JAPAN HIGH SCHOOL AU xd LOL I HAD THESE IDEAS WHILE I WAS WORKING xD LOL HAD TO doodle them before i forgot mysstery is so done ill make more when i am able to :D
the gang going to school as the demons disguise themselves as every day joes not knwing the inner battle about to happen >:3
so... recently. i was kind of going back through logs, kinda glancing at like- some character stuff for my AU, and i found something i was ranting about- something that... I don’t know, I haven’t seen a ton of people talk about??? im sure there’s been some but. well. let’s get into it, huh?
shiromori comes off, a lot I think, as a figure that doesn’t give a flying fuck about anybody but herself. that doesn’t need to care about anything else, and makes a lot of evil smiling faces, etc. she likes being a bad bitch, and hey man, if i was an ancient tree demon maybe i would like it too!!! who knows! i can’t blame her for that! but... in the future. she... she barely smiles. there’s a noticeable tone shift.
and of course. this is the reason, right here. mystery and shiro’s dynamic has always been quite an interesting one, but... well. the second she sees mystery has someone else now... it’s not so fun to play the bad guy anymore.
and this is noteworthy- he never actually hurts her. he pulls the move above, yeah. but it’s something i think he knows she’ll walk away from. he only defends vivi. he only behaves offensively once, and even then, we’re not really sure it’s even... him in control.
and when she gets hurt.
mystery defends her. look at the way she’s looking at him in this shot.
she can’t believe he’s doing this for her. that he’s looking out for her, possibly for the first time in hundreds of years. this is absolutely heartbreaking. this is what convinces me that mystery completely abandoned her. sure, we don’t know why. maybe he had a good reason. but it doesn’t change what he might have done.
and he asks vivi not to kill her. this is a specific, undeniable request. he is asking vivi not to hurt her. there is nothing else this could mean. vivi seems to get the message, too.
and she... this... expression reads to me as... hope. hope that, for the first time in so long, maybe he’ll stay with her. maybe he does fucking care about her. maybe he gives a shit, and he’s gonna stay, and be there with her.
and he knows. there’s no way he doesn’t know. this is guilt. this is absolute guilt.
and then????
he fucking abandons her again. he walks away. he registers the look on her face. their history. everything. and he does it anyway. why??? i dont know. i really dont know all the pieces of this puzzle, but until we do, this reads as a real shitty move on mystery’s part.
so you know what????
i don’t blame her for this. i don’t blame her, because he abandoned her again. she’s acting out of pain, and fuck, i would be so angry and hurt too. i don’t think she needed to involve vivi, but... well, that’s another topic.
bitch please you shoulda known she might do something like this.... c’mon man
and then. of course. it happens. of course she goes in for the big leagues. and she’s not having fun anymore. none of this is fun anymore. this is pure pain.
and now. now is when he finally goes on the offensive. although, as i said before? note the green. we don’t even really know if this is mystery or not.
and she goes in for it!!!! and. yeah she looks scary as hell in this but... she’s blinded by her emotions and rage. kinda sounds like someone else we know, huh?
and we don’t see this confrontation. i think that’s for a reason. we just see mystery rolling away. thing is, i wonder if the reason she was able to land this blow was because he pulled back a bit. yes, he still hurt her, and we see it- we see her open heart but... you have to wonder if the reason that he got hurt... like... seemingly worse, was because he didn’t do as much damage as he could have done. i think he might have restrained himself.
and maybe she didn’t expect that. maybe she hoped, or thought, he would go all in. and protect himself somewhat. maybe she didn’t expect to hurt him that badly. i think we’ve already fully established that, deep down, she didn’t want to hurt him at all to begin with. she just... wished he hadn’t hurt her. that he cared about her.
and thing is, folks? he does. he 100% does. he’s fucking horrified.
this is immensely painful. he does care. he fucked up, he made mistakes, his mistakes led to this. and it’s mortifying. and you know what? he trusted vivi too. he trusted vivi not to hurt shiro. he asked her not to, didn’t he? he trusted that she wouldn’t. and then she did.
and all he can fucking do is watch this. watch her reach out to him. he’s hurt her so much. she’s hurt him too, likely, though we haven’t see tons and tons of evidence of this. just her being sneaky and devious. but like... this is it. this is, seemingly, how their story ends. through the injuries they caused one another.
and thing is. yeah, a lot of this is on him but. not all of it.
he may have caused the events leading up to this moment.
but he was not the one who ended her tragic, and heartbreaking tale. he was not the one who turned her into a husk. only one person did that.
and i think? i think that said person may very well be his next target.
First off I'm sticking with that mystery is a kitsune.
Here mystery encounters a pretty flower but the point I make is that the rest of the forest round the flower is dead. It's the only thing alive.
In order to keep the flower alive he uses his blood to give it some of his power.
Here he flower has grown into the entire forest. The details here are the sword, helmet and countless arrows in the trees,. I believe the forest is killing people, maybe using their bodies and blood to stay alive which is why there's a lack of skeletons, how do we know it's the forest? Because you can see the vine wrapped around the girls wrists.
Now two points I want to make about the picture below.
1: the floor is now covered with snow and the trees are dead.
2: that is not the same sword the girl had before.
My theory is that she found a way to kill the forest causing mystery to get mad because he was attached to it. The sword seems to be magic of some kind, maybe it can kill a kitsune or trap it.
I believe that shiro is that flower which grew into a forest, both because she uses flowers and because she looks like the trees.
Now why is she mad at mystery?
theory 2
because she needs his blood to thrive and he doesn't want to give it anymore. the lyrics “you make me strong” and “all i need is you” also point to mystery being her power source.
to the point where she tries to kill him. this is where the blue girl goes to protect him even though they had fought before. maybe this is why shiro is no longer a forest, because she sealed her in one body.
Another point I'll make is that in hell-bent the aura coming off vivs bat is the same as this blued haired girls sword... So reincarnation? Probably.
maybe mystery promised to protect her in her next life in return for saving his own.