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sidsinning · 2 months

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Random Tohru Honda analysis

Tohru's flaws and the state of her mental health are present from the very first episode

By not asking anyone for help and remaining silent about her troubles, she did something incredibly dangerous by living alone in a tent in the woods until she was literally THIS 🤏 close to dying in a natural disaster. She was lucky Yuki and Shigure found her when she ran out of options.

Even if it was played for laughs in a sort darkly humorous way, this recklessness goes beyond her simply being selfless and kind to everyone she meets. She has little sense of self preservation aside from keeping her mother's memory alive.

She is on the edge of mental collapse from her death

Being selfless and helpful to those around her fulfills that loneliness and emptiness creeping up on her since her mother was taken from her

It IS part of her personality, being naturally compassionate, but it is also a coping mechanism to avoid facing reality (she subtly always talks about her mother in present tense)

BUT THE THING IS SHE ATTRACTS PEOPLE TO HER, GOOD PEOPLE WHO WILL NOTICE HER PAIN AND SUPPORT HER EVEN IF SHE TRIES AVOIDING THEIR HELP, LETTING HER PAIN OUT TO THOSE CLOSEST TO HER (Uotani and Hanajima, then Yuki and Kyo, then to Kyo the most)

She's so busy looking out for everyone she doesn't realize they are also looking back at her!!!

#Anyways trauma go hard in fruba #fruits basket #honda tohru #fruba #sidrabbles

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the-dancing-fairy · 5 years

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So in honor of the Fruits Basket reboot who would you say are your fave Furuba characters and ships (canon) and why? Least fave Furuba characters and canon ships and why?

Hi hi ＼(＾▽＾*) Thank you so much for asking! and ho boy, here we go... Many spoilers abound, y'all have been warned. Also, these are in no particular order.

faves:

Kyo/Tohru: I don’t know how you can’t love these two. The growth they bring out in one another is immense, and seeing both of them go through so much pain throughout the course of the series but find comfort and healing in each other is so impactful. I could talk about their dynamic and love for each other for days.

Momiji: Momiji has a kind of selflessness we don’t really see in any of the other characters of the story. Lot’s of others are motivated by making the lives of their loved ones better, but Momiji I think is willing to give up the most and sacrifice his own happiness the most. He’s also more motivated by familial love, which is a nice contrast to the other characters. Additionally, despite his childish appearance, he offers some of the best wisdom the series has to offer. He’s a very emotionally intelligent and grounded character, and I love that about him.

Kyo: This poor boy has been through so much and I just want to protect him. When I reread the manga recently I was struck by all the cute details we get about child Kyo, (he doesn’t like having similar names to people, he often stands and watch’s Shishou from afar when he has a difficult question to ask) and all those little quirks make him feel like such a real child, which makes the neglect he faces really hit home. Takaya-san did a masterful job with his arch in connecting his trauma from his parents to his experience as the cat to his guilt/anguish over Kyoko. Watching him heal from all that is one of the most fulfilling parts of the series for me every time.

Yuki/Machi: these two are so good together. I love their teasing and how they silently act to ease each other’s anxieties as they come to understand each other more. Machi’s ability to see Yuki’s imperfections and loneliness hits something deep in my heart. They make me happy.

MACHI KURAGI: Listen. Machi has OCD. She has an obsessive and compulsive need to destroy anything too neat or perfect, because the standard of perfection she was held to as a child is oppressive and she can’t stand seeing physical manifestations of it in the world around her. As someone who deals with similar issues, her story always hits home for me.

Haru/Rin: I would die for these two. I would do it. For all I love the rest of the couples here, I think I have to say Haru and Rin are my favorite. These two are both rather hard on the outside, but so soft for each other and I’m weak for that dynamic. I also think they subvert gender expectations in a way I find really compelling. Normally when we see the “I’m distancing myself from you for your own protection because you’re just so good” type behavior, its from a man. Seeing Rin’s desperation to protect Haru inverts that, which I appreciate. But it’s also accomplished without emasculating Haru in anyway, which I also appreciate. I’m not going to put them on this list individually since it’s already really long, but they’re both definitely among my favorite characters in the series.

Kisa: I’m soft for Kisa because she reminds me of me as a kid. Also she’s literally the cutest. I will never get over her following around Tohru while she does chores.

un-favs:

So generally speaking I don’t particularly mind most of the characters and ships in the series. I think part of this is because even characters I don’t like are well developed and important enough to the story that I want them to be there even if I’m not crazy about them... but there are still those I’m not crazy about.

Ren: Ren is super important to the story because she’s one of the main drivers of Akito’s initial turn towards cruelty and manipulation. She’s vital to the story, but she feels pretty shallow, with her biggest trait being obsessive delusion. She feels hollow, and in a story so full of rich and complex characters, that’s a bit of a let down.

Katsuya(/Kyoko): I think Katsuya suffers as a character because we only see him in Kyo’s flashbacks of Kyoko’s stories. Those 2 degrees of removal make him feel very... removed (lol). He comes across as rather selfish, and kind of reminds me a lot of Shigure, but whereas we get to see Shigure’s motivations, we don’t really get Katsuya’s. He feels much more flat than most of the other character’s in the story as a result. His interest in Kyoko when she was so young is also super creepy to me. It feels like he mostly helped her to help himself. Because he’s so icky and flat, he feels replaceable in a way no other character in the story does. Like, it could have been someone else who spurred Kyoko’s growth and became her partner, and he didn’t have to be so much older and icky.

Uo/Kureno: I actually like most of their dynamic, but the age gap is still *cringe*. I also feel like the two of them individually have a lot of development, but we don’t really get much development for them as a couple. Like Uo and Tohru are a big part of Kureno’s ark in terms of him finally realizing he can and in fact should do things for himself rather than just living for Akito, but this is more played out in his interactions with Tohru than with Uo. They really only interact 4 or 5 times before Uo decides to basically run away with him, which just kind of left me like ??? I love them both a lot, and it does ~mostly~ makes sense for them to be together, I just wish their partnership got more development. Also, that age gap cringe is real.

So there we go! I hope you were able to slog through that anonnie, I know it got really long , but Fruba has the most feels （；￣д￣）I hope you enjoy my thoughts none-the-less!

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