Home Is You, Is You - Osborn/MC Character Study
I’ve always wanted to talk about Osborn (Xiao Yi) but never felt like I had enough material until now. This essay is going to detail his relationship with the heroine (MC), specifically the theme of finding a home in each other, and also how Osborn is the personification of freedom.
Spoilers up to Chapter 9, including all the released cards. All translations are mine.
GROUND ZERO
First, I want to establish that loneliness heavily defines MC and Osborn. In multiple places, we hear about how hurt MC was with the absence of her mother, her childhood friend Jesse leaving, and her grandmother later passing away. MC also doesn’t have a good relationship with her father, as shown by how she fled the country and her engagement with Charlie to follow her own dreams and make her life alone in a big city.
Meanwhile, in Osborn’s case, we get this snippet when MC uses her psychometry powers on Osborn’s necklace.
[CHAPTER 3-14]
Since he said I could sense things… I shot out my hand, covering Osborn’s bone necklace.
A feeling of rage exploded in my heart followed by an icy sensation of not belonging anywhere, as if an innocent person was being blamed by the entire world.
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