#bf:hcs

eiji and sing are fascinated with snow globes much to ash and shorter’s amusement 

you’d think they’d all have gone out for breakfast at some point but ash never wakes up on time

ash vs yue lung in chess ...... it’s anyone’s game 

sing is so impressed when eiji separates egg whites from yolks; he has a go at it and fails miserably (the fuck, it’s on my hands now, ohmygod this is fucking gross) (ash, flatly: sing, you’ve literally killed people)

you know sing is the kind of person to take in an injured baby bird and nurse it back to health and then cry when it is well enough to fly off 

eiji ‘if you all don’t wake up this instant i’m going to go have a nice breakfast all by myself and you’ll be sorry’ okumura 

ash sitting next to eiji on the couch and draping his arm over the back in that casual it’s-not-like-i-want-to-actually-put-my-arm-around-you way 

shorter and sing searching up creepypastas late late late into the night and then regretting it very much when sleep doesn’t come 

ash fully stepping aside to let eiji pass whereas simply just lifting an arm or tilting his upper body slightly to let shorter/sing pass

max is incredibly supportive of ibe-san submitting his photographs to national geographic 

sing, shorter: mcdonalds! mcdonalds! mcdonalds! // eiji: we have food at home // ash: *pulls into the drive through as sing and shorter cheer, orders a single black coffee and leaves* 

sing and shorter are the ones who decide, ‘just for fun’, to make popcorn on the stove......you can guess how well that ends 

when watching heist movies, ash is always cutting in with his own observations about how they could’ve gone around doing a better job of the stealing, much to everyone else’s chagrin 

eiji’s always doing those quizzes like ‘what fruit are you?’ 

sing loves going to the aquarium ?? the luminous jellyfish are his jam 

all the kids in michael’s class are insanely impressed with his math skills, and when they ask him how he got so good, he breaks into the biggest smile and says, ‘my big brother ash!’ 

soon ash ends up tutoring all of these kids. he’s quietly flattered :’)

jessica and nadia bonding over how much they despise the Thug Life 

somehow ash and eiji always get caught up in that annoying thing that happens when you side-step someone and then they get in your way and for a few moments there’s this awkward back-and-forth thing that goes on...until eiji grips ash’s shoulders, and, with the brightest smile, gently shoves him to the side with a ‘sorry, ash!’ and it’s so sincere and so bright that ash is flustered for a few moments, blinking 

max taking ash out to buy a suit; ash grumbling, ‘i don’t need your help, old man...’ 

I SHALL DO MY BEST FOR YOU ANON

shorter hated taking baths as a kid … poor nadia, how she must have suffered

on the other hand, you had to drag tiny eiji out of the bath :’)

they try going to an escape room once, ash and eiji and sing and shorter. ash just takes a seat on the couch. sing’s all why’re you just sitting there man why aren’t you helping us and ash just looks up and says flatly ‘cause then we’d be out of here in 5 minutes and i don’t want to ruin everyone’s fun’

can you imagine max and ibe-san trying to figure out memes 

sing ‘i’m not crying my eyes are just sweating goddamn it’ soo ling 

eiji leaves milk out for cats but i’m pretty sure this is already canon

ash is really good at deconstructing magic tricks, much to eiji’s fascination and shorter’s annoyance 

max being the one responsible for everyone’s starbucks orders ohmygod this poor man please help him (ash deliberately orders something ridiculous every time)

sing playfully shoving michael and going ‘just call me big bro sing’

jenga games last long into the night. lots of nail-biting and trembling fingers. sing almost cries

ash and max like debating politics back and forth. everyone else begs them to stop

charades is a disaster because ash doesn’t try hard enough and shorter tries a little too hard 

sing is the kind of person who touches all the toys at the store and then when they don’t stop lighting up and making sounds, he freaks out and quickly rushes over to another aisle 

in the frozen section of the grocery store, ash and shorter constantly point to all the fish and go ‘that one’s you’ 

jessica and eiji are surprisingly very good shopping buddies; she’s always telling him ‘okay but you have to take this back with you to japan’ and he’s always asking things like ‘do you know something i could get for my mother?’ and she’s only too delighted to oblige 

shunichi stares-dramatically-out-of-the-window-while-listening-to-sad-music ibe

eiji absolutely insists that he and shorter and ash add max and ibe-san to their group chat. they shut him down faster than they’ve ever done anything else 

SING DID YOU SAY S I NG IM GONNA -

pretty sure they both have the same awful electronica taste in music. ash’s ears are bleeding.

sing absolutely has a jacket with a traditional dragon illustration on the back

it’s awful bc shorter can actually go buy cool clothes but he just keeps dressing like a disaster…….whereas sing actually has some sense of style B UT he’s so short so he has to end up shopping at gap kids 

SING HAS A COOL-ASS AKIRA-STYLE BIKE

nadia sits them down every sunday and does her best to instill in them a sense of their chinese culture and roots 

sing gets it into his head that he’s going to catch ash unawares one day and enlists in shorter’s help ….. he only tags along bc he’s so amused (”kid, you’re dreamin’ if you think you’re gonna catch ash off guard”)

‘tonight–tonight we’re watching (insert scary movie) and we’re gonna watch all of it and if you start crying i swear to god i’m gonna smash your face in’ - sing, at some point, whose own knees are already trembling 

they watch food network for completely different reasons: shorter, to get a sense of what cooking is actually supposed to look like; sing, to violently roast all the white chefs and their broiled chicken breasts and steamed broccoli 

eiji suggests that ash, shorter and sing play monopoly and it gets so intense and so serious that they’re sitting there for hours and they end up falling asleep right there on the floor; eiji drapes blankets over them all 

when halloween rolls around their chaotic energies shoot through the roof 

‘i want a cool handshake like you and ash’

WH AT DO YOU MEAN THEY DON’T REENACT THE CIRCE OF LIFE …….. ash walks in on them and walks out in the same breath. also, sing is surprisingly heavier than shorter expects him to be.

every single challenge that’s trending, these two are on it. eiji is concerned for their health and safety. 

these Fools always try to make it in the Guinness Book of World Records. they’re far, far away from that goal.

the tension in the room during a game of jenga is enough to cut like a knife

piggyback rides are obligatory ?? yes 

max is that one knight always after his promotion ... it’s his life’s quest, you can pry it from his cold dead hands. no foe is too great, no journey is too long, no task is too arduous - he WILL have his promotion 

jessica is a damsel. she’s in distress. she can handle it. have a nice day. her best friend is a dragon, who wards off anyone who comes along thinking she’s in danger (aka max who’s sent there after learning that they’ve spotted the dragon with a ‘hostage’; eventually the two of them reluctantly team up and get involved in all sorts of shenanigans)

eiji is but a Humble Peasant who does his best to earn a few coppers to support his family. he is ibe-san’s apprentice. cobbler by day, painter by night, he paints by guttering candlelight in his room, and is always sketching here and there in the day during breaks. one day wants to get close enough to the prince to capture him in a portrait, because wouldn’t that piece make a few gold tokens? 

ash is the prince who’d Really Rather Not Be a Prince. his whole life he’s been groomed and educated and polished to the nines for his royal duties and responsibilities - his beauty is known far and wide, and so is his intellect, but little do his friends and foes know that he can shoot an arrow from half a mile away clean through the center of a target. often found practicing archery deep in the gardens, or lounging by the great window in the study, light glinting off the side of his face, casting his eyes a deep, jeweled green, sharpening his knife. it’s a special knife -- given to him by shorter when he saved his life. he treasures it. a cheap dull knife - but it’s his most cherished belonging. the people love him and he’s very popular because of his compassion and kindness, which he does not show outwardly but expresses in small bouts, discreetly - from picking up a child’s fallen doll and returning it to her when he is out in the village on horseback for some official duty, to swaying the Royal Advisors into lessening the tax the villagers have to pay when the weather makes it so that crops are not harvesting at the rate they should be.

shorter and sing are both kids who run a theater and are desperately trying to keep it in business before it is abolished by other more popular establishments. they fight tooth-and-nail for their theater because it is their home and all they have ever known and nothing gives them more joy than putting on performances for people to let them escape the everyday routine and drab of life. one day they get involved in a pretty bad brawl - sing is knocked out, shorter’s almost beaten to within an inch of his life, but ash, out on official business, swiftly intervenes and dissipates the whole situation. he just quietly nods at shorter, but the other boy is so moved he scrabbles for anything--anything at all to return the favor- and gives him his knife. again, ash just nods, quietly touched - but afterwards sends some guards to follow him and make sure he gets someone to tend to his injuries. (he also finds out about his dying theater - and anonymously sends them some gold. shorter and sing never find out who it is.)

you ask i deliver 

eiji: but why is everything so sad ?? why do you always ask alexa to play despacito ,,,,,,,who is alexa ??

the chaotic energies that erupt when they decide to play a game of twister……..

bringing back a relic from 2013 …. no one can beat ash in flappy bird

eiji teaches shorter How To Cook 

shorter is a conspiracy theory junkie 

ash can’t handle spicy food at all, the poor boy 

what do you mean they all don’t huddle around in the kitchen at 2 AM squinting at their phone screens trying to make those brownie mug desserts 

ash likes collecting vintage copies of classic literature 

shorter’s the kind of person who poses with statues at museums; eiji takes the pictures. ash grumbles but you know he joins shorter eventually.

ash absolutely destroys everyone in debates. no mercy shown. best part is he does it so effortlessly. doesn’t even try

the three of them sitting out on the patio on a cool spring night, eiji telling them stories of japanese myths in his soft hushed voice and ash is so mesmerized

shorter and ash have 2435 different kinds of handshakes. eiji is flabbergasted

the three of them being absolute uncles to michael …. each of them has different energies and michael is absolutely smitten with them all <3

shorter can’t dance to save his life but boy he sure has fun doing it 

in the subway, eiji’s head leaning against shorter’s shoulder at the end of a long, fun day out. ash standing by the door, glance occasionally cutting to his sleeping figure. they are always looking out for him <3

they absolutely spend all night planning a surprise birthday party for michael - with max and ibe-san

somehow they are introduced to the skyrim games and eiji doesn’t even play, just walks around absolutely transfixed by the music and scenery 

eiji and shorter absolutely drag ash out to the water with them when they go to the beach 

shorter and ash having wildly different teaching styles when it comes to showing eiji how to use morse code 

eiji makes color coded friendship bracelets for them

LEGGO

they all cram into those photo booths, all of them, it’s a squeeze and ash hates every second of it

skip breezily telling eiji all sorts of things about the risque bits of Thug Life and eiji blushing and stammering like a Fool

they go to chuck-e-cheese. i leave it to you how this trip goes.

shorter is the Giver of Piggyback Rides. skip wears a little red cape for the full effect.

ash/skip vs eiji/shorter cook-off 

what do you mean skip doesn’t put the flashlight to his face, being 10000% totally extra af when they’re all staying up late and telling each other horror stories 

‘i wanna learn how to take pictures’ / ‘i wanna learn how to hack’ / ‘i wanna learn how to grow out my hair like THAT’ 

skip tries red bull once. that’s it. ash and shorter and eiji have never exerted themselves so much in their lives trying to catch him and put him to bed. they need a full day to recover from their exhaustion. red bull is thus banished from the fridge. 

skip is always perched on shorter’s shoulders this is a Fact 

yes !

eiji: complete Mother. kneels in front of him whenever he has something to say. encourages him to the fullest. kind words and laughs and praises. whole-heartedly and outwardly expresses himself to michael. won’t fault him and will tend to make excuses for him. absolutely fawns over him and is protective of him the way ibe-san is protective over him

ash: kind of a tsundere dad. mostly straightforward and to-the-point, listens with a somewhat solemn face. offers the occasional kind word. talks like ‘are we okay with this?’ and ‘do you think you’re up for this, michael?’. expresses affection with a quick hair ruffle. hugs are rare but they’re so warm and engulfing. encourages independence and is always teaching michael some handy odd jobs like how to unlock doors with paperclips and effective ways to multiply.