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ig it can be harder to sympathise w hoshiumi since by the time we meet him he’s polished, he’s already an accomplished player. even as we find out that he hasn’t always been that way, his confidence & ego can easily turn ppl away. but that isn’t all there is to him.
beneath that rightly-earned pride of his abilities is a boy who works like nobody else. it’s taken so long for him to even find his place in the lineup without constantly worrying that it’ll be taken away & doing everything in his power so that he can stay. for smth he loves.
it rly deserves a proper thread of its own but i just want to mention the idea that when it comes to hinata & hoshiumi there are obvs many factors in play & one of those is luck. in a way, once he's entered high school, hinata's since gotten more luck than hoshiumi has.
he gains a perfect partner in kageyama who allows him to fly. at the beginning, hinata gets a place on the court above some other senpai simply bc of his value w kageyama. he isn't rly required to do anything else. hoshiumi had to do that everything else first.
hirugami wasn't needed to help hoshiumi fly. hoshiumi learned to do that all on his own. but hirugami gave him something else, a kind of solid ground when he has to come back to earth. like kageyama, hirugami is hoshiumi's someone better: naturally talented, good.
and hoshiumi works up to that until they're equals. he's the visual of what hinata will one day be, but he hasn't necessarily had the same advantages that hinata had to get there. not de-valuing hinata's own struggles at all, but if we can acknowledge & cheer over hinata's growth
then we can acknowledge hoshiumi's. though his own growth has been mostly off the pages, his path is not one that has been easy. & if there's anything hq has taught me, it's that you can't just look at the results. players like hoshiumi don't just get to where they are
& it's such a disservice to think that they have, or that that is all there is to them, when there's so much more.
