Aren’t you supposed to be on hiatus? //squints
notp / not really / meh / I could / sometimes / maker, yes / my otp babbies
I consider this ship’s feelings: Mutual | Mixed | Strange | Awkward | Platonic | Sibling-like | One-sided | They don’t really like each other |
I’d consider the relationship: Healthy | Awkward | Abusive | Doesn’t work properly | They’d never get together |
Children: No | Yes | They’d think about it (If they got together, I imagine Kyer would manage to convince Shibui at some point.)
General Opinion: AAAH, THESE TWO.... It’s been... Three years? I think three years. And I still love their interactions. They’ve never really become friends, (or not YET, ahaha... we can dream,) but their relationship has definitely grown and evolved significantly over that time. The best part about it though is that no matter how much they change and grow, there’s always room for more growth, and they just never get boring. I love that!! They’re probably never gonna get together in canon, since Kyer is happily taken and Shibui is happily gay, but it’s definitely fun to play around with their dynamic as a romantic pair in AU. <3
1. What do their love letters look like?Hhhhhhahahhaha, oh boy... Honestly, I'm having trouble imagining them writing love letters... Uhm, humandryx AU-wise, I think Shibui might sort of write a little letter to him saying how much she appreciates him, but never show it to him. Aaand he might accidentally find it, and decide to write a letter back, saying how much he appreciates her back, and what he likes about her, and then Shibui would get all flustered and try to write a letter back but ends up just doing a bunch of drafts that she crumples up and finally she just sends him one of those thank you greeting cards with a little chocolate or something inside. Big nerd. Kyer would laugh at her & tease her and then kiss her on the cheek and Shibui would smack him a bit.
2. First impressions of each other: For Kyer, distrust and dislike, because of the whole thing with her ditching kit-sitting duty... For Shi, discomfort because of his reaction, and a little fear ‘cause she thought she was gonna get in trouble... and then some dislike because honestly, who’d he think he was trying to tell her what to do and how to feel about it? He didn’t understand anything. In retrospect, I think it’s really interesting how this first interaction went on to shape their entire relationship. I think if they’d had a positive first meeting, they never would have had such a negative relationship. It would definitely have been very different!
3. A short headcanon for the pair:HMMMM....... I’m waffling between doing a canon compliant headcanon or a humandryx one, so I will do both!! In human (college!) AU, I really like the concept of Shibui coming over to just kinda hang out in his place between classes (I started writing a thing about this that I need to finish) and Kyer has roommates but they’re usually busy bc I said so, like they take more classes, and Shibui just likes to sit on the couch with her legs drawn up and watch Kyer move around the house ‘cause he has these little habits like trailing his fingers on the surface of furniture and walls which is an old habit he used to sort of orient himself when he couldn’t see as well, and he’ll make them drinks or snacks or something and he reads and Shibui just sits and chills because sometimes she needs to just relax with someone and not worry about things. Or maybe they play cards, or when she’s feeling better, they play a boardgame, but like one of the ones with lots of pieces, like mousetrap or monopoly, and they throw the pieces at each other when they’re losing and they laugh a lot, which is good for them both. UHM. This is getting long, but a quick canon-y headcanon, I like the idea at some point of Shibui just sitting down and telling Kyer everything about herself in the most unbiased way she can manage, because she’s held everything inside her for so long, or told it in an intentionally self-demonizing way, and she just wants to get the facts out as they are, and at the end she goes, “With all of that said, and everything you know about me from before, will you judge me?” Like, a literal request for him to judge her, now that he knows everything. And it doesn’t matter what he says, because he knows everything, so even if he’s biased, at least he’s got the full picture. And she’d be happy with whatever he said, because it feels like, finally, closure on their big ridiculous whatever they have.
4. Any themes? (BECAUSE WHY NOT):Flaws by Bastille!! You suggested it, and tbh it is perfect. Also, if we’re getting more to the romantic side (and humandryx), Never Look Away by Vienna Teng.
