★ Fluent in English and Japanese. He used to tutor students to help them learn English, along with maths.
★ Has never been in a committed relationship, ever. He finds himself nervous and stuttering and awkward around people he has a genuine romantic attraction for. Which doesn’t happen often, but it sometimes does.
★ The most chronically offline person you could ever know.
Dazai sends him absurd, brainrot videos, and he just responds with, “Excuse me?”, “What?”, “Have you done your work?”
★ His emergency contacts are the President and Dazai.
★ Does not have a fragile masculinity. He cries when he needs to, he doesn’t feel the need to prove he’s a “man”. He cares more about being human and treating humans like humans.
★ The reason he has long hair is because a girl in high school once told him it looked nice when it started to grow.
He doesn’t think about her much anymore, but doesn’t mind his current hairstyle, so he didn’t bother changing it.
★ VERY specific on his hair length. The only time he cuts his hair is when it exceeds the maximum length he’s chosen below his shoulders.
★ When it comes to casual clothes, he doesn’t have great fashion taste. He has, like, three different ‘default’ off-work outfits.
But when it comes to more formal outfits (like the one he wears everyday), he’s great at making fashion decisions.
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a/n:
augghhh I love kunikida fr 🤤🙏🙏 he’s been my fav since the first time I SAW him.
anyway guys just to let u know, I’ll get to the requests eventually!!! again, just busy w school AND im going through the worst fever rn.
btw!! i will be posting hcs and/or ficlets periodically even when im working on requests to keep this blog alive and breathing. dw, if im posting but haven’t responded to ur requests, i am not ignoring u. just gimme some time <3
The list of traits that he has for his “ideal partner” because there the traits that are in most successful relationships and he thinks he needs a partner.
═══════★˙⋆˙⟡ ̟ bsd headcanons: romancing the characters (ranpo and kunikida edition)
no spoilers and no tw warnings, unless you count obliviousness and rigidness as triggering lol
i'm thinking of doing some for jjk next? ( ⭑•̀ᴗ•́ )✧ we’ll see!
more under the cut!
── .✦ ranpo:
ranpo, ranpo… romancing ranpo would be interesting, to say the least. i don't think it would be as hard as dazai and chuuya, at least not in the same way. i think ranpo has a more logical way of thinking when it comes to most things, so emotions might be a bit of a trick zone for him. while he possesses the ability for self-awareness and he's capable of self-reflection, even if he goes through denial and childish stubbornness at first, i think emotions for him can be hard to grasp and comprehend unless explicitly and openly communicated. in other words: he can be very oblivious. and not specifically in a quirky, funny way dazai can act sometimes, but in a genuinely uncomprehending way. i think that he'd be the type of person who just can't read hints as well unless he knows there's already attraction from the other party. if he knows you like him, reading body language and behavior is easy peasy, but getting him to realize that without spelling it out for him letter by letter is… ambitious. since humans are ambiguous creatures at times and their intentions can't be as easily read as clues and crime evidence, ranpo might struggle with understanding flirtatious behavior at first. oh, what's that? you're constantly staring at him from the corner of the room and look away when he looks back at you? eh, you're just mesmerized by him being the greatest detective to exist! obviously, who wouldn't be infatuated with a guy who can deduce a murder crime from someone's shoe size but can't understand that trying to hold his hand isn't just because it's cold outside? wait, you're constantly around him and touching him (hand on his shoulder, poking his cheek, hand on his arm, shoulders brushing)? you're just a naturally clingy person. obviously, he's clocked it before you have, you're like that with everyone! why, just three days, you did the same to kunikida. there's totally no nuance to the way you touch ranpo and other people around you. forgive me, i haven’t flirted with anyone for the past three damn years, i have no idea how people do it nowadays.
if you get past the obliviousness, though, and manage to confess, i don’t think he’d be too shocked to function or anything like that. i think that he’d finally be able to see all these details he’s noticed in the past through a different lens and because of that, he’d be like: oh. oh, okay, i’ve been an idiot all this time but i won’t admit it because i’m the greatest detective and if the greatest detective can’t even see that someone likes him, what the fuck is he useful for?
i think dates with ranpo would be hella fun and filled with looooooots of sweets. crepe dates, bubble tea dates, playing video games on his ds or ddr at arcade games. he’s 26, but we all know he likes childish things, and if that’s up your alley, hell yeah! amusement park dates with cotton candy and you wondering why the fuck his teeth are so healthy after consuming so much sugar and where does that sugar even go?? answer is, the ADA has pretty good health insurance. that, and fukuzawa constantly has to remind him to visit the dentist. at first, everything is fun with him, but the thing with ranpo is that ‘common sense’ isn’t something he particularly likes, so when you two start going on dates and he doesn’t ask you to be his partner directly, you might start doubting some things: does he actually like you? he’s never said it properly to your face. are you two exclusive? you haven’t talked about commitment. you’re practically in an exclusive situationship now, and nobody’s talking about it. but here’s the kicker: it’s not because he’s playing you (like dazai might), it’s because, in his mind, it’s already established that you two are dating. i mean, why would the greatest detective spend so much time with someone else when he could be spending it eating sweets and playing mario kart? obviously he wants to spend the rest of his life with you (or, at least, hold your hand and call you his partner, for now). your relationship isn’t just cotton candy and dates, though, but that’s a topic of discussion for another time.
hcs for ranpo as a lover in another post!!
── .✦ kunikida:
welcome to #2 of The Worst People To Romance in BSD, and it’s mostly in a joking way. kunikida is… we all know he has 58 ideals for the perfect partner, and that’s definitely a big turn-off for most people. and he sticks to those ideals. however, i don’t think he’s that inflexible — i think he’s rigid and disciplined, and there’s nothing wrong with it, but he can be persuaded to try and look at things in different perspectives, as we can often see with his interactions with dazai (he does tend to be a bit naive around dazai) and atsushi (he does tend to be argumentative with atsushi at first, but then switches his mind and supports him). so, how do you romance a person who has 58 ideals for the perfect partner, and you only fit, like, let’s say, 5 of them? well, patience, understanding, and… being yourself! i think most of the ideals kunikida has aren’t rules as much as they’re guidance. sure, dazai might rib him to hell and back if he learns that kunikida went on a date with someone who fits only 10 of his ideals, but if kunikida sees the core of the person fits what he’s looking for in a partner, he might be willing to put his rigidness aside. might. maybe. i think kunikida is a righteous and practical, but he’s also much more emotional than he lets on the surface because emotions can cloud your judgement, and in their line of work, that can be a dangerous thing. so when he gets feelings for someone, best idea is to suppress them and understand them at first, then act on his feelings if he deems the time ‘acceptable’.
i think the idea of anyone having feelings for kunikida might break him in both the funniest and most endearing way ever, because, honestly, when you look at him, there’s no way you see this confident, capable person he usually is… but in romantic settings too. i think he’d be quite traditional (and shy) in terms of romance: proper dates, flowers, dressed impeccably, but that’s more because of his ideals than because he himself enjoys these things. at first, he’d do everything he can to play by the rules as much as possible until you either tell him he doesn’t need to do all that and just a simple home-cooked dinner will be more than enough; all that’s important is that you spend time together, and get to know each other! now that’s when you’ll instantly win him over. because if you want to just spend time with him means you want to get to know him, which means you’re interested in him, which means you see something solid past all the ideals and rules and practicality and you’re still there? holy shit, sign him the fuck up (he’d never say it like that, but y’know). he definitely wouldn’t want to make things vague so he’d either ask you straight up if you’d like to be his partner, or he’d give you a letter or something like that (the tips of his ears will definitely be pink and he’d be avoiding eye contact, but that’s just his charm). now, your relationship might not just be traditional picnic dates and going fishing together, but hey, things aren’t perfect because humans aren’t perfect; and kunikida is far from perfect, either, even if he wants to be.
hcs for kunikida as a lover in another post!!
hii can i request an assigned bsd character with seventeen/ cigarettes after sex/ beabadoobee lyrics??? you can choose!
so uhh I'm very introverted and value a lot my personal time and space. idk how to express myself and I feel like I'm full of contradictions if that makes sense. love listening to music and reading. love deep talks.
Im 160cm tall, I have long wavy black hair and very dark brown eyes. my mbti is istj and my love languages are quality time and acts of service!
feel free to ignore queen 🫶
ella’s love drabbles #5
kunikida doppo // “it’s so sweet knowing that you love me / though we don’t need to say it to each other.”
kunikida’s love for you is steady, and rooted in admiration for the harmony you bring to his life. he sees you as a someone both grounding, maybe practical, even and endlessly deep. to him, you are the balance between structure and chaos, reason and emotion. you don’t oppose his idealism; instead, it shapes it, grounding his lofty visions in the reality of your shared existence. his devotion shows in the way he quietly tends to every detail of your comfort—preparing your favorite tea when you’ve had a long day, organizing your space so you have more room to breathe, and quietly finishing tasks you find tiresome so you can focus on what matters to you. he doesn’t speak of his love often, but it lingers in the warmth of his small, deliberate actions. for kunikida, your presence means comfort, teaching him that perfection isn’t a rigid ideal but a living, breathing connection—a union of two souls, each strengthening the other in ways that words cannot define. and, of course, in your brown eyes he finds something even more precious than comfort.
tags: gender neutral reader, established relationship, cuddling headcanon, very fluffy
warnings: none!
request: I know you made a post already so only if you have ideas and feel like writing it can you write moreeee about snuggles with kunikida? 🤭 only if you want to :) it doesn't have to be a lot. maybe specifically with a reader who loves cuddles and physical touch and is always hugging him at work and giving him lots of kisses, and also loves plushes 🤭🤭 (original request found here.) (cuddling headcanon post).
word count: 1k
a/n: upon looking for photos for his header I have realized his eyebrows are almost always furrowed lol my poor stressed man. btw, I love stuffies, so I relate a lot to this request.
Man I hate to say it but, you definitely do not fit his ideal type. You were not what he wrote down in his book of ideals. And he couldn’t have asked for anything better. It took him a bit to warm up to the idea of dating you, but once he realized how much he’d fallen for you, and how well you two pair together, he decided to screw the damn book and officially ask you out.
To be honest, he spoils you rotten. As I said in my cuddling headcanon post, if he’s in a relationship with you it’s serious. In my opinion, you ground him. Your happiness is his happiness. He wants you loved and cared for. So, even if physical affection is not his thing (it’s not) he’ll do it for you, he’d do anything for you simp.
When it comes to affection, it goes from quality time, acts of service, gift giving, words of affirmation, and then physical affection. Listen, I know words of affirmation is ranked lowly, but I’m sorry this man with his words sometimes is a mess. He’s not the best at verbally comforting someone.
Now what exactly is it like being a cuddle bug in a relationship with an idealist? Let me bullet that for you.
Cuddles are always initiated by you. Even if you’re not feeling well, you always stretch your arms out for him before he can even blink.
On the off chance it’s initiated by him, it comes out of no where.
I mentioned this in the headcanon but I’ll say it again, after a rough day or mission he craves your touch and comfort. I’m going to assume physical affection is your main love language, so it becomes second nature to him to seek out your touch for affection. He’s the type to bury himself into your arms in that case. He’s vulnerable and sensitive, and while I see him as being only dominant in a relationship, sometimes he just needs to be held and cared for.
Sometimes though he will insist on holding you, and that’s a key indicator that something happened where he felt threatened losing you. If that’s the case, let him holding you and baby you for a bit, he needs to reassurance you’re safe in his arms and not going anywhere.
Wow that got angsty haha, my bad. Let’s move onto something more… fluffy. Literally.
He knew about your love of plushies due to you carrying a couple of small ones in your bags, or having plush keychains. He had to admit at first he didn’t understand the appeal, but it made you happy and, you were quite cute with them. He won’t cuddle them though, I’m sorry.
The first time he saw your plushie collection was when you invited him to your house and allowed him to look around.
He knew you loved plushies but seeing just how many you had, he couldn’t fathom how you afforded them all. Or how you manage to give them all attention, but you do.
He actually sits on your bed and listens intently as you introduce every single stuffie to you. He genuinely cares.
And you better believe he wrote all their names in his notebook. Just please don’t let Dazai see.
He will buy you more plushies for your collection. He keeps tabs on your favorite plushies too. Say you love squish mallows and there’s a rare one coming out, he’ll make sure you get it.
He does sometimes get jealous of your plushies though. There’s been a few times he’s come home to you asleep with your favorite plush in your arms, when it should be him. Eh, it’s his fault for being gone late at work no?
It takes a while for him to let you move in, but he doesn’t stop you from taking over his apartment. There’s always special plushies that stay there. Gifts from him and ones you think resemble him. Whether that’s physical appearance or personality. He found himself comforted by their presence when you aren’t there. The fact they smell like you being a bonus. He will never tell you this though. He will die before admitting it.
The most common cuddle positions involve spooning or laying against his chest. If it’s sitting, then you’re somehow in his lap, or laying your head in it if possible.
It’s become a ritual for you to lay on top of him and tell him all about your day, while he plays with your hair and listens intently. It’s fun listening to his heartbeat pick up as he tells you about the stupid thing Dazai had done today.
It’s also the most convenient if either of you feel like reading a book. He does it a lot, he reads through his book or writes in them to prepare for things.
He’s not the best with you being cuddly and affectionate at work, not at first. It didn’t help that a certain suicidal maniac was his partner and would never leave him alone about it. But after rejecting your affections and see how sad it made you, he learned his lesson and will always allow you to be affectionate with him in public. Not too much though.
Actually now that I think about it Dazai has probably playfully flirted with you (in the dumbest ways) as you sit in Kunikidas lap, asking you to commit double suicide with him, etc. Just to drive his partner insane. You both know that, Kunikida still tries to kill him though. Dazai waits for you to be in his lap since he knows you don’t like to be disturbed and Kunikida can’t get up to hit him.
Funnily enough Ranpo helps ease Kunikidas mind about the affection in the office. You two are great friends by the way. He helped you bully Kunikida into being affectionate with you in the office once. It was great.
I’m sorry though, it doesn’t happen much that you’re affectionate in the office. Cuddles are one thing, which is stretching him enough, but kisses are another. And that’s usually a no. It’s not appropriate in the work place. Sometimes some pecks here and there are okay, but he wouldn’t make out with you.
Behind closed doors or at home though he loves kissing you. I hope you know that. He’s addicted. But that’s a story for another time.
