#hiitomo

So Hiitomo isn't a ship i'm very familiar with, I could really remember them interacting briefly on Scorpio's venom story (one of my favorites!)

I did a bit of reading, particularly this Tomoya 3* story , what i've gotten from it is that Tomoya tends to idealize Hiiro and on the meantime downplays himself a loooot. And when Hiiro does praise or acknowledge Tomoya as his cool senpai, Tomoya does question it a lot, because of his own self esteem issues.

I've decided to tackle this from Hiiro's point of view, taking into account the part when he makes this observation:

The song i chose was "True Colors" by Cindy Lauper (but it's a rock cover of it by one of my favorite bands :P)

Some of the lyrics:

The first lines can be linked to Tomoya, and the following could be Hiiro's way of cheering him up! In the story, he compares him to air (notoriously colorless) but i do think Hiiro sees Tomoya's "True Colors" on his qualities (like being adaptable and a dependable senior)

I think their dynamic would be the boke tsukkomi dynamic without them realizing, as well as mutual respect (with some jealousy from Tomoya's end that dissipates over time), with Hiiro seeing Tomoya as someone that's both vital to the others around him despite his normalcy and seeing him as a reliable person.

In an FS 3* for Tomoya (translated by nia_narqissa on Twitter), Hiiro outright calls Tomoya to be like air: "Not visible in the eye, tasteless, odorless, that's why unnoticed." The next line after that reads: "But without air, living being will die. A presence everyone needs." Which basically says that Hiiro believes Tomoya is someone that may not be seen as special, but without him, others may not succeed, and that he's needed by everyone. Tomoya jokes around with Hiiro but is happy that Hiiro uses his statement in a positive way, where the negative of being unnoticeable is replaced with the positive of being needed.

Also, Tomoya kind of guides Hiiro around and Hiiro sees Tomoya to be a different good from others. While Hiiro's good comes with talent, Tomoya's comes with care and reliability for others, like a safe space. Tomoya helps Hiiro learn more about things, like how he offers advice for Hiiro and tells him what he finds delicious and sometimes acting like a Senpai (though, technically, he is one in a sense of experience as an idol) during UNDEAD's MDM live.