1. Aizamatsu : I initially shipped these two as a joke; it’s no longer a joke. Aizamatsu will be the death of me. I repeatedly refreshed my ao3 to check if there were any new fics available. I’d occasionally write brief drafts of them. So far, I highly enjoyed this ship.

2. Lawzawa : I was initially skeptical and was not fond of it for months. It was not until I’ve read a recent fanfic of them that caused temporary emotional pain. This pairing comes off as tragic and I love it. I need more angst fics of them.

3. Aizaide : I love this pairing. Platonic or romantic, give me Aizaide. They are compatible with each other. These two definitely had feelings for each other at some point.

4. Mogizawa : This pairing came to me from a mutual of mines (you know who you are). I don’t ship them romantically, but I don’t mind those who do. I see them more as best friends rather than boyfriends/husbands. This might change eventually.

5. Aizalight : I only read a oneshot of this pairing. Not a huge fan. Sorry.

6. Aizawa x Eriko : …

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Like. You've been working on catching a killer for years now. You've watched coworkers, friends, die to this case. You find yourself wondering if what you're doing is right, or if one of the people by your side is the man you're after. You and your team practically isolate yourselves from the outside world, working night and day to find this killer. You can't trust people enough to give them your name. Time stands still. You wonder if (when?) you're going to just drop dead from a heart attack. You've been wondering this for years now. Is it weird to feel so numb about that thought? Nothing you do is even remotely helpful. You know this. You might have been told this to your face. In this battle that you've risked your life for, you are, and always have been, completely and utterly useless. So what do you do?

Hook up with your coworkers, apparently

this is a VERY GOOD question because I have a lot of them...

headcanons:

were each other's first loves (aizawa didn't realise it until over 20 years later that those feelings were not just platonic but romantic as well...)

ide and eriko have a complicated relationship... they're like strained siblings really.

ide likes to insist that love at first sight is absolute bullshit and completely fictional but he fell for aizawa the moment he saw him so he doesn't get to talk. it's actually pathetic.

they take their smoke breaks together, ocassionally will share a cigarette but often light one another's cigarettes

codependent bitches, have never gone longer than a few days without seeing one another until the kira case. live in the same apartment complex but different floors in their thirties, so they often go over to one another's places and ide will babysit yumi as needed. ide runs out of beer? he just takes a beer from Aizawa's fridge. yumi decides that her mum and dad are being unfair? she goes to uncle hideki's house and chills with him for a while.

when ide wasn't on the Kira case but aizawa was they were undeniably extremely unpleasant people. surprisingly, despite both of them having short tempers, they are more chill around one another because if one of them stays calm, the other will as well. aizawa would occasionally talk to ide by complete accident still thinking he was there even tho he wasn't. like aizawa will say "hideki, get the printing" and he'll be answered with silence and look up only to see his best friend isn't there

romantic feelings are definitely there, but neither of them like addressing it or calling it as it is. a friendship reeking of romantic tension. they have like romantic and platonic feelings towards one another, they're complicated and neither can explain it. on the scale with platonic and romantic at opposing ends, ide's are more romantic and aizawa's are more platonic, but both are truly towards the middle.

ide was best man at aizawa's wedding

ide is bad with all kids except aizawa's. literally all children but his. aizawa thinks it's because the kids have the "fond of hideki" gene whereas ide thinks it's because aizawa is their parent

met at 18 when training for the NPA and became friends immediately, right on the spot. did quite a lot of stupid shit together

I hc a lot simultaneously in different universes for them but I won't go into it now