#it's also one of the few aus where I give Shisui a trauma-free life

[uchihashisui-kun]

Do you have any headcanons regarding modern au shisui?

I hope your knee gets better and have a good day/afternoon/evening/night depending on when you live

I think my knee is a lost cause by now, it has been a pain ever since I was 13/14 🤣 but anyway, I do have hcs for Modern AU Shisui!

Mostly I like to think of him as a university or college dropout, not because he's not smart enough for it, he's definitely far smarter than people give him credit for, but it's simply not what he wants to do

I think he would love to work at the public, I could see him working at a pub or something like that, one of those pubs that are not eccessively big and where the majority of the costumers are usuals. You know the ones with the sort of cozy and familiar vibe to it? Those ones

I also like to imagine Shisui living in a shared apartment with Itachi, and sometimes Sasuke crashes at their place whenever he feels like he needs to take some time away from his parents or if he just wants to hang out to them. After he meets with Naruto and Sakura sometimes they also get dragged at Shisui's apartment for a sleepover, not that Shisui minds, he likes how much more livelier they make the place

I especially like the idea of Shisui being some sort of big brother figure for both Itachi and Sasuke. While I do sometimes enjoy the "Sasuke sees Shisui as a threat to his relationship with Itachi" trope, the idea of Sasuke genuinely seeing Shisui as a big brother is much more appealing to me tbh, it started when Sasuke was very little and Shisui was the only one able to keep him calm and make him fall asleep when Itachi wasn't available, Mikoto ended up unofficially adopted him and started 'paying' for his babysitting with food, and ever since then Shisui has been a part of the family

Shisui loves trekking and will go whenever he has the chance. He also loves spending time with his friends and tending to the small plants that he has around the apartment, most of which are gifts from Tenzō

Despite being a Modern AU, I still like the idea of him having knee problems. He hurt his right knee when he was a teenager and ever since then it gives him little jolts of pain sometimes, or when he's not careful and twists it the wrong way. He's also a bit of a pyromaniac, always having a lighter with him despite not smoking, and his hands are full of mostly faded little burn marks

He's not particularly interested in romance, but he doesn't bother labeling himself because he mostly doesn't care. If he falls in love one day, good. If he never does, good anyway. He has his friends and they're all he needs to be happy. And, of course, I hc him as genderfluid! He goes by he/him most of the time, but sometimes he likes to switch it up depending on how he feels that particular day and has a bunch of cute clothes to wear when he feels particularly cutesy and feminine

I also like to hc him with a very slight dusting of freckles on his shoulders and back and just a little bit of them across his nose and cheeks, small and very light in color

He would probably also be a TikTok kinda guy, he mostly makes short videos about his job at the pub and sometimes shares some cool bartending tricks, which aren't his but Deidara's. Oh, and the pub is definitely a place owned by Nagato, Konan and Yahiko, I just love the idea of Shisui working alongside the Akatsuki and I think he and Deidara would go along like a house on fire, which causes more than one daily headache

Not all of the Akatsuki work at the pub, the place is definitely not big enough to require that many workers and some of them work somewhere else, but even those who have their own job drop by whenever they have time to hang around and have fun together