#kyoko is working towards a Career. shes got her romance going on but like a large portion of the manga

[aranarumei]

god. what i'd give to read smthing like skip beat again...

[princeasimdiya12]

So in my DR1 Taleshift AU, the talents go as followed: Swimmer!Makoto, LuckyStudent!Chihiro, Programmer!Toko, Novelist!Celestia, Gambler!Leon, BaseballPro!Mondo, GangLeader!Mukuro, Soldier!Sakura, MartialArtist!Kiyotaka, MoralCompass!Byakuya, AffluentProgeny!Junko, Fashionista!Kyoko, Detective!Hifumi, FanficAuthor!Yasuhiro, Clairvoyant!Sayaka and Idol!Aoi. These headcanons mean a lot to me!

Hey anon! Thank you for your patience! I’m sorry it took so long but I had alot of real life affairs to take care of. Even to this day. With that in mind, i would like to bring up that I won’t be accepting any new talentswap asks like this for some good time. 

With that, I hope you enjoy these new headcanons for this AU.

Makoto Naegi as the SHSL Swimmer

He could spend hours in a pool of water just letting his mind wander as his body feels the cool pool sensations.

One day, when he was out on the beach with his family, he spotted what looked like a dolphin in distress and far out into the open waters.

Without thinking, he immediately swam towards the creature and brought her to the beach to have her wounds fixed.

He earned quite a bit of noteriety for that.

He’s the shortest member of his swim team and has been playfully teased for it.

During the summer, he often serves as a lifeguard assistant.

Chihiro Fujisaki as the SHSL Lucky Student

Their luck made it difficult for them to interact with others in social situations.

When their luck causes bad things to happen, it usually results in Chihiro being involved in a given accident making them come off as a bad omen.

When their luck causes good things to happen, they find themselves getting attention from the media and eager crowds.

Chihiro’s constantly changing luck is a prime factor for their timid and frailness.

They put alot of time in researching different forms of luck and rituals in an attempt to change their luck to their preferences.

They’ve picked up a variety of good luck charms and have a tendency of performing superstitious rituals whenever they’re about to do something.

Chihiro is also willing to give those charms to their friends (like Mondo when it comes to big games). 

Touko Fukawa as the SHSL Programmer

Not wanting to be involved with her abusive family, Touko spent her whole time on the computer.

She familiarized herself with the complex workings of the computer and how to make her own programs.

Her specialty is being able to create anti-virus software that can detect and report potential hackers while maintaining a clean software system that can last for decades.

She hates it when people ask her if she can make video games as she believes them to be stupid and not worth her effort.

She enjoys venting her frustrations on message and forum boards by provoking others with her comments.

Syo still exists in this AU because of the abuse and managed to pick up on her original self’s programming skills.

Whenever Syo takes over, she manages to hack security programs and bank accounts as a means of taking revenge against unlucky kids who hurt her or her gloomy self.

She managed to frame them for crimes they didn’t commit, summoned gang members to tear down their homes, and have illegal commodities shipped to them.

Her username is Geno-Zdr50 and after her crimes were revealed, she was given the title of SHSL Hacker.

Celestia Ludenberg as the SHSL Author

She earned recognition for bringing back the gothic-romanticism genre.

Alot of her stories feature tales of romance and tragedy between elegant ladies and their supernatural/undead suitors.

Her wardrobe is similar to her original outfit only with a longer dress and she wears a black veil with red roses.

She claims to have been involved in multiple relationships with different men who provided her with an interesting romantic experience.

Celestia has a strong dislike for tropes and cliches and tries desperately to ensure that her stories avoid them.

The last thing she wants to be considered is a run of the mill author by some half-witted review articles.

Leon Kuwata as the SHSL Gambler

His main attire consists of a red collared shirt, black jeans and shades.

He doesn’t win every game because of his lazy attitude and his tendency to panic whenever things don’t go right for him.

Leon got the title by winning a few big competition games involving blackjack.

He prefers to use slot machines since they make it less hard for him to showcase his skills.

One of his tricks is by flirting with the waitresses or servers and convincing them to give them tips on what the dealers are like.

He often ropes Yasuhiro and Hifumi into joining him whenever he goes gambling believing that their eccentric personalities will boost his chances.

Mondo Oowada as the SHSL Baseball Player

He got into baseball because of his brother who was already a professional player.

Mondo’s has multiple baseball uniforms because of how often he tears or smears them.

He managed to convince some of his friends, who were close to becoming involved in gangs, to join him.

When he started playing, Mondo had a fierce temper and would pick fights against other unruly baseball players which would leave the two of them with bruises and black eyes.

Daiya decided to step in and offer his personalized training sessions to help Mondo before he ruined his career.

By channeling his frustrations into body improvement training and hitting the ball, Mondo was able to get a better control of his temper.

Although there have been cases where the baseballs he swings out of the stadiums end up causing massive damage in random streets.

Mukuro Ikusaba as the SHSL Gang Leader

Just like in canon, she ended up leaving her family to visit a country that was torn apart by war.

But rather than joining Fenrir, Mukuro ended up in the presence of orphans and street rats who lost their families to war.

She managed to convince them to join her in fighting back against the invading soldiers.

Using effective planning and improvised training, she was able to create her own army of resistance fighters who could take on any adult soldier.

They would be known as the Walking Corpses.

She instilled an anti-empathy principle onto her fighters so that they would feel no sorrow or despair for the loss of an ally.

Sakura Oogami as the SHSL Soldier

At an early age, she was recruited by the Japanese government to partake in a program designed to train soldiers.

She was scouted because of her family’s reputation as powerful fighters.

For years, she endured brutal training against a variety of fighters who were three times her age and with no heart in them.

She performed multiple reconnaissance missions which involved rescuing fellow soldiers from enemy territories while also taking down guerilla fighters.

While she won’t say it out loud, Sakura does have sympathy for the guerilla fighters and soldiers who are trying to protect their homeland.

Sakura prefers to use her body to fight, but she knows how to use different guns and weapons.

She actually faced Mukuro and her Corpses once. While her subordinates were easy to apprehend, the Lead Corpse was much more resilient and they ended up in a draw.

To this day, she has yet to take the life of an innocent.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru as the SHSL Fighter

Wanting to uphold the proud name of the Ishimaru Family, Kiyotaka devoted himself to learning martial arts.

While he has studied multiple forms of martial arts, his preferred combat forms are karate, judo and taekwondo.

He has a fanbase of girls who found him to be quite attractive thanks to his handsome physique and his cool profession.

He’s actually very flustered by their attention and tries desperately not to fraternize with dates as they would interfere with his training.

Kiyotaka is always shown wearing a white gi for a uniform and is often barefooted. He claims this is to build endurance. 

Byakuya Togami as the SHSL Public Morals Officer

He runs a tight shift in ensuring that his academy’s rules and regulations are followed by every student.

Byakuya also made a secret group of student officers who would keep an eye on any rule breakers and would report their findings to him.

His punishments range from extra homework to having to clean the entire school during weekends or fun holidays.

He decided to expand his power by influencing different academies using his moral code and conduct.

He’s also openly criticized multiple schools that were lackluster when it came to discipline and how they organized their education system.

With his influence as a Togami, a majority of elite academies in Japan incorporate his strict moral code.

Junko Enoshima as the SHSL Heir

She was born to a wealthy family that specialized in marketing.

At an early age, Junko learned the basics of managing businesses and how to treat employees under her thumb

Her upbringing upheld morals that encouraged her to be as ruthless and tactile when dealing with enemy companies or unruly subjects

She enjoys manipulating stocks and employees as a means of brutally taking down business rivals

Junko also has connections to underground agents that can bring her dirt about her competitors while also assigning them to sabotage their own enterprises.

Kyoko Kirigiri as the SHSL Fashion Model

She undergoes extensive workouts and health routines to maintain a physically fit and beautiful appearance.

Her main styles are based on classic punk while incorporating different concepts of violet.

Sometimes she gives pointers and tips to her model colleagues before a big event but she’ll still be cold and serious when it’s time to perform or showcase her works.

She’s always wearing gloves and there are tons of rumors as to what she’s hiding under her hands.

Kyoko knows how to speak French and English since she often travels to France and the US for modeling events.

Her father is a fashion designer but she stopped modeling his works due to creative differences. 

In her free time, she likes to sketch different designs. Yasuhiro has even asked her for help with creating new characters.

Hifumi Yamada as the SHSL Detective

He wears a classic trench coat and a fiddler hat

He cites Detective Conan as his main inspiration for his career and how to approach his cases

When interrogating potential suspects, he often uses bizarre or outlandish questions in order to make them lose their defenses.

Alot of his cases involve finding lost children or recovering stolen money and valuables

Despite taking on many cases, he has yet to be involved with anything murder related.

He secretly wishes for a detective rival so the cases can be more exciting and that he can be pushed to be a greater detective. 

Yasuhiro Hagakure as the SHSL Doujinshi Author

He grew up loving shonen anime with fantasy settings like Inuyasha or YuYu Hakusho.

His mom helped him in perfecting his writing and drawing skills and later with helping distribute his works.

Yasuhiro didn’t flunk like in canon, but his grades were pretty low since most of his time was spent daydreaming about potential storylines followed by him drawing them out.

The kids at his school were very impressed with his drawings, especially since they were based on their favorite shows.

He became very popular throughout his middle and high school years.

Despite his fandom, there were very few people whom he could call friends since most of them didn’t love the different layers and symbolism of the anime shows the same way he did.

Sometimes when inspired, he’ll pull out drawing supplies and paper from his dreadlocks.

Yasuhiro dreams of making his own anime/manga featuring a (totally not a self insert) protagonist who goes on ghost hunting adventures alongside his magic pet chicken.

Sayaka Maizono as the SHSL Fortune Teller

She dresses up as a carnival themed fortune teller.

Her stage name is the “Fairy of the Moon”. 

She prefers to predict happy and positive things in order to build a good reputation among the public.

When something bad is about to happen, like a fight or an accident, she notices things in extra detail that hint towards the upcoming event. (Like in the Final Destination series)

Sayaka has made several TV appearances where she would make open predictions about a fellow celebrity.

Having been acquainted with Aoi during her appearances, Sayaka often gives warnings to the idol about potential attackers.

Aoi Asahina as the SHSL Idol

While she’s a great singer, she has a hard time with writing her own songs. So she lets her group write them.

Her preferred songs contain messages of friendship and how bonds are important between people.

Aoi pulls off incredible dance movements throughout her performances that many idols have a hard time pulling off.

She has a close friendship with her idol group and considers them as her second family.

Aoi has also sparked controversy for openly supporting idols who defy the harmful expectations of their managers/corporate groups with their choices.

Her opinions on the matter have earned her an equal amount of fans and enemies. 

She has a harder time eating her precious donuts since her manager frequently discourages her from eating unnecessary sweets.

[in-the-gardens-of-inspiration]

My Aunt, Her Cats and Witchy Things : or : a KHR Magic AU in my hands - Part The First

(This is very AU, very much an alternate take on canon)

Nana is Namimori's resident Cat Lady. She is also a witch, and the familiars that prowl around her home are waiting for a partner. When her nephew Tsuna moves in with her it becomes apparent that the boy is the one chosen by her clowder. A dash of All27

Cat!Bianchi is Nana's familiar

Karasu Tengu!Shamal hangs around Nana's home

Hana is Nana's apprentice, and cat!Kyoko is her familiar

every familiar has a human form

ship happens... ;D

Sawada Tsuna doesn't really remember his childhood.

At only age fifteen, four seems like a lifetime ago. Another thing that seemed like a lifetime ago was his parents having a good relationship; something big happened all those years ago, to him and to his mo- to Inoue Narumi. Something that had made her snap and walk away from her marriage to Sawada Iemitsu, walk away from her hurt not-even-five year old son, walk away from her family. 

Father- Iemitsu wouldn't talk about it, and even if he would, he didn't dare to. Why? His second wife. Who was a career woman. Annaliese Sinclair, who started her own fashion empire. Who refused to be a complete housewife. Who refused to settle down in Namimori, and would have rather moved back to Milan. Who refused her husband's son as her own, even after forcing Iemitsu to take her son, Basil, as his child. Who was a domineering, manipulative bitch who kept her young son on a tight leash, and her husband's balls on an even tighter leash.

So yeah, no. He was not a fan of his attempted stepmother. Nor was he a fan of his father, whom he thought had quite enough intelligence to parse that 'hey, wait a minute, maybe this isn't such a healthy relationship' but never quite did.

So here he was, a few months away from his fifteenth birthday, waving goodbye forever (probably) to his father's retreating back at the airport in Tokyo, waiting with the maternal aunt Iemitsu had never, ever mentioned to him before.

(Shimura Nana was a bit of an odd duck, putting it politely. She seemed to drift, but could still be rather serious.)

Tsuna had met his aunt for the first time ever earlier that morning, as his 'father' roused him from his fitful sleep in the car, saying "Son, I have someone I'd like for you to meet." As Tsuna blearily rubbed the sleep from his eyes, and got out of the car, he was met with the sight of a brunette lady glaring absolute death at Annaliese and Iemitsu, who were in their own little slice of paradise.

Tsuna had coughed awkwardly, still rather weirded out by the over-dramatic displays of affection, and, deciding he’d had rather enough of that, thank-you-very-much, walked over to the woman. She looked like she was in her early to mid-thirties, and had sharp, clear brown eyes. As he approached her, her gaze shifted from the sickeningly domestic couple to the young teen. Her eyes softened and she smiled, beginning to walk towards him. She stopped a good two feet in front of him, he did the same, giving the woman who looked like family the same amount of respectful distance, within arm’s reach, but distant enough.

Tsuna coughed awkwardly again, "Hi there.. I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi, please, call me Tsuna." The woman giggled at him, "Hello Tsuna, you can call me Nana. I'm your aunt, and Iemitsu," as she said the man's name, she turned and shot him another glare that could have melted iron, and continued with a derisive snort aimed at the blond lug, "- and Iemitsu wants me to be your guardian while he's off cavorting with his... woman. It's very nice to meet you Tsuna-kun, and I’m sorry for not being there for you sooner."

More notes:

Tsuna moves into Nana's place, finding it overrun by her cats, also her apprentice and her cats. And also a crow that is more than it seems- actually, that could be said for a lot of the wildlife near his Auntie Nana’s quaint little house near-ish to the woods.

Everything, surprise surprise, isn’t what it seems. It turns out Nana’s a witch, a fairly powerful and well renowned one at that. Her cat also turns into a very pretty lady that’s fairly head-over-heels for her- her name is Bianchi, she’s an apothecary whenever she isn’t a cat, and she specializes in poisons and potions. 

Nana’s apprentice is an acerbic but clever young woman called Hana, who is anything but a delicate, fragile flower- she’s often seen, in her spare time, training to thwack people with her walking staff- and is learning both from Nana and from Bianchi. Her familiar is Kyoko, also a part-time cat, who is Bianchi’s main apprentice, and is learning medicine, salves and anti-poisons in addition to potions and poisons.

There’s a whole whack of other cats lurking around too- there’s Bianchi’s brother, and Kyoko’s brother, both of whom are looking for their witch to contract them to name a few, and more than a few neighbourhood strays, like the Grimalkin Reborn, (Grimalkin are werecats.); Shamal, the Karasu-Tengu that likes to hit on Bianchi; Tsuyoshi and his son, Takeshi are Lycan-folk (werewolves, but like, pretty werewolves (let me have my dumb YA supernatural-fantasy-romance shenanigans dammit)); the young Grimalkin Kyoya and his mortal enemy(/ies), the fairfolk/demon (pair) Mukuro (and Chrome).  There are many others, like the young Tanuki Enma and his little sister, Mami; jorogumo Schitt P., yuki-onna Adelaide, the kitsune Byakuran, seer-witch Yuni, centaur Dino, witch Fon and his apprentice I-Pin, and her familiar, a faun called Lambo. (It’s my fav. magic au of mine so far....)

It comes to light later, that Tsuna is prophesied to be a very powerful, very prosperous witch, and his parents felt kind of threatened, but decided to love him anyway, but then Iemitsu went and had Tsuna sealed, and Narumi (OC half-fae mama) was v. distraught at not feeling her baby boy’s magic and kinda snapped, leaving a magic block on Tsuna’s childhood b/c it was pain for all three of them to bear, especially Iemitsu who knew how just how much he fucked up- and well...

Annaliese’s son, Basil, without his parent’s knowledge, travels to Japan, in the hopes of meeting his stepbrother and finally finding family! Um, that works, but also backfires. Yep. Annaliese hires some elite ‘mooks’ to find her son and return them- that’s a strapped-for-cash!Varia- and well... hehehe it may not go so well at first, and that’s all I’m saying for now....