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delusionalwriter02 · 3 months

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Hi, I would like Given headcanons please! I like to imagine Mafuyu having a little sister who’s about 5 yrs old (the mom adopted her when he was 11) and since she was a baby she saw Yuki, Hiiragi and Shizu as her other older brothers. Could you also include how what happened to Yuki affects her and her meeting Ritsuka please? (◕ヮ◕)

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Mafuyu,Yuki, Hiiragi, Shizu x Platonic little sister reader / Comfort and a bit of angst / Headcanons

a/n : Thank you so much for your request! Honestly, I shed a tear when I mentioned Yuki, but I love the idea! I hope this post lives up to your expectations !

The day you came into Mafuyu's life, he immediately adored you. You were the cutest thing he'd ever seen. And of course it wasn't long before he introduced you to his friends.

In fact, the week after you arrived in the Sato family, you were already surrounded by love. It wasn't unusual to see you together, playing in a playpen. But you spent most of your time with Mafuyu and Yuki, whether it was making little aeroplanes, playing hide-and-seek or playing jokes on Hiiragi or Shizu. You were inseparable.

Even though 'officially' you only had one older brother, Mafuyu, in reality you had 4. On one particular day, the weather was perfect for playing in the park. Shizu and Hiiragi were fighting over a toy while Yuki and Mafuyu sat on the grass, chatting. You were chasing a beautiful butterfly that refused to land on your hand when you tripped over a stone and fell heavily to the ground.

Your cries immediately attracted the attention of the 4 boys who, in a flash, ran to you. "Y/N, are you all right?" asked Yuki, coming up to you. "Of course not, you idiot, you can see she's crying!" shouted Hiiragi. Mafuyu got down on his knees in front of you, "Can you show me where you hurt yourself?", sobbing, your little trembling hand pointing to your knee. "We'll fix that at home," Mafuyu said, smiling.

You found yourself on Shizu's back, your crying having subsided. When you got home, Yuki took you in his arms and led you into the bathroom, sitting you down on the toilet. Shizu grabbed a cotton pad and some disinfectant while Mafuyu pulled up your trousers. Hiiragi made faces at you to stop you seeing your little wound, and your laughter filled the small room.

The 5 of you were really happy together. The years passed quietly, and one day you were surprised by something that was, to say the least, surprising. Yuki and Mafuyu… kissing?! That was the day you found out they were going out and even though Mafuyu was initially afraid of your reaction, you were overjoyed. Because it meant you'd be spending even more time with Yuki !

But your happiness didn't last forever.

From one day to the next, Yuki stopped coming to the house and your big brother spent most of his time locked up in his room. It was the year you turned 10 that you learned of Yuki's death. And no words are strong enough to describe what you felt. It was as if your heart was being ripped out, then put back in, then taken out, over and over again.

You didn't know how he died and, to be honest, you didn't even want to know. The last thing you had left of Yuki was a photo taken years ago, when you were children and still carefree. That photo never left your sight, not even at school.

And one evening, when your mother wasn't back yet, you needed Mafuyu. You knocked lightly on his door, but there was no answer. You decided to go in anyway. Mafuyu was sitting on the floor, staring into space. Without a word, you sat down beside him.

-" It hurts." You say, staring at an invisible spot. -" I know." You rested your head on your big brother's shoulder. He put his arm around your shoulders to pull you closer to him.

-"Will it ever get easier? -I don't know." The conversation is slow, but you've never needed words to understand each other.

Yuki's death took you out of the world of childhood much more quickly than expected. The world seemed less colourful, the sun less bright. The death of one of your older brothers was your first experience of death. And nothing seemed to be able to soothe your heart.

And a year later, you still couldn't accept it.

But after a year, you saw Mafuyu come home later than usual, his eyes a little less vacant than before. You're 11 years old, you're a child but life has turned you into an adult. You're happy to see life gradually returning to Mafuyu, perhaps because after a while it gets easier ?

So one day, when Mafuyu was still coming home quite late, you asked him.

-" How did you do it?" Mafuyu looked at you, confused. -What do you mean ?" Yuki's guitar was always with him.You approached the case gently.

-"How did you manage to get your taste for life back?" For a few seconds, Mafuyu said nothing, then he smiled at you, with that smile that always managed to bring yours back.

-"I'll show you tomorrow, okay?" You nodded.

The next evening arrived. You were in your room when you heard the front door close, Mafuyu's voice reaching you as well as that of a stranger. When you reached the entrance, a young man with black hair looked at you, surprised.

-"He's called Ritsuka, he's a friend from high school." Mafuyu said. -"Hello!" said the man called Ritsuka.

You waved your hand at him, confused.

-"Your name's Y/N, isn't it? Mafuyu's told me a lot about you. -Yes, that's me." Still a bit confused, you don't really know what to say.

-"Ritsuka's teaching me to play guitar, he's got a band!" Said Mafuyu, a hint of excitement in his voice. -Really? That's cool!" You say, slightly less embarrassed.

That evening, you didn't get much more out of Ritsuka, but you were pleased to see that Mafuyu seemed so happy to be learning to play the guitar. You felt a twinge of sadness at the thought of how happy Yuki would have been to see Mafuyu play. It's just… strange to see your big brother have a friend again, to see him get some colour.

And the weeks passed, slowly. Until one day Mafuyu came to see you in your room, to have a serious talk.

-"I've joined Ritsuka's group. We're having a concert next Sunday, please come." There was a lot of information to digest all at once.

First your brother joined a band, then he was going to perform in front of people and then he wanted you to come.

-"Are you sure ?" You say. -"You know, I believe that music saved me in some ways. I have so many things in me that I can't say or simply express. I'm not good with words but playing made it possible to bring out things that I thought I had locked away inside me forever. I would like you to find your outlet too." Mafuyu said, looking you straight in the eyes. -"Okay, I'll come." And the smile Mafuyu gave you was a smile you hadn't seen in 2 years.

Night of the concert

You were lost in the mass of people at the entrance. There were really a lot of people.

-“Y/N?!” This voice… Hiiragi! You turned around abruptly, meeting the gaze of an older brother you hadn't seen in a long time. Without thinking another second, you ran into his arms, bumping into a few people in the process, tears ready to fall at any moment.

-"I missed you so much…" You say, face buried in his chest, his arms instantly closing around you. -"I missed you a lot too, little sister.." And you couldn't hold back your tears any longer. “Look who’s here too.” You turned your face slightly to meet Shizu's eyes.

You hugged your two big brothers tightly, letting silent tears fall down your cheeks.

-"What are you doing here ?" You say, trying to dry your tears. -"We came to see Mafuyu sing." Shizu replied, still keeping you in his arms. “Stay close to us, there are a lot of people here.” He said with a smile. -"Of course, I won't let you go."

Finding yourself in the concert hall, you climbed on Shizu's shoulders so you could see something, like when you were kids.

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(please go see the concert, I always cry and it breaks my heart but it's so powerful)

When Mafuyu's voice rang out, it was as if your heart had just stopped because you knew, you knew who he was talking about.

Images of Yuki, Mafuyu and you come back to you, the moments when you laughed, when you slept together, when Yuki took you in his arms because you were too tired to walk home.

You miss him, you miss him so much that you barely notice the tears running down your cheeks, all you see is Mafuyu.

And Yuki.

But Yuki is no longer here, he will never be here again.

So we must move forward and live, live so that he never fades.

You found your outlet.

A year later

-"Give it to me !" You shouted at Ritsuka who was holding up a bag of candy that you wanted.

Mafuyu and Ritsuka's laughter echoed through the apartment. Another year had passed. A year where you learned to live again, little by little. You saw your big brother fall in love with someone else and it would be a lie to say that it was simple at first. You felt like you were betraying Yuki by thinking that you were happy for Mafuyu and Ritsuka.

You often looked at this photo of the 5 of you as children. But as the seasons pass, sadness takes up less and less space in your heart.

The sun seemed to be shining again.

Hey I'm really sorry for adding passages but I was very inspired haha, if you don't like it I can do it again for you 100% without any problem, I was very happy to write that even if review the concert made me cry haha. Thank you very much again for your request!

See you <3

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wolfwoodthekid · 1 year

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Do you guys think Kizu will announce a sequel? A side story? Do you guys think she’ll come back. Oh, she is will announce another project.

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aswingaway · 1 year

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Who else wants to cry their heart out listening to "To The Sea" by SYH?? Who else wants to feel Yuki's song and Uenoyama's feelings and Hiiragi's voice and Shizu's music? Who wants to cry to a love song ?

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leatherbookmark · 7 months

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yup, i was satisfied with the ending, and i cried again, but

i continue to be baffled how... yuki's death is almost completely glossed over, despite him constantly haunting everyone's lives. ritsuka STILL doesn't have the full story -- i feel like he should, not even because "he deserves it as mafuyu's current boyfriend" but rather because it's irritating to see a character of this sort just... give up. because of that, i feel that mafuyu also hasn't processed everything fully. and it's not like he's absolutely unable to voice his thoughts -- he can do it! he did it with ugetsu! come on!

i wish we had a longer conversation between mafuyu and ritsuka. not only so that they could be honest with each other, understand each other's thoughts and go on with that, but also because a Lot of this manga has been basically... The Relationship, but Apart. they're thinking about each other, they're in conflict, they do things for the other person, but they don't really hang out or talk as much as i'd like. sure, i want them to be happy together, but i fear that the resolution of their conflict -- mafuyu declaring he wants to make music with ritsuka -- is just an exception to the rule, and that their relationship will be just a series of misunderstandings based on the fact that mafuyu can't speak up about what troubles him and ritsuka doesn't want to spook him off, so he gives him space and mafuyu feels abandoned and lonely because of that.

i also felt this lack of... ritsuka spotlight? his plotline was kind of weird. him joining syh as a support guitarist was cool, but i feel like he didn't... really... get anything to do...? that wasn't his communication issues with mafuyu? when you step back and look at both ritsuka and his relationship with mafuyu, it's... kind of shallow? as in, uninteresting in itself? i wish kzntk had shown more of their interactions! then we'd see why they're the main couple of this series. i mean, aside from "the author decided so". because if ritsuka doesn't need to be interesting, and the books are primarily about mafuyu -- well, the pov switches around a lot, and the whole second half of the manga is called "hiiragi mix", and in those chapter the new syh lads look at mafuyu from another, inside-outside perspective. give me more mafuyu himself! give me more mafuyu and ritsuka interactions!

ah, you can see kzntk used to draw doujinshi.

but back to yuki -- i don't know. even considering manga logic... yuki died, idk, half a year before the events of the manga take place? and he didn't just die from an illness or in an accident, he committed suicide. after mafuyu's stupid remark. i really would've loved it if the manga gave us mafuyu trying to navigate that, of the theme of being deeply in love but needing to figure out who you are aside from "X's boyfriend". instead... the manga introduces the concept of "being always together, forever, inseparable, for life, until we die" and then... doesn't really do anything about it.

in this case, akihiko and ugetsu's relationship is the most realistic and interesting -- because they broke up, and despite their lingering feelings, it didn't work out. akihiko and haruki also get a point from me, because of how akihiko tried to change his life and be a better person for haruki. but with yuki and mafuyu, mafuyu and ritsuka, and shizusumi and hiiragi, i feel like there's something there, themes, problems, that just... goes unsolved.

ritsuka doesn't get to find out about yuki, so throughout the entire manga he's writing a song and trying to understand a guy who he just vaguely knows used to date mafuyu before he died, probably. yuki and mafuyu live in their own little world, closed to everyone outside of it, and... nothing comes out of it.

they don't get to deal with being forced to live in the real world, they don't get to define who they are outside of their relationship because yuki dies, and -- why does yuki die? we don't know. yuki's mother says in an EXTRA SHORT CHAPTER that "his father was also like that", referring to him being stubborn and unable to sacrifice his pride even in an obviously downhill-going conflict. but why did he commit suicide? i know people can hurt each other very seriously for stupid reasons, i do, but i expect the protagonist's dark backstory dead boyfriend to at least have a reason why he's dead. how and what exactly did ritsuka understand, i have no idea.

and then there are hiiragi and shizusumi, who... are super into each other, i guess... and misunderstand each other as well, i guess... because shizusumi thinks that hiiragi had a crush on yuki, and so he was always the "odd one out", but hiiragi loved shizusumi, and... they don't talk about it either... and then they have sex, in which hiiragi lets shizusumi do absolutely Everything to him -- whatever it means -- and then... that's it. end of development. the following chapters are still called hiiragi's mix, but he's not really a focus anymore. confusion.

and then... strawberry swing, the four very short extra stories that left me with more questions than answers. why does yuki's own mother calmly relay the story of something that happened the day after yuki committed suicide -- of receiving a next-day delivery of cup ramen that yuki ordered? she's like "oh, so he was still thinking about 'the next day'. his will to live was still there, floating in the air". she ate the ramen and that's when she cried for the first time since his death? i'm sorry, i'm not japanese so maybe this is some cultural thing i don't understand, but ??????????????

both yuki's mother and mafuyu's mother are unbelievably calm about the whole matter, yuki's mother even saying that she laughed seeing all the cup ramen, because yuki "caused all that fuss" and then she gets cup ramen the next day! and then she says that "he's a type to die in a game of chicken" in the original, more serious meaning of "if you give up, your honor will suffer, but if both people are stubborn, they end up dying" -- so she says he's literally stubborn to the death -- but then she says that it wasn't about "what hapened recently" (aka mafuyu and yuki's argument), because "his father was the same" -- I'M SORRY, KIZU NATSUKI, YOU CAN'T JUST PUT THIS IN A SHORT EXTRA AND NOT FOLLOW UP ON IT. WHAT DOES IT MEAN. GIRL. WHAT.

idk, i feel like i'm going insane because these seem like very obvious problems any editor would point out, but... they're just not addressed! and it's impossible someone would ignore something like this, so... i must be imagining things! or maybe i'm forgetful, or maybe some pages in my copy of the book were missing or got stuck together and i missed some important explanations!

and like. obviously i adore this series, if i hated it i would have simply stopped reading (although sunk cost etc etc), but some things about it, like all the stuff mentioned above, are just... baffling. i feel like kzntk came up with a very detailed story and simply didn't have time or capabilities to think it through fully, work on the pacing, figure out where what goes -- strawberry swing shouldn't be an extra story! -- even with the magazine given ran in coming out every two-three months. and it's a great pity! because things like those aren't just stuff the author leaves up to the imagination of their readers, they're... idk, plot holes? and i'm not just pointing them out because i'm an asshole, i'm doing this because i love the series and the characters and want there to be More of them!

sigh.

anyway, 8/10, counting in the extra point for making me cry, and i guess i should see about this given movie... it came out in 2020, so i'm not sure if there's going to be a continuation? another season of the anime? more movies? because i'd really love to hear 海へ lol.

#shrimp thoughts #idk i'm embarrassed because i tend to be stupid and not notice the simplest most obvious things but.

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paddymalave · 2 years

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yukinaluvr · 3 years

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mustbesucking · 3 years

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i wanna ruin our friendship

We should be lovers instead. 🖤

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highanxietyclub · 2 years

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I’ve fully caught up on everything for Given earlier today and omg! I need more! I really do

Spoilers ahead…these are just a few of my thoughts

-uneoyama and mafuyus relationship rn is stressing me out. I need them both to learn to communicate better. Ue isnt in the wrong per day but there are some things he could do differently for mafuyus sake. Like I know you don’t know his full past/trauma but bro hang out and make time for your boyfriend! Pls talk to him lol. But I also hope that mafuyu despite not knowing what to do about the band decides to go to the concert. I totally understand his feelings and the lowkey ptsd but I also need him to think about Ue and his feelings and being there to support him and support hiiragi and shizusumi. He’s worried about the past repeating himself (which makes total sense bc it def feels like Ue “took” Yukis place and that moment in the train station was just history almost repeating itself ) but I need him to realize that he has the power to make sure that it doesn’t happen. He’s isolating and trust me I get it but bby mafuyu pls

-I’m happy that it seems like ugetsu is (slowly) doing better and I love that mafuyu but especially akihiko reached out to say congrats. I need more ugetsu content! In my dream world in the future either given does a song featuring a ugetsu and the violin and/or ugetsu and akihiko play together (once they’re both healed from their relationship) I want them both to see how each other have grown personally and musically

-I’m glad that haruki and akishiko seem to be doing well! Bro that scene where they’re getting spicy but then Ue interrupts ugh not to be nasty but I wish that wasn’t interrupted bc 😏

(But like look at them here awww!! The way haruki is looking at him)

-poor ue getting asked to finish his boyfriends dead exs song bc that’s gotta feel weird. But I’m proud of him for finishing it and I cannot wait for this to be animated so I can see and hear it all come together. I’m so curious

-I do appreciate that there was some yuki content and also just more past/background content in general (strawberry swing ugh)

-i loved! All of the hiiragi and shizusumi content! I like getting to learn more about them and see their personality’s and their dynamic. I especially loved when hiiragi confesses and what comes after that bc oooof! I was screaming reading it all! I need a manga just about the 2 of them pls and thank you

-I love the lil mini scenes or whatever they do. These right here were my favs for obvious reasons like just look at how cute they both are

Me too haruki and take-chan

Ahhh! I screamed akihiko and ugetsu look so cute!!!

Okay…I’m done for now…pls does anyone wanna talk about Given

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magicpotatoobsession · 1 year

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Hello! I hope your having a nice day. I was thinking abt this and I thought that you could give me some insight. What do you think Yuki's and Shizu's relationship was like? We know that him and Hiragi got along very well. As Hiragi admired him. But it seems to me that in that chapter (I don't remember the # sorry!) Were Mafuyu asks Shizu advice for music and his relationship abt Ritsuka. That when Shizu gets WAY of topic and says that the group was super Yuki-centered and how that was irritating. It seems to me that maybe he didn't like how much everyone revolved around him and admired him? As if it irritates him? Idk we don't really have much insight from him what his relationship with Yuki was like. So we might not be ae to tell for sure.

Hello friend! Thank you! Hope you are having a good one too! I'd like to point you towards this meta of mine, Discovering the true intention behind Shizu’s actions in Mix_8 completely changed how I saw the Shizuragi ship! This meta, although it doesn't address your question directly, I think it clears a lot of things up so PLEASE READ before proceeding.

Shizu and Yuki's relationship explained

In my opinion, Kizu never fully goes into the details of the dynamics between Shizu and Yuki but out of everyone, Shizu felt least close to Yuki compared to Mafuyu and Hiiragi. Shizu feels like

Yuki adopted the abandoned Pomeranian and calico cat and he's just tagging along. But Shizu feels like he doesn't belong to the squad/isn't as close to Yuki is his own doing due to:

his own abandonment issues resultant from being a LITERAL foster child

him joining the childhood squad later than the rest of the three

thinking that his three friends as being better than him from birth.

In mix_9, Kizu's placement of Yuki, Mafuyu and Hiiragi on stage is literally so telling of how Shizu felt. Of course he could choose to be on that stage as well, but he needs help to make he feel like he is worthy of being on stage.

Hiiragi is amazing, because Hiiragi noticed that Shizu needed help, Hiiragi had always been leading Shizu ever since he was a little kid. Hiiragi is absolutely that kid who is annoying but makes everyone feel included. And Shizu, is so happy and appreciative of that

to the point of feeling possessive over Hiiragi.

Sometimes, people with abandonment wounds feel possessive and jealous easily. This is because they are always scared that everything good can disappear at any moment. It may result in a person feeling super clingy emotionally. In Shizu's case, he is outwardly nonchalant but inwardly super clingy. Shizu, at some point in his childhood started to romantically idolise Hiiragi.

SO, Shizu's felt irritated towards Yuki because Hiiragi idolised Yuki.

BUT, Shizu's own abandonment wounds clouded his judgement because he mistook Hiiragi's idolisation of Yuki as a romantic one instead of a paternal one. Shizu mistook Hiiragi as being in love with Yuki when Hiiragi actually put Yuki on a pedestal like a child admiring a fatherly figure.

Yuki I think for the most part didn't do anything objectively irritating to make Shizu dislike him. Neither did the squad, they were always hanging out together. Shizu's inferiority complex and attachment towards Hiiragi made him look for someone contrasting his own circumstances to blame, which was Yuki.

Yuki - most panels depict him as the popular kid

Shizu - the literal foster child

Yuki - has both Mafuyu and Hiiragi's attention

Shizu - feels like he has none, but in truth Hiiragi is quite observant of Shizu's hesitation in participating fun things to make an effort to include him.

It's basically like the song Heather by Conan Gray.

Because Shizu also saw Yuki as being better than him in the literal sense, this actually didn't allow Shizu to really understand Yuki as a multi-faceted person. I think Shizu for the most part just accepted Yuki as someone with better circumstances than him, even beyond death. BUT AGAIN, that doesn't make Shizu a bad person. It makes him a human one. On top of that, Shizu's abandonment wounds were exacerbated when Hiiragi continued to emotionally dump on him whenever he wanted to but look towards Yuki for motivation and inspiration. And those are pretty VALID feelings which needed to be communicated and addressed for healthy healing, which they were in mix_4 to Mafuyu and mix_8 to Hiiragi. As you pointed out, Shizu gets off topic with Mafuyu, this is a great thing because for once, he is acknowledging his own feelings outwardly rather than keeping them inside. This then led him to realise that he needed to clarify things with Hiiragi rather than let these feelings of abandonment brew longer.

Currently, I personally think he is no longer irritated at Yuki. Please remember that Shizu also lost Yuki. Grief for him could have also manifested as irritation. It’s all very complicated when you lose someone right? I think Shizu’s probably found the new song “To the Sea” just as healing as Hiiragi and Mafuyu, he’s just not really the outwardly expressive type. But Kizu Natsuki did put in some tender faces in the recent chapters.

Again, please read Discovering the true intention behind Shizu’s actions in Mix_8 completely changed how I saw the Shizuragi ship! (sorry for pasting again, it's just so important, I go into Shizu's insight so much more here).

As for Yuki, we never really get to have an insight into how Yuki feels about anyone, because he's passed away. We are only ever receiving second hand accounts of Yuki. But Kizu wrote it that way to highlight the fact that life is precious and if you're alive,

there is hope for you to tell your story and communicate clearly.

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