#sasara who wants to gather to make them laugh

[akkivee]

jyushi’s council of monsters!!!!

these monsters are actually all tengu!!! these tengu in particular are said to have fought for minamoto no yoshitsune, a very famous samurai known for his victories that unified japan at one point. the tengu here granted minamoto no yoshitsune the skills and knowledge to defeat benkei, an equally famous warrior monk, who swore his allegiance to minamoto no yoshitsune thereafter his loss. here’s the art of the battle!!!

from left to right in jyushi’s council of tengu, we have saburo of iizuka mountain, sagamibo of shiramine, sojobo of mount kurama, and hokibo of mount daisen.

these tengu reside in different regions of japan, likely to symbolise what this samurai has helped accomplish, and it’s interesting we have jyushi depicted here as said leader who had brought japan together 👀

[jacksgender]

Samatoki birthday headcanons

[ Fluff / platonic relationships / mention of smoking ]

MCD era:

First of all. Figuring out even the date of his birthday was a challenge for all of them. Samatoki was very secretive about it, wanting to celebrate it with Nemu only. However, Sasara and Nemu tend to be little gossiping buddies and Sasara convinced Nemu to tell him. So now that they got the date, let’s get to planning.

Sasara tells Ichiro, Ichiro tells Kuko. Them and Nemu meet up in secret to plan out their surprise for Samatoki.

On the day of Samatoki’s birthday, Nemu will pretend that no one knows by making the usual birthday breakfast for Samatoki, which consists of a lot of sweet stuff.

Sasara will then pick Samatoki up, which isn’t weird on its own, but it is when Samatoki suspects something as Sasara let’s him refuse to go to their MCD base.

Towards the end of the day, Sasara convinces Samatoki that he now must go with him to the MCD base. Samatoki finds it all too suspicious and asks Sasara:

“Did Nemu tell you?”

Sasara giggled, “Tell me what?” he tilted his head, trying to be as innocent as possible.

Samatoki squinted, “That it’s my birthday.”

Sasara gasped exaggeratingly loud, obviously faking, “It is?! Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I can tell you’re lying.” Samatoki flicked Sasara forehead with two fingers, hoping he’d drop the act.

Sasara shrugged in response, not denying. Samatoki scoffed, fastening his pace and busting open the door of the office before Sasara had a chance to stop him.

Samatoki busted the door open to have three teenagers give a weak “Surprise!” as they weren’t expecting him yet. He looked around the office, noticing the decorations and cake that Nemu and Ichiro were still putting icing on.

“The hell?! Sasara, you should be here at 5!” Kuko complained, tying a knot in the balloon he just filled.

“He-“

“I figured it out. Nemu, I thought we had an agreement?” Samatoki sighed, a small smile peeking through.

Nemu laughed, “The family is expanding. It’s only fair.” she put down the icing and approached her brother, telling everyone to gather around Samatoki for a group hug.

“God fuck y’all are sappy.” Samatoki grunted as he felt four sets of arms wrap around his body, giving a warm embrace.

TDD ERA:

Ichiro knew the date now, of course, but after last year he wasn’t sure if Samatoki was willing to celebrate it with him. Maybe Samatoki would want to go back to only celebrating with Nemu.

Ramuda would really nag Ichiro about telling him when Samatoki’s birthday is, but Ichiro wouldn’t give in. He knew Samatoki wouldn’t like the surprise now considering the situation he’s in.

Eventually, when the day comes around, Ichiro would walk up to Samatoki, give him a hug, which Samatoki is left kind of unresponsive to, as he doesn’t know what to do. “Happy birthday,” Ichiro says, “I wish we could celebrate it with the four of us again soon.” Which really shows how Ichiro hadn’t let go of Kuko and Sasara at all yet in comparison to Samatoki who tried to forget it.

MTC ERA:

Rio makes a cake! He said so in the ARB lines as well. The three of them can eat it together although Samatoki will eat most if it with pleasure knowing the list of ingredients.

Jyuto gives him a classic pack of cigs, telling Samatoki that they can smoke it all up together with a drink on a certain date, all Jyuto’s treat. Although it’s not the most wholesome gift, Jyuto always knows how to read what Samatoki wants most at these moments.