#LMAO nah i'm just joking around but i hope you like my response to this and that you're having a great day!!

[mad-hunts]

blood, sender cleans blood off of receiver.

'whenever you're a part of gotham's underground, it's just a rule that you're going to make some enemies, and that means you have to be prepared for anything.' that is something that barton remembers telling his kids once in an attempt to warn them against ever letting their guard down around other people — and somewhat of a mantra that he himself liked to abide by. which, seemed very relevant right now, seeing as he was staring down at the bloodied corpse of someone he originally thought was on his side. but it seemed like the man was quick to change his alliances whenever he was offered a better deal by another villain to be their new inside person and all they had to do was kill him before they could officially switch to working for them. or, perhaps former police officer would be the more appropriate way to refer to him now.

cyrus mitchell was his name. and for a while, he served as barton's 'inside man,' who would report back to him whenever his name was so much as whispered in gotham city's police station for a ridiculous amount of money. but having the ability to be three steps ahead of everyone would always cost you in one way or another. to be able to protect yourself and those you loved, barton did have this idea that you had to sacrifice something, as that seemed to one of the quickest ways to gain power over someone or perhaps even a whole system; both on a physical and mental level. though with that sacrifice came risk, since people like cyrus were obsessed with the idea of living the good life and whenever a new, better offer for work flew into their lap... they immediately wanted to take it. if only he hadn't gotten so greedy.

barton was still breathing heavily from all of the energy he'd just exerted while he was doing something rather unsavory to cyrus's head, which actually caused it to look like less like a head in the end and more like a mess of gore, as well as blood. all of the adrenaline that he had been feeling before was now something that he was beginning to come down from; which made barton to begin to really feel the aching that cyrus, the slimy bastard, had brought about in his legs when he had him pinned down to the ground stomach first for a good five minutes or so. so as you can imagine... with all of the craziness that had been going on around him, barton's mind had failed to remember that someone was actually supposed to be meeting him here soon.

mya, barton thought her name was? thus, he was rather startled by the other suddenly being in his vicinity — in his workshop — and failed to find the right words to say to her for a moment. barton put on his best smile then and tried to ease the tension in the room with a quip, ❝ ahh, right. you're here. don't mind him, he's just going to be hanging around for a little bit... up until i gather enough strength to pick him up and carve him like a thanksgiving turkey, ❞ a breathy, but also sadistic chuckle came from him as he reached for one of the rags that he typically kept near his autopsy table. that's when his vision suddenly stopped working on him and he had to bend over the table to keep himself standing. his eyes, particularly his left one, felt like they were their own individual fountains now as his body seemed to remember that... yes, that man had gone for his eyes and he was pretty sure, had probably cut deep enough directly below them to cause them to overproduce tears because they were damaged.

that's when he felt it. it must've been mya, because there was no one else here at the moment, who had taken the cloth from him and was now wiping at the blood running down his face. barton still couldn't see anything so he had to grope around blindly to loosely grab her other hand's wrist. a shaky groan left his mouth as red-hot pain ran through the areas that she was wiping clear of blood, though that was likely not her intention. he pulled on her wrist then and tried to bat away the hand she was actually using to help him, ❝ ugh, what are you doing? stop it. you're hurting me. ❞

another attempt to bat at her hand, and that's when he decided to try to open his eyes to see her rather than keep them closed. which proved to only hurt him further... great, just great, he thought. mya could kill him if she wanted to right now and he'd be utterly defenseless.

[slurp-imagines]

Hey, I have a headcanon I would like to ask, how would Sakazuki's relation be if he had a sister? They are like night and day - she is easy going, friendly and laugh/jokes around alot, but she will beat you ass if you're not respectful. Can imagine there are some friction between them, but she will always have Saka's back. Will they also have some sibling quirks? Thank you ^^

I found this a little difficult to write after a certain point (hope it's not too obvious lol) but it was an interesting prompt for sure. re-reading your ask now, I do feel like you were hoping for like... more just fun headcanons. but I ended up going kinda serious with it. hope that's okay too haha... regardless, ty for sending anon :)

Sakazuki (Akainu) + his friendly sister

↳ Sakazuki hates her omg. Probably not genuinely, but. Some people definitely wonder

↳ I'm sure she hassles him all the time lmfao, he never gets a break. She was the reason he got his first gray hair, he just knows it.

↳ It'd be funny if his sister was older than him & was always making fun of him like "yep, that's my baby brother, the admiral :D Isn't he so cute?" Meanwhile Sakazuki’s stood there stony-faced, looking like the most intimidating thing since death itself. He wants to deny it so bad, but it would only validate her. Because what’s cuter than a big, grumpy guy denying how cute he is?? The gap moe would be too strong. And he can’t have that. He’s helpless to it and she knows it lmao, the best he can do is just not even dignify it with a response. Sakazuki has mastered the “...As I was saying,” deadpan. Prob has a vein popping in his neck or something too. It kills her every time

↳ I could see Sakazuki and his sister being sooo at odds most of the time, but weirdly in sync on the battlefield. He likely outranks her since he's an admiral, but I imagine she wouldn't be too far behind him. She's always on the same page, always knowing what his orders will be before he even voices them. I can see her keeping up a mutual respect with her brother by still dutifully completing their missions; even while she's joking around the whole time, she gets the job done. Cleanly.

↳ She can totally crack the whip on their subordinates, too– the authority she commands is made a little heavier by her brother's name, of course, but it's also one entirely her own. She has her stern/scary side, but she's definitely warmer and more approachable than him. I could see her taking on a role where she sort bridges that gap between Sakazuki and their fellow marines.

↳ On a more serious note... We don’t have a backstory on him (yet - I hope) but I always imagined that his incredibly black-and-white view of justice was shaped by some formative, possibly traumatic experience when he was younger. As a child, I could see Sakazuki admiring/liking her quite a bit, up until that point. I feel like he’d think she wasn’t taking his plight– their duty as marines to enforce justice– seriously.

↳ So Sakazuki is always scolding her, always telling her to “drop the act & get serious already” because he knows what she’s capable of. He does mean that genuinely, but she pulls a lot of the weight keeping things more light-hearted. The tension really doesn't rise unless she's actively screwing things up or holding things back from an important goal.

↳ Idk why, but I feel like sometime around the aforementioned point in his life, Sakazuki would have unconsciously stopped holding blood relation as inherently more important that choice relations. In that sense, he may only continue feeling a sense of loyalty toward his sister so long as she stays on the same path as him.

↳ Because surely from her past actions, he knows that she has his back, and he knows that he's better off because of it. (Does he ever tell her that? Nah. But she probably gets it... I feel like they'd have that silent-understanding type of relationship)

↳ But I'm a little hesitant on how far Sakazuki will have her back in return. We haven't seen anything from him yet to make me think that he'd value a personal relationship over his duty. I could actually see him disowning someone close to him should he decide they're morally wrong. (Doing so would hurt him, but only privately, and maybe only after the fact.)

↳ And even if they butt heads a lot, or even if he never expresses it, I do feel like he would be quite attached to his sister deep down (especially now that they're both far into their adulthood and their dynamic has likely become less volatile than when they were kids/teens). Sakazuki naturally doesn’t want to look down on her, but he will if her philosophy & reasons for fighting are severely out of line in his eyes. We love the friction don't we