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more Sunny BitterSweet 16 shit...
this whole Four Walls Whiskey train of thought started cuz I was talking to my best friend last night about how I believe Dennis coming out/getting with Mac (so the gay shit of S16.. the Sweet) is low-key dependent on uh... Frank not being around anymore in some capacity (the depressing shit of S16.. the Bitter) ... cuz listen, I knew someone who Dennis reminds me of... like a lot.
The person I’m talkin about was my cousin’s uncle and he was really cagey and angry for a long time whenever he was around visiting with family and everyone was always like ‘why is he so angry all the time?’ and my mother was the only one who ever thought ‘... it’s cuz he’s gay and in the closet.’ (because she had some friends in the 90′s who were gay, so she was more familiar with those experiences than the rest of the family was) but no one believed her at the time... then eventually he moved away to NYC, far farrr away from the family, and finally got to be himself there and felt so much better.. but then he would still feel really on edge when he was at home. Like that super short fuse would come right back... But then his (very conservative and homophobic) mother who lived back home died. And after that, he finally came out to the family and introduced his boyfriend etcetc and he got so much more comfortable in general!... I just feel like something similar is happening with Dennis and Frank. lol.
#if u say this is just abt shipping shit i Will bite u#dennis is clearly gay and closeted like. thats the whole joke. thats been the joke.#again hes just more 'subtle' than Mac unless u are like... gay or have known someone who has experienced that kind of struggle#like of course audiences who arent trained to look for that shit wont see it unless its as obvious as they made it with like.. Mac#thats the whole point of MacDen being FOILs anyway... theyre both having the same struggles but it manifests in different levels of#obvious/subtle 'denial'.. it only got more overt with Dennis in S15 which makes me think.. Smth is coming#like they went thru this messy process of Mac 'coming out' unplanned so now they can do that with Dennis but hopefully more effective#since theyve gotten to learn from writing Mac's arc..#and now that they know Glenn is uh. gonna be on the show LOLOLOL#anyway back to 'thats always been the joke abt dennis'#but thats been the joke abt Mac/Den since like S5. that theyre clearly gay and in this relationship but cant even see it themselves#like rob n charlie werent joking about that part. again ive seen those tv shows genuinely written to be like 'haha they act gay funny!' and#Macden Break Up is NOT like that dude. all right.#until like... Dee who isnt even SUSPICIOUS that could Actually be happening in Macden Break Up.. she was just lashing out at them cuz they#called her a lonely spinster LOL. but it wasnt until someone pointed it out they both became more hyperaware/paranoid n as weird as they#started getting in like S6 onwards...#and she does the same 'joke' in Dee Day.. she just thinks two guys kissing is funny. but for Dennis its not cuz hes gay. like...#thats the whole fuckin thing#the joke IS that dennis feels like.. to someone like Dee or Frank.. his existence is just a big fucking joke.#thats why hes so eager to push that all onto Mac.. he wants a slice of feeling like a 'normal' like who frank wanted him to be#but it still doesnt fill him up. it doesnt actually make him feel better. it only tarnishes his relationship with mac further. and he looks#like a total ass in the process..#its fuckin sad dude#Glenn has litrlly said before writing Sunny RCG was not 'comedy ppl' n thats esp gotta be true of Glenn n Charlie.. so no i dont believe#everything they write is 'for the laughs'.. cuz theyre not comedy ppl LOL. in all honesty u dont need to be. n they cant write satire#super effectivley anyway n Thats why. theyre not comedy writers. thats why they need like.. Rob Rosell n Scott Marder.#to make it 'comedy' cuz RCG just writes rlly melodramatic characters. BUT#LIKE MELODRAMATIC PPL *ARE* FUNNY.. THESE PPL WHO TAKE THEMSELVES SO SERIOUSLY THEY NEVER REALIZE HOW CRAZY THEY SOUND#THATS GOOD CRINGE COMEDY DUDE. LIKE THE SINCERITY OF IT... THE SERIOUSNESS... but yea. again is why the show suffered so bad#w/o glenn being in the room...
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okay so like i think that touya and rei todoroki "left" the household at around the same time because of how childhood memories work, or at least because of how natsuo phrased himself.
[this is a super long post bc i did it on my phone]
if something truamatizing happened to you as a child you REMEMBER THAT SHIT your brain etches it into you and you dont forget it regardless of how many years its been. trauma affects the brain differently than normal incidents.
we all know that shouto very clearly remembers the boiling water incident despite it being almost a decade ago. this is because the memory was traumatic for him. he was scarred for life by someone he trusted and didnt see them for years.
other, regular memories from childhood arent like that. theyre hazy, vague feelings at most. you may remember some of it, but for the most part the early years of childhood is mostly forgotten. especially memories that barely involved you.
shouto was kept away from his siblings touya, fuyumi, and natsuo. he vaguely recalls them playing outside with the nanny but because of endeavor's interference its entirely possible that he never had a meal with them until his teen years (natsuo told endeavor that he didnt even know that shoutos favorite food was cold soba, implying that shouto didnt eat with them)
therefore, it stands to reason that shouto is completely unaware of the actions of his siblings, aside from fuyumi, the only one we know to be still living in the todoroki house. (presumably to look after shouto, but their interactions arent how close siblings act so that might be a recent development that happened a bit before the manga started)
fuyumi is clearly the only one that shouto is even vaguely familiar with given their interactions after endeavore unofficially became the no.1 "hero"
as for his brothers he didnt interact with natsuo until very recently in a manga thats been serialized for around 4 years.
weve gotten several arcs with todoroki as one of the focus characters and we, the audience, just barely found out the names of his brothers. (compared to fuyumi, who weve known the name of for quite some time) this gives us the feeling that natsuo is not only new to the audience, but to shouto as well.
since shouto is so sheltered from his siblings its very likely he has no idea of the touya incident. if he did, wouldnt he have used it in his explanation to midoriya in the sports festival arc? he gave midoriya his entire back story: dad wanted to be no.1, quirk marriage, several children deemed failures, my quirk revealed, training began, mom scarred my face = i wont use his quirk
if he knew that endeavor burned touya or touya, the only one with just endeavors quirk, went out of control bc of endeavor, or WHATEVER happened he would have mentioned it in why he hates endeavor.
but he didnt because he doesnt know. he was kept away from his siblings and only has vague childhood memories of them.
but natsuo does know because he wasnt kept away from his siblings and it was traumatic for him.
like i said earlier, traumatic memories dont go away.
natsuo tells endeavor these things in this order:
1. you completely neglected us
2. and left us to listen to mom screaming
3. and shouto crying
4. not to mention what happened to big bro touya
we all know that 2&3 happened on the same night. and we know that the first three things occured/started in that order
we now also know that everyone in the house heard it, we know this because natsuo said "us to listen to mom screaming"
at the time that word applies to all of the todoroki children. if touya is dabi, which we have no reason to believe he isnt, then we already know how dabi responds to threatening situations: with his quirk. we also know that when he is mad he becomes really violent.
if his little brother who he wasnt allowed to see because of his quirk was suddenly crying while he heard his mother screaming his reaction would likely be to seek out the source and get rid of it. dabi is meticulous and smart. if he sees something as a threat he tries to remove it
the source to rei's screaming and shouto's crying was, of course, endeavor.
so my theory is while shouto was at the hospital and after rei was taken away, todoroki touya attacked endeavor with his fire quirk.
from what we know about him, touya is most likely the weakest todoroki kid. in the few pictures/scenes of him we have, he is portrayed as shorter than natsuo (despite being older) with hair cover his face, or has a ball hitting him in the face giving the impression that he is not athletic.
dabi would have used his quirk because he has canonly been acknowledged as a physically weak person. he himself makes a comment about being too weak in the training camp arc. without his quirk, he is incredibly weaker than average.
unfortunately for touya at the time, he was still a kid and his quirk had yet to fully develop AND he wasnt trained to use it since his father considered him to be defective. so he'd still be really weak especially compared to endeavor.
the only people home at this time would be touya, natsuo, fuyumi, and endeavor since shouto and rei would be in their respective hospitals after the boiling water incident.
when touya attacked endeavor, the object of his hatred, he would be extremely outmatched.
this fight likely didnt last long given endeavors temper and treatment of shouto during training.
touya would lose and get severe burns from either his flame or endeavors.
natsuo, who would have been home for this as a young child would become truamatized by another terrible incident to happen to a third family member in less than 24 hours would remember it and grow to resent endeavor for it.
the smell of burning flesh does not go away. once you smell it it haunts you. the thought of it can make people feel sick. if natsuo smelled his own brother who he played with every day for years burning alive he would become extremely truamatized by it.
and shouto would be in the hospital getting treated, unaware of what happened to his oldest brother.
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figureskater!jihoon
a/n: based off this picture!
you and jihoon had this unspoken rivalry that till this day, no one knows why
except your coach and jihoon
essentially, you and jihoon trained under the same coach when the two of you were younger
one day your coach praised you for nailing a camel spin and jihoon was jealous
not because he didnt have the ability to do so, but your coach rarely compliments the both of you
so from then on he started to lowkey hate you bc you were the "first" skater to break the "no compliment" facąde of your coach
and then it just got worse when the both of you started to enter competitions
the both of you do top your catergories and your coach praised the both of you nonetheless
but jihoon cant seem to let the hatred go,, despite being older than you
your coach found it funny how jihoon couldnt let his childhood jealousy go after so many years of training together
like,,, youve matured in your looks but not your jealousy??
you on the other hand had no idea why jihoon hated you sm
so you just hated him back LOL
during training, the both of you would be uber competetive
oh jihoon did a double axel? you would do a triple axel and double toe combination
oh you did a biellman spin?? jihoon would do a biellman spin and then an I spin right after
thank you wikipedia and yuzuru hanyu
its just hella competetive between the both of you its just so funny
your fellow best friend, also figure skater!daehwi would lowkey be worried for you
bc all those spins and jumps?? like wont you fall or smth
you just huffed, "yah, lee daehwi, are you underestimating me rn??"
"no, im just afraid that you will get hurt:(("
on the other hand, fellow figure skater!guanlin tries to salvage a friendship
"but hyung, she did nothing wrong to--"
"shut up guanlin you know no shit"
you do have friends you meet outside of korea during competitions
like,, wakaba higuchi(yall i love her ksndksksm)
and they always tease you about jihoon
but you always shake your head and threaten to loosen the laces in their skates if they uttered the word "Jihoon" one more time
during competition season it was always common for fellow skaters to evaluate between themselves
and this time, ice prince baejin was your mentor
(also do check out iris' figure skater!baejin)
he was like the yuzuru hanyu of your team
there was this certain element in your routine which was pretty difficult to nail
which is a triple axel and a triple loop
you asked your coach to cut it down to a double loop instead but he told you he had faith in you so you felt bad and just tried to nail it from scratch
and of course, baejin was worried but neither was he in any position to change your routine
so he had to help you and guide you through
he was patient in every step and made sure your landing does not compromise on your ankle
meanwhile, as jihoon watched the both of you interact he cant help but to feel a certain feeling bubbling at the put of his stomach
was it jealousy? was it anger?
he could only watch afar when baejin pulled you up from your fall as the both of you exchanged giggles
so jihoon just skated around the rink, trying to show off a few jumps and spins as perfect as possible
baejin saw it, and smirked, "why dont your coach get Jihoon-hyung to help you? hes the best at jumps though,"
you could only smile sheepishly, "we arent really close enough to do that"
"ah..." it all clicked in baejin's head already, "not close enough--ow!"
"youre supposed to coach me, not play cupid."
on the competition day, as you practiced the dreaded combination on flat ground, you did exactly as what baejin told you to do and your coach was proud
until... you went on ice
you were not the type to make any mistakes on ice, but the combination failed you as you landed quite roughly and fell
you heard multiple gasps from the audience and could already visualise yourself getting cut out of the team
nonetheless, you continued on and finished the routine nicely
as you exited the rink, tears were already forming when your coach tried to comfort you, and you quickly shrugged on your jacket
in the end, you were placed as a runner up, which wasnt bad but not up to your expectations
when you walked back to the locker room, you walked past jihoon and his friends who were seemingly laughing about something
"yah, did you see her fall? it was tragic" you heard one of his friends snicker
"i know right, shes gonna get cut off."
you glared at jihoon, whilst he was still smiling at their joke
and that made you hate jihoon even more
having the audacity to hate you for no reason and now laughing at your fall? he was being such a blatant bitch about it and wasnt even sorry
you stormed off, exiting the gymnasium to get some fresh air
then settling on a park bench and sighing into your slouch
your brain took over the rest of your feelings as your tears stained your face again, makeup long erased from your previous tears
just then, you felt a presence beside you and looked up, it was jihoon, carrying a plastic bag
your rolled your eyes as you got ready to stand up, an arm pulling you back into your seat
"what? are you gonna laugh at me more for my fall? mr perfect jumps?" you sniffed
"you idiot," jihoon shook his head as he took out a bandage and some dettol,"you dont even notice that youre bleeding"
you looked at your left shin, and heck, it was, blood cascading down your legs and staining your white nikes
"give me your leg," jihoon patted his tigh as he shrugged off his jacket and placed it on your tighs
you obediently complied, as jihoon gently dressed your wound and occasionally asking you if the dettol was stinging
you were genuinely touched that jihoon would actually care for you though, since he has been hating you for so long
after he bandaged your wound, he cleared his throat awkwardly,
"if you want me to i can beat up those bastards for you, they got a scolding from me already--"
you were surprised that jihoon actually wasnt laughing with them, as you giggled
"its fine, they wont even be able to make it to the team anyways"
jihoon raised his eyebrows, as he cleared his throat again, "do you want to watch my routine later? coach choi said that it was my personal best"
you scoffed as you rolled your eyes, he was using your coach to make you jealous
"yeah sure, i'll see if coach choi's right"
"then i'll--"
just then, jihoon's phone rang, and he pulled his phone away from his ear as soon as he picked it up
"i'm sorry, i gotta go now"
before you could return jihoon his jacket, he disappeared into the gymnasium already
you begrudgingly sat beside your coach as you watch jihoon prepare himself on ice
no doubt, he looked hella good in his costume, a white button up and black pants
what made you more surprised was the song he was skating to
it was Spring Day by BTS
you remember yourself always playing Spring Day in the background when you warmed up in the rink during practice
it was your favourite song
when the song was reaching its climax, jihoon did a series of triple axels and quads, which was honestly really pretty and he landed perfectly
during the chorus he actually danced on the ice?? like wOaH
you were throughly impressed honestly, it takes alot of effort and skill to be able to dance on ice
with stray parts of his blonde hair flying wind, he looked ethereal
you getting snatched was an understatement
during the bridge, he did a quad lutz which was, really mind blowing
in the end, jihoon did clinch that champion title
you swore if he didnt get that you would physically fight the judges
you thought jihoon would saunter to you just to show off that he was the champion,, but no
he gave you the flowers he was gifted with one of his knees on the floor
“y/n... i know we have been hating on each other for the longest time, i really dont want to keep up with this honestly, will you be my girlfriend?”
before you could turn to your coach, he was already filming the whole ordeal on his mobile phone
you shyly nodded, as jihoon picked you up and spun you around aaa
the next thing you saw trending on the internet was you and jihoon’s relationship LOL
dating jihoon didn’t make the competetiveness go away tbh
except that jihoon would actually stop when he thinks its too dangerous for you to attempt
warm up is no longer you warming up alone
jihoon warms up with you with cheeky rounds of tag on ice
you have never fell on ice thanks to jihoon
because that boy would blast to your side just to catch you
“i told you to be careful babe, im not always here to catch you when you fall”
the type who will actually send a video of himself doing aegyo before you go in for competitions just to make you laugh and relax
its not that you hate it, you just find it funny
he is now your unofficial coach as well, aiding in your jumps and spins
“i love figure skating, and thanks to it i met the girl i love.”
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