#shigegou. can’t forget shigegou

[nanayuz]

i miss rivals. calling someone your ‘rival’ these days just means you’re gonna kiss them later

[kohakhearts]

ok yeah i AM thinking about hanahaki again. for the palletshipping fic i wrote i chose orange and yellow zinnias because they represent this idea of absence and missing old friends (each colour has a slightly different meaning and YES each time one colour dominated the other was for a specific symbolic reason related to that)

anyway the flowers by the picture frame in jn whatever (i think they’re forget-me-nots, which definitely are fitting for goh and ash!) but the real satogou flowers are tulips. generally speaking tulips represent “love and passion,” which yeah is kind of generic but you can’t tell me “passion” is not the whole basis of their relationship. anyway but if you get into the specific colours, you have: pink - for friendship, and joyous occasions; the confidence gained from being with a friend who cares for you. white - forgiveness, respect, honour and sincerity, the idea of being “worthy.” others that could be thrown in would be orange (understanding and appreciation) and yellow (desperate love, hope) but i think pink and white are enough to get across how they feel about each other (and especially how goh feels about ash, because i think it makes more sense for him to be afflicted all things considered…but the other way around could be fun too. i’ll chew on that a bit)

the shigegou iteration though. well ok it could be either of them - i’m a firm believer in gary is fully aware of his feelings but goh is picking up on none of that because gary shows his feelings by being a repressive jerk BUT i’m more interested in the implications of goh throwing up flowers for gary and having to confront the fact that oh, these mean something. Damn. so their flower symbol is hydrangeas 100%. frigidity, heartlessness - but also understanding, and gratitude for being understood. the colours could be…any of them honestly, but i like pink (heartfelt emotion and gratitude), purple (the desire to understand someone), and white (boastfulness, grace, purity), which i think could be fitting because fundamentally their dynamic comes down to “seeing the other in the self” - and through understanding how gary operates, goh learns something about himself and is encouraged to improve himself. and also they’re both arrogant assholes but they can learn to keep each other humble, lmao

anyway will i write either fic? probably not unprompted. but perhaps with some nudging if anyone WANTS me to write them i would do it……..[eyes emoji]