NIAH OH MY GOSH YOU’RE BACK.....FOR A little while at least it seems aaaaaa!!!!!! & YES IT’S FROM THE MURHIMU END CARD, HAVE YOU SEEN IT, it happened several eps ago i can’t remember whether you were on back then or not but its literally. the best.
junjouni mentioned you in a post “#otp: murochin was desperate im laughing so hard himurottatsuya this...”
desperate im laughing so hard himurottatsuya this tag idk i
im LAUGHING IKR LOTS OF MY TAGS ARE LIKE THIS but i liked it !! i don't think mukkun said that in the manga but he did in the anime and i thought it was cute so !! here we are....
ok this is more me talking to junjouni but ey why not make it a post people can contribute to (edit after writing this whole thing: shit this thing got long)
(also be warned im gonna talk about some dark, depressing af headcanons/au for akashi, a lot of overworking and exhaustion things under the cut)
but
consider this au: an akashi that works too much he ends up foregoing sleep. sure he's done with homework, he's done with revision for class, but he's going to inherit a business empire - he needs to learn more than school. he reads business journals and online articles, attends seminars and dinners (for networking, of course). add this to his basketball and shogi and student council president-ing and everything else he has to do and sleep kinda just.... seems like less of a priority.
still, akashi acknowledges the need for sleep, so he does try to balance it all with some moderation. it's a bit tricky and leaves little time for really anything outside of the stuff he needs to do, but he manages it. he's an akashi, after all.
but then rakuzan loses to seirin. but then akashi loses, period.
nothing hurts as much as fucking something up for the first time, especially the first time in SIXTEEN YEARS. akashi senior is, as akashi lightly put it, "not pleased". so he tries to find validation in every other aspect of life, trying to prove to himself that even if he can't win at basketball he can still succeed at everything else. suddenly sleep is a lot less important. he needs to win. he's an akashi, after all.
sure, akashi looks fine on the outside, he continues the academic success, he continues being a good student council president, he continues to play basketball as usual. but inside he's a fucking wreck. there's this conflict within him where he KNOWS what he's doing isn't healthy and that finding passion in basketball should be enough, but then his lifelong conditioning (via his dad) kicks in and it just keeps. niggling at him. an akashi can only deserve the title of akashi if they are victorious.
and just. akashi with heavy eyebags. akashi with constant shadows under his eyes that he hides with concealer he secretly bought online under the pretence of a teenage boy trying out new fashion fads. akashi feeling an ache in his eyes and at his temple and a deep set heaviness in his bones that he can't blame on anyone but himself. akashi hiding the tremble in his hands by placing them at the small of his back, hiding behind the image of a polite, regal boy. he has an image to maintain: he's an akashi, after all.
(also slight digression onto oreshi and bokushi: i like the idea of oreshi as the default, but with bokushi taking over occasionally when oreshi pushes himself too hard. plus while oreshi is the much milder (to say the least) personality, he's still the one who's been under his dad's influence for most of his life, so even though things would have gone to shit faster if bokushi was in charge, things aren't magically solved with oreshi as the dominant personality either)
idk if this is getting too dark or is a bit too much of a stretch, but im... interested (i cant rly say i like the headcanon but im intrigued by it) in akashi giving off the image of a perfect person while being an absolute wreck on the inside. whether anyone irl notices... who knows? there are characters close to him who are pretty observant (re: mayuzumi and kuroko), but akashi hides his true state of being well. and even if they do find out they can't really do much unless akashi himself wants to change it.
on a slightly happier note tho: akashi comes off to me as being ridiculously self-aware, so he'll realise how bad everything's gotten soon enough. i dont know how long it'll take for him to fully recover, and it certainly won't be the smoothest ride for him, but he'll get better. he's an akashi, after all.