Headcanon ficathon!

[reikah]

Well, it's been a while since the Olympics, so I thought I'd throw this here as a fun community event (don't worry, this isn't the summer challenge/contest, I'm still ironing that out).

Welcome to the Kurofai headcanon meme!

What is a headcanon? A headcanon, for those of you not familiar with the terminology, is "An idea, belief, or aspect of a story that is not mentioned in the media itself, but is accepted by either the reader themselves or the fandom in general. If it is confirmed by the author of the story, it becomes canon." (Thanks, urban dictionary!) Examples might include 'Fai has terrible metabolism, his feet get very cold' or 'one of Mokona's 108 techniques is Vibrate Mode' or anything else you feel is true but never confirmed in the text. Not all headcanons are worksafe.

How it works:

You leave a comment with one of your Kurofai headcanons. You can do so signed into a dreamwidth account or anonymously, for those of you without dreamwidth accounts/with embarrassing headcanons.

Someone else will write a short story based around your headcanon, and post it as a reply to you.

In short, it works a lot like clampkink - but for headcanons rather than kinks!

Anonymous commenting is enabled, but you do not need to post headcanons/stories anonymously if you don't want to. I'm also going to go ahead and label this post NOT WORKSAFE preemptively, so please be careful browsing where your computer access is monitored! Stories can be as long and short as you like, and as SFW/NSFW as you feel like, or, if you prefer, you can fill with fanart instead - both are excellent. For our rules on threesomes or moresomes, check the comm rules in our profiles.

That's all the nitty-gritty out of the way - now let's go ahead and share some headcanons!

Filled Headcanons
Fai's hands hurt after the tower - filled by cloverfield
Holitsuba!Fai gives Kurogane finger puppets to help him teach sex ed - filled by Anon
Fai always could use chopsticks - he just pretended not to as part of his harmless idiot act - filled by eijentu
Fai doesn't like to sleep alone - filled by Anon
Tomoyo hand-stitched Fai's furisode herself - filled by ereshkigali
Fai is disappointed to be alive after Outo - filled by farenmaddox
Kurogane is an absolute SAP - filled by zelinxia
When Fai began to suspect what was going on with Ashura, he evacuated the survivors of Ceres to another world, which the travelers then encounter during their journey - filled by Anon
Kurogane forced Fai to feed the first time in Infinity - filled by farenmaddox
Kuro-sama likes being tied up - filled by cloverfield
Yama & Outo - Kurogane realises he's fallen for Fai - filled by rinoa11
Kurogane had a crush on an older ninja who acted like Fai, who died - filled by zelinxia
Kurogane is really bad in bed the first time - filled by tsubasafan
BB!Fai remained friends with the little freckled girl from Ceres - being filled by farenmaddox
Kurogane expresses his love in subtle ways ("the moon is beautiful tonight," touching just the edge of Fay's sleeve, etc) - filled by zelinxia
Post-series, Fai needs to hear Kurogane's heartbeat to reassure himself his happiness isn't a dream - filled by uakari
Fai - real Fai, the one that died - was the older twin - filled by anon
Fai - real Fai, the one that died - was the older twin - filled by farenmaddox
Fai feels guilt over Kurogane's scars, and Kurogane thinks he needs to keep them hidden from Fai - filled by ereshkigali
Kurogane and Fai get married/bonded before the xxxHolic epilogue - filled by caffeine_buzz
Fai starred in a porn film during the group's travels & had fun - filled by misskirichan
Kuro-papa survived minus an arm and has been roaming dimensions looking for his son - filled by anon
Holitsuba - Yuuko & Fay have had sex before - filled by misskirichan
Holitsuba!Kurogane, Fai, and Yuui are all in a mutually satisfying relationship - filled by misskirichan
Holitsuba!Kurogane is the first person who hasn't been jealous of Fai and Yuui's closeness - filled by kittenkin
Kurogane prefers it when Fai tops - filled by xwittychickx
Fai feels guilt over Kurogane's scars, and Kurogane thinks he needs to keep them hidden from Fai - filled by sotongsotong
Kurogane is an absolute SAP - filled by anon
BB!Fai remained friends with the little freckled girl from Ceres - filled by anon
Kurogane forced Fai to feed the first time in Infinity - filled by sotongsotong

Unfilled Headcanons
Kurogane's father trained him the way Kurogane trained Syaoran.
Kurogane had a case of performance anxiety before he and Fai had sex the first time.
Kurogane is a virgin. Fay is not.
Kurogane takes particular notice of how Fai smells. Fai changes soap and Kurogane has to work up the courage to ask him to change it back.
Fai starts to experience some of Sakura's memories after C!Syaoran stores her feathers in his eye.
Fai and Yuui were born on a national holiday; this is considered an ill omen for Valeria
Kurogane accidentally kills his father during the fall of Suwa
Kurogane & Fai resettle Suwa post-series, and Kurogane grows his hair out like his father
Kurogane has a well-worn notebook filled with terrible poetry. Fai enjoys flipping through the pages and trying to guess which world each was written in.
Holitsuba - Kurogane and Fai keep tracking of whose on top with different coloured condoms. Fai steals Kurogane's in order to top more.
Fai slept around in Ceres (with men and women), but Kurogane is his first steady significant other.
Holitsuba!Kurogane hums to himself when he's in a good mood.
Fai is a creature composed out of magic, rather than human.
Kurogane's conscience sounds A LOT like Tomoyo.
Kurogane was devastated by Fai's 'good morning, Kurogane'.
Post-Clow arc: When Sakura and Syaoran went into the tube o'doom, they left their bodies as empty shells on the floor. Touya found them, and moved them into a long-term care wing at a hospital; waiting for their souls to come home again.
Fai is musically gifted, and every song he plays represents a specific memory/event from his life. Kurogane comes to realize this without Fai knowing it.
Kurogane is the worst boyfriend ever.
The other dimensional versions of Chi, Hideki and the twins live happily.
Fai was a virgin until he met Kurogane because Ashura-ou had some non-fatherly feelings towards him and though he couldn't openly have Fai he could stop others from even thinking of approaching Fai, and none dared to oppose the king.
Fai is uncomfortable with the Japanese way of bathing where everyone just strips naked and soak together.
Fai knew that he would live much longer than Kurogane and while traveling with Tsubasa!Shaoran has been trying to find a way for Kurogane and him to share the same lifespan.
Kurogane is loud in bed.
Kurogane and Fai shared a tent in Yama; Fai felt dirty after being assaulted by soldiers and begged Kurogane to clean him. They had sex regularly after that.

Comments

[uakari]

Kurogane has a well-worn notebook filled with terrible poetry. Fai enjoys flipping through the pages and trying to guess which world each was written in.

[reikah]

Seconded! I really like this, I hope it gets filled soon!

[cloverfield]

*offers bandaid* I'm sorry? :D But I'm happy you liked it!

[cloverfield]

This was gorgeous and I may be tearing up a little. And I love that you did all the research ever, because it just bleeds through your words in subtle ways and really you've put as much care into this as the scene you've painted of Tomoyo taking care of those she loves. Ahhh, this was the furisode fic I didn't know I needed but I do and it's just filled this little space. Perfection!

[cloverfield]

ITS ALRIGHT I DIDN'T NEED MY HEART ANYWAY YOU CAN JUST TEAR IT OUT OF MY CHEST

;A;

(seriously though, this is clever and sad and that's Fai all over. Amazing job!)

[cloverfield]

Aieeeeeeee. ;A; Just, please excuse me while I sob brokenly in a corner.

Also, I love that you've included all the little touches from that omake where their sleeping patterns are explained- and the painful justification for why Fai sleeps face down. This was heartwrenching and perfect. Well done, anon!

[(Anonymous)]

Blood. Bodies. Ruins. It wasn’t the valley of Valeria or the main chamber of Luval Castle, but it was still your fault.

You didn’t recognize them at first. Their clothing and physique were covered in ashes and blood, skins scraped by debris and bodies too tired from crying and grieving. But when you saw the trace of the familiar embroidery on the dress of the woman weeping over the losses all because of that feather, you realized she’s among the survivors you helped flee the mysterious bloodshed.

Rocks were hurled at ‘Syaoran’, who refused to get out of the way. You did everything you could to shut out the angry cries of the kids who demanded the boy to return the people his image had killed to retrieve one of Sakura’s feathers. All while Sakura put herself in front of ‘Syaoran’ to protect him from sharp projectiles.

“Take us out of here, Moko-chan,” she urged. There was no hesitation, no words exchanged between you and the others as you were all whisked away from this world, too late to do anything, too late to save them from the damages Syaoran enacted.

A part of you were too used to this – a massacre in your own hands. Sure, it was the clone who killed anyone who was in his way to retrieve the feather before moving on to the next undetermined world, but he wouldn’t have been able to destroy lives as easily without your magic he’d stolen back in Tokyo.

If you had died back there, the magic would have faded out. But ‘Kurogane’ had to save you (and there’s still that part of you that wants to cling on to him, to the others, and be taken away with them, but then you’re still a traitor, like how were a traitor to these people you weren’t able to protect.)

Blood. Bodies. Ruins. It wasn’t the valley of Valeria or the main chamber of Luval Castle, but it was still your fault.

[mikkeneko]

.....well shit, Fai just needed one more thing to angst over. ;;_;;

I guess these people were fated to have unhappy lives, no matter what anyone tried to do for them...

[zelinxia]

I love how this was set in Hanshin, when things seem far more chipper, but already Fai is hiding so much. ;A;

[animangod]

Ohmygosh, this is priceless, and perfect. I love it. Oh anon; this level of angst is just wonderful, and I have to double read over before I completely headcannon this.

[farenmaddox]

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

So here's a thing I would love it if someone wrote:

Kurogane is covered in scars, and a lot of them are due to Fai. He's got a million on his wrists from feeding, he's got a bunch on his back from being cut up in Tokyo, he's got that mass of scar tissue where his new arm joins to his shoulder, and a big fat one in his side from his other injury in Celes. MY ACTUAL HEADCANON FOR THESE SCARS: Fai doesn't know how to feel about them, sees them as physical manifestations of the pain he has caused, and accidentally makes Kurogane feel like he needs to keep his own skin hidden from Fai. THE REASON I HAVE NOT PERSONALLY WRITTEN THIS ALREADY: I have no idea how to solve it. *facepalm*

[farenmaddox]

Kuro-sama's a screamer OMG I nearly died when I got to that line XD

Ahhh, the sappiness is perfect and Kurogane clearly has nothing but marshmallow fluff inside his heart. Xia, this is great.

[farenmaddox]

*crying because this is beautiful*

This is perfect, darling, and I kinda hate you right now for THESE FEELS but mostly I just love you lots and lots and lots. This is really just perfect. That line about his fingernails scraping over the glass/stone gave me such a visceral reaction that I felt nauseous. You brought this immediacy to the writing that overall is just stunning and LOOK AT MY FEELS. D:

[mikkeneko]

DED FROM LAFF

SEND HALP

[farenmaddox]

ahahahah ALL ABOARD THE ANGST TRAIN

(note: I used the word "Gehenna" because it was the word child!Fai used in the translation of TRC I read)

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Gehenna probably isn’t full of plastic.

He’s learned the way plastic feels from some of the worlds they’ve been in, and what’s under his hands is very definitely a hard, smooth, artificial curve with a strange hint of warmth. Plastic.

So not Gehenna.

And that quite definitely means he is not dead. Because when he dies, there is only one destination for him and he knows that. Although he rather feels Paradise would not have plastic either.

He opens his eyes and sees himself sitting in front of a bank of controls in a capsule, and he blows out his breath. His real breath. He’d had his suspicions that something was wrong with Outo all along— his magical sensitivity was screaming at him from the moment they’d arrived, those girls with the soulless eyes that welcomed them to the city doing nothing to help. But because he couldn’t pinpoint the problem, he’d assumed it was the demons. He’d never encountered their like before, and he’d chalked up the intense alarm his magic had raised to the constancy of the threat the demons posed.

He’d never dreamed it would be something like this.

He lifts his eyes away from the controls, still trying to make sense of this. He’s alive. There is someone coming toward him, dressed in an outfit that just says “uniform” all over it. This person is an employee of the facility that Fai is clearly being held in.

“You lost your life, huh?” he says sympathetically. “Well, you can always start a new game.”

Game? This was . . . A game?

(Hasn’t every moment of this journey been nothing but?)

Fai leans back in his seat, smiling cheerfully at the employee of this game room or whatever it is. “Now where would be the fun in that? A game like this isn’t fun if you can come back to it as many times as you want, after all.”

It’s his usual sing-song. The employee looks at him doubtfully. Most people would probably like to jump straight back into the game, wouldn’t they? Fai himself would love to, he supposed, if he’d known it was a game to begin with. You could pick a different job or location each time. That had some appeal.

He hadn’t known. He’d thrown himself at an enemy thinking he was protecting someone. Thinking he was dying for a reason.

Thinking he was dying. Thinking it was over. No more of this endless game he was always playing, in Outo or out of it. No more smiling until his face felt cracked in half, surreptitiously touching his fingertip to the corner of his lips to see if he was bleeding. No more laughing as the ninja chased him, a bright spot in his heart that dared too much, and that he always carefully and thoroughly pulled out of his chest and smashed into pieces at the end of each day. (He didn’t apply words to the bright spot. No, defining it was worse thing imaginable.) No more waiting and no more plotting. He’d get the torment that was coming to him after he died, and there would be no more princesses with belief in their eyes.

For that one moment, short but full of strange clarity, he’d been looking forward to Gehenna.

“Your friends are probably wondering why you’re not back already,” the employee says cautiously. It's more than likely his duty to make Fai spend more money here.

His friends.

They must think he's dead.

Something is wrong with their game, and Fai knows it. His senses are still screaming at him about danger, even though he is unmistakably in the real world now and not locked inside a game. Something big is still coming, and his friends are still in danger. They are right here in their little capsules, unmoving in reality but in their heads they are still dreaming and talking and planning— (Are they crying for him? Does he want them to?)

“Is it okay if I stay here while I wait for my friends to finish their game?” he asks with a smile, stretching his arms above his head. It feels wonderful. For all that he thought he’d been leaping around, cooking meals, fighting demons, getting injured (pause for a strange jolt in his chest when thinking about that night) he hasn’t actually moved in probably hours.

Something is definitely wrong, and he’d better try to fix it. They still have work to do, and since he is alive, he has no excuse for not doing it.

[animangod]

Oh god; this is so much better than the one I began to write. XP Quite good characterization.

[farenmaddox]

So I have an entire long story I want to write for this very idea someday. I'm working on a smaller one to fill this for you~ :*

[farenmaddox]

ANOTHER HEADCANON OF MINE:

When Kurogane was first training to be a Shirasagi ninja, one of his mentors was an older ninja who has some of the same teasing mannerisms of Fai, and Kurogane had a MASSIVE CRUSH on this man. And then the mentor dies protecting Tomoyo from an assassin! :D

[zelinxia]

Everyone wonders what happened in those six months the men are left in Yama before the others arrive in that world. Many times there are hook ups involved (emotional and/or to get stuff out of their system) - and yeah I've wrote stuff like that before, but in truth my headcanon is that there wasn't any physical intimacy going on.

The dilemma is that, Kurogane realizes he's fallen for Fai. He's confused and wondering why he feels romantically attracted to this 'idiot', but after picking up on more things from Outo, (doesn't help everyone thought Fai died...), and having to watch out for Fai cause he can't understand the language, he comes to accept his feelings for Fai. Yay for Yama!

[sotongsotong]

This is one of my sillier Horitsuba! KuroFai headcanons:

That Fai and Kurogane take turns at topping one another and keep track of it by using colour-coded condoms: red for Kurogane, and blue for Fai. Fai, being Fai , hides some of Kurogane's stock and conveniently protests to Kurogane that Kuro-greedy was topping way too often...and promptly takes action on it.

O shit, please don't burn me for this if it's too silly >.<;;

[zelinxia]

OMG, no, it's great. I second this! :DDDDDDDD

[farenmaddox]

I have endlessly changed my mind about how the first meeting between Tomoyo and Fai might have gone, and how she might have convinced him to wear the furisode... and now you have written this, and I'm calling this my headcanon, because it's perfect and the narrative is crafted with just as much obvious care as the furisode, and I'm literally near tears with the way you portrayed Tomoyo. Her feelings working themselves into the things she makes just... aghhh. *sits on you and loves you aggressively*

[farenmaddox]

When I read something with such a heavy weight, I lose my ability to do words. And I sit here in silence with my hands stretched out as though a person could see it or take my meaning from it. *stretches out hands* This is beautiful, anon.