fuckyeah8018:

An analysis of 8018 by a friend:

andreaphobia asked:

8018 — BAM

Hands down the sexiest, most aesthetically pleasing pairing in Reborn IMHO. The only way it gets sexier is if you add in Reborn, but THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS PARTICULAR ASK IS ABOUT, SO I DIGRESS.

Anyways. 

I fucking hated Hibari. I hated him with the burning passion of a thousand suns. Then I read an 8018 doujinshi, because I really liked the artwork in it and I’m a sucker for anything Yamamoto. I can’t remember exactly which doujinshi it was, it was definitely Yoneda Kou. 

I was like ‘hot damn, these two are gorgeous together’, so I went on a fic hunt. AND FELL IN LOVE. 

They just work so well together! I love the way they are with each other — it’s a relationship of mutual respect, and while Yamamoto is goofy and pretty much the exact opposite of Hibari outwardly, I always feel like their inner workings are so similar that even if the two aren’t involved romantically, they’d make GREAT friends as the years go on. There’s a lot of darkness in Yamamoto, and it’s not something he has to hide when he’s with Hibari. Out of all the relationships you could put Yamamoto in, I feel like he is most at ease with himself around Hibari. Hibari accepts him entirely for who he is, the idiot baseball freak herbivore and the strong, focused killer that is a natural born assassin. That duality is possibly what attracts Hibari most! And that’s what I love about it as opposed to other Yamamoto pairings — I feel like with most of the other people he could get in a relationship with (the only exceptions are Reborn, and, after quite a lot of internal struggle, Tsuna), they only want the one side of him. The happy, cheerful, baseball-idiot side. 

On the other hand, what tends to piss everyone else off about Hibari (his aloof nature, his violent blood-thirst, his general lack of human emotion) are all things that Yamamoto either doesn’t mind at all (the first two) or brings him out of (the third one). I feel like Hibari would grow so much just from Yamamoto’s presence — like the hardened edges would start to give a bit, because you can’t help but let him worm your way into his brain and start to open you up. That’s just how Yamamoto is — he breaks down walls no matter how much effort it takes, and Hibari is no exception. In fact, the greater the challenge, the more up to it Yamamoto is. He’s stubborn and that’s something Hibari needs just as much as he needs the warmth and radiance that is Yamamoto (even if he’d never admit it out loud).

I feel like Yamamoto’s presence makes Hibari more human, while being around Hibari helps Yamamoto to focus and mature and realize the most important things to him, and make the right choices that he may find harder to make if he’s in a relationship with anyone else. He doesn’t have to worry constantly over Hibari, because it’s -Hibari- and he can take care of himself. 

Nggggh I could go on forever about these two but I’ll just shut up now. My fingers hurt from typing so much =_=