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Tsumu thoughts on my mind lately

Anyway, this opening line...

This is the origin of everyone’s flower attribution in a3! you can’t change my mind...Tsumu names the flowers after each member of Mankai but keeps it a secret :3

Not sure if anyone’s said this but I really cannot get this off my mind currently

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Ahem

So everyone knows about Sakyo likes to pop bubble wrap

But like ripping up paper has a similar feeling

So I bet Sakyo would love ripping up paper

Also the likes of Hisohiso, Chikage, Tsuzuru and some others also feel the same (for varied reasons, like how Hisohiso is highkey a cat-)

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I keep thinking about this now...but gekkagumi really have extreme sleeping patterns: Hisoka sleeps too much, while August and Chikage sleep too little.

Fun fact - being sleep deprived makes you more alert

Thus a headcanon (?) was born~

The Organisation wants their members to be on their highest levels of awareness, so what better way to make sure they all are sleep deprived by training them as they are recruited to sleep less. But the Org didn’t expect their agents to end up with extremes, but now that those have been developed, ‘its not my problem’ is at play. Add in the fact of possible PTSD, and that pretty much sums up the whole issue.

Also, Hisoka is just a huge anomaly in their data, so the Org used to keep an eye on his conditions due to this. 

Either way...Hisoka was very aware of his brothers’ habits, so if one of them is in desperate need of a nap, Hisohiso would come and nap with them. I just think he’d do this, but not say anything about it. None of them ever spoke about it, an unspoken rule, but all were grateful for those moments.

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Tsuzuru during exam season (headcanons):

Collapsing a lot

So many coffee refills its still a wonder how his blood hasn’t turned to coffee

No rest either due to stress or anxiety

Is tense until he finally gets his grades

And once he does and they’re a LOT higher than expected there’s a sense of ‘is this real!?’

^ Once the fact is finally registered, lots of plays are written and other things are caught up on

Just one big ball of energy (”its cute” - Citron, “...You mean its scary” - Itaru)

Once this wares off he collapses for a nice long rest

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While I was revising for my language test, I kept thinking about how the gekka trio would learn languages for missions, so here are some of my headcanons

April/Chikage

fastest learner

enjoys learning languages the most

often ends up speaking in a random language when at the base (multilingual issues)

August changes language when he does this, but when Hisoka wakes up he just calls them out (”Stop speaking in _____, you’re confusing me...zzz”)

likes calling Hisoka out when he’s not practicing for the next mission

likes going to take-aways/restaurants and using his language skills to get the spiciest menu item possible, just for revision (or showing off)

enjoys challenging himself to learn more

who knows how many this man is fluent in (10? 20? Its a mystery)

likes calling Hisoka names in various languages just to annoy him (as Hisoka doesn’t know the meaning of them lol)

often sounds like someone who’s actually brought up in the country in which the mission takes place

August/Misha

former fastest learner (was beat by Chikage)

often has to sit with Hisoka just so to motivate him

best at Latin due to his field in science

codenames are decided him (he just loves naming his two little brothers)

no one complains as they are the best names

when codenames aren’t in place anymore after a mission is over, August still likes to use them

August still knows the most languages, but Chikage is slowly catching up

when he finds a word he likes, he’ll write it down so he can use later

may or may not use them to name his projects

gets Hisoka and Chikage together just before a mission for a mini quiz

sometimes stays up late making revision resources for Hisoka to learn

tried to understand how Hisoka can communicate with animals

doesn’t get many results though (Chikage insists Hisoka is a Disney princess)

December/Hisoka

is never motivated to learn a language

but gets there eventually if there’s enough marshmallows for a reward

learns the least amount (he doesn’t see why there’s any reason to learn a language in the first place)

Hisoka speaks only a little when on missions in foreign countries, so his point is valid

dislikes learning languages with harder letter articulation

learns the language last minute before a mission (which August scolds him about a little)

will learn the bare minimum and will get away with it

^ almost jeopardized a mission once due to this 

if a mission doesn’t specify that he has to communicate, he will not learn a single word

will only speak in animal language

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Fruits Basket (2019) ended last season, so time to point out how our A3! cast are coping with the end, and what their connections are to the shoujo anime

Fruits Basket is another anime the whole troupe watches

^ Muku is the one who brought everyone together to watch it

Pre-Mankai, everyone had seen some of it (some had seen it all)

Everyone has related to at least one character

The Original (2001) has been played numerous times in the dorm

^ Often used to lighten the mood a little

The OP/EDs are quite popular at Mankai

On days episodes would release, a tissue box would be bought

‘Ooh, I hope we can do a stage adaptation of Fruits Basket, it would be a dream come true’ - Muku during one evening of Fruits Basket watching

Street Acts focusing on the series on days when it airs

The Shoujo Manga Appreciation Club has only read the whole manga, including the spin-offs

^ Now that the adaptation has ended, there will be sub-troupe meetings to read it all

As Fruits Basket: the Final has finished, everyone misses the shoujo...

The next part will be out next week starting with fuyugumi, but welcome to my new series of headcanons ^^

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Chikage “Charlatan” Utsuki

He is someone where people cannot figure out if he’s lying or not

But has anyone stopped to think why he’s so good at it? Why he started the habit? When did it start?

So yeah I came up with a possible solution 

TW for emotional/child abuse

It is implied that Chikage had a bad relationship with his mother in Awakening Moon. Single parent huh? What if the other parent was a liar? So his mother continuously treated Chikage as a ‘liar’, causing it to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. So that’s where the lying started, so Chikage could get a breather from his emotionally abusive mother. Its not immoral for him...Its a means of survival!

Then it was amplified. At the Org. To protect his family (August and Hisoka), Chikage would have to lie in order to make sure they don’t get hurt. He had to lie and make it believable. He’s already had practice, so his lying skills become even sharper when he’s in the Org. And since he has to hide the real Chikage in the Org when on missions, it becomes a habit, which is ingrained into his daily life. Once again, a means of survival!

So when he joins Mankai, he’s had YEARS of experience, its a no-brainer that he’s a top tier liar. Its not a means of survival anymore, but it is very hard to stop lying and covering everything he says with deceit. Its like a fun game of sorts now, as he keeps up his wall but also remains close in a sense.

Oh, and since he’s fulfilled the prophecy, there must be some kind of internal conflict caused by his mother’s words. Wouldn’t he be in pain now that he knows he’s like that ‘awful parent who left him...left them’, causing Chikage to close himself off even more.

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I don’t know what I’m writing anymore...but here you go, a possible reason why Chikage lies/possible Chikage backstory (liber when?!)

I don’t know if there’s more...but its 2.30 and I think I should get some sleep ^^;;

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Y’know how there aren’t many shoujo manga being adapted into anime currently right?

Well imagine how would Muku feel (literally all my headcanons-):

Distraught that they aren’t many animations of them being made

Happy that they’re being made into dramas 

^ Tenma might have a chance to be one of the leads

Curious about certain shounen anime and checks them out (Jibaku Shounen Hanako-Kun/Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso/Your Lie in April, Tsurezure Children to name a few)

^ Ends up loving some of them

Nostalgic since there are so many reboots being made currently (Fruits Basket, Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew)

Just torn overall

Juza and Kumon, sometimes Yuki, get dragged into his negative spiral due to the lack of the sub-genre in production

There’s been a lot of forum discussions about the ‘death of shoujo anime’...Of course, after thinking about how there are hardly any shoujos in the seasonal line-ups, I thought about poor Muku who would be very torn on the topic