#ippei hatano

[laugtherhyena]

I need to have ibis taken away from me so that i stop expanding Ayame's family tree-

Quite literally the most random thing ever, at one point earlier this week i remembered this throwaway from Asoot's puppetmaster arc at the scene where Akane goes to spend the night at Ayame's house;

This was, obviously, done because back then none of us had any ideas let alone designs and character traits for Ayame's family, hence the need for an excuse to why they're not present.

Cut to present year where i went and made characters for her parents and thought back to this line like "Hey i should make that", since i wrote Bashira as a single child that means this is an aunt from Ippei's side of the family; Mai Hatano!

And hey i was actually nice this time around so she's actually alive post-tragedy :] so here's some general info on her:

-She's 9 years younger than Ippei, the parents were going through a rocky part of their relationship and the mom thought maybe having another kid could save their marriage but it really only made everything worse and the husband left around the time Mai was turning 2 years old.

-The deal is that the father as some kind of businessman that was having an affair with a coworker and would excuse him coming up late or not even back home by saying he was piled up with work and blaming the wife or being “insensitive about his efforts”, but she knew he was bullshitting and could tell he had someone else. So again, she thought maybe if they had another kid that would fix things but it only led to somewhat constantly arguing for over an year until he left with his lover and cut contact with the rest of the family.

-This ties into why later in life Ippei choose financial stability over following his music career, the family struggled quite a bit over the years with just the mom and two kids, they had to move a few times and Ippei even got his job as a waiter during his mid to late teens to help out with money. I guess this also ties into why he and Bashira planned so much to have Ayame, i think his parents married pretty young and inexperienced so he wanted to avoid that and have a normal family.

-On Mai’s side she felt like she was at fault for “ruining her parent's marriage” for a good chunk of her childhood and early adolescence. She's over that as an adult, though it did lead to her avoiding serious relationships with anyone though most of her life. At most she's had some flings/one night stands, but never a proper boyfriend or anything official.

-On top of that Mai is generally pretty bad at dealing with emotions, both of other people and her own. She has no idea how to comfort anyone or help when they're in some emotional turmoil or need someone to vent to, so oftentimes she is kinda just changes the subject or gives a pretty standard response of like “Damn that sucks” before doing so and proceeds to ignore the issue as in sorta of a “forget about it” way. (As you can probably guess, she's not the one to show her hurt to others for a similar reason. When she received the news that her brother and his family had died she didn't express much of a reaction at all at the foundation and only cried when she was back home because she did genuinely care for them, though her odd reaction gave the impression to some coworkers that this wasn't the case.)

-She is a very stubborn person so she doesn't talk to people about this problem of hers, much less seek help when it comes to it because the fact that she can't truly help the people she cares for when they need emotional support really hurts her so she'd rather ignore and forget than deal with her lack of abilities in the area. 

-Stubbornness and ignorance are notably her most negative traits (“I was never taught and I will not learn” sorta thing). This extends to circumstances other than her loved ones emotional needs because a lot of the time she will be dismissive or ignorant about certain things solely because they don't affect her directly nor anyone she cares for.

-That being said, she is very outwardly nice and shows care to others. Very chatty and outgoing, pretty much the opposite of her brother and niece since she can talk to people very easily. She's on good terms with pretty much everyone from Tsurugi's division and talks quite frequently to other foundation workers as well. Though she is rather blunt and says whatever comes to her mind at any given moment.

-Before the tragedy she worked as a personal bodyguard in Towa city, this busy and sometimes dangerous lifestyle led to her distancing herself from her brother a lot as they grew older. It wasn't anything intentional, just life bringing them in separate ways so while she did love her brother and his family a lot they didn't see each other super often, it was mostly during holidays, funerals or events like some of Ayame’s competitions or similar situations. This became one of her biggest regrets late in life as she wishes she could have spent more time with them.

-She broke her arm pretty badly when a client was getting ambushed and was set to stay out of business until recovered. Once she was dispatched from the hospital Ippei and Bashira came to drive her home and help her settle back, alongside doing some catching-up. That was the last time they saw each other.

-When the tragedy broke out she became stranded in Towa city because of all the chaos and the Warriors of hope hunting down the adults. Her arm was still broken then, but Mai is a rather reckless person and went around fighting despairs and rescuing other citizens in spite of her injury, which led to her injured arm getting broken and slashed in many other places which then led her developing a nasty infection that she just kept fighting on her own for months until she and a group of adults managed to leave the city.

-She was brought to a hospital pretty much immediately after by the group's leader and by that point she pretty much couldn't feel or move her hand anymore and the whole area around her arm gave her immense pain. When she started getting treated the staff tried to contact any family member which led to them contacting the Kisaragi foundation and upon informing them that she was in their care Rei requested that Mai should be moved to the foundation’s hospital facility, which was where she stayed for the majority of her recovery.

-There wasn't much Hikaru or any of the medical scaff could do to save her injured arm so she had to have it amputated to avoid further spread of infection, but at this point Mai couldn't even think much about the fact and just told them to do whatever it takes to make the pain stop. On top of losing her arm, she also became prone to infections out of how bad hers was.

-It was when she was recovering from surgery that Tsurugi came to speak to her, he apologized for the foundation taking so long to rescue her, alongside informing her how the place functions and most importantly letting Mai know that her brother and his family had died. It was only after he left that the weight of this information and everything Mai had gone settled in and, for the first time ever since the tragedy started, she cried.

-The thing is that unlike her brother, an overthinker who thinks ahead and carefully plans everything in life, Mai tends to throw herself into things head on just hoping that it will all work out in the end and while she's going through things she doesn't stop to think much about the details until it's over. So it was only as she was recovering in the hospital that she thought about everything she had gone through, everything she had lost, and for once tried to think of what her next course of action should be while going through these feelings.

-That being said, she never fell into a depression or took the loss as hard as someone like Keisuke did because that's just not the kind of person Mai is. Somewhat similar to her ignorant demeanor, her way of dealing with grief is mainly by occupying her mind with other things, like going places she enjoys or focusing on training and work. The last one being the reason she joined Tsurugi's division pretty much immediately after being dispatched from the medbay.

-Mai’s an action woman! She has a lot of energy and loves getting into fights, especially if it is to protect others, so it's no surprise she joined his division and not Rei’s or Teruya's. But when it comes to Tsurugi's ideals Mai is by no means a follower, she thinks he's insane, way too radical, but so far his black and white mortality hasn't affected her or anyone she cares for directly so she turns a blind eye to it, this is the guy who pays her after all. (This does change post Sdra2, especially after Keisuke almost shoots Midori)

-She was assigned to be in charge of the new members basic physical combat and self defense training, especially for those like Ryutaro and Keisuke who had no experience in this line of work before. This is part of how she ended up becoming a close friend of theirs, though Mai tends to treat Ryutaro (and Midori by extension) more like younger siblings rather than coworkers.

-The foundation provides her a prosthetic for use only during missions (by Tsurugi's orders). Mai doesn't mind that since she doesn't actually like having the prosthetic on, it feels more like a trouble to put on and use than it's worth, she much prefers not having one at all.

-On a similar vein, Mai isn't a fan of the work uniform, she finds it way too stuffy and clunky so she only puts it on right before going on a mission, alongside the prosthetic arm. Tsurugi doesn't take that well, as he sees it as Mai not taking work as seriously as she should, but she is one of his best soldiers so he refrains from picking up on her.

-Onto some more miscellaneous information. Mai’s apartment is rather disorganized and messy, but for her it’s fine because she knows where everything is, even if it's not in the right place per say. Bashira used to jokingly pick up on her over it.

-She’s also a pretty bad cook, can only really pull off simple meals which is why she's a huge fan of takeout and fast food in general.

-Back in Ippei's late teens/early 20s she was the one to keep pushing him to take initiative and ask out Bashira, though that help absolutely came alongside teasing her brother for being so shy.

-They were really close then, Ippei would even pick her up from school everyday n all. This strong care stayed strong over the years even after they started seeing each other less and less after moving out of their childhood home, and even less after their mother passed away from old age sometime around the late 2000s.

-She never spent much time with Ayame but oftentimes when she would feel self conscious about her lack of femininity her parents would mention how she's just like her aunt on that aspect

-Mai has her brother's collection of music vinyls at her place, she's not the biggest fan of classical music, but listening to it reminds her of him.

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Father and daughter fr

//OH MY GOD, YES! YEAH THAT FITS THE 2 REALLY WELL!

[laugtherhyena]

Definitely! I think wanting to kill Akane is definitely something she could blurt out while angry but not something she could act upon if the opportunity to turn back time and be face to face with her again presented itself? She could try but be unable to do so by the end of the day because Akane is still a child and she's just like,, too much of a mom to be able to kill a kid no matter how awful she knows said kid is. She just lacks this wit to actually commit to killing someone, which ties into why she firmly believes her daughter would be unable to do so out if her own will.

But hey! On a nicer note (and since you like them a bunch) i think that if she and Ippei were in 6.5 they would be close to Ryutaro and Midori the most out of the other family members.

I imagine they'd be the 3rd relatives encountered instead of Keisuke, running into Ryutaro and Midori instead of the two finding them, and while Bashira initially scolds the two for coming to such dangerous place on their own without even telling their parents she's really just doing that out of worry and after Ippei tells her to go easy on the kids, since they came there for the same reason as them, they decide to stick around by them because no way she's letting thes 14 year olds on their own in such place + Leaning that Midori is really not doing well would make them really want to help her! Like i think Ippei would offer to cary her around the place since she weights like nothing for a guy like him.

Imagine Ryutaro calling her auntie like he does to Minako, but instead of constantly complaining and telling him to not call her that Bashira would just immediatelly accept it and proceed to embarass him by talking to him like he's a little kid and pinching his cheek or something.

WRONG ❌ Bashira would never fall for Tsurugi's ideals when her big thing is refusing to believe Ayame could kill someone on her own volition and Tsurugi has reverted back to his "All criminals are vile scum" mindset. If anything, they're like that one scene in chainsaw man where there's two characters pointing at each other while saying "GO TO HELL!" repeatedly.

I just mentioned Keisuke in the sense of doing really badly after 6.5, just not necessarily in the same manner.

But yeah i do think Bashira fucking despises Akane more than anyone else she can't stand in her grief-ridden hater era (Minako, Kizuna, Tsurugi, Keisuke too bevause of what happens in the Sdra2 epilogue). Like, Ayame not only died because of this girl too in her view, but since they were close even before the kg Ayame's probably brough Akane to hang out at her house sometime and Bashira got to meet her, maybe even think she was a good kid and feeling sympathy for her situation being an orphan and all.

I think looking back to the times she's interacted with Akane makes her die inside in an unreasonably angry way

Can i have her hand in marriage. I know shes married already but i want to marry her.

Also damn :(

"I cannot believe i let... that... that bitch into our home. I thought she cared for ayame."

I can also imsgine her saying she'd like to kill akane herself due to being angry

[laugtherhyena]

Now that I'm free from college for the next few weeks i can finally talk about these two, the headcanon/take on Ayame's parents i made a little while back with help from my friend Poi, Bashira and Ippei Hatano.

-Ayame is their only child, she takes after her father both appearance and personality wise as both of them are pretty quiet and timid people who tend to not speak a lot. In Ippei's case, his often very subtle emotions don't help at all on the matter as it tends to give people the wrong impression that he’s serious and intimidating, but he really just doesn’t know how to express himself and is a pretty awkward dude in social scenarios just like his kid. He is a tad more talkative when around his family and close friends, but even then he doesn’t talk THAT much more but his family knows he cares for them more than anything.

-Bashira on the other hand is the complete opposite of her husband and daughter, very extrovert and talkative, it's from her that Ayame takes her habit of rambling about her interests tho unlike her Bashira will continue talking for hours and hours without getting self-conscious about it. She has a keen eye and can read through her family's seriousness like an open book if she senses there's something bothering or off about them, whenever that happens she will make them open up and try to help them with the problem.

-She wears her heart on her sleeve and is a very caring and emotional person, thought she's as curious as she is nosy and tends to ask a lot of questions to Ayame's friends as she wants to know the kind of person her daughter’s hanging out with, this borderline interrogation is made worse by the fact that she's the kind of parent that will embarrass her kid with childhood stories but Ippei is usually there to pull her aside and tell her she's embarrassing Ayame in front of her friends.

-Bashira owns a flower shop as she's been fascinated by plants and nature ever since she was little, she used to tend to her parent's garden since both had very demanding jobs and were busy most of the time which led to her wanting to know more about plants and study botanics. This passion of hers is so strong that she named her daughter after a flower (japanese iris).

-She’s known for having a “magic touch” of sorts where everything she plants grows beautiful and strong, when tending to plants she never wears gloves of any kind as she feels like touching the dirt and plants with her bare heads makes all the difference.

-These two met at a restaurant Ippei used to work in as a waiter in his early 20s because Bashira used to go there often with her friends. The whole reason he was working there to begin with was because this place had a piano in the stage where artists would perform sometimes and he’s always had a love for classic music, so whenever he had closing shifts he would stay there overtime after the restaurant closed to play the piano. There were a handful of times he let Bashira get in after closing to listen to him perform.

-His dream was to pursue that kind of career and become a musician but with the bubble burst and economic recession he decided to take a more stable office job than try his luck in the industry. He does still play as a hobby though! The Hatanos have a piano in their house and he plays it for fun and when he needs to de-stress from work. When Ayame was a child he would often play for her and talk about his passion even if she didn't have much interest in music.

-They're not as close as they were when she was a kid by current time since both of them aren't great at communicating but both know the other does care for them quite a bit even if the lack of words and some not-so-well solved issues are a bit of a barrier between them.

-While Ippei isn't outright not supportive of Ayame’s athletic career, he worries more than he cheers for her after the injury she had in one of her legs because it was a very serious one that could lead to her losing movement/feeling in her leg if she goes too far in training and doesn’t take good care of herself. On the other hand Bashira is still as supportive as ever about Ayame's sprinting, she worries too but much like Ayame herself she is pretty stubborn and being a huge optimist she is certain nothing worse will happen.

-When she was still in the hospital recovering from the surgery he went to talk to her about how it was ok to slow down and that she could still enjoy running and training as a hobby, just like he did with playing the piano. He obviously said that with the best intentions in mind but Ayame was in a very stressful and awful mindset because of everything and ended up not taking it very well, as if her dad was telling her to give up on her dreams, so she ended up yelling at him in the hospital about how she won’t give up like he did and Ippei just goes silent out of not wanting to argue with his kid.

-She apologized shortly after but they haven’t had a proper talk about all this stuff? If that makes sense? It was just a quick apology since neither of them are very good at talking + Bashira doesn’t want to intervene heavily on the situation since she feels like it’s something they need to resolve on their own, just father and daughter. (Though it’s not like their relationship crumbled after this mess or anything, it’s just something that was never properly resolved)

-Both of them died in the tragedy but if they had lived long enough to be rescued by the Kisaragi foundation alongside the 6.5 cast Ippei would have joined the foundation in Rei’s division while Bashira could have become a secretary or assistant of some kind if she didn't dislike Minako to the point of being unable to stand being around her.

-In a non-tragedy setting she would already dislike her quite a bit due to the way she treated her child, but because Bashira developed a strong disdain towards Kizuna because of what happened in the killing game she directs that hatred towards her mother since Kizuna herself is not around. The gist of it is that Bashira refuses to believe Ayame could have been so cruel out of her own volition, “I know my daughter more than anyone else, she would never do such a thing!”, and so blames Kizuna for her death since she was the one who instigated the event. (She despises Akane too, but she's the mastermind so who doesn't)

-Ippei is not the kind of person to hold these kids of grudges + he mostly blames himself for what happened to Ayame because he feels that if he had prohibited her from continuing her training as a sprinter after the injury she wouldn't have been called to hope's peak and subsequently died in the proto-killing game, he would much rather have Ayame hate him for putting a stop to her dreams than her being dead.

[laugtherhyena]

Caught myself thinking about Ayame's death and made this

[laugtherhyena]

After the arrival departure always comes, as there is nothing without farewells

[laugtherhyena]

Btw the reason why he was posed in the last post is because most of his sprites are like this and i wanted to show his eyes

[despair-to-future-arcs]

his eyes! Seriously what's up with your glasses dude

My glasses? There always like that...? Not sure what your talking about...

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Bashira and Ippei cause' why not

*Bashira kisses her husband* Well hey, you don't need to ask me twice!

U-Um, Ba-Bashira... this should be kept private...!

And why not, I think the 2 of us are married already so there is no reason to hide our relationship, don't you agree?

Heh, I suppose so, huh? *kisses back, seems the 2 are having a great time together but of course someone is annoyed...*

Ugh, it annoys me how you 2 seem to have a very happy relationship while I'm stuck with a deadbeat.

Wow... can you not ruin the mood, can't you sulk somewhere else?

Just ignore her dear, usually there are some people who don't want others happy, it's best to leave her be.

Yeah mom, just that some people tend to be like that sometimes...

She's right Mrs. Hatano, my mom can get really weird about other marriages and starts to compare them to her own and complains - again I apologize for that.

And why not? I think if anything I'm allow to say something; especially given how you don't even do the dishes when you come home from cheerleading practice which makes me question how you'll be able to live on your own when you go to college.

M-Mom shut up, look I'm busy okay! Just leave me alone, god...

Seems to me those 2 have quite a bit in common, huh?

Yeah but again, I remember Kiyoka mention they did argue when she was there to return something so yeah... seems like it...

[despair-to-future-arcs]

If the bubble burst didn't happen or didn't hit as hard in Japan could Ippei have become the ultimate pianist?

//Well, yeah - pretty likely, just that his reasons for not going with that job is because how risky it is and unpredictable so yeah, if the Japan's bubble burst didn't happen - I say that he might of become a musician.

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Let’s focus!

Yeah, anyway - did anything happen aside from the food stuff?

???: Not much really, I mean aside from all the organizations working together and getting the list of companies that funded Ultimate Despair.

???: I think we can safely say that probably by either the weeks to come or months, things will calm down.

I see, so that means no more dead folks coming here; that's good to hear, hopefully if my kid's broadcast informs the public and things go smoothly, then maybe we can get stuff return to normal, yeah?

Well, normal for the most part - I mean people still died, so we still got a lot of work to do but at least the fight between hope and despair might end sooner...

Ac-Actually... we just discover something really dreadful and I think we need to share it... it's about Future Foundation or at least Hope's Peak Academy...

Discover? Wh-What do you mean... you don't seem to sure...

Well... the thing is that there's arguing still happening with the teacher, it's pretty bad and uh, Mrs. Kimura can I ask you a question since you were Class 76's teacher; did you uh... do anything weird to your students?

Weird? Not that I know of, why do you ask...

Aside from what Masa tear into Class 77-B for how they treated Nagi and Mikan, I don't recall doing anything, why do you ask?

Right I remember your daughters attended Class 75, right? what's going on?

Well... you remember that Miaya girl was working on the Neo World Program, we just learn that she was stalling because she wanted to redeem that horrid cousin of hers who just so happen to be Class 77-B's teacher and was the mother of Monaca Towa.

Wait, their cousins? I mean, we heard a lot of bad stuff she did but it couldn't be that bad, could it?

No, it's far far worse...it's...uh...well...

*SLAM!*

*As then Class 78's door open which a bunch of students flooded out and you hear screaming*

CHISA: Look, I re-really had no idea that was happening! Look, we got no idea what she was doing or-!

???: Bullshit, you had someone like that at your school and do weird shit to my kid, you better explain yourself!

???: Yeah like what the actual fuck just happen you asshole!

???: Exactly, we trusted our kids with so why did you let that person become a teacher?!

Dude, close the door! It's getting really going to shit right now!

*As requested, the others did as Leon close the door; as shouting from angry parents came out*

Oh gosh, that... that was scary...!

Oh god, wh-what in the...? was it really that bad everyone? I only just left to inform Mikako of what she miss out on, bro is everything alright?

Mo-More then you can imagine, the parents they... they were yelling at the Miss. Yukizome for...for...

Now, I'm just...I'm scare, re-really really scare...especially for Makoto right now, since he's working under that women!

Yeah no kiding, especially that bitch...she... she did that, god fucking damnit...

What just happen? I heard a lot of parents shouting in there, did you all discover something really bad?

Ye-Yeah, i-it's really bad and so many of the parents got angry, my parents were freak out realizing they were going to send me to that school when a predator... I think we should wait until Class 77 is done and uh, ask Yukio... but I'm not sure if we should...

Still given he knew and ev-everything, he must know what happen, ri-right?

Indeed but right now, I'm just beyond furious and anger over this, how... how could they let such a person be a teacher? This... this makes no sense!

Something tells me I got a lot of work to do...

Looks like it.

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Oh, spoilers for you girls, but Utsuro apparently has a lil' sister...

A little sister...? He has one...?

Looks like it and given that all of Utsuro's family had died but she didn't, that means he might not have any idea of her existence.

It seems that while Utsuro had good parents once upon a time before they turn greedy, Sachiko didn't have that but she looks to be protected by Future Foundation.

Yeah and hearing all that, yeah... I'm not even sure what to think...

Yeah... no wonder he ran away and turn to Junko, it explains a lot...

Oh dear, yeah Utsuro did tell us about his past and what his parents but the fact he has a sister...that's not good...

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Aw It's a shame you couldn't become a musician, I'm sure the anons would love to listen to you play sometime

Yeah but at least the after life does have some other places outside of just the theater here; so I do get to play when I can.

[despair-to-future-arcs]

So Hatano parents! Tell us a bit about yourselves

Ah, curious of us, eh? Well as say before, I had a flower shop that I work at and work with flowers, I really enjoy flower arranging and the various like! I even remember the time helping with my parents gardens, people even had say I have this 'magical touch' when it comes to plants so it came natural.

In fact the reason i did was because my parents had pretty demanding jobs so i was often taking care of the garden, in fact thanks to that I started to taking interest and studying botanics.

In fact, I believe Ayame's name is after a flower if you all are curious about that!

As for me, I had a pretty normal life and work as a waiter in my youth; it's even how I met Bashira when we were getting ready for college, I even remember there was this piano and I usually like to play on it which she learn I enjoy playing classical music.

In fact, I was hoping that maybe I could of become a musician actually since I love doing that!

But due to the bubble burst and given how risky it was; I decided it be safer I work as a salary man instead, but if asking I do play the piano when on holidays.

No kidding, I remember that you use to play it a lot when I was little, even if I didn't understand it; I was happy you seem to enjoy talking about it!

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Damn now i see where Ayame got her huge.. I-I mean, wow Mr.Hatano your daughter sure takes a lot after you!

Ye-Yeah, I notice that too heh... in fact she does take a lot after me and how I interact with people as well...

No kidding, I suppose that would explain but honestly I am pretty happy to have both of them as my parents.

Yep, she truly is her father's daughter.

Wow Ayame, compare to everyone else; your family seems really normal and nice!

[despair-to-future-arcs]

HOLY SHIT AYAME YOUR DAD IS SO BUFF

Hu-Huh...?! What did you say...!

Hey hey, don't say anything about my dad; I know how you anon guys get so don't start!

Indeed, especially given his wife is here and I don't think she's too happy about the comments of some of the other adults.

Still, thank you for the compliments; I think I was quite happy to be with him and I think I'm pretty luck with a lovely husband and daughter.

De-Dear, not in front of others!

Yeah mom, stop talking nonsense!

Hehe, Oh I'm joking dear! I'm joking!