#them; and since they’re his parent it feels like rejection snd it makes him angry! they are meant to be his home! they should love all of

[ironharvests]

headcanon: shizuma + home.

you know that phrase “don’t make places out of people”? yeah, shizuma is the opposite of that.

home is people, and, like everything else about shizuma, this belief manifests viscerally. when you love someone, you let them carve a home in your heart. it’s ugly, and violent, and messy, and euphoric, and intimate in a way you won’t find anywhere else. ( he fundamentally believes you can identify true love by how much you’re willing to sacrifice, suffer, and bleed for it, but that’s another headcanon for another time. ) home is other people. it’s codependency, messiness, obligation, manipulation, and enough love to choke on. home is a shared space, a battleground, a constant give and take. he believes that when he’s with someone he loves, with his soulmate(s), it won’t matter if he has nothing to his name, because everything he needs is in that person. obviously it isn’t a perfect relationship by any means, and it’s definitely unhealthy and a product of his insecurity and maladaptive coping mechanisms, but it would be a lie to say his love isn’t real. it’s real. it’s just also really bad for you in the long term, probably, which is why his ideal long term partner thus far has been buntan @bredfaith; they are equally problematic and it works for them.

as for his physical home, shizuma moved out of the mizukage’s home when he was around sixteen and into a cheap apartment in the poorer district of kirigakure with several of the new seven. like any real cult of personality leader, he needs to remain in close proximity to his flock to maintain his control over them, so it was in his best interest to get them all under one roof. i’m sure they don’t all live with him though — but not for lack of trying.