#RGU

[butchdarling]

[ID: A Revolutionary Girl Utena fan comic titled "anthy and utena @ the gay bar"

Page 1: Title page showing Anthy sitting on the ground with her hair tied back facing a full length mirror. She looks at Utena, who is leaning into a closet.

Page 2: Four panels of Utena trying on different outfits: hair down in a big t-shirt, cargo shorts, and chunky sneakers; hair in a ponytail with a short sleeved collared shirt, sweater vest, dress shorts, and basketball shoes; short hair in a blazer, crop top, dress pants, and combat boots; and finally in a mullet, a t-shirt with the sleeves rolled up, jeans, and sneakers.

Page 3: A drawn Instagram post by shadow.girls @ Star Love showing the upside down castle over the dueling arena with cursive that says "Smash the World's Shell / free before 9 pm." The post has been liked "by juri.a and others" and is captioned "doors @ 8. dancing @ 10"

Page 4: Four panels of Anthy trying on different outfits: shoulder length hair with a cropped blouse, wrap skirt, and flats; back length hair in a frilly off the shoulder dress and heels; chin length hair with a large overcoat, bralette, dress pants, and loafers; and finally back length hair, a crop top with an image of Chu Chu on it, a long flowy skirt pinned to be shorter in the front, and sneakers. In each panel her smile grows, and in the last panel she poses with Utena.

Page 5: Two panelless closeups of Anthy's and Utena's hands. The first shows their hands above each other; Utena's knuckles are bloody and Anthy is wearing a single silver bangle. In the second they're holding hands. Utena's knuckles are healed; she wears a silver ring on her pinky, and Anthy has one on her index.

Page 6: Six panels of Anthy and Utena drawn into different photos of real bars. They're sitting together, dancing, and chatting. They're wearing slightly different outfits in each panel. The photos are rendered in half tones, and Anthy and Utena are in flat colors.

Page 7: Anthy and Utena sitting together. Anthy has a paper plate of food on her lap and smiles at Utena. Utena takes a sip of her drink and smiles at Anthy. There's a starry sky behind them, and above them is written "we're right in the center of it." End ID]

a lil love letter to this past june

[wouldyoustilllovemeifiwasacar]

My stupid shitposts - a collection

[tbyybee]

lebanese

again

[heytinskatin]

i'll put it on my wedding list

[gemishrooms]

heavily inspired by The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche

[bundleofstyx]

dressed her in my pretty red ouji outfit. because i love her

[huesofvioletandpurple]

[ID: a digital drawing of Utena Tenjou from Revolutionary Girl Utena. She holds her sword by gripping the handle with one hand and hovers the blade just above the other. She looks to the right with wide determined eyes. The background is white, except for the pink roses drawn behind Utena. The artist's watermark, HAP'20, is on her leg. End ID]

ISAGIYOKU KAKKOYOKU IKITE YUKOU

i love Utena very much okay

Repost from my personal blog; originally drawn December 2020. (COMMISSIONS)

[naowyd]

It's always that mother fucking rose haunting the baddest hotties 😤😡🙄

It's tough out here 👾✨️

[nivdoodles]

Anthy from Utena :3 specifically in her pink outfit w her hair down in the finale, if that's okay! But any Anthy is fine.

[l0v33r]

⊱☆ revolutionary girl utena official art ☆⊰

[stupidityis4ever]

IAM PHYSICALLY TWEKAIN OYT OG MY GOD I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS I LOVE HOLE I LOVE RGU WHAT EBWBSBSNAJWOWKOWOWOWSKKSISOWOWOKEHEHEEHHSBDBSNNSNWJWJSNSNWJS OHMYVIFWOHMUGOF OH MY GOD KOH MY GOD. OH MY GO F OH MY AAZAIVIHSIGOUHOHSHAUOOCDUOVJDFJVLFSCJSOBCOFSCUWBVOURSOCOFSCBUOCFUOOHCHHVGDIDKDKWKWKWKOQKKAKWKWKANSNS. SJSJWIIA. AAAAAAAAAAAA

nanami inspired by hole's "live through this" album cover

[wouldyoustilllovemeifiwasacar]

Anthy deserves the world actually

[rabarbarzcukrem]

Bells in Santa Fe | Anthy Himemiya amv

also on youtube

[dbl-mnth]

No matter where you are, I'll find you for sure!

[anonymous-gambito]

A correction: When I first wrote this, I wasn't sure of how much of Touga's movie backstory to assign to his series counterpart, but now, although I still believe there are differences between the two, I do subscribe to the idea that Touga in the show (along with Nanami in this case) was also sold by his parents to the Kiryuu family.

Word of God/movie backstory aside, it suddenly came to me that there is one other gap of knowledge that has probably contributed to a significant part of the alienation between Touga and Nanami, and it's something that existed throughout all of Nanami's life, so it's given that she wouldn't truly notice it: Touga knows they're adopted, Nanami does not. I think that makes a big difference.

Touga's backstory is bound not to be the exact same as the movie (After all, Nanami isn't even there with him), so I'll let myself speculate a bit. Their biological parents could have died, they could have abandoned them or sold them, or the siblings could have been removed from their care, and unless Nanami was brought in later to wherever Touga was, it's safe to assume that he spent at least 5 years with his original parents. He has memories of a different family, and of losing that family. Nanami doesn't even know about any of it. She doesn't realize there is a side of her brother that she never got to meet.

"Blood" is very important to Nanami. Blood is what Nanami uses to try and reassure herself that the parents who are cold and distant to her, and the brother who's grown cold and distant too, have an eternal unbreakable bond. It's very brittle though. Nanami constantly fears being replaced, discarded or harmed by her family. Most often by Touga, who ironically, happens to be her only blood relative there.

Her anxiety can be very easily explained by her experiences with how she was treated growing up in the Kiryuu household, but I do wonder if there's some subconscious parts of her that tap into these knowledge gaps too. I already felt like it was there, in the way her love for her brother is as protective as it is possessive, and how to protect him from harm, be it real or perceived, she can go feral, often shooting wildly at whoever she thinks is to blame, always hitting the wrong targets; and so maybe, I thought, it is possible that her anxieties are also tied to these repressed early childhood memories. Ones of once having a family, and then losing that world, being thrown someplace unfamiliar. Vague mostly forgotten memories fueling her fear of abandonment, working like a constant little nagging at the back of her head signaling to her how little blood ties really matter in the end.

"Blood" doesn't matter to Touga in the same way. He doesn't hold into a rose colored view of it. He knows by experience how easily those ties can be severed, how fickle they are. That's why when he found a little girl in a coffin, a little girl who spoke of there not being anything eternal, of how those you care about are bound to leave you, and questioning what's even the point of living then, he couldn't give her anything. He couldn't save her. He didn't know the answer for himself either.