#ayanami 07 ghost

Trying brush that is finally good for my artstyle and this meme is so much fun lmao. The fact someone wants me to draw Ceres amongst these men is something else 😭😭😭 pls get away from every single of them for your sanity, Ceres 😭😭

Teito would prefer calling, either voice calling or video calls. He finds it really hard to read tone in text and he’s not the greatest at wording things in letters or words, so he stumbles a lot in his own texts to people. He can never quite get across what he wants to say in text as well as he can on a phone call. Video calls with him tend to be the longest, but he can handle long phone calls too – he just finds it very soothing to see or hear the people precious to him.

Ayanami prefers phone calls. He hates texting – he fat fingers the buttons for one and for another, he just finds it very inefficient. He can accomplish a lot more with a phone call than a text. His phone calls are very brief and almost business-like. He calls with a specific purpose in mind, not just to chat and once that purpose has been accomplished, he wants to get off the phone as soon as possible. There’s no amount of technology that will be better for Ayanami than seeing someone in person.

Frau is pretty fine with either, honestly. Both of them have their place with him. He likes texts to check in and especially for sending and receiving pictures. However, if he’s really missing someone or wants to have an actual conversation, he’d prefer calling. He prefers video calling, as he likes seeing someone’s face when he’s talking to them and he’d take a ten-minute video call over an hour-long phone call – he finds he gets more out of even the short video call than he does over a lengthy phone call.

Labrador’s actually really bad with technology. He would have a phone but he’d often forget about it and he’s always running on very low battery or just lets it die. He doesn’t really think about it often and he doesn’t like to use it unless he has to. He’d rather talk and spend time with his important people in person.

Castor prefers texting in most cases. He’s actually really good with his words, so his texts are always written with proper grammar and are nice to read. He uses emoji’s sparingly but does use them to help him convey his tone. If something’s really serious though or if it’s something he feels is too private to risk anyone seeing the texts, he will call people.

Mikage texts a lot. Like A LOT. He uses a lot of text speak, so some people might have troubles reading his texts and he uses a lot of emoji’s and gifs. But it’s not his most often used form of communication – that would be Snapchat, where he’ll send snaps constantly and it will mean something for him to keep his Snap streaks up with those close to him.

Hakuren texts and calls in pretty equal measure. He’s bad for text spamming – he’ll send lots of short messages and check-ups, along with pictures or videos of interesting things he’s seen. He’ll call those important to him pretty often too, at least once a week when they’re apart or if they haven’t been able to spend time together in person, because he really does need and rely on that time together, even just a phone call, with those important to him. He tends to worry about his important people when he’s not with them, and those phone calls, which can get lengthy, help ease that worrying streak of his.

Ouka loves it all. Texts, snaps, video calls, phone calls – she’s just happy to be talking to her friends, family, any of her loved ones. She lights up whenever she gets a call or a message from them. However, she’s very polite in her phone usage. If she’s spending actual time with someone, no matter if they’re someone she knows well or someone she’s just meeting, she puts her phone on silent mode and doesn’t check it out of respect for the other person. She knows the messages will be there when she does check it or that she can return phone calls. What she can’t get back is that in-person time with others.

Lance is all about the video calls. He’s also really bad when he discovers Snapchat. Those who have added him will wake up to so many snaps of him because he takes a lot of selfies that he feels must be shared with everyone – he just looks that good in them, after all. Video calls with his friends and loved ones also means that not only do they get to gaze upon him, but he also gets to see their beloved faces. It feels more, to Lance, like they’re actually spending time together than just a phone call does.

Hyuuga is big on texting and on Snapchat. He sends a lot of memes and shitposts to his friends and acquaintances, anything he sees that he finds amusing or funny. He’ll send a lot of pictures of things he finds amusing or interesting too – a new restaurant opened and he wants to check it out? He’s taking a picture of it (and a snapshot of an online menu if he can find one) and he’s sending it to his friends or loved ones to see who will come with him. He watches someone fall doing a skateboard trick and he’s found it hilarious? You can bet he’s had his phone out and been videoing it and sends it along. He’s bad at spam texting people if he really wants their attention. He doesn’t often do phone calls, but when he does, they’re always at the weirdest times. Legit, this is a man who will call someone at 3 a.m. because he had the weirdest dream and he wants to tell them about it (also, that person’s frustration at being woken up might amuse him). Oddly, his phone calls always seem to come in at the worst time for the other person and he will not get off the phone with them – his phone calls, when they come, tend to drag on and be nonsensical.

Konatsu adapts his communication methods depending on the person he’s communicating with. If he knows they prefer texts or finds that they return texts quicker than phone calls, he’s going to use texts as his primary method of communicating with them. With people like Ayanami, who prefer phone calls, he calls them instead, though his phone calls tend to be short and to the point.

Back when he was just Krowell, while he loved both of his brothers very much, he was closer to Fea. The two shared more interest in common and he found it easier to talk to Fea about things. Fea was his confidante in a lot of things as a child and probably the person that, as a child, Krowell was the closest to.

Ayanami is so used to skipping meals that he just doesn’t get the normal signs of hunger anymore. He doesn’t get hunger pangs or think about food a lot, which only leads to him skipping even more meals. When he does eat, they’re typically light and small meals. He does stay properly hydrated though and does have a bit of a caffeine addiction, as he cannot properly start his morning without a cup of coffee and drinks several throughout his day. If he goes without coffee for a day, he will get caffeine withdrawal headaches.

Though he might say otherwise, I think the thing that Ayanami values the most in others is loyalty. It’s a trait that, when seen in other people, will automatically make him view them more favorably. Another trait in people that will automatically make him view them in a better light is if a person is the sort who will put their all into accomplishing their goals and dreams with their own power and with their own hands, despite any setbacks or failures. It’s why he has a bit of a soft spot for Konatsu and Teito.

It’s really hidden in some cases, and not a side of him that he likes to be exposed to the public, allowing only those he trusts to see glimpses of it, but Ayanami also has a soft spot for children and animals. He likes the complete honesty and forthrightness that most children have, before they’re taught to lie and hide things to appease societal norms. If there’s anything Ayanami hates more than anything, it’s a liar. This goes back to his previous life as Verloren, where God’s lie about him killing Eve started the downward spiral of everything. He also appreciates animals for a lot of the same reasons – unrestrained by societal norms, acting only on their instincts and feelings, animals are easier for him to understand and sympathize with. His favourite, of course, being his own pet panthers, though he loves all his pets equally and wants to add to his collection.

Despite many people thinking him very handsome, complimenting him on his appearance and such, Ayanami has very little vanity when it comes to how he looks. He keeps himself in shape and healthy because it allows him to do his job and accomplish his goals easier. He keeps himself clean and takes care of his skin, hair, and body because he’s just naturally the type of person who really dislikes being dirty, sweaty, or unhygienic. He doesn’t think a lot about his own appearance or what he’s going to wear – he really appreciates the fact that, in the military, what you wear is decided for you because it makes getting dressed easier. In modern-day AU’s, I think he’d almost have a daily ‘uniform,’ consisting mostly of suits or more academic and ‘old-money’ style fashion – a lot of blazers, button-downs, slacks, loafers, etc.

Despite how driven he is towards accomplishing his goal and how important that is to him, Ayanami, when he’s not completely overtaken by Verloren, is still a really good boss. He won’t ask anything of his subordinates that he wouldn’t willingly do himself, for one. He does try his best to keep his subordinates safe, as well, and does everything in his power to keep them from risking their lives. While he appreciates their loyalty, the last thing he wants is for them to throw away their life meaninglessly for his sake. He makes sure that his subordinates are well-paid, that they live comfortably within the military’s rule, and the Black Hawks are actually the most spoiled soldiers in a lot of ways, though Ayanami would refute any accusations of him spoiling his soldiers by saying that he was just doing as any superior should for those under their command.

Ayanami is surprisingly skilled at domestic chores and he enjoys doing them, finding cleaning relaxing. He listens to soft music while he cleans, something like low-fi beats or other instrumentals. Laundry is his specialty – his clothes are always neatly ironed, lint-free, his whites sparkling with nary a stain. He sorts his garbage and his recycling carefully, keeps his living space clean and organized, dusts regularly and, despite it being his least favourite chore, wipes down and cleans the shower every week. The only thing present that sullies his perfectly clean living space? Spiderwebs. He hesitates to destroy them and instead considers them as a type of pet that he didn’t choose for himself.

In more modern-day AU’s, despite his seemingly hoity-toity, upper-crust appearances, I think Ayanami would really like and excel at parkour. It’s one of his favourite ways of working out in modern-day AU’s but it’s also more than that. He particularly likes parkouring along really high-up spaces and finds the movements and experience freeing and a bit of a thrill.

Ayanami gets by on anywhere from 3-5 hours of sleep a night. Despite running on so little sleep, he never naps and he’s awake by 5 a.m. to start getting ready for his day. He’s always running on a severe sleep deficit that he has no hopes of ever catching up to. However, he’s trained himself to be able to survive and thrive on that little sleep – his body is simply used to it by now. Part of it is, of course, that Ayanami has horrific nightmares, but also that he enjoys the peace, quiet, and solitude that comes with very late evenings or early mornings.

Teito is very opinionated on the subject of friendship. He has a lot of very firm ideas about what friendship means. Because it was something he had been denied for so long, something he didn’t think he could really dream of having, when he did finally form his first real friendship with Mikage, that settled a lot of his notions and ideas around what a friendship should really be. In Teito’s mind, friends support each other, no matter what. Friends truly love and care for each other, and while they have fun together and enjoy each other’s company, it’s important that they’re loyal to each other and that they’d do anything for each other. It’s how he acts as a friend. He’s the type of friend who drop anything to be there at his friend’s side when they’re having a rough time, no questions asked, who would give every single thing he owned if it would help his friend, even up to his own life. However, he kind of expects, without even realizing that he does, that his friends would feel the same way about friendship and that they would have the same view of what a friendship should be like. He gives intense loyalty, but he also expects it in return, even when he protests and says he doesn’t.

Frau is opinionated about a lot, unsurprisingly. He’s the type of man who forms opinions pretty quickly and he’s pretty resolute in his opinions once he’s made up his mind. He’s not completely incapable of changing his opinions as he learns new things, but it’s more a rarity. I think it’s going to be a surprise, but I don’t think porn is going to be something he’s opinionated about. While he has his own set tastes, when it comes to porn, he’s understanding that other people have tastes different to his own. He’s not one to yuck anyone else’s yum. Which leads me to the point of what I do think he’s most opinionated about, which is respect. I think Frau not only commands some level of respect from those around him. He expects them to treat him fairly, if not well, but he also tries to live with respect for most people around him. He’ll only stop respecting people once they give him valid reasons not to. He gets really upset at people who treat others as below them or who plain out disrespect others, thinking that they’re better than everyone else.

Labrador is pretty chill and laid-back. There’s not much that he is strongly opinionated about and even on the topics he is opinionated about, he’s not one to lecture about them. He’s not going to confront people if their opinions conflict with his unless he’s given no other choice and he rarely gets fired up about things. However, I do see him as being someone who not only loves the earth but feels very connected with it. He doesn’t like seeing the earth abused, be it from little things like littering (one of his biggest small pet peeves – it’s not that hard to keep your trash with you until you reach a garbage can is his thoughts on it) to big things like, in modern-day AU’s, big companies polluting the air and water, private plane use by celebrities, single-use plastics, etc. He’d do everything in his power to educate those who seem interested and to do his part in making the world a cleaner, more eco-friendly place, but he’s also not going to be on the front lines protesting and wouldn’t be starting big fights about it.

Castor has a kind of toxic thing he’s rather opinionated about. He’s tried to work on it, because he does realize that in some ways, it’s a harmful belief, but it’s one that was drilled into him from the time he was a child. In Castor’s mind, family means a lot and he believes that family should be important to everyone. He believes that, unless there’s actual physical abuse, even if your family hits all your buttons, even if they make you angry or sad or stressed at times, they’re still your family and the place you should always be able to go home to. While he has some complicated feelings towards his father, that’s still his family so he still holds a lot of love for his father and wants some form of approval from his father for the way he lives his life. It makes things harder on him, because he wants to hate his father, but at the same time, those bonds of family are something he can’t entirely shake and he doesn’t see why other people are so able to throw off those bonds or if it’s even good that they can.

Lance is, of course, surprising no one, very opinionated about fortune-telling and ‘mystical’ things along those lines. He’s a true believer in all of it and wants so badly to believe that there’s some degree of magic in the world. On top of all that, Lance does believe that everyone’s life is kind of prewritten, that everyone’s life is planned out before they’re born, and it’s because of that belief that he’s such a big believer in things like tarot readings and horoscopes – it’s simply telling people things that were already going to happen anyway, giving them some sort of advanced warning.

Ayanami has some very, very strong opinions around justice. He believes in complete and utter justice and sees himself as the executioner of that justice. However, he doesn’t realize that justice varies from person to person and that it means wildly different things to different people. He doesn’t realize that his own personal biases colour his version of justice and just assumes that what he sees as justice is the only justice that exists and because of this, he’s completely okay with enforcing that justice on all that exists around him.

Hyuuga takes a lot of pride in his skills as a swordsman. He’s put in a lot of work, trained hard, and pushed himself to his very limits to get to the point he is at. Because of this, should it be any surprise that swords and swordsmanship is something that is incredibly important to him. Seeing any person who calls themselves a swordsman treating their sword roughly or wielding their sword as if they have no pride in it sets him off and those people often find themselves cut down if their disrespect towards their sword is rather severe or at least cut up a bit if they’re just being dumb but still have room and potential to learn and grow.

Konatsu hates disloyalty. He can forgive a lot of faults in a person, as evidenced by how much shit he puts up with when it comes to Hyuuga. However, seeing disloyalty from anyone will automatically make him hate that person – like, absolute loathing and disgust towards them.

Kuroyuri fully believes that, if you’re tall, the world is super easy to live in and navigate. They really do hate their short stature at times and wish they would just hurry up and get tall.

Mikage gets really worked up about movies and television shows. He comes with strong opinions on everything he watches and he isn’t afraid to share them. He’s pretty forgiving with his opinions, for the most part, and he’s never going to form a complete opinion on something until he finishes watching it. He always believes that, even if he’s disliking something while watching it, it has the potential to get better and improve. Once finished though, he forms his opinions and sticks to them, despite people giving their arguments as to why something sucked or was good, whatever is the opposite of his opinion.

Hakuren hates women. It’s something he’s working on and comes from genuine childhood trauma but the boy strongly dislikes women and having to be around them in close quarters for too long. I don’t think this is an opinion of his that can’t be changed at all – he will learn to tolerate or even like certain women but he has a pretty strong opinion, for the most part, that females are icky.

It’s no secret on here that Katekyo Hitman Reborn has been one of my long-time loves. I love everything about it – the characters, the story, the relationships present within the story, but especially the ‘magic system’ of the various flame types within the story. Because of this, one of the things I love doing for all of my other fandoms is really sitting, thinking, and figuring out which Flame Types the characters from that fandom would use. 07-Ghost is no different in that regard, so please enjoy the KHR Flame type headcanons for the characters 😊

Teito would, of course, have Sky Flames. It’s been said many times within the canon universe of 07-Ghost that Teito has a beautiful, pure soul. He’s shown to not only have immense kindness and compassion within him, but he’s been shown to be able to understand and empathize with a wide variety of characters, even ones like Shuri who hadn’t previously shown him much kindness. Teito has, within him, a large capacity for forgiveness, and he’s shown an acceptance of people, even those he dislikes, once he learns more about their motives, goals, and the reason they do things. It’s because of this that I really do headcanon, so strongly, that he does have Sky Flames and that they’re of an exceptional purity.

Ayanami is the only person, thinking about the 07-Ghost universe, to be able to light and use almost all the Flame types. He’s exceptionally proud of this…except for the fact that, no matter how he tries, he cannot activate a Sky Flame. It’s always out of his reach, despite all his attempts and the harsh experiments he’s willing to subject himself and others to in order to grasp that Flame for himself. It’s like its taunting him with his inability to master it and make it his and he feels incomplete without it, which pisses him off more than he would ever let on.

Frau is another person who can use multiple flames. With his fiery and volatile temper and his habit of rushing into fights, he’s got strong Storm Flames, but he’s also able to use Lightning Flames at about the same level. He’s headstrong and not afraid to defend others by sacrificing his body for them, often putting himself at harm to protect others, achieving the Lightning Flame’s characteristic of being the one to draw damage to himself and away from the Family, serving as a lightning rod.

Labrador is another one where I think he can use dual flame types. I think he has Mist Flames that he’s proficient enough with. They’re not his strongest Flame, but they’re the ones he uses the most in battle situations, where he relies heavily on illusions to stun, disorient, or incapacitate his opponents without doing serious harm to them. His stronger Flame is a Sun Flame, though it lends itself most strongly to healing when Labrador uses them.

Castor has always and only had Rain Flames, in my mind. I can’t even fully explain why but it’s just a strong feeling I have when it comes to him. In battle, he can be the vicious, pounding type of Rain, a veritable monsoon that drowns his enemies in his power, but he can also be the light, refreshing rain that’s needed after a long drought, raising his loved one’s moods, and giving them much needed life and vitality.

Mikage is definitely a user of Sun Flames, natch. There’s no second-guessing, no doubt in my mind, that this boy has strong, pure Sun Flames. He’s shown, in canon, to not think twice about putting his own body and life on the line to protect the people in love. In fact, he embraces that as a purpose of his – it’s something he gladly does. Unlike Labrador’s Sun Flames, which lend themselves more towards healing, I think Mikage’s type of Activation is a lot like Ryohei’s, where it enhances his own physical fighting and attacking.

Hakuren was a hard one for me to place. I really struggled with his flame alignment, as there were three types of flame that I thought could really suit him well. I think he’d have very weak vestiges of both Cloud and Storm type flames, but he can’t light them so they’re generally unusable in battle situations. The flame type he can actually light and use is his primary type, a pretty strong Lightning Flame. Hakuren has shown a complete and utter willingness to protect those around him, often-times at the expense of his own body or his own personal desires, wants, or dreams. In canon, despite wanting so badly to be a Bishop’s apprentice, he was willingly, to protect the people who couldn’t protect themselves, to go and become Ouka’s tutor, so that the needs of the people could reach the royal family’s ears somehow. I think that, in a lot of ways, Hakuren is that lightning rod that draws the damage away from those that he wants to protect and onto himself.

Ouka is, of course, another Sky Flame user. For some reason, I see her in the role of the Sky Flame Arcobaleno, where her Sky Flame is something that is intertwined quite heavily with tragedy and sadness. The two things can’t quite be unwoven, but despite this, she tries her hardest to make the lives of those around her better. She seeks to help people, to better understand them, and to find love for them all. She’s constantly searching for ways to not use her flames for combat, but rather to use them in ways that protect and help others.

Lance is only one of two Cloud flame characters I see in the whole of the cast. While Lance is allied to the church and does enjoy his life with them, he’s often seen out on his own instead of choosing to mainly live and stay in the church for the most part, as people like Castor or Labrador do. He’s always off on his own adventure and he’s happy to drift along with his life, doing whatever brings him joy, acting on his own personal morals and beliefs instead of just solely those of the church. While he’s happy to join in on the group of Ghosts or fulfil his role as a Bishop, with Lance it really does feel like it’s more because he’s choosing to do so and because it’s something he wants rather than something he has to do.

Hyuuga is the other Cloud Flame type that I see in 07-Ghost. And, at first, it might not make sense. After all, Hyuuga is an exceptionally loyal character and a big part of his story within canon is his absolute, unwavering loyalty towards Ayanami. However, I really don’t believe that Cloud’s can’t have any loyalty whatsoever. In fact, I think that most Cloud’s are incredibly loyal people – what they’re loyal to just differs between the different Cloud’s. Hyuuga’s loyal to those he cares about, such as Ayanami and the Black Hawks, but he’s also very loyal to himself. He lives his life always focusing on his own amusement and entertainment. He does what he wants to do when he wants to do it, for the most part. Part of why he’s so loyal to Ayanami is because Ayanami allows Hyuuga to do this and gives him a place to be his flighty, eccentric, bloodthirsty self.

Konatsu has Rain Flames. Again, like Castor, this isn’t something I can explain quite as well as with the other characters. It’s just something about Rain Flame characters – it’s a vibe rather than a full thought that I can put into words. There’s a lot about Konatsu’s character that is very contradictory – he can be merciless and has no compunctions about killing when ordered or needed. He’s a furious rainstorm, water hitting pavement and bouncing up from the pure force of nature’s fury, when he’s on the battlefield. He’s that sudden sun-shower that springs up from nowhere and leaves you dripping wet and chilled whenever he gets too stressed and his temper flares. But most of the time, especially within the Black Hawks, Konatsu is the voice of reason, the sane one of the group, a gentle shower that you watch and listen to and that soothes your soul.

Ayanami

Ayanami isn’t someone who lets other people get super close to him, especially physically. He’s got a sort of hyper-awareness around personal space, both his own and the amount that he’ll allow others. There are some people that try to breach his large personal bubble and encroach on his personal space, as we see in canon – Hyuuga’s a great example. However, Ayanami either reacts with small acts of violence when people do this, if he knows he can get away with it, or he purposefully puts more distance between himself and that person.

There are very, very few people that he feels comfortable enough with to allow them within his personal space and even then, Ayanami doesn’t much enjoy physical touch. A lot of it may be due to his past life as Verloren, where everyone he touched did die and turn into a skeleton but I think there is more to it than that. I think he’s just naturally wary of other people and allowing them close to him, both physically and emotionally, and fears putting himself in any position of vulnerability in front of anyone. On top of that, I think he’s just naturally someone who is a little touch-averse, as it makes him feel uncomfortable and awkward.

Because of this, he’s not going to be someone who would often choose to shower together with a lover or who would choose to let a partner wash his hair for him. He gets his hair cut only by someone he really trusts and even then, he goes into the haircut having just freshly washed his own hair, making sure it’s still damp when he goes in and asking that they just use a spray bottle of water to soak it to the level of wetness that they need to trim his hair.

He just really will try to find ways around needing a lot of physical contact with others and when it comes to washing his hair, it’s something he’d feel much more comfortable doing himself as opposed to allowing someone else to do it for him.

Frau

Frau would be someone who would actually really enjoy showering or bathing with his partner. For one thing, it just means another excuse to see his lover naked and he’s all for any time he can make that happen, but even more, he’s someone who feels relaxed and better connected with his partner through little intimate moments like that.

He’s someone who does feel quite a bit of care and love through physical touch, so having a partner wash his hair would be something he’d really be into. The problem is that, while bathing and showering together is something that will happen pretty frequently while in a relationship with Frau, there are some drawbacks to it. The largest drawback is Frau himself. He’s a pretty tall man and it’s not that likely that his partner is going to be as tall as he is – in fact, a lot of the time, they will probably be significantly shorter, as I feel that is the type that Frau would gravitate more towards. It’s a little hard, while showering together, for Frau’s partner to really reach up to his head well enough to wash his hair for him. To do so, they’d often have to stand on their tiptoes, which just isn’t safe in such a slick environment, which is why Frau won’t let them. Of course, he could stoop or bend down to allow them to wash his hair, but that’s not a pleasant position to hold for any length of time.

To replace that intimate connection, Frau would rather ask his partner to wash his back for him or would allow them to soap up as much of his body as they’re willing to…of course, if it leads to other activities in the shower, he’s all for those possibly dangerous situations.

I do think he really likes the feeling of his hair being washed though and it is something he would like to experience more with his partner. If his partner is at all capable of cutting hair, he’ll get them to do so for him. Because his hair either needs to be wet or washed for this to happen, he’ll strip off his shirt and find some way to allow his partner to wash his hair in their sink. If they can’t cut hair, he’ll find some excuse – running late so unable to fully take a shower, for example – to also do the washing the hair in the sink thing. He relaxes into the feeling of his partner’s fingers in his hair as they wash it, closing his eyes and just focusing on the pleasant sensations. He doesn’t want a full scalp massage, but he really likes it if they use their nails in a kind of scratching motion along his scalp to get the shampoo to froth up. It’s his favourite part of the whole experience.

Hyuuga

Hyuuga is all about that physical contact. He’s someone who is very touch-oriented by nature and he’s never going to pass up an opportunity for skin-to-skin contact, especially with any partner he has. In fact, he’s going to go out of his way to find excuses to make those things happen, because it does really fill a very large need within him.

He’s someone who really would enjoy showering together with a partner. It’s often not at all sexual in nature with Hyuuga, though, as opposed to someone like Frau. He’s happy to see his partner’s naked body, don’t get me wrong, but Hyuuga enjoys showering together with his partner for mostly non-sexual reasons and it’s incredibly rare for the shared shower to lead to anything naughty. To him, it just builds a sense of intimacy, fun, and allows for a stronger connection between him and his partner.

He’s going to be the type of partner to scoop up some of the bubbly froth while washing his partner’s hair and then slather it onto their nose while laughing, just to be playful and have fun with his partner. However, there can be more serious moments as the shower is the other place, other than late-night pillow talk, where Hyuuga and his partner tend to have long, drawn-out, sometimes serious conversations that allow them to know each other better.

Hyuuga is definitely a little bit of a sook. He loves having his partner not only wash him up in the shower (though he is more than willing to and honestly wants to return the favour to his partner) and to have them wash each other’s hair. Because he has the same issue as Frau, where he’s quite a tall person, he knows it’s not going to be the easiest thing for his partner to do. He doesn’t really want to risk them slipping while trying, so he keeps a bath stool in the shower for just that reason. He’ll happily take a seat, pass his partner the shampoo bottle, close his eyes, and let them do their work.

He gets a little whiny if the shampoo job doesn’t include a nice scalp massage and really enjoys it if his partner, knowing that he carries a lot of his tension there, doesn’t follow up with even a quick rub-down or mini-massage of his neck and shoulders before they rinse him. It’s honestly his favourite part of getting his hair washed.

Ouka

Ouka is another one who isn’t really going to like having her hair washed by a partner, when she gets one. It’s not because she’s against physical touch or doesn’t want that sense of closeness with her partner, though. Ouka’s going to be someone who does enjoy physical closeness and moments of intimacy with those she loves and who won’t shy away from touching her partner in innocently intimate ways – holding hands, lingering touches, reaching up to push strands of their hair away from their face, giggling as she boops them on the nose or they do so to her, wrapping an arm around them in a side hug or going in for a full hug, joining pinkies together when they can’t fully hold hands. She draws strength and courage from those small, physically intimate moments with her friends and particularly with her partner.

It’s not even that she’s not used to having her hair washed by others. Being raised a royal, it was often the job of one of the servants or one of her ladies-in-waiting to wash her hair for her. She’s even completely comfortable with her hairdresser washing her hair for her – it’s not the action of washing her hair that makes her so uncomfortable with having her partner do it.

What makes Ouka so uncomfortable with having a partner wash her hair for her is that she doesn’t associate the act itself with anything intimate, sweet, or caring. The servants in the royal household washed her hair because they had to, because it was their duty and they’d face severe consequences if they did not. Her hairdresser washed her hair because it was their job. To her, the action of washing someone else’s hair is a job, something that isn’t fun for anyone other than the one getting their hair washed.

Ouka never wants to put her beloved partner in a position where they feel like they have to serve her or where they feel like they’re responsible for her in any way. Not only is she a fiercely independent sort in a way, but she’s always wanted any romantic relationship she does enter into to be one of equals. She doesn’t want her partner to feel responsible for taking care of her, not in that sort of way at least.

Teito Klein

In most situations, having his hair washed for him is always going to be a little embarrassing for Teito. It’s a conflicting thing for him, because he will enjoy the feeling of it, but at the same time, he always feels a little like he’s being treated as a kid whenever someone washes his hair for him. That’s just the connotation he associates with the action of having your hair washed for you and he dislikes being treated like a child who can’t do something for himself. It frustrates and embarrasses him and he tends to blush and protest whenever put in those situations.

However, if his hair is being washed for him as part of getting his hair cut or done, he doesn’t really have that same reaction. He can justify it more as being just a part of the person’s job and he is able to allow himself to relax into the pleasant feeling because of that. He allows himself to just focus on them at those times and he’ll really enjoy someone who is gentler when washing his hair. He doesn’t mind some firmness in their hands or a little light scraping of their nails or his scalp, but not too much – he tends to have a sensitive scalp and he finds even a moderate amount of pressure on it feels weird and kind of unpleasant.