Please elaborate on Ishqueg utenanthy
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ishmael and queequeg's dynamic is sorta like utena and anthy's to me, in the sense that both ishmael and utena are trying to 'save' queequeg and anthy from being controlled by someone.
utena's ambition to be a prince and ishmael's obsession with killing ahab are also semi similar to me in that sense of misguidedness, altrough their sources are completely different. on the other hand, both queequeg and anthy have have little to no free will as both the "harpooneer of the pequod" and the "rose bride", being controlled and stepped on by people in power (ahab and akio, though i'd say ahab is also mikage coded and i think she would keelhaul that insipid fuck akio).
another similarity is how utena "revolutionized" anthy's world and how she finally took back her life & how ishmael gave queequeg a reason to keep on living and sketching their futures together. that and how utena didn't want anthy to be lonely and in pain anymore being sort of like how ishmael encouraged queequeg to keep on living, be it directly or indirectly, with her talk about how everyone's still in their cocoons, soon to break out.
one scene that comes to mind specifically is the scene where anthy jumps off the rooftop and utena grabs her hand, and they have a heart-to-heart afterwards. i feel like it's very ishqueg coded, with how anthy talks about how she believes she was just a doll to be used and abused & utena mentioning their futures together; sort of like how queequeg believed she was a maggot who deserved punishment and ishmael encouraging her to pursue her own future alongside her by sketching out how they'll persevere.
tl;dr Sinister Yuri Potion.