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It strikes me, reading the book for the first time, how little grace actually fears stratt. She has the most authority out of anyone he has ever met, governments doing as she commands, armies and teams of scientists at her beck and call, and he still doesn’t fear her. He demands that she gives him the astrophage, yells at her, makes sarcastic remarks, and speaks with blunt honesty when she asks questions. Grace who carved out a hole in her heart and weathered the edges until it became something you could almost call soft. And yet, in the end, he was afraid. His last waking breaths on earth were spent begging for his life, his last view of the chain link fence and dead grass as he sobbed. You’re murdering me. You’re murdering us. How’s that hole in your heart, Stratt? Is it aching?
Five hundred miles
The fox metaphor just goes crazy with this movie
stupid doodle i made based on this post. guy who doesn’t know hes tied to the tracks and his best friend the trolley operator
I really tried to tip the scales in your favor
Earth’s Scapegoat and her Sacrificial Lamb
You’re smart… you’ll figure it out
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this is probably my best drawing in a while, please enjoy it as well :)
i think it's fucked up and foul that during situations he feels trapped or unsafe, oikawa doesn't have a fight or flight or freeze reflex. to be specific, he does have a fight reflex, but it doesn't involve fighting by himself. if he thinks he's unsafe or trapped or in danger, he turns to iwaizumi.
during the last set of the second seijoh v karasuno official match, you can see oikawa beginning to crack when karasuno bridges the gap and makes the score 16-16. his next toss goes to iwaizumi, because he knows his iwa-chan will be there. he knows his palm will connect with the ball. when he loses his footing, he reaches out his hand, blindly trusting iwaizumi will pick him up. and he does. everytime, he does.
kageyama mentions once that iwaizumi and oikawa are always in sync, both by body and mind. and it's true because even when they're on the court, they're not the ace and the setter. they are iwaizumi and oikawa. iwa-chan and shittykawa. oikawa knows iwaizumi's favorite beetle and the flex of his wrist when he spikes. iwaizumi knows oikawa's real smile from his fake one and he knows the number of milk bread packets he eats per week (too many) and that's just the thing, isn't it? even in court, they're not just players. this is a dance that only they know the steps to, a kingdom that has always been theirs to rule. how beautiful it is, to know the sound of his footfalls without looking, to know the exact place he's going to set to in a court of 6 players without hesitation, with full certainty.
during the final point, oikawa sets the ball to iwaizumi. he could've chosen the person closest to him. he could've crafted his toss so masterfully that no one can see whats coming. but he chose to get it to iwaizumi at the other end of the court. it doesn't matter if his set isn't perfect or clean. it doesn't matter, because it's set to iwaizumi and that's enough. he knows he will take care if the rest.
and the thing is, the thing is, right, i firmly believe that in that moment if he chose to set to someone else, it wouldn't have been as beautiful and perfect as it was when he set to iwaizumi. there's something about knowing someone like the back of your hand and being aware of the beat of their heart more than your own that brings that kind of perfection. when oikawa reaches out, iwaizumi always reaches back. he knows iwaizumi will do everything he can to spike the ball.
and just like that he is 7 again with a scratched knee crying for iwa-chan to carry him even when he's not by his side. but he screams for him because he knows with absolute certainty that he will come. he will help. he is not alone.
the final set of his official high school career goes to iwaizumi, loud and proud. he points to him before he sets. he tells the court to watch. watch me. because he is certain that when it's him and iwaizumi, they're invincible. he wants the world to know of his worthless pride. he wants the world to know who he is proud of.
and just like that he is 7 again, screaming "iwa-chan!" in hopes his best friend will find him.
and he does. he does.
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they’re so fun to draw… the trio of all time…
Moments before the disaster
Do you feel suo is far stronger than Sakura? He doesn't get injured at all.
This is a question that lets me give an analysis of Suo and Sakura that I've thought about before so!!!
I think that injuries in a fight in this manga relate heavily to the idea that a fight is a conversation. While this is a shonen manga, I think powerscaling isn't really worthwhile because of what the fights mean.
Sakura and Ume both get pretty injured in their fights. With fights serving as a conversation, one can consider giving blows as talking, and receiving blows as listening. In Ume's fight with Choji, he takes blows but doesn't deal many because he's trying to understand Choji.
Sakura gets pretty beat up in his fight with Togame, but so does Togame, because they're talking. Togame lets Sakura win the fight because he had nothing more to 'say', accepting Sakura's beliefs. Sakura's important fights where he wins end with the other person giving up because they are conceding their beliefs or values in the face of his will/resolve. I'd say Endo falling in love with Sakura falls in line with that point.
Sakura gets really fucking beat up in the process because during his fights, while he ends up the one with the last 'word' (hit), he is also changed by the fights. He develops as a character through them because he's 'listening' to the other person, seeing them as they are.
Now, Suo. Suo is mysterious, but one notable thing about him is that his special skill is 'making others give in to [his] demands'. Suo's fights are one-sided as hell. He gives out injuries but never gets any himself. Suo's fights aren't a dialogue at all. Suo is unchanged by his fights and doesn't develop through them, and his fights are a snide monologue that humiliate his opponents.
I love Suo a lot, but he is a relatively stagnant character, at least for now. That's not a bad thing, mind you. The series is still going, so we have time to get to his development. The closest I could see to him being changed is when Sakura talks him down in KEEL, but even then, I think it's more of him regressing momentarily and then coming back to himself, rather than him changing in a larger way.
Long story short, I don't think Suo is stronger than Sakura, nor do I care if he is, because it's never been the point. Physical strength in this story is less important than the strength of character and will in Windbreaker, at least the way I've been reading it.
Did any of that make sense? Who knows
(I’m gonna preface this by saying Suo is my favorite character btw)
Perhaps the unscathed appearance translates to Suo refusing to relate to others, a character flaw. He talks about empathy a lot but only seems to show it at face value. To be hurt, one must first be vulnerable in the first place. To me, it looks like he not only redirects physically, but has an armor around himself psychologically which would indicate he’s actually pretty hard-headed and unwilling to fill the emotional gap between virtually anyone, but especially opponents.
The unscathed part hits the hardest during Noroshi, because Suo is actually shown to have scratches/dirt on his face. He and the pthers were in such a rush to help Sakura that even Suo “nobody can lay a finger on me” Hayato is just a tiny bit more roughed up than usual. He may distance himself from Furin (either on a conscious or subconscious level), but at the end of the day his motives are the same as his peers.
Wait wait wait I just thought of something else!! So what if the noncommittal behavior is to keep an air of personal independence? Like he fights for these values but still holds himself away as a free agent to not subscribe completely to what’s around him?
This is tangentially related but the way Suo doesn’t eat I think relates to how he keeps himself disconnected from those around him.
Eating in Wind Breaker is very important: we end every arc with a meal of some sort to bring together the characters involved. Eating together makes you a family.
Suo doesn’t eat with everyone. (Minus the taiyaki at the beginning of the manga.) Suo is always ‘on a diet’, avoiding letting anyone see him eat for some reason we don’t know yet. I think this shows that Suo doesn’t consider himself part of the Furin/Makochi family.
Tying this in with his fighting style, his lack of injuries, and his tendency to keep himself mysterious, and it shows that Suo is keeping a large distance from everyone for one reason or another, and I think his eventual arc will be resolved with him finally eating with everyone.
(Tea, Squish, and I have talked a bit about an idea for how Suo’s arc goes before that I think is pretty good if anyone wants to hear about that. It’s more fanfic-y and SuoSaku ofc but it’s based on some of the analysis I’ve covered here)
Deconstructing “I am no match for you”
DISCLAIMER: I am not fluent in Japanese. If I made any mistakes in this analysis or missed additional information, please let me know!
To this day, Chapter 50 might just be one of Wind Breaker’s most important chapters. It not only shows us a more unrestrained side to the enigmatic Suo, but gives us more insight into his (and Sakura’s) mentality, with the chapter containing one singular instance of Suo introspecting.
Granted, it is to put himself below Sakura (which is quite sad, given that his internal monologue mainly consists of him simply commenting on the situation around him). However, this specific line is quite interesting, because it sounds very similar to what Ito says to his wife at the end of Chapter 66.
It’s important to examine the context that leads up to these moments first. Suo and Ito realize that they are “no match” for Sakura and Yui when their perception of a person they deeply care for differs from their expectations. Both Suo and Ito know Sakura and Yui respectively well, with ItoYui being married for decades (though Ito remorse of being unaware about Yui’s true feelings) and Suo being able to decipher/understand Sakura’s psyche and feelings. These realizations about the other party do come as a surprise to Ito/Suo—and given their somewhat insecure nature, they put Yui/Sakura above them.
With Sakura, Suo expects him to get mad over Nirei/their classmates losing to KEEL, but the former tells the overtly emotional Suo that not only do they have bigger fish to fry, but he delegates the blame onto himself. Suo’s line here can have many interpretations—from it showcasing Suo’s sheer admiration towards Sakura’s character, to even Suo possibly harboring envy for Sakura—but it’s evident that Sakura’s reaction in KEEL subverts Suo’s careful expectations.
And with Yui, Ito finds out that his wife had always loved him as much as he loved her; only, Yui was always aware of her husband’s doubts about her love. Notably, it’s Suo that proposes this explanation, before Tsubaki corroborates his claim.
Back to the line itself: these quotes might not sound similar in the English translation. But both of them are near-identical in the original Japanese.
Ito says 「本当に敵わないよ」 (hontoni kanawanai yo), while Suo says 「…本当に君は敵わないな…」 (…honto ni kimi ni wa kanawanai na…). [EDIT: I’m aware Suo’s 「敵」 is written in Hiragana instead of Kanji; however I’ve decided not to include this aspect in my analysis because it’s most likely a stylistic choice. If it does carry another meaning, then I simply lack the adequate information about Suo’s character to draw any meaningful conclusion.]
本当 means “really”(with the に conjunction connecting it with the next phrase) and 敵わない (kanawanai) means “No match for” or “Cannot beat/compete [with]”. Disregarding the slight differences, these two lines mean the exact same thing: I really am no match for you.
However, both lines do have their nuances. The 敵わないよ Ito says has the よ (yo) sentence-ending particle. よ is typically used for emphasis in a sentence. It also marks the sentence as “informative” (ie. Ito finding that he is no match for his wife is new information to not only him, but the audience too). よ can also carry a more genial nuance to a sentence; showing that Ito is happy at this realization (the voice acting in the anime also carries this tone). Ito’s line also omits any pronouns, making the statement one-note and succinct; in a way, Ito is able to accept this and move on with a smile.
With Suo, he says 君には敵わないな. The な(na) sentence-ending particle is used in comparison; な can have multiple connotations but I suspect that it mainly marks this sentence as introspective in nature. Another usage I think fits the most is “to seek confirmation”. Suo sees his inability to compete with Sakura not as a 100% given. な can also carry a sense of wonder, which can emphasize Suo’s uncertainty in his feelings (a way to translate it into English would be “I am really no match for you, huh…”). Overall, な adds a certain emotional nuance to a sentence (similar to よ, only な is more emotionally overt).
Suo also starts this phrase with 君には (I am). Japanese likes to eliminate the subject in its sentences sometimes (as seen with Ito’s version). However, the presence of “you” here indicates that Suo is directly addressing Sakura. You could interpret the sentence as words Suo wants to say to Sakura, but ultimately cannot; instead keeping the thought in his mind.
The wording of this quote overall is different in not only the English manga translation but the anime’s English sub and dub (which is fair considering the context to both scenes are very different; but “I am no match for you” is a rather uncommon phrase especially in Wind Breaker) so it makes sense why this connection isn’t obvious at first.
Given that Suo and Sakura’s relationship shares such an explicit parallel with a married couple, I suppose it makes sense why they were drawn getting married in a formal Chinese marriage setting in the fifth volume bonus…? All the other arts have Sakura and co. in normal attire, what did Nii Satoru mean by this……