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valentines day event i think (source under cut)

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Now that I've had a few days to sit with it, I think this is my favorite moment of Niigo WL2. People seem to forget that the only reason Kanade makes songs to save Mafuyu is because Kanade told Mafuyu she needs to make that song and in turn justify her own hated existence. Main-story Mafuyu was giving pure GTFO about Kanade's attempts to save her until it became about their mutual survival. Somehow fandom twists that into Mafuyu making Kanade save her, but in a world where she sees Kanade's mental health isn't hanging on for any excuse to keep existing, she encourages Kanade to do something else with her time. Which is as fitting as it hurts because Mafuyu has always been about prioritizing others to the point of her own self-erasure.

But even then, even without her savior complex, Kanade still stays steadfast in her desire to make Mafuyu smile because a person who reaches out to others with warmth and genuinely strives to ease their suffering: that's the kind of person she is, with or without the trauma.

I know it's nothing revelatory, but WL2 for the most part seems to be about revisiting those aspects of the characters that fandom willfully butchers and this part, the subtle touch is just really well done, you know? They're good kids, and don't anyone forget it.

(translation from Meltdown on YT)

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Vbs a Christmas Carol, for reasons I can no longer explain

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retkka

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I'm so proud of you

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freedom

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kanamafu week 2025 day 3

The ouroboros of guilt

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project eepy

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lalala whimsy and love

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The family's fighting again.

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kicks rock. so wxs wl2 huh

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I’ve had an epiphany

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Just realised that one of the reasons why Kris might not have felt that comfortable around Ralsei pre-chapter 3 could boil down to the latter’s “smile through your suffering” tendency, and how closely that mirrors how their family also avoids direct confrontation with one another and runs away from their issues.

Because, despite how hard their parents might be trying, Kris is used to having their suffering minimised and feels compelled to hide their true feelings from the people closest to them. Ralsei was, in many ways, a reflection of that dynamic, which made it hard for Kris to let their guard down around him for that very reason.

It’s also kinda telling that Kris starts warming up to him once he begins reclaiming his own personhood and stops acting like a Dreemurr. Lol.

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People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

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this bunnuy needs her friends back

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JUST FOUND OUT RALSEI HAS A UNIQUE RESPONSE IF U CHECK AFTER USING UNLEASH ON THE TITAN??? LOL

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『 even if i become a shadow of my former self, i'm right here 』

( zamza / teniwoha )