Hatori & his maids!

♠️ Headcanon:

Hatori is very, very reliant on his maids. I’ve mentioned that a million times here on this blog, including in most of my role-plays, but it’s time I finally write a headcanon about this for future reference. As Hatori was not close with neither his mother or his father, Hatori was raised by a young housemaid named Ms. Yamada. She was kind, one of the few kind figures in his life, and Hatori took to her immediately. 

As a child, she was his personal maid. She would bathe him, feed him, dress him, and watch over him as if he were her own son. The few smiles Hatori had as a child were shared with her. She challenged him, in a way that not even his father had- she didn’t push him, no, she encouraged him to learn more and do more with his life. Hatori was completely enamored with her, never leaving her side and vowing to take care of her one day once she got old.

By age twelve, Ms. Yamada had married young; a nice man that Hatori only glimpsed a few times picking her up from Hatori’s home. By now, Hatori’s mother had passed and his father’s health was beginning to decline. Akira himself had also passed, leaving Akito in charge of the family. Seeing the bond Hatori had with his maid, she cast out Mrs. Yamada out of jealousy and hired new maids to take care of Hatori. Now, it was no longer one maid who cared for the dragon, he now had a swarm who fluttered around him daily and had different tasks. 

Hatori barely had the time to learn their names; they had no interest in forming a bond with him, just merely taking care of their duties. The new maids Akito had hired were elderly, stern– set in their own traditional ways. It only reinforced the wall Hatori was steadily building around him in his pre-teen years. As he never had to do a single thing for himself, Hatori became reliant on them for everything. Absolutely everything.

Now, as an adult, Hatori cannot even dress himself in the morning. All meals are prepared by the help around his home, his dry cleaning is handled by them, even his own suits are not picked out by him– in fact, he gives them money each month and they have his suits specially ordered for him. Without them, Hatori could not even boil water on his own without burning the house down. He is like a child; a rich little boy who had everything handed to him and now can no longer care for himself without help around the home. 

During the time that he dated Kana, she took on most of the responsibility, but that was short-lived, as their relationship had just reached the two-month mark when Akito intervened. 

This is a shock to most, as Hatori comes across as a rather well-off, independent man. While emotionally, he is independent and can care for himself– Hatori is capable of nursing his own wounds, it is the other responsibilities in his life he had to neglect due to his family’s wealth, and due to pouring so much of his time into the medical field and his school work. He missed out on necessary life-skills and is now extraordinarily behind on a number of household duties.