#i don’t have any friends who’ve read 2ha so i don’t have anyone to share my thoughts with lmao

[gayhokage]

talking to myself etc etc etc but the thing i love most about the umbrella motif in 2ha is that it’s such a simple thing that i didn’t even realize it was a motif until almost the end of book 1

like the act of holding and umbrella for someone so they don’t get wet from the rain is such a simple act and yet that’s what’s used again and again to be the silent statement of a character saying “i will protect you”

chu wanning holding an umbrella for mo ran while mo ran moved worms back into the dirt (“i will help you be good”)

mei hanxue holding an umbrella for xue meng while he cried in the snow (“i’m here for you”)

madam wang holding an umbrella while xue zhengyong carried that injured woman (“i will help you do what’s right”)

ye wangxi holding an umbrella for mo ran (“i will stand with you even while the entire world is against you”)

and even other times where there isn’t really such a silent meaning behind it other than ‘i care for you and will help you’

mo ran holding an umbrella while he walked chu wanning back to the red lotus pavilion after the new years dinner bc chu wanning doesn’t like the cold / snow

chu wanning holding an umbrella for shi mei before shi mei was even his disciple

chu wanning putting a barrier over the entire bridge so nobody would have to get wet from the rain

or even in book 2 (iirc??) when mo ran was holding an umbrella for chu wanning and said he’d always carry and hold an umbrella for chu wanning which was Literally mo ran saying he’d always be with & protect chu wanning

eventually if / when i reread 2ha i’ll put more focus on this to be able to analyze it more + better bc once i did realize that it meant something i was constantly searching for it throughout the texts. . anyways 😛