Despite my shipping Hakkai with like loads of people and pretty prominently Goku…
as far as OTPs go, nothing strikes me as hard as Gojyo x Hakkai
their canon friendship is just so well written and fleshed out and they play off each other so well, I don’t think anything else has lived up to it for me.
The significance of Gojyo finding Hakkai/Gonou dying and nursing him back to health
Their discussion about ‘premonitions’ of feeling when your loved one is in danger because Hakkai/Gonou felt guilty he didn’t feel anything when his lover was in danger, and then when LATER in their month-long getting-to-know-each-other-without-Gojyo-even-knowing-Gonou’s-name period, Gonou’s in danger and Gojyo senses it…
The awkwardness between them after they settled in to live together, because they actually are in equal standing now and Hakkai’s way of living is in conflict with Gojyo’s (but at this point he’s still trying not to be too inconveniencing of the man who’s taken him in)
The fact that Hakkai saved Gojyo’s life during this time, and we’re led to believe that their relationship settled after this
Hell, their day to day schedules have them still living their separate lives, but if Gojyo’s still asleep at around 11 am, Hakkai will vacuum around him to wake him up lol
The ride-or-die relationship they’ve seemed to build over this time
To the POINT where Hakkai said he would FIGHT Sanzo if Gojyo went berserk, because he couldn’t bring himself to kill Gojyo.
AND LET’S NOT FORGET THE FACT that in their past lives (because this manga does reincarnation), they were also very close and people referred to them as a married couple anyways.
That Tenpou (Hakkai) died after Kenren (Gojyo) and in his dying moments Tenpou is talking to Kenren.
That Gojyo’s and Gonou/Hakkai’s meeting somehow mirrored that final moment in a way.
Tenpou apologizes for taking being late as he dies, when Gonou wakes up a week after Gojyo finds him, Gojyo chastises him for taking so long (waking up).
Not related to their relationship exactly but Tenpou dies with his guts falling out, and Gojyo meets Gonou when… well Gonou’s guts are falling out.
They’re my OTP and my BroTP like
Even if I’m placing them in a universe where they’re not romantically involved, they’re still the closest of friends, maybe even brothers. It’s a lot.
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