#Miri and her papas

[lilyginnyblackv2]

OMG! The Buddy Daddies website has up Daily Journal Entries by Miri. Kids in Japan do these all the time. Basically, they just write about something that happened in their life that week and draw a picture. So let's look at Miri's Journals! 🤗

Week One:

Bold Black Text (Right): きょうのできごと - What Happened Today

Japanese Text: パパとおにごっこをしました。おいしかったです。

English Translation: I played tag with Papa. It was yummy.

*Note: In the Japanese, she never mentions "it," either, just "was yummy," with the subject being implied. But the issue here, of course, is that she never mentions the implied subject of the second sentence, cake, in writing. Just drew a picture of it, lol. So her two sentences are a bit disconnected subject-wise.

Week Two:

Bold Black Text (Right): きょうのできごと - What Happened Today

Japanese Text: パパたちとかくれんぼをしまし。た。たしかったです。

English Translation: I. Played. Hide-and-seek with my papas. It was fan.

*Note: Miri placed an extra, unnecessary, period between し (shi) and た (ta), so I carried that grammar mistake over with "I. Played." She also spelt the word "fun" wrong. She wrote たしかった (tashikatta) instead of たのしかった (tanoshikatta), though, it looks like she may have combined た (ta) and の (no), lol, so I wrote "fan," instead of fun.

Week Three:

Bold Black Text (Right): きょうのできごと - What Happened Today

Japanese Text: みんなでハンバーグをたべました。おいしかったです。

English Translation: We ate hamburg steak together. It was yummy.

*Note: Miri spelt everything right and had correct grammar! 🎉🎉🎉 Since she is only 4 though, she writes everything in either hiragana or katakana. She hasn't learned any kanji yet.

[skullpuke]

buddy daddies finale got me messed up so I speedran this

[tinyshinysylveon]

if any of y’all haven’t already, please follow this twitter user who designs this beautiful found family 🥺

[diznam]

Playing favourites

[silversoulsociety]

Buddy Daddies ✰E5

[grelleswife]

Miri and Rei are all smiles on their excursion together…though a distraught Kazuki appears quite peeved at having to miss out!

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[oldmama]

How it started

VS

How it ended

DAUGHTER DADDIES 💕

She is so cute 🥰 and can we talk about Rei’s improvements in the kitchen area ????

Her MOM 💀

[sinkat-arts]

Sunflowers and heart. 

[olympiansally]

Ok so I think my favorite part of the Papa Rei arc was that he has really bad memories of a father figure, so he refuses to accept that role for Miri, yes - but when Miri redefines the meaning of that type of relationship the word she uses is Papa.

Why is that relevant? Because later the cops ask him is he’s her father first and he says no. What does he tells them instead? He says “I’m her Papa”

Poetic. Fucking. Cinema.

[reikurusu]

"When you're close to them, you don't notice how fast they grow"

November 8th 2018 - Happy 5th Birthday, Miri!

[rainywithachanceofstars]

[primeministerofantarctica]

do you think kazuki and rei ever told miri they used to be hitmen or is she just going to have a VERY interesting family research project

[aleespace]

Miri's first drawing vs the latest one

She's grown up as an artist so much 😭

[angeliciaaaaaaa]

I believe that Rei is dad-coded and Kazuki is mom-coded, not because Kazuki cooks and cleans and Rei rests at home, owns the house, and carries the missions, therefore "doing the work" (although that's part of it, too), but because of the difference in how they value each other and Miri.

I don't know how to explain but there's a quote from a book called "a dangerous silence" that i read several years ago, I don't remember the exact words but I never forgot the message. It was said from a brother to a sister in a conversation about their mother who died young and their complicated father, and went something like: "We [the kids] may have been her [the mom's] world, but she was his [the dad's] world."

Miri is Kazuki's world and Rei's world is Kazuki.

Like Kazuki took to Miri immediately while Rei came around to it after battling with his own childhood issues, issues with his father, his separation from whom he was only able to survive for so long because of Kazuki. The journey to Kazuki's healing began with Miri in the first episode, while Rei's journey to healing began with Kazuki, pre-canon.

Not to say that they don't both love Miri and each other fiercely, it's just a different dynamic with them both much like how it is with a mother and father. Also, initially and throughout the series, what gets Rei to come out of his shell is always Kazuki, even in the moments when it's for Miri. Rei notices when Kazuki feels down and tries, in his own way, to cheer him up. In episode 10 when they were on that last outing, Kazuki spends the entire episode on the verge of tears and Rei spent it worrying for him. It's only on the ferris wheel, when Kazuki makes him acknowledge it, that his lips tremble. I feel like there's also a factor of it being like Rei thinking that Kazuki is the better parent for Miri and therefore by prioritizing Kazuki, he is in fact prioritizing Miri.

And there's a thing where mothers can cope with the death of their spouses on their own while fathers cope by repartnering and that's because they need a life partner. That or they end up like most grumpy widowers we see on tv (obvi 100% accuracy guaranteed). And I have actually seen this in real time in both cases. The mother stays strong for the children, the dad is listless. (Of course not every case is the same, just from my experience and what studies show, but there's also Katniss' mom and whatever this isnt about them)

So, I believe that in the event of a death in the anime (extremely unlikely, but whatevs), Kazuki will be devastated, he will grieve, but he'll survive (not taking into consideration that this is the second time a loved one has died) if only for Miri's sake, he can be strong. And even if Miri didn't exist, he has the capability to carry on because even if he'd blame himself, he's good at ignoring his feelings and compartmentalizing. Rei though does not have that talent. He is self destructive and self depreciative. If Kazuki died, i have a feeling he would blame himself, and always think that he shouldve been the one that died, that Miri deserved the better father. Maybe he'd even punish himself by staying away from Miri, not letting himself be happy, etc. I believe that if Kazuki dies, after securing a home for Miri, Rei will actively try to die. That is until Kyu beats some sense into him but yeah.

Kazuki is mom-coded and Rei is dad-coded.

[diznam]

A family worth dying living for

[tinyshinysylveon]

I CAN’T WITH THIS SHOW, IT’S TOO PRECIOUS FOR MY HEART ( ；∀；)