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[hellboundhimbo]

DUDEEEEEEEEE the way you get it. yusuke is such a misunderstood character i think and you just. hit the nail on the head god. i want to punch him but also give him a gentle kiss on the forehead bc i genuinely don’t think he’s ever received that kind of affection from anyone aside from keiko. and in my heart genkai i know she would never but their bond is very special to me ok ANYWAY YOURE SONREAL WITH HIEI AND YUSUKE. ive yapped abt this before with a friend of mine in dms a while back sooo already got the text locked and loaded teehee.

anyway their bond is like so special to me i think their dynamic is soo underrated i truly do. they’re just similar enough to simultaneously exacerbate each others best and worst traits and it makes me go absolutely crazy, how hiei tempts yusuke to win through brute force and embrace power and superiority while kuwabara tethers him to humanity in dark tournament (also love how hiei and kuwa, despite their bond bc they are friends i will die on this hill, will always butt heads bc they are opposite sides of a spectrum. wholly demon wholly human while yusuke is a chaotic neutral hanging in the middle to be tugged one direction or another. kurama meanwhile is a Secret Other Thing as he should be. yusuke is in the middle while kurama is both simultaneously, and his central conflict is that balancing act. I Love This Show.)

BUT YA the best way i can explain the difference between kuwabara and hiei in their relationships with yusuke is like. kuwabara can speak yusuke’s language (fighting,) but with hiei, that’s his mother tongue. maybe that makes no sense but that’s how i process it. bc they’re so similar like echoes of one another. the core difference between them is their nurture, yusuke raised in ningenkai and hiei in makai but other than that they’re so fucking similar at their cores. fighting is all they know. violence is safe and vulnerable emotion is baring your soft underbelly to be gutted, it’s dangerous it’s stupid and it’s (though they’d never say this part out loud,) terrifying. and they understand each other so well in that regard because like. same hat yk.

tho then again there comes that thing of yusuke hanging in the balance, both human and demon. tying into how even yusuke’s human friends couldn’t fully understand what made him tick bc he was quite literally not human. but even still, demons also can’t fully understand yusuke. he’s entirely unique in that regard, an unstoppable force of nature and your childhood friend flashing you a cheeky grin from down the street. and that isolation is nothing new for yusuke as well bc well that’s how he’s always lived, and even tho it makes him miserable bc he craves connection and understanding he repeatedly buts himself thru it bc it feels safer than vulnerability. better the devil you know. i love yusuke IM SO ILL OVER THIS SHOW

okay now i’m just getting into team urameshi rants um. anyway yes kuwameshi right my silly little guys. they deserve to have a big gay wedding where instead of kissing they punch each other in the eye. they understand each other in a way no one else rlly can and i just. i adore them so bad it’s terminal.

the codependency-> healthy relationship thing really has me thinking abt like. kuwabara and keiko right. just how they parallel each other so intensely throughout the show. like, kuwabara and yusuke’s relationship is Frequently used as a point of comparison in the shows plot (cough cough sensui and itsuki cough cough TOGURO AND GENKAI) but the specific similarities and contrasts between kuwabara and keiko make me wanna hurl, esp after yusuke leaves for makai. bc then kuwabara’s in keiko’s shoes, filling in that role of the jilted lover right alongside her. and yk the “lover” part is largely just my own interpretation, i don’t think togashi was like. secretly tryna rep the gays or anything (tho in the very unlikely circumstance he was, pop off king.) but STILL it’s suspect. idk i think kuwabara and keiko should be friends and bond but hey maybe that’s my keiko bias. i’m very attached to her JWJFISJDO.

anyway us rn

this could be kuwameshi if you guys would like. take my hand and trust me