#but I'm emotionally occupied with the puey stays au atm so

[fumiko-matsubara]

Fumiko, I was reading some extra materials and I noticed that the bully that made Ikeda give up on life and Kaho has the same last name, with the same spelling, I don't think it's a coincidence... Do you think they are related in any way?

If we're talking about canon-verse, I genuinely don't think they're related at all. It's not uncommon to share the same surname with someone completely unrelated, after all. Unless the surname is very rare, that is (Tsuchiya is a fairly common surname).

If there's ever a chance that they could be related, the most we could assume here was that Shou is a distant relative of Kaho's... who was likely disowned by his family branch.

They're living completely different lives so the chances of them being related is very slim 🤷🏽‍♂️

But sometime in the middle of 2021, I had a Tower of God AU phase where I combined the concept and moral standards of TOG with AssClass characters (who are of various ages in the AU, by the way).

In TOG, certain family names have a big significance to the world-building. And so, Kaho and Shou were related in the TOG AU... but then I already grew out of my phase before I could drop any more lore I had for the AU 😅

But here's a tidbit I had written in my old notes:

(The Harukawa family thingy was explained in the Kaho and Maehara comic that I drew for the AU... It's in the masterlist that I just linked if you're curious).

And there was this really long Kaho oneshot from the AU that I just gave up writing on at the same time I grew out of my TOG AU phase (it was even nearly around 30k words when I abandoned it lol.... what a waste 💀).

Here's a thingy that talked about it a little:

The mere idea of Kaho and Shou being related is something I have never really taken seriously, simply because it doesn't make that much sense to me in canon-verse.

Perfect for an AU though.

#i mean i would love to slowly get back into the tog au #but I'm emotionally occupied with the puey stays au atm so #in the first place the kaho oneshot was pretty difficult to read ngl #the paragraphs were too lengthy and the transitions were kinda confusing #so i don't think i'll even post the unfinished version 😭 #assassination classroom #ansatsu kyoushitsu #assclass #ask box #ask answered #asterbeladona #tsuchiya kaho #tsuchiya shou #tower of god au