Cas gifting Sam shiny objects as bird courting gifts. And while Sam does not know the reasons he just cherishes the fact that his friend took time to pick these shiny objects to gift it to him, place them all i side the box under his bed, unaware that Cas frequently looking for those gifts inside Sam’s room and when he did not see them, he thought Sam threw them away. Long story short Cas appeared upset and when Sam got the angel’s sad gaze with quiet voice, i understand you may not appreciate my courting gifts, Samuel, but throwing them away is an exceptional level of hatred, i may need a few days to recover from it, and Sam was like, courting what, what gifts, confusedly showing Cas the whole box with every shiny objects Cas has ever giffed him just to prove that he kept them all so Castiel won’t be no more upset, and Castiel upon seeing the whole treasure-like boxes grew happy real fast, wings puffed a bit behind his back and face softens and yeah, Sam would chose the word preening to describe Cas at that moment.
Thank you so much everyone for participating whether by creating or by cheering other creators on! The Bingo is still open, if you want to get a little badge for fandom interaction (or a custom emoji in the Discord server ;)) and will likely be open at least until next year. However, we won't accept any more entries for the MHA Rarepair Week 2026.
If you have a few minutes, please take our feedback form!! We'd love to know what you thought!!
We'll hopefully see you next year but in the meantime, we might hold a few smaller events in the Discord server, which will remain open to new people indefinitely—as long as there is interest. If you want to join, please tell us by replying to one of our posts or in an ask off anon, so we can send you an invite link! :)
And now, the long awaited Statistics™ under the cut :D
Overall, the event received 84 entries!! Thank you everyone for the enthusiastic participation. We still got more fanfiction than fanart, similarly to last year however, this year the number of fanarts increased!! We were super happy to see that.
By day, the first one was by far the most popular, with 19 entries. In second place stand day three and day seven with 14 entries each and the day five prompts earned 12 entries for this fanweek.
The most popular character this year was Midoriya Izuku with 11 works focused on a ship including him. This isn't too surprising—he is the main character, after all. He was also quite busy driving the bus for other pairings, as he appeared as a background character quite often. However, he wasn't the most often used bus driver this year, that title was earned by a different character.
Kaminari Denki drove the bus a total of seven (7) times—we hope he took a break a few times with his own ships, in which he appeared 4 times. We also had a few characters who only appeared in the background, most notably Kodai Yui, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu and... the entirety of Class 1-A? How did they all fit behind the wheel? Anyway, these three appeared in the background two times each. Even though they didn't have their own ships, they still played a significant role in this year's rarepair week!!
Now, onto the prompts...
The most popular prompts were the post-war prompt and the rarest of the rare challenge, which we were delighted to see! We made the cut for rarest of the rare even lower than last year, so it's wonderful to know that people were so interested in creating for such small pairings.
AU prompts were the most popular—though, to be completely fair, we had the most of AU prompts, so this shouldn't be too surprising. Although intangible prompts were the least popular out of the three, they weren't lagging behind much the general prompts, which we were happy to see; this was a new prompt category compared to last year so it's very comforting to know that it was appreciated!
We didn't have a notable "most popular pairing" this year—all ships received one or two entries. But why would we be looking at the most popular ships during rarepair week anyway?
The first three all created new tags on AO3 and the third one doesn't even have a single work on AO3 since the entry itself was a fanart posted on Tumblr. Congratulations to the creators of these ships!! You were writing history with our event :D
Jin's the one who cooks, and Keigo's the one who eats.
And now I'm gonna say it right here, not in the tags. (Wow, upgrade!) Ahem, this is mostly based on my AU ☆
So, I don't actually think Keigo can cook. I mean he can, he is definitely not a household invalid, duh. But I don't think that he was taught to cook. Like, he's an agent who is fully provided with everything else, the main thing is to do the work silently and obediently.
In the end, I think Keigo can and is capable of cooking according to the recipe, but he's so not doing that much for himself. And I think he has this "problem" that while you're cooking, you become "full" and eat much later.
And for Jin (in my AU) cooking is a way to feel "normal" and in charge of decision making. I think Jin often suffers from de-realization due to his split personality and his work as a hero, where he is forbidden to take off his mask in front of others, (and I was thinking of adding in my AU that Jin's mind will be used against his will, but that's not the point now, lol).
In short, cooking helps Jin relax, and other personalities usually don't interfere during the process. And Jin is very happy to feed someone; this guy has a very big heart after all.
And he still needs a "guinea pig" to try his food (Keigo is very happy to be this "guinea pig").
(P.S.: Jin's food is practically magnificent, and no Keigo has ever suffered from it. He's very happy. He might be afraid of losing his physical fitness, but I think he can handle it ♡).
Some shit like that going in their house when Keigo decides he can cook:
Lol, I have fic idea where Keigo wants to cook dinner for their family (in my AU Jin also adopts Toga bc he sees himself in her: Left alone at 16 years old with absolutely no one to ask for help and so on), and Jin loosing his shit right there and then.
He's acting like some moms, like, walking in circles around you, offers their help and just DON'T LEAVE YOU ALONE. Something like that, yeah
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