#disclaimer though. in the 3 studios I've been to I've never seen a ballet class for boys so i dont really know how it works

[huhwhatyak]

headcanon that banri did ballet as a kid

both the settsu siblings did ballet. his sister started first, and banri soon enrolled after his mum read on some online forum that "ballet classes can teach your problem child some discipline"

the studio they went to was pretty small and they didn't have classes for boys, so banri had to join in his sister's classes instead

he initially hated it there because his sister and her friends would laugh at him whenever he couldn't do the techniques correctly

but he got better at it really quickly though. mostly out of spite, but also because he's banri settsu and his life is on super ultra easy mode

but life being on suem left him getting bored of it after a year or two. he wanted to quit, but his parents insisted on him continuing

after years of constant whining and incompliance, he finally got his wish. the final straw was when he ran away from home so his parents finally gave in to him

many years down the road when he picked up delinquent fighting in high school, he's secretly thankful for his parents signing him up for ballet classes because that gave him the flexibility and leg strength needed to KO opponents with a swift kick to the head. because no one ever expects a boot to the face when you're a six foot tall guy.

it helped a lot in stage fighting too.

ballet has trained his core to be strong so that he doesn't lose balance when he does jumping and spinning kicks, but he's noticed that the akigumi guys have trouble keeping their balance after doing such complex moves

he tried teaching them the 'spotting' trick where you fix your gaze on one location and flick your head to refocus on that same location. and every time he does it, his ponytail whips around too

juza thinks it's unnecessarily dramatic but who's the one stumbling after a turn HUH, HYODO??

and now that banri's met zen, the akigumi leaders now have something else in common to talk about that isn't related to acting since they both have ballet backgrounds

bonus: when banri was like 8 he tried doing a pirouette on his sister's pointe shoes despite having never stood on pointe before, and he fell face flat on the floor. that's how he lost one of his front baby teeth but no one except his parents and sister know about this story