#unrequested post

Langa doesn’t really get self-conscious about much all that often. He’s pretty quietly confident and that extends to his physical appearance. A part of it is simply that Langa doesn’t really care if people find him physically attractive. It’s not something he thinks about all that often. When he does just sit and look at his body, it’s mainly because he’s injured and he’s checking on those injuries. However, there are times that even he’ll be looking at his body and he’ll just zone out and think to himself ‘this part of my body looks weird.’ This happens most often when he’s looking at his feet. Langa thinks he has weird looking and ugly feet and he’s not exactly wrong. Snowboarding and skateboarding both are hard on the feet and his toes are kind of messed up looking, along with the fact that he’s lost toenails in the past and when they regrew in, they grew in kind of wonky looking.

Reki’s body is the type that just doesn’t gain defined muscles easily at all and it drives him insane. He sees guys like Joe and how handsome and attractive everyone finds them, with their muscular builds and chiseled features and he wishes he could look like that but his build and body just will not do it. He’s super active – skateboarding is fantastic exercise – and I think that at points, he’ll convince himself that he’s going to go to the gym and try to bulk up. He’s tried doing so twice but he always quits fairly quickly when he sees no real changes in his body. Even if he kept at a gym routine, I think he’d only gain a little bit of muscle definition – his build is always going to be lanky and lean, with the muscles he does have from all the skateboarding making him deceptively strong but not particularly bulky.

Miya knows he’s still growing. He knows this logically. It still doesn’t keep him from being a little insecure about his height, especially at S where he’s the shortest one. He knows he’s the shortest simply because he’s the youngest and he does feel the pride in being the youngest skater at S, but at the same time, he definitely has a sort of complex about how short he is compared to the others and he doesn’t like having it pointed out or rubbed in his face. He kind of worries that even when he hits his growth spurt, he won’t really grow all that tall. He definitely would love to grow up to be on the taller side; he’d love to reach that six foot mark like Joe but at the same time, he sees that neither of his parents are really all that tall and he worries he’ll always be on the short side.

I think that Shadow is actually really insecure about his appearance in general. He doesn’t have a great deal of self-esteem, something he hides under that uber-confident masculine person of Shadow. In his day to day as Hiromi, he does struggle with feeling confident with his appearance. He is really proud of his strong and muscular body that he’s worked hard to obtain but he wishes he was more traditionally handsome like Joe, for example.

Cherry is someone else who is generally very secure with their appearance. He doesn’t have a lot of physical insecurities and realizes that a lot of people find him attractive. However, he does have a pretty major insecurity and it isn’t so much around his actual physical appearance but more around the way he moves his body. It’s not an all the time, always worrying about it insecurity but he’ll get worried about it out of the blue every now and again and it becomes something he gets unreasonably anxious about. Back when Cherry was a preteen and into his middle school days, he had a group of bullies and one of them made a comment that turned into a running joke about how Cherry even walked like a girl and swayed his hips a bunch. He doesn’t think about it much as an adult but sometimes he’ll be walking and the memory will hit him out of the blue and he starts overthinking how he’s walking and if he’s indeed ‘walking like a girl.’

Joe’s body insecurity hasn’t even happened yet, ya’ll, which is hilarious to me. In my mind, all the men in Joe’s family have the curse of early baldness. Their hair starts thinning in their late twenties and they normally have a bald spot that starts appearing in their late thirties. By fifty, almost all the men in his family have either huge bald spots or have gone completely bald. Joe is terrified of this happening to him too and he’s a little vain about his hair. He uses high-end thickening shampoos and he checks out his hair very carefully in the mirror every day, especially since he’s fast approaching his late twenties, when the thinning normally starts.

Adam actually has to put a lot of work into his eyebrows. Their style, size, and appearance are actually carefully chosen and maintained. That’s because, if left to their own devices, Adam’s eyebrows tend to get bushy easy and he has lots of hairs that fall weirdly outside his eyebrows – he’ll get random hairs a little bit above his eyebrows that don’t fit with the rest and he especially gets random hairs between his eyebrows. It’s not enough to be considered a full unibrow, but it’s definitely approaching it. He gets his eyebrows waxed routinely so that he can keep his appearance to the standards he’s been taught are ‘acceptable.’

Are they on the naughty or nice list?

I do think that Giotto is most certainly on the nice list. Even though he built the Vongola, a mafia family, it started for all the right reasons. He had good intentions, only fought for what he believed was right, and I don’t think that Giotto ever defaulted to violence, especially violence for violence’s sake. He didn’t want to hurt people, but he couldn’t stand by and see how so many were horribly mistreated, injured, even killed while pretending it wasn’t happening. While he definitely did end up having to hurt and kill in the name of what he felt was justice, I do think that at his core, Giotto was a good person, a gentle and kind person, and I think Santa would have realized that too. All the good he did, all the selfless love and care he poured into the world, all the little unseen or largely unnoticed things that he did without wanting any recognition for them, those are the things that added up to have him on the nice list each and every year.

In stark contrast, Ricardo has never made it onto the nice list any year. Now, don’t get me wrong here. I’m not one of those people who believe that Ricardo was just a terrible human being, without any redeeming qualities or kindness in his soul. I do believe that he showed kindness and mercy to those close to him, to those who chose to devote themselves to him and his goals. It might have been a twisted, odd sort of mercy and kindness at times, but he still had a softer side to him that showed itself in those who swore and showed loyalty to him. But overall, there is a reason he was known to be the fear of the underworld during his time as a Boss and the fact that he displayed the Flame of Wrath…it speaks volumes, the canon facts that we know about him. He didn’t hesitate to show brutal acts of violence to gain control and keep it. If someone made him angry, he would not think twice about killing them. If someone opposed him, he refused to allow that and he would wipe out not only them, but those close to that person, just to teach a lesson to anyone who might have ideas about revolting against his rule. This brutality in his nature, the fact that he didn’t hesitate to maim and murder, the anger that burned, never quite satisfied in his soul? Even Santa, benevolent as he is and as much as he tries to find the best in everyone, can’t fuck with that and Ricardo is always on the naughty list.

I think that Terzo had years where he was on the nice list, but it was mostly when he was younger. Terzo was a genuinely good kid, a happy child who made friends easily and gained a lot of love from those around him. And when he became the next Vongola Boss, Terzo had a lot of support and love from not only his followers, the former members of the family, and the citizens in his area. And god, did Terzo do everything he could to be a good Boss, but the years and the stress of being in such an important position of power did start to change him. He went from seeking non-violent methods as often as he could to being more than willing to leap into battle, to do terrible atrocities in the name of the Vongola. With his charismatic nature, he even made it make sense, not only in his own mind, but to those who followed him. More and more, his name started ending up on Santa’s naughty list and for most of his adult life, he would stay on the naughty list.

Quarto, on the other hand, was on the naughty list from the time he was small right up until the last of his life. It’s not that he was an inherently bad person right from the get-go, because he was not, but he was a naughty child, very mischievous and a little manipulative. He was charming and easily forgiven for his naughtiness, but Santa still saw a lot of that naughtiness and it marked Quarto down on the naughty list. As he grew up, he grew even more into that manipulativeness and on top of that, his greediness as a child only increased as he gained more power. He was responsible for some truly heinous acts in the Vongola’s name, which he did well to convince others were needed (though there was definitely more peaceful ways they could have been accomplished, just with less rewards for Quarto). There’s no way, having fully come into his own as one of Vongola’s more brutal bosses (though not to the levels of Ricardo, for example), that Quarto could ever make it onto the nice list.

Quinto switched around a lot. There were years he was on the naughty list, but there were also years he was quite high up on the nice list. There was really no rhyme or rhythm as to the years he ended up on each particular list – it wasn’t like he’d end up on the naughty list one year, realize the error of his ways and end up trying really hard to be good, ending up on the nice list after that before sneaking back into flawed ways. It was really hit or miss. Even as a child, he’d end up on one or the other, sometimes being on the nice list for four or five years before spending a couple on the naughty list. I actually headcanon Quinto as having some behavioral issues due to mental illnesses and what list he’d end up on that year depended, in large part, to how badly the mental illness was affecting him that year. It wasn’t even like he could really help himself – there wasn’t really therapy widely available during Quinto’s time, mental health diagnoses weren’t really a thing, and he was just doing his best to cope with a mind that made him dangerously impulsive and reckless at times. During the worst of his episodes, Quinto would impulsively go on the attack under the Vongola’s name, he’d recklessly take whatever it was he wanted, he’d break all the cardinal sins to gain dopamine, he’d behave, in short, like the ‘naughty’ child that Santa just couldn’t justify putting on the nice list.

Simora, on the other hand, kind of idolized Ricardo. He’d always grown up hearing such high praise and all these legends about Vongola Primo and how amazing he was, but Giotto seemed weak and boring to Simora. Simora would hear all these tales and legends about the atrocities that Ricardo had performed, of all Ricardo’s exploits, almost as cautionary tales, as examples of what Simora should not do, but the thing was that Simora, even as a young lad, just absolutely loved all the tales he’d hear about Ricardo. Ricardo seemed exciting. Ricardo seemed strong, terrifying but intriguing. Simora started thinking of him as some sort of hero and wanted nothing more than to become a Boss like Ricardo was. And that he definitely did, modeling his rule over the Vongola after Ricardo’s. Of course, such behaviour automatically sort of earned Simora a yearly, well-earned place on the naughty list, not that he much cared. Sinning was so much more pleasurable, in Simora’s opinion, than being a good boy.

Fabio did rule over the Vongola with an iron fist. He tried to be fair and reasonable and he only did what he believed was right and just. In Fabio’s mind, he was just doing the best he could for the Vongola, his beloved Guardians, his family members, and the citizens in his area. He was doing what needed to be done to keep all of them safe, sound, in good financial condition, and well-taken care of for their emotional and physical well-being. To accomplish that, though, Fabio became ruthless in his actions. He took care of his people, but it was through some underhanded or just plain disgusting means. While the Vongola never really dabbled in drugs throughout most of their rule, Fabio would sell drugs and weapons to build up the Vongola’s bank accounts to absolutely obscene degrees. He justified it in his mind as making sure that he had plenty to take care of himself and his people, along with setting the next generation of the Vongola, the one led by his daughter, up in a really grand position. When small groups would try to band together, create gangs, he’d swoop in and use Vongola’s might to crush them. When other families seem to be setting themselves up for a rise in power, making them, in Fabio’s mind, a threat to the Vongola, he’d completely genocide the Family and everyone related to them. It was all for the Vongola, after all. Even though the intention and thought behind Fabio’s action, at least in his mind, was always well-meant and justified by his love for those around him, Santa couldn’t use that as an excuse for the horrible things done, and Fabio often ended up far more on the naughty list than he ever did the nice list.

We know that Daniela idolized Giotto. He was her hero. While she took a lot of inspiration from her father’s generation, particularly from the strong females that made up his Guardians, what she mostly learned from Fabio was what sort of Boss she did not want to be. It’s from Daniela that Timoteo learned his moderate nature as a Boss and how to really make the community the Vongola surrounded a part and parcel of the Family. While she marched into battle, Athena herself, in the name of the Family, she took every chance she could to make herself a part of the community. She didn’t want to just be a figurehead, just the Boss of Vongola, she wanted to be a source of comfort and strength in the community and she did it by charity work within her community. On top of that, she devoted herself to taking care of all her people and their families. She genuinely cared about those around her and sought to make their lives better. While there were years of her reign as Vongola Boss where she most definitely ended up on the naughty list, hard years for the Vongola where Daniela had to make tough calls and do horrible things that haunted her dreams, for most of the time, she ended up on the nice list (way down on the nice list, but still sneaking in there).

Like his mother, while there was years that Timoteo ended up on the naughty list, they were the hard years for him as a Boss – the year of the Cradle affair, the years he lost his sons and in his grief, allowed himself to attack mindlessly those he thought responsible, the year’s uprising happened that he couldn’t ignore. These are the years he hated, the years he almost regretted ever having become the Boss. But like I said, Timoteo gained his mother’s admiration for Giotto, her love for the people around her and in her community, and her moderate nature as Boss. Timoteo is genuinely a kind-hearted person, someone who just wants to take care of the people around him. He just wants to make people happy, to live a good, quiet life surrounded by the people he loves and treasures. He wants to do good in the world. He wants to leave it a better place than he found it. He wants to make a difference in people’s lives. And he tries really hard to do just that, and his efforts often leave him on the nice list, but like I said, sometimes Timoteo learns, through hard experiences, the weight of the name of Vongola, and the terrible things he must do end him on the naughty list.

Karasuma is well-trained by his extensive time in the military. He embraces minimalism as a lifestyle and in terms of his living quarters. This applies to both the amount of furnishings and décor he has and to the space he occupies. I do think Karasuma is actually someone who would embrace the tiny-home living trend wholly and completely. He could happily exist in 500 square feet or around that. He feels like tiny home living is really useful, not just to help with the issue of a surplus of people compared to the availability of homes, but it helps keeps him from accumulating junk. He has to stick to bare basics, which is the way he likes to live. I could also see him being okay with van living or RV living, if the need ever arose for him to be consistently traveling. Small spaces do not bother him whatsoever.

His military background also shows through in how he keeps his spaces. When he’s away on business, he hires a maid service to come in and take care of the place because he really cannot stand coming back to a dusty or messy home. When he’s living in his space, he is very careful about keeping things tidy and clean. He runs a tight ship, even for himself. His bed is made every morning and believe me when I say, the sheets are so perfectly tucked in, so straight and smooth and tight, that you could bounce a quarter off them. He finishes using a dish and he puts it right in the dishwasher or sink. He finishes using something and it goes back in its place. There’s no clutter anywhere – everything has its spot, there’s adequate furniture and shelves for the necessities of living, his cupboards are organized by what each one is used for. His bookshelves are alphabetical.

I do think that Karasuma is very drawn to clean lines when it comes to his furnishings. He’d be drawn towards either modern and contemporary styles or mid-century modern when it came to furniture. He doesn’t like a lot of extra when it comes to his furniture, preferring it to be utilitarian, simple, and clean. He likes solid wood furniture, or furniture made out of metal and concrete (particularly when it comes to side-tables or his bed frame). The one thing he despises when it comes to furniture and that you will never see in his home? Glass furniture or acrylic furniture. It just collects dust.  

I do think that Karasuma tends to lean towards more masculine things in terms of his furniture and décor. He tends to go with wood in darker hues, black metal in materials or bronze, and his furnishings and décor (like bedding, couch colour, wall colours) do tend to lean more towards the darker side of things as well – dark grays, navy, black, dark red, etc.

So, to spin off what Mashle openly parodies, I’m going to go in a direction I don’t often go for headcanons and say that Wahlberg is gay. He’s very gay. In fact, there was a time when Wahlberg was in love with Innocent Zero, back in their student days, and some of those feelings still linger, though he absolutely cannot forgive what Innocent Zero has become.

Claude Lucci, much like Ryoh, cannot resist the urge to check himself out in any reflective surface he comes across. He just has to – he is magnificent (if only in his own mind) after all. He has it all (again, if only in his own mind) – brains, beauty, and pedigree.

Farman Cregos loves golf and wishes it would become the next big wizarding sport. He spends so much time playing and has a little putting mat in his office.

Marvina Mevitable actually has a pretty big sweet tooth for someone so serious and stern. She’ll actually become one of Mash’s first and most consistent customers when he opens up his own cream puff stand, though she keeps telling him he should expand to other baked goods too, like tarts.

Alan Abraham paints as a hobby and as a way to relax. He also enjoys sketching and actually sketches quite a few scenes he’s observed throughout the school of teachers and students. He’s embarrassed about what he sees as a lack of talent though and doesn’t openly show them to many people. Wahlberg has seen some of his works though and has one of his paintings hanging in the Headmaster’s office.

Dot is actually kind of superstitious and really believes in prophecy, fortune-telling, and things along those lines. He reads and takes the articles in Monthly Prophet magazine as almost gospel for the month ahead.

Finn is really good with children and actually really enjoys spending time with them. I could see him going into childcare or teaching at a preschool or elementary school.

While Mash still keeps in touch with Domina, he more thinks of Domina as a friend. He doesn’t really think of him as a half-brother and has zero interest in keeping in touch with his other half-brothers. In Mash’s mind, he already has a loving family with his father and doesn’t much consider his biological ties as his ‘family.’

Lemon is honestly really close to her family. She loves her parents and, while they are poor and her childhood wasn’t an extravagant one, she believes they did the absolute best for her that they could and considers her childhood a good one.

I feel like, in a modern-day AU, Lance is a huge fan of the imouto genre, with lots of video games of that variety and whose favourite anime are within that genre. He would potentially do online reviews of things within that genre, potentially with Anna as his V-Tuber rig, and of course, while things might get a good rating, nothing ever gets the best rating because no little sister can live up to his own.

Rayne has a surprising talent for creating shadow puppets with his hands. They’re always bunnies.

Tom plants a lot of bamboo – we know that in canon. What I personally headcanon, though, is that he totally names every single one of the bamboos he plants. He started with naming them after Duelo moves, then Duelo teams, then Duelo equipment and when he ran out of names around Duelo, he started making up his own bizarre, weird names for his beloved bamboo.

When Lloyd thinks people can’t see him or knows no one else is around, he picks his nose and eats it. He enjoys the act of picking, especially the hard crusted boogers deep in there, and actually likes the taste a lot more than he would ever admit.

Aorio, while he knows he should be flatters, finds the fact he has a fan club to be more creepy than cool. It also doesn’t help that some of his ‘fans’ tend to lean towards some almost stalkerish behaviour and that severely creeps him out.

I feel so bad here, because Reki deserves cool shit, but I have a really hard time, even in a superpower AU, imagining him actually having a power. To reflect his storyline and struggles in canon, I think it would be so much more interesting and compelling to have Reki be the one non-superpowered individual, who ends up doubting himself and beating himself up over not having cool powers like all his friends have. However, he’s very useful to all his friends since he supports them both emotionally and through his creativity and ability to build cool shit for his friends. Like, I can see him building weapons or tools that will help his friends best use their powers or having just this basic level of knowledge that will come in insanely handy just at the right moment.

Langa has water-based powers to me, of course. More specifically, he tends to be best at snow and ice-based water manipulation. While Langa can manipulate the water in the air to create sudden blizzards, which is useful for providing cover or allowing him and his allies to run away, a lot of his power base, in my head, is very similar to Gray’s powers from Fairy Tail, Ice Make magic, where Langa can create things out of ice for both attack and defense purposes.

Miya is a shape shifter to me. More specifically Miya can change into a cat. Not just one cat either – as long as the animal is in the cat family, Miya can change his form into that animal. It’s very useful for attack purposes when it comes to the bigger and more deadly cats. However, it’s also very helpful for hiding and information gathering, since Miya keeps his human brain while in his cat form, and when he shifts into a small housecat/stray street cat, out of sight of people, he can easily be overlooked.

Shadow’s powers were definitely fire-based to me. I kept thinking that they’d be along the lines of Bakugo’s but at the same time, Bakugo’s exact powers definitely did not feel right to me. But I wanted Shadow to be able to make things explode and blow up. He deserves a very showy power, which is why I had set aside my other possibility for a superpower for him, which was simple plant manipulation. What I decided to go with for Shadow is something along the lines of molecular combustion, where he can accelerate the molecular motion of surrounding materials, making it so that he can make objects explode instantly upon contact with them. Going along with his powers, he’s impervious to those explosions, since his skin is basically fireproof, allowing him to withstand his own explosion.

Joe’s power is a really simple one. It’s almost stupidly simple and very straightforward, leading a lot of people to underestimate him or dismiss his powers as just being showy and simple to defeat. He’s got super strength. Because of that, of course, he is best at combat and attacking with his powers, but because he rarely fights alone, often fighting alongside Cherry, he’s able to have allies suggest really creative uses of his powers that make him a beast at defense too, since he can easily rip up things to use as shields. With his super strength, he can also smash the ground to create pits and debris fields to slow down oncoming enemies.

Cherry, to me, is definitely a technopath. His power is technokinesis, where he can manipulate any electronic devices in his sight. He can also ‘plug in’ to those technological devices, like touching a laptop and being able to access every other device on that network. He also has an innate understanding of any technological device that he touches, able to reconstruct them just from memory.

Adam’s power, to me, is a weird one that doesn’t fit neatly in any box. Adam is hugely charismatic and he can definitely be manipulative and I wanted to play with both parts of those when it came to assigning him a power. His is a control type power where he can exert his willpower and control over others through charismatic words. If the person is weak-willed or already prone to liking or trusting Adam instead of being hostile towards him, Adam can influence that person through his words. The more often he influences a person or the more favorably a person feels towards him, the more power Adam gains over that person until he can eventually basically make them into a puppet, where the person loses their own will and identity entirely, only doing and thinking what Adam wants them to.

Langa is a weird one because technically he could fit into either category. I think Langa is actually someone who recognizes his own emotions pretty well, even if he’s not always the best at communicating them. He’s going to realize when a person is becoming really important to him and when he’s beginning to really care about and love someone. Because of this, you could sort him into the ‘fell first’ category because I do think that Langa realizes these emotions quickly and that they do happen fairly soon after meeting and getting close to someone. However, I would personally put him in the ‘fell hardest’ category. That’s because, when Langa does fall for someone, he falls completely. He falls heart and soul, complete totality. That person isn’t just someone he cares about, like he cares about his friends. When he falls in love, that person becomes everything to him. His days feel incomplete without them and when they’re not in his life, he can’t seem to summon up much energy or will to do anything. Things seem emptier without them. So much of Langa’s life becomes intertwined with the person he loves to the point where he almost needs them to feel complete. A little codependent and not entirely healthy, yeah, but it’s the truth as I see it.

Reki, to me, also falls into that ‘falls hardest’ category. Unlike Langa, I don’t think Reki is all that great at recognizing his own emotions. He’s quick to realize that he finds a person physically attractive and he’s quick to befriend people. He realizes he loves hanging around a person and that he has a lot of fun with them. He realizes he wants them around. But he’s not great or quick at realizing that his feelings have definitely progressed beyond just friendship. It’s going to take something to smack him in the face and make him realize…oh shit, I think I’m in love with this person. Once he does realize that, Reki will need time to really understand and work through those feelings and he’ll act a little weird around his friend or avoid them entirely until he can come to terms with what he’s feeling. It’s going to be a little painful, honestly, for the person he’s in love with, very confusing for them, but Reki does honestly need that time. If he’s pushed too quick, he’ll bolt for even longer. Once he has come to peace with being in love though and once he’s accepted it, Reki is finally all in on his feelings and he does everything he can to be the best person he can be for his crush. He works up the courage to confess his feelings and, if they accept, Reki is the most loyal and faithful romantic partner a person could ever have, very supportive of everything his partner does, a real hype man for them, though he kind of needs that same level of hype and support from them as well.

Miya, to me, is someone who fits into that ‘falls first’ category. He’s not particularly prone to developing a ton of crushes or anything. In fact, someone needs to be pretty special to really capture his interest and fancy. But when he does end up interested in someone, once he does develop that crush, it kind of takes over his brain. That person becomes all he can think about. He’s got it bad for them, pining and longing, his heart skipping beats whenever he talks to them or gets to touch them in any way. His crushes are intense but they’re also fairly short lived. He has high standards for romantic partners and when he realizes that his crush has qualities that he knows he doesn’t want in a partner, that crush he has dies right there.

Shadow is another one who truly fits into both categories in equal measure. He is prone to crushes, yeah, and he falls in love very quickly, which makes him a great fit for the ‘falls first’ category. But the thing is, when Shadow gets a crush on someone, that’s the only person he can be interested in. He’s not someone who juggles crushes on multiple people. Once he’s ‘in love,’ he’s completely gone. His crush is the only person he truly wants to be with. He might enjoy the ego boost of being flirted with or found attractive, but he could never seriously entertain anyone else. His crush becomes the one to him. If nothing comes out of the crush, it takes Shadow a pretty long time to get over his feelings for his crush. He really needs the time and space to grieve over what could have been and to get over his hurt feelings, months even. I think that places him pretty well into the ‘falls hardest’ category. Of course, this cycle of ‘develop crush, fall deeply in love, do everything to impress and be the partner they could want, realize they’re not into me and mourn’ has been a pattern throughout Shadow’s love life, unfortunately.

Cherry is someone who fits very well into the ‘falls hardest’ category. He’s not someone who is prone to crushes. He’s got enough in his life to keep him busy and satisfied and he honestly believes he has no time or interest in dating anyone. At least, not until this person comes into his life. He finds them physically attractive, sure. He finds them interesting. They deal with his moods so very well. They’re perfect. But Cherry is stubborn. He stubbornly and steadfastly holds onto that belief of his that he’s not looking to date anyone, all while finding excuses to be around this person, all while falling deeper and deeper for this person and denying all the way that he’s doing so. He keeps pulling away here and there, running hot and cold, desperately wanting to see them but reassuring himself that it’s for the best if he just stays away from them. When things finally boil to a head, when Cherry just cannot deny it anymore or there’s a threat to his love for this person, only then does Cherry give in and admit he’s in love. Once he does that though, he becomes very loyal to that person and he makes it clear, even while he has his moods, that he loves them more than words can say and that he’s pretty devoted to them. They’re stuck with him now.

Joe is a flirt and is definitely prone to crushes. He finds someone attractive and he’s going to flirt with them, woo them, charm them. He develops crushes at the drop of a hat and loves the romantic pursuit and the first stages of new love. But Joe is someone who is more in love with the idea of love and that twitterpation and limerence. He likes that more than he actually likes the experience of truly falling in love. He falls first but he’s fickle, quick to move on once he’s ‘caught’ someone.

Adam, as mentioned in the dating headcanons I posted about him, is really prone to sudden bursts of interest in people. He’s definitely the type to fall first and that initial fall is hard and complete. He becomes almost obsessed, and sometimes completely obsessed, from the get-go. However, as also mentioned, it’s difficult for Adam to maintain that interest and obsession. He’s prone to growing bored with people, especially if his interest is easily returned.

Reki, to me, is someone who tends to fall asleep largely in what he was wearing that day. He doesn’t really wear a lot of actual pyjamas. Especially after S, he tends to just take off his jeans and socks, since he can’t stand the feeling of sleeping in either of those things, and he passes out wearing his hoodie and boxer briefs. He’s gotten so used to it that it becomes how he feels most comfortable sleeping. I think he really loves sleeping in his hoodies, something even confirmed by word of god. He’ll pull the hoodie up over his head, as far up as it can go while being comfortable, before he falls asleep. The below are things I could see him wearing to bed.

Langa isn’t at all particular about his pyjamas. He really does not care too much about what he wears to bed, as long as it’s comfortable. He does prefer wearing pyjamas though. He doesn’t like sleeping naked or just in his boxers. It doesn’t feel proper to him. He’ll often just throw on a plain t-shirt and whatever pyjama pants his hands fall on first. He buys both things in bulk, normally just generic brands. The below are my idea of what he’d wear to bed.

Miya, until he moves out of his parent’s house, really does just let his mother pick out most of his clothes, including his pyjamas so for most of his life, he just wore whatever to bed. However, when he moved out and started making his own real fashion choices, I think Miya discovered a real love of onesie pyjamas, especially cute ones shaped to look like various animals and creatures. He definitely has a couple of onesies that look like cats that he loves wearing as pyjamas, both to just lounge around in before bed and to sleep in. The below is an example of something I could see him wearing for pyjamas.

Shadow, by word of god, wears full pyjamas to bed. While I personally had headcanoned him as only wearing pyjama pants and preferring to go shirtless to bed, word of god trumps that. So, I definitely do think, in that case, that Shadow prefers to wear matching sets. He doesn’t like wearing mismatched sets for pyjamas, just tossing anything together or throwing on a t-shirt with his pyjama pants. In the summer, he likes short-sleeve button-up pyjama tops with knee length shorts for pyjamas, while in the colder months, he prefers long-sleeve button-up pyjama tops with full-length pyjama pants. His pyjamas are either gothic and dark, something dramatic, or they’re very cutesy. He’ll go between floral or bunny print pyjamas, or something pastel and cutesy, like the below, to something darker and more dramatic, like the second image down. It really depends on his mood for the night.

Joe is the easiest one for me to answer here and the only one without any pictures at all. He doesn’t need pictures because Joe, in my mind, just sleeps naked. It’s how he feels most comfortable.

Cherry’s fashion sense does tend to go more in a traditionally Japanese direction. He likes Japanese styled clothing and that extends to what he wears to go to sleep in. While it’s not unheard of for Cherry to end up falling asleep in what he was wearing during the day, both because he works late and ends up crashing out while working and because he can leave himself without proper sleep on S days, he does try his best to change into pyjamas whenever possible. I think he likes wearing jinbei to sleep in or to lounge around in late at night. He has several sets, in varying colours and patterns. The below is an example of what I could see him wearing.

We actually get to see Adam’s pyjamas in the OVA, which I loved. It was a fun little detail. We see that he wears proper pyjama sets, which look silken or satiny to me. They’re burgundy, something like the below, but obviously the highest quality and monogramed. I do think, though, that these are not really Adam’s choice for what he sleeps in. These are given to him and chosen for him by his aunts and he feels like he has to wear them. It’s expected of him so that he can look proper and respectable even as he sleeps. If it was left up to Adam though, if it was fully his choice and he could embrace the freedom to do so, I think he’d fall in the same category as Joe though, where he’d much prefer to sleep naked. It feels delightfully sinful to him and he loves it. He’ll have nights where he’ll ‘rebel’ by doing that, to be honest.

It’s really not that uncommon for Snake to fall asleep in what he was wearing that day. The suit jacket would come off, as would the tie, but since it’s not that uncommon at all for him to spend a couple day’s without sleep, doing work for Adam, he often just crumbles into bed in exhaustion in whatever he’d been wearing. When he does get pyjamas on, they’re often not actual pyjamas. He prefers sleeping in more along the lines of loungewear, often wearing sweatsuits to bed because he finds them really comfy and they’re super easy and cheap. He’s not particular about his clothes, really, and doesn’t have a set fashion sense. He normally just buys fast fashion and these sweat suits are super easy to find. The below is an example of what I could see him wearing to bed.

How Reki is as a brother really depends on whether he’s the younger or older brother. We see him as an older brother in canon, since he has all those younger siblings. He’s not an uncaring brother. He does love his family and he will take time to play with his siblings and help keep them entertained, but it’s not an all the time thing. He wants his alone time and his space away from his siblings and he’s definitely going to be the type of brother who would kick his siblings out of his room, fight with them if they try to get his attention when he wants to do something else or would yell for their mother whenever he was annoyed with his sibling, usually making his sibling run away. As his siblings age up and get their own lives and rely on him less, Reki finds it easier to handle them and actually starts wanting to build closer relationships with them and I think he and his siblings are closer as adults than they were as kids. However, if Reki were the younger sibling, I do think the dynamics really change. He becomes the bratty younger sibling who wants nothing more than to spend so much time with his older sibling. He looks up to them, admires them, and wants to do everything they do and he’ll try to sneak along or tag along any time his sibling wants to go out and do things. He’s always trying to get their approval and he likes it when his older siblings praise him.

Langa’s parents, to me, are the type who would have wanted to spend a lot of family time together. They raised both Langa and his sibling in a very loving, close household and really encouraged the two kids to bond with each other from a young age and to enjoy spending time together. When Langa and his sibling fought as little kids, their parents were always quick to intervene, to make the two talk things out while playing mediator, and to hug it out afterwards and apologize. Because of this kind of upbringing, I do think that Langa would be someone who would be really close to his siblings. He’s still Langa, meaning he’s not crazy talkative and he doesn’t share everything with his sibling, but they know more of his secrets than anyone else and in Langa, his sibling will find their own best secret keeper. They definitely have a little thing where they’ll tell each other secrets then hook their pinky fingers together, fiercely whispering while staring at each other “don’t tell Mom and Dad, promise!” Langa, while not really all that talkative or loud, will still be so supportive of his sibling in his own quiet, relaxed way. He’s more than willing to spend lots of time with them, helping them perfect their hobbies, helping them learn things that he knows better than them, etc. Even as they grow up into adults, I think Langa remains really close to his sibling and it’s not at all uncommon for them to just pop by to visit each other.

Miya’s an absolute brat of a sibling, not even going to lie. Whether he’s the younger or older sibling, there’s a part of Miya that absolutely loves teasing his sibling and getting on their nerves. He’s the type of brother who would stand in his siblings doorframe, supposedly to pass on a message from their parents, but really just teasing his sibling and when his sibling yells at him to get out of their room, he would totally pull that ‘I’m not in your room’ thing. He’d be the bratty brother who would blame his wrongdoings on his partner and gloat about getting away with it or would threaten to tattle to their parents about his siblings wrong doings. The two siblings definitely have teasing nicknames for each other that the other hates. However, as much as Miya teases, pranks, and gets on his siblings nerves, he’s bound and determined that that is only his right. Outside of getting on their nerves, Miya is surprisingly very protective of his sibling, though he hates it when his sibling tries to stick up for him, since it bruises his pride. As the two siblings grow up, I think that teasing remains but it becomes a lot more good-natured and the competitiveness kind of fades into just a fierce sort of loyalty to each other.

Shadow would actually be a pretty good sibling, both as a younger and older sibling. I personally headcanon that Shadow’s actually pretty close to his family. He really cares a lot about them and he tries his best to stay involved in their lives. He calls his parents every week and if he had a sibling, I think he’d be just as involved with them. He’d send them frequent texts rather than calling and would like keeping in touch with them that way. He gets very protective over them, whether his sibling is older or younger, whether they’re male or female or in between. He would be the type of sibling who would go try to beat up anyone who picked on his siblings and when his sibling got to the point where they started dating, Shadow is the type of brother who would be hyper-critical of anyone his sibling dated, almost intimidating towards them. A part of it is that Shadow does worry about his sibling getting hurt but the other part is that he is kind of worried that if his sibling gets serious with someone romantically, that romantic partner of theirs will ‘take his sibling’ away from Shadow, which is silly but still something he worries about.

While Joe is a pretty laid-back and relaxed sibling, never really fighting with his sibling, he’s also not super close to them, especially when the two were kids. He’s always been the type of sibling who has his own life and cares more about that. He had friends outside the house that he wanted to spend time with a lot more than he wanted to spend time hanging out with his parents or his sibling. He didn’t really want his sibling tagging along whenever he went out to play and he’d kind of duck out of spending that quality time together with them when they were kids. He was kind enough to his sibling and did show interest in them when they spent time together, which they did at least once a day, since Joe’s parents insisted on family suppers together. It’s just that they weren’t really particularly important to him growing up. As an adult, I do think that Joe ends up getting a little closer to his sibling. He’s more mature then and can appreciate the sibling bonds a little bit more. He does call them and he meets up with them at least monthly, staying caught up with them. As an adult, there’s a lot more of those little nostalgic jokes about their childhood, sharing stuff about his life with the quickly followed ‘but don’t tell Mom, okay?’ moments. He’s still always going to be very relaxed about his bond with his sibling, but as an adult they’re definitely closer than they were as kids, in my mind.

Cherry and his sibling have a very hot and cold relationship with each other and have since the time they were kids. Whether Cherry is the younger or older sibling, he does love his sibling and he enjoys spending time with them…until he doesn’t. As kids, there were a lot of childish arguments and competition; the two would compete over who got the front seat on car drives, on who got the last piece of dessert or who got the best and biggest piece of meat at supper, etc. There’s a lot of childish picking on each other that continues even into adulthood between the two siblings and where they’ve grown up together, both of them know how to get under each other’s skin. However, Cherry and his sibling? They both have the attitude that they’re the only one allowed to pick on the other. The attitude is more pronounced in Cherry. He can call his sibling names and he can be a dick to them but the second someone else tries to tease or bully them, Cherry is not having it. Cherry’s definitely the kind of sibling, too, who carries childhood grudges into adulthood. As an adult, his sibling will ask him for a favour and Cherry will be like ‘no, you broke my action figure back when we were six, why should I do anything for you? I’ll do it when you replace that.’ He’s really petty like that.

Adam, as a sibling, would be a lot different as a child than he is as an adult sibling. Back when he and his sibling were little kids, he adored and loved his sibling. He wanted nothing more than to spend all his time with them and to play with them. They were his favourite person and of course, while there were petty little fights, his sibling loved him back. However, in the household both siblings were raised in, there wasn’t the happiest home environment. On top of the blatant childhood abuse from their father and aunt’s, I do think that the adults in the household, those aforementioned father and aunt’s, really fostered a lot of competition between the siblings. They were always compared to each other, with the golden child being a title that both siblings were taught to really pursue with all their heart and soul because not being that golden child? It meant quite a bit of pain or being completely shunned until Adam or his sibling could prove themselves ‘worthy’ by beating the other at something. Because of this really messed up childhood, the sibling’s relationship with each other became really strained and eventually really broke apart. As teenagers and adults, they’re still highly competitive with each other and they still really see the other as the ‘enemy’ and as a threat to their place in the household. While they both love each other in their own messed up ways, Adam really holds his sibling to a completely unobtainable level of success and proficiency because that’s what he’s been taught to expect from them. He’s super hard on his sibling and very critical of them, though he’s quick on praise whenever they do something well, again very much mirroring the behaviour he grew up seeing. Because of this, I can’t see the siblings having a real close relationship as adults and I could actually see Adam’s sibling either behaving the same way as Adam and being a big part of his life in a critical, hard-to-please way or completely rebelling and being the ‘black sheep’ of the family that tries to avoid or completely disowns them all.