It was fun to finally write more of the Byakuya fam (since Marx's sibs + Garon already go their own spotlights).
Ikona is very much around, in this verse and as for her status with Sumeragi... I'll leave to your imagination (for now). The situation definitely merited some teasing, and well Ikona's glad that Marx is making Hinoka happy.
In this verse I figure Takumi and Oboro have been besties since forever, so despite not officially dating (yet) they're around each other all the time and might as well be. I also feel like Oboro making big career accomplishments while Taku has not pings hi inferiority complex which make shim Worry and Fret and consider himself Not Good Enough. (he mostly needs to just talk to Oboro and stop overthinking)
Yeah, Marx got a lot of grief from Hinoka's brothers (like the past examples of threatening him against gold-dogging) and father, and initially almost entirely just based on him being from Nohr. Sumeragi certainly tried to ban certain things... the female members of his family actually listening to him, was another matter :P I will say for this chapter's thing with "lunch boxes", it's based on the Japanese conceit that it's a very girlish thing to to- a mother makes lunchboxes for her kids or a girlfriend/wife for her significant other. So to Ryouma seeing a big man doing this for his sister seemed absurd and unmasculine, and not knowing the cultural reason he found it funny Marx was Very Offended. Hin definitely chewed Ryou out for publicly embarrassing them, and him and Marx eventually talked it out and came to an understanding.
Yeah I figure it was like one of those current-day corporate alliance engagement where the kids in question are kinda "meh" over the whole thing, and eventually Hinoka just broke it off on her own. Loooool, sounds like Ryouma's on your blacklist for this chapter's offense. I suppose I'll have to drabble with him some day to show he's not 100% a jerk.
Glad you enjoyed the read, and thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Hahaha, well between the lunch boxes, the drinking contest, the gold digging threats and not calling his dad Ryou isn’t doing too great on showing his best side C; I will look forward to the Drabble where he redeems himself :3
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