#Akitohru

[ghostietea]

"Furuba is not a reverse harem" ok but if it was >:3 made a fake dating sim cover to be silly hehe

[cleeeffa]

Checking in for yuri duty

[slippersandsand]

Headcanon akitohru friendship

Akito can be very possessive about her relationships and we know it. After the events of the manga, she might have been trying very hard let go of her past ways but it wouldn’t have been possible for her to completely shed off the way she is. Her experiences, her insecurities, it’d take a significant amount of time before she felt completely at ease with her new surroundings. She had to let go off hatori and kureno, two people who were always with her and the other zodiacs who made time or were made to come see her on a regular basis. Her surrounding now consisted of Sohma family members who came to her for official work, shigure and tohru. Her friendship with tohru had a slow start. After everything that went down, akito would probably constantly crave tohru’s company given her fears regarding abandonment but she’d hold back not wanting to bother tohru. She’d probably want to cling to her all the time, go to shigure’s house unannounced just to see her but she’d hold back not wanting to show tohru her clingy nature more than what tohru had already seen.

I see her complaining to shigure about tohru not visiting her too often while shigure teasing her.

Akito: I can’t believe this, shigure, has she forgotten about me? She was the one who wanted to be my friend. Is this how you treat a friend?

Shigure: seems like someone is missing tohru kun. I’ll make sure to lecture her on friendship when I see her at dinner tonight.

Akito *flustered* : Shi-shigure! Don’t you dare!

*Akito gets a call. It’s tohru. She turns red but answers it.*

Tohru: hello? Akito?

Akito *blushing but answers nonchalantly* : tohru, hello.

Tohru: akito san we haven’t seen each other since the last weekend, do you want to come over for dinner with me and shigure san? Kyo and yuki won’t be home.

Akito *happy, flustered and shy* : I’m very busy but I’ll make time. Bye.

It played out better in my head XD.

[thatwhicheats]

[FULL ARTWORK HERE]

Can i offer you yuri on this fine morning

[lgbt4iu]

definitely making an akitohru account now cuz the layout is just too cute

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

Gonna ship them harder now.

A quality, enemies-to-lovers femslash ship!

I don't trust Tohru stans that ship her with Akito. Imagine shipping her with the person who stabbed and almost murdered her and then going around acting like you love her character couldn't be me.

This applies to Takaya too their friendship is twisted and disgusting on so many levels and Akito does not deserve any sort of forgiveness for all the unforgivable shit she did to Tohru and the people she loves. Takaya will always be hated by me for writing that plotline. And the fact that she was originally going to have them end up together while Akito was still conceived as a male character is disgusting, its already bad enough with her being forced into a friendship with her abuser a romantic relationship is even worse.

[azraels-eden]

I love this picture of akito and tohru because out of context they just look like yuri protagonists

[isuzuapologist]

before my reread of fruits basket as an adult adult i would have been petrified at the love i’ve seen akito receive on the internet BUT NOW…… understanding how good of a character she is akito’s headcanons have become my favorite thing and akitohru makes me TEAR UP

[connandoods]

Femslash February 2022 Day 10: Roses, with Akitohru

From those prompts!  

[jouanasblog]

FRUITS BASKET FANS WHO HATE AKITO HEAR ME OUT NOW THAT EPISODE 7 IS OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!

My heart hurts for Akito after finishing the first two seasons of Fruits Basker I genuinely hated her but after reading the manga and today’s episode she has become my favorite character her trauma is so over looked in this fandom. Ren and Akira are the worst and I hate them with my whole being. Akira always told Akito that she was special and that she was wanted BECAUSE she was god NOT because she was Akito herself, his last wish before he died ( in front of her ) was she was special as the god that she is, he was the one who made her believe that her actions have no consequences just because she is god which led to Akito never developing her own personality due to the god position. Ren has always been selfish and she always hated Akito she wasn’t even holding her when she was an infant, not only was she always verbally abusive towards Akito and telling her she was worthless and that no one actually loved her she also raised her as a boy which made Akito lack of self identity worse. The reason why Akito is holding into these bonds is not because she enjoys abusing the Sohmas (in her head this isn’t abuse this is love, she doesn’t know better because she was always isolated and no one ever dared to teach her the right thing ) its because she is worried that Ren will be proven right, she doesn’t want to be left alone and get abandon so she is willing to hold into the zodiac bond and her fathers “ ghost “ as Shigure said in the last episode ( ep 7 ) because that’s the only reassurance she has. At the end of the day NO ONE is trying to excuse her actions but I understand, she is the prime example of how the abused who hasn’t healed becomes the abuser. SPOILERS FROM THE MANGA KEEP READING ONLY IF YOU WANT TO GET SPOILED. I personally love her and Tohrus friendship, their parallels are insane and I can’t wait for everyone to see how good of a mother she becomes later, she deserves the nice ending she got and I’m so glad her and Shigure are happy, their relationship is truly entertaining and complex and Shiki is such a good kid I love their family.

Also sorry if this is messy English is not my native language :)

[yellowbluemoonshine]

Akito-Tohru; Learning from each others

Thanks for the ask, anon. There are a lot of things they could teach each others.

For example;

Tohru shows toxic positivity with her behavours and the way she thinks.

Toxic positivity is the assumption, either by one’s self or others, that despite a person’s emotional pain or difficult situation, they should only have a positive mindset. - Dr. Jaime Zuckermane

Hyperfocusing on positivity

Pushing away negative emotions.

Classifying certain emotions as bad and certain ones as good.

Not allow yourself to feel "bad" emotions.

Believing the right mindset can cure physical/mental illnesses or disorders.

Hiding your negative emotions.

Feeling guilty when you have negative emotions.

Dismissing other people's negative emotions and thinking they just need to be more positive.

Ignoring problems in hopes they go away. (Source)

She tends to see certain negative emotions or "self centered" emotions as ugly, she will always ignore negative events and focus on positive ones etc etc.

And here's the thing;

Akito is the face of Tohru that she doesnt want to face with herself.  The most obvious moment when Tohru mentions that she would do anything to feel secure and Tohru feels this side of herself, she sees it as ugly. The "ugly" side Tohru wants to ignore is Akito. Their desire to hold people close. Tohru doesnt specifically think that she would do things Akito did but she understand that she could end up that way.

With reaching out to Akito, she embrace her side she considered "ugly".  Being with Akito and her friendship can always reminds Tohru that, she can overcome her toxic positivity.

With Akito, despite not actually being man but as girl who was raised as boy, she shows toxic masculinity.

Idea that men need to act tough and avoid showing all emotions can be harmful to their mental health and can have serious consequences for society, which is how it became known as “toxic masculinity.��

Toughness: This is the notion that men should be physically strong, emotionally callous, and behaviorally aggressive.

Antifeminity: This involves the idea that men should reject anything that is considered to be feminine, such as showing emotion or accepting help.

Power: This is the assumption that men must work toward obtaining power and status (social and financial) so they can gain the respect of others.

(Source)

She always feels shame by crying, feeling weak, she hates that side of herself. Even Tohru explains word to word that Akito always had to look ‘strong’ cause of her position.

But remember the time Tohru said Akito looked so pure when she cried, like the side Akito consider as bad is the Tohru felt for. That its okay to cry, being vulnerable, being weak. And this is really important for someone like Akito.

The reason Tohru displays toxic positivity is also result of how society expected girls to act. Always positive, cheerfull, well behaved. And unfortunately, this side of Tohru wasnt really adressed enough in story. The reason Akito displays toxic masculinity is because how society expected boys (and people who are seen as very important) to act. That they should be strong, never cry. 

(Another information; Usually males s biggest fear is feeling shame and female s biggest fear is loosing connections. Mentioned in here by cinema therapist.) And its interesting that Akito displays both fear since she plays both role in a way. Characters like Kyo also displays toxic masculinity while other girls like Tohru, Rin's biggest fear is loosing connections.)

The most obvious similarity that brings Akito and Tohru together is fear of abandonment. That connection with people can end and start again. I think they can accept this as best when they are together cause this acceptance will always remind of them to their friendship, fear, its a very strong bond. And it would work better than their "canon" relationships because it seems like, Tohru kinda replaced Kyoko with Kyo while Akito returns to the person she depend on the most. (I dont mind KyoRu but Akito's returning toxic relationship was horrible choice.) What i mean is AkiTohru work as better pair in canon even its not necessarely romantic.

(Pictures are from Kırmızı oda (Red Room), two characters who give different reactions to fear of abandonment).

They also both show different side of fear of abandonment. The most common two type of behavours. People pleasing with Tohru, pushing people's boundaries with Akito. Though, again unfortunately story didnt adress Tohru's way of her expressing trauma but lets not forget that in Real life, its different. Instead of ending that heroine is somehow always better than villainess of story and using their different reactions of trauma to show one of them is good, other one is bad is very harmfull because Tohru’s way of reacting her trauma was harmfull as Akito’s but story portrayed that as hardworking which is bad message for readers. I dislike this kind of ending that Tohru is always inferior to Akito, its literally shows that this manga is old and its written with old times mindset so i would like to imagine an ending that thats not the case, that they both equally good, happy together.

And another example is their idolization of their parents. Tohru with her mother. Akito with her father. Again this wasnt adressed enough in story either. Them stop idolizing their parents and growing into their own person together would be epic.

What i mentioned in this post is how characters could've been used, we never see after the story, we dont know whats actually happenning with them  and its a shame that it doesnt happen. In anyway, you see that there are a lot of things Akito and Tohru could learn from each others. Those were just a few examples of it. And i really wanted to talk about toxic positivity and toxic masculinity.

If you want to see another example of toxic positivity, i recommend you to watch ‘Inside Out’.

[ghostietea]

I have become aware from the notes on my recent Akito post that not everyone knows about Takaya being a confirmed Akitohru shipper so I'm here to break the news that it's real. The author of Fruits Basket saying in a bonus comic that has since been officially translated and printed that she ships Tohru and Akito in a no homo way is for sure one of the top most chaotic Furuba facts I know and now I must burden everyone else with it. Behold the page that has haunted me for the last 7 years:

And, as a bonus, the time she referenced the idea in the actual Furuba manga after Kyo learns Akito is a girl:

[cleeeffa]

Poisonous akiiiii 🌸🌸🌸

[red-elric]

okay but like have yall ever actually really considered akitohru

[floraltohru]

thinking today about how tohru looked at someone who had done terrible, terrible things to the people she loves and found a person worthy of redemption because she saw an echo of her own mother in akito.

[lgbt4iu]

Ill make an akitohru daily twitter account soon...i think