HAHAHA, I'm glad! I thought I was rea⁓lly clever for that joke. I care about Knights even though I don't produce them! My lack of attention felt shameful enough to me that I ridded myself of my NewDiP title despite it being my most favourite agency of all. I think I can share some thoughts in regards to this.

(I'm biased because I'm a tremendous fan of narratives where there's a role reversal (for example, I find it based to imagine MKSH starting off appearing to be SHMK, whether it really was or not), like KitaKawa. I know it's baby's first "toxic yuri", but that aspect of it is just — it's so good...! Not that they're similar to the girls in that manga whatsoever, it's just an example. Also, feel free to take this however you like in the R/S status department.)

Long ago, I learnt from the best that Tsukasa's importance to Leo is often undermined. That love wasn't enough to save him, no matter how much Sena did. That Tsukasa grew to understand him in a way others could not (and wished to understand himself through him) just as Leo had asked him to make an effort to, who could tell that his outbursts were cries for help. He was the key to Leo's salvation. This earnest, clumsy, "sweet child" who loved him and hated him all at once, who envied his wild and free nature, held the fragile Leo that Sena was afraid to touch, despite everything. Tsukasa etched his name into Leo's mind (is that not an attack inflicted onto him?), even though Leo's refusal was likely deliberate, to shield himself from the possibility of having to someday forget it. As one of my friends once said, who definitely understands them more than I ever could and who's words and mind I tend to revere, "Tsukasa literally guided Leo from hell to purgatory to heaven - to a chapter called Lux Aeterna." It got stuck in my mind.

At the start, he had to live up to his image in his absence even though all the other members were more experienced than he was, and prior to that, he'd relied on his songs for strength, only for them to immediately not get along as soon as they got the chance to meet! The reason I say Leo was on the right then is because of the way things were... I mean, to be a "king" is inherently a position of power. He gave orders high-handedly without showing his face, referring to him as "newbie" to the point of frustrating poor Tsukasa, who had childish dreams when it came to their unit. Leo was such a dickhead (typical of a seme, ugh. Just kidding.) with how he treated him when he first came back, even if it came from a place of love and wanting the best for the unit he cared about, attending their lives to give unpleasant smiles and yawns to this first year! He was "broken", Izumi said, going so far as to compare Leo's past self to Tsukasa... we all know he's an unreliable narrator, especially when it comes to things in relation to Leo, but that definitely had merit and continued to be a recurring theme throughout Knights' narrative.

Tsukasa felt provoked by him, but Leo would just brush it off, making comments about his "pretty face" like it was nothing! How aggravating. Hehe. I like that kind of thing. The prodding at him. The "judgment" was an attack on Leo's behalf, or a dare for Tsukasa to do so himself. But, but⁓... Tsukasa worked so hard to prove himself. He was also very proactive in how he was always searching for him when he'd get lost, or something, always so considerate. He even insisted on Leo staying as their king. But then, in Requiem, the switch was cemented, as the crown was passed onto Tsukasa.

In a more reductive way, I like senpais that are overtaken by their kouhai... who force them to see them as their equal. Especially when Leo says things like "Grow big, Suo~... Big enough to surpass me!" only to end up calling him out for being "cheeky" and "treating his leader like a child" in later stories. It's really good.

Forgive me if I missed any nuances, I just don't go here a lot. ♪

Most of my argument is an uninteresting “well, I just like it”. He’s quite appealing on either side. I struggle to be fixed because I love entertaining different ideas, trying to understand why people see it one way or the other, honing in on certain traits & wondering why they’d act that way or if they even would, though usually preferring to grasp the bigger picture. There’s some I’m 99.9% fixed on & don’t trust many with the 0.1%, it can change depending on CP, too. Even though I take seme/seme & uke/uke into consideration.

I don’t distrust people with uke Leo & wouldn’t argue about it as adamantly as Eichi or Rinne. I just like it more. I think he’s capable of inflicting onto another, a la ishidan. I believe in him. He’s a small carnivorous feline with a lot of potential. Hard to rein in, snaggle toothed, a bit of an asshole (though a recovered one at this point). I guess that makes uke Leo satisfying to others, especially with his cute & small body… sorry, what were we talking about again? Anyway. Small semes are really cute〜! That’s a big part of it! I just really love unconventional semes!

“Then why did you specify that you think he’s a seme too?” You might be asking in your head. I just wanted to, I guess ♪ it’s harder for me to make arguments IRT semehood, I realized. Even though I’m seme-minded. I was talking about seme Niki with my friend the other day, and tried my best. I wanted to contrast Leo with Eichi. To call them both semes is in the same vein as two sheep hitting horns, as my lover said to put it into perspective a little better, using animal analogies that I am also all too fond of.

Leo marks his territory by bunting against others and sizes them up by rubbing against them and stuff. Hehe, how cute. An uke could too. Even so, I think it would come to him more authentically than Madara, if that makes sense. I can see MDLO and I enjoy it, but the reverse is so, so much yummier to me. I’ve read LOMD doujins and everything. I just like it!!!!!!! When it comes to him & Sena, I prefer leoizu… it just makes sense. Some say there’s a phenomenon where a lot of what the English fandom refers to as izuleo actually falls under leoizu, that it is the more popular dynamic, but ENG fans don’t tend to care about name order. Also, a lot of scholars (not all, it’d be a lie to say that, or to imply that it makes them fake fans for thinking otherwise, I have no grounds to say that) have LOIZ as their OTP and IZLO as their NOTP. It might seem extreme to you, but I’m sure they must have a reason beyond just, wanting Sena to receive. (I notice people tend to care more about the uke than the seme in a CP. which is fine, but feels a little shallow…) And usually IZLO fans go way harder with the seme-uke physiognomy which isn't a genuine reason to like one more but it's scary to me, even if LOIZ fans do too, sometimes.

The leader switch from Leo to Tsukasa is just like a switch from right to left, between them, hahaha〜!

Hm-hm? Don’t take it personally, I block for an endless number of ridiculous reasons. It could have been something you said, or I didn’t like your profile’s decor, or I didn’t get a good energy from you, or something as small as you coming up in a search too much for whatever reason! I might remember if you give me your @.

I’m always happy to know people care about what I have to say, thank you. No matter how much I try, it’s too long, so I’ll post the answer as screenshots! I hope it satisfies you, somehow.

Also, because I’ve been talking about them a lot, I keep thinking about Keito and Eichi… they’re so important. “I'm sorry for making you wait, I've arrived at your heart”… I think I should read more stories involving them and ruminate some more. I find it interesting how Eichi’s kind of an asshole, and Keito’s a condescending asshole. Fun.

I could have elaborated on the keichi & keirei parts, probably, but I cut it short due to trying and failing to be under the char. limit and don’t want to work on this answer for any longer… There is something far too thrilling about Rei as a provocative uke, though.

That’s a good question! Honestly, I feel like their development would be pretty linear even if there’d be moments where they’d mess up. It’s hard to ponder about when I haven’t had enough life experience yet. But, um⁓… They’re one of the few pairings in Ansta I can see staying beside each other forever, even if it’d take them a while to actually confess that to each other in a romantic way, which is what I hope you’re asking me about. I think it’d be harder for Tsumugi than it is for Natsume, because to say you love someone is easier than saying you want to change the entire nature of your relationship, especially because he’d be happy as long as he gets to be beside him, or tell himself that, but I feel like he’d selfishly want more, too, not realizing Natsume feels the same — Natsume probably lives with this little thought in the back of his mind that he’ll always love Tsumugi more than he could ever love him, but he suffers because of this in a far more normal boy way, especially after the war.

I’d like it if they moved out of Seisoukan and got their own apartment. I specifically want an apartment rather than a house. So that’s indulgence on my behalf. Tsumugi would be sooo bare minimals (but with a comfy flair, I think) while Natsume would have a more witchy decor style, haha. You’d be able to tell who decorated what. Even if they retire, though I think they’d be a pretty long-lasting unit, Natsume would stay in the public eye while Tsumugi would continue mostly working behind the scenes due to his desire to be in a “support” role (they all are as magicians, but Tsumugi gets a sense of fulfilment out of it like no other despite Natsume also being the people pleasing type).

When it comes to their relationship itself… I think that s&m thing of theirs would persist since it’s a very vital part of their dynamic. It keeps them sane: makes Natsume feel secure, and Tsumugi feel like he's doing good to keep his word. As time passes, it becomes less under-negotiated. Well, they’re kind of already at that point compared to their high school years. But, I feel there’s a lot they haven’t discussed yet. For example, I don’t think Natsume is really aware of how much Tsumugi enjoys their arrangement (thinking back to when he was like, “Whoaaa! You’ve been so kind lately, I’m glad to see your tough side again!” in Shinsekai… that’s not normal at all).

Uuuum… this isn’t “relationship” and more so miscellaneous, but I like to think about them going to events together, and having rings and everything. It’d be comforting to Tsumugi, who has always dreamed of being happily married, but it also really satisfies Natsume’s possessive side. Previously the closest thing was the romanticism of Tsumugi’s ears having been pierced by him that only exists in my mind but I adore it more than anything. I love piercings not only for their look but because of the act of piercing itself, and just, imagine the scene in my head, I could probably write a piece about it if I wanted because it’s hard for me to describe in just a few words in this answer — but that was an event only he knew of. It boosts his ego to have people know Tsumugi is his with something like that as much as it does to stand beside him with their difference in self-presentation. I like to imagine them bickering at the grocery store. And how Natsume’s cats would take a while to grow to trust Tsumugi and let him near them, but one day Natsume comes home and Tsumugi’s passed out from exhaustion on the sofa with papers in his hand and one of them on his chest and the other at his legs, or something, hehe.

I’d like for Tsumugi to learn to rely on him & for Natsume to be less cryptic when necessary (he can still be for fun!). I’d probably have more interesting things to say if I reread Switch stories, the only one I did recently was Tri-lights⁓… sorry if this wasn’t satisfying at all.

Thank you so much! It makes me embarrassed to talk so much about my rival, but he’s hard not to think about.

As you may be able to tell by the emojis in my location (meant to signify TsumuMadaTsumu, for those not in the know), I see Madara as reversible. However, one could say to be an uke is his default. I know why it’s unpopular, but I might even prefer him as one; my reasoning being as simple as me being the type who enjoys seeing characters in unexpected (on a surface level) positions, ones that bring out different sides of them or push them to their limits.

Madara is proficient in the art of “fumbling the bag”, so to speak. That isn’t to say a seme can’t, but he has a lot of traits that can be read as “ukeful” in a way that I personally enjoy. He may be audacious and bold, but beneath that he’s self conscious & sacrificial. He craves love, but he’s hesitant to ask for it. He’ll “take initiative” (be annoying, look after someone, or both) until he realizes he’s getting too close. God forbid it be returned, for he’ll be at a loss. Did you see him in that Idol Story with Kurou? Yeah… that is, in part, why I confidently make so many jokes about that aspect of him. He’s so unused to reciprocity that it’s impossible for him to take responsibility for another’s feelings properly if it’s up to him, afraid of harming them in a way that’s almost condescending due to the assumption that nobody would be able to handle him. He might think it’s to protect others, but it might be to protect his heart without realizing. That should make him bad at receiving, right? Isn’t that what being an uke is? I think it could also make him bad at attacking in any meaningful way. Either way, it’s interesting.

There are many flavours of Madara that I enjoy! I’ve observed that in other cases, i.e. Hiiro, ←→ can cause a big disparity when it comes to people’s interpretation of their motivations, personality, sometimes even their physique. It can be downright reductive. Madara, from what I’ve seen, has a characterization that is more consistently faithful (unless they are being indulgent or using him as a vessel, which isn’t illegal but does make go, hey, this isn’t how he would act at all — same with Rinne, too) but it’s never too egregious, hahaha.

Madara is a character that, to me, has to be tamed. I’ve said this for years. As aptly put by my friend Taya, he’s a big dog that’s hard to get a leash on (or even find one that fits at all). This aspect of him is easy to bend in either direction. But because he’s the kind of guy to do whatever he wants whenever he wants, I’d like to see him be put in his place in the sense that he bit off more than he could chew.

Essentially, he is an uke until it is more entertaining for him not to be, typically due to being out-uke’d. For example, I’m infinitely more fixed when it comes to Rei, thus, Madara’s uke-isms are overridden (you’re just not there yet, successor). They are similar in a lot of ways, but I feel Rei is more inclined to be an uke (previously flamboyant, now… a tired old man!) In an exciting way, Madara as a person is less bait-and-switch, and more push-and-pull (there is nuance). I like when he’s cocky until he isn’t, I like if others assume he’s a seme when he’s not, and I like if he’s doted on the way in a way that would heal the damaged child inside of him (it’d be fine if this happened when he’s the seme, too), even if I also like when he’s teasing and kind of awful. I like to see him be pathetic too, crumbling “Mama” and only leaving Madara (who can be cruel, but…). Oh, Rinne out-ukes him to me, too! I think it’d be cute for Madara to uke for Chiaki, too… maybe it could start off as madachia, but end up reversed, with Chiaki pursuing him?! Much to think about. In MDKN don't care who's ←→ as long as Kanata is in control somehow. Generally, I most often like it when Madara is an older uke or younger seme.

That’s it for now. Thank you, and sorry if it was nothing.

My favourite most beloved NPC, the president of New Dimension! In this context「 所長 」means “president” or “director”, and Tsumugi likes to call him shochō-kun (or director-kun/president-kun)! His real name has not yet been disclosed. Similarly, Tsumugi is the「 副所長 」or "fuku shochō".

You’re so sweet and thoughtful, thank you! I wasn’t worried about that, more-so just… Shy somehow?! Like, do I have the right…? And stuff. Maybe when the esupuri event comes along, which is confirmed to happen this year. I get the not being invested in younger characters stuff, the more you grow up the less relatable they seem, huh…? Kanna’s turning thirteen in !!! era, at least, and they’re probably going to have an interesting narrative surrounding their age and what it means to debut as an idol when you’re so young.

Here’s your response. Sorry that it took so long… 💦 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ENCq8U_2C6i63O7uFkZbERCkS59Ztt2FWQislIwaDhc/edit

I was going to reply sooner but I got distracted halfway through typing! Kind words will never grow old, so I really appreciate it…! Most of all, I’m happy that my earnestness gets across, because I am truly and unironically such a fan of what ansta has to offer in terms of its story (as well as other aspects) even though there is so much to be critical of, too. And, I’m glad to be considered clever ///// …

Ansta fans, particularly on here, can be volatile and unkind towards others for lacking knowledge or even interpreting things in different ways than them while being well-read, so I understand your hesitation. Even I get shy sometimes, because of an imposter syndrome of sorts. I do encourage you to ruminate and read more about the units or characters you love, though :-)!

Thank you for reading what I have to say.

One could say I’m big on them, yeah. (Leaning against the madatsumu document I wrote like it’s a ferrari).

However, after conducting a day’s long investigation and even consulting fellow madatsumu experts like my friend Tokuto, my research has been… inconclusive! :;(∩´﹏`∩);: I remember him using this nickname, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what story, or if it was some sort of limited time interaction…💦 I’m so sorry that I wasn’t able to.

Maybe it’s a mandela effect, and Mugi-san never existed. I wish I could know who put it there and ask them, I read sooo many stories and even went through two years of posts…! But I’ll be keeping an eye out and update if I find any information. I feel like a fake fan…

DON’T BE EMBARRASSEEEED!!! It’s sweet. I figured there was a possibility that it was the same person but I don’t always choose to make bold assumptions of mine known. But no, yeah, he definitely wouldn’t be ready for that, I agree. So it’s like… with them, I feel like there needs to be a delicate balance for both of them and that can be a little hard to navigate. I think that’d be really interesting to dive into, though. Imagine the possibilities and what not. Gosh… the littlest gestures all add up, though… my heart swells.

During Altered, when Rei confessed to Tsumugi about how he had been feeling during the war and why he didn’t do anything to save himself and his friends, he was so honest and raw it’s a little heart-wrenching. But the relationship they have is different… Madara is a different person, and Tsumugi had just cried in front of him. I guess it’d depend on the circumstances surrounding when he told him, maybe… there’s a lot to think about. Maybe he’d crack under the weight of it all. But Rei is a hypocrite, often doing or thinking the same he lectures others for. Uuugh… sometimes I wish ansta would show us the scenes that have only ever been spoken of, but I do also love imagining, so it’s a whole thing. Since Madara has said that Rei has this peculiar feel that makes him want to vent all his frustrations to him, I wonder if it goes both ways? … Something that’s sad to think about is that there is a 50% chance of it not being the case.

I think you remembered which story that came from wrong, so I went to look back at it. Re-reading the entirety of Concerto once more, before getting lost in the sauce and sidetracked while thinking about Leo and re-reading several chapters of checkmate, I was lead to Aquarium, to see if it was in that one, maybe (which was a little stupid in hindsight, since he’d probably think of it in a story Rei isn’t in instead). I finally read it properly, and I should have done it sooner. I’ll focus more on the other characters in it next time I read it. But it’s such a good story it makes me a little crazy… surprisingly it brought up points I had considered without even having read the story in regards to their dynamic, so I’m glad I was on point with little actual knowledge, haha. ♪ (I’d only really seen a screenshot of oneeee part of it! Can you believe it? My bad.)

Even then, Rei was already scolding Madara like he did in the on-going event, it’s funny. God, this part was really good, too,

R: I really do not think it is necessary to forcibly contort your true self into something you are not. Every person has their own suitable role. M: Hahaha, that’s nooot something you should say, what with that “vampire” role you’ve given yourself. R: That is a harsh point… However, I must remind you that the fate of a monstrous fiend only ends in tragedy. I know it will pain you, with your enormous body frame and tempo, but be careful not to stray from the path of humanity (…)

YOU ARE CRAZY PEOPLE! Another display of the hypocrisy — or is it lack of self awareness? This debate is recurring with different characters, it seems! — I was speaking of earlier, Madara’s unhesitant weaponization of Rei’s persona, the weight the usage of the word “role” has when you consider the way ansta’s world works… it’s good. Also, Madara bringing up ore Rei and saying he was a problem child like he is, and Rei fearing him repeating his mistakes and ending up walking in his shoes, as his successor… it’s also really good. They have so much fun talking together, but it’s even more fun for me as the reader. How wonderful. It’s so moe that for Rei, it can become tiring to talk to him〜 it makes sense since it’s Madara, but I love the dichotomy in regards to the energies they have. (Tsumugi is kind of a perfect in between, huh…)

THEY MAKE ME WANT TO HURT MYSELF AND OTHERS. I don’t think I’ve had any ground-breaking thoughts about them recently, or anything…

Remember that concerto line I was speaking of a while back? It applies best to Tsumugi, but I feel like, in spite of Rei’s hedonism which is often overlooked by fans, it fits him during the war as well. Ugh, they really are a trinity to me. Let me push Tsumugi out of the way.

Isn’t it crazy how, through my love, I am who manifested their interaction in the on-going event? Not the first time I’ve done that. I didn’t even remember it was his birthday today, also, I did the thing where I start thinking about someone really hard before their birthday again… I don’t know why this phenomenon happens. Happy birthday Rei and Izumi. Anyway, there was something so intimate about how they spoke to each other… I might be imagining things, but it feels like a conversation between a couple that has been together for a long time.

M: “You’re so cruel, Rei-san.” R: “You need to be less secretive, Mikejima-kun.”

It seems he knows and understands his successor more than Madara would like for him to. He’s always been perceptive, so I don’t think Madara can really hide things from him no matter how hard he may try. And then, Kaoru and Madara’s reaction, with Kaoru saying “…How about you ask your own heart that?” — it just clicked to me that they were calling out his hypocrisy, for he was once the same. Even now, he isn’t transparent.

Aside from that… I just love the Madara who would do anything for Rei. But I wonder if “anything” would extend to giving him his heart. You know I’m not much of a fan-fiction reader due to how picky I am, but I’ve had ‘s Gravy’s works on rotation lately. They just get it. Ugh, “considered violent, and reckless” captivated me, too. You know how I am about piercings, but that aside, I think it’s really clever.

I’m also thinking about… a younger Madara who hooks his finger into the belt loop of ore Rei’s pants so he won’t get away from him as they weave through a crowd. Rei notices and teases him, saying that if he wanted him closer, he could have just said so. And Madara tries to retort with something like an “I wouldn’t say thaaat,” but the words tangle in his throat when Rei’s claws take hold of his hand. It’s different when the one initiating isn’t him. He feels off-balance. I like doing this to him.

But also, I want Madara to bully Rei more, too… especially during their third year. I like when he’s a piece of shit, and it’s good if he throws someone like Rei off kilter. Because I think they’re both characters that few can manage to do that to, it really makes things interesting. I have a thing for pairings that bring out uncommon or unexpected (at a glance) sides of those involved.

I imagine a lot of care and trepidation and unspoken words between them, rather than mdtm’s pushing and pulling and poking at open wounds. And a bit of playfulness, too. And some adult fun, as they said in that little summer postcard this year. Whatever that means.

I realized I haven’t read a Rei story in so long! I probably should. I would probably have more to say. I don’t know why they’ve been giving me such strong feelings recently. Can two eldest daughters fall in love? It’s uncertain. Can they fall into something worse? I hope so.

(But I also just want them to be lovey dovey… with his crash after his second year, wouldn’t Madara’s care be so convenient…? I wonder if Rei would like it at all, to be doted on by someone without asking for it. That’s probably strange and new to him.)

(Also… them being younger seme older uke is peam. I’ve been thinking about that.)

I DMED MY FRIEND HIMERUGAYSEX SO HE HAD EARLY ACCESS... BECAUSE I WAS TOO SHY TO POST IT BECAUSE LIKE I SAID THERE'S SO MUCH PENIS NUANCE AND LIKE REASONING BEHIND WHERE I PUT THEM BUT EVEN THEN I'M SO UNCERTAIN ABOUT SOME OF THEM AND WOULD LITERALLY CHANGE THEM FOR WHATEVER REASON. Others I did not put so much thought into and now I'm realizing the missed opportunities like, fuuuck. Why was I so haphazard about it. Like my boyfriend copycatted me and did it too and I was like ok I see the vision because like man it depends. Whatever they can have whatever whenever. Plus some of them literally have a vagina but It's just a case of like well what if they did had a penis and what then and stuff like that. And also I included the whole cast but it's not technically sexual until you make it so. Okay? Anyway with, that aside,

ROSIE... WHAAAAT!? ≧ ﹏ ≦ YOU ARE TOO SWEET AND PLEASANT AND WONDERFUL? I never would've expected that at all! You must think too highly of me, I should be the one fawning over you, don't think this admiration doesn't go both ways! But... is that true!? Doesn't it speaks of your power, too, to be so influential over their minds? ... Anyway, this is nice of you to say, so thank you.

It's really a pickle. Despite playing the sims and reblogging a lot of images of rooms, I don't know much about interior design off the top of my head! If I had to pick... something like shabby chic resonates with me the most, as well as Victorian interior design... and the inclusion of vintage/antique pieces in general. I'm a big fan of cozy maximalism. Yeah... Oh! And surprisingly, I find English country/farmhouse nice too.

This is probably a good idea. Okay everyone start swinging at each other.

No need to fight! Thank you sweet thing ♡ I hope you'll have a lovely day, too. Happy Halloweennn!

Why so yandere? Ladies, ladies... (or they). There's enough Perce for everyone.

• If you are my wife I meant this in a platonic style

Why so yandere? Ladies, ladies... (or they). There's enough Perce for everyone.

I've gotten called esoteric before so this isn't too far off from what others have said. I'm happy to be enjoyable to observe regardless, not everyone in the world needs to be madly in love with me! ♪

I didn't know this line was from Wisteria I need to get on that grind... Arashi said this because Estrogen could have saved Madara, but he's too busy wallowing in his own misery to do any self discovery in that regard... well, it isn't that simple. But it could have really saved his life to find out he can be a butch woman. Oh, well!

Throwback to when Kohaku said he was acting like a tragic heroine (gendered) that he responds to by claiming that it is probably a side effect of his efforts to be a "Mama". I think about that a lot. There is something inherently a little transsexual about dedicating yourself to an ideal that is intrinsically tied to womanhood (that is, to be a mother; a symbol commonly revered within ansta's text in spite of the pain they've brought to a lot of the cast members, whether through abuse or an early loss of them as a part of their lives which affects them to this day,) and Madara's acceptance of Arashi's own womanhood to the point of calling her his daughter — which, by the way, makes me emotional every time given that her family life was far from ideal, as was his, God bless the choice of bringing that up again during Poltergeist using the perfect set of characters to do so with in the cleverest setting — is something that can be so personal.

This reminds me of the idea that if they made the slightest mistake with his writing early on he would have been somewhat reminiscent to some transmisogynistic archetypes that I know of. If it were actually the case, it wouldn't have been out of place given that early ansta suffered from quite the transmisogyny in its writing that tends to go under fans' radars, like theatre club antics and the idea of dressing as women being perverse and, more obviously, the waving around of slurs — in this case, I'm referring to the "absurdity" of it and how it's something a lot of other characters don't understand, that this Big, Strong Man, who suffers with violent tendencies (which is often associated with masculinity in the eyes of society; women are not allowed to be violent, but boys will be boys,) wants to be called a mother, and be that type of figure for others... I've heard of similar characters in other media, like BNHA's Magne or something (I don't go there). I don't know. Is this anything.

(I don't think it's a bad thing that Madara is the way he is at all! I really love the interesting relation so many ansta characters have with gender and gendered concepts... it's one of my favourite parts of ansta.)

Anyway. That is an egg that is probably harder to crack than Itsuki Shuu and I don't think he'd, like, transition or anything. He has too much going on. But it's definitely something of note to me! Arashi and Madara girl to girl wavelengths (nods sagely).

You're so kind to me. I don't follow everyone who follows me back immediately because I am rather shy or indecisive, especially private accounts, for example... But I am happy to be appreciated. Thank you! ♪ 🍞

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