happy birthday to my son ๐ฏ๐
honestly it is infinitely more funnier for me to imagine that nobody has ever perceived atsumu as cocky despite him trying so hard. like first meeting he gives people that hooded eye stare and makes a sassy comment but he forgets he's usually surrounded by great volleyball players so two seconds later he's staring at them from across the net all starry-eyed and vibrating with excitement. the people at his school regularly see him getting his ass beat by osamu and the only reason they let him do that hand gesture thing at matches is because he pouts for DAYS if he doesn't get his coolโข moment. he wants to be one of those senpais who command respect forcefully but kita asks him to be responsible and he gets so excited at seeing new faces anyway that he just pampers the fuck out of his juniors, gaining respect in a completely unintended way. he probably fails to bully kids on roblox because he's sensitive as fuck and complains to aran when anyone insults him. whenever he acts up suna threatens to post embarrassing pics of him. he's one-third of the idiot msby trio. he has somehow annoyed half the japan team and iwaizumi into adopting him. he's probably forced by osamu to dress as an onigiri mascot once a month to promote the restaurant. basically let miya atsumu be a himbo sunshine loved by everyone this man is a loser omfg.
When Ping Ping smiles like this (เนโโคโเน)
csm throws a gazillion horrifying things at you every chapter that have you missing the hayakawa family like nothing else but then two panels later you're face to face with King Yaoi The Fourth Hirofumi Yoshida who is starring in the greatest tentacle sex yaoi manga of his own making by shoving a hand down Denji's throat
"who made you realise you were also attracted to women" literally the goddess i was supposed to worship. i thought my ass was soooo religious until i realised i just fucked with the imagery of a dark skinned naked woman portrayed as a symbol of female rage with a necklace of decapitated heads,ย a skirt made of human arms, a decapitated head in one of her (multiple) arms, and a long lolling tongue. i did NOT stand a chance????
The way Reki has been skating for longer than Joe or Cherry.
as if baku crying and blaming himself for sieun's condition AS A DIRECT PARALLEL TO HOW SIEUN FELT ABOUT SUHO WASN'T ENOUGH.
YOU HIT ME WITH THIS.
im gonna kill myself im so serious
HIS FACE WHEN BEOMSEOK ASKED ARE THEY MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU. HIS FACE. HIS TEAR SLIDING DOWN RIGHT AS BEOMSEOK'S DID. STFU. HE LOVED HIM SO MUCH OH MY GOD IM. I NEED A LOBOTOMY.
an angel gets straight up resurrected every time someone headcanons alhaitham actually finding cyno's jokes funny and being really fucking invested in tcg with cyno and helping nahida adapt to sumeru while working alongside her & cyno and just generally finding cyno cool & worthy of respect & pretty and. haha.
parallels, yes, but one is a disguised betrayal :')
hualian is great but huaqing. ohhhh huaqing. two bastards with equally sharp tongues who will give as good as they get. but also if you dig a little deeper into their mutual dislike it's like. oh fuck they're so similar that it's easier for them to "hate" each other than admit the deeply ingrained insecurities they have.
i like the whole devoted aspect of hualian but if you shift canon a little and make it so that mu qing is the one who caught hong-er you get to see hua cheng watch someone who was born into the same situations as him, who was consistently ridiculed and treated as inferior, grow to be a fiercely powerful and loyal individual. it's not just god x devotee anymore, you've given it a raw humanizing aspect because mu qing CLAWED his way to where he is, and so did hua cheng.
even without changing canon you can see that hua cheng went down the path of surviving because gege became his reason FOR living, but mu qing has always been willing to keep himself and others afloat even as they kick and scream and beg to drown.
there's just this desperation mu qing carries in everything he does and to see that blend with hua cheng's uncaring or even disdainful attitude towards others is something that i think would be beautiful. like they balance out each other's most hidden and scarred parts so easily.
they're so similar yet so different it's like they're dancing around each other oh my fucking god i just. the parallels and possibilities huaqing has make me violently ill.