Hi! I really adore your maki and nobara designs, I was wondering if you have any personal headcanons about them and their relationship post-canon. :)
I do.
Let's get something straight I USED to be a Nobamaki fan I used to be. I don't hate them but I stared at them for a while and thought about it more.
Their relationship post canon to me?
Tumultuous. Wiry and strained. Gay? I don't know.
Maki has set her home outside of Nobara views and the rose does not turn where the light dosent reflect.
Maki does know freedom it was in the ocean but must first know how to swim and she was taught how to by drowning.
Nobara does not understand how Maki can stay the same after everything, some violated clause of an aftermath. Letting what had been done to her change her view in confidence and how she holds herself. Maki twisted herself into something that was moving far away from the clan to becoming a copied image of a pedestal they had.
Nobara somewhat understands death to Maki but not the concept of sibling death let alone a twin. Nobara thinks that Mai would've wanted Maki to branch out more rather than become an ember in the firepit of what used to be the zenin clan. She dosent comment on it. She knows Maki is still grieving, it's a constant. She knows and does her best to help in the most Nobara way possible. They're kinda still the same every despite it all. And they do joke the same. But it's weirddd and Kugisaki does not really like Yuta.
If the epilogue was y'know how we know it. Nobara also would not understand why Maki would put herself back into the clan hierarchy that fed and twisted the zenin clan into a worse mind area in the first place. Girl you're feeding into the system that fucked you up, what the HELL are you doing. Despite the future change there will always be past distrust, it's so wild.
Nobara dosent LIKE the concept of holding onto grief, she does not BUILD off of it she moves to make a different direction. Her reasons for living are not in sorrow but in confident purpose.
Which Maki has built her blade from the shaken mast of her sisters sail.
It's.... something! They're still co-workers though I doubt Maki would work well with her in missions together. Maki works in the confidence of the heavenly restriction and Nobara does something else entirely. And Kugisaki would lean FAR FAR away from any form of hierarchy, she would roam around as Yuki did actually methinks.
