#first one was for hifudo day!

[olibuns]

Me galaxy braining: hifudo....... but like if it was yuri

[justanotherniky]

30 Day HypMic Challenge!

Double post AGAIN because I keep forgetting about this I am a disaster yes~

DAY 14: FAVOURITE BATTLE

🎤 LIGHT AND SHADOW

This one is just. *inhales* perfect.

Every single verse slaps. HifuDo are being gay. Kuko is being a menace. Everything is right with the world.

Anna @fullmetalgirl98 and I also have a hell of a good time singing this one. The first time we did it we kind of went off the rails because damn this bitch ain't easy, but I nailed Doppo's verse and we both started jumping and might have traumatised a couple of nuns.

But who cares about them.

If anything, we were educating them.

[sneezydarliing]

HI. hypmic anon im back hello. Sorry in advance for the long ass scroll of text DHDHSB. I dont think you can even begin to understand how RABID your reply made me im giggling kicking my feet rn. Its canon TO ME!!!!! ALL OF IT!!! (well almost all of it bc i dont think ramuda would keep the gifts especially if they would get in his way bc hes a dick. And i love him for it. Fake ass bastard <3) no fr he "has to be in control" are you trying to kill me genuinely. Genuine question

scenarios are. Oh gosh okay i love. Control. I want to crush him like a bug i NEED to see him crack so i dont really care too much about the cause but GOSH having to power through a shitty (emotionally and physically) day WITH the added pressure of a whole ass fake persona on top of everything else. Soooo delicious to me. Anything with him just being surrounded by people especially FANS and having to keep up the /everything/ while just wanting to be anywhere else...... im SO sick of this guy i hate him

Also also okay listen dont judge me TOO much here but i. Am coming. From the anime adaptation i KNOWWW I KNOW thats like a cardinal sin or whatever but listen i dont know enough jp to go beyond like, the first few cd dramas and i DEFINITELY dont know enough to tackle the drb game (can we have a localization im actually on my knees begging) and i did catch up on a few of the cd dramas but i never got to dh and bat.... But the anime did just get to them. Dh seem very. They seem very. (<- a person who got into hypmic bc they saw art of sasara and thought they would like him)

ANYWAYS. That is to say i might not know them too well YET but I WILL STILL!! CONSUME ANY AND ALL HYPMIC CONTENT!!! So rest assured there is an audience (albeit small) and also im gonna shout out the anime adaptation omw out bc listen that shit is so fucking bad its so funny. Who greenlit them for a second season im crying

To finish this word dump off, i will offer up another little scenario for matenro which im gonna assume are the mtr in your tags (and sorry in advance if its a typo and you meant mtc and im just being dumb) specifically some domestic hifudo bc i still CANNOT believe they canonically live together like are you kidding me. Anyways im putting peak himbo hifumi out of commission bc of some virus that has been going around in his workplace. And doppo is fucking fighting for his life bc hifumi always does all the housework and cooking (CANONICALLY. im never getting over these two) and 'oh my god what does a sick person even need like are you joking ive never taken a sick day in my life and you expect me to take care of another person????' Ft jakurai on doppos speed dial trying to calm him down bc its really not that bad

HELLO AGAIN!!!!!!!! holding this so dear omg...

You are so right in all of it !!!! Admitidly I like DH bc they're very silly. Thr anime id so bad but i hold it so dear bc so is the game. Hypmic at its essence is just. Lovably terrible.I was lucky enough to be able to read a lot of the manga when slug still had it up so I do know a lot more more than the anime puts out !!! The anime is silly though love it

I really wish they'd come out with an arb eng but bcuz there's not many western fans my hopes aren't high 😔

ALSO I love that scenario so much... domestic hifudo is so dear to me I love them so much. Hifu being taken care of for once instead of bring the one that always takes care of others they make me emotional

[hifumi-gigolo]

I have like this little hifudo hc for like, idk I guess au where it's 2020 and quarantine stuff happened in the hypmic world?

Doppo still has to work a ton but working from home made it a lil easier, hifumi's always around to help with self care stuff and keep his spirits up. For the first few months Doppo just sleeps whenever he's not working, but after a while he actually caught up on rest.

Hifumi's bright and cheery for the first few months, excited to have Doppo around, but he really starts to miss his job and, yknow, other people. Doppo can tell he's not really himself, and one day, while Hifumi's out shopping, he attempts to bake something for him (since Hifumi often does that for him), and Hifumi comes home to a kitchen full of like a dozen messed up batches of cupcakes, and one very successful batch, and his hearts just all happy that doppo tried to hard to cheer him up

Idk my family and I r still in quarantine and I have hifudo brainrot

Omg anon truly, thank you for sharing this with me. It's so cute....

Doppo getting better and Hifumi missing social interaction during quarantine is also so accurate??? Can't believe I never thought of it. Like that's exactly what would happen...

Also can we...can we talk about how they are probably glad they are quarantined together, because they would miss each other terribly if they couldn't see each other for months and hhhh them<3

Dopp trying to cheer him up😭💕

[catboyithaqua]

Ramuda and Doppo :0

OH MY BOYS LETS GO

Under a cut bc long

Ramuda Amemura

First impression

Baby boy baby. Very cute and sweet i love characters with ramudas aesthetic i tend to want to protect them, especially since its an aesthetic that i fall into myself and lo v e so kseidjsnfn YEAH this man is baby!!!

Impression now

Ohhh my god i love this man i love the way he is characterised he is so incredibly interesting as a character and tbh so realistic and honestly i adore him!!! I alarmingly see a lot of myself in him tbh, were incredibly similar and that isnt necessarily a good thing!! But still i love this man

Favorite moment

Oh man where tf do i BEGIN there are so many ngl, but mostly all of the moments where we see ramuda's humanity. There is still a sweetness left under the darkness, there is still a man who wants to cling onto everything he has - his emotion, his internal battles, his morality vs his desperate need to survive - oh fucking man so much.

Idea for a story

CAN WE FUCKING. HAVE RAMUDA TALK HIS SHIT OUT PLEASE can we just have others actively helping ramuda cAN THIS MAN PLEASE BE SHOWN THAT ITS NOT TOO LATE FOR HIM,,, PLEASE,, i just want ramuda to finally talk out everything and have people on his side. Please.

Unpopular opinion

This probs isnt unpopular by any means, but idk what else to put here so take this:

I dont really see it often discussed that yknow ramuda is an abuse victim. Like, its very clear that chuokhu uses and abuses him, and his life is constantly being hung over his head. No wonder the dude is doing anything he can in order to survive, he has no choice in that regard. Before i get told this in the notes yes i know this doesnt excuse the things hes done!!! But tbh i really think that like the trauma that ramuda is living with kinda needs to be addressed.

Favorite relationship

I am a huge multishipper and have found a way to ship ramuda w just about most people (that are adults and not in chuokhu lol) so this is pretty tough

Id say either fling poly or jkrm and these are my reasons lets go:

Fling poly: HAVE YOU S E E N THEM do i really need to say more here all three of them have such good chemistry together, theyre all clearly on the same wavelength and have such a wonderful dynamic,,, they found out about the clones and shit and they STILL chose to protect ramuda and to fight for him and with him and to stay by his side aND BLACK JOURNEY TOO I-- IM GONNA START SOBBING,,,

Jakuramu: this one is not based on canon too much i am sorry this is mostly hc but i am a huge sucker for enemies to lovers ok also, i feel like out of TDD these two would be the ones to reconcile. After all, jakurai is a rather empathetic man and he probably would def understand the situation that ramuda was in. After all this dude was an ex assassin, if ramuda was to tell him everything, im sure that he would be able to relate to yknow the time he took others' lives, people with families and friends that he killed because he was ordered to and most likely had no other choice. Of course, jakurai is well within his right to not forgive ramuda for what happened to yotsutsuji, but i feel like he would and would help him get out of the situation hes in,,, and also im soft for the TDD era ok like how jakurai WANTED TO KNOW THE REAL RAMUDA AND LIKE,,, even when ramuda snapped at him he was GLAD HE WANTSD TO KNOW HIM FUCK MAN,,, i just really like these two ok

Favorite headcanon

I have quite a lot of hcs! Here are a few and like some explanation as to why:

- hes trans - i personally believe this bc personally itd make sense. Ramuda has a very feminine appearance and build, those that are like typically common in asian countries. As well as that, he has his own autonomy unlike the other clones. It wouldnt surprise me if chuokhu orignally wanted to make a girl to keep the other divisions in check, but when he decided personally that he didnt want to be such a way, they said sure, more room for us to treat you as we want to. Hes got money, getting T wouldnt be that difficult for him either, so thats why his voice is. That way fiaudjsnfnd anyway i think it makes sense!! Idk--

- he has bpd - projection probably but the biggest inspiration for this headcanon is how he is emotionally. His swings are violent - he feels and expresses such a diverse range of emotions and its so easy for him to change his emotional disposition - whilst also mostly feeling totally empty. Relationship wise also, given how he was genuinely really close to jakurai and then completely splitting on him, h a t i n g him. Yeah that sounds like bpd to me chief i know i have it!!! Theres more ik there is but i cant pull up examples rn

- hes neurodivergent - again mostly projection honestly and like there isnt much of a canon basis in his behaviour, just little things, but i like to personally hc that aside from eating candy to stay alive duh, that he chooses lollipops bc they serve as a sort of stim?? Also ik that fashion is his job but hes also so so clearly passionate about it that its a special interest for him, and thats partially why he took it up as a job in the first place, so he could do something related to his special interest lol. Idk i know there isnt any basis for this but just let me have autistic ramuda iaiesjdnsnfn

Doppo Kanonzaka

First impression

Now THATS what i call a tired mf!!! This dude has yves saint laurent eyebags also he really reminds me of aggretsuko somehow??? Im really not sure what it is

Impression now

Yeah i was def right with the aggretsuko comparison siaishsnshfb BUT I LOVEEE HIM i love him very much and i think this man really needs a break and is also very relateable i love

Favorite moment

As much as i love fp i absolutely adore the badass koments that doppo has including when he absolutely fucking obliterated fling posse sksjxnxncn also!! All of his little moments with hifumi i genuinely enjoy their dynamic its so cute

Idea for a story

Honestly i wanna see him slowly recover from the teauma that he has experienced because this king absolutely deserves it, and also from a practical point of view itd make this mf s t r o n g e r i also just.... long to see doppo happy honestly he deserves to smile!!

Unpopular opinion

I dont really have an unpopular opinion but saving like leaving this blank: as much as i absolutely adore jakurai and hifumi and their music (jakurai is my fave out of every hypmic character and i WILL drive this home), to me doppo just has the best music. Like, i love tigridia and BLACK OR WHITE so fucking much its absolutely unreal and all of doppos verses in every song are juust so fucking good. As much as i listen to you are, therefore i am on repeat every day of my life doppos music is just the best ✨

Favorite relationship

Again i am a huge multishipping bitch and i habe a few ships with doppo but in ahll honesty my fave is very clear - i absolutely adore his dynamic with matenrou as a whole and especially hifumi - his relationship with hifumi is clearly so special and it really shows how strong their friendship is, and in a ship sense i find it to be realy cute bc theres such a clear need for each other and that even if they clearly come at odds sometimes, at the end of the days theyre still clearly so close and i just,,, god doppo reallt deserves someone like hifumi in his life and im so glad that he has it!!!!

Favorite headcanon

Honestly i dont really think i have too many for doppo but given his general demeanor and his attitude, i personally hc him as demi. Yeah i know that sexualities dont have like typical personalities and such but i feel like given his anxieties around new people and how he clearly only really sticks to those that hes very close with, it makes more sense for him to be demi than any other sexuality to be quite honest - and this is also just pushing my hifudo agenda aiqiauansnssn but yknow!!!!

[bow-wow-wark-wark]

Hiii happy 4th hypmic anniversary, I know it's been like 3 days since the actual anniversary but *shrugs* anyways I wanted to answer the questions from this post to celebrate!! (This is going to be a long post lol, this just brings a ramble instinct in me)

1. How and when did you get into HyplMic?

I got into hypmic during the end of September/ start of October of last year, it feels like a lot of time and very little at the same time lol... so many people in the fandom have liked this for super long!! I got into it bc of someone I followed on twitter, they would talk about it sometimes and I was getting a bit sick of the music I listened too so I thought "why not expand my music taste?" Little that I know It was going to become the only thing I listened too lol. I also saw this like "a hypmic characther once said" video and I thought it was soooo funny I just had to get into it. I'm honestly surprised hypmic started in 2017 bc I was going through a god awful musical phase and knowing I could have liked it earlier in life amuses me (tho back then I thought anime was silly so it wouldn'thave happened either).

2. First impressions of the characters? Who stuck out the most?

(Another long one soz) I'm going to do most of them btw.

Buster bros: ichiro was the 1st chara I knew before I got into it, for a bit I had him mixed up with jyushi tho lmao. Tbh I didnt have a very strong opinion on him, I wasn't super into BB at the start 😅 same with jiro, I liked him the most, thought he was really cute. At the start I disliked saburo a bit lol, like he was just soooo mean and I didn't like that, also I wasnt a huge fan of new star at the start so I didnt like him bc of that either.

MTC: I had to fight a lot to openly like mtc, I felt a bit bad liking them at the start bc they're all like criminals and stuff lol. I have to be honest I think that at the start I didnt think about them like at all... the strongest impression here was Rio, he was my favorite also I thought jyuto was hilarious bc of the start of bayside smoking blues, I really liked his voice too.

Fling posse: ok so the moment I saw Ramuda I was like "this guy is evil as balls isnt he?" I was pretty right lol, I thought he was a child like saburo at the start bc hes so small, man fooled me there. I liked dice the most at the start, my 1st fanart is of him lol. I didnt have very strong opinions on Gentaro, I was surprised to find out his VA also voiced yamaguchi since I was a haikyuu fan if anything.

Matenro: Lol matenro was my favorite (still is), idk what was it but I saw all of them and I was like: great :D I dont remeber specific impressions tho.... It was almost like love at first sight lol. I remeber I really liked the fact that both hifumi and doppo had tips, I thought it was super cool.

BAT: ok so I also knew who kuuko was before I got into hypmic my actual actual 1st fanart was of him (I did it before I even knew what hypmic was like at all). I really liked him, I remember listening to gyara bam and being like "this guy rules so much", I really liked jyushi, as mentioned before I had him mixed with ichiro (they look nothing a like I dont even know how) I was super shocked to find out he was also a teen lol I was pretty happy. Not gonna lie I had no idea who hitoya was at the start (rip) I knew kuuko I knew jyushi but I didnt know him, I dont remeber being very big on him till like the dramas and getting more into hypmic bc before nothing nada.

Dotsuhon: lol I slept on dotsuhon for the looongest time, I literally only liked sasara, rosho and rei were just really there for me. Sasara was my favorite bc I loved his voice and tragic transitor gace me unrivaled latino vibes so he felt very close to me in a sense. I thought rei was a scumbag the moment I laid eyes on him.

3. Who was the first character you liked?

My 1st favorites before I found out about bat and dotsuhon where jiro and hifumi!! I really liked their voices and like over all attitude and stuff.

4. Which was the first Division you liked?

My favorite was matenro, they were just so cute and I liked how they were pretty chill and just had fun most of the time. Like how they tried looking all edgy and intimidating but they were all nice guys lol.

5. How have your favorites changed?

Not much lol my favorite is still hifumi tho know I have jyushi and Otome if were ranking on like top 3. I love all the charas now tho!!! Lol these are just my bigger ones. Division wise now my favorite is mtc, followed by bat I'm still a matenro stan tho!! All divisions have done some big growing on me so I love all of them anyways.

6. What was the first song you listened to?

The 1st song I listened to was battle anthem, I was super convinced it was the 1st hypmic song so I was surprised to hear it was division rap battle lol.

7. What's your favorite solo song?

Ghhhh this is so hard to choose... I actually like basically every single hypmic song.... if we're talking only 1t set that's easier to choose. Um that would be sensenfukoku, drops and champagne gold, I like all the mtc ones so I cant choose. Second set every single one is amazing so I cant choose either, tho at the start I disliked most of them somehow...

8. What's your favorite group song?

Ok at 1st i thought it was like an all division song but I just read it and it's just group song in general.... I love all of them but one of my biggest comfort songs is papillion so I'll say papillion. If were talking all stars songs that's easier tho: in no particular order its hoodstar (just heard the + ver and it slapped), survival of the illest+, glory or dust and hang out.

9. Which songs do you think are slept on?

Mmmmm I personally have no idea which songs people like more in general but I have seen a bunch of "my favorite hypmic moments" videos so I'll base it on that. I'll personally say any mtc song lol, in those videos theres always a surprising lack of mtc so yeah.

10. Do your favorite songs come from your favorite Division?

Yes, tho it's really no problem bc I like all songs😅

11. Objectively, who do you think is the best rapper?

I had never heard a lot of rapping till hypmic so I have no idea what good rapping is lol... I personally thinks everyone does a good job, I guess someone else can school me on that.

12. Which composers for HypMic do you listen to?

None... I honestly dont like know who composes which song.... I know very little about music and I dont look into it so I cant answer this one either.

13. If you had to get someone into HypMic with one song what would it be?

Oh :0 well I'm not very sure but if anything I think the way to go would be an all stars song bc you can get the feel of each division pretty good, then if they like that introduce them to other stuff. Of course this all depends on the person lol... my brother really likes strong songs so to him battle anthem was a good hook up... I quite personally would go for survival of the illest bc it has a good feel of the divisions and it's very silly which is a series staple.

14. Do you play ARB? Drop your friend code for people reading!

Nooooo I dont 🤧😢 I really want to but I dont think I would have space on my phone, besides idk how to download it, if you have to pay for it I dont have money and if it's only in japanese I'm learning at snails speed so I wouldnt understand it *cries a little* I have seen certain events tho, I find it funny.

15. What events are you hoping to see? What character combos do you hope will show up together?

Mmmm idk I have a post about but I'll love to see a sasara jakurai interaction, I'm pretty sure one has already happened but I want this funny man to interact with jakurai more. Some people mentioned that they would like to see more interactions between kuuko and samatoki and I agree, wheres that side of the mad comic dialogue line up? I'll also like to see hitoya and samatoki bc they're both into vintage stuff ish, like fashion wise so I think it would be interesting to see. Last I want a jyushi/jiro interaction idk of there's any but there needs to be I need them to interact!!! Or maybe saburo jyushi that would also be interesting.

16. Are you into any ships?

Yes!!! I'm a little shy talking about ships not going to lie so I don't talk about it too much lol. I like samajyu a normal amount, I also like ichikuu, jiroshi, hifudo and hitojaku. I like a lot of other ships too tho, like ot3 mtc is good so is fling posse tho my favorite is ramugen. Hypmic has a bunch of cute ships so it's hard not to enjoy most.

17. Do you have a yume/self-ships? Platonic or romantic.

Not really lol, I have considered reading self insert before but I always feel a bit embarrassed. If you do you're super poggers tho.

Ok I'll keep answering in another post bc this is getting super long and the next question is one I want to say a lot about again. Umm if you happen to see this and want to answer them too fell free to!! You can tag me if you want as well, I love seeing others opinions about like hypmic and stuff so feel free too. If you want to comment on something I said you're free to do so as well

[dopposhusband]

Canon X Canon Drabbles!

Fics written with prompts that focus on Canon X Canon!

SamaSara

With one final drag of his cigarette, Samatoki finished off his pack and extinguished the bud in their shared clay ashtray. Sasara had insisted the two should do more couple like dates that didn’t involve rap battling punks off the streets, so they took a one off pottery class together. That damn comedian looked so proud of the lopsided tray he made, even made lil cigarette slots on the ridges too, how could he not want to keep it? 

“Don’t get me wrong you’re smoking hot in the moonlight but bring your ash to bed!”

Rolling his eyes at the puns, Samatoki moves away from the window and crashes himself beside his boyfriend. Instinctively, the two move closer, huddled against one another, faces inches apart. Sasara opens his mouth to speak, but is stopped almost immediately by the yakuza, there was no way he was going to let him ruin this moment with another shitty pun. “I love how I can make you shut up by kissing you literally whenever I want”

SamaRio

Leaves crunch under his feet as Samatoki rushes through the wood, carefully weaving through the camouflaged traps. He never understood how bandits were able to make their way to Rio so easily with them around when it took him almost a month to have a memorized path. He skids to a halt when he makes it to the clearing of Rios camp, eyes surveying the area around him before landing on him. It seems the emergency call may have been an overstatement after seeing how unshaken the ex-marine seemed tying up the passed out trespassers.

“I hope I didn’t alarm you, it seems that the threat wasn’t as high as I thought” He claps his hands onto the sides of his thighs, whipping off the dirt from them before handing off their mics to his leader. “Just another raid for my mic, they’re foolish to underestimate me. Forgive me for calling you out here for no reason, I’ll make us lunch in return” Samatoki shivers at the idea, but the smile on Rio’s face is enough to make him swallow his pride alongside whatever atrocity his boyfriend had planned.

“Tch, don’t worry about it, calling me wasn’t a waste of time. Y’know, if anyone messes with you again I’ll lay them out then and there.”

RamuSama

Out on the town, arms linked, Ramuda dragged Samatoki to every store with a pretty glass display, occasionally pointing out his own brand when he saw it. While Samatoki could enjoy the clothing, although his personal preference being vintage, he couldn’t say the same now. The stylist had brought the two into a sickeningly pink store that specialized in stuffed animals and other cutesy goods.

“Oh, Sama look! Aren’t they cute, kinda like us~!”

He looks over Ramuda’s shoulder and to the pair of stuffed animals he was excitedly fawning over. Two small bears, one pink and the other white, leaning on one another with Velcro paws so they could hold hands. Samatoki’s eyes move from the bears to Ramuda, who was already getting into position to plead with him to buy them. “Sama... can you pwease~!” 

He rolls his eyes, letting out a soft ‘tch’ before grabbing the plushies. “Oh piss off with those puppy dog eyes you know I’ll do it for you” Ramuda jumps, cheering out loud as he follows his Sama to the checkout stand, he really needed to stop giving into those eyes or he’d be out of cash.

HifuGen

A long day at work meant that Hifumi had earned a long soak in the tub, after all he had so many new products his kittens have given him that he was excited to try! However, in a surprising twist of events, his stay at home princess was awake too and decided he would join him as well. Gentaro says that the only reason he was awake was because of deadlines and absolutely not because he wanted to see Hifumi.

“I don’t think so. Bubbles are for children”

Already, they had run into their first problem and the water hasn’t even started yet. Hifumi pouts, puffing out his cheeks, grabbing at the bottle Gentaro took from him. “Awh, c’mon Gen! This is the expensive kind, it’s made with honey and it smells super gooooood~! Smell it!” The blond tears the bottle from his hands before opening it and stirring the wand around in it before bringing it to Gentaros face. His face winces back, before carefully moving the stick aside and glaring back at Hifumi.

“It smells like food, you know I don’t like food scented anything” With a sad sigh, he puts the bubble bath aside, no bubble bath for the bubbly champagne host tonight... The hot water spills from the tap and the two huddle together under the hot water silently, it was calming. 

“Okay, but can I use a bath bomb instead?!”

IchiDice

Ichiro jumps slightly in his spot as a loud knock echoes through the quiet house, he furrows his brows before pausing his show and grabbing his phone. 2:28 AM. This better be important. Standing up, he saunters over to the door and peeks through the peephole, seeing the familiar mess of blue hair. Sighing, he rubs his eyes of sleep and unlocks the door and is welcomed to the rest of Dice. “Dude, what are you doing here so late?”

Dice moves past Ichiro, almost rushing into the kitchen, already grabbing at the snacks he knows his boyfriend wont mind him eating. “I’ve been on a nonstop losing streak, thought I’d swing by and see my lucky charm!” Which also meant to eat as much as he can and to sleep on something that wasn’t a park bench for one night. After a minute, Dice waddles out from the kitchen, dropping various bags and containers on the coffee table but before he could sit down Ichiro had stopped him with a hand on his back.

“Oh, hell no! You are taking a bath before sitting on my couch and grab some clothes from my room, your jacket smells like a pachinko parlor ash tray”

Dice groans and nods before trudging his way to the bathroom, littering the hall with clothes as he gets undressed on the way there. Ichiro picks up the trail behind him, already taking it to the house washing machine. After that he’s gonna reheat some left overs because theres no way in hell he was gonna let Dice leave tomorrow after a dinner of just Funyuns and Cheetos. 

HifuDo

Hifumi had left the house hours ago to run some errands, so now it was a race against the clock. Doppo had to bake and decorate the cake he had planned for the twos anniversary. It wasn’t anything too fancy, not like he had the skill to pull anything like that off, but still he wanted to work with what he could do! The instructions on the back seemed easy enough, idiot proof... right? Doppos hands shake as he whisks the batter, knuckles white from squeezing the handle so tightly, he just wanted to be sure he got all the clumps. What if he just happened to be the one idiot that couldn’t do it?

Shakily, he pours the battle into a basic circle cake tray and into the already preheated oven, he learned preheating after helping Hifumi for a day. Once the tray was in all that was left was to wait, which to Doppo was the scariest part by far... What if he waited too long? What if he didn’t wait long enough? WHAT IF HE GAVE HIFUMI SALMONELLA??? Panic setting in, his eyes dart around the kitchen, from the oven to the timer then to the boxes instructions, did it seriously only take a fifteen minutes to cook a cake?

He jumps from his spot, clutching his heart from the sudden noise when the timer finally does go off. Oven off and gloves on, the cake pan comes out easy, even if the thought of taking it out did scare him at first. Now he had to let it sit for another ten, he can do this, this cake will come out great and Hifumi will be so proud of him! While he waits the time out he mixes the frosting, and grabs the sprinkles to decorate it all! 

Again, the timer goes off and Doppo moves to tap the cake out of the mold, but after a few hits, it doesn’t budge. Confused for only a brief second until it hits him. HE FORGOT TO GREASE UP THE PAN. Quickly, his hands shuffle through the drawers before pulling out a butter knife and slicing it out... it was a disaster, there were holes at the top where he couldn’t cut properly. Only he could have managed this, only he could be an ingenious enough idiot to fail something idiot-proof then his eyes fall on the decorations again.

“The icing will cover the mistakes”

[sorrygotthesesacks]

My inability to just not ship

I confessed this ...probably on LJ (eeeeee) ... that I can't help myself. I can't. I love platonic friendships. I love characters that don't need to be in a relationship. I do.

But I love shipping more, apparently, because if two characters click, and I think they have chemistry, I am all in. And then, eventually, a ship will have such a grip on me that I must write.

I just deleted a long boring ramble on Gundam Wing and Yu Yu Hakusho and am jumping to Fairy Tail mainly because my first ship in that fandom reminds me of the very reason I ship SamaIchi.

Very early on in Fairy Tail, we see Jellal and Erza, although he was Siegrain at the time. He leaned in and said something to her, and I was like "they have history. I ship it."

and then the anime decided to fuel that ship here and there.

So in the anime, with very little to go on other than knowing who the members of The Dirty Dawg were and seeing that Samatoki and Ichiro had beef with each other, and both things were related to their siblings, and seeing how they were with their teams - again - these two have history, I ship it (saying farewell to Samatoki/Jyuto who I shipped for like a hot minute).

By the end of the anime, I had the following ships:

SamaIchi (see above)

JakuRamu (because Gentaro said, in the ghost episode, that sometimes a person will say they hate the thing that they love, and I felt it was prophetic when I heard Ramuda said he hated Jakurai. Also there's history there - and to me, Ramuda was morally ambiguous and interesting and in over his head).

Hifudo (AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES)

GenDice (Gentaro trolling Dice but also having a good relationship with him, yeah, I'm sold)

And then everything I saw/read/watched from then on afterwards fueled these ships. I can't ship Samatoki with Sasara because Sasara and Rosho are too DO NOT SEPARATE - I mean, look at them. I get the Ichiro / Kuko ship, definitely, and they were friends before Samatoki and Ichiro were, but there's something with Samatoki and Ichiro's friendship that grips me more - and then when new four-person MCD went out and we saw how alike Samatoki and Ichiro are in ways besides being big brothers doing what they think is best for their family? I admit to having my SamaIchi goggles on when I see them together but I feel their dynamic makes it work.

As an aside, Samatoki crying when Sasara left him? My heart. Breakups are hard.

Setting ships aside, I'm gonna touch on how my fave characters shuffled a bit.

Initially, Doppo was my fave (he's a whole mood and he needs a hug). By the end of the anime, though, it was Ramuda (see JakuRamu above). Knowing nothing about the manga/drama tracks/songs, it was Ramuda with no competition.

And although Fling Posse was my fave division, and I adored Gentaro with his theater kid vibes, and Dice for being Dice, it was still Doppo and Hifumi jockeying for 2nd and 3rd place - until Gentaro and Dice took those spots. And then Gentaro went from a very close #2 to tied with Ramuda for #1. And then he bumped Ramuda down to a very close 2nd place, with Dice breathing down their necks.

The JakuRamu relationship in the Kujaku Posse days? omg when Ramuda took Jakurai out to "train" and it was all fun stuff and then Jakurai said he enjoyed just sitting on the swings with Ramuda the most? SWINGS?

I am a sucker for many tropes, and swings are but one of them.

Still love this ship; still need to finish my Ramustiltskin fic, but the interactions between Gentaro and Dice throughout everything I've read or watched (as an aside, I have so much love for everyone who has translated anything I've been able to get my hands on) - I will go down with this ship.

(I made a few threads on twt about why FugoNara is another ship that has a hold on my heart... maybe one day I'll collect them and repost them here.)