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This is sort of a foundation for their relationship, to my taste (☝🏻), in the basic AU, where everyone is alive, but I'll probably use this outline in other AUs as well, lol. I tied the pilot and Aidairo's other projects into canon relationships.

There would be too many lines in the left corner if I listed all the relationships. However, it turns out that Yugi, Nene, Koyuki, and Shijima girls are all friends in a certain way. The lines can easily reveal other relationships; Shijima might know Minamoto through the girls and Yugi. Tsukasa, on the other hand, has a wide variety of acquaintances.

As for the various trios, I've thrown out canon Aoi, sorry, but yeah. I'm perfectly fine without canon Aoi; she's only useful to those who love her, but I don't love her and there's nothing I can do about it. Without her, canon Akane's malicious intentions are dormant, Nene can be friends with other girls normally, without the emotional rollercoaster. I can also create difficult and short-lived relationships of this type with the crossover Chitose and Lily (with pilot Aoi, for example) and stuff like... somehow, without canon Aoi, everything works just fine. Pilot Aoi is a flighty brat, not even enough to be the queen of the school, just that way, and her toxic friendships with the girls are explained by the fact that she doesn't take it seriously and wants to be a pick me, lol. Now that's what interests me. And the two Akane exist simultaneously because one is that pathetic yandere, and the other is a bestie for Teru, Kako, and Mirai, lol. He has dynamics that I don't want to throw away. Canon Akane is the version of him where he behaves adequately (that is, his entire characterization outside of the Aoi crush (though he can still be scary, just for different reasons, he's still that weirdo, I guess), pilot Akane is that same really creepy moe guy (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠), and then there are Lemonaoikane. I also changed their names so it would be different from canon and it would be immediately clear that this is someone's AU, lol. Akanecest of a human and a mystery? Akanecest of a pilot and canon lol.

Chitose and Hatori are characters from another Aidairo one-shot. Money, Maidens, Love, and Innocence. The npc girl is one of those recurring npcs in tbhk and all the other projects, and she seems to have interacted with Chitose, so they could have been friends. I think the KaruLily and Chitose squad could be from a different school, like in the meme "different school and everything is the same, but in a different font" or, as they say, a distorted mirror image of the main cast (literally two different Akane).

Hakusumi are siblings, yes, but it's not because I think their pairing is bad or problematic, it's just that I don't see any spark in it for myself, whereas platonically it's more viable. They didn't quite touch me, but they're cute in their own right. Sakura is kind of Hakubo's boss, plus she and some of the cast, well, including Sumire herself, are older than the main cast (like Yugi, Kou, etc.). Natsu isn't a loner, it's just that things are more complicated than just "complicated"... maybe he just secretly knows everyone here lol. If you drew lines from his corner, the whole page would be covered with them.

The color yellow, which signifies "it's complicated," doesn't just mean "they have romantic problems," but also something that's truly hard to describe, because I usually perceive Sakuhiko as a marriage of convenience, and it's unclear how that will affect other AUs. And in Mitsukou, Kou might actually be harassing Mitsuba with his first toxic crush... and then Mitsuba will come out of that relationship traumatized. And that would be a pretty easy option for him... I'm sorru again I don't believe in Kou's innocence (although there is no point in apologizing for the truth, is there?)

It's also surprisingly that the tbhk fandom doesn't have the "two kids are supposed to be friends" trope, because Tiara and Mirai are literally... so why not 😔

Always calling her cute! This might be interesting for analysis. Did Teru ever call anyone cute, except maybe his siblings when they were little? I need to look for those moments; I really don't remember him calling other people cute.

He's worried about her mental state! It's also funny that when Nene started crying, he ran away shamefully. Hanako comforted her, and Teru entrusted it to Akane. Of course, he wasn't as socialized as the ghost from the women's restroom... poor, isolated Teru. Manfailure. But in any case, he's glad to see Nene okay again.

Teru is also very caring and even helps her get rid of obsessive thoughts and feelings 🤲🏻 Maybe it's part of an exorcist's job, but who forced him to tell Nene in her fish form that she still looks good and has nothing to worry about? After all, that would affect her well-being and self-esteem. Teru is very caring towards Nene.

And because he's a kind senpai! And Nene always thinks she can rely on him. That he can solve all the problems. In the context of the theme of the constant need to save someone in tbhk (and saving loved ones, and this is the theme of love, the desire to help) this takes on a touching coloring.

Ok, but what was that? Obviously fanservice, lol, but don't we have the right to just eat this fanservice? How is it any worse because it's the main character x the main handsome guy? By the way, when Kou tells Sousuke's ghost that he will remember him as he is, no one is saying that Kou is trying to be a good exorcist, everyone is saying that he likes Sousuke, so it must be evenly split: either the brothers are both exceptionally polite, or they are actually starting to like these people a little.

What's also interesting is that Teru decided to invite Nene along with him to spend time with her also. I'll believe he enjoys spending time with her. After all, they're friends, too, one way or another. And Teru is very clingy, and I'd say he's like Tsukasa in that regard: because he's so isolated, he craves spending time with _absolutely_ everyone close to him. So that's why Teru is so equally interested in Nene. He wanted to cheer her up too after losing Aoi. He invited her along and had no intention of using her as just a tool.

Teru asks about Nene's well-being and her wounds, and he was not going to call her to the far shore in order to replace Aoi's sacrifice, he was even willing to return everything supernatural back, but not to exchange it for someone else's life.

And here's another point: Teru had no intention of doing anything about Nene's lifespan because it was predetermined by fate and should not be interfered with. Teru was raised primarily on the principles of "do what must be done, and come what may." Aoi's death, on the other hand, wasn't predetermined; it was an accidental sacrifice caused by Hanako, and it wasn't something that "should be," so it would have been reasonable to interfere with the course of events, just as Hanako had already willfully done. But Teru intends to save Aoi, not kill Nene. Even though Nene's death was "supposed" to happen, Teru doesn't say "let's stick to the same old plan" lol. He didn't insist to invite her along and didn't want her to interfere with exorcising Hanako. Teru intended to protect her from that and prevent her from disrupting his plan, which essentially called for both girls to survive, and fortunately, that's what happened. Teru's non-interference in Nene's life does not automatically mean coldness towards her fate in those cases where he can correct it.

Pretty much for a crack pairing, huh? Have Nene grabbing Teru's boobie.

We rarely talk about the fact that Mitsuba called Aoi cute. Cuteness is a key concept for him; he constantly repeats the word, wants to be cuter than others, convinces himself and those around him of this, strives to achieve that first place, and seems to have no interest girls for this reason, as people like to say. Mitsuba doesn't lose the desire to talk about the cuteness even after his memory loss. And here, of all people, he calls Aoi cute, just like that, in a conversation, not even about that, but he says it so easily. What is that if not the highest compliment in his system of beliefs? And we know that Aoi is truly beautiful in appearance; this isn't a sop from Mitsuba, it's a statement of fact. And yet, he says it.

So, here's what I decided to do. Tsukasa is terribly underrated, treated as an evil villain, an annoying brat, and completely ignored, while Tsukasa has suffered so much in canon for this kind of treatment from literally everyone — his family, his friends, his readers. Tsukasa deserves attention and love, and so I present to you Tsukasa Day! Let's defend this child's honor.

My ocs, tbhk edits, Teruaoi, Hananene, all this, lol. In general, Aida's style is too good not to be inspired by it. Of course, she draws horror stories, but they are so colorful and cute 🥺 haha

So, I had a list of possible Teru ending AUs: Terukane becomes canon, Aoi lives her life; Terunene becomes canon when Nene survives because they get along well; Terumika (Teru x oc) becomes canon when Teru suffers from the desire to be Aoikane's third wheel for too long and his family marries him off to another exorcist family and Teru becomes Mikan-chan's wife, lol, because the Minamoto clan is literally a mirror image of this theme, change their genders and you get Terumi, who was raised as an heir, who becomes less needed after Taira-kun is born, the literally expected Taira-kun, and Kou-chan, who wants to break free from the domestic drudgery and do clan business. So there you have it. I despise the idea of Teru being Aoikane's eternal third wheel and cuckold, and while logically if the three of them get close it shouldn't happen, but what if Aidairo canonizes them? We'll get another old tired joke, and they'll sell it like that again because that's how they do their business. Teru deserves more, at least some separation from this idea. And so I didn't consider the option where he continues to live like this, but now I have a new plot line: where he lives as the third in this couple for a long time, still essentially kinda kinda out of place. And then he meets Sumire, and she makes this clear to him, breaking him out of his routine. Even now, this sounds pretty typical, of course, but it will sound even more vulgar when I say that Sumire is reincarnated (by the way, I don't like this concept at all for some reason for worldbuilding, so it's not like they all do it, but she's not completely dead or anything) right in this current year of the story, so she has a seventeen-year age difference with Teru. They meet as adults, and it's framed as Smoking behind the supermarket with you or something.

If we add to this the idea that Teru knew the previous Sumire (Haniamira headcanon!!) (which adds a lot of color to his attitude towards Aoi, who might simply remind him of Sumire, haha, today is a day of vulgarity, but it's about time!), then he'll be even more surprised to encounter _such_ a greeting from the past. Maybe Sumire would have been born into a normal family, or another family with special powers, or into Akane's family, but in a different branch, so that none of the cast would have guessed what happened, since the rest of the people had never even laid eyes on Sumire. Perhaps Sumire really is more of a distant relative Akane, because they work as conduits for the supernatural and that's what my old AUs were built on.