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Me in 2k12: I just wants Raira kids to be happy and safe... to work through their issues together... no more bad things ever!!

Me in 2k17: ah, but what if, while Mikado's staying out of the gangworld dutifully, Kida has parked himself there for indefinite time to Gatekeep, this way neither of them gets what he really wants! :D

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sorry, I’ll eventually get over *dodgy hand gestures* this and be able to talk about something else, but first let me cry over the hospital parallels

Anri in the hospital after the Slasher arc: both boys are here the next morning (with bonus flowers!), visit every day, there are moments across various mediums where Mikado’s kinda judging Masaomi for letting other priorities muddle with this.

Mikado in the hospital at the tail end of the series: Masaomi and Anri are more or less parked in his room for good, to the point that the first thing he hears as he comes by unannounced is their voices. we get flashes of other visitors (bonus Aoba with flowers!).

Masaomi in the hospital after the Yellow Scarves arc: apparently spends his entire stay without a single peep from the outside world and plenty of time to think up a few dozens of reasons why nobody’s coming (no flowers).

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Nothing makes my heart sing like Raira kids continually trying for a love triangle and continually just coming off as vaguely poly.

“He felt like confessing his love for her now would be a betrayal of Masaomi. No doubt Masaomi would laugh and say: "Dummy, this is what makes you so shy!” But even though he could see that reaction, Mikado still couldn’t tell her.

Maybe he was just a coward. But if he loved her here and she accepted his love, he had a feeling he just wouldn’t be fully happy about it. Not in the way he should.

Instead he arrived at a decision. If Masaomi came back...

If three of them were as close as before or perhaps even closer...

Only then would he tell Anri that he loved her.”

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I’ve been saving the 3rd volume’s epilogue for the last IN THEORY but whatever, feel free to share&enjoy this with me:

When [Mikado] checked with the hospital, they said [Kida] had left the money for his stay thus far and disappeared, despite the fact that he needed much more time to recover.

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but

Mikado&Masaomi in that time frame between re-establishing contact and meeting in Ikebukuro

preparing for the entrance exams together

study sessions via chat. comparing notes. quizzing each other.

“Masaomi, you’ve taken 3 seconds to type out this 4-lines definition, ctrl c ctrl v much?“

cramming simultaneously near PC the last several days. dozing off in the late hours only to be jerked awake by a chat notification sound

camping out the night before the results are up

Mikado in a fullout nervous wreck mode cause what if he blows this chance to get himself out of hometown. Masaomi in a lowkey antsy mode cause it’s technically not the end of world if he fails, but yay, starting sparkly new stage in life with a failure

struggling to find the right emojis for their feelings when they both pass

~ long-distance pre-Ikebukuro mikida! \o/ ~

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oh no

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...between Izumii Ran and Mikado, Kida’s horoscope on that day must have just read “don’t go on any fucking rooftops“

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itt: the whole concept of love olympics is adorable and delightful, if you have the right kind of faves which I accidentally don’t

It sorta works with Kusanagi. Sorta. He wishes it didn’t. Homra’s ratio of commotion and ruin/positive things accomplished is as out of whack as usual. They’re trying to do his work for him, and Kusanagi’s heart screams. Totsuka’s too wrapped up in his ridiculous and probably costly GRAND SCHEME TO WIN to bother with holding them back, Seri-chan absolutely wouldn’t partake in such a spectacle. Mikoto brings TWO packs of cigarettes (one opened) and pats Kusanagi on the back awkwardly. Mikoto would have been the winner if not for Anna making infinite number of cocktails out of juice, ice and tiny umbrellas in the corner.

Totsuka enjoys his turn way too much and litlle by little takes over the whole thing. Being the true friends they are, Kusanagi and Suoh steal a glance at each other just as everything’s building up to the peak and simultaneously declare they quit. There’s a meta record scratch noise. Yata peters out, suddenly feeling self-conscious about flouncing his l-lo... SHUDDUP!! Kamamoto grows nervous about the prospect of becoming Totsuka’s singular target. One by one the contenders drop out, until there’s only Anna whisking about with twice as much vigour because she now feels bad about the lack of competition.

First half of event: Nagare doesn’t notice. Second half of the event: Nagare doesn’t understand. He has a Mikoto moment of wondering whether it’s his birthday but instantly confirms that it can’t be. He wonders if he’s terminally ill, but that also doesn’t seem likely. He concludes it’s some other holiday and struggles to come up with the tactful way of suggesting they just whip up fried chicken and cake as usual and then let him return to his research. What he doesn’t know is that compared to Homra, Jungle’s nothing but organized and harmonious: Iwa-san provides endless stream of food, Sukuna - endless stream of entertainment as he sees it, Kotosaka - endless stream of affection (pray for the zombie king) and Yukari... I have no idea, actually. Endless stream of Yukari.

Kida’s is cute for about three minutes. Then it somehow dissolves into a screaming/hissing match of “what do YOU know about all the shit I had to put up with from him??” between two of three people. Izaya makes a cameo to talk about his love for humans and all the reasons why any other form of love is deficient by definition. Chikage’s like, then perhaps joins the screaming squad tbh. Everything’s a disaster and people, including those who weren’t planning to participate at all, start chipping in to buy Kida compensatory sushi. Mikado probably wins the argument (he has years of sweet childhood memories), Anri probably wins overall.