As Fruba fan, are you team Yuki/Kakeru or Yuki/Machi? Why?
I'm a multishipper at heart so I never feel the need to choose uwu (multishippers, we stay winning). But to be honest, Kakeru and Yuki's relationship feels more brotherly to me. Sorry YuKakeYu shippers, I personally don't see it but I can see why y'all do. Considering the canonical bi/pan characters we have like Ayame and Hatsuharu, I don't find it out of the realm of possibility to see Yuki as pan or demi (which I personally do).
Bro connects with who he connects with, gender and sexual orientation have little to do with it.
But if we're talking about who I ship Yuki with above all else? There is a character I firmly believe Yuki would have ended up romantically with if things in the story were different and Kakeru and Machi don't come close at all to being that other person.
It's Kyo.
I am deadass serious when I say it is Kyo.
This is not some toxic yaoi shipping bullshit, I have evidence to back up my claims!
No one will ever be able to convince me that Yuki's first crush wasn't Kyo. Yuki was literally smitten with Kyo and his hair upon their first meeting, the pink on his cheeks wasn't just coming from the snow. This is a hill I will 100% die on. It was Kyo but then Kyo's hostility and the complications with Akito and the entire zodiac curse got in the way of that.
Hell, I don't even really have to imagine what that relationship would have likely been like either because by extension of Hajime and Mutsuki, we get to see that.
Their sons who are literally so close that it is a joke-that-isn't-really-a-joke at the family functions that if they're even left alone together for one second, they'll start hanging all over one another. Their sons who, narratively, are supposed to represent what their fathers' relationship could have been if there had been no curse or any other sort of negative influence tainting it.
And with the very clear romantic overtones of Hajime and Mutsuki's relationship, I think it is subsequently clear where Yuki and Kyo's relationship would have headed if that night they met as kids went differently. Or had someone decided to intervene and get the two of them on more amicable terms as children.
Hajime and Mutsuki have adored each other since they were children, spent most of their time together which they continue doing in the present and they balance each other out by supplementing for each other what the other lacks. And, of course, their chemistry is extremely good.
Whatever happened in the past, we're just us, but… maybe it's really special for our dads to see you and me standing side by side like this. ー Mutsuki, Yuki's son to Hajime
(Like, they literally spend Valentine's Day together when they could easily just spend that day apart. I know they live together but they don't need to be that damn close to partake in the romance holiday goodies.)
And to me, Kyo and Yuki have some great chemistry not only when they're arguing with one another (which I say it's great chemistry because of the envy they feel towards one another, how they only see what is good in the other rather than the flaws. Ex, Yuki's great at everything in Kyo's mind while Yuki desires Kyo's ability to easily connect with people despite his social awkwardness) but during the moments they aren't at each other's throats as well.
Admittedly it could just be my multishipper goggles, but there are 2 main character relationships/dynamics in Fruits Basket where I think 'if you didn't end up with A, you definitely would have ended up with B'. One is more subtle, the other is extremely obvious (I just think some people will be mad at me if I say it lmao, y'all can boo me all you want though I'm right!!!!).
YuKyo is one of those ships for me and it's the more subtle of the two.
Like it is there but it doesn't become obvious until you get to Furuba Another and get introduced to their sons. So I really don't think it is much of a stretch to say that had things been different, we would have seen Kyo and Yuki have an entirely different relationship.
"Adoration turned into envy"??? Yuki, my lad, you couldn't be more obvious that your crush on Kyo became something bitter.
Yuki wanted Kyo to like him, a fact he admits to Kakeru when we dive more into his past. There's a part of him that still wants Kyo to like him and have some sort of positive relationship with each other. And by the end of the main series, there's peace with one another. An acceptance that their relationship may never get to the 'what it could have been' but they have each other's back regardless.
Which I think is lovely. So even with my love of the canon ships we got, YuKyo is one of my favorite Fruits Basket ships that live rent-free in my head.
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Fruits Basket Another Headcanons: Mina Sohma Edition
• Mina Sohma was born via a surrogate to Momiji Sohma (31) and his husband, Megumi Sohma (28)
• Her birthday is April 5th (possibly in 2013-2014 if I did my math right)
• Almost as soon as she was born, Momiji began calling her "Mii" for short, which means "beauty"
• She is one of the youngest Sohma cousins, only being older than her own brother and Hiro & Kisa's youngest daughter
• As a baby, Mina was always looking around, smiling, and giggling
• However, she was not exactly an easy baby. Getting her to sleep at night was extremely difficult, and she'd often get cranky during the day because of it.
• It was a pretty often occurrence that Momiji would come back from the office in the evening to find his husband sitting up in a chair, cradling Mina against his chest
• That seemed to be the only way she would sleep, and it was always in the early afternoons
• Due to their work schedules, Mina was closer to Megumi than Momiji during her early years
• Momiji had to work long hours, and was often gone on business trips. Meanwhile, Megumi was home every day by 4:00, and he was always the one to pick Mina up from daycare
• When Mina was about 3-4, though, Momiji would occasionally bring her to work with him, and Momo would help keep an eye on her. She's always had a wonderful relationship with her aunt because of this.
• She was a very shy toddler, pretty much always clinging onto her parents or her aunts.
• She did like most of her older cousins, but Hajime and Mutsuki frightened her when she was very young. Mutsuki was very loud, and Hajime was usually glaring.
• She grew out of this shyness after starting school; now she almost has zero concept of stranger danger
• she visits Hajime and Mutsuki all of the time, too, and Hajime will sometimes take care of her when she is sick
• Age wise, she is closest to Miyoko (Kyo & Tohru's daughter) and Izumi (Hiro & Kisa's oldest daughter), who are both roughly a year older than her
• The three of them have a knack for getting into trouble....and then getting right back out of it because they are so cute
• (Usually, Miyoko & Izumi find the trouble, and Mina just goes along with it)
• Ironically, they're also the three cousins most prone to getting into arguments at family gatherings ("Mina, you go play on one side of the house. Izumi, go to the other. And Miyoko, you go outside.")
• Although they are eight years apart, Mina was always very close to Riku and Sora. They both loved playing with her; Riku has definitely let her paint his nails
• They also both take her to the batting cages; Riku usually just cheers from the sidelines. Sora will bat, but she is comically bad at it, and Mina always laughs about her lack of skill
• She first got into baseball when she was about five. Her fathers had tried getting her into dance first, but she never really enjoyed it.
• Still, she's definitely more of a "girly-girl" than a tom-boy
• Aunt Momo is definitely her favorite Sohma adult, but she also really loves Tohru and Rin
• On her other side, she also has Aunt Saki (she definitely thought her aunt and her father were witches, and thought that was the coolest thing ever. She was very upset to find out the she did not possess any powers like theirs) and her cousin Rio
• Rio absolutely loves her; that side of the family was not very big, so she was his first cousin. She loves Rio, too. They make bracelets together.
• Speaking of which, Mina is a jewelry making FIEND. Beads are EVERYWHERE. Both Momiji and Megumi have a necklace that they must wear all of the time because she made it for them.
• Her younger brother, Makoto, was born when she was five years old
• At first, she actually hated being a big sister. She did NOT like that her parents' attention was no longer focused on her. She would refuse to hold or play with her brother most of the time.
• In fact, she would even ask to stay with Aunt Momo just so she wouldn't have to be around him (and so she could be the center of someone's attention)
• It didn't take long, though, for her parents to figure out what was going on, and they had a conversation with her about the change in their family dynamic, but they also made sure to give her equal attention
• Now, she likes having a younger brother, and she's always trying to teach him new things or make funny faces
• Watermelon is her favorite food in the world, but ironically she doesn't really like candy or cakes
• She collects plushies, and Momiji always brings her one back from business trips
• What she does like is hot chocolate. When Momiji comes back from a business trip, the two of them always drink hot chocolate together.
• When Mina gets older, she does join the school softball team.
• She does not follow her cousins to Kaibara, though, and actually goes to a very prestigious all girl's school nearby
• Her grades have always been very good, but she does get in trouble sometimes for being unable to sit still or talking out of turn/too loudly
• She has dreams to travel the world before eventually taking over the business of her grandfather and father
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