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Hanakou Familiar AU

So in this AU the idea of a Familiar is a supernatural being in a partnership with someone as in bounding their souls, not only do they share each other power but also their emotions and memories but that part isn’t controlled but yes also in a common definition of familiar in magic is a supernatural guiding and serving the person

My idea on this is kou come across this somewhere when reading some scrolls on exorcism and using it to save hanako in some extremely dire situation. soooo after that they tried to figure how this is going to work for now on. And also bunch of shenanigans in or even outside of school and the slow building of romance between the two.

Inspired by

Just curious, but what your thoughts and feelings of hanakou

I think hanakou is amazing, I love them so much it makes me look stupid! They are easily my favorite ship that doesn't involve Teru, Akane, or Aoi, and their view of each other is fascinating!!

People don't really pay attention to them and a lot about how Hanako impacts Kou's relationship with supernaturals and how Kou impacts Hanako's relationship with trust with hope, which both serve to sabotage each other, is lost.

I am too sleepy to properly gush about them, but as a tiny example, think of Mitsuba's introduction arc. Hanako would normally take care of Mitsuba himself, he believes there is no future for the dead after all, but he trusts Kou, Kou makes him have hope, so he let him deal with it in a more gentle way that goes against his usual beliefs.

That's what started one of Kou's main arcs: A decision Hanako made from respect for Kou's own beliefs. Which was only possible cause Kou went to Hanako for advice for exorcism in the first place.

I have an entire draft on them that I really need to finish and edit

I am well aware they aren't canon, but I'm still very sad Aidairo just... pushed them aside when there is still so much to explore.

I flipping knew it

Hanakou

I kinda now hope we get a hanakou moment in chapter 103 just to see their perspective of mitsuba and nene ( you know a sorta reverse) I still can’t help but feel they left on a bad note (PP ARC) and yeah they seem cool in chapter 96 but I think they’re ignoring it and refusing to talk the elephant between them but that my opinion

This is a really funny yashiro. yashiro to Amane said these words

yashiro after it

I wonder why she didn't say it out loud, she always blames Amane about it,but here she herself behaved in the same way what really happened and she lied.

Is it trauma? yashiro?

What's blocking you? Hmm…aren't you complaining about Amane but you shut up and kept quiet about it by lying to Amane and Kou. Really funny.

You're trying to lecture Amane, and you have memories you don't want to talk about.

Complaining Amane said nothing about his plan in which he admitted that he knew she was her best friend and therefore couldn't tell because he knew what yashiro's reaction would be.

yashiro in chapter 96

Here, Team Amane thinks things over and Kou proposes to catch someone from Team Tsukasa.

Kou proposes to Tsukasa, how does Yashiro react?

She's sweating and she's scared and she's not convinced, and that's also because Tsukasa traumatized her and she's really scared… But yashiro won't say a word.

What is yashiro…?

You complained about Amane so much, and you can't say a word about what's bothering you and that you don't want to do something because you're afraid.

You are silent again.

Yes, yashiro.. why did it turn out this way? You can't tell about your traumatic memories and plans that you want to ask Mitsuba for help.

Hmm...

The funny thing is that she also agreed with Kou that Tsukasa from the red house is the "fake" one, but to Mitsuba… she admitted that she believed little Tsukasa and his memories. What is good

Here I can finally see that she understood that it's not so easy, because she herself experienced some traumatic memories that apparently affected her, which is also a good thing.

It made me actually believe that she understood Amane here than when she said "I understand" in p.p arc, but then it seemed shallow and expressionless. It's different here, I can actually see that I can believe her that she understood him.

yashiro later tells Mitsuba that "she's not officially his girlfriend" even though they're not in an official relationship, I've noticed that she's stopped simp for any guy and actually sees Amane taking his thoughtfulness seriously and with care.

I can finally see that she has finally started to take his past more seriously, trauma and doesn't want to back down, just really know what he thinks about her and wants to know his past she doesn't back down go forward.

Finally, for me, yashiro begins to take on the colors that I missed in her character. Of course, I'm aware that she may go back to her old self or show hypocrisy again when she's mad, but I hope that the authors will not destroy the potentials of yashiro that I started to notice thanks to these small changes in this chapter.

» AFTERLIFE (16/02) — capa teste » categoria: Jibaku Shounen Hanako-Kun » personagens: Mitsuba & Kou » recursos: psds por navh (deviantart)

meimei's note: eu não estou totalmente satisfeito com essa por inúmeros motivos porém eu percebi outro dia que nunca tinha editado com eles... eu nunca terminei de ler o mangá, e assim, nem psicológico eu tenho pra terminar tbm (tava tudo de mal a pior quando eu parei de ler, tenho até medo de reler tudo #deusmelivre) e talvez eu só não esteja satisfeito com essa capa pq eu não consegui fazer uma capa fofinha dos dois... scrr

Character development in TBHK

Hanako

"She's just my assistant lol" → "Maybe I feel something towards her"

"She's supposed to die anyway" → "Let's change that"

Nene

"He's not my type" → "Not that the type matters"

"A charming prince will fall from the sky and save me" → "No, not like this" x6

Kou

"I'll find and exorcise Hanako" → "Not all supernaturals are evil"

"I don't remember Mitsuba transferring from my class" → "I can't stand to lose him any more"

Mitsuba the ghost

"I only take photos of people that are important to me" → "Something important to me"

Mitsuba the Tsukasa's creation

"I'm not ready to pass on... not while I have not achieved anything" → "I'm a monster and I want to die"

"He has a knife! How can I possibly win?" → "The one who kills most fish wins"

"Who the hell is that guy?" → "I'm glad that I've encountered you and not Teru"

Secondary characters

Nope

Cleaned version of the chapter 99 cover!

experimenting with watercolors!!!

needed some time to just draw and paint after studying, so i just did this!! it’s after that one devastating official mitsukou art!! i think i did ok for my third (??) time!

i wish being Teru irl would make my little brother Kou irl BUT NO! he's literally this kid.

Kou you fantastic liar

remembering thinking mitsuba and kou were acting fruity but thinking 'eh, probably not happening,' dropping tbhk for a while, and coming back to them literally rolling around in the bisexual flag

OH....

OH OK.

Kou #1 malewife

yt link cuz its probably REALLY small on here

Mistuba: I've never had a valentine before.

Kou: I'll be your valentine.

Mistuba: Ew, gay,

Mitsuba yaps for hours and hours about nothing and Kou listens intently without so much as a peep because he's scared one day he'll forget Mitsuba's voice

"if i were still alive, do you think we could have been friends?"

speedpaint under the cut!

"no reason, huh?" GRRRRRRRRREEEAAAASHAHHSHSHSHSHWBSBSBBSNSNSJS

kou yorishiro is real guys that's why he asked mitsuba to go to the festival with him (so mitsuba has more of a reason to live ?) IDK ITS JUST REAL

btw this was nene's reaction to hanako confessing that

hummmmmmm and mitsuba doesn't know (yet) about kou (and his whole complex) so what conclusion would he possibly make hummmmm

maybe someone pointed this out already but this hananene and mitsukou parallel goes insanely hard

maybe someone pointed this out already but this hananene and mitsukou parallel goes insanely hard

compilation of distressed kou pics that match my feelings of doing homework……

mitsukou has been lowkey eating my brain (once again) and this will probably sound stupid blabbering but im gonna try to make myself sound convincing. and in my defense this was just a random thought that popped up on my mind.

what if the thing about natsuhiko saying the way for a human to become a supernatural is to become a yorishiro? I mean think about it, what else is sumire other than a supernatural? If she just died normally instead of becoming a yorishiro she would've ended up disappearing along with other girls under the red house.

at first, I thought natsuhiko planned on saying it to kou so it could trigger something but he looks surprised here so I doubt it now but there's still a possibility

i think his face reads as "ooooh an unexpected reaction but I'll take it"

even if he was really mean that time he probably really did care about mitsuba someway and was hoping for him to make kou his yorishiro

AAAND another reach maybe that's why kou asked him out on a date (other than just wanting to hang out with him, ofc) like so he could maybe get more important to mitsuba and make him his yorishiro!

and get this, if he becomes mitsuba's yorishiro, nene LITERALLY wouldn't be able to destroy him at all, thus allowing her to live!!!! two birds with one stone, if you will

(but you could say then 'wouldn't the broadcasting trio not like that?' which is true but they did they'll do ANYTHING to make yashiro destroy every yorishiro, possibly by threatening her and especially looking at the sumire incident she wouldn't want that to happen again AND THE LOWKEY PARALLELS OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH SUMIRE AND HAKUBO WITH THE MITSUKOU CHAPTER. (with the cannibalism and all))

and it could be another reason why kou was so shocked at him when he asked to be exorcised (cough instead of making him his yorishiro cough)

BUUUUUT that is just inherent yapping so that's that. just wanted to get my silly ramblings out there pls dont take it too seriously thank u.

ON GOD when we get another mitsukou chapter i WILL make a mitsukou animatic

Picking Apart Kou’s Character (Analysis)

Through Nene’s pov he’s introduced as a very sweet guy and stuff but the problem here is that Nene’s is an unreliable narrator since she romantices life + Kou speficially treats her a lot nicer.

He is also heavily morally righteous and tries to hear Hanako out even after knowing he murdered someone, saving him from Teru.

Kou also ends up trying to shoulder other people’s problems, and many of his actions are seen as “heroic” or “selfless” BUT sometimes this due to a more ugly part of his character the fandom seems to discard often.

^ To elaborate, I want to bring up this scene since it’s iconic asf

On the surface it’s like: omg wow so brave of him to kill himself for his bf !! However, in the red house arc (which for context shows him his biggest desires) we can see that he just wants mitsuba to rely on him to the point of extreme measures.

This is rooted from his inferiority complex due to being outshined by his older + younger siblings; AND to add on, Hanako straight up tells Kou twice hes unable to do anything. Then to push it further, Teru’s like ur weak lil bro go back to the kitchen during the no.6 fight. Mitsuba dying infront of him 6 times doesn’t help either..

When Mitsuba asks if Kou is okay and needs to talk about his problems, (I forgot which specific chapter..), Kou automatically assumes that Mitsubas just worried about Kou’s reliability because he has such a low self esteem and is used to given up on.

His inability to actually make stuff happen and ppl telling him he can’t do shit make him very eager to try and shoulder other ppls problem in an attempt to have someone depend on him.

So when Mitsuba comes in with nobody (besides tsukasa but he does more harm than help so wtv) who can help him, Kou.. heh.. ig u could say.. JUMPS at this opportunity.

Anyway, in the Nightlife arc Mitsuba is like “hey can u kill me I’ve given up on being human”, and Kou finally lashes out. Mitsuba is indirectly telling Kou that he gave up on him trying to make his wish come true; AND THEN to make it worse, Mitsuba brings Tsukasa right after up..

Kou gets desperate and forces Mitsuba to stay alive even if he doesn’t want to because both

1) if mitsuba leaves nobody will depend on him and

2) he’s gay for him + misses him after watching him die + can’t bring himself to kill Mitsuba

Yes, he cares a lot for Mitsuba as a person and making his wish come true, but he also just wants to be depended on after being told he’s a let down over and over again.

As I mentioned before, Kou has a trend with diverting his problems from other people and keeping his real feelings in. Nobody expect for nene knows about Mitsubas and Kous relationship, and it literally took Kou like 70 chapters or smthn to give her the basics.

He’s speechless when Akane asks if Mitsuba and him are close because Kou never mentions Mitsuba at all. Teru doesn’t know what’s up with him, and just assumes he “has a goal in mind”. Even when having his big speech defeating Habuko Kou just refers to Mitsuba as “him”.

Okay anyways the point Im trying to get is Kous character is a lot more complex than the fandom passes off !! Yes he can be very sweet and all but there’s other parts to his personality that aren’t so black and white.

OMG THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING LIKE KOU MAYYYYYY give up his lifespan for nene.....

but at the same time as nene said, all she has to do is not destroy all the seven yorishiros to live (but the broadcasting cast will make sure she does)

but if all the yorishiros get destroyed, the world might literally end too so like..??

anyways whatever I just rambled

i think kous gonna DIE and nene’s gonna LIVE and here’s why:

this is an official art made by aidaro:

as you can see nene is holding the apple in her hands, while kou is about to bite into his own apple. and oh, what’s this?

an apple can mean temptation? and death? so again, kou is about to bite into the apple. i think this might represent kou dying to be with mitsuba. we’ve already seen him frickin jumping out a window for mitsuba, and yeah he didn’t die but i think it still counts for something!!!

now for nene she might die or she might live, me i’m teetering on her living. she’s holding the apple in her hands, which i’m interpreting as her contemplating whether or not to bite into it.

nene has sort of accepted her faith. yeah, she doesn’t want to die but if it happens it happens. on the contrary though, hanako wants her to live.

we know that changing the future is possible in canon-

….aandd that’s all i have bc i forgot i made this and left it to sit in my drafts. was scrolling through them today and found this lol, guess i was right

oh my gof tumblr would not let me post for the longest time but uhh anyway HAPPY BELATED MITSUKOU SUICIDE DAY!!!!!!

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