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fiendishartist2 · 1 year

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guilty of your innocence– mp100

“It’s very nice to finally meet you, Ms. Serizawa!”

The man on her doorstep was holding out a very sweaty hand. When she took it, she was treated to the clammiest handshake she had ever experienced.

Her boy– lovely, sweet, naive Katsuya– was smiling at her, eyes wide and imploring. Despite the grin pulling at his lips, his hands were shaking where they were clasped in front of his chest. Poor Katsuya looked like he was on the brink of collapse. The nervous tilt of his eyebrows were screaming at her to accept the man.

She didn’t know whether to spare his feelings or tell the truth.

Katsuya had called her earlier in the day, asking if she was free for a visit after work. For her son, she would always be free, she told him– but she accepted anyway. Despite their previously strained relationship, Katsuya was one of her favourite people. She loved when he swung by her residential area, coming for lunch or dinner whenever he made time in his busy schedule.

He told her he had a surprise for her– someone he wanted her to meet. She was ecstatic, of course; still overwhelmingly proud of her son for getting out into the world. And now, he was meeting people and making friends! She baked snacks with vigour, fueled by the need to impress whoever their guest would be.

Now she wished she hadn’t broken her back over those little cakes.

The man Katsuya presented her with was incredibly underwhelming– if not downright concerning. He spoke with a certain degree of smarminess, like he was trying to sell her something. His smile glinted– sharp and intelligent, but much too disarming. The man’s arms pinwheeled around as he spoke at a mile a minute; the lack of self-awareness was another red-flag raised with the others. Adding to his persona, the man’s hair was an unnatural shade of blond, the colour of box bleach done in the middle of the night in a cramped bathroom. On his strung-out frame, he wore an oversized– yet puzzlingly too-small– suit. It crinkled, thin fabric bunching up around his waist and shoulders. The pant legs didn’t quite reach his ankles, revealing unprofessional magenta socks. He was trying to distract her with his big, showy smiles and empty niceties– and she was already suspicious.

With narrowed eyes, she sized him up. She instilled as much distrust into her glare as her 5’3” stature could manage. Judging by the beads of sweat gathering under his bangs, the man was rightfully intimidated.

Katsuya led them into the house, passing by his mother to plant the man in her living room. He left him alone with a squeeze of his shoulder. The man looked like he was trying desperately to not throw up on her carpet. He smiled around his clear nausea– she wanted to laugh at the way his face was nearly green, like a cartoon character, but alarms were going off in her ears. She didn't like this disingenuous man who had swept up her Katsuya at all.

As Katsuya puttered around the kitchen, collecting mugs and tea bags as he set water boiling in the kettle with his powers, she sat on the armchair opposite the man, cornering him.

She levelled him with another icy look, crossing her arms. The man straightened, steeling himself like he was getting ready for an argument.

"Who are you?" She asked bluntly. He barely faltered, crossing his legs and leaning in. He still had that sickly-sweet customer service smile plastered on his face.

"Reigen Arataka," he stopped, like he was about to continue that sentence, but decided against it at the last minute. Pink dusted his cheeks and he cleared his throat, "I'm Katsuya's… business partner. It's nice to meet you Ms…?" He reiterated. She didn't return the sentiment.

She hummed, brushing him off, "And how do you know my son?"

Clanging sounded from the kitchen, causing her to startle– Katsuya must have dropped something. Concern flashed across Reigen's face as he peered into the kitchen, eyebrows drawn in a look that conveyed worry where she expected fear. It had been a long time since the sound of something hitting the floor in her home was cause for light concern instead of anxiety. Reigen relaxed when a bright "I'm okay!" floated in from the kitchen.

"Well, that's actually a funny story," he started, uncrossing and crossing his legs again the opposite way. It was like he couldn't stop moving, "Katsuya and I actually met at his old uh– 'job'."

Her heart stopped beating.

The last time a man in a suit with a fake smile and hollow words took her Katsuya, she lost him for three years. To hear that they met through the abusive man her son had just barely escaped from was a punch to the gut.

Already, Reigen was trying to explain himself. His hands flailed around like restless hummingbirds and if she hadn't been lost in her own fear and anger, she would want to bat them away.

"Not- I mean, it was after his old boss was arrested and- and I am not part of Claw or anything like that-!" He swiped a sweaty hand across his sweaty face, laughing shrilly, "You see, my kids– well, they're not really my kids but- but anyways!"

Was Katsuya in a bad place again?

It seemed like he was getting better– he had his own apartment that he paid for with his own money. She thought he had a real job, since he earned a consistent wage and spoke highly of his new boss– even quite affectionately at times. Katsuya went to school, he had friends; he was finally experiencing the world in a way she never thought possible. Nothing like the closed off, frightened boy she had known his whole life.

But, had he just been passed from one controlling force to another? Did she fail to see her son was struggling again?

Katsuya returned from the kitchen. His bubbly presence cut off Reigen's flustered ramblings, attention drawn solely to him. In his hands, Katsuya carried two steaming mugs of tea; behind him, a third cup bobbed lazily in the air, suspended in a shimmering cloud of magenta and black. She tried not to stare at the obvious and carefree display of psychic powers– but after so many years of it being just a depressing background hum in her home, it was still surprising to see it expressed so openly.

He handed them each a mug, sitting next to Reigen and letting his own settle gracefully into his cupped hands.

"Watch out, it's still hot," he murmured, earning an unimpressed pout from Reigen. Katsuya giggled into his tea and she nearly choked on her own– it had to have been years since she heard him sound so happy.

"So, what were you guys talking about?" Katsuya asked innocently. Reigen winced, turning away and rubbing the back of his neck.

"Just- ah… how we met." He confessed sullenly. In the tense silence, Reigen sipped his tea at an obnoxious volume. He set it down seconds later with a yelp.

Katsuya pursed his lips, carefully avoiding eye contact with his mother.

"Oh."

She cut in with a stern tone, "Katsuya," worry settled just under her words, "I thought you were done with that whole organisation. Are you…" She cleared her throat, but her voice still came out as nothing more than a whisper, "Do you need help, sweetheart?"

Her son looked absolutely stricken.

"Wh- Mama, what do you mean? Of course I'm not part of Claw anymore. I told you, they disbanded," his hands hugged his cup tighter as they started trembling, "A-and… um, I like where I am now."

His free hand wrapped around Reigen's arm, wrinkling the cheap fabric. A blotchy red blush spread across Reigen's entire face– just the sight of it gave her second hand embarrassment. Then her son's words caught up with her.

This is the man her son chose? This annoying, two-faced, car-salesman-esque man? A man who had power over him as his boss– and wasn't that just like his old 'employer'? Wasn't Suzuki just another person with too much control over her Katsuya– her poor son who would flock to anyone who could point him in the direction of normalcy–

Beeping filled the air; her cakes were done in the oven.

She set her mug down harshly. Tea splashed over the edges, staining her nearly spotless coffee table.

Ms. Serizawa stomped into her kitchen, breathing angrily through the tightness in her chest. Her heart spasmed with each intake, sending her head spinning. She propped herself up against the counter.

She balled her fists at her sides; her shoulders hunched as she squeezed her eyes shut. The tightness in her chest spread to her throat.

She failed again. Katsuya was going to be taken away from her again and it would be her fault for not noticing again. What was wrong with her? How could she be such a horrible mother? Was she just that negligent that he felt like he couldn't come to her for help? Was she not reaching out enough? It had to be her– there had to be a reason that her Katsuya kept falling into the hands of so many controlling men– it was a clear pattern and all signs pointed to her failure as a parent.

Soft footsteps shuffled up to her. He held his breath in anticipation, but didn't try to start the conversation.

"Why?" She mumbled, voice strangled. Katsuya sighed, shuffling closer to her side. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted him lift his arm– as if he was going to snake it around her shoulders– and then let it drop as he averted his eyes.

"Is it me?" She asked, again with no explanation, "Am I a bad mother, Katsuya?"

He startled, looking up from his feet to stare at her in disbelief.

"What? Why would you say that, of course you're- what makes you think that?" He stumbled over his words but she could see the genuine worry on his face. She could have laughed at how relieved that made her. Katsuya believed in everyone in his life, despite the ways he had been burned by that same trust. Whether anyone actually deserved that earnest support, though, was something she often doubted.

The green number on the digital display of her oven flashed '0:00' over and over. Every few seconds, it let out a piercing shriek, reminding her that her cakes would be ruined soon if she didn't do something about it. She didn't move turn the oven off.

"I let all of this happen to you and now look!" He tensed, "You're being taken advantage of again-"

"I am not being taken advantage of." The low rumble of his voice made her finally look up at him. Her son's face was set into a disillusioned scowl; eyebrows set low and mouth puckered into a frown.

Some part of her– buried deep down since her son left for Claw– wanted to hide from that angry face. Anger meant powers and powers always meant bad things in her home.

She could never be afraid of her lovely Katsuya, but psychic powers? Her stomach roiled for the first time in a while.

Slowly, his face smoothed back into worry. A wry smile pulled at his lips.

"I'm not as naive as you think I am," he chuckled without any humour, gaze fixed on his hands as he picked at his thumbnail, "Is that what you're worried about?"

She couldn't bring herself answer him. Shame flooded her stomach.

"Reigen is nothing like Suzuki," he continued resolutely. Fondness creased his eyes, "He's helped me become someone I can be proud of. I'm grateful for all of the opportunities he's given me, but…"

Katsuya looked up at her, face sharp with determination.

"But, I'm also helping myself. Reigen is different because– well, because he makes me feel different," she wanted to argue with him, but he steamrolled over her in a way she never would have expected, "I have my own life– I set boundaries and have friends outside of the office. Suzuki…" Katsuya blinked rapidly, face darkening again, "He didn't want me going to school or-or seeing you like I do now. He didn't want me to know anything except what he told me."

"I like when Reigen's proud of me," he admitted, hand finding a perch on his neck as he smiled abashedly, "But I don't need his approval like I needed Suzuki's. I don't need him to make me feel… uhm– feel like I'm worth something."

He stared down at her, eyes glittering with untapped emotion. Hope danced between the gentle tilt of his eyebrows and pooled in the upturned corners of his mouth. All she could do was nod her head in acknowledgement.

He spoke softer now, pressing a light hand on her back, "I can take care of myself now. You don't have to worry so much about me, Mama."

"Yes I do!" She choked out, tears springing to her eyes. He wrapped his arms around her, rubbing her back consolingly.

"Trust me? Please?" He asked, meeker than his grandiose speech, but just as earnest. She shook her head.

"I don't know how to do that…" She admitted into his shoulder, speaking so softly she couldn't be sure he heard her. She didn't know if she wanted him to.

He pulled away and her heart twisted.

"Why not start now?" Another voice joined from the doorway. Reigen waved at her ruefully. Quickly, she dried her damp cheeks on a tea towel.

Katsuya huffed out a content laugh, shaking his head at Reigen's incredibly well-timed (and definitely calculated) entrance. She joined in, a little hysterically, after a while. She shook with the weight of her tumultuous emotions, anchoring herself with a hand on Katsuya's shoulder.

The oven timer beeped again and she jumped out of her skin.

"My cakes!" She shouted, horror wiping away all traces of the sorrow that had made its home in the creases of her face.

Armed with a pair of oven mitts and two men trying to mask their mirth with sympathy, she fished out the mini cakes she spent all afternoon baking.

They were blackened with char.

She ran a hand through her hair, tossing them out swiftly before her guest could get a good look at them. Katsuya rubbed her shoulder, still chucking a little under his breath.

"It's okay, Mama, don't worry about it." He smiled reassuringly.

"Thank you, honey, it's just… I don't have anything else to give you two other than tea."

"Oh!" Reigen dashed out of the room, rustling around the front hall. He came back with a sheepish smile on his face, brandishing a plate of cookies to her.

"They're not perfect, but I wanted to make something for you– and y'know, Teru really needed help with this baking assignment so I thought, why not, right? You don't have to take them, obviously, I made them at like midnight yesterday– and they probably have all kinds of grubby kid germs since Teru couldn't stop tasting the frosting no matter how many times I–"

"God, does this one ever shut up? Give those here." She swiped at her eyes subtly, taking the plate from a dumbstruck Reigen.

Katsuya laughed the hardest she had ever heard him.

#not 100% sure with this one but i think its heartfelt and yknow thats all that matter to me #also not sure if serizawa's mother is consistent but i think she is?? i tried idk #but i do really like the discussion of reigen vs toichiro bc i think the way they seem similar from an outsider's perspective-#-is so interesting #also obligatory serirei lol they're in love always in everything i make <333 #bit of dadgen sprinkled in there too bc i think its both v funny and v sweet how hes adopted these kids who have families already lol #except for teru </3 rip #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #reigen arataka #serizawa katsuya #my fic #idk how to tag serizawa's mom but shes there too #toichiro suzuki #mentioned ig #im not feeling too well tonight but i liked making this and i think i feel a little better now :)#tw abuse #they talk about toichiro a lot so watch out for that #this is NOT shipping toichiro and serizawa tho i want to make that clear. they were not in a relationship in this fic #gn yall <3

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sleepy-shutin · 6 months

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one thing i keep thinking about the more i get out of my isolation and actually start doing things is the fact that i actually like want to have hobbies now. like for fun. before i didn't really do much other than draw, write, watch youtube videos, play video games and scroll through social media. i didn't really do much of anything. now that i have a job and i actually am living my life now, i want to actually have hobbies and it's probably related to wanting to better myself and like get better and move on from the horrible 9 years i spent my life, but like it's genuinely weird to me. i want to have hobbies. i don't always have the energy for them, but i want to do things now. amazing, how having control over your life and doing the things that make you happy and being able to get out of the house like makes you want to be alive and stuff.

like, you know how during covid people started doing things like baking and spending time with their families and all that jazz for like a couple of weeks or months, and then after that everyone started going crazy with isolation and fear and mental health problems? it was like that but stretched over 9 years where at first i wanted to do things, and then i got stuck for several years until towards the end when i was finally allowed to get a job. lol. and even almost 2 years in i still feel like i'm still 'settling' into it, but like i'm getting to the point where i actually want to do things with my life and i want to figure out how to put the things i want to do with my life into my life every once in a while.

and one thing about my insane trauma is that it has made me completely and utterly normal about serizawa katsuya from mob psycho, like jesus christ. there has not been a person normaler about this man than me. i know exactly how he feels about most things and nobody talks about how the isolation affects you and how you become after that many years out of contact with most people and not doing anything. this is the only character that i have ever seen in my entire existence on the internet that has this kind of experience that i also had. having a relatively normal life (don't ask me to define normal), then all of it implodes and suddenly things are different for many years and you don't leave the house or talk to people or do anything. ever. for a long, long time.

and then you come out of it and you're in the same town you grew up in but things are different now and you're a weirdo that nobody remembers because you didn't really leave the house for 9 years, but people at your job are nice to you and treat you mostly normal anyway which is nice.

i don't even know what's gotten into me tonight, i'm just like all over the place and i feel insane and i just feel like publicly journaling about it instead of not journaling about it privately. i haven't journaled about anything properly in months, but it's fine because i'm doing it now i guess.

anyways. tldr, forget reigen. serizawa is my babygirl. i do not have any trauma and i'm very fine and normal.

#journal tag

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tragedicna · 6 months

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the following muses have deep ties with @prerodinu's Tesár family as well as the following muses on my blog ( alora & co , adela & co , bailey hong , kelsey kang , and katsuya maeda ) exist in the same universe as these muses .

AERIN -> a faefolk who's quite gifted with the bow , though not so much on the money front . aerin is a scholarship kid , full ride due to her athletic capabilites as a competitive archer . she's a girl with a bit of disdain towards those with money that flaunt it , aerin gets along pretty well with people .

LANEY -> the teaching assistant for a history course , well-versed in folklore , old languages , and supernatural creatures . . . laney is a talented individual who . . . isn't wholly alive . laney is a GHOST in possession of someone else's body , a deal he struck with the body's previous owner allowed him access and ownership of this body .

THEO -> a charismatic and handsome business major who is rather sociable and amicable with many . the envy of a lot of people , theo is intelligent and knowledgeable about his subject and doesn't seem the type to be into history and mythology . . . but the only reason he associates with the others is because of KINSHIP more than interest . . . why ?? theo is an incubus and he just finds himself to be more at ease around other creatures than that of humans .

ELINA -> a linguistics and philology major who wants to travel the world , elina is a girl with big dreams to traverse the world and see the sights . a polyglot , elina has had a lot of time spent learning new languages but never really a chance to USE them ; a vampire who's never really left the country , she wants nothing more than to spread her wings .

REINA -> a former cheerleader and competitive gymnast , a flexible and talented athlete , reina is tiny but full of impact . . . not someone to be messed with , reina is a werecat and uses this to her benefit , being able to be agile and flexible allows her to perform complex routines easily .

EASON -> a self-proclaimed enigmatologist who enjoys puzzles of all sorts , from simple riddles to jigsaw to cryptograms and stuff . . . a linguistic and mathematics major , eason is a bit of a nerd when it comes to cracking codes or solving complex math problems . . . he's the guy that the intelligence agency should be scared of , but won't ever be rid of because he's a vampire and he's here to stay .

TAIYI -> a food science major with an online business selling baked goods . taiyi is older than any existing humans and perhaps several supernatural creatures . . . taiyi holds a secret that he's carried for a long time , hearing the legends of his mother makes him ache for home . . . taiyi is chang'e's son ; the lady in the moon , or the moon goddess is his mother and having been abducted from home , taiyi has been longing to return back to her .

MARINA -> a professor of a history course , marina is a well-known historian and valued for her vast knowledge of east asian history . . . she often shows knowledge with great understanding , as if she has personally experienced it . and she has . . . marina is a nine-tailed fox , having lived for a LONG time and through various events .

note: nira and mavis are also students in the very same school , and all of the students and laney live within the sharehouse managed by katsuya . all of these kids are of the SAME club that's supervised by marina .

#new muse :)

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batbeato · 8 months

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thinking about what makes me headcanon a character as trans

for example, when I'm in the right mood I'll headcanon Suou Tatsuya Persona 2 as having that t-boy swag but mostly I'm chill with him being cis, meanwhile his boyfriend Jun is always intersex to me and sometimes nonbinary and/or bigender depending on mood. And then his brother Katsuya I sometimes give that t-boy swag to?

it's like... he can't be a feminine man, at most he can have a couple hobbies that are considered feminine (for example, Katsuya bakes). If they're feminine I'll usually slap them with "mostly cis but will take they/them" (Virgilius Umineko)

but if they're 'too far' on the masc spectrum like Ushiromiya Battler, very muscular, than I just can't have a trans headcanon for them unless their source would actually allow them to transition that fully? like, Battler is in the 1980s, if he was trans he would probably not be able to get HRT or top surgery, etc.

it's like... they have to have this specific vibe, not of femininity or something, but of Gender and maybe a tablespoon of feeling inadequate or uncomfortable in their own skin, for them to get a trans HC from me.

(as for female characters I almost never HC them as trans? maybe because I'm AFAB...? I do like headcanons that pitch the idea of transmasc HCs for them though, like for Mion from Higurashi!)

meanwhile. Joker Persona 5 is genderfluid because he slays in every outfit ever, canonically crossdresses, and just gives off the energy of someone who has all the gender and zero fucks. literally all a character needs for me to HC them as genderfluid is to have this energy.

for a character to be intersex. stares into void. I'm more prone to giving this one to AFAB characters, Jun Persona 2 is an exception, the criteria is just that I have to like them, bonus points if they explicitly talk about fertility issues or late periods or something (I love you Kyrie)

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yaffles-world · 2 years

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☕ ☔ 💕 💘 🍗 ~ rebeccaselfships

Hi, thanks for the ask! I answered these about Serizawa Katsuya.

☕ What´s your f/o´s favorite hot drink? Also, what´s yours?

Hot chocolate, both of us :)

☔ What do the two of you like to do on a rainy day?

I like to make special hot chocolate with real melted chocolate :D also, video games. Lots and lots of video games. We will crawl under a blanket on the couch, and just play video games like most of the day (much to Reigen's dismay, but he simply does not get it). Some of our go tos are, in no particular order, Animal Crossing, Minecraft, Kirby, Halo, suoer mario, all that good stuff.

💕 Nights are getting colder too and there´s no better way to stay warm than cuddling up in bed with the person you love. So… what´s your favorite cuddle position/s?

Literally, just, Serizawa lying on his back and I just climb right on top of him :P Or, Serizawa as the little spoon. He feels comforted, and I feel like a baby koala

💘 What are your favorite kind of dates to go on during fall?

Ice skating. Or, it's not really a date I guess, but baking/cooking together hehe.

🍗 Who cooks the Thanksgiving dinner?

Um, I've never done a Thanksgiving, so I'm sorry if I'm "incorrect" in some way but both of us hehe. Serizawa really took a liking to cooking and baking. He certainly didn't have the skill growing up unfortunately but I've always been quite partial as well so I taught him some, and he really went above and beyond. So once we moved in all together with Reigen, it's Serizawa and I who do the cooking, and Reigen does any other chores that need to get done, or perhaps more accurately, acts as a cheer squad, and never fails to say this every single year:

#serizawa my perfect baby #reigen my babygirl #romantic f/o #self ship #f/o ask game #romantic f/o ask game #ask game reblog

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uw-us-stuff · 3 years

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Katsuya Serizawa headcanons

Ex shut-in has entered the chat ☂️

Warnings ⚠️- mention of skin picking.

When he was still a shut-in, he would constantly pick at his fingers whenever he would start to feel anxious. Pretty soon after he'd lose control of his powers. Picking worked for awhile to calm him down, at least for a few minutes. After awhile it just became a habit.

You can not tell me that he was a Toichiro fanboy. He did anything this man asked him, and thought he was the coolest person he has ever met.

When he first joined Claw he tried really hard to make friends. I feel like he tried giving them some sort of gift? He'd be too nervous to give it in person so he would just leave it somewhere where'd they find it.

After joining Reigen and them, he started baking. At first it was an accident, Mob wanted to suprise Ristu with a birthday cake! Reigen was in charge of distancting Ristu and Katsuya offered to bake the cake. Surprisingly, the cake came out amazing! He was really suprised and slowly but surely started to get into baking.

Reigen definitely makes him bake cupcakes so he can sell them to their clients. How else will you exorcise the spirit that possess your food?! These spirit cleanser cupcakes are the only way! For only 25.99

He definitely go on cases with Reigen so Mob doesn't have to. He wants Mob to have as much free time as possible! Plus Reigen doesn't mind as much.

He refuses to use an umbrella. It just reminds him of how things were.

He sometimes writes to Toichiro to see how things are going. He felt really bad for what happened... Hearing that he's reconnecting with his wife and son really made him happy! He wanted to throw him a party but Reigen told him that the "power hungry eyebrow guy" doesn't deserve a free party. So he just called him.

He cuts his own hair! He really likes how short it looks so he keeps it like that.

Before he went back to school because he has no formal education he definitely asked Ristu for some advice on what to do for his first day. He got a bunch of stationery and books, he went a little overboard but he was kind of excited!

Tome definitely makes alien/space jewellery for everyone. Katsuya wears everything she makes for him!

He only wears suits. Whenever he has to go out in public he's wearing a suit.

I feel like he goes to every event Tome, Mob and Ristu have. From sport festival to talent show. He's supporting them all!

His new apartment is spotless. When he was still living with his mother, his room was never really clean. Now he makes sure his place is spotless.

He doesn't really sleep well. Since he's so use to staying up during the night, it's kind of difficult to sleep at night. His eyebags are here to stay.

a/n - I hope you guys enjoyed! Surprisingly this isn't just a haikyuu account I mean... It kind of is but nevermind that!! This is a bit short but I'll start writing more about mp100. Thanks for reading!! <3

#katsuya serizawa #headcanons #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 headcanons #Katsuya Serizawa headcanons

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bluecoloreddreams · 3 years

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Things about this last season of Fruits Basket I’m not jiving with:

The loss of the box and the lid metaphor--the anime dropped that with Yuki, and the emotional parallels and theming's for the series has suffered. Akito’s physical box that she didn’t want to open is no longer as striking, because we’ve lost the ongoing metaphor of each character having a box with the emotions they don’t want to look at/process locked inside. In the manga, this theme continues on with Tohru’s internal monologues, where she’s placed her feelings about her mother and her father’s deaths and the trauma she’s endured because of it. Kyo has one as well, which brings me to:

Kyo remembered Kyoko every second he spent with Tohru, and it destroyed him. The broken promise, her death, and his helplessness is an ongoing thread as he processes his emotions for her and his place in the world. He didn’t repress the memory, he surpressed it, and shoved it into that tightly lidded box. (In ch. 120, he says “I wanted to pretend... to forget everything that happened to me. All I had to do was hate.” not... that he iterally forgot.) In ch. 90, when it really starts weighing on him, it’s shown explicitly that he remembers reaching for Kyoko, and he asks himself if he’s okay pretending that he’s “forgotten”.

Are we just entirely skipping Katsuya????????? He’s in the chapters where Kyo remembers meeting up with Kyoko (ch 90-93) and should have been covered last week/this week.

I get that people don’t like that storyline, for obvious reasons, but it’s intensely important to not only how Tohru was raised, but why she is the way she is. It also highlights how Kyoko herself was raised, why she parented the way that she did, why she was so gentle with Uo-chan, why she treated Kyo with such kindness, and why his last memory of her is so intensely jarring. Just hinting at Kyoko’s depression after his passing is doing Tohru’s intense trauma disservice, and why it’s such A Big Deal that she casts Kyoko’s last words away, and why she’s so hesitant to admit that someone else comes in her heart first. People saving people by teaching them to be human, that their emotions matter even when their current actions are toxic and harmful, because all people suffer and should be treated with basic care and dignity, is such a huge huge huge plot point in Fruits Basket. To do away with one of the largest binding threads in the manga is to lesson the impact that basic care had on the cast. I know that Takaya was very particular about terms in order for this anime to be made after the original anime, so she may have greenlit this change herself, but I still dislike it.

WHERE IS MY MEAT WIFE!? Komaki, while only a side character, is someone I definitely miss because I’m sure she’s cut entirely from the anime despite the setup for her intro being baked into s2. She’s from chapter 112, and it just is a small aside to the fact that the crash that killed Kyoko was not a single-person casualty, and is an alternate look at grief, blame, and loss. It closes the open thread to Kakeru’s original interest in Tohru, and gives Yuki more context to Tohru’s loss. Also: I just think she’s neat.

#Mitkun has a life #fruits basket #furuba #fruits basket spoilers #Is Katsuya problematic? YEAH but I still love him and his storyline is important

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crushforty · 3 years

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persona 2 but modern

because it’s funny to imagine maya being verified on tiktok

social media

all of them except baofu have tiktok. lisa, eikichi jun, maya and ulala probably have instagram or snapchat too,, maybe twitter

tatsuya has a twitter. its completely empty except for a motorcycle compilation video he retweeted in like 2014

he also has a tiktok. he posts videos of him holding his swords and nothing else, doesn’t even use audios or music or even talk, you just hear his breathing

he has thousands of followers because people like swords

jun posts those aesthetic tea making and flower watering videos with pretty music and filters. surprisingly he has a lot of followers! he tries to get tatsuya to make those cottagecore couple vids with him but hes too awkward for it

maya is a huge activist and posts all sorts of lifestyle stuff and occasional videos of ulala boxing which people love. she’s verified with a huge following

katsuya doesnt post anything but he likes watching baking and cat videos. maya taught him how to make posts and stuff and he tries to do those satisfying icing videos

eikichi and lisa make dancing and makeup tiktoks and their instagrams are very much full of the same thing, yet they have less followers combined than tatsuya. who literally just. makes sword videos

baofu claims not to have social media and thinks its stupid but he definitely watches everyone’s content and laughs at them

video games

lisa is totally a console gamer. she thinks the pc gamer set up with multiple monitors and light up keyboard is stupid and makes fun of eikichi for having it.

she definitely plays with tatsuya and eikichi tho. the three of them get really into it

jun, not so much, because he doesnt own any consoles but if you invite him over to play, he does pretty damn good

why? no one knows

maya and ulala share a switch. maya is more of an animal crossing person while ulala will play splatoon for hours and swear at people

katsuya thinks gaming incites violence in children and complains about tatsuya playing them, even tho he doesnt even play that often (“why do you need a playstation AND an xbox?? aren’t they the same thing?”)

baofu once again pretends to think its stupid but he definitely indulges in some online pvp when he feels like it

hobbies

i feel like maya would grow an online shopping addiction.. she sees the most arbitrary things she thinks are cute and orders them and ulala is exhausted by it. maya’s room is full of junk she dug up on random shopping websites

juns intelligence gives him a real gift for pc tech. he would be interested in that sort of thing tbh hes the kid who always has to help the teacher turn on the projector in class

lisa seems like one of those netflix bitches.. somehow she always knows what the latest season of riverdale and outer banks has going on. yknow all the white people shows

she’s seen the office like 4 times

baofu would never leave his computer if he had access to modern day tech. he’d be exactly like futaba

katsuya will see tatsuya on his phone for more than 2 seconds and lecture him about how he grew up with just a flip phone and kids these days need their phones to survive smh this and that

katsuya however is guilty of watching youtube baking tutorials a lot.

a lot.

imagine if eikichi had a digital art program,, he could make little featherman comics

tech

lisa has airpods change my mind

she also always has the latest iphone and puts stickers on the case

maya still has a fucking iphone 4. it works. how ?? who knows

ulala and eikichi seem like they would have android phones and i don’t know why.. apple supremacy but for some reason i get that vibe from them

the suous are apple loyalists. tatsuyas phone has a dozen cracks and scratches, hes dropped in it snow and cereal, and the speakers hardly work, and doesn’t use a case despite katsuyas insistence that he should

jun has a newish iphone model, he has a clear case with little pressed flowers inside

he does also have a reallyyyy nice desktop computer

baofu has a flip phone still, despite also having a really nice computer

eikichi has that nerdy gamer headset with cat ears that light up because he thinks its cool

i cant think of much else i just needed to write this down because imagine p2 kids in 2021

#just. imagine #persona #persona 2 #tatsuya suou #lisa silverman #eikichi mishina #jun kurosu #maya amano #ulala serizawa #katsuya suou #baofu

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alectoperdita · 4 years

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Fictober - Day 20

prompt: “did I ask?” fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters pairing: Jounouchi Katsuya/Kaiba Seto rating: teen warnings: none a/n: a sad attempt to return to writing established relationship fluff

It rarely happened, but Jounouchi loved watching Kaiba fail. Okay, maybe love was a bit too strong a description, but he definitely got way more satisfaction than was normal when Kaiba was unable to perform some mundane task to his usual impeccable standards. It was a nice reminder that for all his wealth and questionable fashion sense, his boyfriend was human at the end of the day.

Cooking proved to be the most consistent source of failures. Kaiba's heavy reliance on the housekeeping staff further atrophied any instinct or skills he could have picked up in the area. If you stuck a saucepan in his hand, his genius brain would pack up and go on an extended vacation.

That wasn't entirely fair to his boyfriend, though. He never made truly rookie mistakes like running the microwave with a fork inside. The several times he'd let the water boil dry and scorched pans was because he'd gotten a work call that lured him away with more interesting problems to solve. It might also help if Kaiba wasn't bent on making the most complicated and finicky shit when he couldn't soft boil an egg correctly.

Because Kaiba was a tenacious bastard and Jounouchi nursed a tiny cruel streak when it came to this kind of stupid bullshit, he couldn't resist throwing out the occasional challenge just to egg the other man a bit. Hell, his phone contained a list of food he'd never bother eating on his own on the off-chance one might finally get Kaiba to throw in the towel.

Jounouchi had no idea what good Beef Wellington tasted like, but he could at least say he'd now eaten the dish. He ate everything Kaiba made because he was a supportive boyfriend at the end of the day. Kaiba always managed to produce some interesting results that were too salty, too bland, too overcooked, or too undercooked. It was never the same kind of failure each time, even if he attempted the same dish.

But Kaiba was improving—minutely and very gradually over the last few months. If he stopped getting fixated on the complicated recipes, he could probably turn out half-decent homecooked fares.

So Jounouchi threw him a curveball, namely some weird American dessert called a baked Alaska.

Taking in the sorry state of Kaiba's usually tidy kitchen, he wondered if he'd finally found Kaiba Seto's Achilles heel. His boyfriend might be a weird and inconsistent cook, but baking had made him into a legitimate disaster in the kitchen. A thin film of flour covered the counter space, the front of Kaiba's black apron, and the surface of his tablet he was trying to brush clear to check the recipe pulled up on the screen.

He'd made it past the first obstacle. The sponge cake came out lumpy and cracked and mostly in one piece, but it was still technically cake.

It wasn't that Kaiba Seto never swore. No, his boyfriend could curse with the best of them and occasionally impressed Jounouchi with his foul mouth. Kaiba could be a powder keg when it came to his emotions even on the best of days.

See, Kaiba reserved his swearing for when he was frustrated—the kind of extreme frustration that had him on the verge of tearing out his soft, brown locks. It was also something very few people other than the ones closest to him ever saw—one of those few privileges that Jounouchi now shared with Mokuba.

Based on the amount of creative and foul swearing coming from the other side of the kitchen counter, the next part was going less swimmingly. Jounouchi slid off his stool and rounded the island to peek inside the stand mixer's bowl. What started life as egg whites and sugar had devolved into a dry and lumpy mixture that reminded Jounouchi of curdled milk.

"I don't think that's what meringue's supposed to look like," he said before opening the internet browser on his phone to double-check.

Yeah, that was definitely not how meringue was supposed to look like.

"Did I ask," Kaiba spat through gritted teeth. "For your opinion?"

Jounouchi stuck a pinky into the bowl and brought a dollop into his mouth. At least it tasted better than how it looked. Sure, it was grainy, but at least it tasted sweet. Wiping his slightly sticky fingers on his shirt, he moved further along the counter to where his boyfriend currently stood. From his new proximity, he could see the frustration that marked and strained Kaiba's handsome features. It was clear that Kaiba was trying his best even now.

Cautiously, Jounouchi threaded his arms around his boyfriend's waist, dusting his forearms in the same layer of flour. At first, Kaiba tensed and flinched like he wanted to shove Jounouchi away, but gradually, his shoulders relaxed by a fraction. Jounouchi tightened his embrace and pushed up on his tiptoes to hook his chin over one sharp shoulder to peer at the dirty tablet screen. Kaiba apparently found his way to an English-language cooking forum.

"You know I was just riling you up, right?" Jounouchi asked quietly, suddenly feeling like a shithead.

Kaiba's hands dropped to the countertop, bracing his weight, as he sighed. His anger and frustration were knocked out of him like air from deflated meringue. "Of course, I know that."

"Then why are you trying so hard?"

"Because half-assed joke or not, you asked. "

Warmth flooded Jounouchi's ears. He hid his flushed face in Kaiba's shoulder blade. "Nah, more like you can't turn down a challenge if your life depended on it."

"While true, that still wasn't the whole reason. I can't always be there or give you all the things you ask of me. For everything that I can, though, I'll do my best to provide."

A lump lodged in Jounouchi's throat. "Let's stop here. I lost my appetite anyway."

Kaiba spun in his arms and pressed his splattered apron against Jounouchi's clean shirt, but Jounouchi wasn't eager to complain when his boyfriend returned his embrace. His sigh ruffled through Jounouchi's hair. "That's probably for the best. It'll save us from burning down the kitchen because it's just like you to choose something that requires an open flame."

Jounouchi laughed despite himself.

Check out other puppy/violetshipping ficlets I’m writing all #fictober20 long

#fictober20 #violetshipping #puppyshipping #kaijou #my fanfiction #so i like kinda hate this #y'all are right #this isn't the year for writing fluff #i'll just go back to moody ass bullshit #that or i'm feeling a little crispy rn @.@#yugioh

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jasonangrytodd · 4 years

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Placing down the hair dryer, Seto slipped his fingers between Katsuya’s soft strands. It was now warm, but he wasn’t satisfied. He took the brush and began to untangle his boyfriend’s hair gently.

Pausing for a moment, he stared at Katsuya’s head, but the other was way too busy playing Animal Crossing in his new switch. Around two months ago, Katsuya had been fired because of the pandemic and having no job to keep saving for his game, he had made a deal with Kaiba. He’d put the rest of the money and when this was over, Katsuya would find another job and save again, but this time, to repay Seto.

Something that Seto didn’t need at all, but this was about Katsuya’s pride, so he didn’t object.

“Care to explain how this happened, pup?”

It took Katsuya a moment to reply, trying to multitask the game, Seto’s voice and his own thoughts.

“I was outside wanting to buy some ingredients for my baking and it began to rain. Then I slipped. I went to shower because you found me on the entrance and scolded me.” Eyes still on the switch’s screen. “Did you finish?”

Seto grunted, going back to brushing Katsuya’s hair until he was done. “Yes, I finished.”

He was about to stand up and take everything to the bathroom, but before he could even grab the hair dryer, he had Katsuya throwing the switch onto the bed and climbing him, arms around his neck.

“Pamper me more, yes?” He grinned and Seto hated it. He hated that it was so easy for Katsuya to do as he wanted with him.

Seto sighed. “I have no other choice.” And wrapping his arms around Katusya’s middle, he dropped back on bed, bringing his boyfriend with him.

#Puppyshipping #S Writing #SW: Puppyshipping #Seto Kaiba #Katsuya Jonouchi

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hyotenhyakkaso · 3 years

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FULL NAME. Jounouchi Katsuya

MEANING. ??

NICKNAME. Jou, Angel, Rat, Two Hands, Red-Eyes, Kitten

GENDER. Male

HEIGHT. 5′10″.

AGE. 19 - 25

ZODIAC. Aquarius

SPOKEN LANGUAGES. English, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian (Au)

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜�� !

HAIR COLOUR. Blonde

EYE COLOUR. Gold

SKIN TONE. tan

BODY TYPE. ACCENT. English accent

VOICE. DOMINANT HAND. Right

POSTURE. Tense and ready for battle unless with close friends.

SCARS. From bullets, tasers, a few burn scars on his shoulder neck and chest, around his neck, an electrical scar running from his shoulder down his chest and arm, on his wrists and ankles and across his stomach

TATTOOS. Several

MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S). The snow leopard freckles across his cheeks, nose and body.

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH. Unknown

HOMETOWN. Brooklyn, New York

BIRTH WEIGHT. Unknown

BIRTH HEIGHT. Unknown

MANNER OF BIRTH. Born in the back of a Taxi Cab

FIRST WORDS. Mama/Papa

SIBLINGS. Serenity Kawai

PARENTS. Dahlia Kawai and Joseph Wheeler

PARENT INVOLVEMENT. His parents were not involved much. Dahlia was around up until he was 8 and he loved her dearly. He can remember christmases with the family still together. After she left with Serenity, he had no parents pretty much, left alone with a drunk father to raise himself.

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION. A simple Mechanic by day and Gang dissolver by month

CURRENT RESIDENCE. Domino City, Japan

CLOSE FRIENDS. Yugi, Tristan, Tea/Anzu, Aizen, Elsa

RELATIONSHIP STATUS. Dating

FINANCIAL STATUS. Middle Class

DRIVER’S LICENSE. Yes

CRIMINAL RECORD. Unfortunately yes

VICES. stubborn, clingy, emotionally unstable, lonely, controlling to a degree when it comes to emotions, sensitive,.

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. asexual

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION. Homoromantic (though I imagine he has exceptions)

PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch

|PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch

|LIBIDO. Its lower than an average male’s I’ll tell you that.

TURN ON’S. It depends on the partner. Some things for one partner doesn't really translate to another. Like, surprisingly something that would work for Jaden would not work for Joey and vice versa.

TURN OFF’S. His partner pinning him down in any way,

RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. Loser, Baby by La Bouquet, This is what Self destruction feels like by Marina Lin and Hiding In Your Hands by Mallory Bechtel

HOBBIES TO PASS TIME. He fiddles with new tech and pretty much tries new foods to pass the time. Sometimes he bakes, sometimes he cooks. But he’s pretty much always doing something.

MENTAL ILLNESSES. anxiety, depression, PTSD, Survivor’s guilt

PHYSICAL ILLNESSES. N/A

LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED. erROR Brain scan failed

PHOBIAS. Fire, Y.Marik (Just the mention of him makes him shake), tasers (mention of em, sound, smell), lightning (Thunderstorms), being bound by his hands, choked, being snuck up on (in this case he might attack actually-), the mention of Hirotani, drowning, being surrounded/caged in (Also might attack)

SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL. He acts all high and mighty, but his self confidence is actually a whopping 0. Can self confidence go any lower into the negatives?

VULNERABILITIES.

TAGGED BY: @iskrone

TAGGING: whoever wants to do this~ say I tagged ya!

#~Chillin out with the Crew in the schoolyard~ (Dash Games)~

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stardustdaemon · 4 years

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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) Head Cannons

I’m struggling to write properly atm so here are some h/c’s, will be adding characters later as well~ <3

Yugi Motou:

Is afraid of storms

Loves all bugs apart from ladybugs, has lived his whole life making sure this is secret however

Is overly eager to help in Grandpa’s game shop and is secretly bitter he can’t because of school

Vegetarian

Bad with technology but also accidentally fixes stuff miraculously

Atem:

What is technology? How does he work a microwave? Why does it all make so much noise?

Dislikes bright lights but is unphased by loud noises

Continuously judging his friends and strangers in his head

Can only sleep on his back

Hates dairy products

Loves observing fashion and wants to play about with modern day fashion more

Loves swearing

Marik Ishtar:

Learnt to play Duel Monsters because Rishid and Ishizu would bring him back booster packs and cards, which he would always look forward to

Actually loves looking at bikes and cars, finds them super interesting

Regrets discovering fast food because now he wants it at all times

Hates insects with a passion

Loves the cold weather

Good dancer

Jounouchi Katsuya:

Can only sleep if he has something to hug

Dislikes sweet foods

Loses his train of thought all the time and covers it up with a joke

Is actually super smart but struggles under pressure

Wishes he could talk to his cards to see what kind of people they all are

Actually thinks Kaiba is really cool but will never admit it

Honda Hiroto:

Brilliant cook

Reads a lot of classic literature when alone

Has a not-so-secret collection of pop CD’s

Wanted to be a teacher when he was younger but has since come to realise he snaps at kid’s too easily so gave that one up

Bisexual but hasn’t quite realised yet

Ryou Bakura:

Is actually terrifying when angry

Would live off of cheese if it wasn’t a really unhealthy idea

Smol gay boi

Avid bird fan, will sit in his garden with books to try and spot rare ones, has a diary for bird watching

When he was younger he found a duel monsters card in second hand furniture, sparking his interest

Will never under any circumstances swear

Yami Bakura:

Actually really soft around the right people

Likes to tell jokes but always delivers them wrong

Thinks he’s a good dancer when in reality he really, really isn’t

Adapted to technology and modern appliances surprisingly well, can no longer imagine life without a washing machine

Really doesn’t understand why people pay for things

Seto Kaiba:

Attempts to be nice every now and then but does come across condescending, gave up trying

Secretly enjoys winding people up, will go out of his way to irritate somebody

Prank King

Does not know how to do his own laundry or cook

Surprisingly, can bake well

Everything he does is actually emotionally fuelled because he has no other way of expressing or approaching the feelings

Loves the colour pink

Mai Kujaku:

Is a cat mum to strays in the neighbourhood

Lesbian icon

Learnt to walk in heels when she was younger because she loves the noise so much

Can handle spicy food too well

Really good at singing but pretends to be awful because she’s embarrassed

#mao talks #mao writes #ygo #yugioh

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alma-screenies · 4 years

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this is probably the most varied one tbh

i put this here just so you know that i’m a big enough of a nerd to look up some song lyrics just because they mentioned a word. also terrorism is such a good song, wtf

it won’t leave my head! but hey! that’s life sometimes

the p4 prequel everyone was asking for

#p2 #persona #in case someone just found this:#the 'cross between tatsuya and alma' comment is because on one of the first ones i mentioned #that silent protags confuse me because they're supposed to be you but they also have a bit even if just a tiny bit of their own personality #and i don't know where tatsuya starts and alma ends #and i don't help my case because sometimes i scream things i think tatsuya would say #but most of the time is just my own screaming ghjrbejr #... that wasn't complicated at all alma good job #captions

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tricksheart · 1 year

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DAD ! Akira Headcanons because I love jumping on bandwagons.

Not the type to smother his kid / kids. His parents were always grilling him and not letting Akira have breathing room, always asked questions day in and day out because they are a detective and reporter respectfully. Of course he is not going to be fully detached, Akira just likes giving his kid / kids a little space, since he values that a lot.

Would totally say a lot of dad jokes, especially the 'Hey hungry, I'm dad' meme. Also would love the memes like the 'Boogie woogie woogie' one that his kid / kids would make of him. Akira helps his kid / kid's fashion sense too, saying that one meme of 'not dressed like that you aren't' meme when doing so.

Since Akira is either going to be an actor or a professional racecar driver, unless he marries Haru in which they open up a cafe, he's not going to be home a lot or there is going to be a bunch of paparazzi to deal with but he's going to protect them the best he can when it comes to the negatives towards his job like annoying fans.

Tries to keep his persona stuff close to his chest but if his kid / kids asks him about it, he's not going to leave them in the dark like his parents did. Although, there is some things he will leave until they are a little older to handle some of the truths, like the reality they are all living in is not the original one.

Akira lets his kid / kids visit Maya, his mother, a lot. However, he keeps them away from Katsuya, his father, because their own father/son relationship is still very rocky. It's going to take a lot of pestering from his partner and/or his kid / kids to make him agree to even a telephone call.

Very supportive of his kid / kids and would never take the other person's side, no matter what. Is a fiercely protective if the force tries to take away his kid / kids for any reason and will fight tooth and nail to always protect them from anything.

Takes his kid / kids to the movie theater to watch movies. Akira is a film buff and really loves the cinema and hopes that his kid / kids do as well. Also teaches them how to cook and bake, since the latter he enjoyed doing when he was younger and still had a decent relationship with his own father.

He's a little hesitant on having pets, besides Mona, but would allow his kid / kids to either raise a rabbit, hamster, fish, hedgehog, gecko, or turtle. However, Akira is not going to be the only one taking care of it, so his kid / kids will have to take more responsibility to keep it.

Akira loves video games, so he would be the parent that encourages that for his kid / kids and also plays co-op games with them to spend time together. He also watches anime and cartoon with them when he has the time to do so.

He gives food he doesn't like to his kid / kids if they like them. But for those that Akira and his kid / kids don't like they try to give them to someone who does, all the while complaining how gross these foods / drinks are during this.

Brings his kid / kids to visit all his confidants, even though he isn't in Tokyo anymore. And if someone is living outside of Japan, Akira will fly with his kid / kids to meet them. Also takes his kid / kids to Hawaii and Okinawa since those two islands are something special to him for all of the memories of his youth.

Due to his low blood sugar, Akira would be the parent that would have a whole bunch of snacks on hand and would be the one preparing meals at home when he could outside of his work.

Doesn't really know how to handle children at times but tries his best since he does love and care for his kid / kids a lot and hope they don't have to go through trauma or persona related things like himself in the past.

Will take his kid / kids to Sanrio Land or Destiny Land once a year for a family outing. Unless they want to go somewhere else but when they are young, Akira will take them to these destinations.

#[ we call them tricksters. HEADCANON ]#long post: tw #dad! akira hcs;;

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