Well, in some ways it's not too different from canon, in that you theoretically can ship pretty much any pairing you want (most've the main chars are only about 6 sweeps anyway, there's not too much settled in their quadrants yet). The cursed babies wrigglers thing actually makes more sense, because the kids are obviously still on Alternia, so who else are you going to be able to send to train the kid besides an adult who can technically slip past the prohibition. Tsuna is still flushed for Kyouko (who is moirails with Hana, but shortly starts becoming very ambiguously close to Haru), and has no idea how he feels about Haru or her apparent flush-crush on him. Gokudera is flushed as hell for Tsuna, and black for Yamamoto, and honestly in a little platonic hate for just about everybody in the world, because that's how his issues work. Yamamoto is pretty pale for Tsuna, pretty flushed for Gokudera, and I'm pretty sure is canon-black with Squalo by TYL (...they're, like, the most adorably functional kismeses ever. It's amazing). Tsuna, for his part, is kinda pale for both Yamamoto and Gokudera (...pretty much all shonen heroes are enormous pale-sluts, though, am I right?), but frustrated enough to wind up auspistizing between them. And it pretty much sticks. And that's kind of a plot point, because the beginning of the Inheritance arc is pretty much a morality tale about the dangers of being so desperate for a moirail that you go around trusting any shmuck who drops out of the sky and seems vaguely conciliatory (Karkat argues that this helps redeem an otherwise underwhelming arc. Nobody agrees with him). Tsuna's spade quadrant is somewhat more problematic, since he has a hard time working up a proper hate for anybody who isn't a mass murderer, and then it's pretty platonic. That last part, actually, is the mistake that Byakuran made in the TYL arc, since I'm inclined to think that "Giant misguided expression of blackrom" is a more understandable motivation than "Has a God complex for no reason really". ...This does imply, of course, that technically Tsuna summoned his past self to auspistize for him. >_< He probably gets so frustrated over being seen as ashen by everybody.
...And meanwhile Xanxus is over here going, "I do not care about the Tenth in any way, especially not as a potential kismesis. Not at all. Watch me not caring. Plz pay attention to me, Tsuna."
I actually couldn't figure out for a while what quadrant Xanxus and Squalo were in--matesprites or kismesis or moirails or what--but then I realized that they're both the exact kind of fucked-up that would've been trying (and mostly failing) to be every quadrant to each other just so they don't have to deal with or rely on anybody else. That sorta blew up when Squalo met Yamamoto, of course...I'm guessing Xanxus sulked for a while, and then dealt with just having his right hand in one of the redder quadrants.
I'm also not sure whether Mukuro and Chrome are leaning flushed, are the best moirails ever (because, jegus, if there were ever more literal soulmates that way), or are the worst moirails ever (because, jegus, does Chrome not restrain Mukuro at all). I'm sure the fans have long arguments about it.
As for Hibari... *dies laughing* I think that there's actually a huge split in fandom, with one side decrying him as a giant black slut, and the other arguing that it's just how hard he keeps getting cockblocked in that quadrant making things seem like that--he never really could track down Mukuro for that rematch (in addition to Mukuro not really seeming to be as black back as Hibari was), Dino seems to want him in practically nay other quadrant despite Hibari's best efforts, and even that one recent fight with Xanxus got impromptu-auspistized by everyone in the vicinity just when things were taking a turn for the properly caliginous. ...And, obviously, Kusikabe seems to be tending either pale or flushed with Hibari, but we never see too much about that.
I've been going back and forth a bit on blood colors and the like--in some ways, just going with the characters' element colors (or something in that vicinity) would be thematically nice, and even work really well in some cases--being in the red/rust continuum would explain a lot of Gokudera's issues, and most of them would work okay. On the other hand, Tsuna being from a really prominent orange/brown bloodline doesn't make much sense, Reborn doesn't come off like a yellowblood at all, and while I can see Hibari as a seadweller and the assorted Mists (...man, there are kind of a lot of Mists in the series) as indigobloods, the other way around would make more sense to me. ...Hibari doesn't wear the clowngear, but he makes up for it by being all about the beating-people-to-death-on-a-whim part of things.
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Well, in some ways it's not too different from canon, in that you theoretically can ship pretty much any pairing you want (most've the main chars are only about 6 sweeps anyway, there's not too much settled in their quadrants yet). The cursed
babieswrigglers thing actually makes more sense, because the kids are obviously still on Alternia, so who else are you going to be able to send to train the kid besides an adult who can technically slip past the prohibition. Tsuna is still flushed for Kyouko (who is moirails with Hana, but shortly starts becoming very ambiguously close to Haru), and has no idea how he feels about Haru or her apparent flush-crush on him. Gokudera is flushed as hell for Tsuna, and black for Yamamoto, and honestly in a little platonic hate for just about everybody in the world, because that's how his issues work. Yamamoto is pretty pale for Tsuna, pretty flushed for Gokudera, and I'm pretty sure is canon-black with Squalo by TYL (...they're, like, the most adorably functional kismeses ever. It's amazing). Tsuna, for his part, is kinda pale for both Yamamoto and Gokudera (...pretty much all shonen heroes are enormous pale-sluts, though, am I right?), but frustrated enough to wind up auspistizing between them. And it pretty much sticks. And that's kind of a plot point, because the beginning of the Inheritance arc is pretty much a morality tale about the dangers of being so desperate for a moirail that you go around trusting any shmuck who drops out of the sky and seems vaguely conciliatory (Karkat argues that this helps redeem an otherwise underwhelming arc. Nobody agrees with him). Tsuna's spade quadrant is somewhat more problematic, since he has a hard time working up a proper hate for anybody who isn't a mass murderer, and then it's pretty platonic. That last part, actually, is the mistake that Byakuran made in the TYL arc, since I'm inclined to think that "Giant misguided expression of blackrom" is a more understandable motivation than "Has a God complex for no reason really". ...This does imply, of course, that technically Tsuna summoned his past self to auspistize for him. >_< He probably gets so frustrated over being seen as ashen by everybody....And meanwhile Xanxus is over here going, "I do not care about the Tenth in any way, especially not as a potential kismesis. Not at all. Watch me not caring.
Plz pay attention to me, Tsuna."I actually couldn't figure out for a while what quadrant Xanxus and Squalo were in--matesprites or kismesis or moirails or what--but then I realized that they're both the exact kind of fucked-up that would've been trying (and mostly failing) to be every quadrant to each other just so they don't have to deal with or rely on anybody else. That sorta blew up when Squalo met Yamamoto, of course...I'm guessing Xanxus sulked for a while, and then dealt with just having his right hand in one of the redder quadrants.
I'm also not sure whether Mukuro and Chrome are leaning flushed, are the best moirails ever (because, jegus, if there were ever more literal soulmates that way), or are the worst moirails ever (because, jegus, does Chrome not restrain Mukuro at all). I'm sure the fans have long arguments about it.
As for Hibari... *dies laughing* I think that there's actually a huge split in fandom, with one side decrying him as a giant black slut, and the other arguing that it's just how hard he keeps getting cockblocked in that quadrant making things seem like that--he never really could track down Mukuro for that rematch (in addition to Mukuro not really seeming to be as black back as Hibari was), Dino seems to want him in practically nay other quadrant despite Hibari's best efforts, and even that one recent fight with Xanxus got impromptu-auspistized by everyone in the vicinity just when things were taking a turn for the properly caliginous. ...And, obviously, Kusikabe seems to be tending either pale or flushed with Hibari, but we never see too much about that.
I've been going back and forth a bit on blood colors and the like--in some ways, just going with the characters' element colors (or something in that vicinity) would be thematically nice, and even work really well in some cases--being in the red/rust continuum would explain a lot of Gokudera's issues, and most of them would work okay. On the other hand, Tsuna being from a really prominent orange/brown bloodline doesn't make much sense, Reborn doesn't come off like a yellowblood at all, and while I can see Hibari as a seadweller and the assorted Mists (...man, there are kind of a lot of Mists in the series) as indigobloods, the other way around would make more sense to me. ...Hibari doesn't wear the clowngear, but he makes up for it by being all about the beating-people-to-death-on-a-whim part of things.
And that's about all I have at the moment.