little sketch for day 1 of knb week: board games! I accidentally drew babymura
they play scrabble in duos bcs this friendgroup is the best at teamwork😃
MIDORIMA & AKASHI – they place words like „oxidized” or „whizbang”, are around 50 points ahead of other teams, it’s a renaissance of their friendship. midorima is also counting everyone’s points and joting them in his little notebook.
AOMINE & MURASAKIBARA – they place words like „dog” or „nope”, aomine is very very engaged but also very very dyslexic, murasakibara doesn’t help him at all. at some point aomine just starts adding letters at the end of already placed words, he’s kind of losing it.
KUROKO & KISE – 2nd on the podium, they place nicely sounding words like „faerie” or „melody”, they seem pretty chill compared to akashi, midorima and aomine, like they’re just having fun coming up with new pretty words. kuroko, though, actually wants to win badly and has some secret strategies that kise isn’t aware of. his favourite move is placing low scoring words on the spots with multipliers just to block akashi and midorima.
MOMOI & KAGAMI – they only have a few more points than aomine and murasakibara, but because aomine’s making a fuss, they fly under the radar and are happy to be 3rd best. before that event they haven’t had many chances to talk so now they’re mostly bonding [this is my kagamomo agenda]
*it’s obvious that midorima won’t cheat (he’s too autistic for that) but kuroko is counting points on his own anyway. maybe midorima made a slip and him and kise should get more points????? (no, midorima never slips up in addition)
*actually murasakibara pays attention to the game, but doesn’t want to interfere with – what he considers – aomine’s strategy. he doesn’t really get the concept of cooperation in board games (i hc him as an only child who haven’t played any games with his parents except maybe for pick-up sticks. i believe he knows the rules of bridge just from watching his parents play with their rich friends) so he’d rather let aomine control the game, even though he easily comes up with high scoring words in his head (this team has the worst communication skills ever)
*there’s a running joke that kagami can’t read (he probably started it… okay maybe it was aomine), but halfway through the game he gets anxious that the rest of the crew will think of him as stupid (i like to think that kagami is generally anxious when it comes to blending in with GoM, like he doesn’t really belong with them outside the field; a sentiment he could share with momoi btw;)). SO now he’s making subtle efforts to casually prove that he in fact does not have a problem with reading. unfortunately momoi catches that and she joins him in his subtle efforts, which makes them no longer subtle („kagami WOULD YOU READ THAT FOR ME please?:3”). (murasakibara and kuroko’s mom who once came in with snacks are now both suspecting that kagami is really struggling with reading)