#hanabros ...

[kumakechi]

[taldigi]

teddie's so fucking funny like, he's so powerful when put in the right context and it's a shame he's so unpopular because he could be the best member of the IT if you're willing to be a little crazy about him.

[millidew]

teddie: sensei’s hype moments and aura are so peak even the grizzler had to find other ways to score. is this anything

yosuke, who got woken up at 2am to listen to teddie rehearse his jokes:

[kumakuma-circus]

it's teddie time!!!!!!! X3

[fishyking]

Yosuke is going to kick that bear

[daily-hanamura]

I would gladly read an essay about how Teddie and Yosuke compliment and are parallels of each other!! (I just love reading essays about P4 analysis let's be honest)

Ooooh okay oh god let's see if I can be coherent about this

So I think for me one of the big parallels about Teddie and Yosuke is really in the way they interact or communicate with others, and I think Teddie tends to imitate Yosuke but also in a way that also exaggerates Yosuke's traits, for better or for worse.

For example the way Yosuke hits on people especially earlier on - I feel like it starts to taper off a bit as the game continues, and especially after Teddie joins the team. I'm kind of of the attitude that Teddie doesn't really know what he's talking about, so he's just kind of innocently mimicking what Yosuke says or reads in his books, and whether that's Yosuke overcompensating with performance to hide his queerness or him just being a hot blooded teenage boy with a lot of influence from other dumb hot blooded teenage boys from his hometown, I think that him seeing Teddie with that behaviour makes him 1. Reflect more on himself and realise that that's actually quite unpleasant 2. Take responsibility as Teddie's older brother to "teach" him properly. And I actually think that's super cute, so even though I roll my eyes whenever Teddie makes a comment like that I'm also like. This is a reflection of Teddie's status as Yosuke's younger brother and just being very impressionable as younger brothers are when they have an older sibling they look up to.

It's also in the behaviour that Teddie has in Yosuke's house

I thought this was so funny because when Yosuke was at Yu's house the first time he sort of barged in and started investigating Yu's futon for Yu's dirty mags, so it's really similar behaviour??

But I also think Teddie takes after Yosuke in all his best ways as well. Look at how Teddie expresses worry for others even though he struggles with his words, just like Yosuke - when Yosuke was upset and Teddie asks him if he had a tummy ache, because he understands that Yosuke is in pain but doesn't know best how to ask after him. It reminds me a lot of that scene in p4au where Yosuke tried to assuage a worried Chie by teasing her with a distraction by pinching her nose (and it works!?)

Like. I think yosuke has definitely gotten better with it over time in being the reliable one that the IT trusts and look to for emotional support, but he was way clumsier before. And I think the point is not so much that they're bad with it, but that neither of them let it stop them from trying to express their concern for their friends anyway even though they don't know how to tackle it head on, and I love that so much.

Ultimately I think Teddie really brings out the best in Yosuke by making him more responsible? And idk I think a lot about this comment from Yosuke a lot

And I think with Teddie especially, it really shows, especially with how Teddie really does listen to him or look up to him. I love that Yosuke didn't really need to take Teddie home at the get go, but no one else knew what to do with him so Yosuke just stepped up. Teddie talks about how he crawls into Yosuke's bed for cuddles and Yosuke complains a lot about how much he hates it but he's also SO SOFT FOR TEDDIE and it makes me weak ngl, so idk, I think with the way Yosuke deflects a lot of makes me think he lets Teddie do whatever as long as it doesn't inconvenience other people. And the way Yosuke takes charge of Teddie in trying to teach him. Him giving Teddie a phone so he can stay in touch with everyone else. This is not a parallel anymore but THEM....

[alohachaos]

it's turning into hanabros yk what throw it all in there ig

i wanted to finish a souyo fic for yosukes birthday but i want more time to work on it 😭😭😭 writer's block sucks man

[fanficfish]

a couple of persona 4 headcanons

Just a list of my Persona 4/affiliated media headcanons (I really hope this doesn’t get buried lmfao…also before you ask no I don’t normally post persona I kinda got hooked through the Honkai SR fandom. What can I say, Yu’s very relatable about not wanting to upset and needing to protect the cute kid calling you “big bro”)

I have no idea what’s going on with the whole “Teddie lives with Yosuke” thing because I have literally searched up everything (don’t ask about my youtube watch history please) and here’s my take on it: Yosuke basically came home with a Teddie in tow, presented him as a guy with nowhere to go who was willing to work for his keep, stuffed him in his closet because the “spare bedroom” is his dad’s home office or something, and at some point the Hanamuras just accepted they have two sons now because how can you not like sweet, innocent, naive-but helpful Teddie? Also Yosuke played Teddie’s disappearance off as him being at Yu’s or something. I have no idea how that man pulled this off but it worked. (yes I”m a sucker for hanabros)

I still can’t decide which i prefer: Yu x Yosuke or Yu x Rise (I do like the idea that RIse grabbed Yu, flung him over her shoulder, and marched off into the sunset, though like…have you seen the Persona 4 partner dances???)

I’m actually kinda surprised Yu just goes back to wherever he came from for his third year, like just stay in Inaba for your last year of highschool? You already stayed a whole year. And he canonically has parents who are away a lot on business. But to make sense of this, I propose: He goes back only because the school he’s going to gives him a leg up into the uni he wants to go to (which is understandable. Inaba is a tiny rural town in the middle of nowhere, he’ll probably get some better connections in a city school or something). He definitely comes back on every holidays possible, and messages his friends so often that his new friends at his other school are just like “bro….please at least wear the right uniform….”

RIse’s idol group starts flinging around wild theories on what she did during her year-long break. It ranges from everything from hooking up with three different guys (they spied on her while she was doing a video call with the others (FaceTime apparently existed in 2012, which I kinda forgot about. I think the flip phones kinda just threw me off.)

Yukiko and Chie definitely get together. Have you seen those two? They’re definitely roommates, at the last.

At some point someone asks about Teddie’s bear costume, and Yosuke covers up by saying Kanji made some alterations to it. Kanji does not approve, and Yosuke is seen later running through Inaba with an angry Kanji on his heels.

Also that new outfit Teddie wears in the epilogue of Golden? That’s just Yosuke’s old stuff - Teddie still wears the first human clothes he ever got for fancy occasions, but between Yosuke and Chie they manage to talk him into regular stuff. 

And they definitely have a running joke where they introduce Teddie as an exchange student from France (with that bright blond hair and Ouran Host Club-esque style choices, it was bound to happen) whenever they meet someone new. Yosuke knows Teddie will play along anyways, but buys him sweet treats as a bribe anyways. They usually drop the act pretty quite, but it’s really funny for the Hanabros. Especially if Teddie is crossdressing, because that man totally kept his Alice outfit. 

Kanji, unfortunately for Yosuke, uses Teddie as a model whenever he decides to get creative. Yosuke is considering getting a second closet because Teddie shares most of Yosuke’s old stuff. Like clothes (Yosuke is the only one who has stuff in Teddie’s size, and Teddie’s growing a bit anyways), In the winter, Teddie regularly shows up to places wearing Yosuke’s sweaters and jackets, and Yosuke is just thankful that Kanji makes Teddie stuff like that in Yosuke’s size so both of them can wear it. 

TImeskip: Nanako moves to the city with Yu for highschool, so she can attend a more liberal-arts focussed school. Yu doesn’t mind (he’s like, 26 at this point, and probably works some kind of office job (he likes a bit of quiet in his life, after the chaos called his teenage years and having famous idol Rise Kujikawa as a mate) (and also he gets free Nanako time) and Dojima, finally taking more breaks from work, sometimes drops in to say hi and maybe buy dinner.

Yu also gets to shovel talk Nanko’s first boyfriend. Nanko has to spend half an hour reassuring him that Yu is actually in fact a really nice guy….and then turns around to see Yosuke and Rise waiting for their turn to shoveltalk. And while Yu is scary, having your girlfriend’s older brother’s brofriend and Risette staring you down was not a good follow up. Nanako is rightfully mortified, Yu does in fact bake apology cookies, and Yosuke and Risette manage to drag the couple into an impromptu dance session to ease the tension just a little after nearly scaring the poor kid half to death. (The poor kid is someone in the Phantom Theives, because I saw a really cool AU on AO3 and it lives rent-free in my head. And I like the idea of Nanako becoming a Phantom Thief because “it runs in the family, thanks a lot Yu >:l “

Naoto ends up taking Aketchi under her wing. Does she mind? I mean, to her he’s not entirely horrible. Is she pleased with his actions? …that’s debatable

Inaba becomes known for having great weather. Except for the one time Marie catches a bug going around the town, that ends up behind a horrible mid-January snowstorm. .

Those are the ones I have right now. I’m still working my way through everything (HSR is taking over my brain, I love the Astral Express crew dynamic-)

(also I'm really disappointed we didn't get human Teddie dancing with the others. I need that boost of serotine of watching Yosuke and human Teddie try to dance together.)

[soulessgingersthings]

Hanako Hanabro

[kumakuma-circus]

i hope they bring up teddie living in yosuke's closet in p4 revival, i love that fact and p4 doesn't bring it up (beyond. the fact he lives with the hanamuras in general) it's only mentioned in spin-offs and i want the new p4 fans revival brings in to be aware of this fact-

[kumakuma-circus]

y'know i obviously love the romantic relationships that have potential in p4, souyo and yukichie and kannao and what have you are all really great.

,,, but also like. god i love the platonic relationships. the investigation team being each other's first friends and all truly caring for each other. yosuke and chie arguing a lot but still caring about each other, even from the start of the game. yu's familial relationship with nanako and dojima. yosuke and teddie being basically adoptive siblings. teddie's friendships with all the investigation team and nanako. just. oughhhhhhhh. persona writes friendships and familial relationships so well it makes me want to explode.

[kumakechi]

gives yosuke more chances to be a good mediocre big brother. i think it would be funny if teddie joined the drama club. i'm slowly becoming more and more obsessed with the idea of kou and daisuke taking a shine to him i think kou would be like "hey... i'm adopted too... so i can relate to you you know..." and teddie would go :]? and kou would go you GET ME. there's also that one evening hangout dialogue where kou mentions teddie calling daisuke "kanji 2" because he obliviously bought chocolates for himself the day before valentine's day when teddie was the cashier which is really really funny i think he should keep calling him that and they should keep being confused

a concept i really do want to fully write one of these days (i have a few snippets but nothing concrete...) is "teddie enrolls at yasogami post p4". it's fun. it's cute. it has the potential to be fucking hilarious

[taldigi]

the IT treat teddie like how people look at actual bears except it's like "This is a bear and it will kill you" "if it could kill me why is it shaped like a friend?" meanwhile anyone who even remotely is able to grasp how deeply horrifying teddie is is equally as horrified when they find out that this is how the hanabros operate:

[taldigi]

late now but JUNE5 could have been hanabros day.

[kumakechi]

people are just gonna have to deal with the like 50% chance to get a hanabros centric evening hangout when you talk to teddie sorry

[kumakuma-circus]

it's a "being deranged over the hanamura bros" kinda day actually. i love them they're so good. yosuke's mean to teddie a lot and while idk if i'd say teddie's really mean to yosuke he does definitely get mad at him more than the rest of the investigation team. but they still care about each other so much, i feel like they're each other's most important relationship (other than yu). yosuke's the most worried about teddie on several different occasions, namely at the start of the shadow teddie fight and when teddie disappears at the start of december. i love them so much. their dynamic is so good i'm obsessed and unwell over them i don't think i make that obvious enough. hanabros save me,,,,,,, save me,,,,,,,, hanabros,,,,,,,, /ref