#the ssmy guidebook is out

[ello0u0]

SASAKI TO MIYANO: CHARACTER REF SHEETS

[aranarumei]

How do we feel about the sempai trio? (Or the multiple versions if them, depending on who you ask it either entails Hirano, Sasaki and Ogasawara or Hirano, Sasaki and Hanzawa)

[ask me about any two ssmy charas and i'll give my thoughts on their dynamic, real or imagined]

fascinating because I’ve never thought of a “senpai trio” before. but sure. the fearsome foursome! (bc they're all "not-bad boys" lol) really love that all of them have piercings. that is kind of a good name though. anyways what’s fun about them is that like. they’re not a foursome bc they’re friends. it’s just bc they’re. the senpais that miyano knows. that’s all.

like… to me, hanzawa and sasaki aren’t friends. I’m pretty sure hanzawa literally refers to him as “a classmate I didn’t feel poorly towards” which is hilarious to me. but also it makes sense! literally what interactions does he have with sasaki. I think the guy asks him once if its normal to do a lap pillow with your roommate. so like, they’re fine with each other, but they don’t hang out. sasaki’s got ogasawara as a dear friend of his, and then he’s weird about being friends with hirano (in the second years light novel he calls hirano his friend and then freaks out about it) and both of those things are really enjoyable to me. I think ogasawara’s definitely the guy he actively hangs out with most, whereas sasaki and hirano don’t really hang out like… outside of school? which might be why he feels a bit weird about calling him a friend. also because of other stuff that I won’t go into.

on hanzawa’s end, I like to think he’s familiar with ogasawara but they’re not really Friends friends. well actually I have complicated thoughts about this bc of the theory that hanzawa and ogasawara’s older brothers are dating. there’s also this bit in the guidebook where ogasawara like. guesses at hanzawa’s feelings really well, which speaks to a sort of… casual awareness. and then hanzawa asks him to attend his college, which is like, that’s not casual! and ogasawara’s the one who talks to miyano about how crazy busy he is… that’s why the word I use is familiarity. I wouldn’t say ogasawara Understands Hanzawa Well or anything but there is some sense of knowing, to me. hirano’s definitely friends with hanzawa. same club, same college, even told him about getting called maa-kun when hirano went to him for roommate advice. an understated friendship imo. I feel like… they don’t necessarily understand each other particularly well? but they find each reliable and easy to talk to.

as for ogasawara and hirano, I think they’re both “sasaki’s friend” to each other. no real dislike or tension brewing between any of them, but I think it’s neat how they congregate in a sort of group without necessarily being equally close with everyone. but just by spending time together, I’m sure they’re all some degree of close. Just mundane things like knowing how ogasawara did on exams, or that sasaki’s great at math, or that hirano wakes up his roommate… the kind of things you can’t help but learn. they’ll hang out together as a group on a school trip, but they wouldn’t Define themselves as a specific group, yknow?

[ice-coffee-drinker]

WHAT THE FAWK ITS OUT?!?!?!

SASAKI TO MIYANO: CHARACTER REF SHEETS