#i tried my best to not ramble TOO MUCH i think i succedded yay

[mari-lair]

Firstly, it is very flatering that you wanted the comic to be canon, second I WILL GLADLY TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT!

"Full Supernatural Akane" is my favorite tbhk au! Hands down.

The best way to learn about it is to read the fic, though that may not be your thing, since it's a slow burn that starts with them as enemies, takes a while for then to become friends (it's hard for Teru to get attached to someone who is not human/already dead), and around 100k before a character realizes they like the other.

If you have the patience for a slow burn that focuses more on character study/and exploring the idea of the supernatural and humans than pure romance, ignore the read more bottom and go read the fic! It's better if you go in blind. ----> Click here to go to the fic!

If you want the 'in a nutshell' version of the au, keep reading.

Akane died 30 years ago, and his ghost was cursed to not be able to leave school grounds.

Just like Hanako is different from Amane, Aka (that's supernatural Akane's name) is different from Akane. The name means 'red' in Japanese and despite working as an abbreviation of 'akane' it has no relation to it. Aka is detached from his life as Akane.

I'll separate this in two areas cause idk if you are interested in the supernatural situation or just the terukane aspect of the au.

1- AKA

Aka is as arrogant, judgemental, perceptive, and confident as Akane is, but he has no clear 'reason for existing' and very little self-love. He has memory issues, forgetting things that aren't part of his day-to-day routine relatively quickly and unable to remember anything (no matter how important) from more than 5 years ago, much less his distant human life.

He loves humans, and get crushes on students relatively easily, cause Aka is always mingling with people, studying them, and watching them to feel something. However, no matter how strong or obcessive his crush on someone becomes, he will eventually forget his 'one true love' after they graduate school, eventually falling in love 'for the first time' again. None of his crushes can see him, at most, they can vaguely sense his presence.

Aka has the usual 'possessiveness/envy/sense of not belonguing' every supernatural have but he despises them and is constantly fighting them.

He envy humans and he is more selfish than he acts, but he likes helping and deeply values life, overall favoring humans over supernaturals. He tries to be as human as he can.

He is always doing something, and trying his best to 'live in the present', which is weird by supernatural standards, who mostly drown in their regrets and are stuck in the Far Shore because they are stuck in the past (something Aka can't do cause he doesn't remember his past). Because of this strange 'not very supernatural like' approach to his afterlife he is always trying to get close to his fellow supernaturals and is either loved or hated for it. (Yako is his buddy. Mei hates him. And so on so on)

Aka biggest issue is that he feels like he has no place, that he shouldn't exist. He died in the snow so the heart of the clock keeper boundary makes him uncomfortable for reasons he can't even remember, he is a stranger in his own 'home', he has no memories of his life, or even his full afterlife, and his role doesn't tecnically exist so if he is in a bad place mentally he can spiral about it easily.

It's hard to put into words how he gets, so just read this short snippet and absorb the vibes.

As for Akane...

He had friends and was well liked, very popular even but... His contract with the clock keepers had a compatibility issue, his supernatural transformation malfunctioned and started affecting his human body too. He started having trouble falling asleep, being the only one at school who could see supernaturals , so he felt like he was going insane. He got a crush on a guy who had too strong of internal homophobia to work. He still worked as a maid for the keepers and he could spend days stuck in his supernatural form, which cannot be perceived by other people.

2- TERUKANE

Teru meets Aka when he is 14 years old. He isn't a meaningful danger to Aka and his time stoping powers so Teru just has to deal with him.

He hates Aka at first, genuinely hates him. There are none of the 'I am mean to you because it's funny.' vibes from canon, he sees Aka as a genuine danger, actively tries to avoid him, and wouldn't care if Aka got exorcised. It takes months for Teru to call him by name instead of calling him a pest. He also find it pathetic that Aka currently have a crush on a girl that can't see him.

That being said their early dynamic is basically this:

Both are in a high horse, both are dumbasses.

Aka is happy a human can finally see him so he is the one constantly bothering Teru, at first just to study a human that can answer his questions, and try to use teru to communicate with his current crush but he does eventually get intrigued by Teru as an individual, realizing this kid has a lot of issues and clearly needs a friend, it is a shame he is always so cruel (as Teru is with supernaturals rip)

Teru get intrigued by Aka too but he is far more reluctant in showing interest. He spends a good time in denial that he has grown to enjoy Aka's company, but is not the 'i will deny it if asked' kind of denial, is the 'i am worried for a supernatural? absolutely not, let me stab him, i will prove i don't care' kind of denial. Help this kid.

He goes from worrying about Aka's crush safety to worry about Aka and his pathetic unrequited love to being resentful of it.

Teru never grows to like supernaturals or hesitate to exorcise them but he does learn to ignore them when he visit peaceful boundaries thanks to Aka's influence.

Teru admires Aka a lot when they jump to the friendship stage and he becomes very protective when he realizes Aka isn't as indestructible as he had assumed. He tries to help him in whatever way he can and is troubled by the understanding that he can't, his friend died 30 years ago: From the moment Teru was born he already was too late to help him.

Teru does do a lot of things to help Aka though, most notably being that he allows the clock keeper to possess his body to feel human. Gives Aka closure by writing a confession letter for him and letting him get a proper rejection from his one sided crush. Make a blood pact to break his curse and get Aka out of school.. and a few other things i can't say cause is a spoilers for the fic.

The comic is from a scene that isn't in the fic yet but is one I had in my mind for a long time.