thinking abt nekoma first years as third years....
captain INUOKA. he is best captain. the most amazing ever.
vice captain LEV bc shibayama is a libero and they can’t be c/vc.
think abt that. captain inuoka and vice captain lev. who allowed this to happen. i am not mad im estatic actually but also. chaos. chaos everywhere.
setter teshiro. he just wants to play volleyball yall
the first years are not prepared for how chaotic all the third years are.
they thought they were. but. one day lev is late to practice and then all of a sudden he bursts through the doors at top speed holding a kitten in his arms like in the ova except he hits his head against the doorframe and lands flat on his ass.
shibayama, externally: alright, let’s start practice!
shibayama, internally: lev is so Tall. when will he stop. he’s still growing. alisa is not so Tall. is she still growing? i wonder which one of their parents is the tall one. do both of them have the tall genes? inuoka is Tall as well. will he keep growing. teshiro isn’t as Tall. what if he becomes taller than inuoka.
shibayama’s current concern: their first year libero surpassing him in height
they keep the gym during the winter bc while the basketball captain is politely arguing w inuoka, shibayama comes along and who can say no to him.
imagine him in his third year like?? he’ll be fully out of his shell, bc this is his second year as nekoma’s official libero.
he’s super confident and nice actually and all his kouhai love him
except all the underclassmen are nervous when lev shibayama and inuoka ask who their favorite senpai is bc how could u pick just one when they look at u like that
(teshiro is the one who breaks them up and tells everyone to go home already bc he too does not want to see the rest of them sad)
nekoma is on very good terms with karasuno!! inuoka was already friends with hinata but now he talks to yamaguchi a lot as well bc captain squad :)
lev is still trying to keep up the nekoma-nohebi rivalry and inuoka + teshiro are in on it too. shibayama is just trying to talk to his friend kuguri. (who is now nohebi’s ace and u can fight me on that).
there’s one first year on the team who looks and acts a lot like kai and everytime they talk to one of the third years they say “wow you’re a lot like kai” or “are you kai’s younger brother by any chance” or “you remind me of kai!”
the first year is on the verge of tears trying to figure out who kai is
but then the nekoma alumni come back to visit when nekoma goes to nationals and everyone understands
their second year ace (bc lev and inuoka are both middle blockers) starts talking to yamamoto. inuoka has to stage an intervention.
lev does not know any of the first or second years’ names. they have a bet running on how long he can refer to them by using honorifics or other polite ways before he caves and asks
shibayama tripped one time by accident but then inuoka and lev fell over to protect him from the embarrassment and soon all of nekoma was lying down on the ground. nekomata was amused. naoi was not.
more of a nekoma-centric headcanon but every christmas they hide their gifts for each other around the gym. there’s only so many places they could be but it’s fun seeing everyone running around and lev tripping over himself in his hurry
