No. 6 – Page 15 – May's Blog

crowmunculus:

one of my favorite terrible things is to imagine nezumi and shion in their 30s-40s living mundane suburbanite lives in a reformed and now kinda boring city of no. 6

shion wakes up early every morning to go jogging around the neighborhood in short shorts. nezumi is grumbly about this because he’s still a light sleeper and shion inadvertently wakes him up at the ass crack of dawn when hes’ waking up and getting ready, and also because he gets jealous because of all the neighbors he KNOWS ogle shion’s ass as he jogs by. also nezumi is always especially clingy in the mornings and doesn’t want to let shion leave the bed and is generally pathetic about it

shion takes up gardening and is locked in perpetual warfare with the deer who eat his carefully-tended roses just as they’re about to bloom and the rabbits that terrorize his vegetable garden. he refuses to resort to lethal or otherwise harmful methods. the slugs eat everything

shion still working a 9-5 office job for the city for a long time but getting progressively more and more bored with it as fewer and fewer reforms need to be made. eventually he resigns and sets up an environmental learning center at the restored mao forest sanctuary and takes kids on nature walks and stuff

nezumi’s revolutionary spirit never died and now manifests itself in absurd ways like inciting a riot in the public library over increased late fees. nezumi being banned from the library with a poster of his face in the staff room for his mutinous actions and also because he is a habitual book thief. he goads shion into pulling some strings to allow him back in but from that point on there’s always a library worker watching him from across the aisle and glaring

nezumi with an erratic schedule working theater jobs. nezumi “quits” for a while sometimes and spends a period being a lazy good-for-nothing househusband watching old musicals on netflix all day and making messes wherever he goes. but then nezumi the stay-at-home dad. imagine nezumi with a baby. imagine. freaking out and calling shion in the middle of the work day “shion oh god please help me she won’t stop crying i’m a terrible father she hates me i’m a failure”

nezumi the most uptight overprotective doting dad ever. nezumi channeling hughes from FMA and taking waaaay too many pictures and videos because he had his family taken from him so young and he had nothing to remember them by, and he wants to do right this time around. shion being the gushiest most sentimental sap as well and spamming his mom with baby photos and being that annoying facebook parent clogging up everyone’s feeds all the time always, with the assistance of karn who is just s bad, so everyone hears about this kid at least twice for every dumb little thing she does that is chronicled

nezumi the terror of PTA meetings, constantly starting uprisings and hogging the refreshment table. teachers hate him. shion is called in to to calm him down or remove him, “i’m so so sorry please forgive us” having to do damage control with the teachers, who always schedule parent-teacher conferences with him instead if they get a choice

nezumi as minivan soccer dad who drives his daughter and her teammates around as an absolute terror on the streets, do NOT get in his way, he needs to get his baby girl to her competition on time and he will not hesitate to mow you down. if shion drives, he drives like a little old lady and they are always late, but at least you never actively fear for your life while he’s driving

nezumi banned from soccer games for cussing out the refs and screaming at the rival teams and then feeling guilty for yelling at little girls but that’s his baby girl on the field dammit they better respect her. nezumi bullying shion into livestreaming all the games so nezumi can still watch and cheer from afar when it’s clear that no amount of haranguing will sway the coaches to let him do any more than minivan duty. (he eventually is allowed back but shion forces him to behave. sometimes nezumi grits his teeth and just shrieks incoherently through his nose, it’s quite a spectacle)

barbeque parties. nezumi at the grill in a kiss the cook apron. shion unable to look at him in the terrible thing without blushing because he has indeed kissed that cook when he was wearing nothing but that apron, damn karan for buying it for him she has made nezumi unstoppable

nezumi and shion as a ridiculously attractive couple and everyone in the neighborhood has a crush on at least one of them, confusing people’s sexual orientations all around. they are still attractive through middle age. then one day in his 40s nezumi panics because he finds a grey hair, shion is unsympathetic, “i’ve been grey since i was 16, suck it up you big baby” nezumi pouts all day and stays insecure for a while until shion thoroughly reassures him that the salt-and-pepper look is becoming, and hey, at least he’s not going completely bald

both of them need reading glasses into their 30s. nezumi is always losing or breaking his and stealing shion’s so that shion loses his too and is always looking for them when nezumi, the asshole, is just wearing them to work

when she gets older, nezumi teaches their daughter how to apply makeup and how to walk in heels, how to fist fight and how to use a knife, how to make a shank and how to dance. shion teaches her how to garden and how to work with kids, how to identify local flora and fauna, how to wash dogs and how to bring nezumi down from a panic attack. karan teaches her how to bake and customer service skills when she starts working part-time in the bakery. inukashi teaches her how to talk to dogs and how to barter with customers to get a better deal

shion develops arthritis in his middle age and nezumi spends time every day massaging and pampering him to soothe whatever aches and pains he can. nezumi’s PTSD persists through the rest of his life, because it manifested so early and left such a lasting impact during his early development, but it becomes more manageable, and shion cares for him the same way nezuzmi cares for him.

nezumi sings for safu at her grave each year on her birthday. shion brings asters.