#but she genuinely doesn't sound mad--just kind of disconcerted.

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#the more i think about this movie the more wild it is to me that these two made it ALL THE WAY TO THE ALTAR #and it took murasaki getting kidnapped by ninjas mid-ceremony for goemon to realize that maybe he hadn't thought this all the way through #(which is SUCH an aro/ace thing to do djdhdjsdgfkl. i usually hc him as bi but he gives off SUCH ace energy in this movie.) #and it brings up all sorts of questions; like how much did she know? was she just totally cool w/him being an assassin & notorious thief? #i mean i like to think so bc murasaki is an absolute pal and it would be REALLY shitty of goemon not to say #but i wish we got ANYTHING more than the super brief montage they gave us of their relationship together #i've seen people talk in fic about them doing a long-distance thing which i can TOTALLY buy #but how did they get this far without realizing they wanted different things? were they both just determined to make it work #bc they got along so well platonically (and MAYBE romantically) and knew it would be a good move for their families? #(the Advanced HC is that murasaki is also ace but given that she seems to want more physical affection from him in canon that's hc only) #anyway. they should have let murasaki join the gang even if she and goemon weren't going to work out as a married couple #i know that franchise policy is not to let one-off female npcs reappear but it would be so much fun to see or even just hear about her again #with several more years under everyone's belts