Alternatively, Sun catching you from the get go and forcing you to wear a Sun-themed party hat all shift. He's so eager to let everyone know it's your birthday. Every adult you're doing handover with gets to deal with a very energetic Sun. "You should wish them happy birthday! Come on, come on!" Trilling and jumping around. He even makes you wear a sash, maybe attaches birthday balloons to your desk. He's very proud, too.
And come the end of the day, Moon takes to pampering you. Sun is loud and bubbly, Moon is quiet and meaningful, but both are impulsive in the sense that there's no argument to be had. He's holding you tight and letting you wind down from the overwhelm of a busy day. Whether he's doing it for you or for himself is hard to say as he nuzzles his faceplate against your cheek and back and hair, his vents murmuring like a purr.
Sun accidentally giving you a concussion (He only meant to scare you a little. He's so tired of adults stepping on his terf) would result in him battling all the warning pop ups in his head and Moon having to force his way out just so their body won't force shut down from the panic.
whoo, of course we start with oikawa, the king of character arcs and personality.
i will continue to shout this from the rooftops but i absolutely love the things furudate did for oikawa’s character and it’s my favorite thing in the entire world. instead of kind of summing up what i think of his character like i said i would i wanted to take this opportunity to introduce a concept: ✨oikawa with daddy issues✨
“woah, hold on dexii,” you say, “why would oikawa have parental issues?” because its a perfect explanation for oikawa’s crippling pride, obsession for the top, and inferiority/superiority complex. you just don’t get that without some angsty influence from parents. i am not trying to romanticize parental issues in any way, i’m just considering how they would play into his character. but without further ado:
mentions of verbally abusive parents, feeling bad about oneself, and inferiority complexes ahead!
oikawa is, i think, naturally a bit quirky. he’s always been extra. as someone who is extra herself, i think people who are extraverted also have a lot of self-consciousness or a need to constantly please those around them. for oikawa i kind of see it as being the latter. take his fangirls. constantly telling him he’s beautiful, he’s amazing, he’s awesome. to please them he amps the quirky cuteness to a level where its obnoxious and fake. he likes hearing them say he’s so cool: it helps his ego. his inferiority complex is getting tended to while his superiority complex is going through the roof. now, where does this need for validation come from? consider this: a mother who is constantly complimenting and supporting him, and a father who is absolutely tearing him down. it’s kind of like this: oikawa does his first successful set to iwa when he first picks up volleyball. he tells this to his dad, who makes some offhand comment on how he was wasting his time with sports. dejected, he turns to his mom, who absolutely showers him in support and affection. this not only makes him feel entirely more confident in his skills but it also overshadows the pain his father’s words brought. he doesn’t like being insulted and torn down, it hurts and makes him feel terrible. so he goes the extra mile—to the point where it’s obsessive—for his mother’s praise. over the years, oikawa works harder and harder to please his mother. his ego grows because its constantly being boosted by her praise. and yet, oikawa still feels terrible about himself because the words of his father never fully go away. and oikawa is improving. he’s getting better, he’s starting to feel better about himself. the words of his father are gradually hurting less and less and the pride is getting the better of him. “look how far i’ve come,” oikawa essentially says. “all this hard work is paying off.” enter ushijima wakatoshi. naturally stronger. no hard work whatsoever. repeatedly comes and crushes his dreams. oikawa starts to feel useless; all his hard work is for nothing. his father’s words come back to him, telling him he was wasting his time and he would never get to the position he wanted. oikawa doesn’t like this, so he works harder. he starts to become obsessed with the thought of taking down ushi, because not only would it prove his father wrong but again it would boost his ego and make him feel better about himself, just like his mother did. and so he hyperfixtates on overpassing ushijima. i also think he’s jealous of the natural talent ushi possesses. he believes that if he was naturally talented his father wouldn’t be as harsh, maybe he would be as just as supportive as his mother. driven by jealousy, pride, and spite oikawa works extremely hard to overpass him. and then comes kageyama tobio: ushijima but worse. not only was he naturally talented but he was a setter—oikawa’s position—who was improving at a scary rate. he was becoming better than oikawa. of course, this absolutely obliterates his pride. this naturally talented little boy is getting better at him, proving all his efforts are useless, just like his father said. and so he begins to hate kageyama, and there we get the scene where he almost slaps kageyama until iwa stops him. (i want to pause to fully appreciate iwa’s role in oikawa’s life. yes he’s rough around the edges and a little harsh, but this is something oikawa needs. scolding out of love. his mother never scolded him, his father did so but with harsh words that made him feel terrible. it’s obvious iwa is harsh towards oikawa because he loves him and oikawa understands that.) anyway, oikawa becomes obsessed with the idea of overpassing him as well and here we get his character arc.
timeskip spoilers!
i quickly wanted to brush over him in the timeskip, where he he drops everything and goes to argentina. i think this happened because he needed a escape. if we’re taking this from my parent theory, oikawa might be truly understanding how harmful his validation-spurred relationship with his mother may be and decides to get a way from it all. he starts afresh, where no one is constantly praising him and no one is constantly making him feel bad about himself. i think having him start on the argentinian national team as a official citizen also adds to this, he not only got to such a high position because of his hard work without any type of validation or constant praise, but he’s in a position where he can finally face ushi and kags, who repeatedly tore him down and made him feel terrible about himself in the past.
anyway yes i absolutely love oikawa and i love what furudate did with him <3 stan oikawa
