#namashuro besties

[mobblespsycho100]

Me: I am so full of love in my heart. peace and love on planet earth 💌💓💕💞💗💝🩷🫶🥰

Some guy who is wrong: Shuro is a bastard ableist neurotypical asshole who HATES laios (my white autism baby boy baby son not a grown man who is friends with him and communicated and stopped fighting him 🥺🥺🥺) and also cis straight alloromantic/allosexual man

Me (suddenly possessed by the spirit of Namari and her epic dwarf fellow daddy issue haver protective fighting spirit autism) : ... CALL AN AMBULANCE, 🚑🚨🩸 BUT NOT FOR ME 💥💥💥🗡️🔪👊🎒👎🦵💪🥋💣🪃🤯🔫🌋‼️⁉️❗‼️ NO MORE MR. NICE GUY LET'S GO TOSHIRO RELEASE UR INATTENTIVE TYPE ADHD + AUTISM + ANXIETY ASIAN ELDEST SON (DAUGHTER) RAGE RAHHHH 🗣️⚔️🗣️🍜🗣️⚔️🗣️🍜🗣️‼️‼️‼️

[malaierba]

Speaking of Namari and her workwife (platonic, besties) we don't discuss enough what this would mean for their dynamic in a modern setting:

Obviously Ryoko Kui is a Long Hair!Toshiro truther since we also have this comic:

So I can only imagine that Toshiro either lets his hair grow once he's living alone for college OR he somehow managed to grow his hair while living under Maizuru's influence, but at one point in the middle of college she managed to get him to grow it out — way more unlikely, BUT funnier, because like.

Imagine you're Namari. And your dad is an asshole who left you with absurd amounts of debt. One day you're strolling in campus when, fuck, wait, IS THAT MY FUCKING DAD???

So you run up to him and you grab him roughly, you don't even know what you're gonna say — Except you hear "Namari!?" and you blink and... Wait, what the hell, Toshiro?

It's the introvert you adopted, stunned and a bit terrified of you.

And now you both have to cope with the knowledge that he resembles your dad badly enough to be confused with him (the daddy issues / empathy for your besties' daddy issues bcs you have daddy issues of your own go wild here). Toshiro buys a wig, probably.

Or, or, I guess the other option is exactly that ^^^ but that's actually just their first meeting? They don't know each other. Namari just fully manhandled an exchange student that's now petrified and visibly scared of her.

So she tries to make it up by apologising, explaining what happened (no details but Toshiro empathises immediately) and inviting him to grab a beer to make it even, unknowingly changing his life (referencing the fact that Toshiro in the canon verse likes foreign beers which is 100% Namari's fault you can't convince me otherwise).

After that rough start they hit it off quickly and the interaction ends up being the extra little push that Toshiro needed to realize his lifelong dream of letting his hair grow.

Thank you Namari for your service.

EDIT: this stupid little imagine got some art by the super amazing DropOfSoup!!! HERE

[malaierba]

Okonomiyaki trio fans, can we talk about how Toshiro (Green coded) is constructed in such a way that the other two "shonen protag coded" characters would have the easiest time recognising common aspects of themselves in him.

Characters that are foils (they're all foils of eachother) and whose color coding includes Blue (Kabru) and Yellow/Gold (Laios)

Blue and Yellow being chromatically opposites in the colour wheel

With Laios and Kabru being at first glance unlike each other, only for a closer look to reveal they're mirrors

And green, of course, being a mix of yellow + blue

Laios is also red coded but I like this analysis focusing on their eye colours because it's literally just. "Parts of myself that I see in you", yknow?

[malaierba]

Omg #kabro… I’ve been calling it kabushuro all this time. So happy to see another shipper outside of Discord!!

I think Kabushuro is the most used tag! But Kabro sounds cute to me haha (like baby goat in Spanish, I think you saw that post) and I tend to be very, hm, creative? With the tags I use in my blog

Memorable tag > Standard tag in my house, since my memory isn't great and it makes it more fun to me

Also, man, yes. Admittedly since I'm fixating on Toshiro he's bound to be treated like a fandom bicycle by me 🫣 But Laishuro + Kabro + Okonomiyaki (poly) are defiiiinitely my main ships for him like totally. Everything else is turning out to be platonic shipping, which I enjoy just as much but is a bit harder to come across 😔