#sorry I took so long to respond to this alsfkjdsk it's been busy

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ship bingo. Ken Doi and Aadiv. plus commentary from Doi's adopted son, Sho

OKAY I WAS SO CONFUSED AT FIRST BY WHO AADIV IS BUT NOW. ANON HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE THE BIGGEST GALAXY BRAIN EVER

For those of you who, like me, have absolutely NO memory of Aadiv, it's him!

The guy who runs Crowned Curry!! So OBVIOUSLY I looked at this and said "Hey wait a second...his curry place sure is close to Ken Doi's....am I sensing a rivalry here? 👀" AND THEN THE WIKI DELIVERED

LITERALLY ALREADY DATING

I love this concept so much actually. Slow burn rivals to friends to lovers. Curry dads. On their days off they take Sho out to eat and Aadiv tries to win his affections by plying him with dessert. In the evenings Ken Doi teaches him how to play Tin Pin. They're a family your honor.....

I think Sho would be super resistant to this at first. Aadiv’s a rogue integer in his happy, comfortable home life, and until he can calculate the outcome he ignores him at best and is actively hostile at worst. Literally just going through the motions of the "I don't like the new person my parent is dating because I'm jealous of the attention they get/don't trust that they won't leave and hurt us" cliché but as an 18 year old basically independent adult man. Tragic.

Eventually he grows out of it. He lives at Ken Doi's, but kind of comes and goes and does his own thing, and like a stray cat, every time he comes back, Aadiv senses him warming up to him just a little bit more. Then one day, he starts calling him Pops, too.

Sometimes a family can be the inventor of beyblade, a curry chef, and their rancid little catboy son <3