nanami wants to protect touga from girls who only want him for status and attention, but that protective streak combined with her naïvety about his actual trauma and situation with their father and akio leads him to resent her for even trying. likewise, touga wants to protect nanami from the abuse and trauma he suffered, but his protective streak combined with his warped perspective of how things should be leads her to be suffocated and hurt by how he controls and manipulates her. they both love and hurt each other so, so much, and its easy to see how a relationship like theirs could become warped and damaged enough that only the hurt and the memory of love remains, becoming a relationship like anthy and akio, who no longer truly love each other but are trapped in the habit of protecting one another, even though that protection itself is what is slowly killing their relationship. the key to escaping this cycle for the kiryuus is communication and clarity; they are still at a point where they deeply love each other despite the tension, and if they understood one another better they would have a chance at fixing their relationship. for anthy and akio, the actual love is long gone; separation is the only remaining option for either of them to heal
AU where the Cowstian Dior bell just had a speaker inside of it with these on loop
[ID: A screenshot of YouTube showing three videos. The first is “Cow Hypnosis” by Silver Hypnosis and the thumbnail is a spiral with text saying “Cow Hypnosis” over it. The second is “Cow Transformation Hypnosis” by The Transformation Parlor and the thumbnail is a gold spiral with a cow photoshopped over it. The third is “Hypnotize yourself to be a cow” by Matt Da Cat and the thumbnail is a spiral. End description]
I submitted a request for an ask game hosted by @streetlight-halo . But then I realized I wanted to do my own version too, so have song #38 on my Revolutionary Girl Utena playlist with Nanami. The song is “I Bet on Losing Dogs” by Mitski, but I think everyone knows that already lol
What if we both had unhealthy, toxic fixations with our shitty brothers because they were the only source of comfort we had growing up in a cold, uncaring home, but now they only want to use us as means to an end? What if we both yearned for the comfort and simplicity of our childhoods, but were looking through rose tinted glasses at a perfect past that never existed, and now only serves to burden us? What if we were both trying desperately to grab onto any semblance of power, by any means necessary, in a system rigged against us from the start? What if it wasn't enough. What if the only way to escape was to walk away from everything we've ever known? What if we chose something better? What if we chose freedom?
You can love a character & still admit when they’re wrong. I love Nanami but can acknowledge her flaws (she has none) & can hold her accountable for her wrongdoings (she's never done anything wrong in her life) & call her out for her actions (which are always correct)