that final scene in this ep of utsukushii kare. it feels like someone just ripped out my gut, slashed it open and trampled over the bloody remains. i want to sob. I want to out loud, fat tears, shaking my body sob. but all im stuck on is hira’s brokenly confused face, kiyoi on top of him grabbing onto his clothes and crying, an absolute tornado of emotion the likes of which he’s never shown, all to hira, all because of hira, and yet hira sits there and it’s like the storm covers him but he’s inside this impenetrable building and not a single drop of rain hits him. he knows it’s raining, he can hear it battering down on the roof, but it’s just rain. he doesn’t understand the full extent, doesn’t know the wind is ripping down trees and lightening is cracking the sky in two. and because he’s inside, he doesn’t need to know, doesn’t care to know, doesn’t want to know. hira will happily stay inside, in his bubble, in his constructed world, and he will be alone, and he will suffer, but that’s alright bc he’s not out there.
it’s like he’s gotten used to the internalized problems he faces, and they stick with him, almost a comfort to him now, in that he’ll see them when they’re not there. the external things that make him worried and anxious now, they’re less so, but hira still is that high school kid, getting picked on for his stutter, that faded into the background. he’s stuck there, and he’s never grown past it, and there’s almost a security in not growing, not changing, even if the thing you’re stuck as is worry and anxiety and invisibility and self doubt and constant internal doubt and criticism and lack of confidence. at least he’s used to it. at least there isn’t anything new to challenge him. and it shows, bc whenever he is challenged, in the sense that something that doesn’t fit he’s established world and role happens, he puts himself down and apologizes, like it’s a practiced, default reaction. that’s how he got through before, it’s how he learned to get through. but now, in the place he finds himself, in the situation and relationship he’s in, this is not a place for that reaction. the people he’s around, kiyoi, he doesn’t need hira to put himself down. he doesn’t need apologies. he wants understanding. and hira just resolutely refused that, said that he not only doesn’t understand hira, but that he doesn’t want to, and he’s not going to attempt to. and I don’t think he could have said anything more heartbreaking to kiyoi. all he has ever wanted was for someone to see him and understand him and love him for it. hira gives him love, unendingly and uncritically. he’s love is irrespective of anything kiyoi does or says or feels. it’s love of an idea, of a theory, of a concept in a pretty shell. it’s not love of the human inside, it can’t be, bc he just said he doesn’t want to understand that person, and without that there can’t be love. you can’t love something you can’t see or comprehend, that there’s a person kiyoi that isn’t the god kiyoi there is in his universe.
and the thing is, I think hira could’ve understood kiyoi, back when he saw a side of kiyoi that no one else did and still showed him love. I think down the line he could’ve gotten to know that person more and liked him, but the thing is, it’s different bc of kiyoi’s feelings. bc kiyoi’s feelings contradict so much what hira believes about himself that he can’t understand him. it’s easier to not know kiyoi that way and stick to his established universe, rather than understand kiyoi fully, bc in that he has to reevaluate everything, about himself and his place in the world and kiyoi’s place too. that is not an easy task. and it’s not that hira wouldn’t, I don’t think. I think there is a feasible future where hira recognizes that choice he can make and chooses kiyoi, chooses to challenge himself out of love for kiyoi and a want to understand him, and maybe even a want to understand and love himself. but bc he doesn’t recognize that as a choice he can make, he can’t do it. and I think that’s what hira needs to face, which I think is more than kiyoi and his feelings and care for hira can manage to accomplish. hira’s mental dissonance is gonna be a work in progress, it’s just a matter or him realizing it and getting to a point of actually working on it. the only thing is, in the meantime, can kiyoi be patient with hira, and the hurt he makes him feel? should he? bc when hira outright refuses to understand, when it feels that rigid and definite, when there’s no feasible future where he will understand, what’s the point? that’s the heartbreak. that hira is constantly worrying about forever, but he just denied a forever with kiyoi. and the problem is him, just not for the reasons he thinks he is. he needs to realize there is no forever with kiyoi the god, bc gods don’t last forever, they’re ephemeral, they’re fleeting. there can be a forever with kiyoi though, the man, the person, the human being, he just needs to step outside, into the storm, and let it soak him. bc when he gets to stand with kiyoi in the rain, he’ll see it’s worth it.
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Is Chef alive? Like please tell me that man is still out there living his best life.
chef is...Alive.
but i wouldn't say he's living his best life, no.
( sigh...tw for sexual assault, coercion and violence )
so basically, when stan figured out that e.t. tenorman was cartman, which, an anon asked if if stan knows e is cartman...yes, he does.
and all too well.
his music savant boy synesthesia went crazy when cartman started talking the first time they reunited and he couldn't place why this man he'd never met before sounded oddly familliar and why...
his voice sounded like the worst sound in the world.
but he didn't need to wait long for his answer, because right before their first big band meeting ended and all the music/marketing execs, scott, jimmy and kenny left the room, cartman caught stan by his shirt front, yanked him violently towards him and whispered...
"hello, shannon." ;)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK YOU!!!!
so basically cartman is black-mailing ravenstan into being complaint and doing whatever he wants and honestly, more than telling people that raven is stan...e knows that stan doesn't care about himself, he doesn't care about getting hurt/what happens to him...but that the way to hurt him...
is by hurting other people.
specifically the people he cares about.
so when ravenstan tries to back out of the band bc fuck this, who cares if it's his dream, it's not worth this...it's fucking not.
so stan is like "what. do. you. want."
and cartman is like..."what i've always wanted, of course..."
"your compliance, your undying devotion..."
"your body."
AAAAAAAAAAAA I HATE YOU I HAAATE YOU
i want to Scream, oh my GOOOOD!!!!! FUCK YOU
and then he's basically like "here's the deal, sh@n..."
( he misgenders stan a lot by the way...please die )
"either you give me what i want, whatever i want, whenever i want or else everyone around you, all the stupid, silly little people you love...will suffer for your spite and disobedience. is that clear?"
and stan just rolls his eyes like "fuck you, cartman. you're all talk; that's all you've ever been. all bark no bite, you fucking purse perro."
and cartman is like..."oh?" takes his phone out, dials a number & says
"do it."
and about ten minutes later, kenny calls him and is like
"stan??? S-STAN??? ARE YOU THERE???"
"DAD HAS BEEN SHOT."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCKFUCKFUFKC
and stan is crying and screaming like "oh my god, oh my god, fuckfuckfuck!!!!! is-is he okay...ken, is he--is he--"
glaring at cartman, ready to lunge, shocked, horrified...
Disgusted.
and ken replies "no...no he's...he's alive. it was just his shoulder, but, oh my god, stan--holy FUCK. we have--we have to go see him, stan!!"
and stan wants to tell them it's this PINCHE PENDEJO CARTMAN who terrorized him his whole childhood, but cartman just shakes his head and mouthes 'no' then lifts his finger to say 'shh' and then takes that same finger and runs it across his throat as if to say...
'talk and i'll kill him.'
so stan's face crumples bc he's Helpless and he has no choice, so he just chokes back a sob and is like 'no, we can't. we have this record deal. we have to sign the contract tomorrow. it's—it’s important."
and kenny is aghast like "mORE IMPORTANT THAN DAD ALMOST DYING??? STAN!!! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN SAYING, FUCK THAT WE HAVE TO SEE DAD, WE HAVE TO--"
and stan just goes "We’re. Not. Going." and hangs up.
cartman snickers and smirks and stan's face's so mad and sad. he wants to scream like this is so fkn horrible this is his worst nightmare
...then chef calls him.
dad.
the only dad he's ever known.
and cartman just smiles and goes
"tell him you hate him and you never want to see him again."
and stan is shaking his head, he's practically pleading, shouting
"nonoNONONO!!! anything. pl-please don't make me do this, p-ple--"
but cartman simply commands
"or else."
so chef on the phone is like "h-hey, blue. look, i'm okay, i'm okay. don't cry, i know how you are kid. i'm gonna be alright, it's gonna take more than some dumb bullet to put your old man in the ground. the whole thing was so odd...? they think it was...a stray bullet. crossfire. gang stuff. you know how it is out here. but it just 'minded me of how short life can be, how fast things can go. so don't worry. and i know...i know i was cross with you and ken for leaving. i know i said it was a useless dream and you two would come home all heartbroken with your tails between your legs...but you're making a real name for yourself! well, a fake one, i suppose, hah. but i just wanted to say...that i'm real proud of you, kiddo. and i--i miss you.
i love you, stanley."
and stan's just listening, crying wordlessly, clutching his phone so hard that his knuckles go white and all he wants to do is tell his dad he loves him and he's sorry, he's so fucking sorry, this is all his fault, this is all his fucking fault like always, for dreaming to big and being oblivious and a fuck up and getting everyone wrapped up in his mess
but he can't...so in a deadpan with his eyes shut, all he says is
"i hate you."
and chef's like "haha, real funny, stan. but if you're tryna hurt my heart to distract me from my shoulde--"
and stan just interrupts him in the same terse, robotic voice.
choking back sobs and screams, shaking so hard he can't see.
"listen to me. i never...i never want to speak to you again. ken...ken feels the same. don't call me. or them. don't call here ever again. ever. don't try and reach out, don't look for us. things are different now."
and chef is so confused and sad and scared like he literally just got shot and somehow this is worse...this is so much work. so with his heart breaking in his voice, he says...
"is that...is that really want you want, son?"
and stan just goes...
"it's..."
and he can barely say it, holy fuck. but he does and it's
"what i want."
but that's not all.
oh, no, my friends.
because it's time for the big finish.
the stan finale.
ravenstan grits his teeth, tears and blood in his mouth, then says
"and i'm not your son.
you're not...
...you're not my real dad.
never have, never will be.
goodbye."
and clicks off and FUCK. it's not true, it's all a fucking lie. but he needed to say something that hurt so badly that his dad wouldn't call him again...something so excruciating that it would end it all.
and cartman just gives him a round of applause while stan is sneering and seething and sobbing because he just had to do the second worst thing he's ever done in his life and cartman is...
clapping and cheering.
it's sick.
and cartman's like "bravo. that was quite the performance, marsh. you're quite the little actress, aren't you?"
AAAAAAAAAAAA I'M SO MAD!!! DIEDIEDIIIIE
this is all part of a very horrible flashback chapter way in the future and i will say that it ends...with cartman telling him to do something, the awful sound of his belt unbuckling...
and stan's knees hitting the floor.
I'M SICK!!!!! AAAA!!! and it's so horrible because it's his whole life, it's his dad all over again ( yes, i'm disgusted ) and him threatening to punish shelley and sharon if he doesn't comply, it's all the horrible men at ruffians, their horrible, hungry hands and mouths and stares all over him so he could sing on fridays. and now it's being indebted to cartman, being trapped again, forced to do disgusting shit. Again.
one bird cage to the next...who cares if it's golden, right?
but yeah, the boys get signed, everyone is super excited and stan's like yay...yippee...this is so fun. kenny, ofc, thinks that chef just cut ties, decided he doesn't support their dreams and that's that. also the other boys slowly get coerced by cartman in different ways...i will say that kenny is super addicted to coke and cartman is basically using that to control them and keep them disillusioned and devoted.
one last thing is that during marj's party in the cd manwhorsion during my second favorite chapter, cartman is talking to kyle and the blondies haus and is like 'i see you've met my songbird...pretty isn't she? well trained too. sings whenever i ask, isn't that right, raven?'
and idk his hand is like halfway up raven's shirt and raven is just laughing and nodding looking so ready to die, downing his drink.
and once he gets away, raven is bolting for the door and kyle's super concerned like 'hey...are you okay? that guy...i don't like the way that guy was talking to you." super protective crush mode jersey activate.
and stan's just like "don't, kyle. it's fine. i-i'm fine...."
and kyle is like "you don't--you don't look fine, raven...you look..."
and stan, who never raises his voice is like
"I SAID LEAVE. IT. ALONE. JERSEY.”
and storms out.....aaaaaaaaaa fuck we're in hell.
anyways! cheers! mazel! enjoy your horrible, deplorable, hurt no comfort lore that makes me want to literally Krill Myself.
-uncle nina, who is going to murder rm!cartman w/ my bare hands
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I’ve already mentioned some of this but I finally have enough to flesh this out a little. I’ve been working under the theory that Suppalo/the curse/Chadok is the sun, Akk is working directly under the influence of it, Ayan is the moon.
I’ve also talked about power and control in relation to Namo but let’s talk about it now with the curse as well. The legend is that the curse becomes stronger closer to the eclipse, that the eclipse is the time that people need to stay in line more than ever.
During an eclipse, when the moon covers the sun the sun’s influence is reduced. So if control over the students is through the sun, the moon covering it would mean the loss on control.
Of course it’s during the moment of least control is when you would want the fear of unknown consequences to keep people in line when you can’t exert direct control, when your influence and power over them is weakened.
Now look at this post by @25shadesoffebruary about how the eclipse is happening in this moment when Ayan leans into Akk. And it happens over and over this episode. It keeps on happening every time Ayan and Akk get close (before this episode too!)
But now look at Chadok when he confronts Akk in the school at night.
He stands in the light in a way that it basically seems to be emanating from him, completely engulfing Akk in its shadow. He reminds Akk of his responsibilities and adds in a sprinkle of fear in the form of a scholarship - if you don’t do what I expect of you, you lose the scholarship. He’s using fear to maintain his influence.
And it works
Look at the light basically on top of Akk’s head during the judo takedown when Akk is trying to push Ayan away as much as he can. He’s back in prefect mode (shortly before he tries to get Ayan to leave the school, even threatening to bring the curse back)
And here’s the placement of the same light in the same room when they were practicing judo alone a few episodes ago.
Usually when they’re close to each other, Akk pulls Ayan in and covers the light. But right now, the light is looming directly over him.
Akk is under the control of the light (Chadok) trying to resist the pull of the eclipse.
Also, Akk, the morning after he was cornered by Dika, sleeping in the direct sun under the comfort of a blanket covered in stars. Like the night could be a source of comfort against the stress he’s under with the light.
Bonus: Akk being protected from the sun by the starry blanket and the eclipse sweatshirt
And after Ayan spends some time taking care of him when he’s sick? He wakes up tended for, being protected from the sun by the stars and and eclipse right over his chest.
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