#akimeno headcanons

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hey!! idk if tumblr ate my ask, the himeno brainrot has faded or if you just didn’t feel like it (which is so valid lmao no worries) but i would love to hear your headcanons for her!! xx

hiii so sorry !! i actually started answering ur ask when i was on vacation a couple weeks back and then i didnt have enough ideas and put it in my drafts....and to no one's surprise i forgot about it lmao so thank u for reminding me !!

also i can't NOT have himeno brainrot atp don't worry heheh

however im afraid I won't deliver too much on this bc instead of like individual headcanons ive mostly just filled in the blanks that canon left with my own things (often self-indulgent) and made up a life for himeno which i now basically treat as canon lmao (yes this is delusion central)

i will attempt this though but fair warning that a lot of the behaviors and things i associate with her aren't very wholesome or a jolly good time (i suffer daily with this brain)

(cw for mentions of addiction and a lil bit of drugs, i promise it gets more lighthearted after the first few ones lmao)

so, starting off strong, I don't think himeno spends a lot of her time sober. namely, i headcanon her almost always running on some kind of buzz. i think it's established that she handles her liquor well so i dont think it would be noticeable at work, but considering she trained under kishibe for a long time, i can see her having a flask of her own and sipping at it throughout the day.

in the same spirit, i think she would also take any opportunity to properly get wasted. friday nights with aki at her apartment, outings with the people from work etc, especially if she doesn't have work in the morning. i think maybe she believes she's more fun to be around when drunk.

i don't think these behaviors are about entertainment, but rather a way she's found to be more "functional" and able to keep doing what she does and uphold the carefree persona she's established, hence incorporating them into her life to the point of very rarely being stone cold sober.

i think she also doesn't like the idea of her family knowing about how she copes. maybe she doesn't answer her father's phonecalls sometimes, scared of sounding too noticeably drunk at noon on a tuesday. or she's often stressed about her sister's occasional surprise visits in case she comes over and finds himeno's place in disarray and her in a similar state.

apart from alcohol, which is basically canon, i once had a thought about himeno occasionally abusing pills. pain meds prescribed for recovering from a work injury hitting just right paired with some beer on the side one evening and boom yk. i bet it wouldn't be too hard for her, considering her line of work, to get her hands on opioids regularly enough, especially since the story is set in the 90s and doctors used to prescribe them left and right before the amount of patients getting dependent skyrocketed.

to complete the holy trinity of vices, again based on things mentioned in canon, i think himeno is also the type of person to sleep around a lot with distraction being the objective. she has a reputation for getting flirty and handsy with ppl from public safety when drunk and i think that speaks for itself. this is not inherently a vice ofc, but in her case I don't think she engages in this behavior being sound of mind. it almost never happens when she's sober and i headcanon her often regretting it at least briefly the next day.

oof that was a lot lmao. um chill anyways, on a lighter note i have a couple thoughts about her relationship with aki !!

i think it's a habit for them to take care of each other's injuries after missions. im actually writing a fic about aki showing up at himeno's doorstep, bleeding and expecting to be taken care of in his own begrudging, stuck up way lmao. i think himeno is less likely to straight up go to his house for that, but i see them leaving public safety and going home together to shower and bandage their wounds in companionable silence.

additionally to that whole thing, i personally do believe that their relationship could've had a non-platonic side to it, albeit still casual in its nature. leaving that aside, i think they share quite a bit of affection and physical touch regardless, considering how casually we see them invading each other's personal space in canon. so i think they sleep in the same bed a lot, after tending to each other's wounds, or getting too drunk in himeno's living room. i think it took a while for aki to stop being tense and relax into it, but they settled into a comfortable zone and it was sth they both needed more than they would ever admit.

fujimoto once talked about himeno and said that she is the type to leave a lot of her stuff behind at aki's place and u better believe i ran with it. clothes, hair brushes, a spare toothbrush in the bathroom, you can't change my mind. i also think that to some extent it goes both ways. himeno has a shitload of aki's tupperware at her place, from all the food he brings her weekly, and she never washes them unless aki comes over to do it himself and by the time he decides to take some back, there's always more. black hair ties are often littered in her bathroom cabinets and on one of her night stands. a book on her windowsill that aki brought to read before bed once and then never took home.

not to get dark again, but talking about them is bound to make me sad sooner or later :) based on the way she thinks about aki's death in canon, i think she would often panic when thinking about aki's shrivelling lifespan, especially at the beginning when aki had a lot of years to spare and surely used the sword more freely. i imagine her being restless in her bed with aki sleeping next to her, feeling compelled to check on his breathing or his pulse. reach over and touch his hand to feel him alive and warm, hoping it would soothe her to sleep.

i also think she's there a lot of the times aki cries. i bet the first time she saw him was accidental, or at least not a conscious decision on aki's part. i also bet himeno didn't really know what to think of it initially, but soon looked at aki under a different light bc of it. i think aki finds comfort in himeno being in the same room as the tears spill from his eyes after a day of watching people die. and i think himeno loves giving him that, even though it tugs at her chest in uncomfortable ways she can't quite point out.

i feel compelled to but i won't go into the whole being in love with aki situation, because first of all its not even a headcanon but very much there and secondly i will ramble indefinitely about how i think her pining for him would manifest and this is already a huge post god bless

on a slightly different note before i bring this to a close, i like thinking about her bond with kishibe a lot as well. it's not shown enough in the anime or manga, but i imagine them being friends. i think they would go out for drinks but more to talk than get wasted. i think they'd have the capacity to talk about very real things but also nothing at all. kishibe might be the only person himeno talks to properly about aki, aside from her letters to her sister, because he shares the same life as her and inevitably has more space tl understand. maybe kishibe gets to talk a bit about quanxi too.

haha oh well :D that's all i have for now. if u read this far thank you and also im sorry lmao. hadn't sat down to microwave himeno like this in a hot minute i loved getting the opportunity to do it so thanks for the ask anon !! till next time ~

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Thank you! Here's more of the really-more-like-15-headcanons-in-a-trenchcoat Akimeno fic:

To the average person, this probably wouldn’t seem like enough to even the scales in any meaningful way, but it’s not about evening the scales. It’s not actually about the scales at all. They’re never going to fix the world, and they’re never going to be able to stop it from hurting them. But they can find enjoyment in spite of all that.

Send me a word, and if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

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Chainsaw Man headcanons

Aside from Powy, Power is also called Pow-Pow by Denji in which Power calls him Den-Den in return.

Aki is nicknamed as Aki-kyun by Himeno while Aki nicknames her Hime which is “Princess” is Japanese. They both get embarrassed whenever he calls her that.

Himeno sleeps over at Aki’s place and vice versa and at first, Aki was embarrassed seeing Himeno’s sleepwear of a gray tank top and panties before he got used to it.

Kurose and Misa broke up but stayed friends due to long distance and Kurose being too busy. Kurose is currently dating Tendo. Tomono and Aldo are oblivious to the situation.

Denji and Power stay platonic despite kissing each other out of boredom, for practice, playing pocky games. for saying goodnight and sharing gum. Sometimes there’s some tongue involved and some skinship but nothing more.

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Song rec for the akimeno playlist, if nobody’s suggested it yet, haunt me X3 by the teen suicides, very much feels like something straight out of Himeno’s inner monologue

(Also just wanna say I adore your blog and I’m so thankful for all the good akimeno content)

hiii @xxxacidgaminexxx

all the notes i just got from you brought me out of hibernation ahahaha thank u sm im so glad u enjoyed my ramblings.

currently flabbergasted at the fact that i love this song and it never rly occured to me to tie it with himeno? you're so real for this rec. added to the playlist, u can check it on my pinned !!

the lyrics are so himeno-coded my mind is reeling as we speak. the drugs part as well? personal attack to a very specific headcanon i have for her god bless. thanks again <3

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Does Aki visit Himeno's grave or maybe Himeno's grave isn't there because her body was gone and Aki just visits the cemetery because that's the place where he met Himeno for the first time?

this type of angst has been living in my brain rent free for over a year so it's time to indulge on main.

considering the nature of devil hunting, it's safe to assume that for the sake of the families at least, there's a grave for all the fallen devil hunters.

i doubt that the majority of them make pretty corpses, or are left with much to bury, but i think some type of memorial is put up regardless.

so in my opinion himeno DOES get a grave. her sister and father visit it from time to time. aki does too.

(this ask made me mad that we dont actually get a scene of him doing so in the manga bc it would've been very much in character)

i have this headcanon that the way himeno found out that aki cried for every coworker of theirs that died was bc she ran into him at the cemetery once. he didn't know she was there at first, but she saw him gather the wilted flowers from the graves and replace them with new ones.

i imagine he was very swift and efficient with his motions, like doing chores. he placed each cheap, standard bouquet down one after the other, then stood back up and dusted himself off.

himeno stayed back and watched him do it, expecting him to turn back with that serious, collected expression he'd always keep his face in.

but aki stood there for some time, looking at the graves in front of him, decorated with simple, boring, colorless flowers. as temporary as the lives they were there to honor had been.

when he turned around and saw her, there were tears in his eyes and down his face.

he didn't say anything and didn't move to wipe them off. didn't try to hide from himeno, who felt the inexplicable urge to laugh, even though her chest was tight and uncomfortable.

she didn't go to the cemetery again after that.

aki never stopped going.

i think it takes him some time to finally visit himeno's grave. im pretty sure devil hunters don't get funerals anyway.

maybe it's because the last time he bought flowers for someone he loved was for his family's grave. maybe it's because that same cemetery is where he saw himeno for the first time and he's scared of feeling some type of closure by going back there alone to meet her.

maybe he's not ready to let her go.

after meeting angel, he quits smoking and that's the first time he lets part of her go. deep breaths come easier to him after that.

when he's ready, he buys flowers and takes the familiar route.

her grave already seems worn. there are newer ones around it, more added every day. the flowers in front of her cross aren't wilted yet. maybe one or two days old. her sister must have been in town.

aki feels uneasy. like something is off and out of place. maybe this isn't the clean cut he imagined coming here would give him. closure feels bitter and unsatisfying on his tongue as he sets his flowers down next to the ones already there.

he stares at himeno's name on the stone. it stares back at him, gray and miserable.

he doesn't visit any of the other graves he meant to stop by. all the people he used to drink with that share the same date of death with the person that knew him better than anyone.

being finally unknown feels like a breath of fresh air for aki hayakawa, who makes a point of not knowing himself either. almost feels like freedom.

his steps feel heavy as he leaves, his eyes dry and too big for their sockets. easy revenge, he thinks, isn't enough.

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What do you think of these OT3?

ahahahaha, i wanna preface this by saying that it takes a lot for me to ship an ot3. like the dynamic has to be very specific.

now im looking at this and cant get past the obvious joke about aki and angel having 2 hands 💀

onto the actual question, this isn't rly a headcanon i enjoy? like all the power to ppl who ship them ofc its all legal here so we're doing great.

personally I don't ship denji and power first and foremost, i like their relationship a LOT as is, i dont rly enjoy when ppl push it more towards or romantic or of a brother-sister thing. i like it indefinable.

as for aki, himeno and angel, i enjoy both akimeno and akiangel a lot. besides the obvious issue that angel and himeno didn't get to coexist in the story :/, i feel like akimeno and akiangel respectively have very unique and specific bonds and I wouldn't br able to kind of thread them together.

maybe its the fact that ive spent too much time thinking about them. my view on them is too rigid to let my mind go crazy hehe.

however i will say that if himeno and angel were alive at the same time, i could see aki having separate things with each of them. that would be very very interesting to me.

like not even in official relationships or anything just aki having multiple partners with benefits to broodingly pine for lmao dkdmsbssj