“takasugi is always thinking ‘why is gintoki crying’” so real. takasugi seeing gintoki again after 10 years and being utterly unable to engage with the idea of him Doing Okay now because. he always sees him crying. the image of gintoki’s Okayness was shattered for him 10 years ago. he’ll never be able to not see the ugliest pain inside of gintoki. putting a tarp on it and saying it’s okay now doesn’t work. gintoki’s playing house? sure he can do that. but what will it change. takasugi sees him playing carefully with a dollhouse while crying. it does not help make him less insane
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