my thoughts about this is that Yoshiki doesn't meet gender expectations and sticks out like a sore thumb about it.
i feel like all he sees about masculinity around him is his unhappy absent dad who's in a lavander marriage, the old conservative men around town, his most probably annoying classmates and of course Hikaru, who was amazing at pretending and talked about when he Yoshiki had a girlfriend, when talking about girls is like a foreign language to him.
i feel like he doesn't care about being different but the village people ways make him wanna dissappear lol. and i just know Yoshiki wouldn't be dressing the way he does if he didn't live in small town hell, he's probably has pinterest board and a perfectly curated style in his head idkk.










