Speculative Break: Doumeki and Yashiro in Singapore
I wish the inhabitants of our Saezuru world and fellow Saezurites a year marked by respect, solid emotional states, good health and responsible connection.
In this new solar year, I keep seeing Doumeki and Yashiro enjoying time a little bit away from home. I imagined them in a place like Singapore— slick, embedded in nature and just far away enough for Yashiro to explore who he could have been outside of the Yakuza fold. I can see D getting to enjoy watching Yashiro flex his charm without survival in mind and D not having to protect or be possessive of Y. Both of them could take a break from the pasts that forged them.
It’s just far enough, lush enough, enthralling enough to be a reset they could thrive from. Yashiro would probably complain a little about the humidity or make a droll, but fitting quip about the political situation there. Just to provide a lump in the leaven of the experience. We know Yashiro needs cracks in his happiness to test it for genuineness.
Maybe we discover that Doumeki has an fortified palate and a surprising love of truly peppery Indian food. I could see him convincing Yashiro to go to one of the island’s temples where D un-ironically prays for Yashiro’s well being. Y would study the temple carvings and Doumeki’s face when D’s eyes are closed in thought.
Maybe Yashiro drags D on a high priced shopping spree for Doumeki’s caveat of a movie afterwards. Time to reclaim awful memories right? Spoiler: Yashiro falls asleep on D’s shoulder again. Maybe Yashiro sets up a day at the zoo because he think D would enjoy it, but we find that Y finds it relaxing to be around animals in a natural adjacent setting. He learns (but doesn’t admit / doesn’t hide it either) that he finds certain animals endearing in their earnestness. While Y was ruminating, D alerts the staff to a little lost wallaby outside of his habitat.
Maybe we see them end up at a cool beach with permanent hammocks which they find by happy accident a few days before their return. Somehow, Doumeki produces swim trunks and sunscreen for both of them. Yashiro let’s him have the rouse as long as D gets them a double hammock.
I first thought about this Yashiro X Doumeki trip since Divali 2021 (Hindu New Year) . It feels fitting that these guys get a respite in a new place when they can have the space to get back to each other again.
Take care and be safe people!