#little!Kageyama Tobio

[meiomanie]

Kageyama Tobio paci edits

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[tenowls]

bro hes literally just standing there

[freshfrenchtoast]

Kageyama's backstory only being revealed near the very end of the series is really interesting from a meta perspective.

For reference, his chapter is 387 out of 402. That's 96% of the way in.

To contrast, other characters like Tsukishima and Yamaguchi's backstories are shown in Chapters 87-88.

Now, we do get the explanation for his "King of the Court" title in Chapter 6, at the start of the series, but we don't see how he got to that point, or why he started playing volleyball in the first place like Tsukishima's and Yamaguchi's stories show.

It creates this situation where, despite being the deuteragonist, the character our protagonist, Hinata, is practically glued to the entire series, we barely know anything about him.

We don't even know he has a sister until that point whereas other characters' siblings like Natsu, Saeko, Akiteru, Alisa have all made appearances way before then. Even Oikawa's sister, though we don't see her, we at least know she exists because of Takeru.

He's both closed off to us (the audience) as well as the other characters in the series, and this results in them finding him rude or disliking his character in general (see: the "Kageyama is abusive" discourse that somehow keeps popping up even now).

Chapter 387 takes place in 2018 and was published in 2020 so it takes him 6 years of in-universe time and 8 years of irl time to really open up.

And the catalyst for all of this is Hinata fulfilling his promise of beating him.

You see, another thing to note is that, whenever Hinata thinks of Kageyama, he's always looking at him from behind.

His internal image of him is someone who's always up ahead, someone he needs to catch up to, meaning Hinata can only see one side of him, he cannot see all of Kageyama until he catches up and passes him.

Which he finally does here.

In this shot Hinata is finally the one who's looking back at Kageyama. At this moment, Hinata (and by extension the audience) can see him for all he is, can see how he was just a lonely boy who's been waiting for someone to meet him where he is, to keep running alongside him and not quit the race.

Someone he doesn't have to go easy on. Someone who would actually tell him to hurry up instead of slow down for a change.

His someone better.

[nunkisketches]

Hugs hugs hugs!!

[tricodekus]

eat, and grow stronger.

[dodofoge]

"Transcending classrooms is just regular hater behavior" -Tsulishima Kei probably

[kenm4vhs]

LOOK AT MY BABIES THEY GROW UP SO MUCH ‼️

[youwerethedefeated]

The amount of times Hinata thinks about Kageyama during the Brazil arc is INSANE... like, dude, you're all the way across the world and everything reminds you of him 😭

[artisticxlly]

Sleepovers; Long-distance version 💤✈️

[hychlorions]

art i drew to say goodbye to the haikyuu manga when it ended back in july 2020 (please don't mind my old username/watermark)

[hylianane]

baby crows

[inevitableinfinity]

oikage vampire au where Oikawa is a vampire and is very tempted to drink Tobio's blood but also wants to feed from him for a while...and then finds out Tobio is anemic.

So, in order to keep him around as a viable source of blood, Oikawa has to make sure he's eating properly and getting enough iron and basically ends up both taking care of and subsequently caring for this stupid little human who somehow keeps forgetting to take his iron supplements.

It's annoying, but Tobio('s blood) is worth it.

[kings-highway]

okay okay okay but possessive-protective Tsukishima in their third year over all friends, not just Yamaguchi anymore. He's too cool. He's aloof. He's a smartass. He hears a rival team talking shit about Hinata's height and goes the fuck OFF on them. Kids start mocking Kageyama and trying to rile him up for his past shit and Tsukishima appears like a wraith to tear them apart. Are Hinata and Kageyama capable of taking care of themselves? honestly, probably. Will that stop Tsukki from literally standing between them and whatever is threatening them? absolutely not. Tsukki doesn't spare kind words for them, he doesnt invite them over and he doesn't call them his friends but the first and and only time a new-to-town bully tries to flip up Yachi's skirt he turns around and punches him so hard he hits the ground. None of them had ever seen him use anything except for his wit and tongue to attack before but when asked about it he just scoffs and rolls his eyes at them and tells them to leave him alone. They all start to understand Yamaguchi a little bit better.

[lanirawhoney]

Do we have an international release date yet!?? Please I'm dying😫🫨😱

[tricodekus]

please teach me how to serve!

[autisticakaashitruther]

All the times I've put the ball up for you... have you ever run into a block? Ever?