HC that the reason Misaki is so determined to be a "normal" teenager vs how he views Usagi-san (weird rich kid with a complex who is Not Normal and he is way more normal than Usagi-san, thank you very much, he's Mr. Normal in fact) is because of his parents death and the role he and his brother had to take on with each other after the fact.
Like. He's obsessed with being normal and wanting a normal life with normal people in it because he didn't get that. Not like he thinks he did. His parents died when he was 8 and his brother had to raise him, so he goes out of his way to make up the difference. He desperately craves a normal, nuclear family despite his feelings towards Usagi-san and his feelings towards his own sexuality (even if thats not what he truly wants, he thinks he wants it, he's convinced himself he wants it so, so badly). He's idealized the concept of normalcy so much that he's convinced himself that he had a perfectly normal life even AFTER his parent's death. Granted, Takahiro tried his best to give that to Misaki, but the poor man was on his own, and inevitably, Misaki had to grow up really fast in order to help take care of himself and his older brother (cleaning, cooking, errands, he's basically taken on the stereotypical wife role by the age of 11).
