#i dont think my laica hcs ever end

[minatsuki-on-main]

for the character meme: laica 😏

…And this one is going to get exceptionally long…

(Ask meme)

What I like about them: To preface, I’ve had a thing for both quiet bodyguard type characters and edgy, tragic supervillains, so when you conglomerate those two tropes into one person, there’s no doubt I’m gonna like them. Since I finished watching BTB it was obvious. It was so obvious that I would be fucking obsessed with the Hat Man. It’s like somebody just made a character to appeal to my specific taste. It’s scary, really.

I feel like there’s something about villains that’s really hard to write; making them sympathetic without having them fall into some generally accepted ‘good person’ category. The fact that it was so well-done with him is the reason itself I realized this was a problem for me with other series. You know Laica is terrible, but he’s also not where the fault lies, which Keith even specifically mentions. It’s another good thing that the trauma he suffered was more internal than external (Gilbert just told him a bunch of lies and that was the shock, not some more generic dire outside circumstance, I don’t know if I’m explaining myself). It’s a smarter way of going about bad pasts.

Laica just really made me think a lot, he feels a lot more real than characters who have a schematically completed development and story arc just to obey the laws of fiction. For him it was cut short in the most tragic way before he could even find out half of his own backstory. His way of thinking is also messed-up on so many levels once you start musing on it, it just doesn’t end... He grew up in circumstances that would demonstrably ruin a person’s healthy development, there was Gilbert’s influence on him that he seemed almost unaware of, he has a disastrous way of conceiving human relationships (from what I’ve concluded after way too many considerations). Laica is a huge mess, but in a very deep and kind of subtle way. 

What I dislike about them: Listen, I’m in so deep he could do anything and I’d like it because he did it. If there’s anything... I’m disheartened by how absolutely batshit obsessed he was with the Jetblack, just because it’s what forever prevented him from having a better life. 

Favourite moment: When he talks about how he used to listen to the others through the window at Jaula Blanca because it just kills me inside. Or when he restrains Kamui because he’s all cool and it’s asmr to me. 

Least favourite moment: Having his head chopped off would mayhaps be one.

A situation with this character that I want to see explored more: ANYTHING. I’M DYING OF THIRST.

An interesting AU for this character: Anything sci-fi where his brainwashing translates to messing with artificial consciousness. Or AUs where he’s actually Koku’s brother and they’re constantly frustrated with each other, in any shape or form. Then I had another AU I actually started writing where he’s a bodyguard. Shove him in any AU and I’ll like it. 

A crossover: At one point I realized that what I call ‘prohibition era mafia AU’ is really just a 91 Days crossover... It might be the fact that Laica already kinda dresses like that, but I want him to be surrounded with those good aesthetics. Maybe be that one person in the mafia who does all the mundane jobs and carries around liquor but is secretly very important. What goes in canon, just in that setting. 

OTP: Minatsukicest, also known as the bane of my existence because I can’t stop craving content and writing fics constantly, I’m really invested in it.

Other ships: I’ve reached the stage where I started shifting away from ships with him and anyone other than Minatsuki, but either way. Laica/Koku sin. Extra sin. I wash my hands because it was someone else bringing it to my attention. Laica/Izanami I still prefer as brotp, but not bad, as I already said. 

BROTP: With Izanami; I already ranted about why in the other ask.

NOTP: I’m shifting towards having everything non-minatsukicest in this category... And either way, I’d be the last person to give ideas for bad ships with Laica, I don’t want to start reflecting on it.

An assortment of headcanons:

To elaborate on what I already mentioned; he doesn’t know what a human relationship is to a tragic degree, which would be unsurprising since he spent most of his childhood either alone or being raised by Gilbert. He thinks manipulation is part of it, sort of (considering who he learned from). 

The extent of his fatalism comes from how many psychological boundaries he has; he can’t go up against Gilbert, he has to behave how he was instructed to at Jaula Blanca, he has to do this, and that, etc. so it feels right to him that nobody would have a choice in anything besides what the Jetblack says.

He has a hard time controlling his eye and keeping it from randomly transforming in some situations purely out of anger, hence the sunglasses.

The reason he implanted resentment towards Koku into Yuna is specifically that he knew Izanami was also in love with Koku and thought they’d like it as a sort of gift to try and fuck it up for kokuyuna. The followup to this hc is that Izanami didn’t appreciate at all and was mostly just terrified.

His is not just a resting bitchface, it’s him not knowing appropriate facial expressions because he didn’t learn from seeing them on other people’s faces a lot when he should have. The creepy ep12 smile is kinda just instinctive and due to the epiphany of fighting Koku.

All he did as a kid besides looking out the window was drawing; only the very few times he was given tools though.

He’s the one responsible for the clown aesthetic, and it comes from Gilbert taking them to see a circus once and small Laica thinking it’s the coolest thing in existence. (This was from a convo from long ago but I just had to bring it back.)

Gilbert taught him some very basic medicine so he could give the reggies their dose, check the drug’s quality, inject it properly, etc.

(I could continue the hc list forever onwards but I won’t exhaust it here, I’ll just keep talking about Laica on the daily because that’s how we roll here.)