#into aki confessing his love for you while he thinks you're asleep but you're actually not....

[meownotgood]

reader waking up from a nightmare where aki dies and it's like a reoccurring thing, so when aki notices, he tries everything in his power to make sure she falls asleep and comforts her in any way that he can :,0

this is so sweet.... I had a thought about this before, because one of my headcanons is that aki has nightmares quite frequently because of his job as a devil hunter. so if you were to have regular nightmares, aki could really sympathize with that, and the both of you could help each other to sleep well.

the both of you would discuss your dreams every morning when you wake up... reassuring each other that they were just dreams, and it's okay, because you have each other. aki would promise you that he isn't going anywhere, while rubbing your back and holding you close, muttering softly into your ear, his voice smooth and comforting, it's okay, I'm right here. don't worry about anything, shh shh. don't cry. you would build the habit of always sleeping together because when you sleep holding one another, neither of you have as many bad dreams...

[radiodread]

okay so ue has a cat. does this mean that it has a dog's name to keep in line with the joke from canon?

and yeah ue's token animal (don't say fursona don't say fursona) is a cat, so does that mean mafuyu mentally compares him to one in the beginning? he comes to the studio with ue for the first time like "I feel like I picked up a stray cat" and haruki is just like "I have no idea what that means"

pls imagine. the scene. where ritsuka falls asleep on mafuyu's shoulder. and mafuyu just kind of stares into the middle distance while internally screaming

AND the "oh, this is jealousy" moment in the stairwell. god. coming from mafuyu that hits so different.

also I just wanna say that we see ue is kind of oblivious to the fact that kasai likes him in canon, but because of how perceptive mafuyu is that definitely wouldn't be the case. he would be completely aware of it and kind of just be done with it, which is all the more reason he rebukes her when she talks shit about ritsuka because he knows exactly why she's doing it and how petty it is. he might say something like "did you think doing something like this would make me like you more?" (or is that too out there for him? lmao)

also I just remembered ugetsu calls akihiko aki in canon so he'd definitely call haruki haru and. that's an image. idk why but it is.

ue singing yoru ga akeru.... I am looking Directly At It. also the harugetsu breakup during that arc would HURT. because it would be haruki finally, actually putting his foot down for real and saying he's done with everything, and moving his stuff out of the basement to prove it. fuck man.

haruki + "I wanted to become someone worth of your love" HHHH.

ritsuka introducing mafuyu to shizu and hiiragi like "this is my boyfriend" and mafuyu silently losing his shit

HAHAHA Ritsuka would have a cat with a dog's name. I feel like that makes way more sense than Mafuyu nicknaming Kedama "Tama" like a cat. 😂 And oh, I can just imagine Haruki's deadpan "I have no idea what you're talking about" when Mafuyu introduces Ritsuka as a stray cat he feel like he picked up on the way. Ritsuka WOULD fall asleep with his head on Mafuyu's shoulder and I can kinda see Mafuyu's face like this:

[internal screaming]

Oh god indeed, the "this is jealousy" realisation would hit very differently coming from Mafuyu 😩 Also ohhhhh the whole thing with Ayano would indeed be very different because like you said, Mafuyu would absolutely be able to tell that she likes him and that's why she tells him these rumours about Ritsuka. Ohhhh. YES. I don't know it might be a little out of character for Mafuyu to ask Ayano "are you doing this because you thought it'd make me like you [more]?" but who knows- I mean, given the right (or wrong) circumstances, I think he could drop a comment like that. Maybe. (Also, Ugetsu saying "Haru" just feels... really weird? I mean in this AU it would absolutely make sense given that Ugetsu uses a nickname for Akihiko too, but... I dunno. "Haru" is reserved for Aki in my mind. 😂)

Ohhhh yes, Ritsuka singing "Yoru ga akeru" and not to mention him singing it for Mafuyu first a cappella like in the OVA. 🥺

Can I just say that I think this version where Haruki is the one to break up with Ugetsu, to move out of the basement, fix his life, and then confess to Akihiko... is somehow more painful? Like obviously in a very different way but I'm just thinking of how him breaking up with Ugetsu would go, and how Akihiko would react to the confession. Help.

And here I would probably insert that same screenshot again of Mafuyu silently screeching where Ritsuka would be the one to introduce him to Shizu and Hiiragi as "my boyfriend". Oh wow. YES.