LET’S DO A WEIRD HEADCANON THING.
TAGGED BY: stolen from the depths of my other blog
TAGGING: everyone did this in like 2016 .. if you haven’t though then ! i recommend.
1. WHAT THEY SMELL LIKE / eikichi mentions in game that he doesn’t wear cologne, which leaves me to believe this might be compensated with an excessive use of deodorant instead. it’s not so pleasant, but for some reason i see him be one of those teenage boys. mostly just because i feel he would be self-conscious about smelling like sweat, as he only really gets to shower in the evenings and wakes up super early (like, around 5 am) due to a very specific situation at home where he has to sneak out of the house before his parents wake up (elaborated more on 4.). aside from the sometimes obnoxious smell of deodorant, you’ll also be able to smell tons of hairspray and the blue spray hair dye he temporarily dyes his hair with every morning, if you’re close enough to him or even tall enough to smell it. at home he may feel that he smells like the sushi shop he lives in, a smell which he absolutely despises and that he’s pretty hypersensitive to, making it so that not other people would even smell it quite as strongly as he does. he wears completely different kinds of clothes at home though anyway, so–
2. HOW THEY SLEEP (SLEEPING POSITION, SCHEDULE, ETC) / eikichi’s sleeping positions are about as graceful as his tendency to faceplant every time he faints in battle. nah, but he’s definitely an all limbs spread out, free-falling sleeper. on his stomach though, not on his back. i looked into what some people think it might mean and:
“Free fallers are sensitive extroverts who dislike criticism.”
funnily enough that does sound like him.
anyway yeah, pretty much spread out, on his stomach, taking as much space as possible… he’s a very heavy sleeper also, not easy to wake him up if he’s fast asleep and/or comfortable. though to be honest, he probably isn’t all that comfortable at home. his dad is all about that Traditional Japanese stuff so he most likely just sleeps on like, a futon. and not that futon’s can’t be comfy, but his isn’t any luxury futon either, but one that was last changed like 10 years ago and gotten flatter and less comfortable with age.
eikichi doesn’t stay up that late (at least on purpose, though doing his homework might go kinda late into the night if it’s difficult and he had to work that day), because he has to wake up super early as mentioned before and because he doesn’t really have that much to do at home during evenings. i feel he doesn’t feel comfortable/can’t really play music (unless really quietly), i don’t think he owns a computer, he’s probably forced to help out with the sushi shop kinda often as soon as he gets home from school which is super tiring… (though he often stays away from home until the shop closes, to avoid having to help out and comes up with excuses for it) .. he does his homework (which sometimes takes long if it’s difficult subjects and because he is not an academic = book smart person) because he needs to keep up good grades both because of his dad pressuring him but also because he wants to better kasugayama’s reputation as its boss. to set an example. if he’s got any free time left at most he might do some drawing but there’s one specific headcanon i have where he doesn’t draw as much as he used to as a kid, before some plot stuff in p // 2’s timeline in mt. iwato and after the events of p// 2 (in an au verse) when he picks up drawing more again. but!! that’s a hc for another time!
3. WHAT MUSIC THEY ENJOY / music’s a huge thing for eikichi, obviously, his dream is to be a singer in a rock band after all. he literally states that this dream is his reason for living. it’s his passion.
eikichi knows a lot about music history, especially rock music. he respects a lot of older rock music, even if he doesn’t necessarily consider it his favorite thing to casually listen to. i do still see him liking stuff like older punk rock, 80’s goth rock, garage rock/proto-punk, probably some classic rock, glam rock, some new wave… he’ll like some newer rock too but he definitely has a thing for stuff that were rock pioneers and changed the history of rock n roll.
aside from that, he also likes j-rock (referring to gas chamber as a visual kei band after all) and unfortunately, unlike with western rock history, i have not as much further knowledge of j-rock… but that is a thing i’ll eventually research. i wanna know.
either way, he generally listens to a lot of western music (as in american / european) compared to perhaps some - that is the rock stuff i mentioned before. his influences from it can be seen in how he uses random english in his everyday speech all the time (though j-rock songs also do that, …but they’ve also been influenced by western rock culture) and brags (lies) about being fluent in english. his pretty vast english vocabulary (judging from a japanese raw i’ve played) also seems like might have been influenced by listening to a lot of english lyrics in songs.
let it be added that in the english translation of the game eikichi constantly makes references to (mostly rock) songs. he’s mentioned for example the clash’s rock the casbah, sex pistols’ the great rock n roll swindle, the doors’ light my fire, van morrison’s brown eyed girl, REM’s shiny happy people and MC5’s kick out the jams and while this is really only a thing in the eng version (i think in jpn version he just says english phrases ??) it’s still a nice throwback to that whole western rock thing that i totally believe could be canon.
4. HOW MUCH TIME THEY SPEND GETTING READY EVERY MORNING / oh. well. A LOT. eikichi has to wake up around 5 am (doesn’t matter if he has school super early that day or not, he has to sneak out of the house after all, this is because his dad doesn’t know and don’t approve of his own personal style with the makeup etc. AT ALL .. meanwhile his mom actually knows and is ok with it! but his dad is the head of the house. ugh.) and upon waking up he will start from painting his nails black. he takes his showers/baths before bed in the evening, instead of in the mornings, to both save time and because he won’t risk waking his parents up. i think he dyes (with temporary spray hair dye) and styles his hair at home (has learned to be super careful to not stain anything by accident, prob takes extra precautions with it so that takes some time too), so he does that. spends a good amount of time in front of the mirror, checking every angle and feeling self conscious about his body and how his clothes sit on him (he might be skinny now but he still has body image issues because of his past). takes his makeup and accessories with him and sneaks out of the house before his parents wake up (which i imagine isn’t super late as they have a business to take care of, between 6-7 am) and makes his way to the local train station’s bathroom.
at the station’s bathroom is where he will paint his skin with white makeup (face, neck, hands and forearms - all that isn’t covered by clothes basically) after which he proceeds to doing his eyebrows, then his eyeliner, mascara… after all that he adds (dark blue or black) lipstick and white powder as a finishing touch. puts on his many accessories. sprays on some more hair spray as a final touch, just to be extra sure.
5. THEIR FAVORITE THING TO COLLECT / eikichi pretty much keeps anything personal like this hidden at home but i do think he collects CD’s he buys from giga macho in yumezaki, probably some band merch (or even stuff like guitar picks etc!) he might have gotten his hands on. concert tickets, artist signatures. accessories (rings, bracelets etc) that he thinks looks cool and kickass and fit his style. probably hoards dark lipsticks to be honest. sometimes he’ll buy music magazines. posters that he can’t hang on his wall but collects em anyway if they’re a band he likes. cool looking clothes, though some he customizes himself to some point.
6. LEFT OR RIGHT HANDED / eikichi is right handed judging from the way he wields his guitar case machine gun most of the time. (the in-battle sprites sometimes get mirrored, but if you pay attention to his armband you can tell which side is which)
7. RELIGION (IF ANY) / since his upbringing is all about that traditional japanese stuff he’s been pretty heavily exposed to shinto-buddhist stuff too so he knows religious traditions pretty well. i don’t think he personally cares that much for religious stuff but he might have some vague beliefs about afterlife. he does kind of believe in spirits and stuff, so he’ll be respectful and pray at a shrine also if prompted but i don’t think he goes out of his way to practice religion. mostly he’s kind of agnostic.
8. FAVORITE TOURISTY THING TO DO WHEN TRAVELING / eikichi would do a lot of shopping, try to find anything that catch his interest or otherwise looks cool. checks music stores. he likes the ocean (tho not necessarily swimming in it as you may imagine with his attire and body image problems - but for the atmosphere and i imagine because his element is water.) so if possible, he’ll def take a detour there. eikichi might be overly careful about what he eats from habit but he still very much likes good food and would probably want to taste something local (as long as it’s not seafood). he’d very much explore, he likes to experience the world around him and would probably try to arrange some fun activity with his friends.. i don’t think he’d like to travel alone as much.
9. FAVORITE KIND OF WEATHER / mild weather. anything too hot or humid melts his makeup and hair color and makes him sweat, both of which are a huge inconvenience as you can imagine. rain is also a thing he’ll avoid to the ends of the world because of his hair and makeup. handles slightly colder weather better than hot weather. i do see him really enjoying a mild sunshine in the springtime when cherry blossom trees and other flowers start to bloom and such. as an artistic person, he loves a beautiful, aesthetically pleasing environment. the hot and humid rainy season in the summer is definitely the worst thing ever though. he hates sweating.
10. A WEIRD / OBSCURE FEAR THEY HAVE / wouldn’t call it weird or obscure with the way he’s being treated at home, but eikichi is definitely deadly afraid of his father. his father who has lied is an expert in various martial arts, who occasionally physically punishes him and in general acts super rough and threatening and disapproving of pretty much any of eikichi’s own likes/interests/dreams and limits him from living his life the way he wants and from openly being himself!
eikichi is also somewhat afraid of negative feelings, as sensitive as he is, and has developed a sort of a defense mechanism where he will live in the moment as in to avoid brooding over things too much. it makes him seem tactless (sometimes trying to lift the mood with (sometimes bad) humor), fast paced and pretty carefree, maybe airheaded to some, but in actuality this attitude is just a form of escapism from falling too deep into the abyss that is his emotions. he keeps up a facade in public too, after all, that’s supposed to cover up for the sensitive and insecure boy that hides underneath and feeling something intensely might just break it. and sometimes does. well, he becomes gradually more comfortable with this in front of his friends (and shows his vulnerable side to miyabi and jun the most) but nevertheless. doesn’t help that eikichi’s dad teaches him toxic masculinity like “men don’t cry” and shit like that (says this if you blow up smile hirasaka with people still inside, visit gatten sushi after and he sees eikichi almost crying about it) something that eikichi actually does pretty easily.
afraid of failure. not in the way where he will be perfectionist about everything he does but… mostly just that his big dream of becoming a successful musician fails. he’s very optimistic but this optimism comes with the threat of potentially having his dreams crushed pretty hard which he, again as a very sensitive boy, would rather not go through. his dream is his reason for living as he states.. so if that fails, he might fall pretty hard. he’s trying to not ever think about that possibility, though.
has a phobia of sushi. just. smell and taste makes him gag because of bad feelings associated with it and being forced to eat it every day his whole childhood.
body image problems. past trauma for being bullied. insecurities from it. put that all together and you have a fear of!! what else!! but getting chubby again. gaining weight. no, he does not think that chubbiness makes anyone any less of a person (and he liked miyabi just as much despite her weight after he found out it was her!!). but he went through hell to get where he is now, is still not entirely comfortable with his body (all that bullying sticks to you pretty hard, and society’s beauty standards too obviously, but mostly the bullying) and would rather not undo all the hard work and suffering that got him here. and since he still doesn’t really love himself he’d rather not undo the little confidence he might have been able to successfully gain from his transformation. so yeah. gaining weight is one of his fears and makes him watch what he eats and be neurotic about his weight and i hate it. like, he literally avoids eating any meat for example in the fear that it will turn him chubby again. ahhh. my poor boy. you are perfect in any shape and form!!!
11. THE CARNIVAL / ARCADE GAME THEY ALWAYS WIN WITHOUT FAIL / eikichi is the type of person to do well or badly depending completely on his mood and thus how well he is able to concentrate. say he loses a game once and gets frustrated, if he tries to beat it again he probably does worse. and after that, even worse, if he’s even more frustrated. feelings take over and he is no longer able to perform as well because he’s flustered. so. i doubt anything having to do with precision is his thing (he’s clumsy as shit. ily.. but). however, i think anything that requires a lot of strength he’d be pretty darn good at. strength is his strongest stat after all (i got him to max strength (99) on lv 53 i think) and has the most strength out of the team (unless you give all the extra points you gain from lv ranks to tatsuya since those are up to you but that doesn’t count). so that one game - what’s it called? high striker or something? - would be something he’d excel at. anything to do with raw strength honestly. try him.
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