Tag: haikyuu!!

I’ve personally always thought the fandom only saw Makki and Matsu as props for the shipping purpose, and that they don’t really care about their characters as a whole since the whole meme team thing began and spread to be fanon and this is so sad because there would be so much to do with these two that doesn’t necessarily involve a heavy amount of memeing which too often end up being too much anyway;; anyway all of that to say I agree with you

mattsunsthighs:

That is basically exactly what happened, anon. I’m guessing that people who were crazy about Iwaoi, learned about those other two third years that tease Iwaoi occasionally, and said “oh look, the team pranksters!” and left it at that. Those people probably don’t know or care that Matsukawa suffers from self esteem issues because some dumb fuck told him he doesn’t look good in his uniform (they’re wrong, btw). They probably don’t care that Hanamaki is, aside from Iwaizumi, usually the first senior to reassure and boost his kouhai during a match. 

There is also so much we can use to flesh out characters for Matsuhana. Matsukawa is super observant of the littlest things on the court, and is able to adjust his strategy to combat that, but the tall child is in the lowest class in his grade; the silly boy is probably lazy with his academics, oh my god, Mattsun. His favorite food is cheese-filled hamburger steak, and if I’m correct, that’s a food more commonly enjoyed by younger children; this boy is still childish at heart, oh god I’m crying. 

Hanamaki is shown to be quite proficient at setting, which he does multiple times during the second match against Karasuno, along with being a very skilled receiver. This reveals that he’s a very well rounded player, but it also brings forward more questions about his character; Did he train extensively to learn how to set, or was he a setter before high school who got pushed aside in favor of Oikawa? Does this mean Hanamaki held a bit of resentment toward Oikawa in their first year? Not to mention, Hanamaki is shown to be a good senpai, he praises Kunimi on a nice hit, and if I’m not mistaken, is the only 3rd year to be shown praising Kunimi? (I may be wrong, I haven’t read the manga in a while, so the finer points are a bit fuzzy). And also, this boy’s favorite food is creampuffs, he’s crazy about them! In Let’s Haikyuu! Hanamaki becomes completely distracted during a match because Sugawara is holding a creampuff in his hand. He probably has aspirations to open his own bakery after college, considering the size of his sweet tooth.

As a matter of fact, Hanamaki and Matsukawa’s first lines in the anime are to calmly berate Iwaizumi and Oikawa for goofing off, in such a way that basically says “yep, same shit as always,” and for the remainder of the first season, they are both shown with neutral, slightly frowny faces. It’s not even until halfway through the second season that Hanamaki and Matsukawa show any sign of being jokesters.

And just as a reminder, these boys are 17, of course they’re going to goof off and be idiots occasionally. But the main thing to take away from this is that before the silliness, they are naturally quiet kids, who just happen to have two really good friends that make them feel comfortable enough to open up around.

umisabaku:

Sometimes
Kenma feels like glass right before shattering.

Stress, some call it, or anxiety. Not a panic
attack (he knows what those feel like) but a bit like not breathing even though air
is still flowing and is it possible to drown on land he wonders. Can
you run out of oxygen even when breathing.

It’s people—sometimes
people are too much. Or it’s everything all at once. Because if it’s one thing
then it’s a million things all piled on top and so he retreats. He flees when
he can to a place where there are no people and he takes out a game and he
plays that game and he’s not playing so much as putting back a piece of himself
that somehow fell out along the way. Kenma has lost Kenma and he doesn’t
know where to find him. It’s not the game that’s important. (But the act—the
retreat, the remove, the playing. He doesn’t need the game he needs a process
that is solely his own.)

Somewhere in the
playing, oxygen returns. The glass that felt so fragile feels less like it’s
about to break. And he can be Kenma again; he can be quiet, and observant, and
he can interact with people, and everything can be fine.

What is it like, he wonders. What is it like not to be
this way.

But. He can take care
of himself. He has ways to cope, and he knows that’s more than some people ever
get.

And when the day is
done—school, volleyball practice, people and people and people, he can go home.
Sometimes that means crawling under the blankets and recharging, and sometimes
that means Kuroo.

When no one can see
them, Kuroo wraps his arms around Kenma, and sometimes Kenma continues to play
his game or read a book or do his homework, but sometimes he just leans in and
breathes in Kuroo’s air and all the pieces of Kenma that feel so fragile are
knit back together in the warmth of Kuroo’s body.

Kuroo doesn’t say
anything most times—and that’s the nicest thing about Kuroo, he understands the
value of silence—but sometimes, like today, he’ll murmur just nonsense things
that are gentle to hear.

“You’re
amazing, Kenma, you’re so amazing and so strong and incredible. I love you and
I love you.”

And somehow through
all that Kenma finds himself again.

A/N: *sobs* I have
been super stressed out lately, and needed to write some incredibly
self-indulgent stress-reliever self-care short fic with my favorite introvert.