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In Heaven, We Will Be Together

#Oniisama E #Nanakorei #NanaRei #Rei Asaka #Nanako Misonoo

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oh, I am stretched on your grave

and will lie there forever

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I’m always thinking about rooms in Oniisama e…, I think both Fukiko’s room and Rei’s room function somewhat similarly, in that it surrounds them and traps them within their own pain and loneliness, and there’s an aspect of repetition and solipsism. For Fukiko the way these symbols of the past within this ever stagnant space cut off from the changes in time and space impose and reimpose that pain of the past, that moment of time from where she has yet to move forward from. For Rei, whilst the bracelet and doll act similarly as symbols of lack of fulfilment, longing and past (dolls in Oniisama e function to recall innocence and childhood, especially for a character like Rei who is not only averse to change but antithetical to it, as a lesbian socially impossible and destroyed in the process of it; you can see why she compares the doll to Nanako, especially in comparison to a Fukiko, and asks her to never change, and why Nanako would be averse to that comparison and find it reductive), I think it’s more so that the mirrors reflect her present and turn it inwards, her grief, her longing, her ugliness, her impossibility, her self-destruction. And I think this comes back to both of these characters’ impossible lesbianism and incest, for Rei more obviously, but also for Fukiko who attaches herself to an impossible object of desire so not to confront her real desire with Rei (that is impossible) and her lack of heterosexual desire