#i am still genuinely pika pika at how people decide to leave stuff in my inbox bc YALL DONT HAVE TO BUT YOU DO??

[crescentfool]

thinking abt minato becoming sone sort of musician post canon makes me soft and squishy inside, so hc time: while i dont think minato is Quite soft enough to directly write a song for ryoji, i'd like to imagine a good portion of them are at least inspired by him. whenever he's in a creative block ryojis Everything is always enough to get something stirring, because music is his outlet and his feelings for ryoji never fail to have more than enough to pull from. there's no sappy romantic lyrics (hes probably makes more lyricless pieces? in my head) but there's such a strong and vivid swell of admiration, love, and understanding (and, sometimes, even subtle grief) whenever he takes inspiration from his other half. though he'll usually keep these half written pieces to himself, he'll occasionally let ryoji listen to samples of them here and there!! definitely not telling him the mindset behind it, because that's Embarrassing, but he has a feeling ryoji has a hint anyway.

(bonus: minato isn't a complete sappy romantic, but ryoji IS, so he most definitely has a notebook filled with sloppy, unfinished poetry somewhere, because he could talk forever trying to describe his complete adoration for minato in his entirety and it would still never be enough)

hey there anon!!! thank you SOO much for the post canon brainworms, holy heck! i am honest to gosh on the same wavelength with literally EVERYTHING you're saying here. me literally finding this in my inbox was just, "OH HECK YEAH!!" (nods along very intensely). but anyway! for some actual cohesive thoughts to add on to what you were saying:

it's practically canon in my own brain that minato would pursue some sort of music-related career! the manga has shown that he's good at rapping, but i do think minato would be open to a variety of music genres! i also agree that minato would have a preference toward creating instrumental pieces- but i think he can work with vocals for stuff like being a DJ or something like that? i simply think of music as minato's way of vocalizing and expressing his thoughts, since he doesn't find that words capture the same effect.

and you're right- minato definitely pulls a lot of inspiration from ryoji! one of my favorite part of the ryomina dynamic is ryoji's love for life rubbing off on minato- and helping him see the world in a new, fresh perspective! i think the same principle can be applied to music, and i think it's beautiful that ryoji can be a creative muse in that regard!

the way i see it, if minato were to capture ryoji's "vibe" in music, it'd be through the pace of the music and instrument choice? and i think there'd be a lot of diversity in how he approaches his ryoji-inspired music since there’s just so many facets that make ryoji mochizuki the person he is! i can’t really find minato constraining himself to one genre, just because there’s so many ways one can approach music (+ creative tasks in general)!

ALSO!! thank you for the bonus thought with ryoji- he really is such a poet. i always think that ryoji has a way with words- he knows many languages, but at the same time, all the words in his dictionary couldn’t adequately cover his love for minato! 😂 i would like to also add that it could be fun for ryoji’s notebook to have photos attached to the pages (i am an advocate for the ryoji loves photography hc). he could write poetry inspired by the photo- and i think it’d be a great way for both minato and ryoji to look back at their memories!

anyways, this is getting really long, lol. thank you for the long detailed headcanon, anon! i honestly love everything about this- i am head over heels for ryomina concepts that involve them doing creative activities! it’s simply my weak spot. thanks for dropping by my inbox- i hope that your week is absolutely fabulous!! 💛💙