#he starts using the cup holders to put little travel mugs of tea in tho

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Accidental Siblings AU Headcanon #11

[Ramblings related to my fic, Accidental Siblings.]

I remembered that someone had a thought from ages ago about baby Bokushi having to use a booster seat because he's a kid now. I even drew a visual for it at the time, but I wanted to bring it back to further expand on this person's idea because I'm obsessed with it.

After becoming a kid, the driver employed by the Akashi household realizes that Bokushi definitely needs a car seat because he's too small to sit in the back seat as he is. So, the first thing he does is inform Bokushi after their first outing that they would have to get him a car seat before he is driven anywhere else for the sake of his safety.

Naturally, Bokushi is immediately embarrassed by the suggestion. Already, he's had to deal with so much being reborn as a 5 y/o and was trying his best not to look childish, but a car seat? That would make him look ridiculous. He tried his hardest to get out of using one, but when the driver had gone and brought this issue up to Masaomi and Masaomi gave his approval to go and buy one, it was too late. Desperately trying to salvage the last of his dignity, he begged the driver to, at the minimum, at the absolute minimum, get him a car seat that looked the least babyish because dammit he had a reputation to uphold.

In the visual that I drew, I was pretty indulgent with the car seat design, but realistically, Bokushi would have probably preferred something like this car seat instead.

(He would be vaguely impressed by the cup holders and nothing else.)

The first couple of times he uses it, he feels absolutely humiliated because he has to be lifted into it and then assisted with buckling himself in. Eventually, he learns to tolerate it. Not completely accept it, though. Just tolerate it. The driver never makes fun of him for it, but the first time Seijuro gets into the car and sees it, there is a glint of...something...in his eyes. It reminds Bokushi of the face he makes when he's trying to resist annoying Midorima on purpose, and that makes him even angrier.