Recently, I’ve been seeing many fics of Shoko and Satoru having the nastiest arguments out of the trio, with the topic always getting swept under the rug and forgotten about the next day instead of properly acknowledged due to both of their avoidance tendencies and I have been eating that shit up.
Mind you, these two had nearly twenty years of being in each other’s orbits and yet both harboured grudges against the other for seeming to not care or value them enough.
Their arguments might as well be public volley tournaments with the way they’d go back snd forth digging passive aggressive comments to the other all day following an argument that would end up in shouting, neither of them would talk about it; Satoru would come into Shoko’s room the next day and demand she accompany her to a new ice cream place or Shoko would slide beneath the covers that same night and bug him until he quizzes her on her flashcards. Staying mad at each other wasn’t a choice anymore, not until Suguru took that away from them and not when they became the only people left.
And I’m sure it eventually came to bite Shoko in the ass in the end, when Satoru died without a word leaving no opportunity of even having a proper talk. Instead, she’s stuck having to stare at his dead body and count her dead. She’d laugh to herself and wish that at the end of the day, he just trusted her enough to come to her with that damn body.
