#stsg is the winner no question; sanegiyuu just has the POTENTIAL for future developments that will never be canon

[hijinks-n-lowjinks]

Okay choose between SatoSugu and SaneGiyuu >:)

Oh, satosugu EASILY.

Sanegiyuu is a fanon ship that has very little basis in the canon text, but satosugu has far more canon intricacies and lore! Their relationship is so complex and filled with love, betrayal, and loyalty that it's probably one of my favorite fictional relationships of all time. They're friends before they're anything else, which is a dynamic that I LOVE in romantic relationships, and it makes their ending so much more tragic because of it. They're everything to each other but even that love wasn't enough to keep them together.

Sanegiyuu on the other hand... that's been a more recent interest of mine. I really like couples that are exact opposites of each other on paper so Giyuu's quiet elegance paired with Sanemi's loud, obnoxious rage was perfect to draw me in. And I really do think they'd be good for each other as well! Especially in a post canon situation, I think they'd balance each other out.

My big problem is Sanemi. He fucking sucks y'all. He's a bastard that treats so many characters so badly. Yes, he secretly cares but that doesn't make up for his treatment of them! His "good intentions" don't mean shit when it actively hurts the people he's trying to take care of.

The only time I actively like Sanemi is when he's suffering or weirdly bonding with the other Hashira (usually Obanai even though that's more of an anime only instance). That's why post canon fics of him are my favorite! He's experienced the grief of the canon ending and now has to move on and grow from his mistakes. I think he's extremely interesting as a character but I don't generally like him. That's part of why it's been so fun writing from his perspective because I get to have him acknowledge how shitty he was and try to be better than before.