Headcanon Meme: Sera Masumi

 Headcanon A:  realistic

 

Masumi doesn’t like being mistaken for a guy, but if she has to choose between that and being in clothes not suited for running or fighting in, she’ll risk the former. She may not know everything about what her family’s mixed up in but she knows enough to value freedom of movement, and the safety it gives her, over aesthetics.

 

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

 

While she likes living in a hotel (or, at least, living someplace with maid service), there are certain…downsides to her current living situation. For one, Sera is pretty sure she is the only high school student at Teitan who has ever had to tell her mother that she can’t have alcohol because she’s too young and it could affect her brain development. The entire parent/child dynamic is occasionally a little messy for both of them, since Mary has to stand on furninture to look her daughter in the eye and Masumi is capable of physically picking her mother up and carrying her with one arm.

 

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

 

Seeing Scar Akai on the Mystery Train made her worried about her sanity, because she couldn’t stop wondering if it really was him, even though she knew it couldn’t be. That incident touched off a good two weeks of seeing echoes of her brother in every tired-looking twentysomething with prominent cheekbones on the train, and of having to remind herself that not every flutter of dark fabric she saw from the corner of her eye was him walking by in a dark coat. She also lost about an hour of sleep one night just picturing his face, tracing the outline of the scar and thinking about how he would have gotten it and how much it must have hurt.

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

 

The thing about her chest size started as a joke. She was used to her old friends’ sense of humor, which involved telling her off in humorous ways when she deliberately broke social norms.  But she came to realize that in Japan, most people fell into one of two categories: either they were too polite to point out her mistake and would just act slightly uncomfortable until she stopped acting outside of what she considered acceptable behavior, or they would say nothing because it was funny to watch the foreign girl screw up. Now, talking about her chest size has become a way of gauging exactly how casually racist and/or generally unpleasant the people around her are.

 

(Look, I know it’s happening in canon because Gosho honestly thinks it’s funny and cute, but I find it disgusting to the point where I was avoiding her episodes for a while so this is the kinda headcanon gymnastics I gotta do)

Originally posted 7/30/2018