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tamaotomoe · 1 year

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observations on yuyuko tanaka and her penchant for playing dudes who die or are on the cusp of death constantly, whether by her own hand or just some silly little fate, and also how it's contrast to rui almost always being blessed with life (that's also given to her by yuyuko's hand or some silly little fate).

or: yuyuko "doomed by the narrative (that she wrote herself)" tanaka + rui "blessed by the narrative (that yuyuko writes for her)" akikaze.

so as said, a while back i noticed that yuyuko's roles are almost all like. guys who brush with death/just outright die die. i went down the roles she has in just her cards and listed them all down on my priv twitter and it looked like:

so a good like. 2/10 roles that don't end badly.

i ended up rereading like. basically almost every rmk story out there, from the earliest ones available and uhm. so.

(purple clouds of the afterworld chapter 5)

(tales of onikurenai chapter 2)

(shibahama final chapter)

all of these are from events pre-downfall (not sure about shibahama but i def know the other ones are). yuyuko's always been fond of tragedies.

obviously this manifests in a lot of her scripts (ghost patrol story rerun, shinsengumi rinpuden, her influence on arcana arcadia's script, and most importantly, rinmeiki), but what i think is interesting is that she saves a lot of the worst fates for herself.

in ghost patrol, whilst fumi and ichie's characters have some tragic interpersonal drama/trauma, it sorts itself out by the end. but yuyuko's character's entire existence attracts danger, death at every turn.

shinsengumi rinpuden has her portray okita soji. fumi describes the story to yuyuko as such:

(okita soji yuyuko bond story 1)

the romanticization of destruction. that feeling of knowing that you died a glorious and honourable death. and what role does yuyuko give herself? what does she do with herself?

die in the antithesis of it. if read as fumi described, the most pathetic death she could have.

i'd go into rinmeiki but that's a beast all on its own, and is mostly rooted in the characters themselves, and not character exploration through them acting as something else. there isnt even much of a script of it ingame, in the sense of the rest of the other examples, so i'll move onto arcana arcadia.

whether a quirk of the fact she was picked as the magician and it was planned from the beginning, or the fact that she is part of the scriptwriting team and therefore has some measure of control on her character, the magician has one of the worst fates in aa, quite literally selling her soul to the devil and damning herself to hell forever, all done by her own hand. she willingly damned herself.

interestingly in these same stories, the things she gives to rui's roles, is life.

kiichi miroku in ghost patrol is still quite equal to abe no suiren, but it's not her that's constantly attracting ghosts.

hajime saito was one of the two survivors of shinsengumi rinpuden. while he didn't have a role to play alive unlike fumi's nagakura shinpachi, hajime saito was still left alive, and given to rui.

now, the hanged man. which at this fucking point is hilariously on the nose, as the magician damns herself to ensure that the hanged man lives and changes the world, a human saving humans and not humans relying on god to save them. she gives up her hopes, her life AND her afterlife for him. the caveat being, if he decides to accept her offer of "becoming the main character". which he does. and while the path he chose by taking up the magician's offer still leads him to hell, he still leaves with his life and a goal to chase, a world to change. it is the magician that pushes the hanged man forward into making something of himself, of the world he lives in, and she herself is only one little spark to light the fire.

indeed, yuyuko is constantly reliving the transience of the stage that she is so fond of. but she does not extend this transience to rui. yuyuko is happy to die over and over again, but rui. rui must live. well, of course she must, yuyuko loves her.

like the hanged man and the magician, yuyuko would give up her life for someone so dear to her.

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so anyways remember when ichie said this in arcana arcadia?

there's a difference in the cyclical deaths that yuyuko and fumi are portraying though, in that fumi dies over and over again to try and regain the past, whilst yuyuko plants her feet firmly in the present and dies over and over again for someone else's future.

she moves forward only when rui does, and in magician stories she does even tell nana that she'll decide to be rui's producer so she can make her into the best stage girl that akikaze rui can be. but what about her? she seems to understand that stage girls must keep moving on, keep moving forward towards the future with unparalleled hunger, but as of right now it appears that she has put herself in an odd stasis. she moves when rui does, she dies when rui does. it's an existence as a stage girl that cannot entirely continue.

this dependence can keep one going for a while, but it cannot last forever. could yuyuko move forward without rui walking the path beside her? could rui move forward without yuyuko's silent support? if the ties between them are severed, would they bleed out and die?

well, only time will tell. i patiently await what story is to be told in their futures.

though i will say, to be separated like this isn't entirely a tragedy. what they've gained from each other will follow them for the rest of their lives. even apart, everyone is still together.

tl:dr: hey little dude. why do you keep dooming yourself in narratives that you have control over. and why do you keep giving the big guy you love narratives that favor his life.

#revue starlight #starira #rui akikaze #yuyuko tanaka #yuyurui #ruiyukko #Emile begins casting Coherence.#i wanted to say more abt how yuyuko loves to melt into the background and basically be an invisible storyteller #and also how she's uhm. very much nana's protege. in a potentially bad way depending on how this goes in the future #but it's already getting so long and it's already getting so late so you're having this for now.

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pingucantswim · 1 year

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bittersweet expectations are about to start

#revue starlight #yuyuko tanaka #rui akikaze #ruiyukko #can’t stop thinking about heart forecast #girl help

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priscirat · 2 years

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Those of "us" who have had our hearts stolen by the Stage Girl Rui Akikaze... How pathetic.

#revue starlight #rui akikaze #yuyuko tanaka #ruiyukko #tw eyestrain #just in case #had this one around for a while. i dont really know what to do of it so you get it like that.#doodles

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courierl · 2 years

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trips and these fall out of my pocket whoops

#revue starlight #fumi yumeoji #otonashi ichie #tanaka yuyuko #rui akikaze #ruiyukko

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mono-blogs-art · 1 year

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ruiyukko

do you agree

i could not agree more

#asks #answered #revue starlight #ruiyukko #love them. my fav rinmeikan pairing #anonymous.

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kmkzgirls · 2 years

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looking at my lastfm neighbors like i would never want to be in a room with any of these people

#if any of u have lastfm tho add me im ruiyukko 🫶

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junnananas · 2 years

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hi! 2 and/or 11 for the asks

2. what is your favorite quote from any part of revue starlight (anime, game, stageplays, movie, 4koma, credit card, etc.)?

I think... if have to say my favorite quote isn't really a quote, per se, but the entirety of Superstar Spectacle and it made me break down crying while eating my sandwich the other day because it's so. It's so!!! I feel very normal about the song and it evokes normal emotions from the me.

11. what character or scene would you want to see animated?

I'd definitely want to see the ruiyukko revue animated. I haven't read through it in so long, but I love the voice acting so much and I feel like the heightened emotions in the scene would do even better animated. Plus, I'd also like to see what that revue stage would look like.

#asks #nico.txt

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fuwa · 2 years

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3, 5, 12? :)

3. what is your favorite friendship / character dynamic from the franchise?

the first thing that came to mind was ruiyukko. just.... BONK you know? but also yachimei but also akimichifumi but that's less for friendship and more dynamic

5. what is your favorite revue song?

show - re:create my beloved <3

movie - super star spectacle (/msp/pck)

game - act 1 song I miss you

starry diamond - ZEUS NO CHUUSAI YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

plays - playlist. also both of the yatsuki songs that are sadly unreleased

12. what character(s) do you wish you knew more about/had a better read on?

frontier... especially tsukasa and misora, part of this is me wishing they had more content and part of this is me not having read over their content enough

#ask #sure i'll tag that

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yuyurui · 6 days

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ugh i know i am sir ruiyukko on this damned planet but i really liked shiorui back in the day too 😭 but i used to live and breathe tonotsumu so

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doemii · 3 years

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yuyurui on my mind

#revue starlight #starira #ruiyukko #yuyurui #akikaze rui #tanaka yuyuko #i love them sm #emiart #rinmeikan #revue starlight: re live

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tamaotomoe · 1 year

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an observation/character study of pisces tamao's story and developments from arcana arcadia -> star celebrate, along with my interpretations. note that a decent amount of these is just taken from some loose threads i made on twitter a while back, this is just the expanded version of it.

or: bro who knows and fell into utter despair and embraced wanton destruction and the power it gave her now chooses to embrace her innate love and compassion in spite of what she once did 💀💀💀💀💀

revue of salvation and rebirth, or tamarui revue at the end of aa act 5 concludes with rui having to basically beat into tamao that the death she's emulating, a being something like maya, or akira, is not who she is. the tamao tomoe that gave rinmeikan, and all of them, life, is someone who is sweet, kind and compassionate. tamao is scared to go back to that again, something that she deemed weak, but she chose that path in the end.

tamao became a villainous death out of desperation. she’s done so much. but she still has the choice to embrace her kindness. she will always have the choice. in spite of the death she once was, she can move on and grow past it through the kindness she chose.

and i think, in her star celebrate story (pisces) is when we first see how she wields this kindness and compassion.

the tl:dr of it is that tamao's stuck on how to perform her role and asks mahiru for help. star celebrate is a play without a script and it's up to the actors to interpret their roles. the story of pisces is about the goddess aphrodite who was holding a banquet at the banks of the nile, when the monster typhon suddenly appears and attacks. fearing being separated from her child, eros, she ties a string between them and disguises themselves as fish, and this is how pisces came to be. tamao has already come up with something, but...

it feels too simple for her. after a while nighttime falls and mahiru and tamao try to find pisces. and then, mahiru speaks up.

mahiru asks tamao to look within herself. introspection of the self, i suppose. and at the end, here is what tamao's interpretation becomes.

a mother who loves her child, binds herself to him, but understands that one day, the string that ties them together must be cut, and the child must make a journey all on his own. but as per her mother's love, she hopes that it is not her, but her child that severs it. if it is the child that severs, then she knows not to worry, as it shows that her child has the strength and courage to face the future head on.

what i believe this is, interpret this as, is tamao's feelings between her, and ruiyukko.

it was often brought up in previous stories how much tamao fussed and worried over everyone in rinmeikan, but rui and yuyuko especially, because they're her juniors, and the ones who will inherit the rmk performance department.

tamao and ruiyukko are very much tied up in their roles as "senior" and "junior", "lord" and "follower". so even if it was not tamao's intention, it's those ties that would have them still follow her as death, willingly (rui) or unwillingly (yuyuko). perhaps she realized this. perhaps she too has come to the conclusion that they must move on from this, set off on a journey on their own, a philosophy similar to the movie.

it's obvious she cares for them, a lot. but if she is to see them flourish as stage girls, make a journey of their own, she has to cut what ties them together. but it is her innate compassion that dictates and hopes, that it will not be her that cuts these ties, it has to be rui and yuyuko that cuts them. to sever it herself would be cruelty. but she cannot care for them forever, as an unchanging stasis will lead to their deaths as stage girls. they will not grow. so wielding her compassion and love, she gives them the choice.

if rui and yuyuko choose to sever, then tamao need not worry or fuss over them as she did in the past. if they show her the courage and strength needed to make that choice, then she knows that they will be fine for what lies ahead.

tl:dr : look at my son boy. he who knew the power of death and despair once but grew to choose and believe in her compassion and love as her power. Look At How My Son Has Grown, Boy.