#maybe yashiro's being compensated in PTO or s/t he's gotta be making bank somehow

[iamtheonethinginlifeicancontrol]

#almost 2025 and i bet yashiro STILL hasn't gotten the raise he deserves. SIGH.

ren tsuruga is such a fun character because he spends five years crafting the perfect public persona; dissociating so hard to the point where he's treating "kuon hizuri" as a completely different person altogether; trying his hardest to sell the image of a perfect gentleman who never says or does the wrong thing...

...and enter kyoko mogami. even before he knows that she's the kyoko he met as a child, he drops the act around her and shows her his true self without even thinking about it. and even when he's actively trying to keep the facade up, she sees right through him so easily. i just know yashiro was having the biggest whiplash of his life those first couple of months when his serious, older-than-his-age charge suddenly started acting like the barely-out-of-his-teens boy that he was; antagonizing and childishly teasing this random girl (who gave as good as she got) but also being so obviously, pathetically in love with her and being completely unaware of it.