#oboreru

[aiaalina]

subaru-kun subaru-kun subaru-kun subaru-kun subaru-kun subaru-kun I love love love love love love you

(don’t you think he’s cute?)

anyway only one episode left in the season!

[sufferu]

You mentioned that one of your favorite elements in BTZ is that things can always get better, and it's never too late to make things right. Do you think the cast has a chance to fix any of the IF story Subarus, assuming they see those IF stories?

Please have Pridebaru as the comic relief no one takes seriously, and Slothbaru trying to help in between showing everyone pictures of his kids for the 15th time today

I’m gonna assume that these IF!Barus got sent back in time with all their. Issues.

Ayamatsu: They’ve kinda got to take him seriously enough to make sure that he doesn’t Do That again, and it’s not really comic relief anymore if he’s Right There and not just something out of a bad fanfiction. But — yeah, they might be able to. They’ve just got to get it through his thick skull that the world he is in is real and populated by real people whom he should be treating with respect. This isn’t something that would happen immediately, and they’d probably need to keep him under lock and key, but they might be able to figure it out eventually.

Oboreru: They capture him and release him into a maximum-security cell decorated with a large bed, plenty of blankets and pillows, and an army of soldiers right outside the door. If they can make Subaru feel that this room is safe and secure, then they can eventually use it as an anchor from which he can be escorted out and slowly readjust to the world around him. Wrath!Baru main problem is that he is this paranoid mess of a man that is constantly afraid of being betrayed, and his main threat to them is his Pleiades organization. If they can put him in a position where he can’t leverage his criminal organization against them (because it doesn’t exist), then they don’t have to worry about him killing them and can focus on helping him recover. And if they can construct an environment that is quiet, secure, and predictable, then recovery may indeed be possible.

Sloth:IF: Honestly Sloth!Baru never even really did anything wrong, his only real sin was that he could never come to terms with what happened that day he left. Even if he had never gone back in time they could help him: just get him in therapy to confront his inner demons and realize that 1) the Witch Cult was not his fault and 2) him running to the other side of the world to live a long, safe, and happy life with Rem is EXACTLY what Emilia would have wanted him to do, and he doesn’t have to feel guilty about keeping himself safe. The main issue is honestly that if he goes back in time he loses his wife and kids and — the grief from that would legitimately break him.

Kasaneru: I actually think that things can still be fixed in canon!Kasaneru. Nobody is dead, and so things can still be fixed, because healing is always possible so long as you’re not dead yet. I actually really like the idea of Greed!Emilia learning about RBD and — instead of letting it break her further — finally finding the strength to grow and break free of her chains on her own, leading everyone against Subaru so that he can finally be forcibly resigned and put to rest. In a time-travel scenario, meanwhile, their main issue is keeping Greed!Baru away from anything he can use to kill himself and making sure someone is watching him at all times as they force-feed him therapy about the value of his life. Constant surveillance and plenty of security measures and they indeed might manage to pull it off. —And also they’d need to destroy his connection with Echidna, if possible.

Tsugihagu: If they had the proper context as to why the fuck Subaru is like this, then they’d probably be able to solve it just by having a conversation with him about who he is to them, why they like him, and how any Subaru is a good Subaru, memories or not. The main issue would be the Books of the Dead and how he now has schizophrenia and also an unnerving amount of knowledge about half the cast, which. They could probably deal with that with time but it’s kind of unnerving at the moment.

[autisticaboutisekai]

I think just as like a character study i like wrath if way more then pride and perhaps gluttony too. "Guy who got tortured to death by a friend goes mad with fear and does everything possible to never get hurt again" is peak.

I liked gluttony on its own and pride in relation to other media. But wrath's concept really intrigues me. "man who trusts people who dont like him more then people who do". Peak pathetic villain.

Honestly he's the only one so far that might exist as a antagonist in the main route.

[j2x3e]

When your mass murderer employer doesn't want to come down from his safe corner on top of a wardrobe

[markosan-fromzero]

My artwork from 2025

It's definitely been a trip

[idonutlose]

corpse on a throne

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[aiaalina]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATSUKI SUBARU, MY BELOVED, MY LOVE, BEST BOY, THE MOST AMAZING CHARACTER, THE GREATEST, SUBARUUUUU

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[sufferu]

Do you think there's any specific reason why the damage Arc 2 has done to Subaru's mental health gets played down so much or less attention than it should? Maybe it's because Subaru has consciously chosen to forgive everyone involved in what happened to him during it (even if he's still subconsciously traumatized), or because the anime doesn't highlight enough just how bad it affects his mental state or just because the next two Arcs after this are just so blatantly horrible that what happens to him previously just fades from your memory, but its honestly a little weird to me just how much it gets overlooked and maybe almost even annoying sometimes, but that Arc is HORRIFIC in what actually happens to him, and I think it says a lot that this is the Arc that debatably produced the most mentally ill version of Subaru we have in a Sin Route at its divergent point (the other challenger for the #1 spot being Gluttony).

Honestly — and I say this with love — the reason why Arc 2 gets downplayed so much seems pretty simple to me: everybody loves Rem.

The vast majority of the Re:Zero fandom absolutely adores Rem, and even those outside of Re:Zero-specific spaces at least know who she is. It’s to the point where her diehard fans are practically funding the entire show. And the image of her that’s been popularized is the image of herself that she spends Memory Snow and Arc 3 using to appeal to Subaru: a playful, loyal, soft-spoken, pure-hearted maiden who will be at his beck and call whenever he needs her by his side. She’s tough, and she’s vicious, but only when her beloved Subaru is in danger and needs her help. She’s not a MONSTER.

And that makes what she does in Arc 2…awkward.

Rem bears the majority of the blame for Arc 2. Sure, there’s the mabeasts and all, but REM is the one who brutalized Subaru to the point where he 1) has nightmares over a year after the fact and 2) nearly went down arguably the worst mental spiral of all of the Sin Routes. Ram basically just enabled her, and the mabeast was more or less the catalyst that set her off. The actual trauma? That was REM. Acknowledging it as the trauma that it is necessarily means placing the blame for it on Rem, and that — really doesn’t fit with her Perfect Waifu Persona that she’s got going on.

—And of course, it doesn’t help that at this point Subaru is more or less acting as a self-insert (he arguably doesn’t actually fully step out of this role until Parent and Child in Arc 4) which means it’s pretty easy to just…ignore how he suffered here as much more than a dramatic hook. Rem is the one who matters, right? She’s the one everyone actually cares about. So — it’s fine to just squint past that little detail and move on, because Arc 3 Rem is on her way and she’s totally worth all these awkward first steps.

(Frankly I think this is also why Oboreru is the least talked about Sin Route lol, because the catalyst for that was very explicitly Subaru deciding to forgive or not forgive Rem for torturing him for several hours on end.)