Hmm well how bout Nagant and Overhaul 😁
Unsure if this is for the duo meme or for the character meme that you reblogged from me--so I'll just do both! (Sorry it took so long, but to be fair, it is long.)
Duo meme:
(the 'swings a bat at the discourse' is primarily because i don't like sniperhaul, and some interpretations of sniperhaul that i've seen really rub me the wrong way)
Character Meme:
For one Tsutsumi Kaina (keep in mind, I haven't yet watched her anime episodes, just the first 8 manga chapters where she appears):
What I like about them: Interesting character, highly disillusioned, has blood on her hands and is struggling to know how to move forward after trauma. Her character/personality archetype is usually a man/male-dominated, so it's awesome to have Nagant there.
What I dislike about them: I read 8 chapters of the manga just for her, and it was 25% fanservice, 50% making Deku look good (obligatory fuck Deku), and only 25% character exploration/backstory. Also she gets sucked into the Mary Sue "Deku is so cool!!!" vortex.
Favorite moment: When Chisaki is saying stuff about how he just wants to go apologize to Pops, and she's looking at him and you can just *see* that she's in the same sort of pain even if it isn't for the same sort of reasons.
Least favorite moment: Any time when she starts talking about how Deku is so cool/bright/whatever.
A situation with this character that I want to see explored more: One where she killed Deku, or her struggling to integrate into normal society, or her interacting with UA students that aren't Deku in all her cynical, disillusioned, ex-assassin political prisoner glory (especially Bakugo)--honestly just her in general.
An interesting AU for this character: One where she broke out of Tartarus way earlier and ended being taken in by (and falling in love with) one Bakugo Mitsuki and her eight-year-old son Katuski.
A crossover: Honestly? No idea. Maybe AtLA, since that's...kind of my go-to crossover.
OTP (or OT3+ etc…. just… favourite ship): Bakugo Fucking Mitsuki. Listen. Listen. You've got the older lesbian appeal AND you're pairing up a cynical low-energy character who's Seen Some Shit with a spunky, slightly maniacal high-energy character who's determined to take on the world and win, and they're both Just A Little Bit Fucked Up. What's not to love???
Other ships?: Not really. Mitsuki's the only romantic one.
BROTP: Probably with Chisaki. They've both Seen Some Shit, and Chisaki probably trusts her a lot more than he trusts most people given that she actually tried to help him out when he was at his weakest.
NOTP: I could say Sniperhaul, but I don't actually have that much of a reaction to it.
An assortment of headcanons!:
First up: poet Kaina. She was trained and used as a sniper; that means a lot of downtime, a lot of time to think. I like to think that she took some notebooks or loose paper and writing utensils with her and used that downtime to play with words and write some poetry. She doesn't really consider herself a poet, though, because in her mind she's never written Real Poetry. She's also never shown her work to others.
I also headcanon her as a lesbian, and as grayromantic and graysexual. She's had like four crushes in her entire life, including Mitsuki, who she met once when they were both in their twenties and at the behest of the HPSC Kaina served as a temporary model at the fashion company Mitsuki was working as a designer at. Unlike her other three crushes, Mitsuki actually liked her back. Unfortunately their little affair was short-lived, as Kaina moved on to other gigs (again, at the behest of the HPSC) and Mitsuki eventually moved on to marry Masura.
For Chisaki: I've already talked about him here, so I may be referring to that at points.
What I like about them: He's interesting and relatable to me, at least as a character. In the other ask meme I mention that I relate to him as someone who tends to unwittingly self-sabotage in the relationship/social realm. I also, in a sense, like how open and up-for-interpretation his character is, which means that I can take the minor scraps we get and run.
What I dislike about them: Probably that he's such a one-note villain. His character also has a lot of ableism tied into it; ex. he's clearly mentally ill, but it's used as part of Oh Look At How Scary And Weird He Is, and later he doesn't even get prosthetics or help outside of Nagant who also has her own shit to deal with and is not qualified when he gets his arms cut off and thrown into solitary for weeks if not months, and this is treated as--fine? Normal? Deserved? Fuck that noise.
Favorite moment: When he's lying maskless on that cot after the raid, hands bound, vulnerable and helpless and ready to die. Like yesss, torture the man who thought he was invincible!
Least favorite moment: I'm...not sure honestly. Maybe the part where he puts Pops in a coma--not because I necessarily dislike what it says about his character, but because it makes me want to cringe and bury my face in my hands and shout 'NO NO YOU'RE MAKING A MISTAKE!'
A situation with this character that I want to see explored more: GET THIS MAN SOME THERAPY AND SOME FRIENDS OUTSIDE THE YAKUZA PLEASE
An interesting AU for this character: ...so many. I have. So fucking many. But one in particular that stands out as close enough to canon but still interesting is one where the Tartarus breakout never happens, or they capture the LOV before it happens, and afterwards the HPSC ends up (under pressure from the public) creating a villain reform pilot program--only the HPSC doesn't want it to succeed, so they take the least sympathetic villains and set them up in situations where they're super likely to fail. Tomura's set up with Small Might, Dabi's sent to Endeavor (which prompts Fuyumi to finally move out and take Dabi with her), and Chisaki ends up with Aizawa. Aizawa's no longer parenting Eri by this point, since she has control over her Quirk, but Chisaki is still forced to interact with one of the heroes in the raid, as well as hero students and other heroes teaching at UA, without causing damage or getting himself sent back to Tartarus.
A crossover: With Inside Job. I want him to meet and accidentally bond with Reagan Ridley.
OTP (or OT3+ etc…. just… favourite ship): Chronohaul alllll the way, baby.
Other ships?: Overzawa is fun; I've played around with Fuyumi/Chisaki; and of course pairing him with a few of his Precepts always makes for a fun time. But often times I put him in a threesome with Chrono and someone else (Fuyumi, Aizawa, one of the Precepts, sometimes Dabi). Chisaki's versatile.
BROTP: I?? Do not know. Probably also Chronohaul again, or (specifically platonic this time) Fuyumi & Chisaki; I hc him as aro (and I am aro myself) and therefore it is strange and weird to necessarily sort out 'romantic' and platonic relationships with this guy.
NOTP: I once saw Overhaul and Deku being shipped. It haunts my nightmares.
An assortment of headcanons!: God, what headcanons do I have that I haven't already talked about, or that wouldn't double the length of this ask? I definitely hc that Kai was a weird kid as a teenager: not very popular, always studying. I like to think that he might have savant syndrome (otherwise Overhaul the Quirk would be unworkable, the way I have it set up) and somehow managed to test out of every single one of the local middle/high school's math classes, so he just...doesn't have to take math. He does really well in science and math classes as a teen, and studies anatomy and biochemistry on his own because he wants to be able to put back together someone he might have accidentally taken apart with Overhaul (he has Trauma(TM) surrounding that), but doesn't do so well when it comes to literature or history.
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