SO i'm trying to put actual thought into my khr fanfic and need to put a couple things down.
I'm pretty sure that I will go down a flame-lore heavy way. Like i want it to feel like Sky flame users are actually royalty, not in a "they're so rare" way, but in a "I actually need you to be happy or all hell will break loose" way.
At the same time I don't want it to feel lika a dictatorship. The Sky is the glue in the friend group, not the center of it.
It's almost like your mom: if she's happy, you can be tired, happy, actually live your life. But if she's angry or sad, then everyone will be angry or sad. No one knows peace under her roof. No one will know peace under his Sky.
So in order to marry the two concepts, I was thinking that the "courting" is the simple way to go. Courting being the time the non-Sky of the Familia spends trying to please the Sky in order to getincorporated into the group.
You actually need to impress both the user and their Flame in order to achieve harmony. Acts of loyalty and kindness, as well as feats in battle, are often dedicated to the Sky they are bonded with, or trying to bond with, in order to please them. It’s about showing that you have both the capacity and the will to keep them protected and content.
That doesn’t necessarily mean being a “yes man” or following every order to the letter, unless that’s something that particular Sky is drawn to.
Once the courtship is over and the Sky and the element actually harmonize the start acting more akin to a traditional friend group or a chosen family. They all care for each other, and the relationships between the elements are reasonably separated that the one they share with the Sky.
The relationship between element and Sky is kinda weird anyways. Based on shared respect and companionship, but it's also very intimate, a little romatic and vaguely transactional. At the end of the day, the Sky and the element search harmonization in order to become stable themselfs, it's an evolutionary act. There's no element nor Sky that doesn't search for that kind of relationship.
I'll explore a little more on courtship and how it works on a later date, but this is how i imagine it for now. I have no idea how this process is actually gonna look like in the fanfic.
I think Hibari’s tendency toward violence is a sign that he’s courting Tsuna, but it’s also just part of who he is. Like, he wants Tsuna to like him, basically. He values order, so he proves he can create and maintain it, even if that means enforcing it at Tsuna’s expense. At the same time, he refuses to actually bond with Tsuna until Tsuna is strong enough. He does like him, but he wants him to grow before accepting that bond.
Yamamoto, on the other hand, will have a little crush on Tsuna in the begining because of lore inside the fanfic, but he does dedicate his baseball abilities to him, even if Tsuna doesn't know it. And that's the reason why loosing his abilities in baseball is so crushing to him. He lost the one thing he was expectacular at (He's "THE baseball guy") , but he's also lost the thing that connected him with his late mother AND the one thing he felt he had to offer to his Sky?? that's soul crushing,
The rest i dont know how it will go. Gokudera probably will just beg, once, and Tsuna will accept it. It's not hard to bond with him, but the others will complicate it themselfs.
