Ok so @daydreamingallthetime3223 got a lil observation from kaiju no. 8 and @mechazushi wrote a short fic on it! [Here is the post]
Here are some of my headcanons regarding Defece Force and superstitions considering that emergency responders (and sports people) are one of THE most superstitious people (the dreaded Q word?) I bet my right arm that there is TONS of rituals, shrines practices all of Defence Force practices before deployment. Some being similar or different between Divisions.
(I remember a story about an Oracle Coffee pot that would decide military deployment for some American soldiers xD)
Defence Force is the pillar of Japanese protection against kaiju. They are also THE MOST superstitious people in the entire country. There are lucky shirts, lucky underwear, old plushies, hair ties.
I bet every year the seniors make a bet which rookie gonna say the Q word on a routine recon mission (it was officially Haruichi but it also happened to Hakua once).
Hoshina's blade cleaning ritual was also such ritual for him to predict the day. Operators make offerings to the server gods in order to keep everything running.
3rd secretly stealing scales from Kafka and keeping them as "good luck", or maybe giving him a pat on the back/ass xDDD (srsly where is HR). Same for Bakko lost whiskers. The officers who get a sniff or rub from Bakko were somehow the luckiest in the field so people started trying to lure the tiger to them. Soldiers started reading Narumi's expression during the ride to Neutralisation sites while he played his games bc it said their luck. Narumi himself would always play this one old game as some of the glitches began to forsee the success. Ogata spins one of his empty sake bottles and if it goes in a wrong direction he announces a full division emergency suit up and stand by (fucker was never wrong).
Kafka himself carried over a lot of his superstitions from Monster Sweeper. After an injury on site he could tell weather but if it ached in just right way he could tell his luck. He has lucky socks. A t shirt that has seen better days but he swears up and down brings him luck. A horse Toku always would bet on but never won (the further behind the horse was in rating the luckier the day would be. The day before 9 disaster the horse for the first time won. Kafka was TERRIFIED).
Aoi also has his own set of superstitions bc he was first in military. So does Kikoru. Reno started gathering them when he joined Monster Sweepers, Iharu follows his pre exam routines. Akari and Haruichi were at first baffled but soon got their own.
Mina ofc also has her own but nobody knows what it is (Hoshina knows, you'd have to seriously bribe him to tell).
What do you guys think are some of the superstitions?
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