#tadajoe

[specterthief]

gimme the joe/tadashi fluff

send me the rarest pair you can think of and I'll tell you if I ship it and how I think it can work

oh hey it's a ship i have actually written before! needless to say i ship this very much and it's probably my favorite ship for both of them

i pretty much reverse engineered this one from all the yume interviews about their dating preferences, particularly starting from "shopping for ingredients and cooking a meal together" being cited as a date that tadashi would enjoy:

and leading to studying all the other answers and how they compare, like both of them liking simple/casual dates, tadashi paying for his date + joe having to save money, tadashi wearing simple fast fashion in his private life and having to dress up for work (because adam would harshly criticize his casual clothes) while the thing joe finds most attractive on someone is casual clothes they don't usually wear because he likes to see people let their guard down, (animedia september 2021) + the summer date Q&A mentioning that a chance to relax and let his guard down where he might "show a different side" is what tadashi would want from a date (animedia august 2021)... the things they'd both like in relationships seem to be surprisingly compatible and like they'd have a nice time together. they also have some really interesting parallels even in the show - they both have very similar conversations with langa and reki respectively about the risks and "stupidity" of skating, but coming from completely opposite places (joe coming from already totally accepting himself and what he loves, tadashi from terrible self-hatred and guilt)

and they're the two people who've stuck by cherry and adam's sides for the last seven years, also in very contrasting way... they both influence reki and langa to resolve things and are the two people who are most integral to langa reaching adam. despite not interacting directly they play really interesting parallel roles in the overarching narrative that make me really like the idea of seeing how they would actually interact, and it's so easy to imagine how they could post-canon if adam starts to rekindle his friendship with joe and cherry. i think pairing a character who's as openly and confidently sexual as joe with someone as repressed as tadashi is also really fun to think about, and that with all tadashi's Issues having someone so attractive and confident be interested in him could be a really good experience for him

i just think they're neat!! i think about them a lot!! it's very much a crack ship but i think they would genuinely work together and you can see that i've thought about this one a lot because i have citations prepared for it

[soygin]

falling into a rarepair is like having a crush on that elusive cool and mysterious person who sits in the back of ur ap psych class.

no i will not elaborate 😭

[specterthief]

Fandom: SK8 the Infinity Characters/Pairing: Kikuchi Tadashi/Nanjo Kojiro | Joe Rating: G Warnings: None Wordcount: 749 Other Tags: Developing Relationship, Domestic, Cooking, Attraction, Post-Canon, Bisexual Nanjo Kojiro | Joe, Flash Fic Summary: Tadashi doesn't get to cook often. Kojiro does a friend a favor, and wouldn't mind it being something more. — For SK8 Shorts The 2nd Wave, Day 2: Cooking

day 2 of sk8 shorts! finally forcing myself to sit down and write something for a rarepair i've been meaning to explore for a while (inspired by some of the staff interviews) without getting bogged down in all the background for it. tadajoe? matchasnake? does this even have an established ship name?