#in edo in the present where gintoki has surrounded himself with new people from edo from his present katsura is significant in how hes

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alright i dont think im ever going to find the original post with the tags about gintoki past vs present + future so

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anyway. specific characters being tied to gintokis past vs his present + the fact that gintokis past is dead and buried in the ground aka takasugi had to die. not to say gintama is a tragedy but. *gestures broadly* but this is actually a tangent off of the point that i wanted to actually get to (and havent actually gotten to yet) so like yes society if takasugi and hijikata got to interact in canon but also they couldnt have. wait im getting interrupted by another tangent. sakamoto isnt intricately tied to gintokis past in the same way as the other two are and while katsura shares the same past from shoson hes managed to worm himself into gintokis present too to steal other peoples thoughts: katsura is a liminal space in edo in the present where gintoki has surrounded himself with new people from edo from his present katsura is significant in how hes recurring not in a recurring antagonist way like takasugi but as a regular part of the main cast. katsura is gintokis past invading his present and making itself a home in there anyway the actual point of this is sometimes i think about takasugi and hijikatas roles and how they differ like yeah superficially dark haired surly smoking 'rivals' 'gintoki has a type haha' but also i just always get caught up in present edo. youre in edo in the present and nobody is going to die. gintama sazae san setting where its perpetually present except actually its moving into gintokis past until the very end where he finally. finally buries his past for real anyway this is all mostly just spawned from takagin 'one of us will die in this place' vs ginhiji 'your face is so fucking stupid' (-op)

the reason the shared motif of wanting to have a drink together drives me insane. some things can only be fulfilled as a recreation. doppelgängers and time travellers are not allowed to meet their counterparts. gintama characters who are walking corpses ouvre vs. hijikata who regradless of everything has never truly died (tosshi notwithstanding lmao) (-kraniumet)

alright i dont think im ever going to find the original post with the tags about gintoki past vs present + future so