When First Learning Different Languages (i Think He Knows At Leaaassst 3, If Not The Basics Of More),

When first learning different languages (i think he knows at leaaassst 3, if not the basics of more), Citron watched and listened to children’s programs and songs to get used to the basics of the language down. Because of this, Citron recognizes dozens of cartoon characters, songs, and the like from a ton of shows. Citron LOVES playing around with kids and they think it's cool that he knows so much!! Like!!! Just imagine Citron and a circle of lil kids singing along to one of the songs from a popular series and they’re all having so much fun!!!! Since pretty much all the people in the neighborhood know and like Citron, he’s trusted very much by exhausted parents who just cant keep up with the energy of their 5 year olds. One day he was helping a dad put his kid to sleep by telling the little dude fairy tales from Zafra and by the time he was done a flock of tots surrounded him asking for another one. (the adults were listening too but shhh) It became a sweet little routine that whenever Citron stopped by the park he would sing and tell stories to the kids to get them calmed down to go home. All the parents are forever grateful and everyone has fun!

 (i will never ever stop pushing my ‘love and respect citron’ agenda<3)

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Author’s Note~

Hnmmhgng,..,,howww,,.,.how!! *shakes fists* how do i express how much i adore citron and how smart he is and how he deserves so much more respect in measly words!!!! asfdkjnkjdsksfnj i would like to shout and scream!!!

From his home lines, we know that Azuma hates bugs. I’d like to imagine that when he was in his room alone and a bug friend came along he would kinda freeze and lock eyes with the little critter. While keeping eyes on it, he calls over one of the winter troupe members (it usually ends up being Tasuku{sometimes Tsuzuru and Omi automatically walk on over because they’re used to ‘bug removal duty’}), and they have to scoot the bug onto a piece of paper and let it go outside. A few weeks after Guy shows up, Azu kinda just leans over and lightly tugs on his sleeve to let him know there’s a leggy critter. (Guy doesn’t mind insects all that much, and it freaks out Azuma every time Guy holds one in his hand when he can’t find paper)

Muku takes a pottery class one year and made homare a teapot and a matching cup! He wanted to paint roses on them before they were glazed, so he asked kazu to help him practice to make sure that the ones on the pot and cup would be pretty!! (he practiced on little squares of paper, then cut them out and hung them on a string in his room bc they looked pretty!!) Homare loved it and recited a poem about it upon receiving the gift. He now uses the set as often as possible and smiles whenever he thinks about it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ these two give me such wholesome student teacher vibes waa.,,,

Sakuya looks around him while sitting in the common room. Muku is happily showing azuma his favorite scenes from his most recent manga, tsuzuru is trying his best to scrape together dinner, and kumon is pleading with yuki to get him to play cat’s cradle. “You have such nimble lithe fingers! You’d be great at it!!” “What, and get my hands all sore and have to make the puppy embroider this shirt? I don't think so” “C’mon pleaseee?? Just for 5 minutes??” “Tch, fine I guess.” Sakuya is surrounded by love.

Omi reaches over the sofa and ruffles sakuya’s hair. “A little bird who was up late told me you were studying past midnight. You feelin’ ok?” Sakuya beamed up at Omi’s thoughtfulness. “Ah, i was hoping no one would notice if i was quiet enough. But yeah… I had a history quiz today and I was cramming. But I remembered all the answers!! Well, except for that one that involved dates, I might have been off by a year or too...” “Well, I’m glad you did a good job! We’re all proud of you, you know that, right?” Sakuya paused. Proud? Proud of him? Proud? Omi, stood for a moment, then understanding hit him, sakuya wasn’t used to this. Unsure how to proceed, he laid his hand on the little kid’s shoulder and rubbed his thumb slowly back and forth. “I mean it.” Sakuya is surrounded by love.

The two grab cups of milk and go to sit in the courtyard, with a plate of a few canelés between them.

Sakuya knows he is loved.

Hisohoma (as friends or ~something more~) are definitely chaotic in the strangest ways. On multiple occasions they have been found, sitting in a McDonald’s parking lot, Hisoka munching on his Happy meal (with the cute marshmallow shaped plushie) with his ‘limited release marshmallow-topped sundae’ sitting by the side. Who knows how or where he got it, but Homare is sipping a hot earl grey in an old English style teacup. They end up coming home at 12:00 am where they find everyone worrying over where they disappeared to. Izumi lectures them a little bit (Sakyo nods approvingly. He’s taught her well.) but she thinks it’s sweet that they get along so well.

I’m not sure if this is just an American thing, but do y’all know ‘pass the pulse’? I’ve done it before all of the [3] different performances I've done theatre-wise and I really feel like it could be such a sweet thing for the troupes and mankai in general to take part in! For anyone who doesn't know, pass the pulse is usually done before performing for an audience, and it seems to be mostly done within theatre groups[I could be wrong here, just in my personal experience!!]. It entails everyone standing in a circle, silently, sometimes with your eyes closed, and you’re all holding hands. One designated person squeezes the hand of the person on their left or right, and then that person squeezed the hand of the person next to them, and so on until you get back to the first person. The squeezing is meant to be sort of like the ‘pulse’ of the group, and it’s meant to be a nice, calming moment of connection before a performance. The little tradition that the summer troupe had of putting their hands on tenma before performances kinda reminded me of this, but I would love to see all the troupes having a little moment before performances.