#and that foreshadows what AKITO eventually does!!!
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Momiji crossdresses because it helps him feel close to his mother.
He stops crossdressing when he reaches a point where the face in the mirror is too masculine to mistake for hers (or his sister's).
There's some symbolism there about letting go and moving on and accepting that there are things you can't get back and acknowledging that no matter how hard you try, you can't really be anyone but yourself. The same themes that run through the entire series.
Why is this so hard to understand?
#fruits basket#furuba#thoughts#momiji sohma#fandom critical#everytime i see another post going 'momiji should have been allowed to keep crossdressing' or 'it's not something he had to outgrow'#i lose braincells#OF COURSE IT WAS SOMETHING HE NEEDED TO OUTGROW#it was a TRAUMA RESPONSE to being rejected by his mother#if he'd been different maybe she wouldn't have pushed him away#if he'd been a girl she would have been able to hold him#he NEEDED to let go of all his 'what ifs' and learn to live with 'what is'#rather than spend his life chasing a daydream#and learning to let go is HOW HE BROKE HIS CURSE#because that's what the curse IS#it forces connections that don't need to exist and cuts away ones that do!!!#it traps you in regrets of the past and doesn't let you move forward!!!#the only way to break it is to accept losses and risk isolation by stepping out of your comfort zone#which is what momiji does!!!#and that foreshadows what AKITO eventually does!!!#what are y'all not getting?!?#all queued up
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