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Hello kind of a dumb question but can u explain the relationship between Hitsugi and Gatekeeper? I tried reading some stories with them but Im kinda dumb and cant get my head around it 🥲
no worries its honestly pretty vague since they don't really interact on screen!
the tldr of it is that they have no blood relation, but as someone whose capable of developing soft spots, he's developed somewhat of a sense of responsibility over them and acts as a psuedo-guardian.
gatekeeper & priest (hitsugi/negi's father) both have ties towards godfather, and gatekeeper holds a sense of responsibility towards godfather that includes cleaning up the mess that priest has made. as victims of priest, hitsugi and negi sort of fall beneath that. he's mostly hands-off with them, but appears to help them stay afloat and find what they need to be independent. in turn, hitsugi and negi have developed a fondness back towards gatekeeper and call him "ojisan", "uncle".
right now we know that...
- it was likely gatekeeper who secretly informed hitsugi where priest kept his older sister
- supplied hitsugi/negi IDs so they can live wherever they like around the world
- aided negi in a plan to rid of priest so they can live without their lives in danger
- took them in under his wing afterwards for the period of time they won't be able to safely show themselves in public
maybe more! but these are the ones i know best
these actions, while they help aid hitsugi and negi, also fall under gatekeeper's attempts to undermine priests power (such as informing hitsugi of his older sister's existence)
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thank you for your response!! i did try to present it simply as a statement of facts, but i understand completely where you're coming from and i'm glad that neospring has a comments feature so this'll show right underneath my response. he was definitely awful towards ibara and nagisa but i couldn't figure out how to express that when speaking about he and hitsugi/negi's relationship
i don't think it's THAT serious but i did want to mention in your response about hitsugi and negi you're painting gk in an awfully positive light when a lot of the things he did was because He would gain from it too. especially on behalf of the things with priest. he was also notoriously awful to ibara and complicit in whatever you want to call what happened to nagisa because happyele + enstarries like to be vague about that anyways. i totally agree that he holds a sense of responsibility for them but it's really exhausting to see stuff like this because people are very quick to draw the conclusion that he's a good person when it's just.. not true