Now we knew why Goro went so feral in Maruki’s Palace.
He knew. He knew all along that he was brought back by a wish. He knew all along that he was working to end the world that was keeping a dream like him alive.
He knew.
He knew.
He knew.
He knew he was a breathing thing that should be dead. And he was angry. He was marching towards his destruction and would not falter from it. He did it anyway.
He knew that it was Ren who wished to free him. And he knew he was throwing away the wish Ren made to have him back again, for him to be alive. And he did it anyway. Because destroying a lie was more important than the lives in that lie.
Akechi looked death in the eye not once, but twice, and did not back the fuck down–and he still survived.
He was no dream at all. He was real, alive, true. Ren didn’t wish him back to life, nor did Maruki bring him back from the dead. He never was dead, all Maruki did was tweak circumstances so they could be together again.
Goro was real, alive. He survived, but he had no idea if he would. That didn’t stop him from fighting for the truth.
Goro Akechi is fucking amazing, Ren’s love for him was explicitly compared to the mourning one has for a dead lover, and is the entire impetus for the third semester (Sumi’s arc is contained in her own, and used by Maruki was a way to get throught to/manipulate Goro and Ren). The third semester exists to show Ren’s love for Goro (defying heaven and earth to bring him back to the world), and what Goro’s willing to do for Ren: destroy a world of illusions, and himself in the process, so Ren can go back to reality. Both of these two love each other to the point it fucking move the goddamn laws of the metaphysical.
And I’m just… I’m proud of him? I’m amazed? He’s so strong, and imagine how much it must have knocked him flat to know that Ren wished him to come back, as raw and seething and unapologetic as he was. Ren wanted the real him to return–and he did. Ren wanted Goro as he was, with no filters. And he got it.
These two are fuckin’ GAY.
