#Doumeki Shizuka

[chawawanya]

Something I drew after watching the anime

[yuudamari]

The usual routine

[tomoyoo]

a drawing of my kids as my favorite sakamichi cover 🫂

[edenaziraphale]

When I first started reading xxxHolic I always wondered why Yuko lived the way she did- drinking constantly, smoking like a chimney, attitude like she’s got nothing to gain or lose from any of this-

And then as the series is approaching it’s end we find out there really is nothing. She’s dead, she should have died so so long ago and this existence that she’s trapped in is the closest to hell most people are ever going to get. She is lonely and probably in pain, and waiting for the day she knows is coming, the one which will right the wrongs that kept her alive in the first place. Yuko is waiting to finally be allowed to die.

She knows there’s important work to be done first. She knows there will be a beautiful but achingly sad little boy, as lonely as herself, who has to be loved into reality, and that she needs to guide him toward the people who will help him survive, lest he disappear the same moment she does.

But the drinking, the smoking, the drama she can’t help but be blasé about- those are numbing. They’re distractions and they help to pass the time. At least she gets to leave, I thought. I can’t imagine what would happen if this were a stuck-in-a-tower kind of curse.

But we didn’t have to imagine, because we see it.

Watanuki takes up the mantle.

Yuko didn’t anticipate loving this boy. Most of that has been burned out of her by now, too tired to hope for anything but rest.

But she didn’t expect his eyes to be quite that big, that sad. And when she meets him and the power inside of her reaches (without her permission, as it has always been prone to doing) for a glimpse of his future, she’s struck by the sensation of emptiness. Of nothing. An apartment whose tenant the landlord can’t remember. A desk with no child inside. Anger. A boy whose dark eyes search halls for something he doesn’t know or understand. A family name which carries a legacy that Yuko remembers. Yuko worked so hard to will life into Watanuki, spent so long teaching him the selfishness and the tragedy of his own sacrificial self loathing. He didn't need to be a martyr, there was nothing he needed to die for. He was a casualty of a war that had nothing to do with him. She tried, over and over and over, to offer him a way out. I think all the time about how she must have felt knowing that Watanuki took on her imprisonment and compounded it, made it that much more intense, made it that much worse. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. I wonder if it hurt.

[storge]

it’s 2022 and douwata still got a hold on me 😭

Kamiki Ryunosuke as Watanuki Kimihiro Matsumura Hokuto as Doumeki Shizuka xxxHOLiC (2022)

[tsubasaclones]

these are from stamps that came with... i think the 2004 tsubasa & holic calendar? don’t quote me on that lol. i was too lazy to scan them so i took pictures of them and put them through camscanner then edited a tiny bit in clip studio

[bugsmr]

happy birthday baby girl

[chronologiical]

a little meetup

[fadedsaturated]

Sometimes I randomly remember that when Watanuki fell out of the window, Doumeki and Himawari both altered their physical selves to save him. Doumeki giving blood and Himawari bearing Watanuki's scars. It makes me CRAZY.

[cossmicx99]

Hellooo lares que no he explorado hasta ahora (?(??

Tengan un fanart de XxxHolic XD

[tayasui-mono]

That one Holic episode where Yūko warns Watanuki against superstitions and he's like, "Yeah, right" and then proceeds to get fucked up. I'd understand it if it were literally any person saying that, but you have been a literal SNACK to weird supernatural creatures since your conception (by virtue of your conception, even), and you still have the chest to say "Superstitions are for losers", even ignoring the fact that Yūko is getting shit faced with a sentient manju ball at your expense each night. This is why Doumeki is always 🤨 in Watanuki's presense.

[2sweetforu]

Happy birthday Kimihiro watanuki!

[tomoyoo]

It comes and goes, and returns again

[ikebanaka]

You ever think about Doumeki and Kohane loving Watanuki so deeply and tragically that they get married and have a kid, even though they're barely friends at the time, just so Watanuki will still have a companion when they grow old and die and he's still waiting for someone who will never return

[caprisalad]

[otakusparkle]

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