Headcanon Meme: Kisaragi Shintarou

 ranichi17  said: Has anyone asked for Kisaragi Shintarou in the ask meme yet? Or Miyano Shiho?

This post is gonna be Kisaragi Shintarou since there’s not a lot of people who are in both the Kagepro and DCMK fandoms. I’ll do Shiho in a seperate post.

 

Headcanon A:  realistic

 

In terms of real-life instruments, Shintarou can play the piano/keyboard and the guitar, as well as the drums. He had piano lessons in middle school, probably, and he learned guitar in the high school music room without permission before Ayano decided to befriend him.  He’s never tried, but his crap endurance means that he’d be terrible at all woodwind and brass instruments and in general would be laughed out of marching band.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

 

Yes Shintarou made an Utauloid once, with his own voice. Specifically, back in middle school when his voice was in the middle of changing.  No, no one can ever know about it. Not even Ene will find those files.  He’s deleted all the copies.

 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

 

Good endings in which Shintarou uses his powers in the process of ending the time loop come at a cost. He spends the next few months (and the rest of his life, but the next few months are the worst of it) waking up from screaming nightmares of deaths and betrayals and other horrors that both did and didn’t happen as his brain tries to process the massive amount of information he’s suddenly remembered. Everyone is helping each other through these sorts of issues, of course, since the entire Dan is varying degrees of traumatized, but everyone ends up avoiding Shintarou a little at first because it is unnerving as heck to hear a detailed second-person account of your violent murder from your babbling, half-asleep friend.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

 

I’m very attached to the idea of Shintarou’s condition as a hikkomori being actually treated seriously. A lot of Japanese media don’t take it that seriously, probably because they understand that some people who watch the shows are hikkikomori themselves and don’t necessarily want to confront that kind of thing in their entertainment, but once someone becomes hikkikomori, it generally takes a lot of effort for them to start engaging with the outside world again. It’s classified as a culture-specific mental illness, and it’s not something that will just go away after two days, not even two days on infinite repeat. Especially when those two days on infinite repeat are traumatizing in and of themselves.