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Love was something she did not believe in. One hides one’s feelings for a man, but eventually they come out as clearly as the random patterns on a cloth. And then, there are the barriers that keep the two apart. One suffers waiting for a man who does not come. It is not a pleasant thing, love.

Higuchi Ichiyō, “Encounters on a Dark Night” from In the Shade of Spring Leaves

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everyone let's get mad about this inconsequential thing

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*insert Cure (sua & mizi.ver)* 🥹🥹🥹

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hm yes i like this character. now shoot him 5 times in a parking lot.

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Fangs in your neck friday

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ambessa and caitlyn for all of act 2

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i try not to mentally assign f/f ships to generic sapphic songs because it feels like i’m being uncreative But. montcott really is bags by clairo and there’s nothing i can do about that

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playing hard to want

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thinking about how fucking funny it must have been when ekko brought jinx back to the firelights base."heyyyyy guys... so... she'll be joining us if that's cool☺️" all the firelights gathered at the base of the tree painted with portraits of people she's killed: 😃😃😃

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also found the very first aku i ever drew from memory back when i was just getting into bsd adjdks there's nothing behind those eyes

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grizzled mercenaries are always being like "I'm sick and tired of being a pawn in someone elses game" like their job isn't literally rent-a-pawn

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I want to be an evil wizard. but I keep choosing kindness

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TELEVISION. Show me BEAUTIFUL WOMEN being VIOLENT

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SHAKES YOU!!! YES!! i also thought of montcott as mizisua and sskk as ivantill, my only problem at the time was that i couldn’t figure out who hyuluka would be … fyodor as luka (before we found out the nature of hyuluka’s relationship) made sense but over time it just got difficult. i haven’t read gaiden yet but i trust you as the bsd gaiden mutual. youre so right about everything 🙏🙏

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omg great minds think alike!! and yeah it isn’t perfect 😭 i was trying to fit different characters in like puzzle pieces and would eventually get stuck no matter what. but i’m glad i have your seal of approval 🫡🫡🫡

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Higuchi’s Unrevealed Ability

my theory on what it could be…

i think that Higuchi’s ability will be called “Takekurabe” (Growing Up/Child’s Play) after her most famous work, and i believe it might have something to do with reincarnation. here’s why…

in this official art she is featured with red spider lilies, which are symbolic of death, but are also thought of as a bridge between heaven & earth…a reminder of the “cyclical nature of life & death”

Takekurabe also explores themes such as how life is fleeting. & also abt being forced into a role that you didn’t want, or wouldn’t have chosen for yourself

(plus potential foreshadowing: in this official art, Higuchi is surrounded by pinwheels— which symbolize childhood, but also the cycle of life, & the buddhist teaching of reincarnation)

back to reincarnation…

after being told that Akutagawa may never wake up, she reached out to him & a glow appeared around her hand— like she was activating an ability— before pulling away bc she remembered that he didn’t want her (or anyone’s) help

but this means that she’s able to give help in this sort of situation

additionally, the fact that she almost always appears in official arts w Akutagawa indicates that she will probably use her ability on him at some point, which makes sense considering his terminal condition

(note the pulse in the background, his bright eyes, & her white suit)

because we have yet to see her use her ability, i’m assuming that she can only use it once, so she’d be giving up her life for Akutagawa’s (a life for a life— his reincarnation)

this would imitate irl Higuchi’s unfortunately short life— with her having died at only 25 years old. it also makes sense to give her such a powerful ability since irl Higuchi is such an important figure in japanese history— japan’s first professional woman writer of modern literature

now for a less likely, but fun theory…

i wonder if Higuchi’s sister has anything to do with her ability (in bsd she’s unnamed, but her irl sister’s name was Kuniko so that’s what we’ll call her)

according to Higuchi’s bungo episode, despite her literary genius, irl Higuchi was practically useless without her sister

Kuniko was the one who made what Higuchi did possible & kept things functional behind the scenes

so i think it’d be super interesting (& a cool irl reference) if Kuniko was involved in some way with Higuchi’s ability (i also just want to see more of her bc this sister duo is so cute :’))

bonus: when i watched this anime adaptation of Takekurabe, this was the ending scene & i wonder if it was harukawa’s inspiration for this official art 🥹

white lilies represent purity, & since they were off by the side of the road, they might have represented the character’s fleeting purity. white lilies are also used at funerals to represent a soul’s return to purity & its journey to the afterlife… which circles back to the reincarnation theme 👀

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