years ago?

Tsuna.

Tsuna who was literally the last choice for everything, whose nickname was Loser-Tsuna, constantly bullied and harassed and whom nobody thought he would ever amount to anything. 0 friends, 0 abilities, 0 accomplishments. 

And when some guy to tell him “You can become the head of a mafia family. You’re gonna be respected, sought after.”, when Reborn serves him POWER on a silver platter... Tsuna says “oh hell no, fOck all that”, turns tail and RUNS. 

He won’t manage to escape forever, but that’s beside the point. Tsuna is a coward, a plain nobody, so boringly normal that in any other anime he would be for sure one of the background filler characters. He isn’t cut to be a protagonist. He’s wimpy, weak and whiny, sometimes to the point of being annoying ever for me - and I love KHR.

But what fascinates me is this. A character so weak and bullied, usually would be elated to have that much power offered to him. I knew that he was the protagonist, so the first time I watched the series I was expecting him to accept the power and better himself, become a different person, a hero. (Or, if he was in another manga, a villain.) 

Instead, not only Tsuna refuses - again and again, until the very end - to become who he was destined to be, who everyone around him wants him to be; but the only time he uses the power he was gifted with is strictly to protect himself, his friends and family. And then he quickly steps away immediately after, like when you move a scalding pot without mittens. 

His guardians have become... his guardians, in order, because: 1) he saved his life, so he thinks he’s cool 2) mostly head empty, only vibes (also he saved his life) 3) a literal child bribed with candy 4) somebody else asked him and he just went with the flow 5) one crumb of kindness got them hooked (actually 2 psycopaths in one body and it’s not a metaphor) 6) doesn’t give a shit as long as you give him a good fight. 

Sure, at some point they all recognize his strenght, but apart from Gokudera’s blind idolization, for everybody Tsuna is just A Guy. He might be their “boss”, and they might come to respect him, but he gets treated nothing like a cliché male MC. 

It’s really a shame that Katekyo Hitman Reborn, as a series, was managed badly as it did. Even though it’s one of my favorite shows, it’s weakened by a lot of factors... but an uninteresting MC? It ain’t one!

I smell a reboot in the air. I really hope they will to the series justice.

[harumiura]

yamamocchan appreciation post :D

[vongola-renaissance]

Gokudera and Tsuna's friendship is so special to me because Gokudera is like YOU SACRIFICED YOUR LIFE FOR MINE I'D DO ANYTHING I'D GO ANYWHERE FOR YOU DIE FOR YOU AND KILL FOR YOU I'D— and Tsuna is visibly shaking with anxiety and stress saying that living and being just his friend is more than enough please thank you please Gokudera I'm begging you please

You really need to add Yamamoto there to control them both and calm them down for the sake of Tsuna's health and for the safety of Gokudera. Except from those great times when Yamamoto joins Gokudera in whatever insane shit Reborn is planning now and you remember Yamamoto was the one who almost suicide out of passion like, he is objectively not better than Gokudera, he's just more chill about it but equally insane.

[ciaossu-imagines]

Gokudera Hayato and grief

Gokudera, despite being a very emotional sort of person, is not someone who handles big emotions well. He can be full of all sorts of emotions, but he has trouble really recognizing all the nuanced feelings, where they’re coming from, why he’s feeling them, and most importantly what to do about them. Big emotions tend to overwhelm him and they can make him shut down.

Grief is definitely one of those very big, very scary emotions to Gokudera. He ends up feeling impotent in the face of it and he doesn’t handle it in the healthiest of ways. He tends to over-react to it, though his approaches to it can be varied. They do typically tend to lean one of two ways though. He either doesn’t deal with it at all or he shuts himself off and gets completely lost in it. If he chooses to not deal with it at all, he tends to just pretend the emotions aren’t there. Nothing at all is wrong. Don’t talk about anything that happened – he’ll make a scary face for a second, then smile and abruptly change the topic, making it very clear to whoever is trying to comfort him or get him to open up and let some of the feelings that are festering and rotting inside of him out that that is not going to happen. Not now, hopefully never. He will throw himself into daily routines. He’ll keep himself super-occupied. He doesn’t give himself a moment’s rest – he always has to be doing something, whether it’s spending time around Tsuna and all their friends, working on some complex problem, learning something new, pushing himself through grueling training practices or picking and getting into more fights than normal. He can’t let himself slow down, not right away at least. He always has to be occupied in some way, he has to have all these distractions and ways to keep his mind busy. He’ll keep pushing and pushing through all these things, never stopping to take even a breath, until things start to feel even semi-normal again, until he feels like he has bottled up whatever was making him grieve, until he can successfully pretend like it just never happened. Avoidance is definitely one of the strong reactions he has to grieve.

Gokudera is someone who does need his alone time, even when he’s relatively emotionally stable, and this can get really bad if he decides to bounce the other way in his grief. If he cannot conceivably bury himself in distractions, if he cannot keep up a good public face under the weight of the grief, it’s very possible for Gokudera to just shut himself off from other people. He’ll be pleasant still, greeting those in his life, but he finds excuses to get away from them as soon as possible, spending only bare minutes with him. He’ll always find some reason he needs to go. He won’t answer his door, he’ll start ignoring calls and texts. He hides away from the world. He barely showers, he stops eating much at all. He doesn’t do any of the things that used to bring him joy. He tries to distract himself in vain, picking up projects or books only to toss them down moments later and just go back to blankly staring at the wall. He’ll cry without even realizing he’s doing so. The emotions have him in a death grip; he can’t control or rein them in. They’re everything; they feel as deep and vast as the universe itself. He’ll stay in this self-imposed exile until he can get some sort of handle on his emotions, until he can get to that state of just pretending that nothing happened. When he does come out again, he really does want life to just continue on like nothing happened. He doesn’t want to talk to people about it, he doesn’t want to dwell on it. He just wants to move on.

Now, for small things, Gokudera doesn’t really grieve that much. Those small things mostly irritate him or bother him. It’s like an itch in the back of his brain – he really wants to scratch it and have that satisfaction, but he can’t so he just deals with the minor problem with frustration and irritation and accepts that the itch will go away by itself if he just gives it time.

He loses something? That really sucks and he’s pissed about it, especially since he likely can’t afford to replace it right away. He’ll look for it, but if he can’t find it, he sucks it up and starts saving up to replace it, while complaining about it. He lost in a fight? He’s pissed about it, but it happened and he just needs to do something to ensure he won’t lose the next time.

It’s really only the bigger moments of grief that Gokudera tends to react to. He’ll definitely react in one of the two major ways I mentioned above, but it’s really going to depend on how major the grief is in how intense those reactions are and how long they will last. For example, a break-up isn’t going to prompt as intense a reaction as someone dying, and while he’ll recover from a break-up in about six months to a year, maybe a couple years if the relationship was a long one, someone dying that meant a lot to him? That will provoke a much stronger emotional reaction from him and the effects of that sort of grief will cloud his life permanently and it will be a slower recovery for him.

[khr-guilded-cage]

*Shamal teaching Gokudera how to drive*

Gokudera: No I can’t do that, that would be giving the enemy information about my next move

Shamal: Hayato it’s a turn signal, it’s supposed to give information about your next move

[yarrayora]

this is also the closest thing to a compliment he ever said to ryohei

[deathberi]

✖ THE 10TH GENERATION VONGOLA FAMILY ✖

[incorrectkhrquotes]

Gokudera: Thought I was meowing back at Uri for the past hour. Turns out it was just me and Yamamoto meowing at each other from different rooms in the house.