#Anti Akito Sohma

[yunamedkostobot]

The reason i do not trust a lot of so-called «complexity lovers»

Akito Sohma stans: I love Akito because of her complexity! She is so sympathetic character!

Also Akito stans: but it would have been way better, if Takaya cut out her beating Kisa and Momiji, pushing Rin out of the window and droving Kana to clinical depression

Jiang Cheng stans: I adore Chengcheng, he is so complex!

Also Jiang Cheng stans: Of course, he was justified to demand of his adoptive brother to give up the innocent boy, elders and the persons to whom, you know, is obliged to help! Of course, he did not tarnished Wei Wuxian's reputation more by saying that he declared himself the enemy of the world! Of course, he was right to disrespect his sister's sacrifice the worst way possible! And he was right in killing innocent people during the timeskip and letting the literal maniac go!

Reva Sevander stans: Reva, my baby! 😍😍 You would be a true Jedi of Old Order!🤧🤧 And you did not forgive Anakin(who literally nearly ceased to exist as person, as RoTS novel clearly indicates)! Such a complexity!

Also Reva stans: *ignoring her joining group of fascist enforcers, for which is pretty normal to kill teenagers, who are suspected to be Jedi(as Ezra and Cal situations show), and abduct children from their parents(may be killing said parents), hunting down underground railroad-like organisations, kidnapping 10 years old Leia and attempting to kill Luke*

Severus Snape stans: Of course, he was wonderful man, and so complex! He would definitely be a good father figure to Harry!

Also Snape stans: Of course, he was not an awful teacher to his students and never bullied Neville out of pure spite and said awful things about Hermione when her teeth end up growing fast and causing her a lot of pain! And also, he was forced to join Neo-nazi group at school, pull a hurtful pranks over Muggleborn and call the love of his life a racial slur!

Edelgard von Hresvelg stans: Such a complex character! A true embodiment of Progress! Go, Empress! Edeleth canon!

Also Edelstans: So, we are gonna project Dimitri's good traits on her, make Claude a villain(with the huge OOC) to make her look good, tell ten thousands of lies about Rhea and Nabateans(including genocide apologia) and of course, ingore all of her war crimes and imperialism(with her erasing the culture of far more progressive Leicester and Faerghus)!

Me: So... Are you truly here for complexity?

[starrynightkyoru]

I find it ironic that the same people who will flock and shriek at any posts critical of Akito's conclusion (her getting away scot free with years of abuse) will constantly go on and on about how Fruits Basket is about forgiveness and if you don't like the ending "you didn't understand the story or themes" will say that Kyo deserved the harsh treatment he received during the hospital arc for two reasons 1st he hurt Tohru's feelings and 2nd it is funny. He was looking out for Tohru by rejecting her yes he did it in a very harsh way but he had his reasons such as his crippling guilt and his future confinement. And people in general treating him like crap and saying he is worthless it was because of people like Akito who instilled those ideas into his head. Kyo should have been allowed to explain himself sooner and Akito should have never been allowed anywhere near Tohru after she tried to murder her.

[ultraericthered]

This is essentially Akito and Ren’s relationship and yeah, not much a fan of these people!

[starrynightkyoru]

Love getting to see her stubborn side.

The 1st gif legitimately makes me angry tho. Akito my hatred for her grows stronger by the day. The way she treats Tohru is vile.

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[maria-eve-falcon]

shigure sohma is by far the most complex character ever . period.

[animeyanderelover]

hey! if possible, id like to request general hc for akito, yuki, kyo, hatori, shigure, ayame, hatsuharu and ritsu.

So, I already discussed it and apparently this person only watched the 2001 anime version and for that was unaware of Akito being in reality a woman in the manga.

Tw: Yandere themes, unhealthy mindset, unhealthy relationship, possessive behavior, obsession, paranoia, guilt-tripping, manipulation, jealousy, stalking, delusion, isolation, abduction, trauma, Akito in itself is plently a trigger warning

Yandere Fruits Basket Hc's

Sohma Yuki

🐭 Yuki suffers from a low self-esteem thanks to all of the abuse Akito put him through and has been stuck acting like the charming yet cold prince for a long time due to his belief that no one would love his true personality. So it's a must for him that his s/o is kind and understanding. He can't love anyone, he shouldn't with Akito there yet it happens anyways. Yuki can't seem to prevent his infatuation with you with every refreshing smile you give and how you carry yourself. The realization that he's fallen in love with you scares him to his core simply because he's terrified what Akito will do if she ever finds out. In an attempt to save you by avoiding you, he only hurts himself that much more. He can't get you out of his head and his heart clenches painfully when he sees how you're so completely unaffected by it whilst he's probably spent some nights crying because he longs for you so painfully much. He doesn't blame you though, after all he has never introduced himself to you.

🐭 This avoidance already showcases that Yuki is very protective, he knows what Hatori had to go through after all and it utterly terrifies him to think that he might end up putting you in such a situation too. Despite doing his best to not interact with you, he always watches you though and if he wouldn't be so popular, he might even go out to stalk you a bit. Cleary obsessed as he memorizes everything you say or do and whilst you might not pay it much mind when you greet him or help him with something since his anti-social and awkward side sometimes breaks out of him, he never forgets it as it makes him only fall more for you. It isn't until Tohru, Machi and Kakeru appear in his life and slowly help him to heal does he gain the courage to talk to you. He's admired you for a longer time from the distance so he feels flustered and nervous when he approaches you, heart pounding in his chest and palms clammy as he finally talks to you for the first time and turns completely lovesick.

🐭 He is prone to jealousy a lot which mainly ties into his low self-esteem and the fact that all he is able to do for months on end is watching you silently. It's selfish and dangerous to wish that you'd give him your smile and your laugh all the time but whenever he catches you acting very close to someone else, he gets quickly insecure and has to leave, tears stinging his eyes. Yuki can only direct his frustration at himself because he doesn't have the courage to talk to you, let you know that he also wants to be a part of your life. He always leaves whenever he sees something like that and ends up being depressed for the rest of the day, lamenting over his hurting heart. The insecurity never leaves him, not even after he's gained the courage to talk to you and befriend you nor even after the curse is broken and he's your boyfriend. The lingering fear to not be good enough and to be replacable always lingers inside his heart although to your pleasant surprise in front of certain people he expresses more confidence, maybe even slight arrogance.

🐭 Yuki has been traumatized with Akito's unstable and violent behavior so I feel like he'd be one of the last people who would want to inflict the same pain and fear on others. With his inner growth comes more confidence and more maturity so Yuki always attempts to talk about something to resolve a conflict. Generally talking though, I can totally see him manipulating the situation to paint him in the better light and let's be for real, he's very good at it. For the most part, he tries to avoid all conflict though and is most of the time anyways too focused on loving his darling and sucking up any affection they could give him like a dry sponge. He can fight quite good though and can be more snarky and say stuff that provokes the other person.

🐭 Behind his kind and very sweet behavior lies still a somewhat broken person and Yuki is far more possessive over his s/o than he lets on. He's been feeling lonely and isolated his entire life so after he's finally freed from his curse, he knows exactly that he wants to stay together with you for the rest of his life. It's genuinely not hard to fall in love with Yuki since he's so charming and loving to you. Sometimes he cracks though as his low confidence and his paranoia speak out of him where he grows desperate for some reassurance from you. He'd definitely guilt-trip his s/o if he's paranoid and afraid that they might leave him since he is somewhat clumsy and simply not good enough. He's extremely fragile at such moments. Whilst he should technically know that such emotional manipulation is toxic, Yuki is probably just more on a semi-aware side. The fear of rejection and abandonment outweighs his guilty consciousness.

🐭 He often feels insecure because he's often more clumsy and isn't a good cook although he tries his best to get better for his s/o. Sometimes you find him going to far though when he puts your needs in first place instead of his own which happens especially often when he wants to prove himself and feels stressed. He tends to overthink simple things such as when you ignore him or don't return the kiss he gives you. He's slightly shaken and thinks he's done something wrong although he always asks you first, doing his best to calm his paranoia and lingering trauma down. He's skittish with physical affection at first since he's been abused by Akito so you have to be gentle with him at first. He learns to love everything you do to express your love for him though and physical affection is included. You give him security and more confidence, have patience even with all of his relapses and Yuki desperately hopes that he can give you in return the love and care no one else can give you.

Sohma Shigure

🐕Summarizing Shigure up in one word is quite difficult simply because you have troubles making up your mind. What you can't deny is that he's quite annoying at times as he always seems to visit the places where he's bound to find you and doesn't shy away from being very friendly with approaching you. Behind that laid-back and light-hearted facade, Shigure is very hyper-aware of his own feelings though. He knows that he's just a tad bit too obsessed with his darling but the undeniably worst thing about Shigure is that he doesn't care about his toxic mind. He knows himself best and for that is aware that he's far too possessive to leave you alone anyways so why should he feel guilty? That possessive emotion of his is quite fearsome though as he's willing to hurt the feelings of other people, sometimes even including you, and is ready to sacrifice everything if it will guarantee that he can be with you.

🐕Exceptionally manipulative too and his normally goofy behavior helps him to conceal his true side. He's annoying but appears harmless in your eyes although you already have a good hunch what he wants from you. You can't deny that the wise advices he gives you at times or moments where he's made you laugh with his silly behavior haven't helped you at least a bit. That's why you endure him in your life and that is according to Shigure's plans. A lot of his actions have a hidden motive or some plan behind it all such as the time where he makes acquaintance with people you socialize with and get all friendly with them only to use them to find out more about you. He's a shameless stalker too who waits for you in spots you pass by quite often to bump into you there, although he won't outright deny your claims that he's been here on purpose to find you. It's a bit risky, gambling like this whilst fully aware how Akito might react but Shigure can't help but find this all a bit entertaining.

🐕Despite being the oldest of the zodiac signs, when it comes to Shigure getting hurt emotionally, he's without a doubt the most immature and petty one. He wants his darling only for himself if he could do so and whilst he hides it well behind his silly mask, he secretly despises about everyone who is close to you. It doesn't even have to make a difference whether the interaction is purely platonic or gives romantic undertones, he finds a way to interfere somehow. You can't expect him to be decent enough to let you live your life after all. No, he has to be always part of it and ruin you quite a few things. Worst is though that he can be petty enough to effectively ignore you for a few days just to have you approach him and ask him if he's fine. Worry about him, but forget all about that other person.

🐕Self-serving, selfish, cunning and deceptive. Shigure is a menace and there's no way to put that lightly or in any positive way. He's willing to cause people around him pain and ruin even you relationships. That makes him the worst person you've ever met and who everyone in general can be unfortunate enough to meet but he doesn't care. Not as long as he can have you. Shigure is a master manipulator who manages to make the people around him always look worse than him. Friendships or even ties with your potential lover or crush will be cut by him and he will spread rumors and lies about you and the people you hang out with. He watches then from the sidelines how you end up having argument after argument and take devastating blows to your heart before he always comes in and cheers you up. It's only a question until you find out about his true personality though.

🐕Whilst Shigure can drag you into harm's way and sometimes does so willingly, he knows better than to repeat a Hatori situation with Akito. Kidnapping you isn't possible as long as the curse still lasts but he's fooled almost everyone else so far and he can do the same with you. You're most likely a bit sceptical around him anyways and truthfully, Shigure wants it that way at times. It's cute in his opinion to see you on your toes around him. At other times he just wants you to rely solely on him and for that fools around with the ties you have. Bad experiences regarding the friendships and strong ties you have with others makes you more cautious to get to know new people and causes you to cling more to him because he made himself look like the only person who sticks through with you. Strangely enough even when you discover what inhumane things he's done all along and demand him to leave you alone, he doesn't abduct you. No, instead all emotions leave his face and he promises you that he'll never leave you alone. You will be his, sooner or later.

🐕When the curse is finally broken and everyone is free to go, Shigure goes all out of his way. If he hasn't been able to properly touch you before, he will now absolutely smother you in affection. Bonus if you're bashful and embarrassed about it because then he'll do it to just rile you up a bit. People like Ayame and Hatori most likely know about his interest in you even before the curse is broken and also about his twisted ways of courting you but Shigure finds it all rather entertaining how they attempt to convince him that this isn't the right way to do it. It's better to always be on edge with Shigure around since you never know what's going on inside his head. He could be on one day an annoying and clingy man who dotes on you and teases you simultanously and on the next day gets all possessive and willing to even attack you emotionally to release some of his petty emotions when you've made him angry in some way.

Sohma Kyo

🐈Kyo wears his emotions on his sleeves and for that has an easier time socializing than Yuki has yet he is very adament to avoid and reject his darling as often as he can. He's very aggressive about the fact that he loves his darling and keeps his fair distance from them as he is used to people in his life only pitying and hating him and doesn't want to witness you undergoing the same process. Additionally he doesn't think that he's deserving of your love and affection either since he's terrified of hurting you. So every time you try to talk with him or every time someone asks him if he harbors feelings for you, he reacts brash and defensive, ends up saying something that will hurt you and your feelings and he feels incredibly guilty later on but he tells himself that it's the right thing to do. He stalks his darling a lot though.

🐈Watching over his darling from the shadows fills him simultanously with longing as much as with happiness. He wants to be with you too but knows that he'll be locked away after he finishes high school. You'd only get hurt if he would get close to you right now only to be left by him then because he can't do anything against his cursed fate. Kyo is extremely overprotective though and will do whatever he can to make you happy, puts your own needs actively above his own as well as his happiness. He always steps in as soon as someone makes you uncomfortable to protect you from then even if it ends up putting him into a situation where you want to thank him and feel the need to get to know him better. Underneath all that stubborn and aggressive behavior is in reality a very sensitive and affectionate person though who is just too traumatized and afraid to be hurt by you, the one person he's so in love with.

🐈He has a hard time really suppressing his jealousy but doesn’t want to to show his own feelings so initially Kyo just resorts to avoiding the scene as good as he can. He’s visibly stressed for the rest of the day though as the image won’t leave his head and serves to only make him even more irritated. He’s going to be a lot more brash and sharp-tongued if he meets the person again too. He mellows out after he has successfully managed to overcome his insecurities and decide to just enjoy the time he has left with you. That doesn’t deter his jealous streak quite obviously but Kyo wants his darling to be happy and feels inferior and not in the right to interfere with people you’ve been friends with and known for way longer than him. The boy is still bound to snap when he realizes that someone flirts with you and he’s really intimidating when he’s really pissed. Glowing, orange eyes staring at whoever thinks that they can just carelessly flirt with you because they take you for easy and the clear way he steps in front of you to shield you from their vision.

🐈Definitely one to get quicker aggressive and defensive over you than some others. Kyo can be a hothead and at times very possessive but he matures emotionally over time and learns to at least control his temper a bit better even if it still bursts out at times. The moment someone harms his s/o though and puts them under unnecessary stress, he is quick to get triggered due to his overprotective side. He’s very skilled in martial arts and it has been one of his biggest passions in his life before he met people he can trust and his darling so he’s quite obviously really good in it. He tends to stop thinking rationally for a bit when someone truly messes with his darling as he’s utterly consumed by rage.

🐈He never tries to dream about living together with his darling as he’s aware of his looming fate but that doesn’t stop his thoughts from betraying him at times. It makes his whole chest ache. You might even marry someone else later in your life and that thought infuriated him as much as it makes him depressed. He’s such a fool for letting his feelings escalate that far. After the curse is broken and he’s freed from Akito, he’s in shock as he slowly begins to realize that he will now be able to spend his future together with you. He’s free to be with you and when the truth finally sinks in, he storms to your place and the first thing he does is giving you a tight hug, something he couldn’t and/or didn’t want to initiate so far. With nothing to hold him back anymore, Kyo becomes as determined as obsessed to stay with you.

🐈Whilst he mellows out and grows softer after his curse is broken and he can finally be with his darling, his obsession also cranks up a good notch. He’s been holding back so far because he kept repeating Akito’s words inside his head, thought that it would be useless and hurt and tormented himself with it. There’s nothing to hold him back though as soon as the shackles of the cat zodiac are gone, everything that he has been trying and failing to bury deep inside of him bursts all at once out of him. Kazuma knew pretty much all along and is delighted when he finally gets to meet you, although Kyo is constantly a bit on edge since he fears that Kazuma will tell you something embarrassing about him. Common for most Zodiac members but Kyo is quite starved for affection and gets grumpy when you don’t give him any.

Sohma Hatori

🐉Hatori has resigned himself to the belief that he doesn't deserve any love since he has hurt people by erasing memories. Yuki's friends, Momiji's own mother and his own lover Kana has caused him to develop a rather low opinion of himself. Loving someone again isn't his intention so the experience of gaining an infatuation with his s/o is a scarring one. He's hurt already enough people and the personal trauma of what Akito did to Kana push him to distance himself as good as he can. You shouldn't get involved with him nor with any of the Sohma since it's safest for you. Very lucid about his own feelings too and it does nothing to help his already low self-esteem. There's fear and trauma as much as there is a low-key possessive longing somewhere inside his chest, one that suffocates him yet he's unwilling to let you suffer for his own selfish emotions.

🐉At the same time Hatori is also awfully protective over his s/o and if you two happen to cross paths, he can't help but let his eyes constantly wander to you. Any sign of stress or sickness from your side causes him to feel instantly the need to check on you and even dote on you slightly. If he catches you ignoring your own health in favor of going outside and working, he will usher you instantly back to take a day off and caters to your needs. It's wrong, Hatori shouldn't get himself so actively involved but he can't help himself whenever he sees that you're physically or emotionally unwell. He eventually decides to stop the constant attempts to distance himself since he always comes back to you, settles on becoming an acquaintance in your life who you can trust. He doesn't want to take it any further though but his darling always manages to break his already fragile resolve once again.

🐉Composure is one of the key words for Hatori together with his overall kindness. He isn't petty like Shigure is nor is he as open with his emotions as Kyo and even his insecurities are better tamed than some other of the zodiac signs. His darling makes them happy and if he can somehow help them feeling better and brighten up their daily life, he absolutely will. Hatori is rational, he has to be since his somewhat more unhealthy feelings are a silent burden on him at times. He's all about icy politeness and arctic stares when he's jealous, slightly passive-aggressive with a tad bit more edge to his words. He isn't as possessive as some other members are but definitely feels the need to be when someone is overly nice to you which leads to slightly more affection from his side, as much as he can give his s/o if his curse should hinder him.

🐉It's rather interesting considering that he could just erase someone's memories with hypnosis but I feel he's done it too often and has harmed others because of it that he's become hesitant and unwilling to use it at all. Honestly, Hatori is rather tame and is someone who prefers to talk then to harm others, something he believes he has done enough already. His overall kindness gets a tad bit tainted by his obsession though which leads in certain situations to anger and hatred that isn't typical for him and startles him a bit when he reflects on it. Before anything can happen though, he would always opt for hypnosis and prevent and accident before it can happen. He always has to keep his darling away from that person afterwards though and vice versa since there's no guarantee that the memories he has erased will stay hidden forever.

🐉Considering that he's been imprisoned for years because of his curse, Hatori values your own choices and personal freedom very much and similar to most members of the Sohma family, it's only after the curse is broken that he is truly able to think about his own future. There's always only been one thing he wanted ever since you shined on him like a single star of guidance in the darkness he was imprisoned in. Hatori wants to stay with his darling and he's very open to admit that to them as soon as he's freed. Probably the one who can lead the most normal relationship with you although at times when he's very worried about you or gets a bit paranoid, he becomes a tad bit more controlling.

🐉All the care and love he provides aside, it's probably quite good for his own mental and emotional health too when his darling is with him. He doesn't allow himself to indulge in some basic human needs like eating and sleeping which somewhat makes him a hypocrite since he points it out to you immediately when you skip a meal or couldn't sleep very well on one night. So you sometimes have to straight-up push him to bed or insist that you won't eat anything until he has consumed something too. You might be sometimes a bit too persistent but it shows that you care for him and that always manages to flatter Hatori in the end. Considering that his own profession is one of a doctor, he's almost always the one who caters to your needs and nurses you back to health when you fall ill and yes, he can't deny that this boils also partially down to pride of being able to provide for you and protect you, something he wasn't able to do in his past.

Sohma Ayame

🐍Ayame was never really traumatized and hurt by Akito which is why he's in comparison to other members of the Sohma clan not as shackled down and emotionally damaged. Instead he's flamboyant, confident and vivacious. When he falls in love with you though, he loves with his entire mind and heart and that definitely gives him a fine obsession as he's not able to keep you out of his head. Admittedly, Ayame doesn't even try much to help it as he throws himself almost willingly into his never-ending infatuation. Mine catches him more than once daydreaming about you with a grin on his face and just him waiting hopefully for ou to enter his shop again. Whenever you do, he tries to keep you busy and with him as long as he can since he absolutely despises to be away from you. He's clingy and his presence at times almost overwhelming which admittedly allowed him to get your number so now you have him spamming you and calling you multiple times a day just to hear your voice.

🐍Ayame is highly affectionate and if he can touch his s/o, they will be drowned in hugs and smooches as this man has zero shame about the public display of affection. If he can't be physically too affectionate then he does about anything else, which he also already does if he can be as touchy as he wants to be. All cheesy and romantic nicknames you can imagine, presents and cute gifts and he even designs couple outfits for the both of you and starts pouting when you refuse to wear them. What's worth mentioning is that the gorgeous man is highly delusional as everything others may perceive as wrong and creepy, he perceives as a sign of his dedication and love. Whether he just follows you around outside since he can't bear being separated from you or coaxes friends of yours to tell him stuff about you, it all just shows to him how much he loves you. He in fact sees you as his missing half, as his soulmate of sorts because why else would he adore you as much as he does?

🐍Ayame is even with his sometimes downright ridiculous behavior deep down still deeply possessive over his sweetheart. That is only fueled by his delusion that his darling is basically his soulmate. Only his. He’s an attention whore, loves it when his sweetheart pays attention to him and only him and starts sulking and pouting fast when that isn’t the case. Ayame is an exception among many Zodiac signs since the man is quite confident in himself and knows that he looks gorgeous, not to mention that his delusions give him this additional boost that really just makes him a bit arrogant. He gives your counterpart little to no chance to talk much with you as he does almost anything to interrupt you to and get your attention back on him, is very extra whenever he introduces himself to your acquaintances. Ayame calls himself already your lover even if you don’t see it that way.

🐍The eccentric man is probably more malicious and cunning than he lets on at times but that mainly stems from the fact that most of the time he has better things to do than waste his time on others. What could be after all more important than paying attention to his darling sweetheart? He draws a very clear line though when it comes to someone potentially thinking about courting you since you’re already his lover. He’s aware that you might not think of it the same way as he does but he’s even more convinced that eventually you’ll realize your mistake and see things just as he already does. His zodiac sign is the snake and that animal is known for it’s cunning and manipulative nature so just don’t underestimate him.

🐍Despite the freedom he’s able to enjoy in comparison to his younger brother, the tragedy of Kana and Hatori still serves as a reminder of what might happen if he were to ask Akito for your hand in marriage. So even if Ayame persuades a relationship with you rather freely, he’ll still keep it a secret from Akito. He always calls you over to his shop for the most ridiculous and trivial reasons and essentially keeps you there with him for hours, more than just once so that you can give him your opinion on clothes and even wear them, he adores it to see you wearing the dresses he makes, no matter your gender. He always run the risk of transforming when the temperature is either too hot or too cold so it’s safest for you and him to stay in his shop. He’s already quite overbearing but surprisingly he still holds back due to the looming threat of Akito. He goes fully out the moment he’s no longer cursed as the snake.

🐍That’s meant quite literally because in the very moment where his curse is broken, he instantly seeks you out and proposes to you. He’s bought the ring already a long time before but had to wait . He probably would have proposed to you even with the curse but now that he has quite literally nothing to worry about, he asks you for your hand in marriage. His clingy behavior only intensifies as the man is up your ass every waking second. Hands are always somewhere on you and he is unashamed enough to even walk in when you plan to shower or take a bath and insists that he should join you. He doesn’t have to hold you a secret from others either so he always rambles and gushes over how sweet and beautiful you are in front of his friends and younger brothers, flaunts you in front of everyone.

Sohma Hatsuharu

🐮Hatsuharu basically has two personalities where he is very calm and placid as "White Haru" and very foul-mouthed and aggressive as "Black Haru". Due to that he expresses his own feelings very differently depending on which Haru he currently is. Overall Hatsuharu is frighteningly nonchalant about the whole aspect of his own obsession though. Whilst he is aware about how this technically isn't something that is healthy and does attempt to not turn too overbearing and potentially hurt you, he doesn't really worry about ti overall too much. He deals very relaxed with it and isn't that shy to at least approach you and talk to you differently from even some guys here older than him. He still has to be careful with everything since Akito is still a threat. He attempts to follow you around and stalk you but has been shown to have a terrible sense of direction so he more than once gets lost the moment he loses sight of you.

🐮His terrible sense of direction is frequently taken advantage off by him though since the person he asks in most cases for help when he gets lost is usually you. A bit dirty but Hatsuharu has little to no shame. Black Haru has even less shame than he does and it happens that he gets triggered in cases wher his possessive or overprotective side flares up. Hatsuharu is almost casual about his possessive and protective tendencies but Black Haru is a completely different story. He's aggressive, gets in fights, provokes and insults others and is not even afraid to make it clear to you that he'll be your boyfriend at some point, even if he isn't now. Until then you better not fall for everyone else because he'll scare everyone away threatening to steal your heart before he does and he is even quite touchy with you in such times, especially if he has nothing to worry about.

🐮Jealousy is an ugly feeling, one that has someone's blood boiling when he sees you being affectionate with someone else or when he catches some fool daring to flirt with what's his. Hatsuharu does make attempts to try to push down his black side simply because he knows that his vast switch in personality tends to scare you at times and make you uncomfortable and he cares a lot for you. There's nothing he can really do once he gets triggered though and in his black personality he has very little to no shame. He's violent, loud and rude and ready to start a fight with anyone who he deems in that moment as a rival for him. Black Haru is also quite confident, brags about himself in front of you and is a total show off.

🐮If it's fight someone wants, fights they shall get. White Haru is passive-aggressive, a prankster who embarrasses people without resorting to violence. This is the more pleasant way to deal with him since he knows how bad he can be in his black personality which is why he gives someone who has been getting on his nerves lately for stressing you or trying to ask you out always receives a warning from him beforehand. If he snaps though, Black Hatsu won't hold back at all with his punches and kicks and tends to leave someone with bruises which will last and hurt for weeks. It becomes especially brutal if someone actually harms his s/o because he snaps just like that and sees red for a while. Because of that, Yuki, Momoji and Kyo tend to supervise him a bit because god knows what he might otherwise do to someone who has been messing with you. It's most of the time effective to just quickly retrieve you and have you stop Hatsuharu.

🐮Hatsuharu has already made the decision that he wants to live his life together with his s/o and he doesn't care what Akito might say about this. At the same time he will do absolutely everything to keep this a secret from her as well since he knows that she might do otherwise some horrifying thing to you that might traumatize you permanently. He will still try to enter a relationship with you even if he has to keep it a secret because he literally can't control himself otherwise. Black Haru tends to come out more often as soon as he hasn't been able to see you for a whole day or when someone has made a move on you which bothers him and worsens his mood for the rest of the day. Similar to Ayame, he's very shameless in his approach as soon as his curse has been broken and he literally asks you if you'd like to move in with him. His whole behavior at this point just screams "choose me".

🐮He spends a lot of money on his wardrobe and ends up buying his s/o lots of clothes too, his favorite is leather so expect a lot of that. Alternatively he just adores seeing how you wear his clothes since it is a small boost to see you walking around in what he normally wears. You are genuinely the person who can keep him the most effectively calm which is why his friends always run to you the moment he switches to Black Haru and goes out of control. Admittedly, one of the main reasons he turns is when he isn't able to find or see you. It's the worst when he's had an argument with you, you ignore him or even reject him and his affection though since this leads him to having essentially a mental breakdown which takes him a long time to recover from and that only when you help him with it.

Sohma Ritsu

🐵This man stays the heck away from his darling but the fear of Akito is in this case not even the main reason. He's plagued with insecurities, has an inferiority complex and deep issues when it comes to his own self-esteem and deems himself to be utterly useless and to only be a burden. What could he possibly do to enrich your life somhow with his presence? He's such a disappointment after all, you'd be better off not knowing him. Ritsu sees everything wrong with him but he deeply adores and loves his s/o, thinks of them as perfect even if they obviously also have things they're terrible in. His anxiety makes it about impossible for him to approach you properly because if he as much as sees you passing by anywhere he already topples over and turns into a clumsy mess. The only thing he seems to be able to do is stalk you for a very long while, too insecure to do anything else. He's beyond horrified of you thinking badly of him and since he has some suicidal tendencies as it is, this would only drag him even further down.

🐵For Ritsu his darling becomes really important though when he decides to live for their sake. He's always questioned what his reason for life was after all and at one point is genuinely convinced that you are his reason for being born. This thought consumes his mind and turns him into a somewhat delusional person even if he still knows that doing hings like stalking you is still creepy and he loathes himself for doing this. You'd surely be disgusted with him if you'd ever find out. He feels like fainting when you actually approach him and talk to him since you've noticed him for a while now although you're surprised to find out that he's in fact a man. Something Ritsu instantly apologizes for. He is prone to overreacting and apologizing for every little thing so that is something that you have to get used to if you want to hang out with him. The worst is that he knows that his behavior might tire you out which only pushes him into more anxiety and leads to more tears and apologies.

🐵He feels like crying, he genuinely feels like crying more than anything. His jealousy always ends in an overwhelming pain and insecurities because he has poor social skills and is very well aware of that. Undeniably one of the most toxic thing he does is putting himself through al of the pain though as he is just as aware of the fact that separating himself from you would hurt even more. He can't give you what so many others in this world could give you, he's too useless for that. It should be enough already that you accepted him into your life as the wreck he is. He never tells you either about his problems because you have better things to do than listen to his trivial feelings. He always lets it out when he's home though, bursting out in tears and regretting and hating himself for his own cowardice. He really is a good-for-nothing, is he?

🐵He couldn't hurt a fly, let's be real here. Ritsu is probably the most harmless guy to have. He's too kind-hearted and gentle to be malicious to anyone, at the same time would rather die than witness his darling having any troubles which sadden them and cause them pain. Funnily enough witnessing how you end up in a risky situation gives him enough adrenaline to shortly go beyond his comfort zone and shield you before basically making a run for it with you together. He's rather self-sacrificing, doesn't care if he has to suffer for you if it means that you will end up being better off because of it. It's the least he can do to help you, isn't it? At least he can be of some use then for you. Alternatively he asks some of the other zodiac members for help as he learns to have a bit more faith in himself with passing time.

🐵He's one of the few members who has been shown having a good relationship with his mother and she has always wished that he'd find someone who would accept him. Ritsu isn't exactly discreet about his crush, the only one he is always careful around is Akito. His mother knows about you at some point though and invites you over to their onsen, something that nearly causes Ritsu to pass out again because what if he says something or does something that might insult you? Ritsu has to spend a good portion of the day with his darling though to prevent himself from suffering from a lasting meltdown and for that he's extremely clingy. Sure, he always trails a few steps behind you and steps back when you're conversating with someone else, otherwise he might as well look like your little duckling. Of course he wants to be together with you, he admits that tearfully to his mother when she asks him but he's feeling like he won't be able to give you anything in return for the love you provide him with.

🐵The whole co-dependency follows you through the whole time as Ritsu continues to hail you as his reason to be born. His darling would definitely have to be the patient and encouraging type though to help him slowly gain more self-confidence in himself and therefore be a major part in his character development. In Ritsu's eyes most likely the most important person. When the curse eventually fades away, he's finally freed from the last shackles that might have prevented him from fully wanting to spend his entire life with you. He's nervous when he approaches you for the first time dressed as a male in fear you might not like him in this appearance. Sometimes the habits of frantically apologizing and blaming himself for everything return to him just as much as the sometimes unhealthy signs of the co-dependent attachment Ritsu has developed over time and won't be able to get rid of ever. The delusion that he lives for your sake and that you helped him gaining more confidence are still present on his mind and he wouldn't be able to know what he should do with himself if you wouldn't be with him.

Sohma Akito

⚫️Congratulations, you're screwed. Akito is mentally unstable, insane, short-tempered and above all awfully possessive. If her darling has managed to gain her twisted and wicked heart, she will cling to them with everything she has. Akito has some issues going on herself with the emotional abuse Ren put her through and for that is in a way almost desperate to be loved but in order to achieve that she expresses it in horrible and inhumane ways. Her obsession with keeping the zodiac signs by her side and having the male ones essentially only loving her, she becomes overly focused on having her darling only love her to the point where she sort of drops her attention from the zodiacs as she is now obsessed with having her darling love her. Because her darling is no zodiac though and for that she isn't their god, there is a deep fear inside Akito's core that she might not be anything special to you and that thought disturbs her whilst at the same time clinging to the words of her father and thinking that she is in fact "special" and for that entitled to your affection.

⚫️Her possessive tendencies really only allows herself in your life as she forces you pretty much into everything. She is no more lonely now that she has you but you on the other hand end up losing everyone you had since Aktio flips out when you do as much as mention someone else in front of her. You have her! Forget them and just focus on her! Her mood can range from her sitting silently next to you to throwing angrily furniture around and whilst in most cases she is genuinely calmer when you're with her, you can just as easily set her off when she realizes that you aren't happy with her and in fact want to be with the people you love. You can't fathom how she can't understand that what she puts you through and what she has done to other Sohma family members is wrong whilst Akito at the same time can't really understand why you would blame her. No one ever taught her what's right or wrong, she's been as spoiled as traumatized during her childhood so it's either that she genuinely can't see her terrifying obsession as wrong or she chooses to actively not care.

⚫️Don't. Just don't. Not with someone like Akito who actively demands for you to show her your affection. Akito is immensely jealous and prone to her violent tantrums and outbursts and if you know her only a bit, you know what she's capable of. She won't allow anyone besides herself inside your life and your heart besides herself so you're better staying quiet because mentioning even a name can set her off and throw her into a nightmarish jealous frenzy. She's hurt other people before who stole the attention of her zodiac animals away from her so she's very much capable of doing the same to the people you hold dear, even your family members wouldn't be spared from her. She forbids you pretty much to love anyone else besides her.

⚫️It isn't really necessary to talk too much about that topic since Akito is pretty self-explaining already. She harshly punishes everyone who tries to take away what's hers and that has never been more true with her darling. The woman is cruel to everyone who does as much as waste some of your time she wants and demands you to spend with her and doesn't hold back from blaming you either, especially if you call her out for the terrible things she does. You should know better after all! Since Akito is a feared and respected woman and the head of the Sohma family, almost no one has enough guts to interact too much with you and risk meeting the furious jealousy and rage of Akito though which leaves you just as isolated as Akito.

⚫️Considering that her darling is the only person that can keep her somewhat calm and pacify her, you're pretty much never allowed to leave her side. Most of your days are spent secluded in the Sohma mansion by her side and the maids who serve her are no help to you at all. Some of them are too terrified to help you and others pretty much just chide you for wanting to leave Akito's side since she is the God of this family and allow her and actively help her to keep you imprisoned. The woman is awfully clingy, wants you extremely close to her with some sort of physical affection all of the time and if she has to leave, you're always forced to tag along with her. She's paranoid, fears that as soon as she leaves you alone someone will make a move and for that you're never allowed out of her vision.

⚫️Akito is the worst Yandere to have since she's openly violent, abuses others and manipulates and guilt-trips her own darling into staying with her as well. You're going to be emotionally scarred one way or another although she never seems to physically hurt you, at least not deliberately. With the way she functions and rages on, chances are that you end up getting hurt within all the chaos and her fuming wrath. As soon as she realizes that she's hurt you though, she drops whatever else she was doing just seconds before and shouts for the maids to help you, shaking hands grabbing you too harshly for your own comfort to see whatever damage she has inflicted upon you. The tamest you'll probably ever see her is when the two of you are completely alone and you've essentially learned the hard way how to keep her from exploding where she reminds you at times of a insecure child as she constantly clings to you, asks you if you love her and demands you to show her that in all sorts of affection.

[writermask-0807]

RUL3S AND REGULATIONS

REQUESTS ARE CLOSED

Hi, I'm Lynne! Like all forms of Lyn Lynne or literally anything. So I just realized I didn't make this sort of post in the beginning of this blog, so I thought I might as well start now, since it's better late than never right? 🙃 let's see what else to put here… requests are open, I'm edit: 17 now!! (the 19 was a typo), she/her, and this blog is strictly sfw.

ANIME/FANDOMS I'LL WRITE FOR:

ARANYAK - because I literally CANNOT find any fanfics on it, and I'm down bad for angad malik

DORORO

fantastic beasts and where to find them

Fantastic beasts: secrets of Dumbledore

Harry Potter

Trollhunters

The hobbit

Hell's paradise

Spy x family

Avatar: the way of the water

My hero academia

Demon slayer

Assassination classroom

Violet Evergarden

Fruit basket

Horimiya

The girl who can see

Komi can't communicate

Death note

BLACKLISTED CHARACTERS:

overhaul/chisaki kai (he's a red flag and i regret the fic i wrote for him. and also its so hard to write for him ok 😩), mineta minoru (i just wanna strangle him until hes choking and red in the face) from my hero academia.

Sasuke (I have my reasons), and Jiraiya from Naruto.

Naruse shisuto from komi can't communicate

Akito sohma from fruit basket

(i honestly can't think of anyone else so ig that's all.)

THINGS THAT WILL GET YOU BLOCKED (OR CONTENT I WON'T WRITE FOR.)

I don't write nsfw. like at all. No smut, or any kinks or anything like that, so please don't request such things, and please respect my boundaries.

If you're pro-israel, sexist, misogynistic, racist, anti-vaxxer, fatphobic, Islamophobic, etc etc. I'm being honestly serious about this. Keep your shit opinions to yourself, the world is better without them.

STUFF THAT I'LL WRITE:

I'll write headcannons, scenarios, drabbles and imagines, though I might sound a bit rusty 👀

I also accept character x character fics although this mainly a x reader blog.

I'll be writing for female and gender neutral readers

Gore, yandere, and other dark themes are allowed, but the descriptions won't be that graphic

I can also write platonic relationships, familial relationships n the lot, for example like dadzawa or something.

All asks and requests will be answered and finished when inspiration/motivation strikes, which means there's no telling if its gonna be super quick or super slow, so please don't pressure me into writing quicker, and my sincerest apologies to the people who'll have to wait. There might also be circumstances where I won't be able to write for your asks, because it simply isn't easy?? Idk how to explain it (and im aware of how stupid that sounds,) but keep in mind that im not obligated (to finish the requests) either. Hope you enjoy!!! (I'm so excited!!)

*writermask out!*

[starrynightkyoru]

Fruits basket the good ending this is canon to me idc.

Also the prison cell edit

[starrynightkyoru]

Me exorcising the Tohru/Hana/Uo befriending Akito plotline from existence

[yellowbluemoonshine]

Improvement, Realization & Self Destruction

I actually talked about this a lot, especially in here before but anyway, here we go.

First, i am gonna start with this one.

I think Fruits Basket another is bad. Because characters are not their own characters, they are meant to be mirror of their parents. They literally have same faces (worst ones aree Rin and Haru's chilren cause even though Rin and Haru are couple, their same version is siblings which is weird). Honestly, noone really care about their children, readers care about actual characters of Fruits Basket. Yes, its good to see their children being happy and all but even that, its for actual characters.

Not only we dont see the characters we actually want to see and story seems like an extra version of original one. Main character just like Tohru, zodiac children are just like zodiac members, except main male character is Akito's son so we kinda see AkiTohru couple in a way, straight version : )) because author wouldnt do GL, i guess.

And curse was supposed to end in Fruits Basket's ending but we still see cycle continues with Akito and her son. Even Kyo (his son said). They are still doing that banquet thing every year which is too unnecessary. And Sohma people dont seem to change at all.

Now, i actually think same about Fruits Basket's ending and Fruits Basket Another. There are so many issues with this series but now lets look at Akito and how she dealt with cycle of abuse in Furuba Another;

Only good part of Fruits Basket another is we can see how much Akito shows remorse, she literally shows every sign of someone who feels guilty for her actions.

- Accepting that she did something wrong;

She mentions openly admits that she hurted Kureno and zodiac

- Apologising or feeling too sorry to apologise

We see Akito's saying sorry to Kureno at hospital and later, when she mets with zodiac, she cant even look at their faces, feeling awkward with them

- Making sure that same things never happen again;

She doesnt only break Kyo free, she also destroy cat house at the end of Fruits Basket so noone will ever have to experience this. She also breaks the curse by her own hands, letting them go which is very brave behavour, especially for someone who have a fear of abandonment.

And here in Furuba Another;

- We see that she respect zodiac's boundaries, whenever they come to the place, she left so that they wont feel uncomfortable by her presence. Believe or not, you will hardly ever see anyone do this. Because many abusers, many OLD abusers, even they change, they wont pay attention to those details. They wont think or care how much people they hurted might be triggered by their existence. But the fact that Akito (EVEN AFTER 20 YEARS) still think about their well beings, the possibility of they might feel upset about her presence even though she desperately wanted to join banquest all this time....its just shows how much Akito cares, its definitely sign of someone who changed.

- We also see how comfortable and peacefull zodiac's children about head of family Akito. You can see that Akito is respected, not feared, by even children. If Akito was violent or toxic in any way, children would feel uncomfortable about her but no, they dont because Akito is far away from being toxic and violent. She is an adult whom even children can rely one, they respect.

- We also see that she became a very good mother, even though she didnt have a good mother at all. You can say that she is her son's hero in a way. Look at how much boy is fond of her. Because his mother is kind and lovely person.

- And again, the fact that zodiac members or even their children come here in a while shows that this place is better than before. Because Akito changed this. She tries to change the system, breaking the cycle of abuse.

Basically, Akito clearly feel remorse for her past actions and she takes responsiblity and she changes things for better.

But at the same time, she kinda fails because she might have self realization of that she hurted people but exacly because of this, Akito unable to see herself as good person or someone who deserves to be happy anymore. Lack of self love, lack of self worth, you can see it in her actions.

Basically, Akito didnt change really. Yes, she doesnt hurt others anymore, instead, she hurts herself : )))).

- At least, she would defend herself at past, now she doesnt. She could've fight against Ren, if she wanted but she doesnt and instead, she let her abusive mother stab her in front of her son and says 'i deserve this'. whic his pretty much suicidal and self destructive behavour.

Cycle of abuse happen with the idea of 'someone deserves to get hurted'. People who have black and white worldview would see what happens to Akito as 'punishment' or 'karma', even though, this just abuse and this is what we call justifying abuse. Akito is justifying the abuse she endured because she is unable to see herself as good person.

This is exactly the reason why Akgure happenned. 'We deserves each other'. We both toxic, we both bad so we should be together'. This kind of mindset literally destroy the idea of change.

No wonder Akito left the Kureno whom she thought as good and turn back to toxicrelationship as ‘punishment’ in a way. Lol, i dont care what anyone ever say but her feelings for Kureno seems to be more similar to love than she ever felt for anyone. It pure feeling. The way she talked about him is also similar to the way Kyo talked about Tohru : )). I dont ship Kureno x Akito but i am saying that its thousand times better than her ending because they both realized things because they BOTH HAD MISTAKES IN THIS RELATIONSHIP and could work on it but autor said no. Maybe because ‘Kureno is good guy, Akito is bad girl’ so Akito doesnt deserve him? Haha LOL. This is what happens when yo unever adress your ‘good character’s flaws.

As if Akito cant ever change, no matter how good she become, she will still be bad because....ummm.... oh yeah...thats what this society says. Instead of adressing the problems of this toxic relationship or any problem, Akito takes all blame of everything.

Because of this, every other character literally gets away with everything. All those people who are part of system, who groomed Akito since her young age, people who abuse her and zodiac members, they all harass Akito and noone do anything about it.

We also could see Akito’s working hard in orginal story too. She didnt need to be mother realy, we could see her getting along with children at the end of Fuits basket. Her breaking the curse and destroying the cat house was one of the powerfull things Akito ever did in this story. We could her feeling guilty in a thousand ways possible, we could see her change more, if author didnt rushed the ending. Basically fruits basket another was unnecessary and sucks.

Akito's character arc was supposed to be about her finally breaking free from her father's legacy but she still live with legacy anyway. She continues to be head of family and never really having a life outside of it.

Akito's character arc was supposed to be about moving on and ending 'eternity' but she stays at that sohma hell and suffering, her son literally calls his mother suffering as eternity, that she will suffer forever, it will never end.

Akito's character arc was supposed to be about being her own person and meeting with new people and instead, she still goes back to toxic relationship with a guy who only loved her cause of some stupid dream, who abused her but never feel gilty about it, who groomed her, who literally calls her as CURSE for LOVING HER.(More details of why this relationship is horrible in here.)

Because? Because Akito is horrible and everything is her fault, lets not think any further? Like wth?

Yeah its cheap and weak writing. You may ask why people dont have empathy and why they cant accept her change.

Because people have black white world view, main character Tohru who is perfectly pure, never did anthing wrong and antagonist made mistakes so she will have to suffer forever for it.

In Fruits basket, good characters mistakes arent adressed because people and probably author, they think if we talk about someone's misakes of flaws, they afraid that we see them as bad guys for some reason.

*Sigh*

Being good person is not never making mistakes. Its adressing your flaws, your mistakes and changing it for good. Treating people who made mistakes as if they will be unpure and bad forever is literally same as saying 'there is no such a thign as change'. Its hyporacy. Because everyone make mistakes but many people view theirselves pure and good, this is why they relate to Tohru and other 'good' characters more, this is why some people wonder they are weird for liking Akito. After all, story rebelled her as bad because she did something wrong so she forever has to suffer for it.

Fruits Basket is old story, its full of traditional toxic thoughts and this is what author thinks too. Stor clearly portrays victims as good and bad. Some idolized victim. Main character is treated as naive, stupid for having empathy ??

For example, i am personally nowhere near as Tohru. I am not people-pleasure or perfect hero. I am just ordinay person but i still felt when Tohru said Akito looked so pure when she cried, it was hearthbreaking. I understood exactly what she meant. Me as DECENT PERSON. I felt that. Because having trauma and doing wrong things didnt erase the pureness Akito has. She is still that child who wanted to be loved. And if Akito was real and she asked me why i helped her, i would hug her and say 'of course, its ONLY NATURAL TO HELP SOMEONE WHO NEEDED HELP' Akito deserves that help cause she was victim. We dont need stories that idolising heroes, we need stories that normalising helping people. Having empathy is not weird, its humanity. This is normal.

This is exactly why she should've get out of that place, finding her own dreams and making healthy relationship. She deserves to be loved by someone who will love her as her own person. She is not monster or toxic bad girl. She is capable of being more than this. She is kind and someone who will accept her mistakes. She is kind of person who will take responsiblity.

I think author or many readers dont understand what change really means thats why they see Akito's ending as justice, 'she deserve this kind of relationship', in a way you all say she deserves to have bad treatment and suffering which is the mindset of making cycle of abuse continue. Because people dont see theirselves when they look at Akito, they see people who hurted them and they want them to suffer. After all, seing yourself as Akito would mean seeing your own reflections, your dark feelings, you would have to adress your own flaws so its easy to just treat her as bad guy.

The psychological effects of guilt can be beneficial when they inspire a person to make changes in their behavior. But at other times they can cause distress. Research has shown that guilt and depression are often linked, for example. Research also suggests that anxiety, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), can be related to feelings of guilt or shame.

When a person can’t fix a mistake, guilt can persist until they have the chance to make amends. Guilt resulting from an action that can’t be repaired, such as when a person feels they indirectly caused another’s death, can have a lasting, negative impact on life. Therapy can often help a person address these emotions and reframe their feelings about what happened. (source)

People who did something wrong most of the times tend to hurt theirselves cause of all that remorse and we help them with therapy. They need to move on from past too after all, not just the people they hurted, dont need to mention that Akito was victim all along and its hardly ever adressed....ooof.

Unfortutanetly Fruits basket isnt a story that moved on from those toxic traditional beliefs. (Some criticism about story in here.) Akito was always a character who doesnt self worth or self love, she was also very self neglective. Only thing changed about her is she stopped being destructive, had some realization but just being more self destructive. She still doesnt have any self love and self worth, if she had one, she wouldnt justify actions of people who hurts her. My girl deserves better.

But anyway.

I gave Akito a better ending in here. She gets teraphy, she is happy.

Sohma Akito is well written character, actually there are many good and itneresting things about this series and characters but yknow, there are so many unadressed problems, so many toxic tropes and its full of traditional toxic belifes. So its a shame really. Yknow, if there is something worse than 'bad show', that is a show that had potential but wasted and thats how i view this story and everything about it too.

[starrynightkyoru]

Tayaka makes it so hard to love this series some times like Ma'am what was the reason?

Katsuya and Akito belong is jail exactly

Sometimes I remember the fact that katsuya honda asked (told?) a child in middle school to marry him, kissed her, and then acted surprised when she knew the word "loli" because he thought she was TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND IT and I seethe quietly.

Katsuyas only redeeming quality is that he helped bring tohru into the world and that's facts

[jojiship]

The ending of Fruits Basket doesn't sit with me and I know why: tha lack of consequences of Akito's actions. The fact that she gets to walk away scot free despite kidnapping, multiple attempts of murder and child abuse is jarring to me, especially since Akitos abuse is portrayed as something harmful and to be taken seriously. None of the Zodiacs popping off on akito doesn't sit well either and it feels like Rin is alone in her feelings even though she really isnt, not to Haru or us at least.

Anon, you literally have every gripe that I have with the ending of Fruits Basket. I love Fruits Basket and some aspects of the ending I did enjoy, but there were a lot of things that made me scream. Akito's storyline is one of them. For a story that focuses so much on abused victims and how they coped with it, Akito's ending is a slap to the face for every character. Now, people will always say that Akito is also a victim of abuse, but that simply explains her actions. It doesn't excuse them at all. If it excuses her actions, we should all go and excuse every abuser in the world. Because most abusers have been victims of abuse as well. Akito should have dealt with the consequences of her actions, but she never did. You can definitely say that Fruits Basket failed at conveying the message that it was trying to convey from the beginning. The saddest thing about is that most of the fandom doesn't care. It's a little concerning that you can give a character a sad backstory and all is forgiven by the fandom.

The fact that the Zodiacs aren't shown to be mad pisses me off. The fact that Rin is the only one to not forgive Akito is just appalling. What about Kisa, a twelve-year-old, who Akito beat so much that she had been sent to the hospital? How about Yuki who Akito isolated and abused for years? How about Kureno who Akito isolated, used him as a toy and stabbed him? How about Hatori who she blinded in one eye? Why can't all of these characters be mad at her. was also tired and disappointed by Tohru's involvement in all of this. The fact that she could be friends with the person who hurt so many loved ones makes me think of her character as well (This reminds me to remove her from my top 25 characters in all anime). It even ruins her character. I don't think Akito should have gone to jail, but it would have been nice if she was held accountable for her actions rather than being given a slap on the wrist.

[zilch-zero-nothing]

Am I the only one who really hates the Akito x Shigure relationship?

don't get me wrong, I LOVE Fruits Basket.

but like...I think Akito really is trying to improve and become a better person. She should get therapy, and a nice, stable relationship. Shigure meanwhile is not at all emotionally mature and frequently gaslights and manipulates people throughout the series. He himself has admitted the fact that he's not good with showing/displaying his true thoughts and emotions.

On top of that, they don't really have any connection or chemistry in my opinion. They're personalities don't mesh well, and they both see each other a lot as sex tools or something to look at - Shigure in particular. That line where Shigure says to Ren that he wonders if Akito would look like her if she grew up as a girl. Or how when they finally get together, the gift Shigure gives Akito is a kimono to look more like a woman. Like how he WANTS her to look. Akito has never really said anything about whether she wanted to start passing as a woman.

also Shigure's just not a good person in general, and I don't really ship him with anyone

[angelwings101]

Well on a lighter note, congratulations Akito for making it to the heroes wiki 👏👏

[ultraericthered]

It strikes me as a bit unsurprising that this is a take that exists among some FB fans, but at the same time I'm like ".....Wow. Seriously???"

Ren is not only far from "the TRUE villain" of the story, she's barely one of the most major antagonists in it! When she enters the picture in the present day narrative, she's just another antagonistic figure in a story that has Akito, Shigure, Kureno, and the Sohma family servant staff serving antagonistic roles too. The only non-Akito character who Ren antagonizes in Isuzu. In terms of the backstory, Ren can be categorized as one of the story's Greater Scope Villains along with Akira, the Head Maid, and Kyo's Biological Father and also Katsuya but the story unfortunately doesn't frame him that way.

And yes, when it comes to rap sheets of despicable deeds, Ren does not come anywhere even the slightest bit close to how heinous her daughter became. Again, Ren's only known victims are Akito, Isuzu, and some of the servants. Pales in comparison to the whopping list of victims Akito has made. Heck, Ren herself even got victimized by Shigure in his loveless, petty "revenge sex" with her, and we're meant to have some pity for her. Moreover, if Ren was the "true evil" and Akito just a helpless, innocent victim in all this, all of Ren's harsh words to Akito and about Akito would ring hollow and untrue, but ....they really, really don't. A big point of nuance with Ren is how she's like Cassandra of Troy, looked upon others as being a raving madwoman (and tbf, she is), but because she is Akito's mother who never loved her child and also never developed any fear of her, she's the one person who's able to speak the truth about Akito and call the reality around Akito out for what it actually is, to stand up and talk back to Akito in ways the other Sohmas would never dare to. The sole thing she does not get right in all this is that she views herself as blameless even when she's a huge influencing factor for why Akito grew up into the monster she is now. You're right that Akito's loathing of her is laughably ironic, and worse is how their hypocrisy is shared.

I do have to wonder if making Ren conclusively and definitively irredeemable in contrast to Akito despite Akito having done so much worse is something Takaya came to regret, which is why the scene of Ren turning down Akito's attempt to reconcile got omitted from the anime. If Another never gets animated (which I'd rather it not), then it can be left to our imaginations if Ren ever got better or not. But one thing's for sure - Kyo's Bio Daddy will remain the absolute worst.

I know we all agree that Ren is the biggest bitch of all bitches but I’m sooOOO tired of people tooting about how “she’s the true villain” and if I see any more of these when she’s introduced in the anime officially, I’m going to go feral.

People seem to conveniently forget that Ren herself was also horribly mistreated by the Sohma clan, and the clan members actively encouraged the antagonism between her and Akito by using Akito’s position as head of the family and god to further alienate Ren from the clan/Akira, which only fueled Ren’s insecurity and vitriol towards her daughter. Ren projected the abuse she received from the clan onto Akito, who then went on and projected that abuse onto the zodiacs.

And while Ren is horrible in her own right, Akito’s criminal acts of violence and abuse has escalated far beyond anything Ren has ever done, and frankly, it’s disgusting to see so many people continuously use Ren as a scapegoat for Akito’s own individual acts of abuse towards a bunch of innocent people who have nothing to do with either her or Ren. And while Akito does change in the end whereas Ren never does, for the majority of the story, it’s laughably ironic that Akito despises Ren for being awful and horrible only to grow up to be exactly like her but worse.

The whole “Ren is the TRUE villain” is not only wrong because Ren doesn’t actively oppose the main characters, whereas Akito does, but by making Ren out to be the One True Evil, it deprives Akito of the responsibility for her own abusive actions. Not to mention, Ren being the “one true evil” is also wrong because Ren is a product of the abuse she endured from the Sohma family just as much as Akito is a product of Ren’s abuse. Which is important to the greater narrative of systematic family abuse– there is no “one evil”, just a bunch of selfish and narrow minded people congregated in a cult like family.

But as far as Akito is concerned, the culpability of her own crimes lies solely and squarely on her shoulders, and that responsibility is not Ren’s, nor anyone else’s to bear. Akito very much IS the “true villain” of this show, and she always will be. Just because mommy dearest is a bitch doesn’t change the fact that the antagonist is LITERALLY Akito’s role in the story.

[friedwizardwhispers]

I’m confused and torn after this episode... I did like all the Momiji and Kyo stuff but I wish they didn’t shoehorn Ayame and Mine and Yuchi into the mix. I already explained why the yuchi scene didn’t work for me at this point (They are not at the right point in theirs relationship for Yuki to be thinking that) but it also bother me because they took off scenes from the Momiji’s chapters and added scenes from later on without the context for it.  

Also is it just me or are they trying to be more episodic than the manga is at this point ?