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are they lovers? WORSE.

This current arc has me tweaking

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Like to charge reblog to cast

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Amane going “Don’t be too loud… they’ll notice us"

Only for him to go "NENE-ONEESAN!!" when he realises it's her without even thinking.

It’s just so them… no matter the world, no matter the timeline, they’re always drawn back together. Always finding each other. Always choosing each other.

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WE GOT TO SEE THE YUGI TWINS' MOM AGAIN, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO

Her husband can't fight all of us guys trust

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i think we should get to see tsukasa yugi cry. like full on sob. i want to see it

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And for the third episode of ignoring whatever the hell is happening in canon and thinking about my hananene fankids instead:

"Mom, dad, how did you two meet?"

Them:

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I've been thinking about Aoi's monoplegia for a while (wondering how to include that in my Vamp AU fic, but that's unrelated to this post) and re-reading chapters about it made me think about some things

To put it simply: I hope it doesn't get healed (disabled rep is important + that would absolutely kill her character arc on top of just being lazy writing)

To put it less simply: I have absolutely no authority on the matter as an able-bodied person, (any disabled tbhk fan, please feel free to chime in!) but boy do I have a lot to say as a writer. When you put your character through an extremely traumatic experience like becoming disabled (especially at such a young age), it is rarely for no reason. That event is meant to change them not only physically but also mentally, because losing a part of yourself or your bodily autonomy will not be something that you can just shrug off.

Tangent: if you're confused as to why I'm using amputees that remind me of Aoi and her possible arc instead of a character with partial, flaccid monoplegia, that's because she's the only character I could find with such a condition (... can you feel my eye twitching through the screen?) The irony of me being frustrated about the mis/underrepresentation of disabilities in media and not being able to find a character with the same disability as the one I'm talking about is most definitely not lost on me. Anyway, tangent over:

Aoi is a prideful person known for pushing people away; with her disability, she will need a support system now more than ever before, and it would be a waste not to explore that and have her be healed for convenience instead. I get that Akane might feel guilty (even though it is absolutely not his fault) and this reaction is more than understandable coming from someone so young, but it is still very much flawed because disabilities are much more complex than hindrances that need to be fixed no matter what, and the character gets to go back to normal as if it never happened.

I'll avoid spoiling RWBY too much, but Yang Xiao Long (who I already used as an example in this post) has had a similar arc with her then friend, now girlfriend, Blake Belladonna. She blamed herself for Yang getting injured, and her concern turned into trying to get things back to normal and doing things for Yang without her asking,(seen below)

which ultimately just ends up taking away from Yang's agency (however well-intentioned Blake might have been). Yang has had time to adapt to her new normal and make peace with this massive change, and Blake eventually comes to accept this as part of Yang too, as time goes by and not something to fix (hell they even joke about it a few volumes later).

Anyway, I hope Bumblebee is the direction Aoi and Akane end up going on. There is no "going back to normal" (especially not after everything that happened in the far shore) but there will be a new normal everyone, Aoi most of all, will have to adapt to, and that's perfectly fine.

Uuh I'm tired and idk how to end this post so

TL;DR: Making a character disabled only to have them be able-bodied again with no semblance of a character arc is not only ableist as all hell but also makes no sense writing wise, may this never happen to Aoi. Also Bumbleby is great, I love bees

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Ever since this came out, I've been thinking about Amane eating his onigiri like Chihiro in spirited away while bawling his eyes out.

Do you see the vision

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Moments like this that already left me gutted when I first read them suddenly become a few thousand times worse with the voice acting animation and music

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So uh I made something, low quality hanako amiright?

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Teru and Hanako

Fun fact, I don't care for Teru (Not saying I hate/dislike him), this is an attempt on my part to like him a little more, even if it's just a bit.

I'm waiting for one of them to realise that they are two halves of the same coin.

They both have the same objective: protecting the students.

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Teru is an exorcist, his job, his purpose is to eradicate any and all threats to humanity, and he has reasons to believe that includes Hanako. It's been shown that Teru doesn't actually care about the people he swore to protect. He, and he alone, can decide who is worth going above and beyond for, and that depends on two things: if they matter to him (his family + Aoi), or if they're useful to him/don't pose a threat (Akane, Tsuchigomori, Yashiro, etc). The reason he doesn't truly care about the students is because this position has been forced on him since he was a child. He doesn't want to be an exorcist, he wants a normal life amongst the students who are blissfully unaware of the monsters who have indirectly ruined his life. But he doesn't get to choose, or desire things, so he keeps doing his job.

This apathy, this cold, calculating and selfish behavior is a shield. Not only does he not care about the students he's protecting, he needs to not care about the supernaturals he's exorcising. Being like Kou and taking a moment to get to know supernaturals, having compassion for them, all of that would only make his job harder than it already is. He thinks that Kou is weak because he cares; his younger brother is everything he could never be. Kou's goal is also to protect the students, but because he wants to. He interacts with them, makes connections with both the living and the supernaturals, something Teru could never do.

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Now, the job of school mystery number 7 is to be the protector of the school. He is the leader of the school mysteries and makes sure no one is going around murdering students. Much like Teru, Hanako doesn't care about the students. When he was alive, there already was a rift between Amane and the other students. He was an outcast who was being bullied, and only had his twin brother for a friend. As a ghost there is a literal rift between him and the people he is supposed to protect. He is dead, and no one can see him unless they summon him, and even then not a lot of people do that since he is one of the most famous and scariest ghost in Japanese urban legends. Even when he does manage to make a connection with two living people, he still keeps his walls up and tries his hardest not to care about them; especially since he knew Yashiro would die within a year.

Still, he starts caring about both of them despite his own beliefs and stubborn need to keep himself away from everyone. Once again, much like Teru, Hanako only cares about those who matter to him, and will go to great lengths to protect them; in his love for his friends, there is also selfishness because of this. What he doesn't care about is who he has to hurt in the process of saving his friends. He happily sent Aoi to her death knowing Yashiro might end up despising him, but it didn't matter so long as the girl he loves so much got to live a long and happy life. He willingly jeopardized his one chance at redemption by going against the rules he has been given, and his job as school protector; he did that because he ended up caring for someone.

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Teru's visceral hate and disgust towards Hanako is very much personal. It would take a lot for someone like Teru to care so much about a supernatural, yet Hanako's behavior got under his skin. That's because, whether he knows/acknowledges that or not, Hanako reminds Teru of himself. Neither of them care about anyone but themselves and a handful of people they could count on their fingers. Despite caring about those people, they'd be damned before letting anyone get too close and pop their bubble of self loathing and misery they're constantly wallowing in. They both keep everyone at a distance, firmly believing caring makes people weak, and their solution to saving their loved ones somehow always leads to them distancing themselves even further.

Hanako physically struggled to admit he doesn't want Yashiro to die or that he likes her. He is the textbook definition of emotionally constipated, and is forever terrified of being himself near his friends because the last time he "stopped holding back", he killed his brother and himself. However, both Yashiro and Kou saw the dark, ugly, and unstable side of Hanako and decided to stick by him nonetheless.

Teru is shocked by this, because that would mean he also has a chance of having supportive friends if he just opened up, and all the years he spent isolating himself was for nothing. ("that means all the damage I got wasn't good damage, it's just damage. I have gotten nothing out of it, and all those years I was miserable was for nothing. I could've been happy this whole time [...]")

(This post is not hate to any of the characters mentioned, I'm just being blunt)

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Reblogging this to make another point for my case: talking about yourself in the third person is like the most parent thing to do (god he's such a dork)

Allow me to make an addition to the "Nene would make a good mom" headcanon. (For context: The scenes where she took care of 7 year old Amane, gently scolded Kou for bothering Tsuchigomori-Sensei, and played with Tiara are my evidence for this one)

Amane would make a good dad - specifically a good girl dad - . A 15 year old broke into his house (accompanied by her emotional support underclassman but that's not the point), hugged him, tied him up with some kind of wire, fangirled over him, then started crying. His first instinct was to stop worrying about the "15 year old broke into his house" bit and to check if she was alright. Born to be a girl dad, forced to be an eldritch monster

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As if Sumire's life wasn't enough of a tragedy, the villagers she grew up with and had to sacrifice herself for care so little about her they weren't able to tell the difference between her and some stranger that doesn't even look remotely similar to her

I would actually believe you if you told me the villagers all had severe prosopagnosia

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I like mini plot twists (for lack of a better word) like this with the narrative making us think that Hanako is doing too much and being paranoid, only for Nene to end up getting drugged 10 minutes later in the same episode