#ada!gin

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I'm having so much fun with these.

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I may have an obsession with this man.

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Chuuya Fact No. 7

He has what people call a "scary aura." In combination with a resting bitch face, he also has an aura around him that screams that he's a dangerous person and that you should leave him alone. Everyone he's ever met has initially recoiled or had a fear response, and Chuuya can't turn it off. Thankfully, after initial exposure, it usually only takes a few days for people to get used to this "scary aura" and stop registering it.

The one exception to this rule is Kenji. The first time he and Chuuya met face to face, the only expression on his face is one of pure adoration.

This is why Kenji is Chuuya's favorite. Kenji is hungry? Chuuya is dropping everything to make him something. Kenji is cold? Chuuya is draping his coat over his shoulders. Kenji wants to see Chuuya do some tricks? A request that will get a middle finger from anyone else will have Chuuya showing Kenji some tricks with his ability.

Gin, who used to be Chuuya's favorite before Kenji joined the agency, is absolutely not jealous.

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Chuuya's Relationships with the rest of the ADA

Kunikida is obviously his partner. Despite how well they work together and understand each other, they also drive each other up the wall. Kunikida is driven mad by Chuuya's knee jerk reaction to jump into a fight or run off to investigate when he "has a feeling something is wrong," messing up his schedule and dragging him into trouble. Chuuya is driven mad by how Kunikida "has a stick up his ass" and sticks to his Ideals even if it is actively shooting them both in the foot (metaphorically). Despite that, Kunikida does respect how Chuuya's gut instinct is always correct somehow and Chuuya does respect Kunikida's ideals (at least, most of them).

Yosano is one of his best friends. They very frequently get together after work to drink wine and shoot the shit. Early on, Chuuya and Yosano struck a deal where Yosano would practice various torture and medical practices on Chuuya; as a result, Yosano gets more knowledge and Chuuya develops a far higher pain tolerance than almost anyone in even the Port Mafia. This may have slightly skewed Yosano's baseline as to what a normal person's pain tolerance is... a fact which is the frequent topic of her and Chuuya's gossip sessions.

Kenji is Chuuya's favorite. The kid absolutely adores him, and as a result he has special privileges. He's the first (and only) person who hasn't been initially afraid of Chuuya, and Kenji still thinks that Chuuya is the coolest person in the ADA. Because of this, if he needs anything, Chuuya is dropping whatever he is doing to help him. In fact, he treasures the "Coolest Big Brother" mug that Kenji gave him, and it sits on his desk alongside the other "cool city trinkets" that Kenji finds and gives him.

The Tanizakis are a little bit afraid of Chuuya. When it comes down to it, they trust him to have their backs, but he is their elder and member of the ADA's Shittenou. Naomi doesn't cross paths with Chuuya often, but whenever Junichirou is on a case with Chuuya, his nerves get the best of him. Chuuya knows he makes the younger detective nervous and gives him his space.

Gin was Chuuya's favorite before Kenji joined the agency. She actually briefly met Chuuya before he joined the agency, and when they reunited on a case Chuuya was working on, he invited her to take the entrance exam and join him. Since she doesn't have an ability, she's just a clerk; the alter ego who learned to use a knife under Chuuya with a peculiar ability is definitely not her. As Chuuya's first mentee, she got spoiled with him giving her his coat and paying for her uniform. She is absolutely not jealous of Kenji.

Atsushi admires Chuuya a lot. After all, Chuuya is the one who brought him into the agency, showed him some of the ropes and even taught him how to fight and control his ability. While he's obviously learning from everyone in the agency, he gravitates towards Chuuya (which drives Kunikida up the wall), and Chuuya tries his best to be a good influence on Atsushi. Although 'good' is up to interpretation, considering that there have been multiple occasions where Chuuya has given Atsushi alcohol despite being underage (and had Kunikida ream him out for it).

Kyouka is terrified of Chuuya at first. Her first impression of him was Chuuya, full of rage, using his ability on the entire cargo ship to sink it and threatening to kill everyone on board. Learning of his past in the Port Mafia and even before as a 'Portent of Death' and 'The Kamikaze of Yokohama' did not help... but what it did was give her hope. After swallowing down her nerves and talking to Chuuya, she finds that he's actually really nice, even inviting her to talk to him about anything that's on her mind. While still mostly hanging out with Atsushi, she does take him up on that offer many times, and Chuuya absolutely did not cry when she and Atsushi gave him flowers as a thank you gift for being a good mentor.

Ranpo sees Chuuya as one of the few people that can match his intellect and stand on equal footing with him. For the longest time, they were rivals; Ranpo initially heard of this child genius who hung around the police station and "was as smart or maybe smarter than Fukuzawa's boy" and could not let that stand. Even after Chuuya joins the agency they constantly butted heads, with Chuuya viewing Ranpo as an annoying dickhead and Ranpo viewing Chuuya as a hotheaded and stubborn fool. Until one case where, without even needing to coordinate, Chuuya completely understood everything going on and made a plan that complemented Ranpo's perfectly. Since then, Ranpo has acknowledged Chuuya as an equal and they now mostly get along, with their competitions being friendly fun as opposed to an ego contest.

Fukuzawa is Chuuya's boss, and the person he respects most in the whole agency. While Chuuya does keep his secrets, his loyalty to Fukuzawa is as absolute as it was to Mori; if Fukuzawa asked him to jump off a bridge Chuuya would do it without question. It's unsettling to Fukuzawa at first when Chuuya got on one knee to pledge his loyalty and when he saw how dogmatically that loyalty is, but he starts to slowly understand Chuuya over cups of tea and over years of working for the agency. He starts getting glimpses into him through the strays that Chuuya brought in, and starts making progress into getting him to let down the walls and reveal who he is behind them. To Fukuzawa, it doesn't matter that his ability somehow doesn't work on Chuuya, he considers Chuuya one of his own anyways.

Mine and @breadstickcat's OCs under the cut:

Phoebe is one of Chuuya's strays (despite her mentor being Kunikida), as he's one of the few members of the ADA fluent in English. There's some part of her that Chuuya gets that Kunikida doesn't, which drives him up the wall when Chuuya gives her advice or gifts because "he's stealing his mentee." When Phoebe destroys her motorcycle, Chuuya buys her a new one, explaining it as a "congrats on surviving" gift. She is hurt when it comes out that Chuuya's past was a lot bloodier than he had made it out to be, mainly because he didn't tell her, but at the same time she was quick to forgive him because she understood how he felt.

Jay just isn't in Chuuya's orbit, but they do have a mutual respect for each other. Having been one of the oldest members of the agency (hired third), Chuuya appreciates how everything on the agency's back end runs so much smoother after Jay was hired, and Jay appreciates all the hard work Chuuya does for the agency. For that reason, Chuuya doesn't complain when Jay tells him that he's taking a temporary pay cut because he threw a building at a dragon.

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It’s been a while since I’ve done these, here’s some more Leverage sc redraws.

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Why does Gin wear a monocle? Does she think it makes her look dapper or smth?

It started as a way to annoy her brother, but it has a benefit too...

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Happy Valentine’s day, I hope you’re having a better day than the ADA office right now.

The sequel.

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You can tell when I started putting less and less effort in.