I started imagining Kazama giving Chizuru smug brotherly advice about how
they would both find great wives, with Chizuru naturally being Kazama's
subordinate, all while Chizuru's going (a) I don't want to be your
subordinate I like the Shinsengumi (b) I. Am. Gay. and Kazama is
just...seemingly ignoring him while thinking "Gay???? That's an option???".
Quietly but unselfconsciously gay Chizuru would be interesting with the
female Shinsengumi, too. (I mean gay as an identity wasn't exactly a thing
in Edo Japan, but a preference for men was, and anyway this is an AU of a
not entirely historically accurate game wrt sexuality)
Yeah I saw a few episodes of the prequel and Okita was sure something.
Also: I started thinking about trans characters in this universe and
realised I once again like the idea of trans Hijikata. In this case she had
given up on the dream of being a woman and a samurai when either seemed
impossible, and the two at once doubly so, but then she met Kondou (who
would be a cis woman, but one who accepted Hijikata as she is). Also cis
man!Chizuru/trans woman!Heisuke would be cute. Actually trans man!Chizuru
would be interesting, too: determined to be a man but not a traditionally
masculine one, while surrounded by women who aren't acting like traditional
women. But not trans man!Chizuru/cis man!Kazama, that would get weird.
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Date: 2020-05-11 02:47 am (UTC)I started imagining Kazama giving Chizuru smug brotherly advice about how they would both find great wives, with Chizuru naturally being Kazama's subordinate, all while Chizuru's going (a) I don't want to be your subordinate I like the Shinsengumi (b) I. Am. Gay. and Kazama is just...seemingly ignoring him while thinking "Gay???? That's an option???". Quietly but unselfconsciously gay Chizuru would be interesting with the female Shinsengumi, too. (I mean gay as an identity wasn't exactly a thing in Edo Japan, but a preference for men was, and anyway this is an AU of a not entirely historically accurate game wrt sexuality)
Yeah I saw a few episodes of the prequel and Okita was sure something.
Also: I started thinking about trans characters in this universe and realised I once again like the idea of trans Hijikata. In this case she had given up on the dream of being a woman and a samurai when either seemed impossible, and the two at once doubly so, but then she met Kondou (who would be a cis woman, but one who accepted Hijikata as she is). Also cis man!Chizuru/trans woman!Heisuke would be cute. Actually trans man!Chizuru would be interesting, too: determined to be a man but not a traditionally masculine one, while surrounded by women who aren't acting like traditional women. But not trans man!Chizuru/cis man!Kazama, that would get weird.