Sorry I KNOW I just went on a spiel the other day about paparazzi pics but these have got me feeling positively unwell. I’m a libra I’m allowed to be a hypocrite
god okay so like we know Tatsumi is Christian it's a pretty important part of his character that he is like in his first feature scout story he mentions that he wanted to wear his father's vestments but was scolded for it because they are something that you have to be serious about like this is the most obvious thing anyone would know by looking at Tatsumi.
HOWEVERRRRRR since a lot of Western fans only really think of Christianity as like. Southern Baptist/Mormonism/Jehovah's Witnesses/Extreme Catholicism and like yeahhhhhh those sects are not Great but that's not all there is to Christianity as a religion. I went to an Episcopal service a few weeks ago and it was very fascinating how different it was to the Southern Baptist youth group I attended as a child. But Tatsumi does not follow any sort of American Protestant denomination because he doesn't fucking live here. He's a religious minority in his own country holy fucking shit.
Anyway there is ample evidence within even what has been officially translated that Tatsumi is a chill guy. In the current gacha story Ushimairi pt. 2 we get to see his first interactions with Koga right after moving in and he's literally.
They're chill!!! They're chill and they get along just fine. Koga asks about if Tatsumi thinks dogs are dirty because of his religion right after this and Tatsumi explains that it was because of the historical context and that stray dogs had rabies which is a completely valid reason to not want to like. Interact with dogs, but it's completely fine now because most dogs aren't walking around with rabies!!!
He's also stated that he believes he's going to hell before and that he's accepted that fact but he still believes in God anyway (and he has a conflict of faith later on where he debates if he even still believes or not). He would not be a bigot he wants to accept everyone as they are that's literally why he had the fucking revolution at Reimei over his belief in equality. Goes insane.
Anyway I haven't read most Tatsumi stories I stated in my last post I do not actually care about him all that much because he doesn't appeal to me as a character but mischaracterization on this level drives me up the wall like we are not reading the same stories we are not playing the same game clearly.
AU where Steve is a First Mate/Chief Officer on a vacation sailing yacht and Eddie is the lead guitarist of the successful metal band Corroded Coffin.
The band has just finished their second world tour, and as a thank you for their hard work, the label gifts them a vacation on a world renowned sailing yacht. Eddie's not exactly thrilled with the vacation; he's spent enough time on fishing boats with Wayne to last a lifetime, but he completely changes his tune when he's welcomed aboard by the sexiest man he's ever seen.
Steve is usually good about keeping a distance and staying professional around the guests, but there's just something about Eddie that has him sneaking out of his bunk at night to listen to him play his guitar. Steve's so enamored he even convinces the Bosun, Robin, to pretend to be sick so he can handle all her duties like driving the tender and organizing guest activities.
And if Steve and Eddie happen to find themselves sneaking kisses in tiny corridors and quickly falling in love, well, that's no one's business but theirs.