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ova-kakyoin · 2 years

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i cannot think of any duos for the ask game so please choose one (or more than one?) of your favorites :]

you have given me so much free rein so im gonna talk endlessly amd probably rb this to talk abt more duos because i have a lot of thoughts about a lot of guys

ok first imma gonna scream abt ichikawa and iharu from kaiju no. 8 because they have been holding my brain hostage imma put the chart and then scream abt them in read more

GOD WHERE DO I EVEN START

ichikawa is such a naturally caring person and this extends to iharu who he does not fet along with AT ALL at the start of the series because iharu is projecting his insecurities onto ichikawa pretty hard, and he's still working through that, but they grow extremely close very rapidly because they're thrust into an extremely traumatic life or death situation with practically no mental preperation, they're told that people can and will die on the job but they still can't really process it until experiencing it first hand themselves

ichikawas caring nature shows up very hard in this fight as he continuously tries to save iharu and gets his shit acsolutely rocked because of it, but iharus biggest struggle is that hes been protected his whole life and is so fucking sick of it

after all this they're both still pretty at odds with each other but they've been through something that the rest of their team havent experienced and it made them really close, more importantly for both of their arcs, it REALLY mellowed iharu out, mostly because now he's seen what it takes to grow and hes started to realize that he just doesnt have that, hes beggining to understand that hes going to be left behind by everyone around him, no matter how much it upsets him

when ichikawa fails the first weapon aptitude test, iharu is actually very relieved, theres still at least a small window if time where he'll still be even near ichikawas level

but even after all of his conflicting feelings and hatred of being left behind he STILL CARES ABOUT ICHIKAWA SO DEEPLY!! his reaction to ogatas suggestion that ichikawa stops trying to use weapon no. 6 is out of envy of his power, but it is also out of real, genuine concern for the person he cares about most, despite everything that happens, iharu still tries to keep the mood light for ichikawas sake, he tries to joke around with him after kafka gets taken from them, and he always tries to keep him safe despite ichikawa being better at protecting him

(also hes the only person that calls iharu by his first name just putting that out there)

this all isnt to say that iharu is the only one with very strong feelings towards the other, ichikawas desire to protect iharu is a part of his general wish to keep everyone around him safe no matter what, but he also seems to feel deeply in debt to iharu and very clearly understands him better than the rest of their squad. most of the team writes him off as someone brash because hes competitive when ichikawa understands that hes really just an airhead with very deep insecurities, and as such gives him a pass on pretty much every time iharu tries to provoke him, with pretty much everyone else, he'd yell at them or snap, telling them to calm down or cut it out, but his reaction to iharu is much more of a 'yeah yeah get it out of your system'

his reaction to iharu trying to show him up is very muted compared to everyone else and this attitude only increases as the series goes on, iharu constantly getting up in arms about things and ichikawa just kind of going with it, not doing much to stop him while simultaneously almost immediately stopping anyone else from doing the same thing

GOD they are so good for each other so bad for each other I am so normal about them

#asks #g0reoz #im gonna do another duo from kn8 and then polly 2 duos from ons #kn8 #kaiju no. 8 #kaiju no 8 #reno ichikawa #leno ichikawa #furuhashi iharu #iharu furuhashi #ichikawa reno #ichikawa leno #ichiharu #is that way ppl are calling it?#idk I havent gotten super involved in the fandom itself I’ve just been rotating it in my head like an irb #orb

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