in ur opinion, how would soumakoharu get together?
ahhhh i love this ship sfm. ;; honestly i always dig a sweet and warm and maybe simplistic tokyo story for them, uni or post-uni, with or without rin in the area as well. if sousuke’s there without rin for a spell (saying rin goes abroad again and comes back to swim for jpn), mh would mutually offer themselves as friends to sousuke (using makoto’s sense of diplomacy to initiate) assuming he doesn’t know a lot of people, and do so without needing to be asked to (tho it’s cute that rin would probably say something anyway). ssk probably has a few tokyo friends somewhere already from tokitsu kicking around and blows them off a little but slowly finds mh’s company richer and more fulfilling at this stage in his life given everything that’s happened in canon until that point. ssk and haru are good-term friends by the ova so i really don’t find this to be a stretch that a strong friendship among the 3 of them would come together easy and without a lot of hitch in this scenario. if you’re looking for a dope ass rock solid friendship out of nowhere here it is.
for a romance progression, all above plus the addition of subconscious touchiness worming it’s way into things... heated moments where nothing happens but something unspoken is there... all the cheesy stuff, but no one’s really a high key romantic so it turns out to be slow going and understated. natural, docile, and never too much at once. i dont personally do any sort of romo mh until a further along post-canon so whatever feelings they have for each other wouldn’t be developing until then as it is anyway.
so i like the idea of sousuke being a dark horse in the mix neither mako or haru expected. sousuke didn’t expect it either but lbr post-canon that guy is sitting stuck in a bucket of fuck it and i would like to see him be open to something new and different. and i am always in the game for mh learning to open up their bond to others. there’s a lot of worldview opening in general to be gained through this relationship. and it’s intense to grapple with this many strong and new feelings on each of their individual levels, but it’s also like a seriously involved life or death game of chicken that none of them are talking openly about and yet no one’s backing out of until it’s too late they’ve already totally gone for it (and makoto kisses sousuke square on the mouth first and wins the game).
but in the end i will take this ship how i can get it bc i love.