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Yumeko is so well written, given that despite being the Protagonist, we never truly see what she's thinking and it's such an interesting case cuz that's just about it, she's Yumeko and that's all there is to it, there's no clear explanation of that all

hii omg ty for the ask. i'm barely here so i'm sorry for being so slow to answer. but yes!! my hot take is that kkg has perfectly solid writing underneath all the. weirdness. so many of the characters are genuinely fascinating, and especially yumeko.

in most narratives yumeko would be considered a stagnant or underwritten character because she hasn't outwardly changed very much over the course of the series (i refute this idea in a post somewhere but i digress) but personally i think homura is doing a really good job dripfeeding her to us (imo the pacing of the story is fine, it's the monthly release that makes it feel so prolonged, which might exacerbate this feeling in people who have it). the lack of understanding we're given up front about her i think is in service to her ,, mysteriousness?

kkg's structure is a little different from other manga because yumeko is the linchpin of everything but we experience her exclusively from the perspective of the rest of the cast. we usually don't see yumeko in isolation and her thoughts are rarely if ever narrated the same way other characters' are. this tells me that yumeko is clearly meant to be an enigma even to the audience, which might be jarring to people who are used to the main character and the reader-proxy being the same and thus being allowed into that character's head. it's definitely on purpose, and yumeko's eccentricity would indubitably lose its 'umph' if we had too much context for it.

it's this deliberate direction that makes yumeko well written despite having so much obfuscated, creating that "she's yumeko and that's all there is to it" impression :] or at least that's my two cents

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its been a while since we've seen a yumeko expression like this humhuh HMM

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𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈 𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐃𝐎𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑 & 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐗 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐘 𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐓

hi this is a private, semi-selective roleplay blog for 𝐜𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 from aisno's path to nowhere, as portrayed by vivi ! thirty+. (x) (x)

i take my bones inscribed by those who came before, and learn to court myself under a violence of stars. i prefer to become demon, what their eyes cannot. half of me is beautiful, half of me is a promise filled with the quietest places.

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i love yumeko so dearly that's my daughter but i need you guys to understand that she's hard to write because she's smarter than me

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𝐒𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐘𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐈 𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐎.

she's known him, obviously. she's played the role of his well-heeled girlfriend, given the curious privilege of witnessing his apotheosis from the best seat in the house. but the yagami she knew would never adopt a tone that bordered on earnest,would never apologize. something in him, something fundamental to his godhood, has changed; a paradigm shift. a cog in kira's machine has stopped turning, and so kira is not the one speaking to her.

yumeko simply studies him for a moment. she can't help it, because he looks different: eyes a little brighter, a little wider, shoulders not so burdened with the weight of a world he'd so meticulously spun up for himself. a self-made atlas suddenly relieved of his duties.

the ship of theseus: a thought experiment that challenges the integrity of identity; the question of how many changes, how many corrections, it takes before something ceases to be what it once was. perhaps, in this moment, she's looking at a raito as he might have been had he not hollowed himself out.

did your gambit fail, raito-san ?

❝ a little abrupt, yes. ❞ she plays along. if yagami has truly lost his wager, she won't move to salvage it without proper prompting. she wonders if this is the end of the show. ❝ but these things happen ! ❞ ( what happened, exactly ? the layman is obvious, and yet ... ) ❝ don't even worry about it, raito-san. ❞

she takes one of his hands in both of hers, fingers teasing the reminder of his handcuffs with an unmistakable deliberateness. the metal of that ring around her thumb is cool against the back of his palm.

❝ of course we can talk. ❞ her usual buoyancy and excitably is replaced with a controlled composure. ❝ i'll answer any questions you have to the best of my ability. ❞

❝ i'm sure my absence seemed pretty abrupt. it's what everyone on campus is talking about right now. me being back, where i was. everyone keeps asking ... but ... actually, though? i wanted to talk to you ... ❞

for some reason. even yagami can't put his finger on it, but one of the first things he did when he got his phone back (and out of sight from prying panda eyes) was text the raven-haired girl from school.

❝ i just wanted to say ... i'm sorry for leaving you hanging like that. that wasn't my intention. ❞ that feels lame, wrong even.

because, in truth, he feels like he owes her an explanation for something. something he just cannot quite grasp. it's on the cusp of his tongue, like he's ready to say it, but the words are unable to form, and thus all he can muster is an apology that even sounds a bit dull coming from him. he doesn't even really know what he's apologizing for.

HERE IS THE REALITY: the investigation is at a standstill. nothing is progressing. they can't find kira. studying the yotsuba group has provided enough context to keep the case alive ... but little beyond that. after the task force's probing, yotsuba clammed up and sold most of their assets outright, muddying their stocks and investments along the way, and then the company dispersed itself entirely before L could even try to pull the plug.

finding them all as individuals has been tough, and L was certain up until this point of three things in absolute:

kira is operating within yotsuba ... and that yagami raito was kira at one point in time, likely the original, and presumably gave up his powers to someone else. this power was somehow also given to amane misa, but was taken away, leaving her in much the same position as yagami. it sounds plausible, right?? it sounds too plausible. even with how damning it felt to be put on the spot, yagami had to admit ... he wondered. am i kira? is ryuzaki (is L) right?

still, there's no proof. without his memories, yagami is admittedly only as good as he is normally.

which is pretty outstanding, he would argue, as he's been pretty invaluable, if not a bit argumentative, up until this point. and agreeable, he would further insist. extremely so, given the circumstances i was put in.

his wrist is healing from the chaffing of the cuffs, but a thin red line remains for now. yagami rubs at it absentmindedly, sighing to himself before looking back up to her.

her. jabami yumeko. he knows her, even remembers her, but it's all so ... limited. limited in its scope of what they truly are. he remembers conversations of idle passing — exchanges about their families, dinner invitations, walking the campus together.

but that's where it ends. at least, he thinks it does.

ask him about the ship of theseus and his answer might be different now.

❝ this sounds crazy, but i feel like ... i missed a lot, right? while i was away. but, like, it's more than that, you know? i was hoping maybe you could fill me in? that we could go out together? ❞

i know we used to. i wish i could remember what we talked about. i wish i could remember why i need to see you. all i know is ... i just do. — @snakedevour

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WHEN THEY ASK ABOUT THE STORY ABOUT MY LIFE TELL 'EM, "GO FIGURE, GO FIGURE!" I GREW UP TO BE THE GRAVEDIGGER, ( MY OWN GRAVEDIGGER... )

independent the chief from path to nowhere. adopted by mak / kai.

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This is a super long shot but my mutuals are scattered —

ATTENTION: My mother has been missing since Sunday. I was just informed today (I am in Oregon and she is in KY with her sister).

Please share — my mother has been missing since Sunday. She is vulnerable, LGBTQ+, and a veteran. She is in the Benton, KY area, and was last seen there. She could even potentially be trying to go to Michigan “back home” or come to me in Oregon.

She might be disoriented or in an altered state of reality upon approaching, potentially even believing herself to be other people.

IF YOU SEE HER, CALL THE POLICE AND CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY!!

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you may think yumeko's off the walls but need i remind you that sumeragi collects entire fingernails (+ bit off her own) and midari stabbed out her eye with a pen ... at least yumeko's just having fun because whaddahell is going on at hyakkaou

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i'm sure there are more original urls for yumeko than 'snakedevour' but this is like. my brand and i think it encompasses her well despite just being her name

fun fact yumeko's original url was 'devilswager' but i kept reading it as devil swagger. so it had to change.

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personality aside, yumeko being a completely normal human who can produce and exude the presence of the consuming maw of a hungry snake is So Important To Me. she looks like she's about to unhinge her jaw and eat tsubomi whole

"devouring snake" fr fr

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❝ 𝐖𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 ! the ante is the essence of gambling, after all ♥ ❞   or more aptly, the thrill lies in the rush of risk. but at the mention of playing to the death, yumeko's entusiasm wanes. it's a shift not into anger, or even disappointment, but to boredom. someone had propositioned such a gamble to her before, one in which they'd 'bet their lives'. she gives him the same answer she did back then, her tone apologetic yet delivered as dully as drying paint.

❝ ah ... if life and death is the best you can come up with, i'll have to say no after all. ❞ it's too easy. a broad brushstroke that colors too much in a dull, dull hue. ❝ is there nothing you value more than that ? ❞

❝ gamble? i used to bet on the ponies, ❞ he lies. ❝ hm, does that count? either way, an insidious grin follows, eyes appealing to her cherry gaze (they are equals here!). red seeks red! ❝ — i'm interested. so! let's play! [ ... ] what are we playing?? oh! and what are we playing for? what are the stakes? because if we're going to play together, let's play ... to the death. ❞ — @snakedevour

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love remembering that yumeko has an eidetic memory that she showed off in exactly one game then it just never became a point again

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yumeko's eyes are soooo important to me ok. you dont understand,

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yumeko is kinda like if being sideways and empty were a girl 🤔

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AYYYYYYYYYYY

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girl you are doomed for life. when i was 10 someone said that

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'𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃' ⸺ yes, that's her role to play in this parody of a relationship , if she had to give it a name. yumeko is fairly certain that these sorts of connections are often built upon mutual affection. whatever she shares with yagami raito, however, is constructed from mutual boredom. the lines are blurry.

❝ nothing as fun as becoming a god. ❞ a daring quip she ought to consider herself privileged to be allowed, ❝ i was thinking about visiting my sister. have i ever told you about her, raito-san ? ❞

the unnecessary formalities linger.

❝ she's an inpatient at a university hospital. she has been since i was quite young. ❞

❝ there's no need for formalities, yumeko, ❞ yagami replies easily. ❝ and — what? a guy can't help out his girlfriend? ❞ a snort, turning the book page he's returned to 'reading'.

ah, is that what she is? it's the simplest term, albeit not exactly fitting. no, not fitting at all. it's a term that makes his sister swoon and his mother look at him with some mix of proper mortification and happiness. his mother has perfected cherry grimace; so has he. like mother, like son. no, that's not right, either.

he turns the page before the book is shut and set down between them. overall, it's a nothing text with long sentences, pervasive facts, and trite detail. it's boring. he's bored.

❝ what are you doing for the rest of the day? ❞