RIGHT SO. we have our two established relationships (catbug and croc.hawk). croco.dile was already interested in kittay after seeing her fight during im.pel down and only became slightly less interested after realizing that Clown (derogatory) is her captain (she gains some of those points back after slaughtering the marines on that ship they stole. that was kind of hot). mi.hawk would've only seen her very briefly during marine.ford and probably wouldn't think much of her, but croco.dile still respects her in the cro.ss gui.ld era so i think mi.hawk would respect her then. if she has croco.dile's respect, she clearly deserves it.

(this seems like it'll get long so i'll put the rest under a cut)

so for whatever reason, kittay's plans to fix the poster and the ship fail and those chapters play out pretty much as usual (maybe a bit better than in canon, with kittay there able to actually explain the situation whereas bu.ggy does nothing but apologize). AFTER that is when i get to make stuff up since there's nothing in canon yet. it's been a little while since then, things have been going surprisingly well, bu.ggy's followers have yet to fuck up immensely again so there's nothing to beat bu.ggy up over.

perhaps mi.hawk decides to start a garden on ka.rai ba.ri, much like the one he had on kurai.gana, and kittay, looking for something to do, offers to help. she doesn't complain about having to do the dirty work like a certain someone used to, and she honestly seems excited about it.

kittay has wormed her way into mi.hawk's heart, just a little bit.

croco.dile misses the banana.wani he had back in ala.basta, so he has some shipped to the island (maybe with some other fruit.wani, too). he finds kittay cooing over them, maybe even having a nice conversation since i just remembered she can do that.

kittay has wormed her way into croco.dile's heart, just a little bit.

it's the little things mixed with kittay's innate mary sue charm that have mi.hawk and croco.dile falling for her. as they observe her – observe her and bu.ggy, since the happy couple are together more often than not – they inexplicably find themselves falling for the clown too. perhaps it was when mi.hawk spotted bu.ggy rambling to kittay about the new and improved formula for his bombs, some complicated science that neither understood but both were enraptured by. perhaps it was when croco.dile caught the pair sparring together, huffing and puffing with exertion, and watched as bu.ggy effortlessly dodged a blast of firaga and rushed forward to slash at kittay's arm, leaving a purposefully shallow cut that she could easily heal.

they're mad about it, of course, croco.dile more so than mi.hawk. mi.hawk, for his part, accepts this newfound feeling surprisingly quickly, and he's the first who tries to get closer to bu.ggy. bu.ggy has no idea what's going on and is rightfully terrified, but he feels a bit better with kittay by his side. mi.hawk manages to convince croco.dile that the clown isn't so bad, and kittay manages to convince the clown that their business partners are not planning to kill him. now that he's not so terrified, he starts to notice just how handsome they are... kittay agrees with him. please imagine them giggling and kicking their feet like a couple of teenage girls discussing cute boys.

croco.dile, hilariously, treats this like another business partnership, calling kittay and bu.ggy into the meeting room and asking if they'd like to join him and mi.hawk. bu.ggy had absolutely no idea that this was what they were planning. kittay saw it coming from miles away, because by now she knows very well how these worlds work.

don't let bu.ggy's followers hear about this. god knows what they might do.