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).