My ideas for Mitsukou Week, in case you need inspo!! (Sorry about Day 3 and 4, they didn't seem like they would be helpful, so I blocked them out... ALSO THE QUALITY-)
I'll post it on Tumblr every day for Mitsukou week!! Thank you guys for voting!! Edit: I know they won't match up with the prompts, but I don't have time to do the actual prompts, so this is how I'm doing Mitsukou week this year! I'll make a separate blog with the ideas I had for each day just in case some of you need inspo :3
Theory time! The Minamotos are half supernaturals.
Minamotos are inclined to like supernaturals despite being tasked to eliminate them for generation after generation. Tiara got attached to a Mokke, Kou is empathetic to half of the supernaturals he met, and even Yorimitsu, who told us there was something wrong with his emotional attachment, took a liking to Hakubo: He stayed with the demon on his death bed, no humans in sight.
Usually that wouldn't mean much but oddities keep piling up.
The Minamotos have fangs, that's not something any other human character have. No matter how dramatic the manga can get, a living human does not get fangs.
Yorimitsu, the oldest Minamoto we have seen, had the biggest fangs of them all, comparable to Hakubo's and Yako: A demon and a fox spirit.
Minamotos are closer to the Far Shore than normal people. Not because 'they are born doomed' but because they have a mysterious sixth sense.
This sixth sense doesn't only makes them able to see supernaturals it gives them resistence to their influence. Even a supernatural as powerful as Mirai had trouble messing with Kou, who is not a trained exorcist.
We are told spiritual power is what give them this resistence but no other human have this: The Nagisa family, the Kannagis, they all have more spiritual energy than a normal person, and while that gives them the capacity to see supernaturals and use spiritual weapons, we get no sign anyone besides other supernaturals have resistence to a supernatural's influence.
Speaking of spiritual weapons:
It is heavily implied this lightning cannot hurt humans.
We never see a person be hurt by a spiritual weapons, even someone as unexperienced to exorcism tools as Aoi and Nene were able to use lightnings without hurting themselves.
There is no control to Nene's attack here, she probably wasn't even planning on using an attack, yet she wasn't bruised, there are no signs using that hurt her at all.
Meanwhile Kou zapped himself. The 'demon vanquishing' energy that his staff creates can hurts him if it hits him.
So it seems Minamotos are resistent because they have both high spiritual energy and some supernatural energy: The two powers that give other supernaturals trouble combined.
Notice how Kako say 'supernatural' as if any supernatural will have resistence to his power but spiritual energy needs to be 'excessivelly high' to count?
Teru can open a gate between boundaries with a few drops of his blood, no tools needed.
The only character we know with a power even close to that is Yako, who is a fox spirit born in a shrine, a mix of spiritual and supernatural power.
People may say Teru and Kou needing to eat a demon hand to reach the Far Shore train means they can't have supernatural ties but even full supernaturals have trouble crossing boundaries during a severance.
What this moment implies is "Trying to be closer to supernaturals is something people have been trying to do for a long time"
And I have reason to believe the Minamotos had far deeper supernatural ties in the old days.
Yorimitsu was able to form a contract with a demon.
A contract have always been a supernaturals tool to take advantages of humans, we see it with kako, the mermaid, tsukasa, hanako... So a Minamoto being able to do that without needing to offer anything in return (akane got the watch, nene had her mermaid curse halfed by hanako eating a scale) is wild.
It makes sense though, Minamotos are less supernaturals then they once were: their fangs are shorter and despite still having a lot of powers and staying sharp with constant work, Hakubo calls them weak sauce compared to the Minamotos he knew while he was alive:
BONUS: There are some implications that Teru is affected by rumors.
This part is less airtight but hear me out.
Teru's introdution was not as his main role of exorcist, but as the prettiest boy in school, the well known school prince!
His popularity is off the chart, he is treated as an idol! A pavillion was build for him, this pavillion is the most popular attraction of the festival, check out the line!
People bow down at his presence in valentine's day! He is the god of valentine's day!! Everybody loves him!!
Yet the second he is off school no one cares. We see zero admires, zero fans stopping him on his way to work, zero people commenting on how handsome he is. He is at most 'a pretty boy' the same level as natsuhiko when he is out, he is not an idol.
This becomes obvious when we compare him to Aoi.
Aoi had 'fans' since she was a little kid, people have always noticed her beauty, to the point Akane had to build a habit of stalking her to make sure no one harrassed her.
Meanwhile, Teru was isolated. He couldn't spend much time with people, but is not like people looked at him anyways. Teru is the only one interested in his classmates, watching them have fun when he reflects on his isolation.
But Aoi is always in the spotlight, even at her most isolated people will stares at 'the beauty queen' and whisper about her, something they had done all her life. She can't catch a break.
There are no hints Teru used to have this attention as a child, and even as a teen, he loses it when he steps outside of school. His rumors of being the school prince is no longer applicable. Only Aoi's beauty keeps being treated as abnormal:
Kou wishes he could protect people like Teru does and Teru wishes he could be as "carefree" as Kou, since he most likely believes that Kou doesn't have that many worries... or maybe this is just me projecting my relationship with my sister on the Minamoto brothers :,)
Well I'm not bored, but I don't want to do anything, so uhhhh might as well talk about how much Tsukasa and Mitsuba's relationship disgusts me. Tsukasa is so manipulative of Mitsuba it's just... remember this?
Sorry I couldn't get a better pic...
I definitely jump scared someone with this. Anyway, on top of that, he made "Mitsuba's wish come true" at the beginning and Mitsuba was suffering so much. Looking back on it, it was so painful for him. Their relationship is so toxic because even if Mitsuba wants to get away from Tsukasa, Tsukasa is kind of the only one who knows how he works. In fact, he knows how everyone works.
Idek if this makes sense... I just needed to get it out of my system because I've been thinking about this for days while I work on my mitsukou animatic. Oh Godddddddd someone save both them... (Considering that Tsukasa has his own trauma and that's part of why he became like this).
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