#haqueuoki

Hahahah, no need to feel bad! As an author, or at least a writer, I’m a sadomasochist.

Chill: Sanan, Iba. Oh dear, they must have tripped on something. How uncharacteristically clumsy of them. At least they’re fine and you’re worried about them, right? They consider it an honor to bask in your concern and attention. (Sanan in particular might have done it on purpose just to gauge your reaction.)

Laughs it off: Harada, Nagakura, Sakamoto. Sure, they’re a bit embarrassed and all, but they’ve survived way worse than this. They’ll just feign injury to get you to care for them, but they’ll do it in such an obviously exaggerated way that you can’t help but laugh. Then the spirits will be lifted and they’re back in business, baby.

Pretends nothing happened… but they’re blushing: Hijikata, Okita, Saito, Souma. They just pick themselves up as soon as you ask if they’re okay and keep moving to avoid public scrutiny. If you try to talk to them about it, they’ll just avoid eye contact and insist they’re fine. You’ll pick up on the “don’t mention that” vibe pretty quick.

Would like to die: Heisuke, Yamazaki. They’re absolutely mortified and their confidence will be materially damaged for the rest of the day. You’d better give them some TLC and try not to mention it so they can forget all about it and move on with their lives. Maybe an evening spent relaxing with some alcohol is in order?

Kazama: We're not children.

Chizuru: *hesitates, but leaves*

Heisuke: Eat shit and die.

Oh man, interesting! Dating a celebrity, hmm…

Either quit your job or take me with you everywhere: Okita, Sanan, Iba, Kazama. Even if they understand why you can’t spend more time with them, they don’t understand why you’re trying to juggle them with your career. Either they should come first, or you should just leave them and focus on your dreams, since trying to do both at once leaves them feeling neglected and jealous and generally resentful.

I don’t like this very much but it’s your life: Hijikata, Saito, Harada, Nagakura, Yamazaki. These are the guys who want to travel with you as much for their peace of mind as your own, and who, if they can’t, like daily video calls to hear how you’re doing. They do get protective on occasion and don’t fully understand your drive to withstand the insanity that is your job, but they do love you more than they hate the fact that they don’t get to see you as often as they like. For you, they can even handle the occasional puff of hate wafting their way from crazy fans.

Tagged by @impracticaldemon, sort of! (I’m assuming this is talking about writing and not reading. My reading preferences are different in some cases.)

slowburn or love at first sight

fake dating or secretly dating

enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers

“oh no, there’s only one bed,” or long distance correspondence

hurt/comfort or amnesia

fantasy au or modern au

mutual pining or domestic bliss

smut or fluff

canon-compliant/missing scenes or fix-it  

alternate universe or future fic

oneshot or multichapter

kid fic or road trip fic

reincarnation or character death

arranged marriage or accidental marriage

high-school romance or middle-aged romance

time travel or isolated together

neighbors or roommates

sci-fi au or magic au

bodyswap or genderbend

angst or crack

apocalyptic or mundane

Oh my! I’m swooning at such praise, but I’m afraid I’m unworthy of the throne. I personally have never read Machiavelli’s The Prince, so I can’t… really… speak to how anyone else would or wouldn’t read it either. That said, I at least looked up the Wikipedia breakdown as to what it’s about, so… here’s my (most likely inaccurate) take:

Would read and enjoy: Hijikata, Saito, Sanan, Kazama. “Enjoy” is a strong word for the first three but they’d all appreciate reading about alternate perspectives and considering their implications, how they might be applied or disregarded, et cetera. And then there’s Kazama, who would unironically agree with and approve of the methods described.

Would read and hate: Nagakura, Iba, Souma, Sakamoto. And it’d take Nagakura and Souma in particular quite some time to read it, but they’d struggle through for the sake of gaining knowledge (Nagakura being a closet politics buff). The thing is, they’d all hate it, regarding it as archaic and/or irrelevant, and certainly not the way they’d prefer to run a country.

Would not read: Okita, Harada, Heisuke, Yamazaki. Why would they bother? It’s not like they’re ignorant of politics as a whole, but they’re not really into abstract theories and strategies so much as hands-on action and/or immediately relevant information. Translating across cultures and time periods isn’t high on their priority list.