Yesterday, you were the defeated

ur little hinata fang u give him is so cute

I’ve seen some discussions over the years concerning why aoba johsai / blue castle has that name & subsequent medieval imagery (instead of the common animal imagery most other major opponents possess), but my Personal reading is that karasuno vs aoba johsai is really narratively much more about Kageyama versus Aoba Johsai, and Kageyama is placed structurally in the role of ostracized royal hero fighting against his blood family. This aristocratic in-fighting has an inherently classical bent, I mean I hear this premise and the first place my mind goes personally is Hamlet—a prince returning home who is an outsider to his family and explicitly at odds with them—but there are countless examples of this idea in world literature. In haikyuu you see the familial nature of the conflict alluded to in how much more personal the aoba johsai match is for Kageyama compared to all other match-ups; he has an extensive history with and trauma linked to 4 members of the team (oikawa/iwaizumi and kunimi/kindaichi were present respectively for key moments of turbulence in his backstory), and the titles of Kageyama as King versus Oikawa as Great King places them symbolically in a lineage based hierarchy where Oikawa is father-ruler.