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I still haven't posted anything about ace x senku (because fuck him), but I'm thinking about how that ship handles our dynamic.

Fundamentally, ace x senku and mikace are the same exact ship. INTP x INTP at our very worst. Competitive and methodical and lofty goals and misunderstandings and over analyzing motivations.

But where mikace becomes very codependent very quickly, even just as friends - ace x senku is forced apart right when we would have become codependent, and have to grow as individuals separately from each other. I think Senku is dead for a good while. Senku has to learn how to work through his blocks without me there to bounce ideas off of.

Which is why Ryusui is an important part of ace x senku. I have to learn to heal from Senku's "betrayals" (yes, plural) and Ryusui provides the love and understanding for me to do that. Ryusui grounds me and shows me a different way of viewing the world. I haven't figured out our break-up yet, but I know that it's going to be amicable and as friends. Ryusui is going to realize that the person I need, now that I've grown and healed, isn't him. And he'll be okay with it because he just wants to see me happy.

Mikace doesn't learn how to exist without each other. We break up every other week. We make our friends pick sides. When we're younger (15/16) we get into cat fights. More than once, we've both ended up with black eyes and sprained wrists or ankles because we thought a sparring match would help solve an argument. We do eventually grow as individuals, but all of our growth happens much too late in the relationship and only after a dozen or so interventions, led by Takemichi.

So yeah, mikace and ace x senku are the same ship, fundamentally. They both bring out the worst in me, and I believe I'd bring out the worst in them (this is also why mikace is exclusively final timeskip). But because of a correctly timed Tsukasa, ace x senku is a much healthier ship (when we get there, eventually; it's pretty toxic for a long while after the empire is dissolved).

#mikace #senkace #i try really hard not to fall into intp x intp ships #i don't put any real stock in mbti #i think it's just fun #but i do see a lot of myself in characters that have been labeled as intp (by fandom)#mikey senku kenma frieren waver ranpo belphie #and i know that if i had to deal with a second me it wouldn't end well for either of us #being friends isn't as bad #i think kenma osamu and i are bffs in daisugace (tanaka definitely isn't jealous)#but you don't necessarily live with friends for more than 50% of your day #and it is absolutely that close proximity to each other that results in 95% of my intp x intp ships being hella toxic #thank you for coming to my ted talk 🫡#now for the tag ramblings that actually go with this post:#i intentionally didn't include the ways mikace changes in #rincemakasuke #because there are a lot of players in the game that eventually get us to a healthy-ish place #rin and ran and shinichiro provide me with a family that i desperately need #keisuke and takashi show me that it's possible to be loved unconditionally #mikey figures out that he's aromantic and that's where 85% of our fights originate #kazutora and i help each other heal from our traumas #chifuyu hakkai and peh always meet me where i'm at with zero expectations #whereas the only 'outside' influence in ace x senku is ryusui #so it didn't feel right to write from rincemakasuke #the growth requires a lot bigger support network and is therefore a bit more extrinsic vs intrinsic #jeez i hope all these tags save 😭#divider from cafekitsune

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