#Terukan Boys

[mari-lair]

drawing 'your clock is ticking' scenes that plague my mind to motivate myself to get back to writing

[tarohonii]

hi yes hello so i am obsessed with the idea that teru and akane are narratively doomed to never be able to truly fall in love with each other due to their obsessive attachment styles and ingrained duty to their first priorities (Aoi and Teru's siblings respectively), and just the same as guard dogs are, they can never love someone more than their first owner. Their duty stands above all, so their love for each other will never be enough to save each other, to sacrifice for one another, to risk life and limb and all they’ve known for each other if it stands in the way of their first priority. They will never love each other in any way that matters

[musicalmoritz]

Hey uh ,,, do you have any songs that reminds you of tbhk? Like specific characters or relationships ?? (Also I plan on updating my mitsukou playlist I have for coping reasons so some recommendations on that would be nice) ( little cat ^. . ^ / )

OKAY so a little bit embarrassing but the way I listen to music 99% of the time is by imagining my hyperfixations with whatever I’m listening to so I am the perfect person to ask this question. Fair warning tho my music taste does dabble in basic territory. This is gonna be looooooong so fasten your seatbelts

• Using You by Mars Ago is such an AoiAoi song to me. There’s always one specific ship in a fandom that fits this song perfectly and for TBHK that is 100% AoiAoi

• Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana gives me HakuSumi and Sakuhiko vibes. I lean more towards HakuSumi tho bcuz…well…those of you who know the meaning of this song will get it LOL

• Soooooo many Beetlejuice musical songs remind me of TBHK. I started to make like a whole playlist that told the plot of TBHK through musical theatre songs but I gave up after the Mitsuba arc and it never made it to Spotify. Maybe someday…

• Say My Name from Beetlejuice is obviously very HanaNene coded. And The Whole “Being Dead” Thing is giving Hanako coded. Dead Mom is very Kouded

• I Know It’s Today from the Shrek musical always makes me think of Nene

• Drift Away from Steven Universe…very Yako. Her waiting for Misaki every day before learning he died…oof

• Dear Theodosia from Hamilton Remind’s me of the Minamoto Siblings. With Teru as Burr singing abt Kou and then Kou as Hamilton singing abt Tiara

• Beautiful Boy by John Lennon reminds me of Teru and Kou

• On a similar note, I Wanna Hold Your Hand by The Beatles is soooooooo NeneMei coded. Yes I’m talking abt that scene where Nene asked Mei to hold her hand to trick her in an escape attempt. I think about it often

• Townie by Mitski makes me think of Teru. “I am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be” yeah…

• Ever since I heard HISS by Megan Thee Stallion it has made me think of Teru. I feel like he would be her biggest fan

• Mine by Taylor Swift works so well for any Aoi ship but specifically Aoinene or AoiAoi. “You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter” I mean c’mon her fears surrounding love all stem from her father abandoning her so yeah

• Okay you specifically asked for Mitsukou so I should probably talk abt them

• To me they are so Lana Del Rey core…Video Games…Ultraviolence…the Diet Mountain Dew demo…Summertime Sadness…Yes I know I’m making her most popular songs, hush

• Line Without A Hook by Ricky Montgomery. It’s extra gut-wrenching when it’s from Mitsuba’s pov imo but it works both ways

• Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen is so Sousuke core

• All of Taylor Swift’s Red album reminds me of them but specifically All Too Well (both versions), Red, Sad Beautiful Tragic, Stay Stay Stay, Begin Again, Better Man, Come Back…Be Here, The Very First Night, and…yeah basically all of Red (Taylor’s Version)

• Northern Downpour by Panic! At the Disco also makes me think of them, this is embarrassingly my favorite song of all time I can’t lie

• Lacy by Olivia Rodrigo is so Aoinene core, yes I have written a fic abt them with that title (a lot of these come from my fic titles ngl)

• Tainted Love by Soft Cell gives me strong Terukane vibes from Akane’s pov

• I Wanna Dance With Somebody and So Emotional by Whitney Houston both remind me of Aoinene as well, basically all of her album Whitney does ngl

• Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks makes me think of Natsuhiko

• Bernadette by IAMX reminds me of Sakuhiko

• She Liked A Boy by Nxdia is very Aoinene coded

• Stupid With Love from the Mean Girls musical makes me think of MeiAoi, specifically the version with No.4 Mei

• Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera is canonically Hanako coded like c’mon we have a whole au for this

• In addition, Think Of Mei is very Nene coded, All I Ask Of You is Mitsukouded, Notes is v Terukane coded, and the title song is so HanaNene

• Valley Of The Dolls by Marina is lowkey Aoi core with the whole “pick a personality” line and the concept of losing your identity as a woman due to the boxes society puts us in

• Gemini Moon by Reneé Rapp reminds me of Kou or Akane (mainly bcuz of the “I could never pick a side” line…bi kings)

• Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra makes me think of HanaNene (any old music does tbh, I have a whole playlist for it)

• Me and My Husband by Mitski is, like, THE Hakusumi song

• There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out by The Smiths is so Mitsukou like “to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die” ?? C’mon

• Violently shaking trying not to name every Fall Out Boy song in existence

• The Pros and Cons of Breathing is SO Aoinene guys (“wish that I was as invisible as you make me feel”)

• Hum Hallelujah could theoretically be Kou

• HOT TO GO! by Chappell Roan is the vibe I have assigned to Minami and Himari

• Stacy’s Mom for Mitsuba’s mother. No elaboration needed.

• You’re On Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift makes me think of Teru :(

• Lithium by Nirvana reminds me of Akane but also every Nirvana song ever reminds me of Akane, I have assigned Akane to Nirvana

• Whitney Houston’s iconic cover of I Will Always Love You for HanaNene…yes indeed

• Taste by Sabrina Carpenter with Terukaneaoi (Teru sings it to Akane so instead it’s “you’ll just have to taste me while SHE’S kissing you”)

• I have assigned Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts album to HanaNene and Sour to Mitsukou

• Bcuz c’mon, Deja Vu is such a Mitsukou/Soukou song

• Maneater by Daryl Hall & John Oates is Ghost Hotel au Kou and then Maneater by Nelly Furtado is main universe Mitsuba (get it? bcuz cannibalism but also they’re gay-)

• I like the concept of a “maneater” being a gay man and a “womanizer” being a lesbian. Therefore Womanizer by Britney Spears is Mei’s song

• Oops! I Did It Again by Britney Spears is Aoi with AoiAoi

• Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter is Aoimei with OG Mei, Bad Chem is HakuSumi, and Please Please Please is Sakuhiko

• Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler is a Natsuteru song I have dubbed it that way

• Landslide by Stevie Nicks is so Aoinene it hurts… “well I’ve been afraid of changing ‘cuz I built my life around you”

• Every Breath You Take by The Police reminds me of Mitsukou from Kou’s pov…my boy can get a little obsessive

• Obsessed by Olivia Rodrigo is THE Sakunene song, especially since Nene thought Sakura was Hanako’s girlfriend when they first met

• Honorable Mention by Fall Out Boy is lowkey Mitsuba like hear me out…or maybe more-so Sousuke

• Their song Pretty In Punk reminds me of both Mitsukou and Hanamitsu

• Two Player Game from Be More Chill is HanaKou and then A Guy That I’d Kinda Be Into is Mitsukou

• Part Of Your World from The Little Mermaid makes me think of Nene and then Poor Unfortunate Souls is Sakura (or Tsukasa). Kiss The Girl is HanaNene or Aoinene

• Kiss Me by Sixpence None The Richer is Terunene, I’m sorry Ik a lot of ppl hate it but I adore them

• On that note of overhated ships I love, Jessie’s Girl by Rick Springfield reminds me of TeruAoi

• Ooooh and Uptown Girl by Billy Joel is a MeiAoi song

• My Girlfriend Is A Witch by October Country is so Aoimei and Sakuhiko core

• I Fall In Love Too Easily by Chet Baker makes me think of Nene

• I could make a whole separate post abt TBHK and Taylor Swift songs so I’m trying not to yap abt her too much but When Emma Falls In Love also reminds me of Nene. And The Archer is Hanako. And Mirrorball is Akane. And The Lucky One is Aoi. And-

• The Masochism Tango by Tom Lehrer is so Mitsukou but specifically the way I write them, you guys have to see the vision (Natsuteru as well)

• Miss You Much by Janet Jackson is lowkey AoiAoi core, ngl I just wanted an excuse to bring up Janet Jackson

• And Escapade by Janet Jackson is Aoinene so real so true

• I have seen ppl attribute Picture You by Chappell Roan to Meinene and I agree. I will add that Casual is Sakuhiko core from Natsuhiko’s pov

• Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide by David Bowie reminds me of Terukane, both as individual characters and as a ship

• I Know You by Faye Webster is like THE AoiAoi/Terukaneaoi song to me

• Paper Bag by Fiona Apple is Mitsuba to me, trust I will be writing a fic that uses a line from this song as the title (unless it’s already been done before…it’s a very popular song so like that’s possible…)

• Lonely Hearts Club by Marina makes me think of TeruAoi

• Animal Cannibal from Possibly in Michigan fits both Sumire and Mitsuba imo

• No Surprises by Radiohead makes me think of both Teru and Kou

• Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths also makes me think of Kou

• Our Last Summer by ABBA reminds me of the Severance arc in a very bittersweet way, specifically the ending

• Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac fits like so many ships. Hakusumi, Mitsukou, HanaNene…

• Killing Me Softly With His Song by Fugees and Ms. Lauryn Hill makes me think of Sumire/Hakusumi

• I Put A Spell On You by Nina Simone is very Sakura core to me

• Heart Of Glass by Blondie with Mitsuba hear me out hear me out

• Smooth Criminal by Micheal Jackson with Aoi and the amount of times she’s almost died lol

• The Boys Of Summer by Don Henley with Hanako and Kou, or Kou/Yokoo/Satou

• Moon River with HanaNene. Now cry.

• Romeo And Juliet by the Indigo Girls with Aoimei

• Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads with Tsukasa

• And circling back to the musical songs. A Lovely Night from La La Land with MeiAoi

• Fight For Me from Heathers with Mitsukou. Candy Store with Terukaneaoi. Seventeen with HanaNene. Meant To Be Yours with any ship tbh these guys are all insane. Lifeboat with Aoi. Much to think about

• Stars from Les Misérables with Teru. Let me repeat. STARS FROM LES MISÉRABLES WITH TERU. He is so Javert coded Javert my babygirl from my favorite piece of media of all time that literally shaped who I am as a person

• Right Where You Left Me by Taylor Swift with Sumire

• Also all of the Sweeney Todd musical gives me TBHK vibes with all the cannibalism, I could make a whole au

• Camisado by Panic! At the Disco with Teru

• No Good Deed from Wicked with Hakubo snapping after Sumire’s death…Hakubo my beloved

• Popular from Wicked with Aoinene, What Is This Feeling? with Terukane

• The Confrontation from Jekyll & Hyde with the Yugi twins

• Don’t Rain On My Parade from Funny Girl with Nene

• Suddenly Seymour from Little Shop Of Horrors with Aoinene, AoiAoi, Mitsukou, or HanaNene

• I like to imagine Unlikely Lovers from Falsettos with Aoinene and Terukane

• Two Wuv by Tally Hall with Teruaoinene

• American Beauty/American Psycho by Fall Out Boy with AoiAoi

Okay I’m cutting myself off because the music + hyperfixation brainrot will never end. I hope this was somewhat enjoyable to ya’ll lol ty for giving me the chance to yap abt this

[dizzybizz]

terukane week 2023, day 2: sharing clothes. except i can never make actually romantic ship art so i bring stupid interactions instead

[kikiwiwiz]

Headcanon that Akane's nose is very sensitive and bleeds randomly sometimes

Heres a demonstration

[amyyythestarry]

Teru: I'm 80% awesome, 20% water, and 100% handsome.

Akane: That's 200%.

Teru: I'm twice the man you'll ever be.

[ya-rr-ow]

I FORGOT ABOUT THIS OMG !?!?!!,!?!?!?!,! TERUKANE CANON

(For context this is chapter 17 of the spin-off series of tbhk “After School Hanako-kun, where Teru meets Aoi in a convenience store and wants to get fun candy for his sister)

[welcome-to-the-shit-library]

do you ever make a playlist for a character or pairing that’s like definitely not consistent but like. It’s my artistic vision. maybe you just dont get them like I do

[eatmy-customjorts]

he proceeded to burn the house down 0.5 seconds later

[mari-lair]

new Aka chapter!

[musicalmoritz]

I love writing the Minamotos with internalized homophobia just as much a the next gal but I see soooooo many fics that make it comically tropey and erase Teru and Kou’s canon comfortability with queerness so I need to bring some of ya’ll back down to earth real quick

Teru has men flirting with him and asking him to be their boyfriend on a daily basis, and he treats them with the same smiley, charming attitude he gives the women

Kou has gone on a date with a man, held hands with that man in public many times, and when his friend teases him about his crush on that man, he denies it without getting angry or offended

We have only ever seen them treat other queer people with warmness, and neither of them seem to have any problem being perceived as queer by their classmates. They could still have some level of internalized homophobia but I see a lot of writers run with that narrative so much that they completely disregard canon

[sillyyuserr]

Not exactly an analysis but possible parallels/basic comparisons <3

Comparing none other than terukane (teru x akane) and dangerously yours masquerade, a 1944 podcast/radio show, in summary is about a french spy named Catherine that is sent to make an American man Rudolf Stephan fall in love with her so she can kill him and gain information, but in the end she falls in love with him too, but he makes her think he never loved her so she can complete her assigned mission (or something like that?)

i saw stuff ab terukane and dangerously yours on tiktok and thought it was so interesting so i wanted to make a thing ab it 😭 FYI this is gonna be alotta words and like zero pictures so turn ur brightness down and don’t kill ur eyes

just the basis of these two are incredibly similar, two people from opposing sides forming an unlikely bond, originally unwanted but now shared?

Comparison/Possible parallel 1:

the line

“if i betray you, i betray myself. if i betray him, i betray my country. my country is very dear to be.”

“dearer than i?”

“… no not dearer than you..”

feels not like a parallel, but so uncomfortably fitting for them. (Akane being in Cathrine’s place and teru being in Rudolf’s place) if taken from akane’s place, “if i betray you, i betray myself, if i betray him, i betray my country, my country is very dear to me” easily we could associate “country” with aoi or one of akane’s supernatural duties or wtv he does with his clock keeper shit

from teru’s place, “dearer than i?” The “i” would pretty obviously be teru

the basis of being in between sides, not knowing which to chose but regardless of which you end up choosing you’re fucked one way or another is a common ground for both catherine and akane, especially with what happened in chapter 112

Comparison/Possible parallel 2:

the line

“I will betray you”

“If you do, you will betray yourself at the same time”

“yes… yes i know”

also feels eerily similar to them aswell. Again akane in cathrine’s place and teru in rudolf’s. This also especially relates to what happened in the “betrayal” part between teru and akane. Again relating to akane not knowing which side he should choose.

in summary, the doomed lovers cathrine and rudolf have so much in common with teru and akane its kind of crazy. how could one possibly look at them and not think of terukane? Akane/Cathrine being inbetween sides (the two sides being their counterpart and their duties) and in the end choosing their duties but still hoping for a seemingly unachievable chance at their counterparts. Ive specifically avoided using words like “coded” or “heavily implied” because i’ve never been completely sure,

Taking it into account, AidaIro are Japanese, and in japan homosexuality isn’t exactly normalized. yes queer people are in japan, they are everywhere and always have been but queer people in japan often conceal their sexuality and from what ive seen simply mentioning homosexuality in the wrong crowd is frowned upon (although don’t take my word for it 100%, i don’t live in japan)

And from what ive seen, AidaIro are pretty “traditional”. Literally name one female character without a male love interest that isnt shijima mei or tiara.

although the whole “lemon and akane” thing happened, it really was just for fun and jokes, although it seems to be a running joke in their friend group that “akane likes lemon” so make of that what you will

queer people being in tbhk is very much possible, we’ve seen panels of boys wanting to be teru’s boyfriend, nene blushing at sakura and claiming she was duped by her gorgeousness, mitsuba constantly accusing kou of wanting to do “pervy” stuff with him, akane mentioning his confusion on how teru can attract both genders (when their current topic had nothing to do with that? Are you the male attracted to him akane?) and natsuhiko’s entire character, but the likeliness of there being multiple queer characters is much lower than just one, of course im not opposed to there being multiple, the more the merrier, but we need to remember homosexuality is not normalized, and in some asian countries homosexuality blatantly doesn’t exist. like you could propose to someone of the same sex and people would say “omg such bffs!!” and we don’t know much about AidaIro besides they’re both girls, both Japanese, one’s a writer and one’s an illustrator.

although this alone does not down-right dismiss the queer implications, it still makes you think. We can never be too sure

Make of this what you will :3 ive been thinking ab compiling every possible queer implication or hint in tbhk but i feel like that sounds stupid and no one would read it

[aoinene-ceo]

Rambling About Aoinene <3

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What's important about Aoinene is context - in the earliest chapters of TBHK, Aoi had a scarce amount of appearances. Her character seemed to be that of the typical popular girl archetype, one that enjoyed gossip and rambling about boys and shopping. But even then, we were still given hints and glimpses of Aoi's true personality.

Firstly, she relays the school mystery's rumors to Nene. It was easy at the time to just assume she liked gossip or really was seeking them out for Nene's sake. Instead, with the context of future chapters, we know that Aoi likes horror and was probably intrigued by the urban legend esque nature of the rumors. Collecting them for Nene was a cover and an excuse. If anyone were to ask why she was invested in them, Aoi could simply say her friend was interested in them and her perfect girl persona could stay unmarred.

She and Nene were close, in a shallow sort of way. Supposedly best friends, BFFs for life. It reminds me in a way of Needy and Jennifer's relationship in Jennifer's Body. They have a strange sort of relationship where they are extremely dependent on each other, but only because they feel they NEED the other because they have always been there, and they don't know what to do when they're not. (Aoi also feels similarly of Akane, but to a stronger degree because they've known each other longer.)

Nene has a shallow view of Aoi because Aoi never opens up to her. She never seeks out Aoi's personality, either. Nene likes how things are, and she wants them to stay that way - they both do, but at the same time, they're wanting for change. To truly understand each other and to be understood and accepted for who they are.

But since Aoi hasn't opened up yet, we have no idea about her inner turmoil, the pressure to be the perfect, pretty popular girl. It won't be until a bit later that people pick it up, and it's established in her fanon personality.

And so, Aoinene became a ship about comphet. Aoi was the pretty popular girl in love with her cute, unpopular friend, Nene. She loved Akane, but she didn't reciprocate his feelings in that way. On the other hand, Nene became the girl with comphet who admired and idolized Aoi almost as much as Akane did.

And that was how it stayed, Aoi slowly developed depth in our eyes as Nene began to realize how shallow her knowledge of Aoi was.

I can see why Aoinene isn't everyone's cup of tea. It's a pretty overdone lesbian ship dynamic, but then again, Terukane is an overdone gay dynamic and so is Hanakou and Mitsukou. That doesn't make them bad at all, in fact, I love all of these ships dearly. But, while I support all of the rarepairs and cute TBHK ships, I'm a bit disappointed in how starved we are for honestly just fem characters in general.

If you compare the female members of the cast to the male ones, they are heavily outnumbered. And that's not even narrowing it down to the female named characters. Most of them aren't even at a similar enough age that they can be shipped, or just don't interact much at all. (Along with weird time shenanigans like the Meis and whatever is up with Sakura.) And again, the issue of fandoms favoring male characters over fem ones. (I'm not saying having a boy fav is bad, just that it's sad that the fem characters are usually so tossed aside in general by both the authors and fandom)

There's also the idea that Aoinene is boring. Because it's too fluffy, it doesn't have much substance, they don't have enough potential or content to stand on their own, their dynamic is boring compared to the toxic gay ships, etc. I just wanted to say now that that is absolutely not true!

The conflict of Aoinene comes from how difficult it is to tell if a girl is gay and into you or just doing Girl Things, how isolating it feels to be in love with your straight best friend who you know won't reciprocate your feelings. The suffocating and isolating way your first homoerotic friendship makes you feel, how it is to depend on someone so much because they've always been there but your love has been twisted into hatred and codependancy and you hate them for how things have changed, but you long to return to how it was but you don't because you're young and confused and don't know how to handle the storm, the hurricane of emotions and conflicts and contradictions the two of you are.

Aoinene is like a kettle left to boil on the stove - simmering and bubbling and boiling, and the pressure of trying to keep it down, to keep everything contained, seems to go against the natural order. No matter what, they'll explode.

While I do love the fluff side of Aoinene, the "toxicness" of their relationship is important, too. The reason most people find Aoinene dull is most likely because the fandom had either scrubbed away all of Nene's and Aoi's flaws, put them into cookie cutter personalities made for a ship dynamic, or only showcased one of them as flawed.

People hate female characters existing smh ... (/hj) Not to mention, the yuri versions of gay ships and hananene are way more popular than aoinene too, and whenever I check the tag they're usually just a backhround ship that's barely mentioned or important ... 😭😭

Sorry if I was a little mean somewhere, I've just been sort of mad lately about how female characters are treated and how people treat gay relationships in media (not just lesbian ones) !! This isn't meant to be rude to anyone in particular, and like I said, it's just me rambling a lot 😓😓😓 i am the complainer 😼😼😼

[yyuxii]

ALSO WHATS HE BLUSHING FOR THEN⁉️⁉️ THIS AINT EVEN ONE OF THOSE STYLISTIC BLUSHES HES JS IN LOVE.

teru genuinely not liking aoi (and straight up hating her in the alternate timeline) completely recontextualises this for me

1 why’s he looking at akane like that? Cuz he doesn’t think it’d be a genuine problem, like this ain’t a “haha that’s be awkward cuz i value her opinion” cuz he doesn’t, he’s js looking at akane like that (bro is kicking his feet and giggling‼️‼️) and 2 what’s “the dream”? he doesn’t actually like aoi so why is she important for “his dream”? unless he’s js lying.

[amyyythestarry]

Akane: Hey guys, today Teru pushed me, so I'm starting a kickstarter to put him down.

Akane: The benefits of killing him are that I would get pushed way less.