goddd girl i need more of your hcs for izana CUZ I LOVE THEMMM you write him like ITS LITERALLY HIM (not forcing ofc!!!)
KUROKAWA IZANA GENERAL HEADCANONS
♫. character : kurokawa izana
♫. series : tokyo revengers
♫. type : headcanons
♫. genre : fluff
♫. warnings: none I believe ??
♫. word count : 1.2k
♫. a/n : “rina stop changing your layout no one cares how it looks-” SHHHHH SHSHSHSH LET ME LIVE. also I LOVE my izzy baby 🥹 I'm so glad that ppl still want me to do headcanons of him! I wasn't exactly sure what kind of hcs you wanted, so I sprinkled in a lil bit of everything (-smut, I rlly wasn't in the mood for it I'm sorry ㅠㅠ). hope you like it!
- I'm gonna start this off by saying that, as much as I love izana, he's definitely a red flag 😭
- let's say you and him were childhood friends before you got together because I genuinely can't imagine him meeting someone and just dating them
- let's be fair he's not easy to date at first
- like he's never really felt like this towards anyone and the thought of being vulnerable scares tf out of him
- he also doesn't wanna get attached because of the fear that you'll leave him like karen did
- I think he'd be pretty cold towards you for the first few months
- but that doesn't mean he doesn't care for you
- he just has his own way of showing it !!
- for an example, I strongly believe he'd always, and I mean ALWAYS protect you from afar
- no one would DARE come near you, let alone even think about hurting you
- he wants to make sure you're safe and sound, but he does it quietly so you don't notice it's him
- after a few months of calling it 'dating' even though he's as cold to you as he is to everyone else, you don't leave
- you don't even think about it
- and he's weirded out by it, but not in a bad way..
- so one rainy night, while you're home alone doing your own thing, he'll come to your house unannounced and actually stay
- for the first time in months he's acting like a boyfriend and not an acquaintance
- he might trauma dump about his mother to you a bit too
- and despite all of that, you let him stay at your house, and you stay by his side, you take care of him, and that's the day he finally stops being a boyfriend on paper and becomes a real boyfriend
- I would love to lie to you and tell you he's a green flag, but if we're gonna be honest, he's definitely not
- of course, he does have his own green and red flags, but if we were to sum them up, I feel like he'd lwk not be the greatest boyfriend, atleast not in the beginning.
- he would absolutely NAWT want you to come to tenjiku meetings. like ever. and for multiple reasons
- first off, it's dangerous. as much as he is the leader of tenjiku, that can't always ensure your safety and he does not wanna risk anything happening to you
- secondly, he doesn't want anyone (COUGH COUGH ran haitani COUGH) flirting with you. even as a joke. he just can't help his jealousy.
- a green flag of his is that he'll always do everything you ask of him, even if it's a little weird.
- like, if you ask him to play his guitar for you, he might give you a weird look and a "why tf would I do that?" but does he reject you? absolutely not.
- he's the king of tenjiku, and you're his queen. how could he possibly say no to his queen?
- I feel like his main love languages would be acts of service (giving) and words of affirmation (receiving)
- as I've mentioned before, he'll always make sure you're safe. other than that, I imagine him as the type to hold things for you even if you don't ask for it.
- it might be a little embarrassing, but he would even hold your pretty pink purse while you're walking around the mall together!
- as for receiving, he needs, and I mean NEEDS you to tell him you love him and won't leave him.
- he's suuuper possessive, but can you blame him? after finding out the way his mother feels about him, after losing shinichiro and emma, he cannot risk losing you too.
- speaking of, he cannot STAND to see you near mikey.
- were you friends with him before? he doesn't care. cut him off.
- final timeline izana would not mind your friendship with mikey, but tenjiku!izana? oh, he'd hate it so much..
- please reassure him :( tell him you don't like mikey more, he really needs it
- I feel like he's the type to get cuteness aggression, but not in a way most of us do.
- like, he isn't the type to grab you and squeeze until you can't breathe, but he'll just.. stare.
- you often find him just staring at you with those giant ass eyes of his. it's cute, of course, but also a bit.. creepy.
- I mean, imagine you wake up in your shared bed in the middle of the night and you just see him hovering over you staring at you like (O_O)
- again, can you blame him?? you're his precious queen, and you look sooo damn adorable when you're asleep
- he's new to love, okay? bear with him please.
- I'm a full supporter of the headcanon that izana can speak tagalog. like fluently.
- BUTTTTT contrary to popular beliefs, he wouldn't teach you.
- and I don't mean he wouldn't offer it, I mean, even if you ask, he'd literally just say no.
- why? it's not cause he doesn't like you or something.
- it's because he gets most vulnerable when he knows you can't understand him.
- going back to that cuteness aggression, I think he'd find your confused expression after he said something to you in tagalog. that's kinda the reason he does it in the first place.
- I also feel like he'd be super clingy in private. he's not the biggest fan of pda, but when you two are alone? ohh hun you CANNOT get this man off you!
- you're cooking? he's hugging you from behind. doomscrolling in bed? he's cuddled up to you. movie night? you best hope you do not need to use the bathroom, cuz he's not letting you go.
- speaking of food, I can definitely see him being the type of boyfriend to inhale anything you give him. even if your cooking is.. not the best, it'd still disappear from his plate in mere minutes.
- after he makes sure you're not leaving him despite his rough past and sometimes hard-to-handle personality, he doesn't hesitate to propose to you.
- after all, he needs to make you his official queen!
- to finish it off, I'd like to state my opinion on how he'd feel about children!
- personally, I don't think he sees it as a necessity. infact, I think he'd find people who claim that you haven't fulfilled your "duty" as a human because you're childfree annoying.
- I think he'd be against it at first. not because he necessarily does or doesn't want kids, but because he fears he wouldn't be a good father because of his rough past.
- if you insist on it, he'll give in. although he'll need a whole bunch of your reassurance.
- I've seen this headcanon once and I haven't been able to let go of it, but I think he'd prefer to adopt a child rather than have one biologically.
- to me, izana gives me more girl dad vibes, but I don't think the child's gender rlly matters to him, as long as the child is healthy
that's all I have for today! hopefully I did good lol 🥹 also I'm really sorry for how inactive I've been, I feel super guilty and I promise I'll try to be more active!!
The Haitani brothers bond is something I will always want to know more about. Seeing as they have matching tattoos, you have got to wonder how much shit they’ve been through together. Maybe their parents were rich and emotionally not there?? Or do they have no idea who their parents are?? Their characters had so much potential to be something good. Seeing how Ran only gets serious/overprotective when Rindou is being dumb and about to get hurt. Even though Rindou disliked/feared person is Ran, you can clearly see he does love his brother whether he shows it or not, I think Ran just gets pissy and annoys the absolute shit out of him. They back each other up no matter how fucked up the crime, they are always there for each other, but what brought them to be this close?? I need answers omg.
I swear atp there will be no greater letdown than whatever Tokyo Revengers had going on there.
(Spoilers ahead)
There was so much, SO MUCH potential going on there and it all just… went down the drain.
The first blow being Kisaki’s motivations for the shit he does.
Wakui could have had him be insanely, illogically obsessed with Mikey. Make him want to be the only one close to Mikey (out of his illogical obsession, and NOT because he wants to use him as a tool) and go into detail about the messed up psychological mindset that he needs to have for that. He could have written him as having this vision of how Mikey ‘should’ be and how he’s trying to mold Mikey into that version because that’s the ‘true’ Mikey to his warped, twisted brain. He could have written every fucked up thing Kisaki did to Mikey (trying to kill Draken, killing Baji, Emma and Izana) as an ‘act of love’ and played around with that. He could have made Kisaki into a portrayal of idol worship taken to the extreme.
He had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, SO MANY CHANCES, AND THE PERFECT SETUP TO DO THAT!!!
But instead… he’s in love?? Really?? And that’s why he decided to kill multiple people??? Because a 10 year old sees his love rival go ‘I wanna be a delinquent’ and then immediately goes ‘I must be the number one criminal in Japan to be loved by my crush’???
LAMEEEEEE!!! Lame, predictable, over-used and overall cheap ahh writing. Top 10 lazy ways to write a villain’s motivation type shit.
On top of that, there was NO deep-dive about Kisaki’s mentality regarding it. Like, I COULD have accepted the ‘in love’ route, if it was written in a way similar to what I described above (but then, like, towards Hina instead of Mikey. Even though I think Mikey makes a better candidate, especially considering Kisaki’s actions affected Mikey most directly, but I’d have been willing to look past those details).
But no. It was just revealed he was in love with her and did all that shit so she’d return his feelings, with no exploration behind his thought process, mindset or psychological state AT ALL.
And THEN, to avoid HAVING to write those things, Kisaki was KILLED OFF BY A TRUCK!! SUDDENLY, UNNECESSARILY, FOR FUCKING PLOT CONVENIENCE AND AN EASY WAY OUT.
It’s giving Gege killing Gojo because he was making the plot difficult typa shit.
Literally has no place in the actual story, doesn’t make sense and shouldn’t have happened, but it did because the mangaka couldn’t write the character he HIMSELF created and wasn’t smart enough to plan out his story in advance. Like???
The second blow was Mikey’s ‘Dark Impulses’.
Again, perfect opportunity to explore the effects of grief, loss and having no access to mental help or support. He could have shown how someone could end up if they go through repeated trauma with no adult to help them or give them access to mental health resources. He could have portrayed the psychological state of a teen’s broken mind.
He could even have given Mikey fucking BPD, shown the importance of knowing what someone’s is going through and the need for mental health awareness, explained Mikey’s behaviour away as him being unaware of his problems and unable to receive help for it because mental health wasn’t as important at the time the story plays in.
He could have done that and CALLED IT A DAY.
(Edit: I forgot to mention this, but Wakui ALSO had the PERFECT chance to convey a profound message about being unable to save those who don’t want to be saved.)
But no. Wakui is determined to take the cheapest, laziest option imaginable and made it that Mikey was cursed.
Mikey wasn’t like that due to mental health problems and lack of support. He was actually, supernaturally, cursed.
Because of course, let’s introduce new supernatural elements (other than the time travel) that have never been mentioned before right at the NEAR END OF THE FUCKING STORY SO WE CAN AVOID ACTUALLY WRITING, GUYS!!
God it PISSES ME OFF SO BAD.
Also, third blow: the cause of Mikey’s ‘dark impulses’.
So Shinichiro is a time traveler too.
Cool, awesome plot twist!
However did he become a time traveler though??
Oh, he killed a random homeless dude that we know nothing about!! It’s also why Mikey has the dark impulses by the way!! :3
What. The. Fuck.
Not only is the supernatural explanation for Mikey’s Dark Impulses utter TRASH, we also get NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING, about the homeless guy or the origin/nature of the time travel ability.
I’d have been prepared to not get an explanation. Fuck, that’s what I was expecting. In fact, that would have been PREFERABLE to that half-assed, fuckass bs that Wakui pulled.
If you’re trying to explain a supernatural element of your story, DO IT WELL OR DONT DO IT AT ALL.
And don’t even get me started on the miraculous happy ending that MAKES NO SENSE.
Like, Mikey killed Takemichi. Okay, cool, according to the shitty logic that we’d established with Shinichiro before, that means Mikey gets the time travel ability. Makes sense that Mikey goes back in time.
So why the fuck did Takemichi travel in time with him??
“It’s a miracle”, Takemichi and Mikey say.
“It’s lazy, shitty writing”, I scream into the void.
Tokyo Revengers pisses me off SO BADDDDD
And it’s made all the worse because I LIKE the characters. I LOVE them. I liked the initial story, too.
It was great. It was awesome. It was everything I could ever ask for.
And then it went to shit.
Tokyo Revengers deserved better than what Wakui gave it.
