#mimthinks

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hi mimi :] guess who got new "matching" voicelines . i think i might be a bit delusional but it's a saga in my HEART and i will now rough tl/paraphrase them for you as i haven't the time to do it properly atm ( i'm at work but i had to inform you asap )

niki: i'm developing new recipes for a cooking segment on a new show i was put in charge of ! i'm thinking of focusing on spring vegetables ..

rinne: ( yawn ) i went out with niki early in the morning to dig up bamboo shoots, and we stayed there until pretty late in the evening, i've been so tired .. i think i'll sleep a bit now

niki: rinnekun told me spring was a great time for picnics, so i'm going to make a bento ! what would go nicely in it .. 💭

i swore there was another one but i don't feel like checking the shop atm to see if i missed a line . will update you if i did o7

WAUUGHHH THANK YOU... IVE SEEN A FEW COMICS ABT THEM BUT HAVENT GOTTEN THEM MYSELF so thank u so much for keeping me updated. now i will ramble

thinking about rinne being like (grumble grumble) why am i up this early (grumble grumble) damn you niki (in spite of agreeing to drive him the night before).... but still driving him, and joining him in digging up the bamboo shoots, and they end up having such a good time that he forgot he was even that tired at all to begin with. cue rinne and niki sitting in silence for like 5 mins in the car before he starts playing stuff from a playlist he made for the two of them and they immediately start singing/humming along

and in the following bento line i can imagine that happening almost before rinnes, like oh, bc rinnes doing this for me ill make us some food since he said spring is nice for picnics :) itll be fun and yummy food is always good~ (not just thinking about the food, obviously, but specifically remembering that tiny detail and wanting to Share That with the person he loves)

so by the time they have a few bags of bamboo shoots and are exhausted and covered in dirt nikis like ta dah!!! i made us bentos!! and rinnes thankful but also like omg, is this a date, does niki like me? i wouldve gotten dressed nicer 😳😳 nikikyun, you shoulda told meeee (super teasing, everyone knows theyre dating, hes being silly) and niki jokingly smacks him like no way! not like you wouldve done the laundry today anyway!! (but makes no attempt to reject the date idea) and and and.

idk i just started thinking about this scenario, i always love the "oh i have to do this thing" and the other immediately joining in like "well duh obviously i gotta go with you" both in the more serious sense and with more everyday activities like this, as much as they complain they treasure each others company so much IM DEADDDDDDD

[voiceofsword]

Yaaay ^_^ hiii

Ummm. Rinniki. I love them. Uh. Do you think that Rinne waiting to kiss until marriage is a genuine thing he's committed to or do you just think he was a massive coward because of how forward Niki asked and now he's gotta commit to the bit. Both are funny but I think the latter is funnier.

OK PERSONALLY.... i do think rinne would be committed to it. i think hiiro would probably be too, if its something thats ever crossed his mind. but at the same time, i also think rinne could be convinced if niki really kept insisting, because if it happened once it's easy enough for rinne to shrug off, but after that i can only imagine it really feels like niki's testing his patience.... tradition vs the love of his life FIGHT!!

but also the one u suggested is so funny too. its like playing a game of gay chicken but niki doesnt even know hes participating in it, he would fully believe it's part of rinne's hometown traditions and just occasionally suggest them kissing but it wouldnt cross his mind that its not true. meanwhile rinnes like (tightens fist) idk how much longer i can do this. its really funny when rinnes portrayed as a huge playboy by people when in my head its more enjoyable to see him as a blushing virgin who doesnt even know how to kiss properly and wants to be with niki forever. he simply doesnt know where to start 😭 whereas niki doesnt think that hard about anything, so wanting to kiss rinne is just Easy. it comes naturally

in either case i think niki would probably be the one to initiate, i.e getting all close to rinne, intimate atmosphere, etc.. but rinne would have to be in just the right mood/mindset to know nikis serious and that he really really wants this, too. there's this beautifully written fic that expresses my thoughts on this really well; the fact that deep down rinne's insecure, too, and he wants confirmation of niki's affections just as much as niki would want his, even if theyre not entirely on the same page (but they can learn to be, theyre very important to each other!)

so rinne being really insistent about wanting to get married first is because he wants to make sure niki really loves him, too, even though its obvious he does — he just expresses his love differently.

something that doesnt change tho is that both of them want kissy. i think spiritually theyre both married anyway

[voiceofsword]

this may be a dumb question, but I don't play enstars jp, so I was wondering, do the climax events mean !! is coming to an end once all of the groups do their climax events? I've looked it up, but I can only find things about what the events give you or how to go about them, but not exactly what they mean lol I thought about it when I heard of crazy b's climax event but not that I've heard double faces new song it made me think about it again and it kind of mentions it being their last song so I was just curious

double face is a special case because. well this is the only unit they've really mentioned it being the "last one" for.. i havent kept up with tls for this event yet since it just started but im assuming its just fearmongering on their end lol since df was "meant" to be a temporary unit for gfk stuff then it was kept around i think ppl are constantly scared about them disbanding and they really leaned into that with this

climax events are smth new introduced this year after 8th anni stuff started in june, and its basically just meant to be. well a very important event for a unit, supposedly meaningful lore-wise (a culmination of their developments so far in !! era) and thus far it's been the leaders of each unit since those are the ones that have been left. so it makes sense! afaik, these arent meant to be last events or anything, there's no indication of it and we've been told that we're going to have big story stuff coming on later in the year so there's definitely things to come afterwards

enstars is rly successful i think and if you line the timelines up with ! era we'd be around the halfway mark of the first app, i doubt they'd end !! so soon when it's raking in so much money and chronologically there isn't any need to LOL.. nobody really knows what will happen as is the case with any app but it wouldn't make much sense. i hope that serves as comfort!

and it seems appropriate that they'd want to do something like this especially when the charas getting climax events are almost always gonna be the leaders that havent gotten their centers yet, or characters who are going through particular arcs where they Need to reach this kind of. apex in their development for lack of a better term (in ryuseitai's case kanata, in alkaloids case it'd be tatsumi who is decidedly Not the leader but im afraid for the kind of lore theyll drop then bc hes obv. a pretty important character. in akatsuki's case well it's anyones guess really...etc, for every unit that's missing i think every producer kind of Knows what chara will get climax)

[voiceofsword]

Hi Mimi I wanted to hear your thoughts on what if the Shiina parents had another child while they're out traveling ? Like mama Shiina discovered she is pregnant and either told Niki by phone or they actually returned to Japan to raise the child since the first few years are hard

that thought makes me so sad to be honest!! i actually answered an ask about this a while back, and i feel almost the exact same way still (including the tags).

tldr while niki would probably laugh it off and not resent his parents for having a Family when they'd essentially ditched him for a time itd probably be a blow to his already Frankly Bad self image :(

that being said i dont doubt niki would be an amazing big bro considering how he is with his juniors. hed be great with a baby too but its just the thought of his family starting over without him that would make him feel bad. but niki, well, being niki, would probably not even be able to place the feeling chalking it up to hunger or something else. like even tho he'd try to be happy about it and acts like nothing is off he feels guilty for even feeling bad in the first place

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okay, thanks for telling me! I knew the game has been out for a while so I figured it was about that time, but I didn't realize that the first game went on for as long as it did! the only knowledge of the first game I have is translations people have posted, and the anime lol but it's nice to know there's more content for people playing on the jp server!

if you don't mind me asking, what didn't you enjoy about the crazy b climax event? I haven't seen much about it besides the cute fanart hehe

yeah ofc!!

this is all going mostly off my own google tled screenshots and people livetweeting the event since theres no fully tled version of it online, but i wasnt rly happy with how hyped up climax events were (shaped up to be something Huge for each unit) and then crazybs climax was...nice, but there wasnt any outstanding development made, it couldve just been any old event yknow. and im not really fond of how rinne seemed to be.. kind of absent for most of it, especially when it's his center event.. which there is an explanation for, he was jetlagged so crazyb kinda had to take over what rinne would usually do, and while the sentiment is really sweet its nothing that we wouldnt have expected from them, if that makes sense? we know crazyb have gotten closer and can freely rely on each other, it's not some huge mindblowing occurrence that they would do this kind of thing...

i was just a lil underwhelmed by the story altho it had its cute moments and a lot of scenes i really love! the cards and song and outfits were perfect but yeah thats my observation on it. i feel like the other climaxes since then have had a bit more weight to them or have had a more significant impact on the unit as a whole which is nice but makes me a lil :( that crazyb was up first and didnt feel as fulfilling as i wouldve expected, personally

[voiceofsword]

many thoughts about rinne working multiple jobs to get niki his first t dose (and all t doses after that)

more about hc under the cut

i think rinne knows from the get-go that niki's trans; when niki takes him in and everything, niki doesn't really have to tell him. niki obviously makes it known that he's a boy and doesn't make a big deal out of being trans but def feels a bit weird about his body developing at all since his it’s around that age that he begins going through puberty. he would already id as a boy by the time his family is doing their cooking show segments but it’s probably at the point where he’s so young his gender is pretty ambiguous anyway. we don’t know for sure if his parents leave right before hot limit flashbacks or even earlier but i think they’re just very disconnected from how niki feels about himself and probably still see him as that child.

niki doesn’t go out of his way to voice concerns or any possible dysphoria he might experience, either; he doesn’t ask for help because that seems like too much trouble and his parents are already sending him money for food, isn't that enough? niki’s parents wouldn’t be particularly Unsupportive but they're obviously not there With Him or providing money for the T so i think they are just misinformed. 

rinne gets good at reading niki pretty early on so to him it's obvious something is up..they dislike him being an idol far more than him being a guy. i like thinking about young rinne busting his ass w part time jobs to get food for them but as he starts making more he surprises niki with like. first dose of t from underground means, and from then onwards it becomes routine for them to do his t-shot together — a year or two into them living together. rinne probably has more experience with gender/identity stuff on account of it being implied that his hometown is far more accepting of gay marriage than the city, but he obviously doesn’t have knowledge of modern medicine so, when he says he spent a lot of time at libraries learning about modern society, i’d like to think he also spent time looking into how he could help niki feel more comfortable with himself. 

and to this day i think they still do niki’s shots together bc idk its very intimate. and they've both gotten used to it and although they don't struggle to juggle food and the hormones anymore it's still smth they look forward to

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niki being the one person that keeps rinne grounded and would do absolutely anything for, even willing to sacrifice himself in the process....a universal constant prevalent even in the most outlandish aus because its just So important to rinne that it makes sense for niki to be his motivator even outside of the confines of main story canon.. yeah im fine. why do u ask 

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also!! i really loved your crazyB at a fanmeeting thoughts with the little doodles.. how do you think they’d interact with fans online tho. do you think they would have official crazyB social media accounts and if so is it run by cospro mangement or crazyB themselves (they take turns uploading content). i think they’d definitely know about fanworks but do you think any of them would. accidentally like somebody’s fancam from the official crazyB twitter or smth

YES LMFAO once again splitting these into diff ones. i think it'd be run by cospro management usually with a few exceptions. hear me out

rinne's just straight up banned because he treats the crazyb account like his playhouse. that one edit of him tweeting gonna take my wife to pfchangs is literally him. he rts whatever he wants — rting fancams even though hes not supposed to. swearing out the ass in his replies to Anyone. criticizing ES on main. theyre lucky they dont get sued. he replies to fancams of himself like damn my ass looked good as hell here and immediately gets a phone call from ibara like "i want you at the es building right now immediately."

niki's abt what you would expect — like rinne he'd also treat it like his personal account but more innocent. he spams the feed with food pics, but is hardly ever online to begin with so he doesn't really interact with fans or other tweets unless they happen to be at the exact time he gets on his phone. i think he'd be a lot like his va who basically just posts pics of food he's made with business scattered in between skjfhj

himeru is kind of self explanatory he's good at reading people offline but stan twitter is actually insane i dont know how well hed cope with that. he has a hard enough time with rinne and niki being the way they are now imagine going online and seeing people that are just as unhinged if not more. he tries to make conversation with fans as best as he can and like he Understands internet lingo but cannot stand it so like 5 hours in he's like ok goodnight himeru's had enough. he's too old for this

and finally kohaku is probably the one thats allowed on there the most and does the best job because he has years of being on idol forums and social media under his belt. he probably finds it really fun and likes talking to fans this way more than irl bc hes more familiar with it (especially when compared to the other 3). he's not exactly unprofessional but definitely gives vibes of a more casual social media manager bc he does posts memes, selfies with the other bees occasionally, and replies to basically anything!! it actually shocks the rest of them bc hes far more casual online than he usually is

[voiceofsword]

i'd like to know... whats ur take on rinne meeting niki's parents for the first time?

ok i forgot about this ask but because people are sort of SCARING ME speculating that bc crazyb are going overseas there's a small chance that they might come across his parents. i dont actually know how much i believe this will happen since at the end of the day the focus is on rinne and this sort of thing deserves to have More exposition, imo, so having it be an interaction that only occupies a chapter at most is doing a disservice to niki

i actually have a fic drafted out for this (which is nowhere near done, loool), which i'll summarize: it's not necessarily a pretty encounter.

i think rinne would blame niki's parents in part for his "curse" — he doesn't think highly of them, even if niki himself doesn't hold a grudge against them. i think rinne feels like he needs to hate them on niki's behalf, bc even if niki doesn't realize it, at least part of his self deprecating habits come from having been left by them at a young age, and the whole scandal that had arose from his father's tv career.

so while he's obviously not violent towards them, if he were to, say, head to niki's apartment and encounter both of them sitting there waiting for his son, he'd be very passive aggressive. they fucked over his best friend and left him alone, no visits, who knows if they even call him anymore, for years? he wouldnt want to exchange pleasantries with someone like that. and as far as niki's parents are concerned rinne's some stranger who just waltzed into their home so i'm not sure they'd be all too fond of him either? this is all operating under the assumption that niki has little contact with them at this point in his life, so they know little about rinne besides him having dragged their son into the idol world, which he was consequently dragged out of by his father, and now he's an idol again. in their eyes, he's probably kind of a bad influence.

if niki shows up during this meeting, say he was late from work or something, he'd just be kind of speechless the whole time. it's not really a tearful reunion. if they stay for dinner, the preparation leading up to it would be awkward, not much talking. if there is it's niki trying to fill the silence, but neither his parents nor rinne want to actively take part in conversation, opting for throwaway comments at each other, and about niki, since they all think they know what's best for him (and niki isn't the brightest, but none of them go over his head). eventually niki gets fed up and slams his hands on the dining room table, effectively shutting them all up, and going to make dinner by himself while the other 3 sit in silence.

i dont know. maybe they'd be able to talk it out eventually? however i think after this initial encounter they'd probably just want to talk to niki, by himself, some other time. rinne wouldnt be pleased and doesnt think niki owes them shit but i think theyre at a point in their relationship (esp after talking it out themselves — even though rinne can be a bit of a jerk, niki would understand that he was angry on his behalf, not just because) where if niki said he wanted to go speak to them alone, he'd be apprehensive but encouraging. if niki wanted him to come with, he'd drop everything to come with if only so niki doesn't feel alone when talking to them. but ultimately, even if niki reconciles with his parents, rinne wouldn't ever be on the best of terms with them. at least i think that's how it'd be.

look forward to my fic in 2030

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i don’t know if you still do this kind of stuff but i loved seeing your trans niki rinniki comic 😭😭 i’d love to hear more of your headcanons with it too if you have any

OK!! i feel like. ive talked about the bulk of it, or how it at least manifests in nikis early life and after that he just. is trans and nothing really differs from canon, but something i've held onto from earlier enstars days (bc of beasts xoxo love u) is that tetora is a trans guy, as well! so when i first delved into niki - tetora interactions i was like wait a minute.. i love this

baby tetora sees this squirrely little kid on the other side of the screen and instantly just knows this guy is like him. so besides having his parents be away often and having niki's cooking show as the only company while he eats, he begins seeing niki as this older brother in that regard as well... he goes from thinking, hey am i allowed to feel this way? to seeing niki just being himself on his show and slowly realizing things about himself, too

and then he meets niki at ES again and fanboys the whole time and seeks him out both for cooking advice and general gender stuff, and niki doesnt know what to do bc he both doesnt expect the praise and he basically plays everything by ear and is like idk kid i just go here. even tho niki's hard on him (think sweets box) i think it's bc he knows tetora can take it... and because he sucks at cooking but that is besides the point.

he sees niki doing things and wants to do them too, just like him (like a little kid), bc to him niki is the epitome of what he aspires to be, bc its what he grew up thinking even when his show was pulled off air.......

do you see it. my vision

[voiceofsword]

i love rinne..i love rinne being so in love with niki that he sees him as this beautiful otherwordly being that everyone will also fall in love with bc of his beauty and charisma and because he thinks he deserves it. like he looks at niki and thinks “how can anyone not fall in love with him” 

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it sucks bc niki had a happy home life, had a really good relationship with his parents, until that just all... stopped one day? and i dont doubt his parents love him but it's not like niki's ever wanted to inconvenience them since he knows having to leave was enough of a problem. so niki doesn't hate them either but i think it'd be a little complicated

i think it takes a few years for niki to realize it did him way more harm than he thought and i can see it coming from him and rinne talking about it, maybe niki reminiscing or talking about his parents' absence without taking it too seriously, only to be met with silence by rinne and rinne just turns to him to be like "niki what they did was fucked up you know that right" and That's when it hits niki like oh maybe yeah it was

[voiceofsword]

niki not being able to make something he thinks should be easy and rinne goes from playing around, being an ass, to showing concern and Cutting The Crap the second niki starts feeling inadequate and trying to be gently encouraging... bc even though niki's used to these feelings of inadequacy he's good at cooking and prides himself on that so to have that challenged over something so inconsequential leaves him feeling Bad.. and rinne knows niki is equal parts too prideful and Not Proud Enough that obviously he wont mention feeling insecure about it unless it's coaxed out, soo...

then anzu shows up and hasnt eaten yet, rinne sees that as a way to distract niki and help him feel better abt himself bc he knows nikis too thickheaded for words to cut it... even if the encouraging comes off as laid on too thick it's exactly what niki needs to get him out of that little slump.. aughuhg theyre so stupid and sweet

and then niki proceeds to tie himself to a pillar to recreate the feeling of hunger and rinne promises to watch him overnight but leaves to try a pachinko machine in the morning so niki has to chew through the rope. you know standard rinniki fare

[voiceofsword]

Hello mimi I hope you're doing well ^^

I just read rinne's exclusive outfit story and am once again thinking about niki seeing rinne's calmer/more genuine side but rinne kinda keeps up a facade around other people so he needs to shut niki up from saying sweet things about him

hii cookie!! thank u i hope you’re doing okay too :]

ALSO YES I LOVE IT … LOVE EMBARRASSED RINNE…. gonna add onto it with another rinne exchange from sudden death that comes off as him being embarrassed (to me)

im gonna provide a botched tl (google tl and bare minimum jp knowledge beloved) but if you want a more proper TL for this conversation pls look here

for context rinnes explaining the current SS situation and how some units hold unfair advantages over smaller, lesser known units because their ss orders don’t even “level the playing field”, making it so that weaker units are horribly disadvantaged while strong units only rly face minor inconveniences. here he’s using mostly sports metaphors to explain the situation to niki—

niki: uu, i won’t understand if you compare it to sports! compare it to cooking!

rinne: did you even bother trying to understand in the first place?

himeru: fufu, it’s honestly pretty admirable that you even bothered trying.

rinne: shut up.

ik im insanely rinnikipilled so to me this reads like. rinne does all of that and is annoyed that niki doesn’t understand, and himeru’s amused and teases him for trying so hard to explain smth to niki knowing damn well he wouldn’t understand anyway. looking at the two of them like ‘ofc you would do that, hes the guy you like looool.’

and ig you have to listen to how he says it in-game but rinne telling him to shut up is very snappy and them using the looking away sprite for it aligns perfectly with him being like agh fuck you’re right. embarrassed that he was caught caring too much in front of other ppl and not just niki. he gets so defensive with stuff like this it’s rly cute

I BET I SOUND CRAZY RN

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hiii can i ask you about cannibal niki?? what ya think bout him?? (in theory, where Niki's parents were the ones who 'ate fish' in the cult of Shinkai!!) and if ya open to request can i see a lil rinniki kiss?? on cheeks or something like dat just a smol doodle🤲 (AND SORRY ABOUT MY ENG IDK HOW TO WRITE😭)

hello anon! putting this behind a readmore again bc it might be a little long (it is) but i assure you the doodle is at the end of the post! sorry if i sound at all hostile during any parts of this post i tried to look back and change the wording for a lot of things, but like that other long ass rinne post i made it's smth i feel very strongly about! 🙇

i’m gonna keep it real with you, i’m not particularly fond of that headcanon! i feel like i’ve mentioned it before, and i respect anyone who likes it, but i see it as sort of edginess with no concrete basis besides gags and a crucial main story scene (that i think disproves it), therefore i don’t rly like talking about it or discussing it. i’ll go on to explain where i think the origin for this headcanon lies, bc while i do think it’s something that can be extrapolated from the story, it’s not necessarily the “truth” behind niki’s parents, or him being a cannibal, or anything like that.

in the main story chapters 136-140 eichi goes on to explain crazy:b’s weak points: if worse comes to worst, alkaloid can use these points against them to take them down. in 139 specifically, eichi says that niki himself is hard to exploit — but they can use his father’s infamy to their favor. niki’s father was a famous chef known for his cooking tv programs. he had a period of popularity which was quickly ended when rumors were spread about him using human meat during one of his shows, and thus he was sworn to never be on tv again. 

you see, it’d be perfectly reasonable to assume niki’s father is a cannibal if eichi said this in all seriousness. however, taking context into account and how during this and the previous chapters eichi is going out of his way to make crazyb sound as bad as he feasibly can, it shows that this is their last resort and that the smear campaign needs to WORK. ES needs to make crazy:b look as bad as possible to make them give up. also eichi is kind of known for making his speech grandiose and generally making things sound more severe than they actually are, this is enstars 101. and even so, eichi himself softens the claim immediately afterwards, saying that these accusations were made at a time when tv stations were trying to get the idol industry back on its feet — they made that up, because they wanted to make sure there was no competition on the same network! and he follows that up with saying “yeah lol that’s pretty normal in this industry”. 

i won’t make any mention of the shinkai cult here because there rly is no ties except for…the cannibalism, i think? i also feel like what kanata talks about in meteor impact addresses something that may or may not have happened a long, long time ago, and at a very dire time rather than something reoccurring — and i doubt niki’s parents were even alive. i havent seen this spoken about anywhere else so im not sure where you’re coming from, sorry anon :( 

that aside, niki also seems to be at least somewhat aware of what happened, and the ramifications it had on his own life. you have to understand, niki’s parents left the country when these allegations started popping up, and niki’s been on his own since then — niki’s not stupid. if his parents didn’t tell him, he pieced it together himself. he knows what happened, and generally makes light of the situation and having to live on his own because that’s just how he is; these events have helped shape how niki is, on a fundamental level. but all of that aside, he more than anyone knows that his father would never do something like that, that all of it is baseless lies made to hurt him:

when i say these things shaped him, i mean that the incident has made him feel like, regardless of whether the allegations are true or not, his father caused a lot of trouble to many people. niki idolized his father — and seeing this happen to him, niki is left to think that he, too, is bound to cause people problems, both bc of this, and his constitution. he makes it a point to be like i don’t want to be like my father, again, not because of the cannibalism, but because the whole ordeal had very lasting repercussions on niki, on their family, perhaps even for any chef that might’ve pursued a similar career path to his father. i find it hard to believe that it was a one and done type thing; tabloid news and everything. he probably had his name run through the mud. 

niki consciously tries to not make trouble, he laughs off his insecurities, he tries not to take up too much space, even now. gotta keep his image clean but it's also like. obviously hes not really going out of his way to expose himself and be in the culinary world more than he needs to. he carries the weight of knowing his family name is taboo so that just kind of bleeds onto how he perceives himself and what he does — that coupled with his condition makes him feel like he deserves the bare minimum. bc of these things happening, i can also imagine his parents drilled the idea into his head before they left — to not cause trouble for others if it’s the last thing he does. kind of on the nose, niki does mention during one of the flashbacks that his father told him human meat is the one thing he must absolutely never do. which is like. well, yeah

also (tapping mic) part of the reason rinne causes so much trouble for him is because he wants niki to see that it’s ok to cause trouble for him back — that if niki goes out of his way to do stuff for him, even if begrudgingly, rinne can pay him back in kind. one of rinne’s main drives is that he wants to be able to dismantle this idea niki has in his head that he’s less deserving of good things because of his past, and his body. i’d even go as far to say that it’s an integral part of their relationship and both of their characters. um anyways

people are allowed to think or portray him however they want, of course, but i think saying that his father is a cannibal and thus niki is a cannibal too feels like completely dismissing parts of his character for the sake of making this otherwise “wholesome” person be more 'edgy' and perhaps aligning more to their tastes. i can’t police how people perceive him but i think a lot of where this stems from is wanting to have a character to project specific aesthetics onto, latching onto small bits of his story and lines without really looking at the full picture. 

niki tries so hard to be someone who can move past these allegations and still struggles with thinking that he can do what he likes lest he be like his father, so, idk. i personally don’t like to engage w/ or see these interpretations. to each their own!

also as to why niki makes jokes about eating people and it’s somewhat a recurring gag with him: well personally i think he’s just a little weird. it’s done in a cutesy playful way like "omg u smell so good i could eat you right up!" and its more like... a compliment. (esp coming from him w his rly good sense of smell and taste) yeah its joking abt eating ppl but not joking abt cannibalism itself its all theoretical eating. (have u never joked about wanting to eat someone up…or wanting to bite ppl.. i think it’s kind of like that. it’s just that they juice him for the bit)

also to thank you for your patience. here’s the doodle ♡

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do you have any brotps/friendships for rinne or niki ( since they seem to be like . the ones you think about most ) that you particularly like ? aside from the other bees ofc

YEAH!! under a read more bc its a little long :'3

roommates are a given, i think hikari dorm is perfectly balanced (chaotic) in its own way and that even tho the 3 of them are so different they also manage to get along really well. i cant take them seriously at all and i think thats part of their charm lol. they're all such Characters individually that together it just feels Normal. i can imagine the three of them sitting around the bathtub, kanata splashing around while hiyori paints his own nails and rinne gossips. its like if the golden girls were anime boys but theres 3 instead of 4 and none of them are divorced or widowed. so really nothing like the golden girls but im sure u understand...maybe

nihihi dorm is actually tied for my fave with gender dorm god i love them a ton, i think in part because i love nikis relationship with hiiro and how hes adopted him as his own younger brother, but also hinata. i think about niki cooking for them and having them try new dishes and them having movie nights or staying up all night playing games and even tho niki has work the next morning hes like (exaggerated sigh) fine ONE more game...but he loves it

i love both rinne and niki (and crazybs in general honestly) doting relationship on 2wink and im so happy they keep getting collabs .. in case they decide to give us more crumbs... plz. they feel like younger siblings to them. rinne especially makes me so soft because past his initial impression of being a bad influence and generally just pushing his luck on how much he can tease, it always feels like hes looking out for the two

otherwise i also rly enjoy how they both interact within their own circle (i feel like ive been wanting a nikis kitchen tour for the past 2000 years. i hope we get framed picture of izumi in one of the 3*s).

i rly like how rinne gets along with his kouhai both in asobi and craftmonster bc of the attitude he takes on, ive mentioned it in another post but w/ the former especially he rly just allows himself to be playful so much so that it almost takes the kids off-guard bc theyre like what..hes not as scary as we thought he'd be at all. i think the best rinne friendships are the ones where they set those prejudices aside and dont take him seriously at all lol bc that's when he rly starts to feel comfortable. this grown ass man running around playing games and doing arts n crafts with a bunch of 15-17 y/os (and shu i guess) is a funny mental image and it rly feels like he can let himself loose. conversely i also love when he's exasperated with his juniors bc then hes like oh right im an adult i need to set an example.. this is about U chill yellow

on the other hand i like how niki interacts with ppl a lot more "serious" than him i.e ibara, natsume bc he tends to like..soften them? ppl cant help but let their guard down around niki hes just.... himself. like even if theyre initially wary they grow to be like "oh wait this guy's really nice what the fuck"

i particularly like nikis kitchen circle bc its ppl you usually wouldnt see interact with niki but u can tell they want to impress him. its so sweet nikis just some guy who wants to share his love for cooking. also thinking about the difference between how ibara would interact with rinne and niki (harsher with rinne bc hes his Boss whereas with niki he's more accommodating, that one gordon ramsey meme thats like u donkey vs oh oh dear) is funny so even if theres not a lot of interactions for them i want to think ibara would let niki get away with just about anything

AND NIKI AND TETORA...IVE ALREADY DISCUSSED THIS A FEW TIMES THOUGH... i have a huge soft spot for them. ritsu too. they get like 2 interactions (sweets hunter story, craftmonsters recent gacha) but ritsus humor is just so DRY and u can see niki be like (cogs turning in his head) Whar? its really silly ALSO HE CALLS HIM NIKIPYON....IS THAT NOT PERFECT... i need them to be friends

i like niki and mayois friendship, but its admittedly not my favorite; i like how niki feels like he can trust mayoi implicitly and how he tries to make him comfortable too — i think theyre both quite similar irt self image/esteem although they both go about it in different ways. their interactions can be sweet but one thing that stops me from enjoying them fully is how mayoi always seems kind of uncomfortable (and niki seems unaware of how/why he's uncomfortable) ;_; i hope that in the future the writers can let mayoi be more at peace around him, it'd be sweet!!

and atp i feel like ive talked enough about hiiro and rinne for it to not warrant having its own little ramble section here 😭