#one single serious scene between otose and zura would've been so good

[lotus-tower]

otose meeting teenage gintoki in the graveyard and being like... here's a young boy who looks like a ghost and who was chewed up and spat out by the same war that took my husband. the same war that changed jirocho. but look how young he is. what is there even for the war to chew on. maybe that's why he was spat back out. and then after getting to know him better, after he gets his footing back, she's like yeah. nobody and nothing would want to eat something this noxious. but she's terribly fond. and she must've been lonely after her husband died. they were three, and then one died and the other couldn't handle it. if she had ever asked gintoki, maybe she would've found out that he was in a similar position, but she would never ask him, and i don't think to this day she ever found out what happened to him. but in any case she, fortunately or unfortunately, could handle anything. that's a particular texture that she and gintoki share