so yuuhiko had a boy situationship. okay i know he has a name but its not revealed in canon story and i will get confused constantly calling him "the guy" "yuuhiko's guy" so let's call him idk. odette since yuuhiko's vd is called odile
the guys became friends and got matching hairstyles at some point
yuuhiko envied both his skills at studying and social skills
odette also showed yuuhiko how to make paper swans. well these are swans and not cranes, but i will bring up the paper cranes anyway because it might be a reference to some point
In Japan, cranes have been thought a symbol of long life.
In modern times, cranes are often given to a person who is seriously ill, to wish for their recovery. They are usually created by friends, classmates, or colleagues as a collective effort, offered to a shrine on the person's behalf or directly gifted to the person.
but odette's swan is neatly made and yuuhiko is crumpled and awkward. something to note is that through the song yuuhiko sees himself as blending with the background, while his guy is filled with white color and has colored purple eyes, but when yuuhiko feels envious of his skills, his eyes aren't depicted, implying that yuuhiko devalues or dehumanizes him in these moments
after the interlude, yuuhiko gets colored in with white as well, but roughly - he's not actually "solid" or clearly defined as odette, it's a weak attempt to resemble him, to have a personality
when he sees odette approaching them, he takes the person hes talking to and walks away with them, while odette is trying to reach them
after that odette is shown to be bullied - setting up a bucket so the water would fall on the person is a method of bullying
yuuhiko and someone else are shown to look at this in shock, but yuuhiko then shows a nervous smile, trying to make it look like he supports what happened
they also get shown together with the same people, which makes me think that they were a part of the same friend group and they turned against odette at some point, and yuuhiko went along with it to not be excluded. i also think it might be that yuuhiko started spreading rumors to turn the friend group against odette, since he's shown to be encouraging treating him poorly (walking away, smiling at his distress) rather than being encouraged by someone else
Y: Having a good reputation was all that mattered back then.
the flowers are reference to hanahaki as from the posing it looks like yuuhiko is coughing up the flower, but they also symbolize odette himself as they replace his silhouette, (all feelings or thoughts that yuuhiko had on this guy being replaced with "unrequited love"?), and it kinda looks like yuuhiko is just fucking devouring the flowers. the flowers are roses which are love and passion you know all that
red gardenia: secret love, a silent "i love you"
near the end we see a torn white wing covered with blood. yuuhiko's crime scene seems to be a balcony, so i think odette fell from it, and it also symbolizes how he "fell" in a metaphorical sense, a bird who crashed
after this, yuuhiko stops trying to color himself into white color, blending with the background again, and then it switches to him coloring himself in black, further establishing that odette is pure and holy and yuuhiko is evil and twisted. it's interesting that when he's holding a funeral photo he doesn't depict odette with eyes either -- a corpse is a nonliving object, not a person.
at the end yuuhiko is shown to be doing chest compressions. his mouth has blood stains so i'm like "you just fucking ate his corpse since hes already dead anyway?"
“I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry...”
yuuhiko's vd is called odile and shows swans, as well as his mv shows swans a lot, which is a reference to swan lake.
to put the plot very shortly: odette is a beautiful girl who was cursed by a evil sorcerer to transform into a swan during the daylight and the curse can only be broken if a man makes a vow to love her forever. prince siegfried encounters her and captivated by her beauty makes a vow to her. later he's presented with several girls as potential brides on the ball in the castle; the sorcerer and his daughter, odile, show up on the ball, with odile pretending to be odette, and he chooses her as the bride. realizing that he broke the vow, he rushes to the lake. the ending differs from the version to version, but from what i can find, in the original ending a storm starts and they both get consumed by stormy waves on the lake, and in a later reinterpretation of the original ending they either both commit suicide by drowning, or odette drowns herself first and siegfried jumps after her.
also while searching all that, i found out there are roses called swan lake
odette is depicted as a white swan and odile as a black swan, which corresponds to yuuhiko as black and his guy as white in the mv. the text is mainly white but some words and phrases are highlighted in black [i believe this is something like, yuuhiko's thoughts that he's hiding or suppressing.] the two swans get hidden under black color, one of the interludes shows a black feather, and another shows how a more neatly made white paper swan gets colored over by a more crumpled black one -- yuuhiko taking odette's place.
identity theft, the guy being pure and holy and yuuhiko being evil and twisted and his bad version, etc etc we all know that
in the vd, yuuhiko is trying to shift the responsibility but he doesn't deny that he was involved with the murder. he just says he didn't want it or he didn't know it would lead to it.
Y: I didn't- didn't know that would happen! Didn't want it! A-and- and it wasn't just me, either! If it wasn't for- for all the others, none of it... N-none of it would...
S: Hey, hey, wait! Slow down!
Y: ...
It w-wasn't... my fault.
S: Okay, okay... So, someone died, but that death wasn't caused by you?
Y: ...
S: Hmm, that's new... Did you have anything to do with that death?
Y: ...You really don't know anything, do you.
There's j-just- just no way I could know something like that would happen... It- it wasn't my fault!
he's also judging s for not doing anything about the situation they're in, not wanting to be inconvenienced.
Y: Y-You're the warden, so above us all. And yet. And yet you're not even brave enough to come out and talk to us.
Are you hiding something?
Y: How are you okay with that!? Shouldn't you be- be looking for answers, questioning your superiors?
Y: Warden... Listen.
That kind of thought– “I'm just doing what I'm meant to do.” It's- it's not worth it. It just leads to no one stopping horrible things from happening.
Y: That- That's not what this is! Just-
Nobui thinks of you as a friend. I don't want her to be collateral because you don't want to be inconvenienced.
regretting that he didn't do anything to prevent odette's death back then.
Y: I don't like fake people. And those two are some of the worst I've ever seen.
Y: Anything? I would wish for everyone to get along.
final conclusion: i think that odette and yuuhiko were a part of the same friend group and odette was a leader or overall a popular guy in the group. they were token best friends of the friend group who make their friendship everyone's problem. angry that odette is much better than him at everything and he can't reach him, yuuhiko spread some kind of rumor to put him down in their friends' eyes. this broke his reputation and led to physical bullying, which yuuhiko didn't expect and didn't participate in, but also since he's the one who started it & he took the new position of a "leader" by organizing group bullying, he continued to encourage mistreatment of odette. in the end odette died by falling from a balcony. i'm not forgiving him because i want him to suffer. go cry emo kid.
thank you for these amazing characters, it was so lovely to draw them (Jun's is probably my favorite drawing I've ever made) and I hope I was able to translate them well to my style 😁
pony designs in ponytown from like last year i think except for umbrella girl i made her like 5 minutes ago
lore vvvv
jun - name is aurora shine. her cutie mark is a star with a cupid arrow shot through it. it symbolizes how great she is at capturing peoples attention or something. she is very fluffye and soft
tadashi - name is sharpshoot. cutie mark is a target and they were like man wtf when they got it but it means that when they want something they become very determined and focused on it. also theyre great at killing people. anyways they are a bat pony. also fluffye but touch them at your own discretion
nobui: name is sunny dream. her cutie mark is a sun in the shape of a heart and it means uhhhhhh it means shes good at making people happy. thats it thats nobui
yuuhiko: name is azure moon. blank flank everyone point and laugh. ok i had very little to say about nobui but i actually have nothing at all to say about this guy. hes a magic tryhard
s: name is lovestitch. her cutie mark is a heart cushion with pins stuck on it. it means that shes good at sewing and makes things with love or something but she thinks it means shes meant to be hurt forever because she is an edgelord
umbrella girl: name is cherry blossom. her cutie mark is a feather pen because feather bird freedom you understand. also shes a fucking nerd. i dont know whats wrong with her i dont know why her ears are like that she was just born this way. i think she should also be fluffye but i straight up forgot thumbs up emoji
left to right, top to bottom: ayame from tsumigram, warden from gemini, s from dollgram, mihane from aruku-gram, shun from mugram, naki form the depths of kufer’s mind
