i am 100% for having them be cousins! chiyo's au brother is rin from free! and i just cleared it with rin's player, so if you're down, i'm down!

if they were cousins, that would give chiyo more reason for her to be into photography because she'd want to connect with yukine in some way. she'd be very worried about his punk behavior and try to be encouraging for anything that won't land him straight into trouble. she'll try to bob ross him with photography and art and cats.

chiyo visits some newborn kittens and takes pictures of them that she'd be happy to send him, too. kittens are healing