kudous/akai with 4, 19 (the first one), 22, 23
HAIIII thank you for bringing up the most whimsical polycule out there <333 (future Atlas here: I ended up having to put the whole thing under a read more because of question 19. I hope you're proud of yourself)
(the ask game for anyone who's interested)
4. How do you see this ship? Examples: "totally married", "besties who date sometimes for fun", "toxic exes that definitely shouldn't be 10 feet near each other".
Happily married couple and the thang they picked up one day and decided to keep!! Look at them go!!
19. An ideal free day for them would look like? What are they doing on that day?
Fucking <- not so fast!! 💥💥💥
Hmmm I must consider a day where they're all free somehow (side-eyeing Yusaku :/ why do you exist /silly)... To me, something to keep in mind is that Yukiko & Yusaku would have slept in their bed the previous night whereas Shuuichi would most likely have either 1) pulled another all-nighter for one reason or the other, or 2) spent the night in his own room, having managed a few hours of sleep tops. Either way he is, unsurprisingly, up and about before either of the Kudous.
The day may then proceed as follows: Shuuichi gets to be in the kitchen unsupervised because Yukiko has long since gotten him to a level where he can be trusted with that (yay!) and probably decided to make something easy/low stakes that he's super familiar with by now (it's mostly about giving his hands something to do without needing to think about his every move for once) -> the Kudous wake up. Yukiko, as always, gets out of bed first because to nobody's surprise she also happens to be a morning person. An insanely cheerful morning person. Yusaku hides under the covers for a while because he doesn't want morning to be real. He will eventually get out of bed and freshen up, after Yukiko has gone downstairs -> Yukiko joins Shuuichi in the kitchen! Depending on their moods they might fool around a bit (overly indulgent Shuuichi who just goes with the flow you will always be famous to me. Also Yukiko is a phenomenal kisser so...) until Yusaku makes his appearance. Breakfast is had together (fairly novel concept for Shuuichi but he doesn't mind going along with it) -> now, unless Shuuichi feels like going through the painstaking process of becoming his irl OC he'll have to spend the day inside for security reasons. I'll be going with that. I think that Yusaku and Shuuichi would indeed enjoy talking about various things, from literature to Yusaku's own projects to whatever non-classified stories Shuuichi might decide to recount (The Scarlet Investigator being based on him lives in my head rent free. WHAT DID THEY COOK?? THE MASSES YEARN TO KNOW). With Yukiko, who feels a bit too high-energy for Shuuichi to be able to handle for extended periods, I think they'd find a nice balance of "let's try out a new, more complex recipe today" and "Yukiko yaps while Shuuichi listens with like 20% of his brain. Beautiful Background Noise x Idle Listener Who Somehow Goes oh? And mhm At All The Right Moments" -> and now for what everyone has been waiting for (/silly): yes they do have sex. Yes to my eternal dismay Yusaku is there too. This above all is peak relax hours for Shuuichi. He's just really happy to be here, and he gets to turn most of his brain off (Yukiko knows how to handle him by now)! What's not to love honestly. -> amazing discovery: Shuuichi catnaps after sex. Just curls up a lil bit and goes to honk shoo mimimi land for maybe half an hour. The Kudous get to witness this every single time. I too struggle to compute how that bug could pull off something this cute -> then there's dinner, and afterwards I think that Shuuichi will begin to get a bit restless about needing to do something, and coupled with his social batteries getting drained I can see him going for some alone time (during which he will be puzzling over work/long-term plans/what he needs to do tomorrow/etc), which the Kudous are fine with. Basically the wind-down of the evening is the process of getting "unglued" from each other, if that makes sense. Return to a status quo where Shuuichi gets a ton of space to himself, which he appreciates a lot, and the Kudous focus on each other exclusively
22. A headcanon you have for this ship?
Physical contact outside of sex enjoyers (from most to least) go Yukiko > Yusaku > Shuuichi and they figure this out pretty early on. With time Shuuichi does come to enjoy casual touch and prolonged physical contact, but it usually has to be something he initiates on his own or he might remove himself from the premises without warning. Very cat core of him, but you must wait for the bug to lean against you on the couch/put his head on your shoulder/etc! You must be patient! You will be rewarded!
Kissing is somewhat exempt from this, in that he doesn't really mind it happening out of nowhere. It's just not on the same level as actually choosing to put your head in someone's lap and rest your eyes for a bit. Do you get me
23. Describe this ship in the most out of context way that you can.
Google how to figure out if faking my death with the help of an insane 7yo was the catalyst for me becoming his parents' sugar baby
