#also hello!!!!!! nice to chat w u off anon!!!! thank u for this absolute treat I'm loving spiraling over daiya again lmao

[youichi-kuramochi]

hi viv its me that anon but not on anon this time because im getting annoyed with saying “that anon” every time but. im just here to say that i could never possibly ship harukura (is that their ship name?? haruichi n kuramochi??) because of ryousuke and as much as i love harukura as like. a partner dynamic i could never do that to ryousuke??? although itd be a good angst fic i just,,, rlly think that kuramochi n haruichi work better as a like- sibling type relationship??? idk many thoughts head full

also, to add onto my last ask, i cannot possibly imagine how bittersweet ryousuke must feel watching his brother play in his place. on one hand, he’s proud of haruichi- hes playing well, making all the right plays, meshing well with kuramochi. at the same time though, that was something that he had first. that was something that was his. to constantly have haruichi chasing after him (which, alas, is something that has also probably traumatized haruichi) must be so offputting. even after ryousuke leaves the team, haruichi is still looking up to him and reach his level.

the fact that haruichi was able to get to nationals with seido, while ryousuke just barely missed his chance with them? its like how sawamura was crying because he “wanted to keep playing with this team”?? like i can only imagine how bitter and jealous hed be of haruichi because that was HIS partner... not to mention the whole,,, thing,, with krry,, like- their relationship dynamic??? what the fuck. i just- yeah.

bro............. BRO oh god you’re about to open a whole can of worms I’m so sorry for what I’m sure is going to be a long rant but tl;dr I FEEL YOU SO HARD I LEGIT THINK ABT THIS ALL THE TIME

I love haruichi so very much like I think he was my first fave daiya character tbh but like.... yeah kuraharu could never be my cup of tea like I’m not gonna begrudge anyone for shipping it bc obv to each their own but I’m just so In It with kuraryou and I have SO many thoughts and feelings abt ryousuke and his big brother complex like 90% of the impetus for the first krry fic I ever wrote was me going insane over how everything ended for seidou that first summer and HAVE YOU READ THE ‘FACE’ SIDESTORY FOR RYOUSUKE bc if you haven’t oh my GOD it will make you Feel So Many Things about ryousuke’s incredibly complicated relationship with trying to be the perfect big brother and always trying to measure up to expectations and I just. like.

but GOD I know exactly what you mean like the crazy rollercoaster of emotions that must be watching kuramochi and haruichi play like we see hints of this during I think the fall tournament when the 3rd years come to watch them play and like ok idk this might be a spoiler bc it’s from act ii so idk tread carefully from here on out (not that I’m caught up but like. when I heard that ryou-san was coming home I couldn’t NOT look at the spoilers lmao) but when ryousuke comes to watch them play the next year????? like after he’s graduated???? and he’s so obviously like both proud of these two people who are so SO important to him but also still disappointed that it didn’t get to be HIM standing there and HIM getting that victory and he’s starting all over from scratch again in college trying to get people to take him seriously and I just. I just about LOST IT over this

and honestly like. again I’m not caught up w act ii so like everything I know about it is via the anime or secondhand from whatever spoilers I happen to stumble across but like. I get a little idk conflicted sometimes abt how haruichi’s arc is written bc like I love him. I love that he grows and becomes more confident in himself and I truly do love that he and kuramochi have become such an unstoppable duo bc it’s what they both deserve but also like. like ok there was this recent chapter title page I think???? that’s basically a recreation of a krry cover from act i but with kuramochi and haruichi and I just?????? started sobbing????? like I get that the parallels between the two of them are kind of the point but also idk as someone who really loves both ryousuke and haruichi so very much sometimes I get frustrated w just how much haruichi is filling ryousuke’s shoes like I feel like they both deserve a little more than just haruichi succeeding where ryousuke failed y’know??? like there’s gotta be more to it than that right?????

anyway. I don’t know where I was going with this anymore. I think I got off topic I’m sorry if this doesn’t make sense I just. I HURT thinking abt this adlfkgjaldkfjgl