Me swimming around naked in a remote emerald pool while Elder Predator chills atop a rock like a sunbathing crocodile fixated towards the sweltering jungle. When he finally decides to wade into the water, I swim under to playfully bite his leg, then he proceeds to hoist me out of the water and toss me towards the deeper end.
Seeing these lines out of context made me forget that the 'loose ends' and the 'still solve you' was originally Andrew's suspicion on Neil being an agent from Evermore or something and his desire to find what the fuck he planned to do with Kevin
i’m much too horny whenever i’m kidnapped by johns boyos and he starts talking about sin and all i can do is stare at his cleavage and listen to the sexy vilain drawl of his voice while i’m tied to a chair clearly not supposed to be enjoying my current situation,,,,, *dreamy sigh*
I may just be delirious but I kind of feel like there's something there about some of the most traumatic events in Arakawa's life arguably stemming from/being made worse by being loved too much.
Like, Toshio's death, right. The death of a parent is always always going to be traumatic, particularly when your other parent is abusive, but I feel like being there, being the first to the scene, made it so much worse. Especially when it should've been a good memory.
Non-zero chance I'm just projecting because I was there for my own father's death and I was around Arakawa's age at the time, but it's like... it did have very specific life-long effects, didn't it... the way he keeps coming back to Peking duck and talks about it like he's had it before when he can't even bring himself to eat it unless he's with family (and indeed, never did, up until right before he died)...
And then there's his former patriarch. Of course, he seemed to see Arakawa as more of an object--fully under his control and something to be thrown away at the first sign of autonomy. But I feel like, before then, Arakawa must've been his "favorite," if he was willing to arrange a marriage between his daughter and Arakawa. Which I expect is what made his reaction when Arakawa told him he was (technically) having an affair with Akane and wanted out of the family that extreme in going as far as to send men after Akane and Ichiban.
The last one I can immediately think of is not exactly traumatic for him, though it is traumatic For Me so I'm counting it, but it's of course what we were talking about with Jo hesitating so much at the thought of killing Arakawa that he passed up the chance to save him.
I Dunno I Am Delirious but... there's a pattern somewhere in there... Anyway. Uh. "Happy" Father's Day am I right