Big Mama must have lost some serious standing in the yokai underworld because it’s gotten apparent that she keeps being beaten by a small group of teenagers and the occasional rat man, and when it’s not them then she’s taking L’s from her own schemes working against her.
And in the ensuing power vacuum, the Hamatos accidentally become the most feared crime family known to all the big bads of the Hidden City.
After all, they’ve publicly outplayed Big Mama multiple times, a couple of them have taken out the heads of two of the most well known criminal organizations, one took out Heinous Green, two are responsible for the destruction of Witch Town, they have ties to both the infamous Baron Draxum and Captain Piel, they won the Doom Dome death race, they’re Battle Nexus Champions, they’ve displayed insane feats of power and defeated impossibly strong enemies, most of them have been to jail, and they regularly mingle with humans.
You can just imagine the notoriety they’d accumulate from word of mouth alone.
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Tim, introducing his boyfriend to his best friend: Kon, this is my boyfriend, Bernard.
Bernard: Hi!
Tim: Bernard, this is my best friend Kon.
Kon, who just found out his crush is into dudes and got friendzoned in the same conversation, internally dying: …
Kon: Hi.
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Raised my friendship with Baizhu high enough to hear the story about how everybody expected him to wait for the most auspicious and lucky day for the pharmacy's grand opening so that he would have good fortune and business (and Baizhu planned this himself), but then a mom came in the middle of the fucking night with her horribly (deathly) sick child and Baizhu opened the pharmacy then and there and saved the kid no questions asked.
And everybody (INCLUDING CHANGSHENG) was like "aren't you worried that you're going to have bad business from here on out?" and his only response was "We're a pharmacy. Why would we want good business? That would mean a bunch of people are ill!"
This man. I swear to god.
The way he made sure to name the pharmacy "no divination" because he wanted to be clear that he wasn't going to wait around for 'lucky' or 'auspicious' times to do business and he wasn't going to base his treatments on snake oil/false practices. It's based in science and when people are ill, they're ill, and he is going to save them. Even if it means getting out of bed in the middle of the night and going against his own cultural practices.
The way his other story piece says that he doesn't charge for rare cases and how he tries to make treatment affordable and give discounts, and is so beloved that people send him so much extra food that he can't even get through it all so he just has Gui bring it to the front of the shop to share with the community. The way he stops every day to make a healthy soup for lunch, and anyone who might happen to call on him can come and eat. I'm--- I'm fine.
The way he stays up with Qiqi every night to reteach her the calisthenics (because she forgets. she forgets. every time. That poor little sieve-like memory of hers...He never loses patience), so that her joints don't get stiff. The way they all share breakfast in the morning....
I'm cradling him gently in my cupped hands. MiHiYo you can't do this to me. He's inside my brain now and he won't fucking leave.
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thomas harley for nhl network — EDM vs DAL; game 1 — 05.23.24
[i want to ask you just one last question about — just, the makeup of this team, ‘cause i always joke that dallas has two cores. there’s, like, the veteran core group, and then there’s the young guys. when you guys are out at team events, like … does it stay that way? who mixes with who? like, what is the dynamic when you guys are just spending time together? like, does the youth stick together i guess is what i’m asking.] yeah, us young guys stick together. um — me and johnny still room together on the road. we, uh, we gotta keep that going. but, yeah, the old guys kinda stick to the old guys, the young guys stick with the young guys, so it’s — it’s pretty much what you’d think it’d be.
[last one for you — just, miro heiskanen, and what he is like to play with, what he’s like on the bench. is he a vocal guy? ‘cause he seems quiet, to the outsiders; is that actually how he is all the time?] yeah, he’s pretty quiet. um … i like to get him going a little bit. [how do you do that?] just — excuse the language, but give him some shit. um, yeah. just kinda poke him, a little bit. um — kinda be a younger brother to him.
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