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#like not that i don't love it because i love gentle kaoru and angry kojiro but like... when kaoru isn't injured / in the wheel chair... bro
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i’ve seen a lot of sk8 fics where kojiro is the one who initiates or fights while kaoru mothers the kids and not that i don’t adore protective, caring kaoru and kojiro getting to punch ad*m in the face... but i really feel like it’s the other way around. now here me out:
remember when ad*m like. tried to murder kaoru? kojiro didn’t even look at ad*m until he started gloating (like an idiot). when ad*m tries to approach reki after their second beef and he stepped in front and stopped him. he stopped him, and stood in the way. he acts as defense rather than offense. i made this post a couple months ago about kojiro and how he uses his voice and how he isn’t a naturally angry person. his instinctive reaction to bad things is to comfort. kojiro is good with words and he’s good at comforting or being there. that’s how he was able to support kaoru when he was infatuated with ad*m when they were younger. he didn’t hesitate to go to karou when he got hurt, but he hesitated when it came to ad*m.
kaoru, on the other hand, does not hesitate. remember when reki called him “cherry” in public and he straight up grabbed his collar and ready to throttle him? kaoru doesn’t hesitate when it comes to ad*m, and he doesn’t hesitate when it comes to kicking kojiro’s a** (quite literally). kaoru has a bit of a temper and doesn’t always seem to know what to say when it comes to comforting people. that’s where he hesitates.
now this strays a little from canon evidence, but let’s be real: kaoru was the “bad boy” in school, the one who convinced kojiro to skip school with him, who wasn’t afraid to talk back to the teachers if they were rude to students or unfair, the one who got into fistfights if someone looked at him or kojiro the wrong way (and who definitely got suspended for punching someone who talked crap about kojiro / made kojiro feel bad about himself). obviously he’s more reserved now, but he is quick to get in the offensive position. he doesn’t like to sit down when he could do something.
now, i’m not saying that kojiro never took offense. after he made sure that kaoru was okay and safe (because that’s his main priority), he wouldn’t be afraid to take action and fight for kaoru. he is more than capable. but kojiro would be the one who would say “maybe we shouldn’t skip school again...” but would ultimately follow kaoru because he would always follow kaoru.
anyways, i think that kaoru deserves to scream and go feral, should he choose. that’s it. that’s the main point of this post.
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