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enough said
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It's doooone 🙌 I don't really partake in this holiday, but I figured it'd be cool to use it as a deadline to finish this. Otherwise who knows how much I'd nitpick and drag it out xD
Here's Twilight and Thorn Princess for your Valentines ~ Have a good one, solo or not 😉
This is inspired by Original Illustration by author Tatsuya Endo, if you know you know. You have it on my previous WIP post here
Twilight and Thorn Princess: a personification
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thought it was interesting how loid tells yor that he thought she was beautiful, but when anya appears, yor immediately blames herself for trying to ask out a guy who is clearly “taken”, but in reality, shouldn’t she be suspicious of loid for calling her beautiful when he has a child and (presumably) a wife?
yor is in a career (would you call it that? i don’t know) that involves a lot of “bad guy, good guy” circumstances. in her point of view and in the garden’s point of view, yor k1lls the evil people and is a silent hero, a weapon only to be used for the worst of the worst. despite this, yor is a woman who sees only the best in others. she doesn’t simply assume one’s flaws and mistakes but beats herself up over her own.
now this lifestyle can also be related to twilight’s own character— he was trained to perfection, except with the opposite effect: assume the worst case scenario, the worst quality in a person, the worst choice to be made, and prepare for anything that could happen. like how he recognizes yor’s attentiveness and deems it to potentially be a detriment to his work:
this is a mindset he has been honing for years, and it is the pure definition of perfection.
and that’s why i find it so endearing that thorn princess (the best assassin of ostania) and twilight (the best spy of westalis), are both navigating the unknowns of parenting a small child together. this isn’t much like a deduction skill or a physical skill one can train for, but it is a skill that cannot be completely perfected. and that is what is so new to them.
but another difference is that they are not learning alone, compared to their own isolation in the jobs they have, but that they can rely on one another for guidance. whenever one downplays their parenting abilities, the other is ready to reassure them and that they are doing well.
twilight also ends up being the most rational person (albeit a severe overthinker and becoming a cringy dad in anya’s eyes) in the forger family and yor is known to be the doting and sweet mother under almost any circumstance (even if she’s overthinker #2 and will k1ll to protect anya) thanks to their abilities. a perfect balance despite being direct opposites and a perfect 100 points
(idk how to end this i just think twiyor is so lovely and adorable and the similarities and direct differences they have are so intriguing to me and i need them to be canon asap and i need that butt shot episode right now i cannot physically restrain myself to wait until next year in this essay i will)
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and we were dancing, dancing / like we’re made of starlight
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“Go ahead, choose your Howl.”
I just found out that I never posted them here, but my Instagram account was disabled, so why not? Hope you guys like it!
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"Agony is the weapon of people who are alive, right?"
Well, since I just love the trailer of Bokura ga Ita’s Live Action, and Gruvia was so fuckin’ angst these past weeks (not anymore, but it’s okay), I decided to do this crossover (if you want to check the trailer, here’s the link) ♥
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Mother? Good mworning, Roid-san… W-Where am I?! How long was I out?! We’re at a nearby park. The barthender shaid we were being too woud and kicked ush out. You were only asweep for about five minutes. I haven’t been knocked out like that since my instructor got rough with me! You’ve let your guard down way too much, Twilight! Also, why was I using her lap as a pillow?!
After watching the new episode of the anime and comparing it to how Twiyor's relationship evolved in the manga after that park moment, I honestly don't think Loid and Yor are in love with each other yet, but they're definitely on their way to it.
Yor truly admired Loid since the very beginning, because of the way he treats her and Anya, and because of how reliable he is. She thinks he's a handsome man, who also has a cute side of himself, and is obviously attracted by his appearance and personality, yet I wouldn't call it love, but something like a crush. Yor never felt this way for another person before (yeah, she loves Yuri and Anya, but this is a completely different case), she has zero experience in this "field" and they've known each other for a very short time, so I don't think such a strong emotion as romantic love would grow in the span of a few months, but a crush is entirely plausible.
Loid, on the other hand, has plenty of experience on honey traps and physical demonstrations of "love", but never had the chance to truly open up to another person, to just be himself instead of this persona that Twilight is, and he's starting to feel that he can do it with Yor. Even though his spy senses sometimes tell him that he should be suspicious of her, he feels guilty when he does so and, at the end of the day, he keeps trusting her and being thrown out of balance whenever he's in her presence. Yor does "things" to him that his spy trained mind still can't comprehend, because he's used to calculate and plan for everything and, for a change, she's the most unpredictable person he has ever met.
In the beginning of the story, both of them were known for being cold and distant, completely detached from the people around them, but now they have each other (and Anya) and it all feels so new, that it's probably very overwhelming. So they're slowly getting closer, relying on one another, and their relationship is starting to bloom, even though it's still very incipient.
In my opinion, the first one to actually fall in love with the other, will be Yor. Like I said before, it already looks like she has a crush on him (and that's one of the reasons why she was so desperate about losing him – and, consequently, their family – to Fiona), so I think this will naturally develop into a stronger feeling as the time passes, but she'll probably keep brushing it off, thinking that it's just her growing admiration for him messing with her heart, and she won't realize it until some major event happens in the story (like Loid getting very injured, for example).
But if Yor will fall first, Loid will fall harder and he'll realize it faster, being the overthinker that he is. He already showed in many instances that he's letting his true feelings seep out from beneath his calculated actions (as Fiona herself noticed, when she went to their house), that he misses Yor when she's absent, that he worries about her well-being (all for the mission! *coughs*), and that he's growing attached to his family, but since Yor has already rejected his "romantic advances", he'll probably think that she doesn't want anything with him and will try to supress his feelings for her as best as he can (with no success, because he'll eventually cave in and admit that he's irremediably in love with her).
I think Twiyor still has a loooong way to go, but this ship will sail, no matter what. I honestly can't picture another ending for them besides the one in wich they fall in love with each other and their fake family becomes a real one (unless Endo decides to take a sad route at the end of this journey, but I don't even want to think about it... ☠️).
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