About Aoi In The Sacrifice Of The Grim Reaper Arc

mentally i'm still here

really, what a frank person

characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough

characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone

Ive always wondered and tried to imagine

What would happen if tsukasa experienced freedom for one moment?

To not be tethered to anyone, to be free to go wherever he wants, to do whatever he wants, to be whatever he wants to be..

Well that is somewhat what he is doing right now,, i doubt tsukasa enjoys the afterlife he is leading right now, he wouldn't be so adamnt and quick to try and dissappear if he was, but i wonder if he experienced total and utter freedom, would he go back? To being amane's yorishiro? To being by amane's side? I doubt it, not when he wants amane to be free and happy himself, not when tsukasa believes that amane hates him but tsukasa is so unpredictable i can never tell

But i mostly wonder if amane would allow tsukasa to have that kind of freedom, and if tsukasa was sent free, to no longer be amane's yorishiro but his own apparition, would amane let him go?

I like to interpret Tsukasa's freedom as a feeling, not exactly as a physical state.

Being trapped in a house, in a boundary, in a cage, is not what makes Tsukasa feel unfree - despite being explicitly linked to this - but Amane's love is what makes it a prison.

Tsukasa is trapped by the feeling of love and compassion he feels for Amane, from the moment he decides to sacrifice himself and be trapped in the house, even when he is trapped in the cage.

Tsukasa was fully convinced that his love was not enough. He was unhappy in the red house because he believed that Amane hated him, so the house became a prison, he could not see Amane again, even though he loved him very much, because Amane did not love him.

The walls were nothing compared to the feeling of being rejected.

The twins living in the same house, but who could not meet due to the invisible barriers. Tsukasa in the supernatural world while Amane was in the world of the living.

Tsukasa could leave the house whenever he wanted, he said so himself, but he also said that he "thought he shouldn't".

Trapped in the feeling of rejection.

When he became the yorishiro, the feeling of rejection increased. Amane raised the knife against him and killed him, not only that, but every reception he had when he met Amane again in the afterlife was surrounded by fear, sadness, melancholy.

Amane's obvious expression of discomfort when he saw Tsukasa again would obviously affect him. Amane didn't want to be around him, didn't want to see him.

So that's why he says "you despise me but you never let me go".

Tsukasa doesn't like feeling rejected, so he tends to leave. He's not the type to accept this kind of behavior, but he's forced to deal with it. Being a yorishiro, how could he run away from Amane?

And the cage, his moment of fragility, when Nene was calling for Amane while Tsukasa was convinced that he wouldn't come. The sadness wasn't just in the fact that he was locked up, he would know how to get out at some point - as he did - but in the fact that he was weak and that no one would save him, least of all Amane.

He convinced himself to some extent that Amane would never do it, and we see the sparkle in his eyes when Amane appeared to save him.

Tsukasa's prison has no walls or ceiling, but it has a name, Amane.

The brother he loved deeply and who trapped him in a cycle of love and rejection that he wanted to avoid.

So, Tsukasa will be free when Amane finally shows him his true feelings, without possession, without demands, loving just for the sake of loving.

Allowing Tsukasa to choose his path after Amane is completely honest.

Amane: "I love you, and I've made mistakes, I've made mistakes all along the way, but I ask for your forgiveness. Do you want to stay by my side…or leave?"

"Please…stay…Tsukasa"

This is Tsukasa's freedom. Amane's honesty.

Two Women Kissing in Nature (b. 1859)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

and what if i said peak bisexuality reference

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Day 2: Wish

The fee for your wish is one hefty bill, are you willing to exchange your soul to pay the price?

@pewpewfishh good morning haha wow earlier then yesterday amiright (this one is earlier than twt so it counts as smth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i kept my promise yayayayyya dont burn me alive 💔💔 rn would be 2 hrs before i actually wake up ong💔💔)

I loveddd the voices in the sand this chapter. I love how comforting they are as they send nene to worse and worse worlds. the more terror she goes through, the more they soothe her, becoming her only source of comfort.

and it contrasts so beautifully to this last panel of akane, who does not look like he has a reassurance coming. the audience may be initially comforted by him finding nene (and what a great contrast there too, that the sand lures her in and knows she’ll come back, whereas akane has been actively working to find her), but it does not look like his finding her is necessarily a solution.

I think this is a really satisfying and interesting continuation of this arc’s theme of the value of autonomy even if it’s not the ideal situation—the value of your life having troubles that mean something to you. very excited to see what akane’s been up to next chapter!

i love hananene because of the devotion but i also love hananene because it's two losers falling in love with each other which is heavily underrepresented in media i think

and life goes on .