#team interactions

wanderer: you’re not using my hat as an umbrella. end of discussion.

nahida: but if we stay in the rain too long, mushrooms will start growing on our heads!! :ᗡ

wanderer: i’m- ... fairly certain that only happens to you, lesser lord kusanali..

xingqiu: LESSER LORD WHO??

kaeya: cryo is always more far effective in the rain. this is going to- what are you three doing.

p1 here

Hara says Hanamiya likes you.

Hara also says that if you buried a berry underground, it would become a tuber and grow into one big berry with roots, which just goes to show that no one should listen to a word that guy says. 

And, given that Hanamiya knows that that’s not how berries work, and especially given that Hanamiya has no interest in recalling the moment he called you cute (you, a mere acquaintance - no, less than that, a fellow student, or, even less familiar: a stranger who just so happens to attend the same school and the same classes as he does), Hanamiya elects to ignore every single word that comes out of Hara’s mouth. 

The problem really begins when Matsumoto, a guy who makes a point of never kidding, strolls into practice one afternoon and says, “you’re not dating that girl in chemistry are you, Hanamiya?” 

Hanamiya pauses from where he’s been jogging on the spot. “Are you kidding? What the fuck are you on about now?” 

Yamazaki sniggers. With an impish grin, He passes a ball to Hara. 

“It’s not that deep,” sighs Matsumoto, rolling his eyes, “I just heard her talking to her friends about you. The way she was talking - it sounded like the two of you were together.” 

“Well, we’re not”. 

The way Hanamiya frowns as he says that, looking distinctly preteen and faintly pink in the cheeks, makes even Matsumoto struggle to contain his smile. Everyone sees the way his lips just part, then slam shut, as he fights the impulse to ask what you had been saying. 

And things get worse for the captain. Furuhashi catches him watching you during gym class - the excuse is that he’s pondering the feasibility of a female basketball team. One evening as Seto prepares to walk home with Hanamiya, he becomes privy to you thanking the man for his help in the most recent chemistry assignment. Surprising for two reasons, in Seto’s mind: a) how stupid were you to need help with that assignment, and b) since when had Hanamiya, king of enjoying people struggle over things he finds easy, been helping others with homework? It can’t be that you’ve blackmailed him, that much is for sure. So it has to be…

“Love,” declares Hara.

Matsumoto rolls his eyes - against his will, he is attending this If-Hanamiya-Gets-A-Girlfriend-He’ll-Stop-Making-Zaki&Me-Do-Laps meeting. His misfortune is in having done some group work with you last year, and thus in having your phone number. 

“It’s a crush,” he corrects. 

“Who cares? It’s enough for us to have some fun with.” 

Yamazaki’s jealous of Hanamiya for many reasons - for example, how Hanamiya has no godawful annoying siblings, and also how close is with his mother (Yamazaki has a more argumentative relationship with his own mother) (see here for further comments on this). But, more than the family issue, Yamazaki’s jealous of Hanamiya’s confidence, his swagger, the way he gets away with pretty much anything. He wants to be as invincible and carefree as Hanamiya seems to be.

Hara’s similar to Yamazaki in that he’s also jealous of Hanamiya’s family life - though, not as jealous as Yamazaki, as Hara gets along with his brothers pretty well. But, Hara’s also mildly jealous that Seto could get good grades without doing any work at all; not that Hara does that much work (or is unintelligent), and not that Seto slacks off working, “but still”, he’ll whine, “a big brain is wasted on you.” (Hara thinks big brains ought to be reserved for the wicked and/or the funny.) 

Furuhashi’s jealous of Hara, in particular, how easily Hara gets along with people. Hara’s the type of person who can start up a conversation with a stranger, who smiles effortlessly and rarely means it - whereas Furuhashi, when around people he doesn’t know, becomes awkward and therefore cold, even when he doesn’t mean to be.

Matsumoto’s jealous of the way that Seto fits in so comfortably in the team, of how the team is designed around him. After all, Matsumoto’s time on the court during matches is mostly dictated by how long Seto’s going to be playing, how much Seto wants to sleep, etc. Matsumoto just wants to get a say in the matter one time too.

happy birthday to everyone’s favourite buzzcut boy!!

doesn’t have the best grades academically but works hard to make up for it

either sleeps in a foetal position or like a starfish, splayed out across his back: no in between 

he had his growth spurt pretty early, so for most of his young life he was convinced he’d be remain the tallest guy around and that 6ft would be a breeze

consequently, being stuck at 5’10 was a sore spot for a while, but it doesn’t bother him anymore

(besides, despite being the same height as hanamiya, matsumoto’s never teased about it like hanamiya is sometimes)

what is a bit of a sore spot is that he spends more time on the bench that most of his teammates 

hence, he’s the only member of the team who doesn’t get irritated if seto doesn’t show up for a match, cause the more time on the court, the better, in matsumoto’s eyes

this also means that he’s almost always up for street ball with whoever’s available 

people presume he doesn’t enjoy basketball much, cause he’s always frowning when playing, but really that’s just his focused face

one of the biggest basketball nerds on the kiridai team, if not the biggest 

quite likes jazz and hip hop

yamazaki also likes hip hop, so when it’s just the two of them practicing, there’s always some good tunes playing

out of his teammates, matsumoto spends the most time with furuhashi (his teammate of choice during class hours/school time, also just hanging out after school), and then yamazaki (usually for basketball or sometimes playing video games together)

yamazaki and he usually play violent war game type stuff, but have been known to dabble in otome games, supposedly as a joke, but you can’t tell me they didn’t end up like this scene of gekkan shoujo [x]

he does have several friends outside of the team, but over time, he’s been spending less time with them 

and on a completely unrelated note

on his wedding day, when he watches his s/o go down the isle, his face is still stern-looking

but is also accompanied by rivers of tears going down his cheeks

(matsumoto may look like Tough Guy 101, but he’s also a massive romantic)

Right so

actually before i talk about high school, i just wanna say that hara and yamazaki (who in my mind are childhood friends, as you all probably know) have been defending each other for ages

e.g. in middle school, though neither of them were ever bullied, they had a brilliant love/hate relationship, based off the logic that “i can bully you but no one else can”

so imagine that they get in a fight (cause you know hara was always trying to rile zaki up, and middle school zaki had even less self restraint), maybe zaki storms out of the room

some snotty-nosed lil “i wanna be friends with hara” loser dares to mock how ‘badly’ zaki fights, to which hara responds with beating that guy up as well

the two always had each other’s back

tbf that applies to high school kiridai too

in short, the boys just have an instinct to lie for one another - if anyone asks why seto’s missing from a lesson without a reason, etc - but, at the same time, they can never lie to one another, it’s always too obvious

but enough of abstract concepts, the people want real ✨team interactions✨

anyway

realistically, there’s not a lot of situations where they need to protect each other, given that they have a pretty comfortable situation in school

no one has the audacity to try bully them, including the teachers, thanks to Mr Makoto’s lil disciplinary committee making sure that no discipline whatsoever happens

yeah come to think of it, makoto’s the big protector man huh

imagine even daring to bring up that, i dunno, furuhashi threatened to kill a fellow student, at the disciplinary committee meeting

hanamiya sat back on his chair, grinning, like: sorry?

dumb but bold (sticking up for a friend) first year: i have it on very good authority that 2nd year furuhashi kojiro held a knife to my friend’s throat after my friend accidentally bumped into him.

hanamiya: i have it on better authority that that’s bullshit. so, moving on...

first year has no further reply cause one of the older members gives them a very warning look

the best thing about all is this that hanamiya doesn’t even need to threaten people anymore; all the first years get warned by people who’ve previously had associations with hanamiya, and so it goes

let’s summarise a bit:

hanamiya will never defend his buddies to someone else, in the sense that he won’t say anything nice about them (except he probably had to break this rule to explain, to the others, why he was bringing seto onto the team). but he is the constant protector, allowing them to run free as the wind

matsumoto doesn’t tend to say anything positive about his teammates (especially not about hanamiya, which is a bit sneaky - cause he’s also benefiting from the disciplinary committee situation), but, occasionally, if someone in one of his not-basketball circles is criticising them (particularly if they’re criticising zaki), he’ll let out a hmmph or even a “you don’t know what you’re talking about. fuck off”

seto makes everyone sound good in front of their parents. he’s as good as hanamiya when it comes to interacting with people’s parents, except, when hanamiya compliments you to your mother, you know he’s fucking with you. when seto does it, it takes you by surprise. it almost sounds a lil sincere in his gruff way of acknowledging that you don’t suck :’)

zaki is a very intense defender of his teammates, and he can and will get physical. but alas no one really criticises his teammates around him as a result.

the last time it happened, was that a bunch of smart students were walking past him complaining about seto (“i’ve seen him sleeping in lessons so there’s no way he got the top mark for this exam without cheating”) and mr. delinquent zaki, tieless, was already rolling up his sleeves, like “the fuck did you just say?”

then hara’s also a “the fuck did you just say” kinda guy, but in a more sing-songy way, like “hmmm? what was that? maybe i didn’t hear you right but i thought you just said my captain was a talentless fraud.”

this is said whilst approaching two gossiping basketball playing first years (from a different school) from behind, hara popping his head in between theirs, his arms around their shoulders, like

“doesn’t deserve to be a considered an uncrowned king, huh?”

and then, when he walks away, the first year’s probably have bloodied faces

(hara has a heavy dose of imayoshi energy in him - a tentacle nightmare)

furuhashi, finally, is a bit quieter. he’s prefers to walk into people, trip them over, etc, rather than the whole big confrontation

but if he hears someone, perhaps a certain student at the end of the day, walking with his friends, commenting on, for example, how he has ancient literature with hara, and how hara acts so tough but he’s really just a nerd with a shitty dye job

well furu can’t stand for that (:

grabs that guy, shoves him against the wall, pulls his penknife out (yeah furu carries a penknife around with him for pruning and whatnot, the ‘whatnot’ referring to situations like this) and presses it against the guy’s neck

the dude in front of his is shaking, seriously shaking

and furu’s just there with the knife and a completely blank gaze.

when his victim’s eyes go moist, the knife gets pressed a little harder against his neck, and furuhashi says, with absolutely no emotion,

hara figures that, cause, on valentine’s day, he shared some of his chocolates with you (in actuality, ‘chocolates’ refers to a half of a chocolate with hara’s bite marks in it’), you should therefore give him all of the chocolates you get

what he doesn’t realise is that you don’t get any chocolates - anyone who might have given some to you was probably scared off by the kiridai lads prowling around

it’s not like they’re possessive of you; it’s just that hanamiya was hoping he’d catch sight of you getting chocolates so he could bully any dude who tried to give chocolates to you, zaki stayed close to you the whole day because he had chocolates he wanted to give you except he was waiting for hanamiya to not be around, and furuhashi’s face just looks like that

anyway ultimately zaki finishes off the chocolates himself before he gets the chance to give any of them to you

blame the nerves - it doesn’t help when your best buddy keeps saying shit like, “man, manager-chan really needs to get some chocolates or i’m going to be skin and bones by the end of the day” - cause who knows whether hara knows that zaki had chocolates for you, and was only saying this stuff because he knew it would encourage zaki to take him to the local patisserie at the end of the day to try and keep hara as far away from you as possible

and of course zaki pays for ridiculously large slice of cake that hara buys

but they share it, which is how hara explains the fact that zaki’s the only one who pays on these lil platonic dates of theirs

seto and furuhashi walk to the station together, maybe have a brief conversation about “people just keep making up holidays these days”, but most of the stroll is silent and also very quick paced, so any onlooker would be convinced that the two of them hate each other

either that or that they’ve both got chocolates for each other, but are too much the macho emotionless man to reveal that fact

(sadly not the case, but pay me and i’ll go into depth on their relationship)

in the meantime, you go home with hanamiya - an opportunistic idea because his mother made chocolates for hanamiya to give to someone, except hanamiya’s a dick who would never give chocolates to a girl and especially not home-made ones, aka she gives you all the chocolates and scolds hanamiya for being so arrogant and selfish and you join in too because his mother isn’t aware as to just how many chocolates he had been given on valentine’s day whose senders will never receive even a penny back

mr. “white day is such a lovely day to bully people” has become mr. “i am being bullied on white day and because of this i will grouch at manager-chan all day tomorrow until seto makes a comment on ‘what happened at your place last night’, hara laughs obnoxiously, and then everyone is forced to do extra laps after practice”

so, all in all, it’s a lovely evening despite the only marginally successful white day

alright lads, salaryman!au time

for starters, seto’s the manager, and he doesn’t give a shit about his job

picture this:

each morning he walks in, around an hour after everyone else has gotten to work, checks the sales

“well done to no one”

walks right back out

everyone thinks he got the job due to his family’s connections, since all they ever see of him is his sleeping in his office

and they’re not entirely wrong, but he’s also a hella good salesman (hence how he’s managed to keep the job)

sure, he doesn’t often bother getting sales, but he’s a completely different person in meetings: he scrubs up hella well, and he has Business Speak TM down to a T

when he does get a sale, it’s always massive

in this way, he’s kinda similar to hanamiya - who also prefers to have fewer, but larger, sales

except hanamiya looks and acts like a sleazy salesman TM; you take one glance at that man, and you know he’s raking in a massive fucking bonus

that’s the reason he’s still in this job, that and because convincing companies to make bad financial choices is surprisingly entertaining

anyway, during the working day, he’s either working on his own or talking to seto

he’s very much seto’s righthand man, and, like seto, he rarely goes along to post-work hang outs in the local pub

they’re two very intimidating men

also cause hanamiya phrases his emails like he thinks you’re the biggest fucking idiot in the world, but also like he has the yakuza on speed dial if you ever dare get offended

and seto just doesn’t bother replying to emails, and when he does he just sounds very pissed off at having had to answer them

(that’s another reason they get along: he know what the other’s thinking intuitively, so they don’t have to go through the whole email/phone call/meeting schpiel)

yeah seto sucks as a manager

you could have only 32 hours left to live, message him asking for a day off, explaining your situation

and he’ll just be like, “do i look like i give a shit?”

it sounds like he thinks you should be dedicating your final moments to capitalism, when, in reality, he really just doesn’t give a shit

his employees could not show up to work for a week, and he’d just shrug his shoulders

hell he might not even notice