#kinda sad that multishipping has started to kinda fall out of favor these days

[theshinsun]

Kagami Taiga for the character ask thing 👀

Oh hells ye!! Thanks for sending one! ^^ …This’ll be long, be warned.

How I feel about this character

I LOVE HE. He is an angel, he is my son, protect at all costs. I seriously have a lot of respect for his character growth and he’s such a huge goofy sweetheart really (tries so hard to be polite to his seniors even tho he’s bad at it, does things for people without them asking like buying drinks for a rival team and throwing a whole giant party for kuroko’s birthday) plus he’s a kickass baller, boi got them skills and worked really hard for them. I’ll never not gush about this guy tbh, even years after this show stopped being relevant, I’m still in deep and Kagami’s just fantastic 10/10 

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Alrighty *cracks knuckles* I don’t think his list is as long as the one for Aomine (I ship that boy like a whore we’re talking pages), but I’m still multishipping trash so buckle up.

From most to least enthusiastically, 

Aomine (surprise surprise my OTP)

Kuroko (gotta go with the classics… it’s him +Aomine usually, they’re the perfect OT3 fight me)

Kise (probably the ship that’s grown on me the most, read Two if by Sea by tormalyne srsly I’m converted)

Kiyoshi (I adore the tiny bit of content I’ve seen for this pairing, and would love to see a relationship between these two so much)

Himuro (I’m not super into them romantically but I have eyes I see the history and the subtext, it just has to be handled right) 

Hayama (give me this cheetah/tiger rarepair please they’re both so pure and good I love) 

Midorima (they’ve got real potential and there’s more than one scene where they get a moment together and seem to connect, however oddly)

Nebuya (idEk but I want it)

Mibuchi (maybe a side-effect of their interactions in my own fic, but now I kinda wanna see these guys as a pair. Idk why Kagami gets all of Rakuzan but I don’t care he can Get it)

EDIT: Tsugawa (I don’t see Seiho rep hardly at all which is a shame bc these two had a hilarious headbutting dynamic in canon and would probably be a bomb-ass chaotic couple)

Murasakibara (I could see them bonding over snacks, and just hangin out being chill and cuddly or bickering like children) 

Akashi (I like the rich boy/city boy dynamic they could have, and the idea of Kagami helping give Akashi the chance to loosen up, while Akashi helps Kagami  become more refined and try new things)

I’ll also ship out of fandom don’t test me,

Yamazaki Sousuke (I blame Hyenas by nakedhelot for putting the image in my head. now it won’t leave.)

Hinata Shouyou (listen. LISTEN. they’re both hot-headed redheaded #10s who jump high and love food ok imagine them sharing pork buns. Imagine Hinata on Kagami’s shoulders. I love them this is a hill I’m willing to die on.)

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Tie between Alex and Himuro, I just want these three to be a weird-ass found family that loves each other and gets into all the shenanigans. Tho I guess I lean more toward Himuro, I have a tiiiny bit of trouble shipping him with Kagami romantically as anything but a past flame, but I LOVE their relationship as snarky but soft bros. Those utterly incomprehensible friends who are inseparable, basically family and full of inside jokes and past experiences that bond them and make them who they are.

My unpopular opinion about this character

NOT. 👏  A. 👏  BOTTOM. Idk if this is necessarily an unpopular opinion now (it doesn’t seem to be such a thing anymore), but I used to have some major beef with the way Kagami was represented by the fandom, at least within most of the content I was seeing. Often he was portrayed as this shy/scared blushing virgin stereotype that’s Nothing like how he’s represented in canon. And an exclusive bottom, which… come on. Boy is a switch at most. This was back during peak KNB hype though, I don’t take issue with what I’ve seen from the remaining fandom nowadays. If anything I agree wholeheartedly with the direction fanon Kagami seems to be going, keep it up y’all.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I wish they hadn’t had him fly the fuck off to America in the last game movie, that wasn’t in the script  

Contradicting myself a bit here, but I wish we could have seen more of his time in America and gotten to know more about his friends and family. He comes across as a real lone wolf esp in the beginning of the show, but he seems to have people he likes, or at least some recurring faces, overseas and I’d like to know more about them. Give me more character backstory dammit!