#goddd i love fuyu....

[icharchivist]

one thing i really like is the build up to Winter tho (i know i’m reading Autumn and shouldn’t be thinking about Winter but hear me out: i’m obsessed) 

because the first three troupes have this specific set up of always going south very early on. The first three troupes all start on the wrong foot pretty obviously and very early on the Director can feel there’ll be problems with them, because they’re confrontional.

In Spring Masumi immediatly caused trouble and kept antagonizing Sakuya and Tsuzuru, and Tsuzuru and him especially very early got into fights. But, considering the fact Spring is mostly full of agreeable people, and that Tsuzuru tends to try to be the mature person, they ended up dealing with it. But it did start badly.

Summer started VERY badly because of Tenma, and right from the start. Tenma was destroying everyone’s mood and confidence from the very start and took some time to realize how harmful his behavior was. On top of that there was Yuki who would always get back at him and it’ll create a very tense ambiance in general. So it was much worse than with Masumi, because there was no letting fly off Tenma’s behavior and gotta learn the hard way.

so when it escalates again with Autumn, it escalates very badly, with people who are willing to physically fights one another. Banri is the biggest problem obviously, dragging Juza and Sakyo with him in being violent in general. 

On top of that for all those troupes, the time of antagonization was longer in longer. the Masumi issue must last what, ten episode? Tenma must last 15 and Autumn like 20.

so like. There’s this sort of feelings that there’s gonna be an escalation in how the troupes get along, especially since the plot also escalates and become more and more serious each passing troupe.

and then you meet Winter and actually, it’s going pretty okay. 

(it got long i’m cutting it here but- yeah sorry it got long)

Sure Tasuku has anger issues and is cold toward Tsumugi, but when the whole thing starts, there is a willingness to make things works with the troupe.

and i think it drives home a false sense of security, where you are weirded out it’s doing better but you accept it...?

and then you start to realize how much Winter is. not connecting. That there is a massive distance between all of them. That since they’re not people who seek out conflict, they don’t... talk about their problems and therefore do nothing to resolve them. Like... all of them are seeking to connect to some level, but their walls are so up, and they’re too polite to address them, that they’re getting nowhere.

and it’s when it starts to get uncomfortable.

and i love this twist about Winter because you get fooled for a moment into thinking it’s going much better than the others troupes, especially with how bad it was getting... only to realize that because of this lack of conflict, because of how polite they tend to be, they’re not opening up to one another. They keep to themselves. The relationships sound strained.

and while i would argue there was a begining of a bound forming around taking care of Hisoka in particular, and uncovering his mystery, in the end it’s Tasuku “anger issues” Takato that really end up setting up the troupe in motion when he finally lashes out at Tsumugi pushing Tsumugi to have to step out of his comfort zone and reach out - or later, when Tasuku lashes out at Azuma when Azuma lowkey accuses him and it causes the whole strained relationship Homare tries to fix later (first by making it a hundred time worse and then by making it much better by being the one to completely open up to ALL of the troupe (since Tasuku and Tsumugi played it a bit solo at this point), officially opening up his own weakness in order to try to approach everyone’s weaknesses too and first address them.)

(tho also honorable mention to the Azuma relapse incident where he suddenly pushed away everyone and everyone started to really have it sink in that the way they didn’t bound is keeping them at a distance they should be trying to fix - the creation of the fuyugumi was a real team effort in making me, personally, suffer)

And idk i find it fascinating how, with the build up to the others troupes you can kinda get to expect the worse of Winter and brace for it... only for the thing to brace for not to come because they’re all so polite.. and then realize that this is where the problem is because they’re not being honest with one another and it’s damaging the relationship they want to build, and that in esscence, it made their starts much more clumsy than you expect on first glance.

i just. really love the way Winter builds its expectations within the story because their dynamic ends up... so odd and so different from the others troupes that it takes some times to adjust to it. and imo, it makes them getting as close as they finally got even more outstanding, to see how high those walls were to start with, and how much they ended up lowering them for each other.

in short: mind full for fuyu once again.

[kokoinupi]

Baji n Chifuyu for the ask meme

Chifuyu:

Sexuality Headcanon: pansexual, lean towards men (men with long hair is his main type lol)

Gender Headcanon: cis intersex boy

A ship I have with said character: baji!!kazu!!!fuyu!!!!!

A BROTP I have with said character: takefuyu :3

A NOTP I have with said character: idk tbh fjskdk

A random headcanon: he reads books to baji a lot, but since hes kind of an otaku, that ends up being manga more often than not. baji only really struggles with kanji though, so when it's shounen manga with furigana, he really doesnt need the help, but it's fine, he doesn't complain anyway. chifuyu also has A Thing for being beaten up

General Opinion over said character: goddd hes so special. i love characters who are sweet and energetic and dumb as all hell but surprisingly perceptive and serious when they need to be. chifuyu is a ride-or-die kinda boy and that's fucking fantastic. i adore him.

Baji:

Sexuality Headcanon: gay

Gender Headcanon: cis boy

A ship I have with said character: BAJI!!!KAZU!!!!FUYU!!!!!!!!!

A BROTP I have with said character: bajimai :3

A NOTP I have with said character: still idk fjekfk i havent seen any i truly hate

A random headcanon: he first grew his hair out cause his mom didn't feel like cutting it for him anymore and even though he barely brushes it, gets food and stuff in it all the time, and (canonically) washes it with "soap" (i can only think bar soap) it somehow miraculously always looks and feels perfect. this is the same for his mom, they're blessed by the hair gods for no reason and it pisses everyone around them off (especially sanzu lol).

General Opinion over said character: OOUUGHH BOY!!!!!! POINTS. THAT'S HIM. i just reread the valhalla arc and oof oof oof everything about his characterization is so deliciously painful. half the cast in this series is a delinquent with a heart of gold, but baji EXEMPLIFIES the trope. hes so brash and rough around the edges, but hes so incredibly Good and he loves his friends so much, i can't fuckin believe it....