#-yes yuuta is angry w rei and it is to some extent justified- but what about the rest of undead? hinata? yuutas own mental state?

[rayvven]

never be sorry for rambling in my tags ur so right for this. i know a lot of people have gripes with the ss arcs for like the dumb major plot points they're supposed to hit but i think if you just take them as explorations of unit dynamics they're still really good at that aspect. like 2wink and undead both had to confront a lot of their issues here what with adonis speaking up a lot more and being more active within undead's activities here than he was in nightless city live (i have not read many undead stories so i cannot comment too much on them but he does seem to be very down on himself a lot and it was nice to see him branching out finally because rei was having to do his own introspection about the situation and also was unable to communicate regularly) + what you said in ur tags. and for 2wink having them separated and yuta trying to take control is very. telling on his part the types of plans he wanted to commit to and the ones hinata wanted and how that just highlights how differently they see the world. hinata wants to choose to be kind despite everything and yuta is focused on advancing his position in life after feeling slighted for his circumstances at birth and while neither of them are necessarily wrong on their feelings and why they came about, its certainly going to create conflict when hinata wants to help undead and yuta wants them eliminated because he sees them as a threat to their own status in the competition. etc etc its getting late and i need to go to bed so. take this

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i think the reason sandstorm works so well is that while it has the usual crazy ss high stakes plot(looks at rei secret order) it revolves much more around the characters dynamics. and oh boy do undead and 2wink have alot of history to work with (setsubun haunting every story). everyone's Miserable and we see their flaws much more exaggeratedly than normal, ranging in intensity from koga snapping at adonis to yuutas Villan Era. and its them letting out their frustrations in a very painful and hurtful and realistic for their characters way!(esp yuuta). one of my favorite es!! stories probably