#if i read the vn ill just melt i think

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Shirou absolutely calls Taiga “mom” sometimes. You can’t convince me otherwise he absolutely does.

Its rare, he has to be dead on his feet tired for it to happen, but he absolutely calls her “mom”. Neither of them mention it because the implications of that are so fucked up its not even remotely funny, but the first time Shirou worked himself to exhaustion with housework because Taiga looked away for too long and didn’t stop him in time, and she had to carry him to his room and tuck him in, she patted his hair and sighed and right before she left the room she heard him mumble “mom” and she had to leave the room very very quickly because she didn’t want to wake him up with her crying.

I think Shirou and Taiga’s dynamic is something between “tooth rooting sweetness” and “oh god that’s so fucked” because of the events of Fuyuki and because of Shirou’s relationship with Kiritsugu and how it so very visibly fucked him up and how Taiga knows how much its fucked him up so on the one hand she’d give her life for this boy but on the other hand she absolutely doesn’t believe she deserves to be called that because half the damn time the kid is the one taking care of her because getting drunk is easier than dealing with memories of blood and fire, she loves him but he needs to love someone else because Taiga Fujimura isn’t the one who deserves it.

(Shirou doesn’t know why he does it either. Because Fuji-nee is Fuji-nee and she isn’t even that old and he doesn’t even really remember his mom enough to make the comparison but like always Shirou makes do with what he has, but sometimes Taiga looks at him with a sad smile that makes her look a decade older and. and sometimes words just fit even if they don’t make sense.)