It's not a request per se, but since you're always portraying him so well I was wondering about your opinion on the subject... What do you think, how would Imayoshi handle receiving compliments? 🤔
It depends on who Imayoshi receives the compliments from, but the one thing in common in how he reacts is that he turns this into a way to get a reaction out of them. He knows they want SOME type of reaction out of him when they give compliments, whether it’s a good one, embarrassed one, or irritated. So, he likes to pull the “no you” Uno reverse card in getting back a reaction through various ways: deflecting it to another subject, agreeing with them and complimenting himself really dryly, or complimenting them back in such a way that they don’t know if it’s sarcastic or not.
If it’s from someone he’s close/cares about, they’re not exempt from his irritating quips LOL, and he’ll still do one of the above options at them. But his intentions would be slightly different in which he actually just wants to see them in a state of flusters in good-natured fun. However, when he does do the mentioned options, it’d be slightly different: when he deflects to a different subject, he slightly averts his gaze elsewhere before he returns it back to the person he’s speaking to; when he agrees and compliments himself to goad them, he keeps the self-complimenting to a minimum and a little more vague (“of course I’m intelligent” versus “I know my capacity for knowledge has been blessed by genetics, you don’t have to tell me something I already know~”); when he compliments them back it’s done with a more serious tone but there’s still a hint of sarcasm, but it’s more phrased in a way to show that he’s genuine.
The only time he’d ever be embarrassed or caught off guard is if the person he talks to/knows about subverts his expectations of them from how they’d normally behave/act. But once they catch him off guard, it wouldn’t happen again twice, because now he’ll be ready to expect a possibility of unpredictability from that same person. Think of Imayoshi going against perfect-copy Kise, zone-Kagami, and Kuroko’s Misdirection Overflow, all of these took him by surprise for the first time, but he immediately readjusts himself accordingly and is mentally prepared for such things from them in the future. Therefore, handling unexpected compliments is no exception for Imayoshi in how he usually adapts.
