#look at the love around you ✧ ooc

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// alright! im settling back in, so later this evening and into the week i’ll be working on playing catch up with threads and reaching out to people who liked starter calls! sorry to anyone who liked event calls that were waiting on me!

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// hey hey! just a heads up that until the 20th this month, i’ll be attending a networking event and will rarely, if at all, have time to rp on my blogs! if i do, i’ll be limiting myself to probably just one account at a time and in the late evenings. i’ll still work on dm’ing people who liked any starter calls i posted - especially event ones - but i may just not have a chance to start them until later!! 

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// just posting on this account since this is the one i check the most but if i owe you an event starter on any of my blogs i’ll be getting to them tomorrow & friday before the event ends!!! 

sorry for the delays!

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// apologies for the long delay in replies!! december was a busy month for me but i have much more freetime now, and i’ll be getting to my replies sometime this week!!

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// sorry for anyone waiting for subversion stuff on any of my blogs !! i just got back from a study abroad trip so i’ll be hitting those starters and replies tonight after work !

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// hi guys!!! sorry for all the delays lately, i’m currently taking all of my finals early since i’ll be away for a study abroad trip when i’m supposed to be taking them. i’m planning on getting my replies here and on my other accounts done by the end of next week! sorry if you’ve been waiting for awhile for those.

i’ll also be posting my giant challenge for hifumi here soon if anyone is interested in reading that!

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// aaaand a halloween icon update here too!

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// house time....

i hope people are ready for me to name it something stupid like Champagne Tower or smth

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// hey guys! sorry for all the replies delays on this account and my other ones. i’ve been super busy with work and classes but i’ll catch a bit of a break on tuesday and my schedule will clear up after that!

so look forward to those replies and starters then!

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mtr / fp + spoilers under the cut

im just going to share these pages from the manga and this will be the last of my commentary on the new chapter ooc until we get the translated scans. i just like the way this is framed in terms of hifumi’s memories - since this is likely right after whatever honobono did to him and his family members. 

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// OKAY SO IM HAVING AN ACTUAL MELTDOWN OVER THIS SO. UNDER THE CUT HERE’S SOME CANON UPDATES FOR HIFUMI SPOILERS FOR THE NEW MTR / FP + CHAPTER ( BIG CONTENT WARNING FOR ABUSE TRAUMA + WORKPLACE ABUSE + SEVERE PANIC ATTACKS )

Okay so. I’m going to try and be as calm as possible with his, but a lot of my headcanons were confirmed. 

The first big thing is that my long standing head canon that Hifumi suffers from night terrors relating to his abuse and his abuser were, in fact, confirmed as canon.

Hifumi, at 22, has also worked several jobs and wound up getting fired from all of them due to his gynophobia.

Apparently - Hifumi got his idea about becoming a different person with his suit on from...Doppo! Doppo makes a comment that he got hired to a new job and feels like a brand new person when he puts his suit on, though Hifumi complains that he’s not a child, he can’t do something like that.

Or more accurately...Doppo has Hifumi watch Superman ( which is...canon in HypMic? ) In watching Superman, this line happens. “ "If you put on the suit, anyone can be Superman!" Hifumi says he makes it look easy. ”

A BIG THING FOR HIM IS the words “I’m only on your side” is apparently a trigger phrase for him - something his abuser told him, and something that sends him into hysterics. I will use this from here on out if a character ever says this, or something similar, to him. Additionally, when he’s not wearing his jacket, a woman smiling at him is also a massive trigger.

It’s also noted that Hifumi hyperventilates when he has a panic attack and something that broke my heart was that the woman that triggered him called him disgusting for his behaviors and just walked away.

He didn’t actually start working at Fragrance at 20 - it seems he started working for them at 22 years old instead. 

Hifumi also worked at the company Doppo worked at for a little while, since he was having a hard time keeping a job and Doppo recommended him for an open position! He managed to keep the position for a few months, since he didn’t have to interact with any women in the department, but after those few months a woman tries to speak with him, and he has a panic attack at work.

Doppo helps him and explains to the woman why Hifumi is having a panic attack, and she’s actually polite about it and apologies - but Hifumi says she doesn’t need to apologize because he’s the one with the problem, not her.

Things seem like they can work out for him! The women in the department try to adjust to keep Hifumi comfortable and start going through other male employees if they need something from him. 

But...his boss has a problem with it and starts berating Hifumi in his office and trying to figure out why he has a phobia of women and what traumatized him. He calls Hifumi trash - “which makes sense because he’s friends with Doppo” - and Hifumi agrees that yeah, he’s trash, but how DARE he talk about Doppo that way.

He threatens to fire Hifumi and physically pushes him - but then tells him he’s required to come drinking with the department tonight, as there’s a work party. And it turns out, that drinking party turns into them going to a hostess bar. Their boss is purposefully trying to put Hifumi in a triggering environment. While Doppo tries to stand up for him, Hifumi ends up going after their boss threatens to fire Doppo.

This is where things get...hard, so if you’re triggered by someone being triggered, severe panic attacks, people mocking those things, and someone trying to traumatize someone further - please stop reading here.

In the hostess bar, Hifumi gets isolated from his coworkers and sat between two women. He begins hyperventilating and Doppo tries to go in and save him, but their boss announces to the ENTIRE CLUB that Hifumi has a phobia of women. He’s forced to sit in silence as everyone laughs at him.

One of the women says  "Really? But you're so handsome. What a shame!" and Hifumi screams and begins to retreat into himself. His boss grabs the back of the head of the woman that asked him that and forces her closer to Hifumi, like he’s trying to force them to kiss. The sight of the woman’s mouth causes Hifumi to cover his own, like he’s about to vomit, and he manages to stand up and sprint into the club’s restroom. 

Everyone except his boss, who’s laughing, has the decency to look concerned, and Doppo actually trails after Hifumi, who’s vomiting into one of the bathroom sinks. He goes back to their boss, who asks Doppo if he’s going to take Hifumi’s punishment of being fired...

AND DOPPO PUNCHES THEIR BOSS SO HARD HE KNOCKS HIM OUT OF HIS SEAT.

Doppo then says “He's working his ass off to overcome this, and then you have the god damn nerve to laugh at him! You think I'd ever work for anyone like you, you son of a bitch? No! I quit!” and he grabs Hifumi, both of them leaving the club.

Hifumi apologizes to Doppo as the leave, for costing him a job he was so excited about, but Doppo reassures him that they’re best friends - he’s not going to work for someone like that. 

Hifumi vows he’s going to change for Doppo’s sake, and puts on his suit for the first time. He’s not someone who uses orecchi, but someone who uses boku. Not someone who’s afraid of women, but will give them the most exciting time of their life, just for one night.

Doppo is panicking over the loss of his job, being unable to afford rent, and Hifumi just started working at a host club with this new personality of his - so they decide to be roommates. They both vow to become the top in their field, so they can take care of each other financially so the other never has to worry again.

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// i got my laptop back early!! i’ll be hitting starters / replies on all of my accounts today!

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// alright! i figured it’d be best to make a post rq - but apologies to anyone waiting for replies / starters on any of my accounts! i have to get my laptop serviced and i have to send it in to apple for repairs because of that, so i’ll be without it for at least a business week starting today. 

i might try to do some mobile interactions but generally, i’ll probably be absent until my laptop gets fixed. sorry!

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// GOD I JUST SAW THE NEW CHAPTER AND I HATE HIM HE JUST RAN OVER A CHILD TO DO THIS. fruit.

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// sorry for the outfit i legally have to put hifumi in for the event’s fancy outfits because i have to use this at least once 

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// Okay I have to ramble about it here too but I feel insane about the fact that ARB’s latest event confirmed that yes, Hifumi is too good for this world.

They basically said that, despite Hifumi being the number one host and host clubs being expensive as is, with his own prices being higher, that he never makes any of his customers pay more than what they can afford...and what they can’t, he pays himself.

This man is straight up keeping his clients from being indebted and from his workplace falling into debt with his own money. 

There’s also what Dawn of Divisions confirmed in Chapter 2, which was before Kujaku Posse stopped it...Fragrance used to pay dues and was in debt to a Yakuza group working out of Kabukicho. 

Given that Hifumi is pouring so much of his own money into keeping his clients and his business out of debt too...I wonder how much he was helping his boss with paying off the Yakuza debts too.

Ofc ARB isn’t technically canon but I like to pull the occasional piece of trivia out of it and this is definitely one that I enjoy and that feels very in character for Hifumi to do.

He’s just........too nice. I could keep going about that but I just wanted to ramble about how he’s nice and uses his own earnings to help his customers. Even if he has to use a false personality to interact with them, it’s so evident of how much he genuinely cares for them, even with that barricade in the way.