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Hiii, loved the ank one you did. I was hoping you'd do one a bit more 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘳, believe me I wish I had your talent.

Thank you. 🤍🤍

I know this one still isn't very sexy, probably not what you wanted, but here it is anyway!! I hope it's enough <3 (You're def not annoying, I'm very happy to get the request!!)

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I really like that one of the biggest similarities between Iason and Riki is that they are both very rebellious people. I think a lot of us (even me i'm not shaming anyone) forget how similar they are in this regard. Iason may indeed have developed this after meeting Riki, and he may not show this part of his personality as much as Riki does, but it is still something that forms part of how Iason is as a person.

Someone may say Iason's actions in the novel don't exactly make him someone rebellious, but it's more than his actions; that hidden aspect of Iason can be seen in his fixation on Riki's rebellious personality. Iason doesn't find Riki's personality fascinating just because of sadism or curiosity; Iason is fascinated by it because Riki represents all he wants to be. Iason wants to be human; he wants to be rebellious, but he can't: he's half-man, half-machine, close enough to humanity to yearn for it and far enough to never reach it. The only way Iason can experience any of this, rebellion and humanity, is by loving Riki.

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I’m shocked that an otherwise advanced world like Amoi would practice something as archaic as slavery.

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I perfectly understand some people being surprised about Yoshihara, the writer of Ai no kusabi, being a housewife. But I find that when you look at some things in the novel with that in mind, some aspects of the work make a lot more sense. Of course I don't know Yoshihara personally, and my observations may be completely incorrect, but I find that Riki’s dilemma of "being caught between two feelings of different nature" (as Yoshihara puts it in an interview) makes a lot of sense when you have in mind the repression a housewife of her time had.

These feelings that Yoshihara talks about are his feelings towards Guy and Iason, respectively. These feelings represent in the story two different things for Riki: Guy represents Riki’s "social duty and the duty towards the family." The relationship Riki has with Guy is what is socially seen as aceptable, is what Riki ideally should want. At the same time, Guy also represents the family. He has known Riki since they were kids, and Riki owes him a lot from what all he has done for him. Iason, on the other hand, represents Riki’s true nature: his sexual awakening and sexuality.

Ai no kusabi main conflict is about "duty vs desire" and the conflict between two important parts of Riki as a person that Riki refuses to leave behind. In the end, Riki chooses to stay true to himself by both fulfilling his duty towards his family (saving Guy) and not leaving Iason to die alone and dying by his side, completely embracing his true self.

I think if we closely observe how these themes are portrayed, it makes sense why Yoshihara would write them like this. A housewife sacrifices a lot for her family: sacrificing her own desires and her own individual identity. But while it's easy to say to simply abandon your family to live your truth, you can not simply discard your family: they are your duty, and they depend on you. You feel like you have to stay by their side, even if that means losing a part of yourself. The ending in Ai no kusabi is an idealized resolution to the conflict: Riki fulfills his duty to Guy, while also being ultimately loyal to himself, and choosing death with Iason, that symbolizes he commitment to his found identity.

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I feel very complex about the interpretation of "Guy was actually right and is the most morally correct person in the story" because while I'm happy that Guy is getting more love and is not being reduced to "asshole who gets in the way of Iariki," I feel like while not to the same extent as that opinion, it is still an oversimplification of Guy’s character and his morality. Guy is not evil, and I would say that between all the characters in Ai no Kusabi, he is the most well-intentioned and kind. But even so, like all the characters in the story, he is deeply flawed in moral terms.

When Guy kidnaps Riki and they have their conversation, it is very clear that what makes Guy angry about the whole situation isn't the horrors of what Iason has done to Riki. He isn't sympathetic at all to Riki, who is the victim in this situation, and victim-blames him: he questions his lack of fight back (when he is literally powerless) because he believes Riki has to fight back at any cost and calls him "Iason’s bitch." Guy’s lack of empathy towards Riki makes sense when we understand that Guy’s anger is not so much about the horrors Riki has experienced, but about how he feels that Riki's pride and masculinity have been broken by Iason, and by consequence, his own pride has been too.

This is not to say that Guy doesn't love Riki. He loves him, he really does. I'm just saying that his actions don't come from him being a very moral person who is disgusted by the horrors he is seeing, but from a place of protecting what he feels Riki should be: prideful, powerful, never wavering, fearless, and above all, a man.