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[clowningcrows]

hannibal actually got me back into video editing for the first time in like 8 months should i post the will graham edit i made.. 😶‍🌫️

[proseka-headcanons]

Project Sekai but the Tenmas are yokai

(Magic Show Assistant Saki and Divine Beast/Pandemonium Kasa because they're my favorite <3)

*The siblings are powerful enough to retain a human for, which is how they're able to blend in with humans (ft. Mizusaki & Akikasa)

*They're transfem and transmasc bc I said so

*Samsa Mizuki and Darkfes Akito are exorcists and their main targets are obv the Tenma siblings

*Saki is a mermaid/siren and Tucaca is a dragon (very original)

*they end up accidentally adopting a child Toya

*Akito has a big fat crush on his senpai

*Said senpai is the yokai he's been trying to exorcise for 2 years

*Mizuki does not realize she's dating a yokai

*Pandemonium Rui is a former exorcist who gave up and started dating Divine Beast Nene (serpent yokai) who happens to be dating Wonderland Emu (Bunny yokai)

*Saki isn't able to hold her human form all day bc it's not Saki without some kind of illness holding her back /hj

*it's easily managed with Tsukasa using his own powers to help Saki keep up the form

*They're much prettier in their yokai forms

*Maiden's Hope Haruka and Divine Beast Rin are their mentors

*The Tenmas are well-known within the yokai community

*Saki is a waterbender and Tsukasa is a firebender /j

*They're have the ability to hypnotize people with their voice

*Which is why they often avoided singing around big crowds

*singing/musical abilities are from their past lives as singers and their elemental abilities come from the form they're born as

I have no more self-indulging hcs for today so uh send ask

-unofficial mod akiyama yuuki

did someone say transfem saki transmasc kasa? :3 that's one of my favorite headcanons i love it sm!!!! unofficial mod yuuki you are so real for the trans tenmas hc,. and the rest of the ask needs to be commented on too right. ok. oops. ehe this is so cool i love it!!! - 🎀

[fruitwanderer]

BDUBS HCS. NOW

(heart heart ryan<3)

Ignore that this has taken several days, we procrastinated <3

[Ask Game]

Pan, poly, and all over just a disaster. Someone would say something and he'd just immediately fall in love with them.

Also he's Transmasc because <3

Dryad, he's tied to an oak tree but kinda left it behind for ✨reasons✨ that totally aren't related to us projecting on him.

Also on top of that, plants basically fucking hate him. They get possessed, taunted, or misguided by them basically every other week

*slaps* this bad boy can hold so much trauma and so many disorders

Kinda related to the last three, but not fully. S5 actually left him with scars where thorns stabbed into his skin, they'll sometimes hurt when he becomes agitated which can lead to negative spirals

His special interest is horses and he'll just infodump to Etho about them constantly

They also like ducks, but tbh ducks can be bastards and it's not in an autistic way so

Absolutely shit poor eyesight at night, he can't see a single thing and it terrifies him. On top of that, he carries scars from the life series (hc for another post) so can't see that well out of his right eye

Not actually that short and I will die on this hill as someone who is 5 ft tall /lh

[transfem-edward]

Ah yes

My full hc list for the engines that I actually acknowledge cuz I don't remember side characters. [Characters who are available for asks will have a ☆ at the start!!]

So!

~~~~~~~

☆Thomas: transmasc bisexual, he/him, 9ft tall.

☆Edward: transfem bisexual, she/they, 10ft

☆Henry: nonbinary bisexual, he/they, 11ft

☆Gordon: nonbinary unlabeled, he/him, 11ft

☆James: transmasc aroace pan, any/all, 10ft

☆Percy: agender mspec, xe/they, 6ft

☆Toby: nonbinary bisexual, he/him, 9ft

☆Duck: genderfluid pansexual, any/all, 8ft

☆Donald: nonbinary transmasc bisexual, he/xe, 10ft

☆Douglas: transmasc aroace pan, any/all[he/him preferred], 10ft

☆Oliver: transfem gay, he/it/she, 8ft

☆Emily: transfem pansexual, she/xe/nya, 10ft

☆Bill: genderfluid bisexual, he/they, 5ft

☆Ben: genderfluid bisexual he/they, 5ft

☆Nia: gendervoid lesbian, she/star, 9ft

☆Rebecca: fluidflux omnisexual, she/it+neos, 11ft

☆Flying Scotsman: maverique bi, he/it/fast, 11ft

☆Spencer: genderless pan, he/it, 11fr

☆Hiro: lunaboy gay, he/moon/they, 11ft

☆Skarloey: nonbinary gay, he/him, 6ft

Rheneas: nonbinary lesbian, he/she, 6ft

☆Sir handel: nonbinary gay, he/him, 5ft

☆Peter sam: transmasc bi, he/they, 6ft

Duncan: nonbinary bi, he/screw/bolt, 7ft

~~~diesels~~~

☆Diesel: transhet, he/they, 9ft

☆Daisy: agender pan, she/they/shine, 10ft

☆Rusty: nonbinary, they/them, 6ft

BoCo: genderqueer gay, he/they, 10ft

☆Salty: nonbinary pan, he/it+neos, 8ft

Mavis: transfem bi, she/her, 8ft

☆Diesel 10[aka d10]: evilgender bi, it/he, 10ft

~~~other!!!!~~~

☆Sonny: xenofluid gay, xe/ve+neos, 9ft

Ryan: demiboy pan, he/ve, 9ft

Harvey: agender aroace, it/its, 8ft

☆Culdee: genderfaun bi, he/faun, 7ft

☆Godred: agender aroace, he/they, 7ft

Patrick: demiboy aspec, he/they/silly, 7ft

☆Eric: genderfaun omni, it/he/xe, 7ft

☆Alaric: genderfae pan, xe/he/she, 7ft

Wilfred: nonbinary pan, he/him, 7ft

Shane: genderfaunet bi, they/he/it, 6ft

Ernest: agender gay, he/they, 7ft

Cranky: transmasc gay, he/it, 23ft and 12ft

Rosie: transmasc lesbian, he/him, 9ft

☆Pinchy: demigirl pan, she/it/claw 3-4ft

☆Proteus: gendervoid, he/they/void 6ft

☆Ghost engine: genderless, they/it 6ft

☆hurricane:

☆franky:

☆Z☆tugs☆Z☆

☆Ten cents: nonbinary bi, he/they 7ft

Sunshine: genderfluid pan, she/he/they, 6ft

☆Hercules: agender het, he/they, 12ft [good lord]

Top hat: trans guy, he/him, 7ft[8-9 when body extends]

Warrior: [tba]

Big mac: pan, he/him, 8ft

Oj: [tba]

Grampus: demigender, he/it, 6ft

☆Lillie: she/her

☆Captain star: ????, bi, he/him, 5'5ft

☆Captain zero: bi, he/it, 6ft

Zorran: [tba]

Zip: [tba]

Zug: [tba]

Zebedee: [tba]

Zak: [tba]

Big mickey: ???, ???, he/it , 24ft and 13 ft

Boomer: genderfog, he/blur, 7ft

[skrunksthatwunk]

i think it's so so so funny that my main transmasc hc character literally Is The Way He Is bc he's amab. like hiei's one of approx 3 characters ever whose asab is actually relevant and having it otherwise is impossible in the text. ridiculous.

is what i thought, but it's actually wayy way more complicated than i previously gave it credit for!! plus there's a LOT more queercoding than i first thought. lemme explain:

[tw: eugenics, fascism, queerphobia, self harm, suicide mentions]

[yu yu hakusho spoilers/meant for ppl who've seen yyh but probably understandable to ppl who haven't]

[ft too many uses of the word queercoded and my mushy feelings about hiei's arc and the queer experience]

hiei is literally thrown out of his home as a baby for being born male and that's just INCREDIBLY queercoded on its own, but specifically a lot of this is presented with the fact that he's a fire demon. this could just be a trait he got from his father, or it could be tied to the ice maiden species. i think it's a stretch to say gender/sex present the same across all demonkind, much less that it resembles our own. frankly, binary sexual classification doesn't really work for a lot of species (and it really doesn't work for humans anyway, because intersex people exist). his maleness is associated with it, and this creates a potential sexual dichotomy that, in this species, females present with ice powers and males present with fire powers. (i understand this has a very goofy "girls are cats boy are dogs" energy to it but let's roll with it for now). so hiei could have been born with what humans would consider female sex characteristics, but the ice maidens would look at him and go "oh he's on fire get this little man outta here". (this could also be where the idea that he'll destroy them comes from, if all males are, y'know, melty).

some of my initial thought process on this came about because i figured "oh if they reproduce asexually they've probably got all xx chromosomes, and that's how they only have xy kids when the parent has sex with someone outside the village", but even if that's the case (assuming chromosomes work the same for demons), there's still a ~50/50 chance hiei ended up with xx chromosomes anyway. perhaps fire is considered the primary sex characteristic that determines one's asab in the same way genitalia is for humans. so, to a human audience, we'd see his traits and go "oh he's trans", which i think counts for biological coding.

the ice maiden society is also incredibly restrictive in terms of gender and sexuality. they consist entirely of (ambiguously determined, as discussed above) women who reproduce asexually. one is not allowed to leave the bounds of this society, nor perform sexual taboos, such as sleeping with outsiders. hiei was only born because hina acted outside of the strict sexual norms of this society. people's queerness is sometimes chocked up to "poor parenting" (often based in sexual/gender/religious/otherwise traditional nonconformity) of parents. and even though hina loved her son and didn't want to see him, y'know, thrown off a floating island, the society as a whole still deemed him an outsider and a problem to be eliminated and left him for dead for the greater purity/"protection" of the culture. it's serving fascist eugenics tbh. (and hiei doesn't destroy their culture like they and he had expected, subverting their expectations of him and his "kind", though the idea that that subversion matters more than preventing further harm is one I'd disagree with. the choice to cut them out of his life entirely to me is somewhat more justifiable to me given a familial view over a community/cultural one, but i digress). regardless, this is reminiscent of societal marginalization in general, but especially categories that can show up in isolation in families (i.e. queerness, neurodivergency, disability, etc) in a way that other things (i.e. race, religious affiliation, etc) generally don't, and can thus be painted as rooting out abnormalities or defects in individual, bloodless, mundane cases (as opposed to the broader elimination that we associate with genocide)

there's also yukina, who left to find hiei, and who hates the ice maidens (presumably at least partially because she knows what happened to him). think of this as them trying to find each other after familial fallout.

this is all to say that if we view maleness/fire demonness as an equivalent to genderqueerness in the ice maiden society, hiei's story maps onto queer experiences incredibly well. so he's got that cultural/queer experience coding too.

we also see hiei topless all the time (he's actually incapable of keeping his chest covered. when he doesn't take it off it burns off or whatever like he can't fight covered up. can't even make it through the intro with it covered. whore behavior <3). "but he's got male presenting pecs, so he's amab," you might say. but he is (key to his character and returning home) well acquainted with a plastic surgeon. he literally has a body modification done as part of his backstory (specifically one he had to tell this story to to receive treatment!!!). transcoded asf. and frankly him being topless all the time is very reminiscent of lots of transmasc ppl who've just gotten top surgery. like they paid too much not to show it off. (this was actually the first thing that made me go "omg,, he's trans lmao. that surgeon guy totally gave him a 2 for 1 deal" and then it just. kept piling up. he's also quite short (4'10") and has a relatively high voice (definitely masc, but in a very in-the-throat way that a lot of afab ppl use), but neither of those are that compelling).

he also has a somewhat more flexible view of his body than the others, getting drastic invasive surgery, beating his arm when it disobeyed him(????? ok babe), and willingly sacrificing parts of it to learn fighting techniques (specifically a fire technique, so more gender stuff). this could be tied to genderqueer people's greater willingness/need to change their bodies, or potentially harmful practices (such as improper binding) to alleviate dysphoria.

queerness is featured a few times in the series and implied in others. we encounter a canon transfem demon named miyuki during the yukina rescue arc. karasu and itsuki are both distinctly mlm demons. hiei even acknowledges this in the eng dub, calling itsuki "lover boy" when he's doing his whole "omg sensui,, i want him to be evil so bad he's so hot" speech. the derision in this case seems to come more from hiei's dislike of him/the situation than disgust at itsuki's queerness (or else he could have just called him disgusting or perverse or whatever). kurama also makes a joke near the end of the series implying hiei is interested in him, which hiei refutes by clarifying his intentions, rather than saying smth like "ew nasty I don't swing that way", which is more standard in anime. I'm gonna gesture wildly to mukuro but we'll skip her for now. all this is to say that the only characters we see exhibiting signs of queerness are demons (other than the people we see atsuko hang with for a single shot). this is almost certainly a case of villainous queercoding (a detriment to the series that does rustle my feathers a good bit. the treatment of miyuki in particular makes my blood boil), but we could also read this as demonkind having different understandings of gender and sexuality in general. perhaps the reason we see this queerness in demons is more because the way their bodies work, the ways they present, and the ways they're attracted to others, to us, look queer.

hiei, throughout his backstory, is consistently demonized by the people around him (some of which is deserved bc he keeps killing people, but some isn't, like the thrown-as-an-infant-off-a-cliff thing). and while his arc throughout the show is about him becoming more able to let people into his life, there's always a distance there. he almost always pushes them away. he's always been treated like a monster, so that's all he tries to be, and it's part of his justification for further distance (i.e. using his criminal status as a reason not to "burden" yukina with the knowledge that they're related). for a lot of queer people (especially before the internet and in places without queer spaces like gay bars), you have no way of meeting people you can trust won't hate you for being queer (even queer spaces have transphobes or nb-exclusionists, etc), so you harden yourself and let very few people in. his trauma reads like a lot of queer ones, especially older american ones. this arc culminates with his relationship with mukuro, and his decision to stay with her indefinitely.

firstly, mukuro's referred to as a king and with he/him pronouns by the cast for a while, before it's revealed that she was hiding her true identity as a woman, and the characters' references to her switch to feminine ones. already tripping wires there. and the first time we learn this about her is when mukuro sees hiei's (queercoded) past and goes "you're just like me" and sheds her clothes (mukuro's backstory doesn't feel that queer to me, but she did have to run away from abuse and dehumanization, potentially for her body/the way she was born as well, so it's not insignificant). hiei's unconscious in one of those green anime healing tubes, but their shared nudity (and thus vulnerability) has a very intimate vibe to it. these fundamentally tightly guarded characters are letting each other in a bit in this way, and that backstory/vulnerability being connected with their bodies/genders, especially when you consider all the other queercoding surrounding them, feels very much like queer solidarity. meeting strangers who have been disowned for birth circumstances and immediately sharing your deepest secrets with each other because you feel some deep similarity to them and bonding over that experience (especially when it relates to asab/agab roles) in a way outsiders can't breach is very queer. (note that hiei didn't want mukuro to know his backstory, but was effectively outed, and she came out in kind). and eventually hiei helps her work through that trauma, and she gives him purpose and a home. a found family with a better fit, something more suited to him, than the main cast (as much as I want them to mesh perfectly).

i think part of why hiei is suicidal in the beginning of three kings is because of that distance and isolation. he'd fulfilled his mission of meeting yukina, but resolved not to tell her of their relation. he feels he can't tell her this big secret of his that might change how she views him, or views her home. it's just before the fight where he tries to die that his surgeon's condition that he could never tell her is revealed. the only thing allowing them to meet is keeping that secret, and the bodily change is what causes it. and he says he wouldn't want to tell her anyway. so he has nowhere to go. he doesn't want to destroy humanity anymore (as evidenced by his assistance in the previous arc and destruction of the chapter black tape), he can't get closer to his home or his sister, and there's still that distance between him and everyone else. (in case it needs to be said, all of this is crazy bonkers queercoded). but in the end, after he and mukuro grow together and bond, he tells kurama to tell yukina her brother's dead, to give up hope, to cut himself off permanently. kurama says he won't, because he believes that hiei will return and tell her they're related someday. and hiei begrudgingly agrees. someday he will tell her. when he's ready, and when he feels safe enough to. and from that change in the beginning and end of the arc, we know he's found that safety in mukuro, and may finally begin to really pursue his own happiness and authenticity. because he met someone like him, he now has hope. he can be loved and he can be enough, and he can look forward to it.

so, to sum up, hiei:

1. was disowned as a child for being the wrong/unexpected gender/sex in an incredibly homogenous society (in which it is ambiguous how they classify sex/gender)

2. has a medical and unusually personal history with a magical plastic surgeon and is topless all the time

3. reacts neutrally/without notice to other characters' queerness (when he is rude, it's for other reasons)

4. is a demon, the only group shown to exhibit canon queerness

5. forms a very deep bond with someone over their shared isolating (queercoded) experiences (with persistent body imagery and a social transition on mukuro's part)

basically, he's transcoded <3