👉👈 if you're taking natsumiya requests... Yumehisa comforting Natsume after the ">Take his hand" ending in DF?
>Take his hand is such a bad end for me that I never even considered a hurt/comfort scenario for this ending LMAO only hurt/hurt. BUT NOW THAT YOU'VE ASKED I AM THINKING ABOUT IT... I hope this is comforting enough?? I am so unused to writing comfort, so it was really fun to try!
[Full game spoilers]
He finds Natsume standing outside a familiar church.
Honestly. Mamiya had looked away for one second, and when he'd turned back around, Natsume was gone. Just up and disappeared. Poof. He was like a child at the playground, wandering off without parental supervision. It would've been funny, if Mamiya didn't have severe abandonment issues.
"There you are," Mamiya huffs out as he approaches Natsume. He tries not to let his voice waver, tries not to let it show that he'd spend the better half of the day panicking as he'd near turned Tokyo upside down trying to find him.
Mamiya spent the past 3,000 years alone; he absolutely refuses to go through that again.
Especially now that he's here with him now.
Mamiya easily slips his hand around his other half's elbow. "What are you doing here, you silly little Spectator? Awfully rude of you to leave me without saying anything, you know."
Natsume doesn't react. He's standing on the steps of the church entrance, staring through the propped open double doors, and when Mamiya follows his gaze, he sees--
Mamiya's heart, if he had a heart, drops to his stomach.
Inside the church are Kikuchi Ryou, Morichika Haruki, and Toujou Minato, talking in hushed tones. All of them look clearly, obviously, blatantly upset.
And Keito is nowhere to be seen.
Mamiya feels himself moving before he can even think, wedging himself in front of Natsume to blocking Natsume's view of his friends.
That finally gets a reaction out of him. Natsume makes a face of confusion. "Hey--"
"Nope," Mamiya says. He puts his hands on Natsume's shoulders and pushes him back, forcing him to stumble backwards down the steps. "Don't try to look."
"Wait--Mamiya--" Natsume makes a sound of protest, attempting to crane his neck, to catch a glimpse of what his friends will do or say about his lack of presence, but Mamiya grabs his head and forces him to look away.
"Stop. Just don't."
"But I--"
Mamiya's mind is dizzy with panic. "Look, you've already given up on them," he says, and the fight seems to just drop out of Natsume's body all at once, his shoulders slumping. "You don't need to know what they'll do without you."
You don't want to know what they'll do without you, Mamiya doesn't say. Because Natsume is soft, has always been soft, and he doesn't need to see how grief can warp the people he loves.
Mamiya takes his arm and leads him away from the church, and this time, Natsume doesn't protest it. He doesn't even try to look backwards at the friends he's left behind, and for that, Mamiya is grateful. Keito's absence in that church claws at Mamiya's heart, but it's okay.
It's okay.
Natsume chose to give up. That means the Spectators will leave them alone. That means Mamiya can have as many chances as he needs to fix this mess they've gotten themselves into.
Because if there's anything Mamiya isn't lacking, it's time.
Mamiya leads them down roads and sidewalks, not really sure where they're going, as long as it takes them further away from the church. They walk until they reach the ocean, and Mamiya thinks of a fateful morning thousands of years ago and sighs.
He turns and grasps Natsume's hands in his. Natsume' looks sullen, and he avoids Mamiya's eyes.
"It's okay," Mamiya reassures him. He squeezes Natsume's hands a little tighter. "You were right to give up on them. There was nothing you could've done," he lies.
Natsume finally meets his gaze, and Mamiya feels some sick satisfaction when he sees that his red eyes, normally so alive with love and hope and passion, are now utterly desolate. "I shouldn't have left them," Natsume mumbles.
"Maybe," Mamiya says. "But you did. So stop worrying about them. I told you, I'll take care of everything."
Even if it took Mamiya years, or centuries, or millennia. It's not like he had anything better to do, after all. What was another thousand years if it meant that Keito and Osamu and Mayuri and Touma and Satoru could all live long, happy lives?
Natsume's gaze drops to their joined hands, as if he doesn't quite believe Mamiya's words. His voice is tiny when he asks, "Really?"
"Yeah." Mamiya smiles bitterly. He brushes a lock of golden hair out of Natsume's face, and those red eyes flit upwards, and Mamiya thinks he sees a tiny pinprick of light returned to them. Mamiya hopes, desperately, that he can live up to his expectations. "You might have left them, but I'll never leave you, Natsume. Because you chose me."
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The Mamiyas Symbolism with the characters
I wanted to discuss the groups Mamiyas there is so much symbolism played in them I wanted to write a post about the fours Mamiyas, This is all interpretation feel free to disagree or add. I am going to talk about it in this post so if you haven’t played the game yet beware of spoilers down the line.
The fours Mamiyas are very self explanatory if you played the game but here I am going to elaborate on it and what it means. Later in the game its revealed that that the Mamiyas encountered in FallDown were illusions that manifested themselves based on the influence of the members of the pink house. I also think that the Mamiyas appearance are not only based on the members of the pink house but also the main fours themselves.
Minato’s Mamiya:
Minato’s mamiya appears as a boy with a gas mask, when looked closely at the clothes he wears it starkly resembles a musical conductor with the gloves, bow ties and long coat are part of a musical conductors clothes. Minatos Mamiya resembling a music conductor references Minatos love of classical music.The gas mask in Minatos Mamiya plays importance to Minato himself as a person.Minatos cheerful public persona could be considered a mask to hide his true self. the mask could mean in how Minato hides his true self from others in fear of ostracized.
Minato’s Mamiya symbolizes Minatos desire to be loved for who he is.
Minato’s Mamiyas true identity is Touma Morichika, Haruki’s brother and Minato's preschool music teacher. the musical conductor outfit in Mamiya’s design references Touma’s occupation as a music teacher.
Ryou’s Mamiya:
Ryou’s Mamiya is a child with a rabbit mask, Ryou’s Mamiya is very self explanatory. The rabbit mask resembles a plush toy. Ryou’s Mamiya entire design being both a young boy and a plush toy notes Ryou’s childlike innocence that is shoved because of pain and responsibility.
Ryou’s Mamiya symbolizes Ryou’s childlike longing for a parental figure.
Ryou’s Mamiya true identity is Arisugawa Osamu, one of his mothers boyfriends that took an interest in his well being by bring him books to read and taking him to amusement parks. Ryous Mamiya behavior towards his well being can be taken from how Osamu treated him. another thing that can be notes in Mamiya’s child design could reference the fact that Osamu is a children's book author. In the way His Mamiya himself his father is how Ryou viewed Osamu as a parental figure of sorts due to being the only one to ever show concern towards his well being.
Haruki’s Mamiya:
Haruki’s Mamiya is a little girl in a nurses uniform.the nurse uniform in her design could look like a nurse treating there patient Haruki is considered a sickly patient due to his unwell constitution. Haruki’s Mamiyas notes Haruki’s heavy wanting for companionship and love.
Haruki’s Mamiya symbolizes Haruki’s desire to be healed from his wounds created from the loneliness he felt.
Haruki’s Mamiya true identity is Mayuri Niigaki, Haruki’s nurse who taught him how to seduce woman, Mayuri opened up to Haurki when they were patient and nurse because she realized they are painfully alone.. Haruki’s Mamiya being a little girl in a nurse uniform comes from her.
I saved Keito’s Mamiya for last since Keitos Mamiya is a lot harder because I find Keito the most complicating character out of the main four.
Keito’s Mamiya:
Keito’s Mamiya is an invisible friend that only Keito notices. Keito’s Mamiya could resemble an imaginary friend that you would have one that would only be seen by you and is invisible to everyone else. This notes Keitos personality, his childlike sense of wonder and imagination. His Mamiya symbolizes not only Keito’s childlike imagination but his fears of the mundane and growing up
This is my interpretation of what the Mamiyas I could be wrong though if you think so feel free to check I am open to discussion.
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