I had a pretty good idea of how to handle this Ask right away. I figured the most fun answer would be to see Kazuki spending time with both Toi and a new friend, so here we are. I wanted to use someone in the ballpark of the same age as the Sarazanmai boys, and while the Camp Buddy characters are technically older, they look the same age to me. I used Taiga after thinking about how he was talking about wanting to make new friends in one of his older Asks, so I thought it’d be a good fit. Plus, Kazuki’s already acquainted with Keitaro from that game through a previous Ask, too.
So, I know Taiga has his own route in Camp Buddy these days, but I know nothing about it. I only played through the game once, but in my playthrough Taiga’s initial bully persona faded away by the end and he was a happy, positive person who regretted bullying Keitaro and the others. I kind of picture Taiga in the Studio as a young man given a second chance in a new community. While there’s other Camp Buddy people in the Studio, I think he’d set his mind on becoming a better person, and I think that fiery personality mentioned in the question would be tempered, if not quelled completely. So while I think there’s a temptation to pair him up with, say, Bakugou or someone like that, I didn’t really want to go that route. However, I also didn’t have anyone good in mind for him to partner with, which is why he’s with some anons here. Maybe that’s not as interesting for y’all, since I know some folks really don’t care for when we use anon stunt cocks in Asks, but I didn’t want to just pair him up with the same folks Keitaro was with in his first Ask and anyone who came to mind felt like kind of a bad fit. There’s also the matter of quantity, where I felt I needed a handful of partners to go along with his stated goal of getting along with as many people as possible. So this is the solution I came up with.