#tldr; family won't know jack until its obvious asf

[scoups4lyfe]

hey scoups... I'd like to ask.. other than Ikki, (and maybe George) is anyone else aware of Ikki's ultimate fate of being forgotten? (wait, is George even aware of Ikki's fate aside from disappearing in pictures?)

As far as I’m aware (up to episode 33, maybe I’ll REBLOG this with updates as I catch up.)

The only people that have even noticed Ikki’s photo disappearance are: Vice (the cause), Ikki (sacrifice central), and George (manipulative bastard)

I think out of everyone — the only family member with the slightest chance of noticing Ikki’s deletion-of-self would be Daiji — but uuuh lol

I’m gonna be under the assumption that Daiji will be too self-involved to be aware of what’s going on until it’s too late.

(And seeing as we’re entering Daiji’s Go-Stupid-Go-Crazy Arc — Haha we love a good pathetic!loser Arc let’s goooooo)

I highly doubt Daiji is going to notice.

Sakura still in a way sees Ikki like a Superman figure, I don’t think she knows a single lick about his insecurities and traumas so she 100% does not know what is happening and most likely won’t until it becomes so explicitly obvious — like Ikki forgetting her name or something.

And his parents?

Oh, they mean well <33. But they don’t know sh*t about Ikki.

They’re used to the other kids having problems — not Ikki.

I’m always reminded of episode 8 and episode 12.

At the end of episode 8 — the absolute insanity of asking Ikki to save Daiji RIGHT after Daiji beat the sh*t out of him and tried to kill him still boggles my mind.

Tbh I don’t think they would ask this from him if they understood how much pain and anxiety and hurt it put him through.

I was talking with my friend Nacho about this not too long ago, but they messaged the chat saying they got a closer look into Ikki's parents mentality. (As Nacho and Ikki are very, very, similar.)

Here's their personal reference:

Nacho: (basically had walked too much and got blisters/sore feet)

“--Anyways we had been at the airport for hours already — but it wasn’t until the last hour that my dad was like:

‘Oh? Does your foot still hurt?”

“If I had ever complained my parents would’ve fallen over themselves to help me. But I never do, and even when somebody else brings it up, I always deny it and downplay it, and have been doing it my whole life.”

[End personal reference quotes lol]

So I put in my friend’s personal reference to show just how Ikki and his parents are in relation to each other.

Yeah — obviously different people, different lives. But the foundation is the same.

Ikki’s parents aren’t able to read his micro expressions. They never learned how, and since he hid how he really felt because he had the be the one capable enough to protect the family and raise his siblings.

(He couldn’t let himself be a burden.)

This is why the end of episode 8 and why just episode 12 in generaal really GOT me. There’s no better proof that Ikki’s parents don’t know how to read Ikki’s expressions than the episode 12 dinner conversation.

I screenshot and bring it up often and I won’t be stopping now

The episode 11 lunch scene has GOT my a$$.

Even injured his parents don’t realize that Ikki is really hurt and anxious. Dude is not eating! Not acting how he usually does!!

!!!!!

And it’s still wild to me that they aren't able to pick up on this--

Ugh breaks my heart every time I watch the scene LOL. My DUDE :((.

"(wait, is George even aware of Ikki's fate aside from disappearing in pictures?)"

Hmmm. I don't know how the narrative is placing this--

But I'm assuming George knows exactly what is going on.

We've seen (legit the first 13 episode are a good example of this) just how perceptive George can be. It didn't take him long to find Daiji suspicious, and it also didn't take him long to figure out Daiji had split into a different personality.

Then he manipulated Hiromi -- Knowing exactly what Hiromi would do-- because George needs to be that perceptive.

Which is why I can't help but wonder just what his game is here

like??

What reason does he have for not telling anyone? Hm??? Really suspicious. Makes me wonder just how much of an "ally" he really is.