I'M CRYING THANK YOU SO MUCH I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT SHIPPED TENDOU/OIKAWA
YES THANK YOU ANON!! YOU SHOULD HIT ME UP ON TUMBLR MESSAGING BECAUSE I NEED TO TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THIS SHIP AND THERE IS 0 CONTENT FOR IT WHICH IS SADDENING!
ME ME ME! @nyxdelanuit
33 w/ OiTen plz? Ta much :D
THIS PROMPT IS SO OITEN I’M ACTUALLY SCREAMING
(Psst more college au)
33. “Something about you makes me want to commit extreme violence.”
“Tooru. Toooru.” A voice sounded in his ear. “Tooooooru.”
“What the hell do you want, Satori?!” He snapped. Tendou only smirked, straightening up and somehow looking down on him, despite them not even having an inch of height difference. “I’m trying to do my work.”
“What do you think would happen if you combined nitrogen monoxide with carbon disulfide?”
Tooru blinked, before scowling. “It would explode, we learned this last week. The ‘barking dog’ reaction, remember?”
“Right, right.” He nodded. “What about hydrogen peroxide and potassium iodide?”
“A prodigious amount of oxygen gas.”
“What about-”
“Satori!” He snapped, turning towards him with a glare. “Y’know, something about you makes me want to extreme violence.”
“I get that a lot.”
Thanks for the request, Anon! This was super fun to write ^^
Fandom: Haikyuu!! Rating: Gen Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Oikawa Tooru/Tendou Satori Additional Tags: Fluff, Meet-Cute, Coffee Shops, Coffeeshops
‘Oikawa regretted getting into a Twitter argument with his precious kouhai Tobio-chan at the precise moment that he collided with someone, knocking him to the ground.’
Oikawa and Tendou bump into each other after high school, and Oikawa demands coffee for the inconvenience.
written for @candy-harlot :D had a lot of fun with this one!
Rn I crave a ship for Oikawa where the other part would know what a catch Oikawa is and WONT. STOP. BRAGGING. Like making Oikawa embarrassed levels
But not like "oh you are the best bf im so lucky to have you i want to spend eternity with you" NO FUCK THAT
Im talking about OiTen where one of Oikawa's fangirls asking if he would date any of his fans and Tendou cutting in
"Aaah wouldnt it be nice to wake up next to him, pick him up whenever you want to kiss;);) him?? Well LUCKY me i can do all of that ^_^ ! Sucks to be you :("
OR
AtsuOi where Atsumu takes photos for instagram like he is doing a fanservice while captioning it like
"Too bad we are never gonna break up and all of you are doomed with dating ugly men ;("
"Thank god im dating the 2nd hottest man cause no one deserves the no1 hottest man other than him ;)"
Let me see Oikawa dating people that out-bitches him 😫 (also atsuoi is def a wip rn)
Ugh, absolute Oiten LOVE @nyxdelanuit
“I used to have goals. They were evil goals, but they were goals.”
— Tendou Satori
Trick or treat for tendou x oikawa
Come into my ask box, ask trick or treat, and I’ll either treat you to some fluff, or trick you with some darkness!
Just so y’all know - I’m out of tricks for the season! So you get nothing but tooth-rotting fluff from here on out!
Treat
Tooru was pleased. It had been a great year, and, from the looks at their future projections, next year was going to be just as great, if not better.
Closing up shop for the weekend, Tooru sat down behind the counter and stretched his limbs luxuriously. He felt good, better than he had in years. He was happy. So, so happy.
“Come on, stop dawdling. We’ve gotta get going,” Satori came out from the storage room, holding a large crate in his hands.
“You can’t even sit for five minutes, can you?” Despite the grumbling tone, Tooru stood and got the door for his partner.
“Nope. Not when the social event of the season is on the line!” Satori flashed Tooru his signature shit-eating grin as he sauntered out the door. Tooru locked up behind him, and followed as Satori hummed to himself down the street.
Tooru was still new, but he was learning fast. Around here, autumn was a big deal. They didn’t necessarily celebrate Halloween - most of the children weren’t bothered with trick or treating or costumes - but the celebration of Samhain was a tried and true tradition.
Every community member participated, and brought something to the celebration, pot-luck style. Most of the farmers brought their produce, or other wares. Some offered traditional family recipes. Others, like the Ukais, offered their land to host the Samhain feast. The Tendou family cider mill always offered up refreshments - both traditional, and alcoholic.
Carting the crate of cider with them, Tooru and Satori stepped into the Ukai backyard, and went about helping the others set up the tables, table clothes, food, and drinks. Tooru was glad the cider mill was just across the street. They were inevitably going to run out, and he would be the one tasked with getting more drink.
It was an adjustment from what he was used to. But he was glad for it. It was a new adventure, and a whole new skillset to master. And if his heart happened to heal along the way, well, that was a nice bonus.
♔ The Grand King → Oikawa Tōru
So we’re getting a bit more Tendou in S3 E2 and this is nice because Tendou is one of the more… interesting characters. In the manga he was one of the first ones I truly managed to despise (at least for like ten chapters). A lot of it has to do with the eyes, but also with the way he holds himself. His face is weird, he mocks his opponents at every turn, he’s got a Very Strange sense of humor and loyalty, and his posture always seems wrong, somehow. His neck is usually at an angle, he just feels… off.
And the anime takes that little factoid and runs with it.
Haikyuu’s animation is usually very, very smooth, you see. Tendou’s is not.
Dude is a twitchy bastard. He moves erratically when he’s not actually playing. And watching him this episode, combined with the voice, it took a while for me to put my finger on what it is that makes it so unnerving.
The swaying, the twitching… you usually see that sort of thing in zombie movies. His animation is basically that of a horror monster.
I mean, obviously he’s being set up as the antagonist for the next episode. He is the ‘guess monster’ after all, but I never realized you could put that level of detail into the way you make a character move.
Adding to this because I just got to watch the episode and I’m a film nerd:
The use of dramatic silence in that final scene after Tendou blocks Hinata is downright unnerving. The sound designers took the care to remove the sounds of the crowd (which, if you listen closely, are present throughout almost the entire rest of the episode, including the cut to Suga yelling at everyone to calm down, but it is cut out during other moments similar to this scene with Tendou), and they even added the hollow-sounding wooshing noise you often hear before scares in horror movies. The last sounds we hear before the horror-woosh (yes, that’s what I’m going to keep calling it) are the echoing of the ball dropping, Hinata’s gasp, and a slightly-muted whistle blow. The only sounds during the creepy horror-woosh are from Tendou himself, which is extremely reminiscent of horror monsters, especially Japanese horror – more on that later on.
It’s also notable that while they use this same kind of scene during other key moments, this one is the longest one by far, as well as the most unsettling. There was one earlier in the episode as well, when Tsukishima and Asahi failed to block a spike from Ushiwaka; that one quickly cut to various reaction shots and immediately got back to the match.
Besides the sound design, the block itself – which was framed in cooler, menacing purples in contrast to the bright, optimistic oranges that we’d just seen both Ushijima and Hinata framed in – is animated in such a way that it’s almost startling. I mean, we all knew it was coming, especially if we read the manga, but it’s still jarring to see Tendou’s hands stretching, distorted, out of the corner of the screen in the same style they like to animate things like Kyoutani’s spikes and Oikawa’s serves.
The last time we saw anything similar to this on a block was when Matsukawa scared Hinata into spiking a specific direction, but even that was softer-looking than this one, and slower, too.
The white-out after the block definitely also adds to the sense of unease in the scene. Immediately cutting to Kageyama’s face – which now carries a wide-eyed, shocked expression that we perhaps have never really seen before – and then allowing the rest of the scene to play out in pseudo-slow-motion (where everything still moves quickly, but the time between beats is slower than usual or slower than they should be) lets us know intuitively, before breaking down the scene more than we really should be like we are right now, that something is horribly wrong.
Back to Tendou and his specific motions and the shots during the scene:
Ya’know how I said I’d get back to Japanese horror and why Tendou’s sounds are important? That’s because in Japanese horror specifically, the monsters tend to have a “trigger sound”, a sound that alerts not just the audience, but also the characters in the movie to their presence. It’s not just Tendou’s movement’s that are unnerving and extraneous… he also makes extra sounds (including one specific sound earlier in the episode when Ushijima mentions that he’d met Hinata before that was very similar to the Grudge groan). We’ll have to keep an ear out for any more strange sounds from Tendou.
“Heh~ Let’s go, forwards.”
Anon: May I send in a scenario? How about Tendou getting all excited to see his gf after he’s been on a long training camp program? If you do answer this then thank you and if requests are closed I’m sorry! 💘
This is an utterly cute request and I’m happy to write it!
Female pronouns used!
Enjoy x
Satoorii~ I’m so tirreeed, princess, Ushijima had us practicing for ages
Me Remember heat packs! I miss you.
Satoorii~ i miss you too, how has school been? study hard? x
Me of course i have x entrance exam tomorrow for university of tokyo, and i did one for saitama university today!
Satoorii~ proud of you!! you’ve already got acceptances to miyagi universities, so you’ll definitely get into the others. ganba!!~
Me dork
Satoorii~ love i’ll be back soon, just two days more
Me u better. and you also better get some sleep, nanite~
Satoorii~ night night, princess x read: 8:15pm
Tendou smiled as he switched off his phone, only to click it on again so he could look at his lock screen. It was a picture of you two, bright and smiling at a summer festival last year.
“Tendou, hurry up!” Semi called, half in annoyance as the redhead jogged to board the bus. “We want to get back in time.” Was all he said as he closed the door behind him, and Tendou just grinned as he collapsed into the seat next to Ushijima.
Tendou turned to the male beside him. “How long does the bus ride take?”
“Fourteen hours or so,” Ushijima replied, setting the timer on his watch — more for Tendou’s benefit than anyone else’s. “`Have you got your fare for the train?”
Tendou pulled out the tickets with a grin. “’Course I have; I thought of everything!”
Ushijima smiled back at him, shook his head and pulled his eye mask down his face before he lifted his headphones over his ears. Tendou settled back into his seat and clutched the tickets to his chest.
“Y/NN,” Your best friend moaned, planting themselves head first on your table in Starbucks. “Why did you get me up this early?”
You chuckled as you sifted through your notes, cramming the few bits that you didn’t remember as easily. “I didn’t want to go alone, and plus you always want to go to Tokyo; this is your chance.”
Your best friend paused. “You have a fair point,” they conceded, finally removing their head from the table. “Could you get me a coffee?” They asked, grinning when you looked at them blankly. “I mean, I would, but—” They made exaggerated stretching movements to the barista’s behind the counter until you sighed.
“Just a coffee?” You asked as you stood up.
“Caramel Machiato!” They chirped, grinning as they finally sat up right. You just sighed and walked to the end of the queue.
Me alright you lug, what time are you getting here?
chicken strip
should be in miyagi in a couple of hours, when’s her entrance exam?
Me 10:30 on the dot, and it ends at 12:30. you better be here or i’ll smack you.
chicken strip i definitely will be. read: 9:23am
8:15am
Me satori, my exam is in a couple of hours, i’m so nervous! i love you, be my lucky charm? read: 8:15am
Tendou glared at his watch as he willed time to go slower. The hands of the watch were slowly reaching 12:20pm and he was still stuck on the train to Tokyo.
First there was something on the tracks, and then the train overheated, and now someone had gotten stuck in the train doors and three assistants were trying to cut the lady’s coat free, no matter how much she protested it was 100% silk and extremely expensive. Tendou couldn’t help but feel like something in the universe wanted to keep you two apart.
His heart leapt in his chest as he felt the train lurch beneath his feet and watched the tunnel swallow his entire carriage whole.
One more stop after this one. One more.
You stared down at your exam paper and the pencil in your hand as the white sheet was whisked from your table and into the arms of the examiner. Other people in front of you had already begun to depart, but you where still sitting and staring.
“Don’t worry,” came a voice, old and frail as a similar hand rested on your shoulder. “You haven’t done that badly, you were writing away.”
Ah, right.
You were still in the exam hall.
“Thank you,” You told the man as you took your bag from beneath the table. “That means a lot.”
The elders man smiled and deported with a small skip in his step, while you turned back to your pencil box and placed your pencil inside; snapping it shut before you tucked it away and exited the room.
You had expected Y/B/F/N to be waiting on the steps with a smile and something to eat, yet they were nowhere to be seen. Instead there was a blob with red hair.
You thought it abnormal at first, but the closer you went the more familiar the blob became, and eventually you had to stop and clasp your hands to your mouth. Before you was Tendou in all his grinning glory, with messy hair and a bouquet of red and pick roses, a four leaf cloves sticker behind his ear.
“Well done, Y/N,” He told you with a grin as you took the flowers. “Ganba~”
“I thought you weren’t going to be back until tomorrow,” You managed as you looked at the perfect petals.
Tendou grinned. “I pulled some strings.”
You shook your head at him. “Dork.”
“Love,” he replied.
You offered him your hand. “Come on, you look like you need a coffee. How long have you been awake.”
“Not long enough,” he said with a smile as he took your hand, interlacing your fingers with his. “Plus, I don’t mind if I’m tire. Not if I get to see you.”
This was way too sweet and I had an amazing time writing it!
[reminder that the inbox is closed for matchups but open for requests and to chat!]
- Admin Emi
A motivational Tendou gift done for @tendou-satori, maybe others can appreciate it too :>
DO YOU HAVE MORE HEADCANONS ABOUT TENDOU WITH S/A???? Please, the nsfw ones were really fun and he deserves more attention;; ♡
i’m like touch-and-go on here tonight because monday nights are dancing with the stars night i usually liveblog it over on my personal so forgive me
ANYWAY
this kid
i went with SFW headcanons to balance out the other ones~
Tendou
