#ic: kazuya.
I read a quote once that was something along the lines of 'if I have to write two characters kissing for you to know that they're in love, I have failed as a writer.' This is a sentiment I not only agree wholeheartedly with, but something that came to mind when wanting to do an analysis of Kazuya's character ending and kazjun's relationship.
We get a bit of environmental storytelling with her picture. It's a beautiful photo, clearly posed for, and lovingly encased in an elaborate pure gold frame. The vibes are expensive, luxurious, and meaningful because he clearly cared enough to have it custom-made since it's got the Zaibatsu's logo on it. Behind the picture frame are two porcelain teacups and a teapot, along with Rochefort Tea, Azucena's coffee and that mixed blend of both. That tells us they frequently have tea and coffee together in his office!
On the first question Kazuya is asked, he is immediately dismissive of it. Asking about Jun however not only gets an immediate physical reaction with the curled fist and him filling the room with electricity, but he goes on to make it explicit that she is the only person in the world that he sees as an equal. She stood up to him over 20 years ago and he never forgot it. And, she's just as strong now if not moreso.
When he throws the trophy, that's him giving a demonstration of this. He's showing her off! He knew she would catch it, and likewise Jun knows that he knew she would, which is why she gives that soft little smile. And his tone when he delivers the "tsuyoi" is... very telling. He not only acknowledges and values her strength but is extremely attracted to it.
There's also the added framing context of this episode, that it's a documentary on him. He just publicly declared to the world that her strength turns him on. Iconic.
It's pretty damn clear that he loves her, not only from all of the above but the fact that he demonstrated it at all in the first place. Kazuya doesn't bother to talk about things he doesn't care about.
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Inada: I just thought of it.
😂😂😂😂😂
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@peachmuses: " no, I think you're wrong. " shuuzou says making himself comfortable as his sits at the table, stealing some of kazuya's drink. it's dinner time and makoto and tatsuya are splitting the food on the table, and he sits, shaking his head, before handing drink back to kazuya, " what is that ? "
kazuya’s looking at his phone / instagram, merely scrolling his feed when he stops to look at comments under one of makoto’s posts. the thing he’d been asking about was concerning one girl that commented, something about if he remembered her / compared to the rest, it stood out. “ some girl. ” he shrugs easily enough, pulling away when makoto moves, tilting his phone so shuuzou can see her account as kazuya clicks on her profile. “ she was asking if mako remembered her. bastard didn’t even reply to her comment. ”
makoto shrugs, putting down final things before taking his seat. “yeah, i don’t have notifications on for instagram, this is the first i’m hearing about it. ”
“ it was three days ago. ”
“ and i don’t get on instagram that often, what do you want from me? i don’t remember her. ”
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Summer Sentence Starters
@minban asked: “Want some ice cream?” (from mei, for kazuya)
❛ Oh, Mei— you got one for me, too? Thanks! ❜ Lips curl upwards into a smile at the sight of his boyfriend and a hand reaches out for the offered ice cream; slightly surprised at the fact that it’s his favorite flavor, yet grateful such a small detail was remembered, despite only being briefly mentioned in passing. Digits work around it to open the packet, while his gaze turns to rest on Mei’s visage. ❛ How’re you holding up? You've pitched almost an entire game today in this abnormal heat, so I’ve been pretty worried about you. Tell me if there’s anything I can do for you, alright? ❜ The concern and overture are honest, and Kazuya decides against masking them with any kind of sarcasm or teasing grin; instead waiting a couple more moments for his pitcher’s answer — his hand reaching out again; this once however to gently brush his knuckles against the other’s face, effectively cleaning the few bits of cream present there; before continuing on a related subject.
❛ The coach called me to talk about the match, sorry I didn’t get to you right then; I just got out of his office a few minutes ago. ❜ It's the truth, and his head still throbs a little from the input every catcher on their professional team has had to give; himself included. Taking a bite out of the ice cream however, his grin only grows larger at the remembrance of certain parts of his conversation with their coach. ❛ You know, the coach’s been complimenting you a lot lately. Just a bit more and he might even make you our ace, even though you’re still a first year. Well, not that I’d be surprised about it in the least. ❜
The compliment slides off his tongue with ease (which he wholeheartedly believes in, for there are only a few pitchers in the world that he could classify as being ‘better’ than Mei at this point in time) and there’s a brief silence in which he attempts to finish his ice cream before it melts; instants in which he remembers a small detail about their upcoming break. Lips part anew to casually inform his special other of it, before halting for just a split second (tossing aside his initial hesitations); and suggests a date with his southpaw. ❛ Speaking of baseball, there’s apparently a festival right around the corner, so we’re going to get a few free days because of it next week. —Want to go check it out with me? ❜
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@isolov | continued if you want to~
"Oho? Is the captain a mind reader now? Is this the talent of a true leader?!" He's always loud; that will never change so long as he breathes. But now he's loud with a purpose. "It's always better to ensure you're heard and dispel any doubt! You should try it some time, Cap!"
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I know I kin a character when I get so mad at them and would love to fight them in a denny's parking lot.
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❝ On one hand, I'm glad Devil is trying to change. On another, I know he would've never if it hadn't been for a Kazama's intervention. ❞
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he would hit that cake.
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@peachmuses said: nhhh are all out and about. partly because tatsuya follows niji, and niji wanted to hang out with hana and hara just happened to be there. " you know," shuu starts to say after he swallows his drink, "im the only one without an h name out of us. that's fucked." tatsuya snorts, hits shuus foot with his own, "poor baby, sticking out like a sore thumb."
“ tragic. ” makoto speaks without a care in the world, gaze gleefully dancing from shuu to street. this is because he brought it up about a week ago, he’s sure of it. hey, you ever notice something about our names? it’s only taken it this long for shuu to notice. good for him.
kazuya’s halfway out of the booth when it comes up. he’d been sitting beside tatsuya / shuu and makoto were be one another. tatsu and shuu are playing footsies or some shit and he’s about out. he’s rolling hidden eyes, hand pressing against wooden table as he lets himself up. “ ever think about changing it? ”
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❝ Imagine talkin’ about your feelings. Couldn’t be me! ❞
Someone please shake him.
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SENT FROM @stingslikeabee ―
( from here / accepting )
(comfort) : one muse has been having nightmares and unable to sleep, so asks the other to cuddle with them to help them drift off - but with a twist! For whatever reason, Mel is the one having the nightmare :)
★. ―
Daigo sighed as he shuffled through the papers he had left on the table the night prior. It was quiet in her apartment : the lights were off and the world was still. The former Chairman glanced up at the clock and frowned. 4:04 a.m. A little early for him to be up for his usual run but not by much. Perhaps, he could get a longer one in today.
The ex-yakuza’s eyes drifted back toward the hallway of the living space. Between the two of them, he wasn’t sure who was sleeping worse lately. His head was a mess. Being away from her these last three years had undone all the small accomplishments they achieved toward resolving his night terrors. The stress of current circumstances wasn’t helping, either. Thankfully, it was good stress at least, if there was such a thing; he was merely re-adjusting to a new world.
Melissa, it seemed, had started to develop nightmares of her own. His heart ached for her. He couldn’t imagine having been in her shoes for that time, and a familiar pang of guilt nestled into his heart. Daigo hadn’t known, but that didn’t make him feel for her any less. Even on the most difficult days, Melissa had always believed that Daigo would come back to her. Now that he was here, she couldn’t help the fear that trickled into her thoughts when she laid down to rest. She clutched onto him at night, eyelids fluttering and fingers curling into his skin. Glad for him, certainly, but afraid that she would wake up to find his place in the bed empty again. That was the reasoning she gave him in the mornings when she smiled up at him tiredly, head on his chest ; deep down, though, Daigo suspected there was more.
Becoming a new mother and single parent in Daigo’s absence had been hard — harder than she would ever admit to him. He wouldn’t challenge Melissa on it, but he didn’t believe these nightmares were only triggered by his coming back. They started before, he suspected.
Daigo pulled down a glass and poured himself an iced tea while he indulged in his early morning contemplation. It was the sort of green leaf that he liked, complete with extra sugar. Melissa hadn’t changed the recipe while he was gone. It was as if it was waiting for him. Just like the shirts he left in a drawer, occasionally washed and folded to prevent them from smelling musty, and the little trinkets handled like relics. An extra phone charger curled up on her nightstand. A few colorful advertisements he left on the refrigerator for places he liked to eat. While Daigo hadn’t formally moved in with his girlfriend before he departed, they had dated long enough for those impressions to make it into her living space.
As Daigo put the pitcher of tea back inside the fridge, his fingertips brushed by a container of fruit. The diced items were cut incredibly small — not for his mouth or Melissa’s, but their son’s. A bright - eyed and gentle little boy with his father’s eyes. HIS EYES. Daigo shut the door abruptly and took a steadying breath.
“Anata?” Melissa’s voice was quiet.
Daigo turned toward her. He could see the extra shine to her honey irises from where he stood. The former Chairman opened his arms at once. His guess was correct, and Melissa stepped into them gratefully. All he could see was the top of her chestnut - colored locks as she buried her face into his bare torso. Large hands lowered to rub soothing circles into her back.
“I know you normally go out soon,” Melissa said, muffled. It was Saturday, as well, so there was a chance he would path through Kamurocho at his leisure and spend longer beyond her reach. That was how his schedule worked, and she suspected it still was the same. “ — but would you come back to bed until then? I . . . ”
She didn’t need to finish. Daigo gripped her tighter and kissed her hair. How often had she comforted him before? Helped him find some stable ground that he could eventually drift away from? “Of course,” the ex - yakuza breathed. As Melissa gradually calmed and rotated to his side, they began to walk to her bedroom. Daigo kept a limb around her firmly. It was the best he could do to remind her that he was there, that they were together.
Back at Melissa’s bed, the former Chairman climbed in first. He lifted the blankets for her as his girlfriend slid in next to him. Melissa opted to curl up against her love with her cheek on his chest. Atop his heart and the old web of surgical scars that covered it. Daigo pressed his lips to her forehead. Curious, he looked at the baby monitor on the nightstand. Only eight days had passed since he met his son, but Daigo’s instincts were already sharper in regards to the boy than he realized. Melissa smiled fondly.
“He won’t fuss,” she murmured. “Kazu - kun sleeps until 6 usually.”
Daigo frowned thoughtfully. His coarse digits stroked her side under the covers. “I'm amazed at how easy he is,” he confessed. “I thought children were supposed to keep you up all hours of the night.”
Melissa’s grasp curled around Daigo’s chest and laid near his hip. “He’s always been that way, sweetheart,” she answered. “I’ve never met such a peaceful child. Even when he would cry as a baby, it was so soft.”
The ex - yakuza’s features returned to Melissa. He gazed at what he could see of her with an open, loving look. Daigo’s free hand came to rest on top of hers. “I’m going to stay here this morning,” he whispered eventually. It was difficult to tell if Melissa was already asleep ; the slow pace of her breathing suggested she wouldn’t hear anything Daigo said. Nevertheless, he said it : an assurance to the bit of technology that showed their son if nothing else. “I want to wake up with both of you . . . AS A FAMILY. ”
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@peachmuses: shuuzou's sitting next to kazuya this time - for some reason tatsuya wanted to sit next to makoto, but they aren't even back at the house yet, having left to go get food orders. shuuzou leans back on one arm, head tilted slightly to study kazuya. spare hand comes up to gently grab at spare hair at the others nape of neck, letting fingertips brush gently against skin. " your hair is getting longer, zu " he muses quietly, eyes trained on neck. " are you letting it grow out ? "
kazuya flinches when fingers touch nape / shuuzou pulls away and kazuya turns his head, hand making way for neck and he threads fingers through the very hair shuuzou had reached for. " oh-- " he breathes out, admirably startled, proceeding to grin sheepishly as fingers come down to rub the back of his neck. " sorry, i just... " he doesn't know, actually, resulting in the way voice trails off. after a moment, he shrugs, hand falling. " not really, i just haven't gotten around to cutting it. why, does it look bad? "
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A really long, but categorized, ask meme.
↪ QUOTES - ARGUMENTS/ROWS/QUARRELS EDITION
@minban asked: “You know I’m right! I’m always right!” (Mei to Kazuya)
Hues gaze at his heated boyfriend while the other’s (not uncommon) yelling reverberates thorough the room and hits Kazuya’s ears at full force, but he keeps his thoughts to himself in order not to inflame his ace’s irritation (which is by no means an easy feat, even for their nth fight); instead pondering on the possible statements that’d pacify the pitcher while still staying true to himself. The other’s antics and plain out bratty behavior are shut out to the best of his ability while his sight trails to a place between Mei’s legs and the floor, and he tries to remember the actual reason behind their fight, which as always stems from an insignificant topic, a passing opinion worded wrong or at a bad time, and Kazuya finds it doesn’t help him in his present endeavor whatsoever.
That’s when he subconsciously sighs, and he feels plain out exhausted, from school, from training, from Mei, from an accumulation of people and situations. He wants no more of this; wants to make up with his lover already and take his mind off all the stress in his life, so once more he’s ready to cave in, to accept the blonde’s arguments as right and seemingly forget this fight has ever happened, like many before it.
Therefore lips part and he proceeds with that plan of action, hues focusing again and making their way back onto his boyfriend’s face. ❛ Mei— ❜ The next word sits ready on his tongue, and he almost lets it out in the open when the other’s newest declaration settles in, and Kazuya’s for once too taken aback to say any retort, to do anything but stare at Mei in silence with widened eyes for a few full seconds, attempting to understand the ‘argument’ the ace just threw at him.
After another moment of utter silence, this time from both parties involved, Kazuya regains his outward composure and instead of his previous expression, an unreadable one takes over his visage, brown hues revealing nothing but the change in his inner switch. He repeats the other’s sentences over in his head and feels the anger rise in his stomach, an ugly feeling that burns cold, and for the first time he wonders if Mei’s ever realized the reason why others, why Kazuya out of all people, tend to end their arguments with Mei’s win, why he’s always the one to apologize after days of not speaking to each other, when he still believes he’s in the right, and does so even after their dispute has been “properly settled”.
❛ …Yeah, you’re always right, Mei. ❜ Kazuya’s tonality is no longer mellow, no longer soft, no longer the one Mei’s so used to hearing at the end of arguments or when Kazuya wants to stop the fights midway through. It’s piercing and harsh, detached from the situation and inadvertently intimidating; a tone he rarely ever uses, a tone he’s rarely pushed to use, one he most often tries to hide behind his usual, cheerful behavior and generally forgiving personality.
He has the option to snap back, to say what he knows would definitely hurt Mei and it’d be the truth nevertheless, to say what would make his lover cry for hours after he’s already left the room and what he’d think about days, months or years after the fact; but he doesn’t. He doesn’t want to hurt Mei if he can help it, and he’s aware that once he starts a retort he will not be able to stop himself from finishing it, from regretting it once he sees his lover’s heartbroken face at the end of his speech. So he swallows it down and instead puts his most genuine thought into actual words, and means it in any way Mei could ever take it. ❛ And frankly speaking, I’m getting really tired of it. ❜
He realizes to the other it could sound like a prequel to a break-up, but he doesn’t specify any more than the words he utters right then and there. He’s known Mei for long enough to be conscious of the fact that the pitcher would overanalyze a pressing sentence such as this and try to grasp the meaning behind every word, try to understand what he did so wrong now that Kazuya might possibly want to break up with him when he’s never done anything even remotely similar before, in the more serious fights nor for the more serious topics of discussion.
It’s the best Kazuya can manage without his irritation overflowing into hurtful statements though, and he’s too tired, too irascible at the moment to keep the conversation going, to outright explain to Mei what he did wrong, and truthfully he’d rather the other figure it out himself as well. He’s positive Mei will mull it over, and will either come to the realization himself, with the help of his friends or not, or will approach Kazuya for an explanation once they’re both calmer, both in a better state of mind, and he opts for that.
Kazuya looks at Mei once more, but it lasts for a mere split second before he turns towards the door, muttering at least enough to let Mei know that he’s not breaking up with him right now, that he simply needs an interval of peace, a disruption of whatever had taken place between them moments prior. ❛ I’ll be in my room if you need me. ❜ And with that, he makes his way upstairs to attempt to cool his head and, albeit he knows it’s nearly impossible after what has just transpired - after all the thoughts Mei’s left him with and he’s left Mei with, to try and de-stress.
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