#mana being cheerful and happy and innocent regardless of age
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mana in nea's memories
(ch219)
(ch221 -- second pic is a bit of a cheat because that's walker mana, not campbell mana)
(bonus cross from ch234 because, again, he is always remembered by other people as smiling/laughing)
nea in mana's memories/dreams/hallucinations
(ch219)
(ch236)
(ch241)
(ch242)
#dgm#nea d campbell#mana d campbell#i'm having feelings of some indeterminate kind#nea is always ALWAYS smiling from mana's perspective#he only ever drops that smile if 1) mana's not watching#or 2) he's momentarily startled/surprised--at which point he immediately picks it back up to continue smiling#and the singular time nea's reminiscence of mana doesn't include a smiling mana is that ''YOU AND I. NEA AND MANA'' panel#which does not seem a memory so much as a juxtaposition of their positions (past v present. brother v brother)#maybe a moment when nea's trying to convince mana --while still smiling!!!-- of something. or trying to comfort him#also the image they each have of the other????#mana being cheerful and happy and innocent regardless of age#nea being upbeat and looking slightly mischievous as a child. but subdued and gentle and supportive and forgiving when grown up.#mana's nea is so radically different from like. every other nea we see. the only one that comes close is the ch198 face reveal#where he's smiling so gently and calmly. but his words???? mana's nea would never speak like that#they each have this idealized image of the other#i love these doomed codependent brothers :')#i wonder if we'll ever see non-happy mana from nea's perspective. assuming hoshino goes deep into his head at some point#fragmentaries
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