These illustrations made me realise something about Giyushino as a ship (also look how beautiful these are!).
One of the many things I like about this ship is how they both are very professional-behaviour-coded characters, like you can easily imagine these two as suave and silent professionals despite different personalities who can fit into a number of roles that require gravitas...it always fits quite well when they are written in serious, heavy and high-profile roles in fanfiction, it doesn't feel ooc, in fact very natural for these two to have professions or jobs that require calm, poise but a certain level of seriousness and gravity! a quiet but alluring dynamic...
I guess one of the most running portrayals of these two in different AUs is them being a quiet, magnetic and silently powerful couple...I like despite Shinobu being more social and chatty than Tomioka carried this subtext of actually being a quiet person herself whose outward extroverted-ness cannot conceal a more subdued and quaint demeanor underneath...
















