#whereas with Homra it's supposed to be a fun friends hanging out thing

[ridiasfangirlings]

Hope you're well! Have you ever thought about how fushimi initially disliked homra due to their immature nature but in a lot of the side novels/mangas, fushimi ends up in similarly wacky scenarios (hidaka trying to cut his bangs, chasing domiyoji, anything involving munakata LOL), I wonder if he's ever noticed how scepter 4 has brought out that side of him or he just thinks that the rest of them are idiots. Maybe since it's in a smaller dose he doesnt mind their idiocy though.

I think he manages because it’s a more….controlled childishness, in a sense? Like for Fushimi, I think the immature nature that bothered him in Homra was less that everyone was a bunch of weirdos and more that they didn’t have anything else to do but be weirdos, like yeah they would go out and beat people up from time to time but otherwise a lot of Homra’s day to day hanging out was just because they wanted to. Basically it’s the whole ‘family’ thing again, Homra is a big group where everyone feels like a family and they go about doing fun stuff together all day, if there’s a problem it gets solved quick enough and there’s no room to worry about stuff or be sad (at least for the rank and file, obviously the Homra trio and Anna have a bit more knowledge about the looming shadow of Mikoto’s Sword if nothing else). This is pretty much intolerable to Fushimi, who can’t stand the idea of family and has this feeling that if he’s not showing his worth then why would anyone want to be around him — to Fushimi, middle school Yata stayed with him because he was amazing and could do all kinds of cool things, but in Homra he’s now just another one of the members and if he’s not the most amazing, not someone necessary to Homra’s survival, then why would anyone ever want him there. So in this case his dislike of Homra’s immaturity is less their actual individual actions and more that they don’t do anything that Fushimi deems worthwhile all day, they just hang out and vibe and Fushimi can’t stand that kind of thing.

By contrast, a lot of S4’s wacky adventures tend to be in the name of work — they have to take care of a baby because it’s a Strain and handling Strains is their job, he has to deal with Doumyouji’s crayons because reports are part of Fushimi’s job, getting Basashi back from the Strain who stole him is Fushimi’s job. Weird stuff happens and Fushimi has to deal with it, but most of it is just the general immaturity of dealing with S4’s squad of weird nerds (and of course, the worst of all, their Weird Nerd King) and it’s not about hanging out, it’s about doing work. Even Munakata’s bonding sessions like going to the beach or watching cherry blossoms Fushimi can explain away as part of his job (in the Sakura viewing chapter for example he’s all ready to say he isn’t going until Fuse says it’s part of work rather than a friendly viewing). I definitely think at some point there’s some fondness there that Fushimi won’t admit to, but for him it’s easier in S4 because he can continually fall back on the ‘it’s work, I have a place here because of my skills, this isn’t a family’ and that’s more comfortable for him than Homra’s family bonds.