#reikiko

[themonstrousother]

Dear Brother+THE SPECTER OF LESBIANISM

Oniisama e…, Osamu Dezaki//Oniisama e…, Ikeda Riyoko//Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions, Paulina Palmer//The Apparitional Lesbian, Terry Castle//Where is My Place in the World?: Early Shōjo Manga Portrayals of Lesbianism, Fujimoto Yukari//(Sem)erotics: Theorizing Lesbian: Writing, Elizabeth Meese

[echoing-night]

"Huntress"

"Don't look me in the eyes; I'm a wolf in disguise."

Shikumono and her mother Reikiko.

[fuckyeahcrossoverships]

Crossover Ship: Rei Hino x Yukiko Amagi

submitted by @clankfandom100

[themonstrousother]

Oniisama e…//Flowers in the Attic

[themonstrousother]

I’m always thinking about rooms in Oniisama e…, I think both Fukiko’s room and Rei’s room function somewhat similarly, in that it surrounds them and traps them within their own pain and loneliness, and there’s an aspect of repetition and solipsism. For Fukiko the way these symbols of the past within this ever stagnant space cut off from the changes in time and space impose and reimpose that pain of the past, that moment of time from where she has yet to move forward from. For Rei, whilst the bracelet and doll act similarly as symbols of lack of fulfilment, longing and past (dolls in Oniisama e function to recall innocence and childhood, especially for a character like Rei who is not only averse to change but antithetical to it, as a lesbian socially impossible and destroyed in the process of it; you can see why she compares the doll to Nanako, especially in comparison to a Fukiko, and asks her to never change, and why Nanako would be averse to that comparison and find it reductive), I think it’s more so that the mirrors reflect her present and turn it inwards, her grief, her longing, her ugliness, her impossibility, her self-destruction. And I think this comes back to both of these characters’ impossible lesbianism and incest, for Rei more obviously, but also for Fukiko who attaches herself to an impossible object of desire so not to confront her real desire with Rei (that is impossible) and her lack of heterosexual desire

[themonstrousother]

Oniisama e anime failed double suicide scene is so fascinating and multilayered. Fukiko saying that a maid broke one of her precious glass pieces and she broke the rest because she realised that was the one way to ensure that no one else touched them but her, leading to her severing Rei’s wrist because she is also ‘hers’ and something she cannot bare to see handled or broken by anyone else other than her. And yet she falters and bodily drags her in order to get help and save her because at the same time she cannot bear to live in a world without Rei. Yet in the end what this accomplishes is to further Rei’s isolation and otherness as she is pushed away from the Ichinomiya Family and all joining it would imply and provide, in the outskirts looking into Fukiko’s perfect world, and Fukiko takes advantage of it to ensure that this is the outcome yet again she cannot bear the idea of Rei being completely cut off from her so she gives her a bracelet (a mark of herself, a promise to keep Rei in hope of her) and doll (a symbol of herself, symbolic of innocence, the past and femininity all that Rei sees in the doll as an extension of Fukiko) to keep Rei within her sphere and control