another in-depth headcanon from everyone's least favorite/j submitter coming up!
ethnicity headcanons!! i don't think i submitted these yet,, hehe
Saki and Tsukasa - Ryukyuan (Okinawan). they lived in Okinawa when they were very young, but when Saki got sick they moved to Tokyo for her medical care. most of their family still lives in Okinawa and they visit frequently
Honami - Vietnamese. her parents are immigrants and she was born in Japan. part of why she was so desperate to be liked by her classmates is being bullied for not "looking" Japanese.
Shiho and Shizuku - Korean. their family has been living in Japan since pre-WWII.
An - Filipino-Japanese. her mom is Filipino, dad is Japanese. she speaks some Tagalog but not a ton (side note, i headcanon that she has dyslexia which makes learning new languages extremely difficult for her, especially since Japanese has its own unique and horrifically complex writing system. you're saying that she finally figured out kanji and now she's supposed to learn the fucking latin alphabet? yeah, no)
Akito and Ena - Ghanaian-Japanese. their mom is an immigrant from Ghana who moved to Japan for college. also, Akito wears his hair in locs. his stupid yellow streak is its own loc that he bleaches, but it's darker than in canon because he once used too strong of bleach on it and the whole loc fell off. An relentlessly made fun of him for it
Emu - Han Chinese-Japanese. i don't... have anything to say about this one really
Nene and Rui - Jewish-Japanese. they're second cousins so they have a common set of great grandparents. Nene is ethnically Jewish by birth and Rui by conversion (Jewishness is passed down matrilineally, and converts are considered ethnically Jewish). i'll admit this headcanon is very self indulgent to me as a future convert myself
Mizuki - Brazilian-Japanese. she speaks Brazilian Portuguese as well as Japanese and has an interest in Brazilian fashion
mod's (and others') thoughts are welcomed !!! if anything i said is weird or incorrect especially please let me know as i am not from any of these cultures or places
my goodness i LOVE this!! the depth !! the reasons why !!! i have no comments, this is beautiful !